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...Located on the banks of the Chao Phraya river, smack in the heart of old Bangkok, the complex consists of three villas?the Riverside Villa, the Thai House and the Garden Suite?constructed in an architecturally sympathetic style around the original residence. The villas offer exquisite views of the Temple of Dawn and are serviced by 12 staff. Guests are ferried around Bangkok by the villas' own longboat, river launch or tuk tuk. Breakfast is enjoyed on private terraces, while lunch or dinner can be taken on a riverside veranda. And the best part? This discreet luxury comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Prince Among Hotels | 2/7/2005 | See Source »

...prince certainly. Built in Bangkok in 1908 by Prince Chakrabongse Bhuvanath and converted into a boutique hotel in 2003 by his granddaughter, Narisa, the Chakrabongse Villas may well be one of the Thai capital's best-kept secrets. Located on the banks of the Chao Phraya river, smack in the heart of old Bangkok, the complex consists of three villas - the Riverside Villa, the Thai House and the Garden Suite - constructed in an architecturally sympathetic style around the original residence. The villas offer exquisite views of the Temple of Dawn and are serviced by 12 staff. Guests are ferried around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Prince Among Hotels | 2/2/2005 | See Source »

...photographs of relaxing western tourists, which have run in newspapers around the world, smack of gluttony, ignorance and even depraved indifference for human lives. World, and especially western, governments who have pledged billions in emergency relief cannot be satisfied by the contradictory message sent by hedonistic tourists carrying on their vacations as if nothing happened. Muslims, who constitute a large proportion of the population in much of the tsunami-affected area, cannot be comfortable at tourists’ consumption of alcohol under any circumstances, least of all when they are spending their days in a desperate search for a future...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg, | Title: Epidemic Indifference | 1/12/2005 | See Source »

...Smack Me Baby One More Time; You’re Ok, I Like...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Rejected Headlines | 12/16/2004 | See Source »

...drunken happiness, while maintaining a deathless, overconfident, holier-than-thou attitude that catalyzes his downfall. Despite his irritating tendency to say the wrong thing to just about everyone, there are elements of appealing humanity in Troy. While cringing at his painful blindness to reality, the viewer wants to smack some sense into him. Yet there is something gripping about his irate desperation and something frightening about the ease with which Troy evolves from confident and optimistic bartender to paranoid resentful tyrant...

Author: By Tony A. Onah and Deborah Pan, S | Title: Film Reviews | 12/3/2004 | See Source »

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