Learn Me Slowly…
Poetry of Words & Wine by Aarti Saikia, Arcadia Fine Foods & Olive Bangkok Saturday 1 September, 6pm-9pm Olive Bangkok, Ekamai Soi 12 Baht 1600 net This special one-night event will feature the creative expressions of Aarti Saikia – visual and performance artist, poet and dancer. Interpreting the mysterious theme of Learn Me Slowly…’ Aarti’s […]
“Eat My Canvas”, an Original Art-Happening in Bangkok on Next Week
Bangkok, August 14 2018 – Eat My Canvas is a brand new art concept inspired by the spirit of art happenings in New York in the sixties and created by Sevensenses Art Company. It will be on August 25 th at Bangkok Heightz, Continent Hotel. Eat My Canvas aims to immerse the audience in an […]
Australian Comedy Legend , Greg Fleet in Bangkok
…at … Westin Grande Sukhumvit, Bangkok, 8.00 pm, Saturday 11 August, 2018 … you really want to be there! “Brilliant… inspired nonsense, utterly fresh, utterly hilarious” – The Scotman “Greg Fleet is one of the best comedians in the world ever” – Stewart Lee. Announcing Stand up Asia’s next show in Bangkok on Saturday August […]
The only way is up. Education in Rural Thailand
A free basic education of twelve years is guaranteed by the constitution of Thailand, and a minimum of nine years’ school attendance is mandatory. Unfortunately, when you head upcountry, away from the large cities, you will see many children of school age working in the fields. There is an ageing population in the poorer provinces – […]
A Healthy Business
The instigation of medical tourism in Thailand can largely be attributed to one hospital group – Bumrungrad International Hospital, known by its patrons from around the world as, simply, Bumrungrad. Bumrungrad began its rise in 1980, when it opened as a small to medium sized 200 bed hospital in a fairly quiet part of the city, […]
Medical tourism, Thai style – a primer for the new millennium
Medical tourism first started to gain a foothold in Thailand as we left the 20th century and entered the 21st. Prior to this time medical tourism had a rather different meaning than it has today. In the past tourists from poorer, less developed countries would travel to the more developed nations, where the medical facilities and […]
Medical tourism in Thailand
Medical tourism is a fairly new phenomenon, that involves travelling outside the country one was born in – or resides in – for the purpose of receiving medical care. Growth in the popularity of medical tourism has garnered the attention of government policy makers, researchers and the media. Initially the term referred to the travel of […]
Where (and what) is the right FIT for you
… gyms and fitness centres are bright, modern, and welcoming… Technology, robots, and automated machines in the workplace are increasingly taking over from the physical efforts of the human workforce. On a bus, on a train, in a car, people are forever staring into a smartphone screen. We are becoming sedentary, lazy … and obesity […]
Time sleeps by …
There are only two things that are certain, death and taxes’. This was famously quoted by Benjamin Franklin, in a letter he wrote in 1789. Another item that could be added to this list of inevitabilities is our need for sleep. We cannot live without it, and lack of sleep, or adverse features within it, […]
Breast cancer surgery and reconstruction
Legend has it that the ancient Amazon tribe of warrior women in Asia Minor would cut off their right breast in order to be a more efficient and accurate archer. Rather extreme. In the modern world the most common type of cancer in women is cancer of the breast, and the treatment is the same […]