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Fire engines in the firing line again
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 17/07/2016
» It looks like we might be at the start of another fire engine saga, something the unfortunate Thai public has become all too familiar with over the years.
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Climb every mountain … ford every stream
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 06/03/2016
» About 18 months ago, I stood at the foot of Phu Kradung (Bell Mountain) in Loei province, contemplating whether I was capable of making it to the top.
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Those barking rascals are wagging their tails again
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 21/04/2013
» It is good to see North Korea is maintaining its flair for stirring rhetoric. Last week it likened the US to a "boiled pumpkin", which has a certain whimsical appeal. Long-time observers will appreciate that whoever came out with the pumpkin imagery is simply following a grand tradition of spokesmen from north of the DMZ.
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Still searching for the sound of silence
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 28/04/2013
» Last Wednesday was International Noise Awareness Day, although if you live in Bangkok you could be forgiven for being blissfully unaware of this momentous occasion. It's hardly a revelation, but it's desperately difficult to escape noise in Thailand. You can't go to a department store or supermarket these days without being assaulted by an incessant babble of sales pitches from ladies with microphones, promoting anything from skin whitening creams to absurd looking lingerie.
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The house is gone, but memories linger
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 05/05/2013
» Last week curiosity got the better of me while in the vicinity of Samitivej Hospital, and I dropped by the little soi off Sukhumvit 49 where I lived for more than two decades until 2006.
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That ugly Orbit
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 29/07/2012
» If you have watched BBC television news lately you will be aware they have set up a temporary studio with a backdrop of the Olympic Park in London. It's a splendid view, or rather it would be if not for one ghastly eyesore.
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Timing was off, but the thought was there
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 13/05/2012
» With an uncanny sense of bad timing, last week's ''PostScript'' about the excessive heat in Bangkok coincided with the weather making a sudden about turn as the thunderstorms rolled in and it piddled down, cooling things down considerably. Although I welcomed the less sultry weather, it wasn't exactly auspicious for the column. Still, at least it didn't start snowing.
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