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White creates the designs and selects the fabrics herself, aiming for outfits that fit loosely but still look hip. The results are attracting expectant local celebrities like Thai screen star Wanwalai Posayanont. "They actually look like clothes that I would wear when I'm not pregnant," says the 30-year-old actress. For details visit www.amayi.co.th...
...tourist who was in Bangkok for the party-loving city's raucous New Year's Eve festivities, must be glad she listened to her gut. Around 9 p.m. on Dec. 31, the kindergarten teacher from Hamburg was grappling with the unnerving news that six bombs had detonated across the Thai capital just a couple of hours earlier, targeting everything from a shopping mall and a supermarket to a bus stop at Victory Monument, one of the city's busiest gathering places. Watching the police comb for evidence at Victory Monument, Martin changed her mind about attending the famous New Year...
...unlikely this was the work of southern insurgents," says Francesca Lawe-Davies, Southeast Asia Analyst for the International Crisis Group. "It's always been more about their territory; if they were to stage an attack in Bangkok, I think they would choose a target more directly linked to the Thai state instead of public places." At a press conference a day after the bombings, interim Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont discounted speculation that the carnage was coordinated by Muslim extremists, instead linking the bombs to "people who lost benefits from losing political power...
...power commensurate to their shares. Already, according to Yoichi Kato, head of the Bangkok office of the Japan External Trade Organization, several Japanese firms have told him that they may postpone investment in Thailand. "If you want to play in the global game, you can't just play by Thai rules," says Peter van Haren, president of the Joint Foreign Chambers of Commerce in Bangkok. "Other Asian nations are willing to play by international rules, and they could...
...Thousand Hills) has somehow eluded the platinum-card-carrying class. Featuring classic Lanna architecture without, and authentic hill-tribe craftsmanship within, this two-year-old hidden gem comprises just seven suites and four rooms, making it feel less like a hotel and more like the sumptuous home of its Thai owner Wanphen Sakdatorn and her husband, German Honorary Consul Hagen Dirksen...