Thailand
Thailand's Anti-Government Protests Turned Deadly This Weekend
After months of relatively peaceful demonstrations and a week of massive anti-government rallies, protests in Bangkok have turned violent.
Is a Cure for Meth Addiction Lurking in the Jihadist-Infested Jungles of Thailand?
The Thai Minister for Justice has announced that he wants the kratom leaf removed from the country's illicit drugs list. He claims it could help wean addicts off harder stimulants, like methamphetamine.
US Consulate Officers Gone Wild
Michael T. Sestak, a Foreign Service officer working at a US consulate in Vietnam, was just charged with exchanging hundreds of visas for bribes. That's a brazen case of corruption, but it's hardly unique among the annals of the diplomatic corps.
Thailand's Full Moon Parties Have Been Taken Over by YOLO Idiots
It’s an old cliché to bemoan what is compared to what used to be. But as the morning sun rises over the fluorescent debris and thousands of empty plastic cups from the night before, it's hard for me to do much else.
Getting High and Making Beats
I resent the stereotype that weed-smokers aren’t productive. Sloth is merely one activity that goes well with smoking weed, and it happens in off hours. During the workweek, weed stimulates my creativity, or at very least relaxes my mind enough to come...
Visiting the Motherland
Before the rise of the xenophobic pseudo-patriotism that's responsible for our decaying reputation abroad, there was a time when the American experience involved spending your earlier years in another country and then coming over to the US in a huddled...
Deadly Fashion Braces Are Big in Thailand
Vanity braces are pretty nice until they give you a thyroid infection that leads to fatal heart failure.
What's the Grossest Thing You Could Paint Your Face In?
And more stuff in VICE Style's Week in Tidbits.
Criticize the Thai Monarchy at Your Peril
You might get beaten up by twins or spend 15 years in jail.
Shit-in
Welcome to the biggest, messiest party in Bangkok. Roughly 10,000 Thais—nearly a million if you ask the invaders—have seized the prime minister’s Government House headquarters.
Stompers Reunion
In June 2006, between 20 and 30 students from a technical college in Bangkok, Thailand, were gathered at a bar. A man who did not know these students made a disrespectful comment which led to the man’s death.