Kruzon

I've seen this work! Hang a chicken around its neck till the chicken rots and falls off. When this didn't work the dog was destroyed.

This breaks ones heart. I wish I thought they were saved in the nick of time but for some reason I don't think they are out of the woods yet. The practice is still common in the Northeast and many are never shipped out of country. So Sad.

Nice bunch of numbers. Perhaps your follow up article will compare these numbers to the same time frame over the past five years. Which then shows where tourism is at. Second if the source wasn't a Thai source but say the hotel association numbers they would have more reality to them. We all know Thai's avoid negative reality and are known to fudge things to look better than they are which makes any Thai reports suspect at best.

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Check out the cooking school directory provided by Cooking Schools Intl. as it is thought to be the most complete list of Thailand cooking schools. This article on how to select a Thai cooking school from the many Thailand Cooking Schools may also be of interest to you. If you are in Bangkok, save yourself alot of time and money and book with Ma-Sa-Man's Thai Cooking School BKK.

hi there,

I notice that there is only one school in pattaya for thai cooking..

seems a bit steep at 1600 baht for two hours compared to chiang mai,s school of famous thai cook somphon.

Does any one know of any other classed conducted in pattaya, just for simple street foods..

or has anyone been to the one in chiang mai and is it worth it hands on wise.

red

You are correct, 1,600 for two hours is very steep. There is a "school" in Chiang Mai although I cannot recall the name (I will try to find out and let you know) albeit I know where it is located. It is owned by a TV personality who is a famous chef. They offer course that last one week each, M-F, three hours each morning. They cover European and Thai food and you simply sign up for whichever one you want. I have visited the school and it is nothing more than a four story shop house with a large kitchen on the third floor although the staff are University + trained and seem to know what they are doing. There is another place in Chonburi that I think is run by westerners - it's a residential course and is very expensive but you may wish to check out Thai cooking courses Chonburi on the web.

Some interesting numbers are posted from your emergency Decree contination support. Here's a few more numbers for you. Many businesses had their web sites frozen from view within Thailand. One estimate I read was some 85,000 websites were frozen and still are frozen by this emergency decree. Many of these businesses rely directly on website for customers to find them. One such group of businesses is cooking schools in BKK. Typically their clients are taking a class on the last day of their stay in Thailand. They will Google search "cooking school in Bangkok, and if your cooking school website is blocked from being viewed in BKK well then these tourist can't see your website and you miss out on near 90% of your potential customers. I have also read that Thailands freezing of websites, in the manner it was done, is by intenational internet agreements, an illegal act as all were frozen by software robots without a human reflection of what content caused it to be frozen and without warning to the owners without a means to rectify the problem and unfreeze wrongly frozen sites. Surely Thailands IT people know the rest of the world can still see the websites so only Thailands residents can't see it. When a wbsite is in English only near 80% of the Thai population can not read it. They must also know that the frozen sites are maintainable remotely by access from outside Thailand through any number of tecky options like remote I P's or programs that allow use of another PC. Let's suppose the anti govt activist group used the internet to maintain organization and instruction then surely those in command would use remote i.p.s or remote PCs to both maintain and view any site they want. Taksin has billions of dollars and this was his anti gov't movement so what do you think, did they have access to technology or not?

Poll: Bangkok residents support extended emergency decree

BANGKOK: -- A new survey by Suan Dusit Poll indicates that nearly half of Bangkok residents support the extension of the emergency decree imposed in Bangkok, following a bomb explosion at a busy bus stop in front of Big C department store in the capital.

The survey was conducted on Monday and Tuesday by the Suan Dusit Rajabhat University Suan Dusit Poll by interviewing 1,304 Bangkok residents about the Sunday bombing near the now-closed department store in the Ratchadamri area.

Almost half of respondents -- 47 per cent -- said they wanted the emergency decree extension in Bangkok for the convenience of the authorities to monitor and prevent violent situations and ill-intentioned people from easily inciting violence, and in order that the public could feel safer.

However, 23 per cent said they oppose it, for they see the decree as being unnecessary if only more police patrols were provided, while some 32 per cent -- one in three -- said the decree would increase divisions in Thai society and promote the image of Thailand being an unsafe country.

Some 29 per cent were uncertain whether the decree should be lifted and said it depended on the government and police officials' estimation on the situation.

Meanwhile, 53 per cent of those polled believed the recent bomb blast was intentionally done to "create a situation" and incite violence, while some 21 per cent said it was outrageous and challenged the power of state.

Of the Suan Dusit respondees, 14 per cent indicated they wanted no more acts of violence to injure and cause the deaths of innocent people. Twelve per cent said the police needed to work harder and more efficiently, to be more strict regarding public safety and security.

About 85 per cent of those surveyed viewed the Sunday bombing as being politically motivated for the overall situation has not fully eased and the area of the incident, still part of Bangkok's main business district, was the UDD Red Shirts' primary protest site only two months ago.

However, one in 10 of the respondents -- 11 per cent -- said they did not know the motivation behind this violence and the public should wait for authorities to conclude their investigation.

Over half -- nearly 57 per cent of those surveyed -- said they did not think police could arrest the wrongdoers, as the authorities have usually not made arrests when such violence took place.

Some 24 per cent said they were uncertain that the police could accomplish their mission.

Concerning the prevention of further violence, about 37 per cent wanted more police and army personnel posted to Bangkok's important spots. Around one fourth asked for more public cooperation in reporting to the authorities when they encountered suspicious situations.

Nearly one in five -- about 18 per cent -- said intelligence agencies must work harder, while 11 per cent said more surveillance cameras should be installed at public areas, and 6 per cent said awards should be offered to those providing clues or information regarding troublemakers. (MCOT online news)

-- TNA 2010-07-27