It’s Saturday night and you’re standing there, waiting for a table at a restaurant with the word “wine” in it. Maybe it’s Wine Connection or Wine I Love You—it doesn’t really matter. The place has an industrial chic décor, affordable bottles and it...
Recent protests by the city’s cabbies have once again put taxis, drivers and their rates at the top of conversations. We love to hate our cabbies: the ones that don’t use a meter, don’t go to the suburbs, stink, grumble or worse. But what about the guys behind the wheel? What are...
Find charities and donations for Thailand's 2011 floods here.
CHILDREN
Children are our future. But meanwhile, we’re responsible for their future. So do your bit to make sure they get to enjoy some basic rights like education, food and shelter thanks to these notable organizations....
GT200 Bomb Sniffers
B800-900 million
The British-made device was meant to detect explosives, and their use in the deep South led to hundreds of arrests—arrests we now know were baseless. The GT200 was actually two empty plastic boxes, although the army was paying B900,000 per scanner. You...
Thailand is rife with corruption on every scale and across every sector. Bribes are paid to the police on a daily basis. Corrupt politicians are given respect and voted into office time and time again. Grassroots protests against mega projects are often ignored, and small communities often end up...
Surapong Laoha-Unya, Chief Operating Officer of the Bangkok Mass Transit System, answers our readers questions about the BTS.
Nuttaphol Onaree, 33, photographer
“It’s a waste of time to queue up for coins at the BTS. You should install ticket machines that...
Freelancer Discovers CCTV Cameras are Empty
Wisan Medsai, 51, a freelance photographer, exposed the truth about the empty CCTV camera cases in his neighborhood by posting pictures on the Pantip webboard.
How did you notice they were missing in the first place?
I was curious to see what a CCTV looks...
Did you hear? The next generation is dumb, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Education. 50% of kids aged 9-15 have below average IQs—but isn’t that the definition of an average? Experts are worried nonetheless, and they’re blaming everything from iodine...
Despite recent talk of free WiFi and iPads for all school children, is life really that simple for young people living in Bangkok? Sure your younger brothers and sisters might have all the trappings of modern life from their iPhone 4 to their designer handbag, but what about the kids who don’...
We’re in a cab on the way to meet Chuvit Kamolvisit and his entourage somewhere in Din Daeng. They’re launching a new website (www.chuvitonline.com) to help get the former massage parlor kingpin’s anti-corruption message across to voters. We’re simply relieved to be able to...
