http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye An Outsider Inside Thailand Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:37:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2005/08/fatal-floods-strike-northern-thailand/ http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2005/08/fatal-floods-strike-northern-thailand/#comments Tue, 16 Aug 2005 02:00:39 +0000 Garry http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/?p=49 Over 110,000 people affected. CHIANG MAI, Thailand - 16 August 2005 - Torrential rains lashed the mountainous centre of South East Asia on Saturday and led to flash floods in Northern Thailand’s popular tourist destinations. Casualty estimates vary between 5 and 13 dead, with 11 to 20 reported missing, and around forty injured including two foreign visitors. Eighteen roads, 44 bridges and around 6,500 hectares of agricultural crops have been severely affected in rural areas. Current estimates are that floods have directly affected almost 111,000 people over an area the size of Wales, according to officials.]]> http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2005/08/fatal-floods-strike-northern-thailand/feed/ 2 http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2004/06/rainy-season-retailing-2/ http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2004/06/rainy-season-retailing-2/#comments Wed, 16 Jun 2004 02:00:59 +0000 Garry http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/?p=7 CHIANG MAI, Thailand - 16 June 2004 - Rainy season’s arrived. You get a hint at this from the amount of wet stuff in the air outside and a personal malaise about going anywhere. In some ways it’s a bit like the onset of deep winter back in Europe – when the sun shines you dash around trying to clear all the outside jobs before the clouds roll in again, and once they’ve arrived, you try to find things to do in the house. So, apart from vegetating in front of the TV, or rewashing your favourite T-shirt, how do you fill your time? Do you ever consider that housebound time, and your expensive Internet connection could actually be earning you money?]]> http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2004/06/rainy-season-retailing-2/feed/ 0 http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2003/03/lan-na-in-the-shadow-of-the-mongols/ http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2003/03/lan-na-in-the-shadow-of-the-mongols/#comments Tue, 11 Mar 2003 02:00:45 +0000 Garry http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/?p=24 Lan Na in the Shadow of the Mongols Satellite Towns - an old system revived CHIANG MAI, Thailand - 11 Mar 2003 - People say that history is how we learn the future. Examining the past is how we see what to do next, claim others. Cynics state that history teaches only that humans never learn. Perhaps a little of each is true for all of us, and everyone has the opportunity to learn from everyone else, at personal, regional, and national levels. How many of us do? On 23rd April AD 1281, marching triumphantly into Hariphunchai (Lamphun), King Mengrai entered a city-state far different from those of Chiang Rai and the Mae Kok basin. Hariphunchai was a model administration for his growing kingdom, one that he would adapt, and use. Hariphunchai was small; one central city and several satellite towns – within half a day’s march of each other, plus dozens of smaller villages. Only the latter were unfortified. The basic military advantage, of scattered strong points dependent upon and defendant of each other, is a style still used today. Yet, their placement was not only military.]]> http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2003/03/lan-na-in-the-shadow-of-the-mongols/feed/ 0