ผู้จัดการออนไลน์– ชาวพม่าได้รับความเสียหายอย่างหนักจากพายุหมุนเขตร้อนนาร์ยิส (Nargis) ที่พัดเข้าทำลายถนน อาคาร จมเรือประมงและทำให้มีผู้ได้รับบาดเจ็บหลายราย นอกจากนั้นไซโคลนลูกนี้ยังมีพิษสงทำลายล้างกินวงกว้างพาดผ่านตอนกลางของประเทศจนถึงรัฐมอญ-รัฐกะเหรี่ยงติดชายแดนไทย ขณะที่สำนักข่าวบีบีซีรายงานมีผู้เสียชีวิตกว่า 200 คน

The monthly challenge for Nablopomo is “voices,” interrupted however you want. There are the voices we hear, the conversations we have with ourselves, and conversations. “To give voice” also means to empower someone, making that person’s voice heard, to move them from the margin to center stage. One of the upsides of globalization - and the internet - is the ability to communicate with people, or

I read about this book challenge on Names Have Been Changed
Anyway, since I’m always trying to read at least one hundred books per year, I’m giving it a shot as part of the The TBR Challenge

April: Moving along my list of books to read for this challenge. I really have to take a little time to write some thoughts about each. Some of the books I’ve listed on my Goodreads Shelf have short reviews

Bangkok - A train derailment in the southern province of Songkhla killed one man, injured 13 people and hastened the delivery of a healthy baby, railway officials said Sunday. The train derailed Satur…

Supasang wanted us to post a special message for his mother and all other mothers around here that are taking care of their kids in the best way they could….

I noticed what appears to be a henna painting on my co-worker’s right arm; he recently visited Karachi and Dubai. I believed Dubai is where he had the henna painting, rode the camel, sand boarding, and smoked a hookah, all in one day.
I knew what it was because I recently read a Thai article [...]

This post is for my oldest sister in NYC, I finally had a chance to clean my fish pond, the water is a lot clearer now as you can see, having fish pond is a lot of work but the rewards are ten-fold.

Also, my second sister’s fish are a lot bigger, her pond is smaller [...]

Omitted from most travel guidebooks, websites & maps, & partially hidden by large trees & its raised location above street level. Quite a few of the few tourists who discover Wat Hosieng label their photos of it as Wat Mahathat, probably because most sources of tourist info indicate the latter as the sole temple in the vicinity.

3-D Pha Ram (Rama) on the tympanum of the pediment/gable (much

WASHINGTON — A U.S. religious freedom watchdog group urged the United States on Friday to put Vietnam back on a religious rights blacklist, two years after the communist country was removed from the …

Beautiful images of the daily life in Luang Prabang.
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