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China: We’re providing your fashion conscious consumers with clothing dirt cheap, and you’re complaining?
USA & The EU: Dude! We wouldn’t, but we’ve go elections to win (unlike you) and working class votes to secure!

Good Friend,
Lately, ever since the liver bug declared war, it seems as if I have been searching for a space like home. I seem to have conquered the depths of homesickness haunting me before; what I look for now is, yes the familiarity of home and being together with my loving family, but also an […]

The shop is dimly lit, curious for inviting patronage. I point at the bottle of water; the proprietress hurries up from behind a desk in the rusty corner and says “twenty five baht!” She is heavily made up, her powdered face like dessicated salt flats about to splinter into cracked plates. “No, yii sip baht,” […]

I prove once again I am a professional caliber musician! At Mae Haad, Koh Tao, I happen upon a couple of uncommitted hours before the cruiser leaves for Chumporn to connect with the Bangkok-bound bus. I pull out the djembe. Deep cuts from shell scrapes still unhealed on my right hand, I refer the bass […]

Thick redness flowing from my pinky, again. There are two basics you should know before going snorkeling around here. First, quality of the equipment is paramount. A shoddy mask will leave you blind with salty water poured in the eyes (a bee itch for contact wearers), and a faulty snorkel (the breathing tube) will drown […]