Over the past fifteen years (180 plus issues), a number of writers have contributed to Citylife (formerly Chiang Mai Newsletter). Throughout 2006, to celebrate the publication’s 15 year anniversary, we will bring you a pick of the past every month.

For many years Citylife has kept a Nutters & Gems file, where we keep our most treasured insults, accusations and compliments. Here is my favourite from 2001:

They say that you’ve got to sin to be saved. That’s my excuse anyhow. In my day as a mob boss I did some questionable things, stuff I’m not proud of today.

Since 1997, over 300 women from fifty countries have been inducted as honorees of the not-for-profit Leading Women Entrepreneurs of the World organisation (LWEW).

I actually spluttered out my morning coffee earlier in the year, on first reading of the Political Stress Syndrome, which The Nation said was affecting a large chunk of the Thai population.