This past Monday, October 23, was a national holiday. October 23 is the day King Chulalongkorn died and the Thai people remember his accomplishments and kingdom by paying homage to him all day. The worshipping is set up throughout the country and in three major locations within Bangkok: the statue of him in front of …
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Justin Calderón is the founder of Mint Position, an SEO-focused content marketing agency that produces and ranks web content using journalistic-quality research. He is also a veteran journalist, and his byline has appeared in the BBC, CNN, Newsweek, Foreign Policy, GlobalPost, the Bangkok Post and more. Justin speaks Mandarin and Spanish.
On Assignment in Pattaya for The Nation
My first day on board with The Nation, Thailand's leading independent newspaper, came as a bit of a shock to me. I have to take a train across town, then a dilapidated bus another 15 minutes down the road to reach the office. It was a humid morning and I had dressed fit for a …
Khao Yai
About two and a half hours north of Bangkok rests one of the biggest tropical rainforest reservations in the world. Khao Yai is 80 percent untouched jungle and completely alive with the sounds and shrieks of nature. Somewhere between the 100 meter waterfalls, tribes of monkeys, and the several undaunted deer that set up camp …
Giving the gift of English in the heart of Patpong
After hustling, poking, and prodding at the organization known as Swing for about a month, I was finally given an answer...No. I had worked my way all the way up the organization's social ladder, made countless emails, interviews, and mobile calls; yet finally I was turned away. The clients of Swing are 'sex workers' and …
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Adjarn Giles Ji Ungpakorn
Chulalongkorn University political science lecturer and public Marxist, Adjarn Giles Ji Ungpakorn is one of the leaders of the September 19th Organization and led the first protest against The Council for Democratic Reform under Constitutional Monarchy last Friday, September 22.Ungpakorn was born into one of the many military junta’s that checker Thailand’s history in the …
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