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How is the justice department ever going to know what is going on in these pictures without the perpetrators pointing at the gear? This bust was for something that I was unaware w…

More criminals busted, complete with the obligatory police forcing the suspects to point at their criminal ways for the photos. The English-language websites we have available to…

I was gifted a super-Duolingo package a few months ago and while learning Thai on it was not an option oddly, there were some other languages I was interested in, in particular Sp…

The news is a bit funny in this country. I know that people talk about "fake news" all over the world and how the media is biased. But here in Thailand the media isn't even real…

This is something that still gets some laughs out of me because I don't really understand what the, ahem, point is of it all. No matter what the crime is, it seems as though the p…

Thailand lost their number 1 spot for tourism numbers in SE Asia for the first time since anyone bothered to track such a thing. The government and the various agencies such as T…

This country is a funny one with the things that they outlaw and the industries they try to protect. As it seems most of the world is attempting to curb smoking addiction and the …

The characters in Duolingo are pretty neat and the fact that they all have different personalities keep the app interesting and I can only hope that I am actually learning somethin…

I recently got gifted a super-Duolingo account that a family member has a family plan for so now I can use this pretty neat app without paying for it and never running out of stars…

I don't do it, but unfortunately I do know a great many friends of mine that do. For the most part they justify this by saying that they are only going a short distance but to me,…

I haven't lived here for ages but I have been here long enough to know that there are a few famous cities here in Thailand that attracts the most tourists to beaches. They are Phu…

Drugs are a big part of Thai life. I don't use any of it because I never felt so compelled but drugs, especially a type of meth that is referred to as "ya ba" (literally translate…

Let's keep the grim news stories rolling ok? I love Thailand's beaches. I think they are some of the most beautiful in the world and unlike some of their contemporaries on other…

There's a horrifying story making the rounds right now that I hope can make international news so that the people responsible don't simply disappear into the wealthy-people jungle …

I love where I live in Chiang Mai, in the far north of Thailand but during this time of year it is extremely hot here and we don't really have a great deal of relief other than swi…

I couldn't help but kind of laugh when I saw the headlines on a couple of English-language websites that focus on Thailand news because since the online site is probably very close…

I have a friend that lives in Phuket and I enjoy going to visit him but lately I have found myself getting a bit annoyed at how many other people there are there. I feel like Phuk…

I'll start out with a summary of what the opinion is of people here in Chiang Mai, Thailand as far as the escalating violence between Thailand and Cambodia that is going on at a do…

The road to disaster is paved with good intentions is how the saying goes but Thailand is going to shoot themselves in the foot again with this idea of theirs that is actually a go…

This is the title of a book that I recently read and honestly, I can't believe that something like this has never been released. I'm on the "back 9 of a decade" living here in Tha…