The BigChilli (Page 3)

Bangkok’s Luxury Rentals Have Apparently Also Joined the Scam Economy

Bangkok/Thailand brief for expats in a dry Colin Hastings register.

Bangkok’s Parks Are Once Again Offering the Cheapest Civilised Evening in Town

Bangkok/Thailand brief for expats in a dry Colin Hastings register.

For One Hour, Bangkok Pretended It Might Actually Switch Off

Bangkok joined Earth Hour over the weekend, with Governor Chadchart Sittipunt urging residents, businesses and government offices to switch off non-essential lights from 8.30pm to 9.30pm on March 28. The symbolic blackout covered

Bangkok Is Getting Eurovision Asia, Which Feels Entirely On Brand

Bangkok will host the first Eurovision Asia grand final on November 14, which is either a triumph of regional cultural confidence or proof that nobody in this city has ever once looked at the phrase

Government House Gets Another Visitor Who Declined to Make an Appointment

Bangkok politics remains, among other things, gloriously incapable of resisting live theatre. On Monday morning an elderly man rode a motorcycle up to the Thai Khu Fah Building at Government House, sounded his horn, and

Bangkok’s Book Fair Returns to Empty Your Tote Bag and Your Afternoon

Bangkok has once again devised a perfectly respectable way to make people spend money they did not mean to spend, and this time it is wrapped in the pleasant smell of paper. The Thai Book

Even Government House Gets Its Morning Eccentric

Bangkok’s political theatre usually arrives wrapped in motorcades, podiums and expressions of national concern. On Monday morning it came instead on a motorcycle, horn first. According to The Thaiger, an elderly man rode up

Songkran, but Make It Cosmic

Bangkok has decided that ordinary seasonal chaos is no longer sufficient. S2O, already the sort of Songkran event that treats restraint as an administrative error, is returning on April 11-13 with a new home on

At Last, Lumpini and Benchakitti Are Getting a Proper Introduction

Bangkok and Thailand, rewritten with dry expat wit.

Bangkok Prepares to Throw Itself a 244th Birthday Party

Bangkok and Thailand, rewritten with dry expat wit.