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The movie is about Tee Rifle (Chusak Aiemsuk) who becomes a hitman only to make money to help solve his impotency problems. He falls for a mysterious woman called Chris Styer (Sirin Horwang). The movie is a spoof action/romance movie. Title: Saturday Killer มือปืนดาวพระเสาร์ Director: Yuthlert Sippapak Starring: Chusak Aiemsuk, Koeti

Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej waves to well-wishers during a concert at Siriraj hospital in Bangkok on September 29, 2010. Thai king, the world’s longest-reigning monarch and considered a demi-god by many Thais, was admitted to hospital in September for treatment of …

Here are two more iPhone apps that teach you how to cook Thai food for free. The first one is called iThaiCookBook and has five popular recipes. These are Tom Yum Goong (Spicy Soup with Prawn and Lemongrass), Kaeng Phed Ped Yang (Thai Red Curry Paste with Roasted Duck), Kaeng Khew Whan Kai (Thai Green …

Spanish tennis player Fernando Verdasco (R) practices Thai boxing as part of a promotion for the ATP Thailand Open tennis tournament in Bangkok on September 29, 2010. The tournament runs from September 25 to October 3, 2010. (Getty Images) Spanish tennis player Fernando Verdasco (R) talks with Thai tennis player Paradorn Srichapan (L) before…

Thai Buddhist monks receive offerings during reopening ceremonies Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010, at the Central World Mall in downtown Bangkok. The charred hulk of Central World, one of Southeast Asia’s biggest shopping malls has undergone a 2.8 billion baht ($90 million) renovation four months after anti-government protesters set it…

Reading Thai is the first app for the iPhone to give a complete introduction to the Thai script. If you want to actually start reading real words in Thai, then this is the app for you. Learn how syllables are constructed and learn how each component of…

A health official inspects condoms for leakage at the Department of Medical Sciences laboratory in Nonthaburi province, on the outskirts of Bangkok September 27, 2010. The Thai health ministry opened a condom museum in the Department of Medical Sciences on Monday to showcase various types of condoms and to encourage people to practise safe sex…

A health official inspects condoms for leakage at the Department of Medical Sciences laboratory in Nonthaburi province, on the outskirts of Bangkok September 27, 2010. The Thai health ministry opened a condom museum in the Department of Medical Sciences on Monday to showcase various types of condoms and to encourage people…

You can now buy an iPad as cheap as 18,000 baht in Thailand at shopping malls like MBK . The prices have come down by about 400 baht since last week. The cost of an iPad are comparable to prices in the USA (don’t forget you need to add sales tax and recycle tax to Apple’s prices) and it is in …

“iThai – Thailand Official Guide” for iPhone and iPod Touch is the official guide to Thailand produced with the collaboration of The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT). It is a source of travel information about the country, its culture and the activities it offers to the tourists. This is…

This is a weekly look at popular apps for the iPhone as suggested by people living and working in Thailand. This week we hear from Bill Hammerton who has been running Internet radio, based here in Thailand for the last 6 years, originally with the BBC travelling …

In this photo released by BEC-TERO Entertainment Public Co. Ltd. , Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal, left, offers lotus flowers to a Buddhist monk at a beach in Prachuab Khirikhan province, south of Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010. The world’s number one player, Nadal, will compete in the Thailand …

This week in Thailand we have only one new Thai movie being released.  It is the horror movie The Snow White (Tai Tang Klom). In Thailand there is a superstition that you can change the unborn foetus of baby into a magical

Two students dissect the dead body of a pregnant woman to turn her unborn baby into a dark magic charm which they believe can grant their wishes. Not only does the magic not work, but they are also haunted by the ghost of the dead woman. Title

Boonchu Juramongkol, 34, shows his new iPhone 4 at a shop in Bangkok September 24, 2010. A Thai court has ordered the halt of a third-generation mobile license auction, a move which set the country back another few years in its attempt to adopt high-speed mobile phone services, sending local telco shares sharply lower. …

The iPhone 4 was finally released in Thailand in the early hours of Friday 24th September 2010. We now know the price of the iPhone 4 and the data packages being offered by the three carriers: TrueMove, DTAC and AIS. I was at the launch party last night for TrueMove at Siam Paragon. I will be going back again this …

Students on a fishing boat wave windsocks with a message that reads “Unplug a Nuclear Future” beside the Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior in Thong Ching bay, Nakhon Si Thammarat province, some 610 km (379 miles) south of Bangkok September 23, 2010. The province is known for the vast population of pink dolphins (Indo-Pacific hump-backed dolphins or…

This evening I gate-crashed TrueMove’s launch party for the iPhone 4 at Siam Paragon. Lot’s of HiSo people, movie stars, pop stars and wannabies. Plenty of celebrities who seemed to already have an iPhone 4. I took pictures of a few of them but the free beer…

All three carriers in Thailand are selling the iPhone 4 at exactly the same price. The midnight launch is tonight and is already fully booked. AIS sold all their quota and now have none left. We expect the same to happen with DTAC and True. In the meantime, we now have the official prices from AIS …

Despite the launch of the iPhone 4 tonight by DTAC, AIS and TrueMove, most customers do not yet know the price of the handset and the new data packages prices. Yesterday, we blogged the leaked prices from TrueMove , now we have …