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Here is shown a modern bookstore crowding out a deteriorating "singha", or lion, at the entryway to a temple.

The Changing Face of Chiang Mai

No more than twenty years ago, children played badminton on Prapoklad Road, near Chiang Mai's gat...

Thailand Kenneth Champeon

Thai Green Curry Chicken

Recipe: Thai Green Curry Chicken

The heart and soul of this vibrant green curry is a paste is made with garlic, ginger root, shall...

Thailand Celeste Heiter

Cruising along the river

Return of the scorpion-tailed boat

Refreshing morning breeze blew into the scorpion-tailed boat’s cabin that was taking me and oth...

Thailand Gomase Theenanon

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Little Trouble On Big Racha

When Steve from Power Snorkel South East Asia decided to test out his new machines on the isolate...

Thailand Neil Campbell

Chiang Mai Thailand's Weekend Night Market

Chiang Mai Thailand's Weekend Night Markets

While the Night Bazaar has its flashing neon signs advertising the western food chains and mercha...

Thailand Randy Gaudet

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A Solo Hike...one woman's hiking adventure in Cape Phrangan

I lingered near the sign warning of the difficult walk to the lagoon, watching enviously as a whi...

Thailand Ee Lin Wan

Recipe: Thai Peanut Sauce

Can be served with various types of meats and vegetables. 1/4 pound roasted peanuts, finely groun...

Thailand Habeeb Salloum

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Nine Indispensable Places in Chiang Mai

One of the nicest things about living in Chiang Mai is, simply put, its density. One is always di...

Thailand Kenneth Champeon

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Don't Tell Everyone But . . .

Beaches? Once you've seen one you've seen them all or so I used to believe. Just like Bill Hicks ...

Thailand Neil Campbell

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Feeling At Home in Chiang Mai

Travelers beware. They say that if you arrive in Chiang Mai for the first time by train, you will...

Thailand Kenneth Champeon

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Ghostbuster - Thai Style

For decades Ornta made his living as his father and grandfather had before him -- by catching gho...

Thailand AFP/Thanaporn Promyamyai

The Last Train from Bangkok

Tomorrow, tomorrow, stuff is so easy to put off when the sun blazes at a steady 40 degrees. When ...

Thailand Neil Campbell

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Hesse and the Asian Dream

Lord Macaulay once famously declared that "a single shelf of a good European library was worth th...

Thailand / China / India Kenneth Champeon

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The Chinese woman sitting next to me on the flight from Tokyo to Detroit just can't stay in her s...

Thailand Kenneth Champeon

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Still Awaiting The Writer: Thai Literature and Wanlaya's Love

It's not easy being a bibliophile in Thailand. It is a profoundly subliterate country. An expatri...

Thailand Kenneth Champeon

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Dining Out in Chiang Mai: The Author Shares His Prejudices

Mexican, Italian, Japanese, Swedish, German, English, Indian, and, of course, American, whatever ...

Thailand Kenneth Champeon

Songkran: Wet and Wild in Thailand...

It was a hot day, the temperature considered high even by Thai standards. We were so wet, however...

Thailand Ee Lin Wan

The monument of Queen Chamthewee in Lamphun

Pa Sang comes of age

Armed with a road map I got behind the wheels and drove south from Chiang Mai to Lamphun to enjoy...

Thailand Gomase Theenanon

Recipe: Thai Style Cooked Rice

Serves about 8 3 tablespoons vegetable oil 1 medium onion, finely chopped 4 cloves garlic, crushe...

Thailand Habeeb Salloum

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Smoking Poppies and Ignorant Boors

There is a seemingly growing trend in modern literature that I, a writer living abroad, feel obli...

Thailand Kenneth Champeon

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