Traversing The Orient Magazine

Songkram Jutjarat has a love of dogs, he takes them off the streets and away from the danger of landing on plates in Thai and Vietnamese eateries - he tells Traversing the Orient it’s a tough battle. Amid loud growling and gnashing teeth, dog catchers round up the homeless hounds in ...

Throughout the month of May Manfred Winkler exposes his wonderfully creative, playful and sensitive mind through an art exhibition in Bangkok – Why Did He Not Kill Me? Liz Smailes meets the heart and soul that refuses to grow old. Three days before Manfred’s exhibition opens at MuMu art gallery, ...

Executioner Over almost two decades, Chaowares Jarabun executed 55 inmates in Thailand.  With his autobiography out, he’s aiming to become a strange celebrity and teacher. Words and images by Jim Algie The hardest part of being on the execution team ...

Sara Dixon meets an adventurer circumnavigating the world’s oceans in a boat so old it’s considered a curiosity The December seas around Phuket were stuffed with yachts - their sails bursting with color. They had come to com­pete in the King’s Cup Regetta, one of Thailand’s premier yacht races. Elsewhere, ...

Khao Yai National Park is up there on a podium with some of the world's greatest parks and what's more it's only three hours by car northeast of Bangkok. Jim Algie exited Bangkok's zoo of human madness to mingle with the wildlife in the jungles of Khao Yai. Visitors  ...

Nora Batty discovers instant relief from the hustle and bustle of Bangkok shopping malls and frantic festive shoppers at Tammachart Day Spa, Novotel at Siam Square I was experiencing one of those difficult pre-Christmas Bangkok days. The run of things was making ...

Tara Mitchell meets a young artist painting for his mother’s freedom Sittichai Pugdeepet, otherwise known as Tor, is busy painting images of Buddha to rescue his mother from a jail sentence. A close friend of the Dalai Lama and Tik Shiro, a ...

The nefarious tentacles of the trade in counterfeit goods siphons 600 to 700 billion dollars from the world economy annually. Tom Fin takes a guided tour through Bangkok’s Museum of Counterfeit goods to discover who benefts and who pays for this booming trade. Does the blood of innocent people stain your ...

Tara Mitchell meets Bangkok artist Jamjaris Suchiva at the Mu Mu Art House Jamjaras Suchiva scavenges Bangkok to create art. He rummages through obscure stalls in Chatuchak Market for fos­sils, old ivory, buffalo horns and leather. In China Town, shops ...

By Tom Fin A good massage is a sublime thing combining art and science. Its Arabic name, massa, meaning to touch, feel or handle, was first referenced in the Bible in 493 BC by the wife of Xerxes who enjoyed ...