Collin Piprell is a Canadian writer and editor based in Bangkok

feature articles (a few samples from hundreds)

A disclaimer: The bloopers in the titles and so on are not mine, nor did I proof the copy in question.

* The Andaman Sea Rocks (Phuket Mag.)

* Bali: Luxury property market overview (Asia-Pacific Tropical Homes)

* Modernist Pitch for a Flat Roof (Asia-Pacific Tropical Homes; profile of a Bali-based British architect, together with the debate regarding traditional vs modern roof designs)

* Cultural Showcases for the World (Fah Thai Mag.; World Heritage Sites: Angkor, Sukhothai, Luang Prabang; Hue)

* New Promise: Phuket-based boating ready to ride the surge

* Phuket Yachting Is Missing the Boat

* Koh Similan: From Diving and Sailing Frontier to Frontier Waystation (Phuket Mag.)

* Too Many Captains (SEA Yachting; Phuket Mag.; high times aboard Buccaboo -- the slowest vessel in the Andaman Sea is crewed by a gang of the finest skippers to prove herself a winner in the Phuket King’s Cup Regatta)

* Spirit of Silolona: New Hope for an Endangered Species (Asia-Pacific Tropical Homes; the highest expression of an Indonesian wooden boat-building tradition is available for charter)

* ‘Free’ Rides to Burma (Fah Thai Mag.; a free ride to a casino that isn’t a casino on a southern Burmese island wasn’t as free as it was cracked up to be)

* Driving Obsessions (Showboats International; portrait of Pa Suriya and his gamefishing boat Obsessions)

* What Is This ‘Environment’ We’re Saving, and Why? (Phuket Mag.; to what extent is the “environment” an internal, cognitive or psychological phenomenon?)

* Drinking Thai-style (Phuket Magazine)

* Finding a Balance: David Lyman (Heritage Mag.; profile of one of Thailand’s leading lawyers)

* Transformations: Laguna Phuket (Sawadee Magazine; integrated resort development reclaims land ravaged by tin mining)

* Nomadism as a Creed: Sailing Inside the Moken Universe (Phuket Mag.; the sea nomads of southern Burma traditionally spent most of each year at sea in distinctive houseboats that also served to embody their culture and history, but now boats, lifestyle and cultural heritage are all under dire threat of extinction)

* Whose Idea of a Tropical Paradise Is This, Anyway? (Samui Magazine)

* Monster Beneath the Garden (Phuket Mag.; background to the great Andaman Sea tsunami)

* Going Concern (Sawadee Magazine; profile of a senior executive of the Charoen Pokphand Group as a Go player)

* The English-language Press in Thailand: A Brief History (Sawasdee Magazine)

* Growing Together with the Nation: The Thai Press (Sawasdee Magazine)

* Swimming with Sharks (Asia Times)

* Shooting Yourself in the Foot: The New Thai Excise Tax on Yachts (Asia Times)

* Samui Heat (Epicure Magazine; hot food on Samui)

* Ban Rim Pa (Phuket Magazine; restaurant review)

* New Directions: Samui & Koh Tao Diving (Samui Magazine)

* Synergies: The Hitachi Foundation in Indonesia (Age of Tomorrow)

* Basic Research Addresses Social and Economic Need: The Hitachi Foundation in Malaysia (Age of Tomorrow)

* Drop by Drop, Bottle by Bottle (Phuket Mag.; environmental caution re. incremental degradation)

* International Partnership: Rail’s Continuing Relevance in a Fast-changing World (Age of Tomorrow; parallel histories of rail in Thailand and Japan)

* Rajadhani: A Healthy Passion for Bali (Asia-Pacific Tropical Homes; a remarkable villa development-cum-health retreat in eastern Bali)

* Chaweng ad 2000 (Samui Magazine; countervailing pressures on Koh Samui to go highrise)

* Souvenirs You Earn (Phuket Mag.; diving, sailing, climbing, fishing, bungee jumping, Thai cooking certificates that you can earn on vacation)

* Khao Yai National Park: Wildlife Refuge and Hiker's Paradise (Action Asia)

* Tropical Reveries, Adrenalin Rushes: Big-game Fishing in the Andaman Sea (Phuket Mag.)

* Ho Chi Minh City Success Story (International Labour Org.; profile of a Saigon small business person)

* Boom in Bareboat Charters: Phuket's Wave of the Future (Sawasdee)

* Watersports Thailand: A Never-ending Season (Phuket Mag.)

* A Whole New World: Phuket-based Superyacht Cruising (Boat International; some of the best cruising grounds in the world for megayachts)

* Everybody Won: The Phuket Invitational Superyacht Rally (Phuket Mag.; new superyacht rally aims to promote big boat cruising in the region)

* Mergui Archipelago (Fah Thai Magazine; Moken, Burma’s sea nomads)

* Jinghong: The City of Dawn (Fah Thai Magazine; Yunnan’s capital, in southwestern China)

* Xi’an: Proud Mix of Ancient and Modern (Fah Thai Magazine; China travel story)

* Samui's Old Houses: Historical Record Succumbing to Time (Samui Magazine)

* Liveaboard Diving (Phuket Mag.; diving Similans, Burma Banks, Mergui Archipelago, Trang, Andaman Islands, and more; written in 1997, and now 10 years out of date)

* Beach Dunes (Phuket Mag.; structure, roles, pressures on, conservationist measures)

* Mergui Archipelago: Andaman Sea Anomaly Set to Boom (original version of what became a heavily edited Asian Wall Street Journal piece; introduction to these relatively untouched southern Burmese islands just after they opened to visitors)

* Dinomynahs, Flying Lizards, and Other Local Wildlife (Phuket Mag.; what you can see the morning after on Phuket while sweating tequila by the pool)

* The Kor Lae: Man and Boat Endangered (Samui Mag.; this traditional wooden boat, typical of Samui and the more southern provinces, is threatened with extinction)

* Investing in a New Cambodia (Sarika)

* Dragon’s Dinner Manqué (SEA Yachting; how the writer barely escaped serving as a komodo dragon lizard’s dinner)

* New future for an ancient tradition (SEA Yachting; traditional Indonesian phinisi, a wooden sailing vessel, finds its finest expression in Silolona)

* Lampi Island: The Next Phuket, or Something Even Better? (SEA Yachting; this giant island in Burma’s (Myanmar’s) Mergui Archipelago is mountainous, heavily forested, teeming with wildlife, and uninhabited; will it see enlightened development?)

* Phuket-based Boating Adventures: Farther Frontiers (a week and more) (SEA Yachting; phuket-based boating)

* Yacht Sailing for Everyone (Fah Thai; the variety of sailing experiences available in Thai waters)

* Iconic Southern Thai Images, Endangered Southern Species (the variety of traditional wooden boats in Thailand’s Andaman Sea and in the Gulf of Thailand)

* Living Resorts (Asia-Pacific Tropical Homes;traditional design elements mixed with modern trends in tropical Asian resort architecture)

* Way Out Way Ins: Classic Balinese Doors (Asia-Pacific Tropical Homes; all there is to know about making and buying traditional Balinese doors)

* A Tribute to Those Who Died, a Tribute to Those Who Didn’t (a shorter version was published in a booklet distributed by faculty at Bangkok’s Thammasat University shortly after the events of “Black May,” 1992, when the military, under the ruling junta, fired on unarmed and peaceful anti-government demonstrators; the longer story was rejected by the Bangkok Post)

* Bad Luck for Some, Good Luck for Others (Asia-Pacific Tropical Homes; a unique giant garuda in Bali’s Tugu Hotel)

* Less Is More: Samui’s Rock Houses (Asia-Pacific Tropical Homes; Koh Samui’s Tamarind Retreat offers villas of an unusal design, and an uncanny ability to merge with their scenic settings)

* Ubud Plus: Bali’s Sayan Ridge (Asia-Pacific Tropical Homes)

* Villa Kaju Sari: Free Spirit (Asia-Pacific Tropical Homes; German expat builds homes that reflect his own independent spirit)

* Learning from Nature: Saving the Environment and Saving Money (Asia-Pacific Tropical Homes; economical, efficient and kind to the environment)

* Banyu Gita: Home Show (Asia-Pacific Tropical Homes; one of Bali’s most successful architects builds his own house on the Bukit)