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  1. I never realised that Thais don't like lamb, now i know why its so hard to find it in supermarkets.  What's there not to like about lamb?  Roast rack of lamb, soaked in red wine, rosemary and garlic for 12 hours, mmmm.... god i miss lamb!

    I do know however that Thais don't like Indian food.

    They don't know what they're missing.

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    Roast Rack of Lamb is Red Wine.

    Makro,Tops,Villa,Foodland and The Emporium ALL stock Lamb Racks,Legs and Shoulders.

  2. nogutsnoapplepie

    Thanks for the pic, I had seen it elsewhere and asumed he was just a petty thief, not the murderer of tourists!

    Let's all remember what this prick looks like for "further reference".....

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    Accused killer out on bail again

    PIYARACH CHONGCHAROEN

    Somchai: Bailed

    Kanchanaburi _ The policeman accused of murdering two British tourists in Muang district on Sept 9 has been granted bail by the court for a second time despite objections from prosecutors, who fear he may flee or intimidate witnesses.

    Pol Snr Sgt-Maj Somchai Wisetsing surrendered on Oct 7 following one month on the run after he allegedly shot dead British tourists Adam Lloyd, 25, and Vanessa Arscott, 24, after an argument at a restaurant in Kanchanaburi.

    The court first granted him bail of one million baht earlier this month. Prosecutors said this was irregular as they were not informed.

    The defendant appeared in the Kanchanaburi Provincial Court yesterday morning and pleaded not guilty to four charges _ murder, covering up murder, illegal firearms possession and illegally carrying a gun.

    The court set Dec 20 for the first hearing.

    In the afternoon, Judge Suraporn Cholsakhon allowed him bail over the prosecution's objection.

    He set a condition that the defendant report every month and not leave the country.

  3. The Pattani United Liberation Organisation (Pulo) has placed bounties on the heads of five southern provincial governors, their deputies, local leaders and senior police, a security source said.

    The payments are being offered in retaliation for rewards the government is offering for 46 separatists.

    The bounty announcement first appeared on the Pulo website on Nov 21, a few days before Pattani deputy governor Sunthorn Ritthipakdi was shot and wounded in Yaring district.

    The government insisted the shooting was an accident.

    Pulo is offering 90,000 baht for Pattani governor Saner Chantra, Narathiwat governor Pracha Terat or Yala governor Boonyasit Suwannarat; 60,000 baht for Songkhla governor Somporn Chaibangyang, and 45,000 baht for Satun governor Manit Wattanasen. Deputy governors and assistant governors in those provinces attract a 35,000 baht reward.

    Pulo said it would pay 25,000 baht for a police captain and 30,000 baht for a police major or higher, and 24,000 baht for district chiefs and their assistants.

    The website mentioned Swiss-based Lukman bin Lima as supreme commander of Pulo.

    Five Islamic religious teachers in Betong district of Yala were taken in for questioning yesterday. Two were later released, and the other three were being held at a military camp in Pattani.

    The raid on Ban Than Mali, in Betong, followed reports militants had meetings there with religious teachers from tadika schools suspected of involvement in the Jan 7 attack on Aiyerweng police station.

    Also in Yala, a 73-year-old woman was shot in the leg at a rubber plantation on Wednesday and a Muslim religious teacher was shot and killed while travelling home in tambon Patae on a motorcycle.

    In Narathiwat, Abdulmanas Sama, 36, was shot twice and seriously wounded while riding his motorcycle home along a road in Ban Joh Koh, Cho Airong district, about 10pm on Wednesday.

    The head of the Chularatchamontri's public relations office, Samarn Korpitak, said yesterday 50,000 Muslims will pray for peace at mosques in Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat on Dec 4.

    He said they would recite ''hayad'' prayers.

    This is one day before 62 million paper peace cranes folded throughout the country are due to be air-dropped over the three border provinces.

    http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/26Nov2004_news06.php

  4. 0 degrees the day I landed and rain - hoping for snow as it has reached 8 degrees :D  Off to London for the weekend and then back up to sunny Newcastle for another week or so.

    hotel rooms - 70 pound a night :o , Ive done two grand English and only been here 5 days  :D

    Enjoy the brown ale Torn.C ya when ur back in town.

  5. Phuket _ The federation of southern spa operators has protested against the Excise Department's classification of their business as sex-oriented, which subjects them to a 10% excise tax.

    About 100 spa operators from Phuket, Krabi, Phang Nga and Surat Thani's Samui island lodged a protest with the provincial health office, the provincial excise office and other provincial authorities.

    Pakin Raktaengam, chairman of Phuket's spa business association, said the department's classification based on the fact that bathtubs were provided at the venues was wrong. Spas are about water therapy and related equipment must be provided.

    The federation wanted to provide alternative health treatment, not sex. A provincial spa examination committee was also in place to examine venues and verify them as alternative health treatment venues.

    Mr Pakin also denounced the department's refusal to acknowledge the committee's work.

    ``The department's approach is ruining the industry's image and potential as well,'' he said.

    He admitted certain operators used the word spa to cover sex-oriented businesses, but said it was the state agency's job to distinguish between the two. ``And a spa that provides sex services isn't a spa,'' he said. Wanwalee Tantikan, of Samui's spa association, said the department had confused health treatment with sex. The industry was working with the Tourism Authority of Thailand to promote Thailand as a spa hub in the region.

    http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/25Nov2004_news10.php

  6. Triumphs Kingdom star, 4 others nabbed with over 4,000 methamphetamine pills

    Singer Pornpun “Joyce Triumphs Kingdom” Ratanamethanont was arrested along with four other suspects, including her boyfriend, for possession of methamphetamine pills, police announced at a press conference yesterday.

    During a sting operation at 11.30pm on Tuesday, police arrested the 24-year-old Joyce and her boyfriend, Jittapat Sangkhasuwan, 28, at Soi Ngamwongwan 8, seizing 300 methamphetamine tablets, said deputy commissioner Colonel Wichai Sangpraphai. The two confessed and police found a further 4,040 methamphetamine tablets in Jittapat’s home.

    Tuesday afternoon, Krit Kasemwiriyakul, 31, was arrested for possession of 50 methamphetamine tablets, Wichai said. Krit led police later that day to Jesadaporn Srijariya, 21, and Damrongsak Chernsuk, 30, from whom he said he had received the drugs. Both were arrested. Jesadaporn then told police that Joyce and Jittapat had been the suppliers of the pills: the two were nabbed soon after.

    Joyce told police that she and her partner had conducted only three drug deliveries and that she was using drugs herself to relieve intense stress over family problems, Wichai said. Jittapat said he’d met Joyce over a year ago and that she had been an accomplice on two of the three drug deliveries to which the couple had confessed, with each delivery including about 200 tablets.

    At the press conference, Joyce, who appeared to be in distress, wouldn’t answer reporters’ questions. Jittapat proved somewhat more forthcoming before the two were led away by police.

    Joyce and her friend Surattanawee “Bow” Suvipornsang were members of the girl duo Triumphs Kingdom until the band broke up in 2001. Joyce was scheduled to take the stage again at her label Bakery Music’s 10th anniversary “B-Day Bakery Music Independent Day” concert on December 10.

    A Bakery Music public relations official told reporters that company executives had not yet been informed of the arrest. The official did not know whether the company would hold a press conference on the issue given that Joyce was no longer its employee. Yet if Joyce were to be charged by police, the official said, she would definitely be excluded from the upcoming concert as well as cut from the record company’s promotional TV programme “Chan Chao Khong” to air next Monday.

    Joyce is the second singer to have been arrested for drug-related offences this year. Last May Worayos Boonthongnum, 23, former singer of the band Power Pat, was arrested for selling ecstasy pills.

    http://www.komchadluek.net/breaking/read.p...en&newsid=27396

    CRIME / DRUG TRAFFICKING

    Traffickers, former singer arrested

    POST REPORTERS

    Pornpan: Arrested on durg charges

    Eight cross-border drug traffickers have been arrested and 463 kilogrammes of heroin seized as a result of cooperation between Thai and Chinese drug fighters.

    The eight, including gang leader Liu Yi Gang, were arrested in September and October in Bangkok and China's southwestern province of Yunnan.

    Their arrests resulted from cooperation between the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) and its Chinese counterpart, said ONCB secretary-general Krisna Polananta yesterday. The gang had been operating from Yunnan and Bangkok for a long time, he said.

    Pol Lt-Gen Krisna said Chinese and Thai drug authorities worked together to track down Liu and his gang members. In late September Chinese police busted three of Liu's drug networks in Yunnan. They seized 463kg of heroin and more than 10 million baht worth of assets from the networks.

    Liu, who had set up his base in Bangkok, was arrested along with some of his men in late October and returned to Yunnan.

    Earlier, Thai and Chinese authorities had also worked together to suppress transnational drug trafficking, resulting in the seizure of 345kg of heroin in April 2002 and the arrest of 17 suspects in China, Burma and Thailand, said Pol Lt-Gen Krisna.

    A former singer and her boyfriend were arrested in Bangkok yesterday on drug trafficking charges.

    Police said Pornpan Rattanamethanont, 24, and her boyfriend Kittipat Sangsuwan, 28, were arrested as they were about to hand 300 speed pills to undercover police posing as buyers in the Ngam Wongwan area.

    Ms Pornpan was once known as Joyce of the Triumph Kingdom pop dance duo group, now disbanded.

    Police said Ms Pornparn and her boy-friend were implicated by two drug suspects arrested earlier with 80 speed pills in their possession at an apartment in Din Daeng district.

    Damrongsak Charoensuk, 30, and Jessadaporn Srijariya, 21, told police the pills were supplied to them by the ex-singer and her boyfriend.

    Police also seized 3,740 speed pills from Mr Kittipat's house in Nonthaburi.

    In another drugs case, a man and his sister-in-law were arrested on Tuesday night while delivering about 50kg of marijuana to undercover police in Bang Khen district.

    The suspects, Saroj (surname not available) and sister-in-law Saijai Poonsawat were charged with possessing marijuana with intent to sell.

    Police also seized another 250kg of marijuana kept by the suspects at a rented house in Soi Ramkhamhaeng 12. The suspects said they had bought the marijuana from a supplier in Nakhon Ratchasima at 4,000 baht a kilogramme, to be sold at 7,000 baht a kilogramme.

  7. SURAT THANI, Nov 24 (TNA) – Local officials on Koh Tao off the coast of Thailand's southern province of Surat Thani today rushed to the assistance of over 3,000 tourists stranded on the island by heavy seas.

    The last batch of tourists was shipped off the island this afternoon in a boat with a capacity of 200.

    High waves of up to five metres mean that the small vessels normally used to transport tourists to and from the island have been forced to remain on shore. (TNA)--E006

  8. THURSDAY , 25 NOVEMBER 2004

    BANGKOK: The Thai government is offering big bounties for 74 suspected militants accused of involvement in violence in the largely Muslim south, a senior police officer said yesterday.

    Major-General Thani Thavitsri said 7000 posters were being distributed in the region along the Malaysian border offering rewards for information leading to the arrest of the Muslim militants.

    The biggest reward was for the capture of Jegumae Guteh, the suspected leader of the Mujahideen Islamic Pattani, who had a Bht5 million ($NZ177,680.09) price on his head, Thani said.

    He said Jegumae was believed to have masterminded the raid on an army camp on January 4 which set off the unrest in a region where a low-key separatist war was fought in the 1970s and 1980s.

    Nearly 500 people - government officials, police and civilians - have been killed in the violence since then and Thani said Jegumae was believed to have fomented several confrontations.

    Another top suspect was Masae Useng, wanted for treason, murder, arson and robbery, with a Bht3 million reward. He is also accused of being behind the January raid on the army depot in Narathiwat in which more than 300 assault rifles were stolen.

    "Their whereabouts are unclear as they have been in and out of the country," Thani told Reuters.

    "Some have not been seen for a long time. We have asked the cooperation of our neighbour to track them," he said, referring to Malaysia where Thai police say some militants have taken refuge.

    The rewards were meant to put pressure on the militants and reduce the scope of their operations, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra told reporters.

    "The posters will at least narrow the areas of their movement, even though they still manage to avoid arrest," he said.

    http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/print/0,1478,3107660a12,00.html

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