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The Inner Shrine of a Chinese Temple in Ban Chang, Thailand.

Psychedelia in Stone: Chinese Temple Architecture

For thousands of years, industrious and ambitious Chinese have left China in search of wealth in ...

Thailand / China Kenneth Champeon

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Recipe: Gai Pad Khing - Ginger Chicken

Serves about 6 All the ingredients should be ready on plates before heating the oil. 2 tablespoon...

Thailand Habeeb Salloum

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Resurgence of Thai massage brings employment for the blind

Thanks to its many health benefits, Thai massage is enjoying a resurgence in the country of its c...

Thailand AFP/Samantha Brown

Thailand on a Budget

The Challenge: traveling from Kuala Lumpur to South-eastern Thailand for a week's holiday, having...

Thailand Heng Wah

A Royal Welcome. A row of fountains, 200 feet long, lead you to the reception area of the Samode Bagh.

Unwinding... à la Samode

Choosing a holiday destination is never easy but the grandeur of Samode,that awaited us, came as ...

Thailand / India Hansa Piparsania

Traditional dancer, Ban Nong Hoi Yai village

Isaan: Gateway To The New Indochina

To the strains of the ancient khaeng pipes, the villagers file past us, all armed with cotton cor...

Thailand Graham Simmons

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A Northern Thai Primer

A brief article on some of the peculiarities of northern Thai dialect, spoken in Chiang Mai and e...

Thailand Kenneth Champeon

Surin Elephant Roundups

It's Round-up time again and the ever increasing popularity of Surin's elephant extravaganza take...

Thailand Tom Aikins

Volunthai Teaching

Volunthai is a program sponsored by a university in North Carolina that sends young travellers to...

Thailand Jim Algie

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The Illustrated Men

What do Hell's Angels, Green Berets, and Popeye have in common? Until a few years ago, they were ...

Thailand Kenneth Champeon

A vendor carries coconuts on the way to a nearby floating market.

A Breath of Fresh Air

The small wooden boat bobs around precariously as the three of us clamour aboard. The boat pilot ...

Thailand Samantha Brown

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Detox in Thailand

Clay shakes and colon flushes at Thai detox resort on Koh Phangan...

Thailand AFP/Allison Jackson

Durians at the Krabi night market in Thailand

Learning from Durian

Developing a taste for this Asian delicacy brings to mind philosophies to more fully appreciate y...

Thailand / Vietnam Adam Bray

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India's Andaman Islands

Port Blair, India, March 28, 2004 - India's remote and spectacular Andaman islands, unexploited j...

Thailand / India AFP/Michael Mathes

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SEA-worthy: Some Recent Southeast Asian Literature

When one thinks of famous Southeast Asian writers, one thinks of...nobody. Nada. Not exactly true...

Thailand / Vietnam / Myanmar Kenneth Champeon

The wetter the better: Thailand's Songkran festival

Imagine this scene: scads of Clampett-like hillbilly families crammed into the back of pickup tru...

Thailand Donald Gilliland

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The Legend of Padjitt and Orapima

The Legend of Orapima and Prince Padjitt. Why Prasat Hin Phimai was built and how Phimai got it's...

Thailand Toy Tuanphimai

This sign for a Chiang Mai restaurant shows the word 'coca' transliterated into Thai. The four characters are, from left to right, o-k-k-ah; but, because of Thai's placement of vowels, it is read 'kokah.' Transliterations are common for loan words; 'download', for example, is 'daonlot', with a mark over the 'n' to make it silent.

Learning the Thai Language

Westerners in Thailand take up the study of the country's language to a degree unprecedented in m...

Thailand Kenneth Champeon

This close-up of a painting hanging in a Chiang Mai cafe depicts the Song Kran 'water-war' festival as it was conducted long ago. In the bottom left hand corner, two Thais give each other a good dousing.

Flowers, Floats, and Fun: The Festivals of Thailand

In medieval Europe, almost half the year was taken up by festivals or holidays of some kind. As E...

Thailand Kenneth Champeon

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Of Elephants and Men

Review of the novel High Banks, Heavy Logs by Thai author Nikom Rayawa's, recipient of the South ...

Thailand Kenneth Champeon

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