Buriram Times
Cultural articles from Buriram highlighting Isaan culture in the North East of Thailand.
I had heard before a little about the man who is reputed to have been in Buriram for some forty five years. Obviously possessing a rich tapestry of both experience and knowledge of Thailand, Karl Kunz was an intriguing possible interview. He is a man you may well have seen whizzing past you on a…
Thai durian has outranked rice and para rubber as Thailand’s top export performer, with export volume last year estimated at about 187 billion baht, compared to 100 billion baht for rice exports and 90 billion baht for rubber, according to the Centre for International Trade Studies at the University of the Thai Chamber of…
A great post from our Archives on rice farming from 5 years ago this month: The rice harvesting season is just about over and farmers large and small have been gathering in the precious crop throughout the Province. Having been raised on a farm in England, I am well aware of the importance of…
With Visakha Bucha Day coming up on the 15th May 2022, the bank holiday on the Monday 16th. We revisit our archives on Buddhism. Visakha is the biggest of “big Buddha” days: It is a really important day for Buddhists, marking the birth, enlightenment and death of the Lord Buddha. By coincidence all three auspicious…
Following the recent sad story about a small autistic girl being bullied by older girls, the child’s mother has spoken to the media. She said that people had offered her family 30-50,000 baht to drop charges. This money would be useful but they are not accepting it. They want the law to run its course….
A group of students bullied an autistic and much younger child at their school in Phayao province, a video clip has revealed. The clip, which had caused uproar on social media and been shared more than 70,000 times before being deleted, has brought the problem of bullying at school into the spotlight. A survey by…
Heated debates about a teacher’s incorrect marking of a girl’s homework may sound like people are making a mountain of a molehill. Human errors, after all, are not unprecedented. But these debates, which spread like wildlife on social media, are not at all fruitless. They have at the very least nudged all sides to pay…
If Joy picked 12 mangoes and Joe picked eight more mangoes more than she did, how many mangoes did Joe pick? Conventional wisdom would suggest the answer is “20”, but for one first-grade math teacher somewhere in Thailand, the correct calculation is four. A woman posting on Facebook on Tuesday as Phuan Pennapa wanted to…
A Thai mother in Ang Thong has gone to the media for justice after she claimed that her 11 year old grade five daughter had been assaulted 28 times in front of 100 other students. Her crime? She had done nothing. But her three year sibling had failed to throw a chicken essence bottle in…
A Thai university student – identified only as Neung – has told the media how she took part in a sting operation at a short time hotel to expose a professor. The professor at a leading university was only giving good grades to attractive women if they slept with him. The student and her friends…
