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The upmarket district Bonifacio Global City is also known as Little Singapore.
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Many years ago during a brief work stint in Bangkok, I took weekly lessons in elementary spoken Thai.
It was tough going. The language has five tones. And to tell the time, the word for “o’clock”, and whether you position it before or after the hour numeral, changes according to whether you’re describing the wee hours, morning, afternoon, evening or night.
