Macao: Better air routes

Budget airlines are adding new routes linking Macao and South-East Asia. Singapore-based Tiger Airways will launch flights between Macao and Manila in late October 2005, in addition to its Singapore-Macao route. Air Asia currently operates Macao-Kuala lumpur and Macao-Bangkok flights.

Thailand: Forbiddence

As floodwater subsided in Chiengmai, a city north of Bangkok, blogger SiamJai goes about exploring the restrictions foreigners have to face in Thailand, and restrictions Thais have to face abroad. He sights this in Laos: “It is prohibited to break in and sleep in the home of a Lao citizen...

Thailand:

Thailand's ‘Sangha’ (loosely translated it means Buddhism Body) declared for the umpteenth time that monks producing Buddhist amulets for financial gain are be stopped. Some of the most sought after amulets e.g. ‘Somdet Wat Rakrang’, may fetch mind-boggling prices up to 30 million baht.

Thailand: English tests

“On an average score of English tests out of nine ASEAN countries, our Thai counterparts came in eighth – just one above the Cambodians”. TV shows don't help much…

The e-community for Thai translators has a website at www.wanakam.com (wanakam means literature). It has an excellent link to the collection of Thai literature that had been translated to English, and world literature that had been translated to Thai. Blogger Jeep points us to interpretative translation of Thai poets.

Image from Thailand

Two hilltribe girls in Mae Sai, Thailand, standing along the Thai-Myanmar border, by Andy Carvin.

Thailand: Bangkok Post Story Has Holes

Sarasonteh looks at a Bangkok Post story about problems with the runways at the Bangkok airport and discovers that the real problems were with the story, not the runways.

Thailand: Dad's Thailand, my Thailand

A guest blogger on Thai-Blogs.com reflects on the differences between her Thailand and her father's Thailand.