New Mandala

For all of the foreign-authored books, articles and websites on Bangkok “at night”, I have rarely seen insightful things written about the Bangkok nightlife that my friends know best.  Far from the notorious, and clichéd, flesh-pots of Sukhumwit, Ratchada and Silom, there is a nightlife that appeals to well-heeled (and not so well-heeled) Thai urbanites.  [...]

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Interesting to read in Nich’s post that there is some discussion of the sufficiency economy in Bangkok. To date, much of the discussion about the King’s theory has focussed on rural areas. Here are some images that give some indication of what the theory is about. The first is the cover of a book of collected case studies [...]

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