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The food we sell and deliver tastes even better than it looks.
Only the best quality and reasonably priced makes it past our screening process.
Here are more recently added items including soft shell crab, Japanese Wagyu for shabu shabu and yakiniky, PassionDelivery gift vouchers and more...
Order online here http://www.passiondelivery.com/collections/passionbox-dry-delivered-nationwide
....and have it delivered anywhere in Thailand within just 2-3 days!
Fine.
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This is a Thailand forum, not a shopping site. What's wrong with you folks ?
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The Trang one is in steel , much better than rotting wood. (and the Trang one was (is?) free , CM will be farang pricing again).
Not if you show your driving licence. You will get Thai entrance prices. I did.
When was that ?
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Was there today, many empty shelves in every aisle. Was like that last week already. No coffee, no creamer of the brands I usually buy.
'Praise' salad dressing has gone up from 59 to 98 Baht. Beer is cheaper at my local shop where I can buy 24/7. Seems, that after takeover by CP group, the management has gone downhill.
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There were around 15.000 new signings to the petition over the last few days.
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VOICELESS??
Not only I won't sign it, but I have something I really want to say.
CM has a huge problem with dogs. In my area for example, there are dozens
of dogs who live on the streets. These are not stray dogs, but rather they
"belong" to people who feed them, but leave them to live on the street
day and night. During the day they sleep, at night they make up gangs,
fight each other, sometimes even chase pedestrians or cyclists who they
perceive as intruders in their territory, and mostly they bark all night.
We have complained only to hear that "Thai love dogs", we have had
to install thicker windows, they are ruining our life.
Then there is a comparable number of dogs who live inside the perimeter
of some houses with garden, and participate in the night concerts.
And then of course there are the real stray dogs, the ones who were once
the home pets and then were kicked out when no longer cute.
I am pointing my finger not at the dogs, but at those people here who
don't know or don't want to know what it means to own a dog.
(there are of course also many who really love and educate their dogs)
In conclusion: I definitely do not advocate cruelty against animals,
dogs or any other, but instead of showing the usual pictures of cute and
neglected little dogs with watery eyes please show the real situation:
big, aggressive, loud dogs totally out of control.
As you have correctly mentioned, its not the dogs, but their owners who cause this situation.
This petition is against cruelty to animals.
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That's a start.
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Done it.
regards Worgeordie
Well done !
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Watch the video and decide wether you want to sign this petition.
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I'm not trying to knock you or your initiative, but how is signing an online petition going to change/improve anything?
Just asking and good luck with the petition.
Apparently this goes directly to the Chinese government. But it really doesn't matter, as signing in for these helpless animals is no big deal at all.
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For a feedback, it would be nice if people who sign the petition post a simple " I signed " here.
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That's a hell of a ride.
Hua Hin-Hat Yai is 3 times a day. http://www.tourismhuahin.com/busses-huahin.php
From Hat Yai there are minivans every hour to Penang. Takes around 3 hrs and cost app. 350 Baht.
Vans can be booked at many travel agencies, for example at K.S.T. opposit King's Hotel
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Urinating on the floor so that some poor sap who has nothing to do with dual pricing could clean it up? Nice. Not.
It just goes to show - it really is all about the money. People only behave that badly when money or sex are involved.
Some people behave badly without a reason. Seen it often enough.
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As this is happening in Thailand too, it is somehow related and I hope that many of you will sign this petition.
These animals need your HELP !! Please watch the video and sign the petition.
That's the least we can do. -
Pai is not a province, its a district in Mae Hong Son.
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If you do not like the price, do not go, nobody is forcing you.
How many hours did you spend contemplating, before coming up with that master-piece? There are some interesting points raised by the removal of the privelege that was previously afforded expatriates (namely getting the local rate by showing a Driving Licence or Work Permit), but if you want to reduce it to a school-yard argument then go do it in the playground.
Over the years I have taken many a visitor to National parks and appreciated the small gesture of not having to pay the tourist rates, especially at parks where the entrance fee was 400b or more. Removing that privilege is not the end of the world, but some of us are intrigued enough to want to discuss it and maybe try to do something about it. I have had a meeting with the Director of TAT , and made an enquiry at National parks Office, both of which I pass regularly on my travels, so no great inconvenience was involved, and look forward to a positive response.
Also, for those of us with a wife, children, grand-children and Thai friends, having a day out can sometimes be a little bit embarrassing. To be singled out for special treatment by having to join another line or pay a higher fee should not be part of the routine, and until recently, wasn't. If it is possible to go back to the way it was, why would we not want to do that? I take the issue as being not merely about the price, but rather as my being recognised as being part of the community I have lived in for 26 years.
Nicely said and true.
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Word of warning about Wine Connection wines. If you peruse their entire stock you will not find a single label you have ever heard of before. No Hardys, No Marlborough, No Penfolds, literally none of the well known labels you will always see in most Wine Shops or Supermarkets.
Reason for this? A very astute and clever marketting ploy. I am led to believe by a quite reputable source that they bottle most if not all inside Thailand, put posh looking labels on that kind of look good but youve never heard of before, then knock it out at quite high prices, so in fact, a lot of what you are buying is of similar quality to what you can buy in Rimping and Makro for around 300 baht but you might pay double that or more in Wine Connection.
Before anyone disputes this information, count to ten and think about it......have any of you ever, anywhere in the world, be it Australia, USA, GB or France or wherever found yourself in a wine shop and not recognised a single label? ( And by that I dont mean the grape variety, I mean the actual manufacturer!)
Very easy to see.. The color coded strips shows local bottling (and the fruit blending done for tax reduction) and bottles imported.. Orange v blue..
The one trip up is vietnam applies the same tax game, so your still buying shit even tho its technically not bottled here.. I cant remember which way they get labelled on the tax strip.
For me the wines (which is now almost all boxes) which they fruit blend, give me shocking hangovers..
Try drinking just half the box in one evening, then work down from there
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A simple and easy to navigate site can be done easily and free of charge on wordpress or google sites,
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Each time a pay the farang tax I am usual with a Thai that has much much more money than I do... Come on Thailand... Stop assuming so much about farang financial abilities.
Well said !!
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If a foreigner had jumped in and even gently separated the guy from the woman, all of the many Thais who were watching would have attacked the foreigner and maybe even killed him. That's Thailand. Of course there were many people who saw... many cars drove by and no one stopped, the country is so over populated that there are always people all about. It's not about if the woman is married to a man either... because nobody cares to find out, they just watch and enjoy the spectacle.
Trying to apply a European concept of understanding to such things that are completely alien will always produce wrong thinking. Once you accept that it is just the way things are here you will be better off. It will not change. But I'd still love to knock the guy out.
I do not agree. I've seen foreigners helping many times and there never was a problem with that.
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Whoever took the video did nothing. That person should be charged as well.
The only folk in LOS with a camera phone ready for action are birds....So you want a bird to try and whack the guy...Gawd............
.How do you know ?
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Whoever took the video did nothing. That person should be charged as well.
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The guy in the camera car tried to overtake the Ford Ranger on the outside in the sharp left bend and then cut in front from the left. Dangerous and intimidating driving in a 'get out of my way' manner.
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I'd advise the whiners to stay out of Cambodia. You'll have a coronary when you find out you have to pay $20 for a day at Angkor Wat when all the Khmer get in for free. That's a policy that is well supported by expats and visitors alike strangely. Because it's not a thing of principle to make those living in relative poverty pay the same as a tourist; it's an obscenity. Thailand is a middle-income nation with lots of poor people (once again minimum wage of $250) and it's entitled to subsidize its citizenry in just the same way as your own countries could - the fact that they choose not to is their choice not a "moral issue".
Who cares if the Khmers get in for free?
To travel half way across the world to see one of the greatest treasures for $20 is damn cheap.
Having said that I'm sure you're right and some won't go in because of 'principle', but instead retreat to the nearest bar and chug down many beers, whilst moaning about it......sad.
This topic is about what expats should pay, not tourists. As a tourist, I wouldn't mind paying the tourist fee, but if I lived in Siem Reap for 20 years I wouldn't want to pay 20 dollars every time a friend or family came to visit if I wanted to enjoy their company at the tourist attractions. I would certainly appreciate the gesture of giving me the local rate if I were a resident, and I'd be curious if they decided to remove that privilege.
Exactly right.
Canopy walkway set to open
in Thailand News Headlines
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According to the staff at the entrance, foreigners are being charged 100 Baht and Thais 40 Baht.
Foreigners holding a Thai DL get a 50% discount.
This will attract a huge number of Thais, so don't go there on a weekend.