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Phuket TV - PHUKET XTRA: VIDEO: Tourism tax on the table? New government coming soon? Death in military compound! || May 24

Phuket TV - PHUKET XTRA: VIDEO: Tourism tax on the table? New government coming soon? Death in military compound! || May 24

Kathu’s 19th Century treasure: The discovery of tin in the 1790s

Kathu’s 19th Century treasure: The discovery of tin in the 1790s

One moment in time: The hidden wonderment of Japanese short-form poetry

One moment in time: The hidden wonderment of Japanese short-form poetry

Royal Coronation: The Royal Regalia

Royal Coronation: The Royal Regalia

Royal Coronation: The Royal Coronation Emblem, the Mark of Royalty

Royal Coronation: The Royal Coronation Emblem, the Mark of Royalty

Royal Coronation: Sacred waters

Royal Coronation: Sacred waters

Royal Coronation: Ancient ceremony steeped in tradition

Royal Coronation: Ancient ceremony steeped in tradition
Kung Hei Fat Choy: Phuket’s expats on one of the world’s most celebrated festivals
Kung Hei Fat Choy: Phuket’s expats on one of the world’s most celebrated festivals
Monday 4 February 2019, 11:00AM
Expats from China and Hong Kong discuss their take on life in Thailand, what Chinese New Year – or Spring Festival – means to them and how they’ll be seeing in the year of the pig.
All About Buddhism: Eastern teachers and Western students mix like oil and water
All About Buddhism: Eastern teachers and Western students mix like oil and water
Sunday 27 January 2019, 03:00PM
This year, it is expected that over 30 million tourists will come to Thailand. If you’re a tourist reading this, then chances are you’re thinking at least a little bit about extending your stay. If you’re like some of us expats in Thailand, you might even be thinking about making that stay permanent.
The Kingdom of Funan: The First Great Southeast Asian Empire
The Kingdom of Funan: The First Great Southeast Asian Empire
Sunday 13 January 2019, 10:00AM
The smaller kingdoms develop­ing in the central peninsula came to be dominated by the Kingdom of Funan from the first to the seventh centuries AD. Funan, probably the first great Southeast Asian empire, apparently started out as a simple pirate base at Óc Eo, strategical­ly situated on the southwest coast of Vi­etnam today between the Mekong delta and the main east-west maritime trade routes.
All in a dream: Thailand’s lottery obsession can be a nightmare
All in a dream: Thailand’s lottery obsession can be a nightmare
Sunday 6 January 2019, 01:00PM
He appeared out of nowhere. My personal assistant. He was dressed in his work uniform. I don’t know where he came from but he ran towards me.  As he neared he smiled and crouched down right before me. He must have been about a metre away from my face. He didn’t say a word, just kept beaming at me.
All About Buddhism: The Season for Miracles
All About Buddhism: The Season for Miracles
Saturday 29 December 2018, 12:31PM
Due to our unfamiliarity with them, foreign traditions often strike our hearts much more deeply than do the traditions that we like to claim for our own. Sometimes, we even find that new traditions can lead to miracles in our life because a foreign tradition gives us a new and novel way of seeing the world.
Year-long activities planned for 2019 to celebrate ‘Khon’
Year-long activities planned for 2019 to celebrate ‘Khon’
Friday 21 December 2018, 10:00AM
Thailand’s Ministry of Culture’s Department of Cultural Promotion has declared a year of activities in 2019 to celebrate ‘Khon’, Thailand’s masked dance drama, which has been inscribed on Unesco’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Guru Prep Academy - Studying for ‘The Thamasooksa Test’
Guru Prep Academy - Studying for ‘The Thamasooksa Test’
Sunday 9 December 2018, 02:00PM
In America, the Church and State have been staunchly separated for centuries. The United States was never a religious Kingdom and, these days, most traces of its Christian roots are being purged out of the government classroom entirely.
The Massacre of the Cholas - Phuket under Indian Governorship 1676-1679
The Massacre of the Cholas - Phuket under Indian Governorship 1676-1679
Sunday 2 December 2018, 02:00PM
In 1676, when he was warned that the Dutch East India Company (VOC) was planning to invade Phuket to make it a colony, King Narai had ordered the removal of Okya Phet, the anti-Dutch governor. Okya Phet petitioned heavily in Ligor and Ayutthaya to try to retain his lucrative governorship.
An eternal Halloween - A Buddhist view on evil
An eternal Halloween - A Buddhist view on evil
Sunday 28 October 2018, 11:00AM
In a child’s world, the worst acts of man go largely unseen. But, all adults know that evil is a sad fact of life. We also know that it exists in all times and in all places.
Sinbad the Sailor - Was Phuket the mariner’s old stomping ground?
Sinbad the Sailor - Was Phuket the mariner’s old stomping ground?
Sunday 21 October 2018, 02:00PM
Persian and Arab mariners returned home to their barren and dry homelands with fantastic stories of the exotic jungle lands they had seen on the other side of the Indian Ocean, and they soon became the setting for fabulous sailors’ legends such as the tales of Sinbad the Sailor in The Thousand and One Nights.
Peranakannitat Museum in Phuket Town
Peranakannitat Museum in Phuket Town
Sunday 14 October 2018, 01:00PM
Right in the heart of old Phuket Town you can find the Peranakannitat Museum (also called the Baba Museum), which was officially opened in May 2017 by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn.
Everything Possible: What Buddhism does and does not say about gay marriage
Everything Possible: What Buddhism does and does not say about gay marriage
Sunday 16 September 2018, 11:00AM
Okay readers, pick the best of one of these statements: ‘I’m better than you’, ‘I’m worse than you’, ‘I’m the same as you’.
Duals with the Dutch - The Honourable East India Company in Siam
Duals with the Dutch - The Honourable East India Company in Siam
Monday 10 September 2018, 09:00AM
In late December 1600, as the winter dark fell over the drizzling, grim but bustling streets of London, passersby may have heard a cheer emanate from the lamp-lit windows of a building in Leadenhall St. Inside were some of the city’s leading lords and merchants who had just agreed to form a joint stock trading company for undertaking eastern trade, the Honourable East India Company or HEIC, which was given a monopoly by the king over all eastern trade.
Slave to the rhythm - The natural phenomena of entrainment
Slave to the rhythm - The natural phenomena of entrainment
Saturday 8 September 2018, 09:00AM
It was in Paris, 1666, that Christiaan Huygens, the Dutch physicist, became rather baffled. Huygens had invented the pendulum grandfather clock, along with a wide range of classic mechanics and mathematical physics formula for which he would become renowned. But his attention had turned to a surprising observation on the behaviour of two swinging pendulums.
Sunk Cost Error - The irrationality behind decision making
Sunk Cost Error - The irrationality behind decision making
Saturday 1 September 2018, 09:00AM
Here’s the scenario. Last week you thought it was a really smart manoeuvre to purchase tickets to see a new-fangled guitar band at a venue in Patong. Now it’s Friday night after a long week at work and sitting in rush-hour traffic. The concert starts in two hours, and whatever rock demon that possessed you to buy the damn ticket in the first place has left the building. And if it couldn’t get any worse, you’re south of the Chalong Circle. Great. In truth, you’re less than enamoured about the whole affair.
Hungry ghosts, red turtles - The Por Tor Festival
Hungry ghosts, red turtles - The Por Tor Festival
Friday 31 August 2018, 12:00PM
The Twenty-four Filial Exemplars is a classic Chinese text of Confucian family piety written by Guo Jujing during the Yuan dynasty (1260–1368). The text is an example of, in certain cases, extreme actions to fulfilling familial obligations. From killing offspring to free up their ration of food, breastfeeding toothless grandparents to tales of rather gruesome self harm, it’s not without its controversy nor for the faint of heart.
All for one, one for all - Why gay marriage has been a no-go in Buddhist Thailand
All for one, one for all - Why gay marriage has been a no-go in Buddhist Thailand
Monday 27 August 2018, 09:00AM
Although once thought of as a ‘gay man’s paradise,’ Thailand has done a lot in recent years to dispel that notion. There is still no gay marriage to be found here and many foreign guests, dignitaries and tourists would like to know why… and, as usual, the answer all comes down to culture.
Rainbow Unicorns - How to make out marketers and not be influenced by them
Rainbow Unicorns - How to make out marketers and not be influenced by them
Saturday 18 August 2018, 09:00AM
“Sure you can sell vulnerable people some total **** and make a killing. You can also shove old ladies to the ground and snatch their purses. Same thing, scumbag.” - Buster Guru (Ethical Marketing Blogger)
Joy to The World! Buddhism spreads around the globe.
Joy to The World! Buddhism spreads around the globe.
Sunday 12 August 2018, 09:15AM
For any of you tourists out there who just got to this sunny little mountainous rock astride the Andaman Sea that is otherwise known as ‘Phuket’, you will find that we have great reason to celebrate.
Reach of the ancient empire. Were the Greeks or Romans in Phuket or the Peninsula?
Reach of the ancient empire. Were the Greeks or Romans in Phuket or the Peninsula?
Friday 10 August 2018, 09:00AM
“The beautiful vessels, the masterpieces of the Greeks, stir white foam on the Periyar River … arriving with gold and departing with pepper.”
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