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Recipe: Kraphong Khao Priao Wan - Sweet and Sour Fish

Serves about 6 1 tablespoon cornstarch 2 tablespoons soy sauce 1 teaspoon powdered garlic 1/2 tea...

Thailand Habeeb Salloum

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APEC--The Inside Story...

APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Convention) is in the air in BKK.....and on the news and in the paper...

Thailand Tara Russell

Recipe: Klai Buad Chi - Bananas in Coconut Milk

Serves 4 3 cups coconut milk4 tablespoons sugar 1/4 teaspoon salt 4 large bananas, sliced in half...

Thailand Habeeb Salloum

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Recipe: Som Tam - Shrimp Salad

Serves about 6 1 small green papaya (about 1 1/2 pounds), shredded 2 medium tomatoes, diced into ...

Thailand Habeeb Salloum

Recipe: Pad Paak Ruamit / Stir-Fried Vegetables

Serves about 6 4 tablespoons peanut oil 1/2 pound broccoli, chopped 1 pound fresh or thawed froze...

Thailand Habeeb Salloum

Rainy Days In Paradise...

I come from Scotland a country of wind and rain and hail and snow. A country where the briefest g...

Thailand Neil Campbell

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The Seven Hour Load of Laundry

One of the mega-perks of living in our serviced apartment is that we now have a washer/dryer (one...

Thailand Tara Russell

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Five Study Abroad Programs in Thailand

Exotic. Friendly. These two words come up again and again in conversations, articles, and essays ...

Thailand Dawn Stanton

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Recipe: Nue Gra Pao / Stir-Fried Beef

Serves about 6 1 tablespoon hot chilli pepper, finely chopped 1 medium onion, chopped 5 cloves ga...

Thailand Habeeb Salloum

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Sometimes he wears a straw hat while lingering closely behind his cart, and sometimes he sleeps o...

Thailand Tara Russell

* * * * * " Gon. Nay, good, be patient. Boats. When the sea is." -- William Shakespeare, The Temp...

Thailand Kenneth Champeon

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Bangkok's Don Muang International Airport

If you fly much in Asia, you'll no doubt eventually wind up at Bangkok's Don Muang International ...

Thailand Steven K. Bailey

Great Novel, Pity About the Subject

Review of John Burdett's Bangkok 8, Bantam Press, 2003.

Thailand Kenneth Champeon

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Chance encounters with Thailand

It's funny how your impression of a place can be so colored by being in transit to someplace else...

Thailand Ben Bangs

Sunset over the Chao Phraya

Riverine Bangkok

Thais call Bangkok Krung Thep, City of Angels"; the name dates from 1782, after the original capi...

Thailand Robert Tompkins

A rainstorm in southern Thailand seen from behind the wheel.

I was first introduced to the melancholy charm of the monsoons by an Indian-American friend, who ...

Thailand / India Kenneth Champeon

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A Failure of Fanaticism

Vanity is a powerful historical agent. - Dirk Van der Cruysse Every now and again, my Thai girlfr...

Thailand Kenneth Champeon

Thais walk past rows of banners and signs advertising the Bangkok International Film Festival.

Thailand's quirky films take on the world

BANGKOK, Jan 15, 2003 - Ancient royal kingdoms, transvestite volleyball players and warrior water...

Thailand AFP/Samantha Brown

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Buddha's Revenge and a Hospital Slumber Party

Because Thai food is served family style about 95% of the time, typically if one person gets sick...

Thailand Tara Russell

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Two Novels, Two Thailands

Review of two Thai novels: The Circus of Life and The Path of the Tiger.

Thailand Kenneth Champeon

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