Thai Culture

Story of transsexuals, spies and insurgents is pure fun

3 Jun 2012

Pure
by Timothy Mo
Turnaround Books

4:31PM

Sacred Skin: Thailand's Spirit Taboos

9 Oct 2011

Sacred Skin: Thailand's Spirit Taboos
by Tom Vater
Visionary World Ltd

9:30PM

Guru faces global appeal

11 Jul 2011

With more than 1.5million subscribers, Michelle Phan has earned herself the title of 'most subscribed guru of all time on YouTube'. Phan met the media at a specially arranged video conference when...

2:31PM

Light and bright lanterns bring colourful New Year cheer to mall

17 Jan 2011

Although launching sky lanterns has always been an auspicious Lunar New Year tradition, flying paper lanterns fuelled by lit candles has been restricted in Hong Kong because they can cause fires...

7:10AM

Letters

29 Sep 2010

Full discussion of primary care is important

Your editorial ('Case for health scheme must be well argued', September 18) rightly highlighted the threat of a lowering of quality of...

8:03PM

The sky's the limit? Not for paper balloons

24 Sep 2010

They look pretty and are said to bring good luck but they can start fires and - as has been shown in recent days - can even stop trains.

8:27PM

Opinion

Alex Lo

Chen Guangcheng misled by his new right-wing 'friends'

1:26AM

Tom Holland

The yuan hasn't overtaken the HK$ quite yet, Mr Chan

4:40AM

Lanterns, plastic bags and maps inspire innovative fashions on PolyU catwalk

Lanterns and plastic bags are not the first items that spring to mind when thinking about fashion, but they inspired students who won awards at Polytechnic University's annual graduation fashion...

9:46PM

About Khon

Pichet Klunchun and Jerome Bel

Cultural Centre Studio Theatre

Reviewed: Nov 21

1:24AM

Devils in detail

The Bangkok heat is almost unbearable. 'This is nothing,' says the devil. 'Just wait until the hot season - now that's real torture!' An apprentice gremlin nods in agreement.

2:01PM

Be our guest

There's Phuket ... and then there's the JW Marriott Phuket Resort and Spa (below), set in tropical gardens with swimming pools and freshwater ponds, overlooking the Andaman Sea on Mai Khao beach...

8:51PM

Big deal

Three nights at Rayavadee, an upmarket Thai resort in Krabi (www.rayavadee.com), are on offer from Westminster Travel for $5,650 per person, twin share.

7:45PM

Blame the name

What's in a person's name? The answer is everything, according to Thais - who fret over the twists and turns that their lives have taken and reckon that some of the blame lies with their names.

3:48AM