Ms in the Mango

There's not a girlie bar in sight, thank God, in these short stories by farang women living in Bangkok.....

Che, eventually
Perhaps 'The Motorcycle Diaries' had something to do with a father's recollections being....

Brutal revelations For our time
The staggering extent to which popular opinion has been moulded by government misinformation begins to....

Leafing through the East
A selection of 2007's best books on Asia delivers a vivid picture of continental shifts

'Obambi' bites back
US presidential candidate Barack Obama touts his optimism and street smarts

Timothy Good keeps phoning home with evidence that the world's governments are covering up the alien....

The story of the Dutch engineer recruited in 1902 to irrigate Siam. No one was smiling after this episode ....

On the cover: Mahatma Gandhi and his motto, "Be the change that you want to see in the world."

Plugging that brain drain
The Wisdom Paradox By Elkhonon Goldberg Published by Pocket Books, 2007 Available at Asian Books, Bt450
Meet Keller the lizard killer
More Living Thai Ways Part III By Michael Keller Published by Bangkok Books, 2006 Available at Asia Books,....
Contact Wounds
By Jonathan Kaplan Published by Picador, 2007 Available at Asia Books
Buddhist Dictionary
By Ven Nyanatiloka Published by Silkworm Books Available at leading bookshops, Bt370

Creating a cop called Costa
David Hewson, in Bangkok to unveil not one but two new novels, says if you only write what you know,....
Grace and fun and freedom
In his second book on the subject, Brian Mertens remains effusive in his admiration for Thai art and design -....
Revealing the realm
A new book on Angkor by photographer Martin Reeves transports the reader into a dream world
New light on Suu Kyi
Justin Wintle once saw Burma's icon of democracy riding a bicycle at Oxford. He's learned a lot....

Thavorn KoUdomvit
Background: Artist
Clive Wing
Background: Chief of Information and Knowledge Management Unesco AsiaPacific Regional Bureau for Education....