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Boat Ride to the Seaside in Bangkok People often ask where is the nearest beach to Bangkok. Usually I reply Bangsaen and Pattaya to the East or Cha-am and Hua Hin to the South. However, the answer is nearer than expected as Bangkok …

One of the most beautiful festivals in Thailand takes place on the full moon night of the 12th lunar month. It is known in Thai as Loy Krathong, but is sometimes referred to as the Festival of Lights. The next one will take place …

Thailand’s Sarita Phongsri celebrates winning the gold for taekwondo women’s under 53kg final at the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, November 18, 2010. (Reuters) Full story at Bangkok Post More Thailand pictures can be found at www.ThaiPhotoBlogs.com .

Bombay recently changed its name to Mumbai, so did Bangalore to Bengaluru, and cricket commentators fell over themselves to use the new names as quickly as possible. On the news these days they say Beijing not Peking, Canton is vanishing as a name for Guangzhou though admittedly drunken Dutch still call New York ‘New …

November in Thailand sees some of my favourite festivals. These include Loy Krathong (21st November 2010), Surin Elephant Round-Up (20-21 November 2010), River Kwai Bridge Week (24 Nov-5 Dec 2010) and the Monkey Buffet Festival (28th November 2010). The sunflower season also kicks off in November. For a full list…

“He fought like a man so he could become a woman” – Still from the Thai movie Beautiful Boxer Thailand here has many-a glorious site to feast ones eyes on, besides just a million temples, two million taxis and three million noodle soup stalls we have…

It has been about seven months now since the release of the iPad in America. So far, it hasn’t been officially released in Thailand. However, like many other people, I have already bought an iPad at a store in MBK in Bangkok. Prices have come down so much that it is now comparable to the US and cheaper than the…

Developed by a company with 20 years of experience in language learning and over ten million customers, uTalk HD gives you the key words you need and a fast, scientific way of remembering them. There are quite a few apps for…

The Bangkok Post recently brought out an app for the iPad and iPhone for reading their newspaper. According to their advertising, they claim that this is the “first full newspaper on iPhone and iPad in Thailand”. I have heard about reading newspapers and magazines on the computer for a long time but this has …

Vajiravudh College Alumni Association have come together with MCOT to arrange the Miss Thailand 2010 contest to pick a beautiful woman as a cultural ambassador under the concept “Sustainable Beauty”. The iPhone app Miss Thailand allows you to track news about the competition (in…

It seems that within a matter of hours, AIS have managed to take pre-orders for their complete quota of iPhone 4 handsets. When I received my e-mail from them at 3.30 p.m. this afternoon, the 3 rounds on Friday 24th September 2010 were fully booked (see previous blog here ). This only left the midnight launch on…

This morning I received my invitation for TrueMove’s iPhone 4 launch on Thursday 23rd September. It doesn’t give much information. It is basically inviting me to attend a seminar on the topic of iOS 4.1 Thailand at 2 p.m. on Thursday. Apparently, if I go to the that then…

In this picture taken on Friday Sept. 17, 2010 Thai soldier from the army’s First Psychology Unit train vocational school students at a Boy Scout camp in Lopburi province, north of Bangkok. Over the weekend, 105 of the city’s most-renowned trade school troublemakers were bused two hours into…

This morning TrueMove held a “Blogger Day” at Siam Square where, among other things, they announced new data packages . This will come out soon to coincide with the launch of the iPhone 4 in Thailand. There isn’t any announcement on their website yet, but I managed to get …

We have now received official notice that the iPhone 4 will be launched in Thailand next week as expected. According to this picture, posted by siampod on the pantip forums , True will be holding a Midnight Launch Party starting at 10 p.m. on Thursday 23rd September 2010. The iPhone 4 will then …

The three websites of DTAC, TrueMove and AIS are still saying “coming soon” for the iPhone 4 in Thailand. At the moment, AIS and TrueMove are inviting people to register their interest in buying a iPhone 4 handset. At the time of writing, DTAC doesn’t have a page on their website for this, but we are expecting them to …

Although there has yet to be any official word, all signs are that the iPhone 4 will be available for pre-order this week in Thailand and will go on sale in the shops from 24th September 2010. Of course, these are just rumours, but…

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 @Tulip_Oum, a news anchor on TAN Network, the only English language 24 hours news channel in Thailand. She has two…

A few week’s ago, the excellent Spectrum supplement of the Bangkok Post did a big feature on the so-called Bangkok’s ‘cigarette police’ . If you haven’t read it already then I suggest you take a look now. For a while there has been a law in…

Thai police officers inspect the body of a teacher who was shot dead by suspected separatist Muslim militants as he was travelling to work on a motorcycle in Thailand’s restive southern province of Narathiwat on September 7, 2010. Suspected Islamic militants have killed four people in Thailand’s restive south, police said on September 7, including a teacher whose death sparked calls for …