Bored? You shouldn't be, not with these bars and cafés where you can challenge your mates over a pizza or pad krapao.

Bathed in style. 

Thai bookstores are too full of self-help books and guides to playing the stock market. In order to promote greater diversity in our publishing industry, Prowpannarai  Mallikamarl, 36, and Kittisuk Panyajirakul, 29, set up Afterword, a crowd-funding platform aimed at helping aspiring writers realize their dreams. Here’s how it works. 

The sudden death of Thai martial arts legend Panna Rittikrai, the action choreographer behind Tony Jaa’s moves in Ong-Bak, left his last movie, Vengence of an Assassin, unfinished. But thanks to his son, Kitsana “Tong” Ladphanna, 24, and leading stuntman Nantawut “Wut” Boonrubsub, 21, it has finally reached Thai cinemas. Here, they discuss how genuine martial arts talent will always bring more drama to the screen than CGI and guns.

A collaboration between the Khon Thai Foundation and ChangeFusion Institute, Thai crowdfunding platform Taejai.com was launched in order to foster NGO projects and social enterprises to create positive change. In little over a year, the website has helped raise almost B3 million for 42 successful projects aimed at everything from making cheap wheelchairs for disabled dogs to setting up organic rice mills in remote areas. BK talks to Sirinart Torviriyalertchai, 35, Taejai’s project manager. 

A new generation uninterested in traditional crafts could spell the end of the line for these family-run businesses.

Not everyone can claim to have been taken hostage by terrorists, delivered a baby and worked as both a diplomat and an Elvis impersonator. But Wasu “Jeep” Sangsingkaew, 46, has done all that and much more. As he steps up for a reunion concert with his band, The Palace, this Sunday, he chats to us about his colorful life and why Thailand is in danger of becoming a failed state.

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