Tag: Way of Life

I did put my foot down when the soft, two-ply, luxury toilet paper was replaced with some cheaper, cardboard-like, rough stuff.

While the city of Chiang Mai does not let you forget that poverty exists, its hustle and bustle surely doesn't always remind you of those struggling to get by.

On the way out of the office, they walked to the putting green. Dang stood with his back toward them a few feet away.

That doesn't seem like an experience a naive, timid girl would've had - not until fate forced her on a fork in her life.

"Being in the government bureaucracy, as a lecturer, you spend the latter part of your life imparting knowledge rather than gaining it. I wanted to make myself happy

ou can look at cases around the world and it will be hard to find an all-time win-win example or situation.

During one more recent visit, I stopped by to ask a friend, Pim Kemasingki, about the present and future. "Chiang Mai is changing and will continue to change.

The international press in Vietnam has more freedom than the local press, as is the case in some other South East Asian countries.

Though she did say that there are broader groups which young people inhabit, such as "nerdy" or "cute" or "the wilder kids" and those obsessively into sports.

The baggage claim area of the airport must be expanded. We are encouraging schools to use songtaew to transport children to school so fewer private cars are on the

At some point in the late 1960s, Shaman Bunleau ended up in Laos, just a few miles across the Mekong from where his life began.

"I have a very big family in Thailand. I'm not rich, but maybe I'll send them more money when I get a job someday," she says.