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Seemed like a genuine guy
There must be a lot of out of favour cops out there right now,
hoping the phone is not going to ring telling them they have got
the job replacing him.
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Bangkok BAMBI have postponed their "Bring and Buy Sale" on March 13 to March 27th from 9.30-11.30am thanks to the UDD rally.
Now this is getting really heavy....
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Coming up to first 10,000km service on my pick-up
wonder if other owners rotate their wheels
to balance wear
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dam_n it, Ive got a manicure booked for the 12th.
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Where would he find an ASDA in Thailand, They won't be able to book it FROM Thailand to UK !!!! & Air India,Your having a Laugh Are'nt you ??????Try asda (supermarket) travel. Seems Air India is a good choice and great service.ASDA is an online travel service you plonker
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Most people move to thailand for a change of scene
if you are looking for "Little America" would suggest you
stay home. Otherwise your hit list only spells one word
- Pattaya.
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...and swap to brown underpants?
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Agree thought tulsathit did a great job, though by 9pm I was
starting to lose the will to live
Followed on the Nation website but that
was a fairly disturbing ad above
tulsathit's twitter
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rideswings what make your camera, where you buy and how much
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If you have got the energy you can
google "UK cheap phone calls"
it really is that easy.
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Are we to assume that the arrest of Belgian "Mad Dog" in Pattaya
last week is part of this eradication programme?
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Your wife.........."darlin love you too much,
you make big pension take care me when
you die....soon maybe."
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Oh, what a tangled web we weave....
Seized Il-76 tracked back to Kazakhstan
AN extensive investigation into the tangled web of shell companies that were behind the Il-76 seized in Bangkok (Thailand) for arms running, has tracked its owner back to Almaty (Kazakhstan).
The cargo aircraft and crew were detained last year by the Thai authorities after a tip-off from US intelligence agencies. On board were 35 tons of explosives, rocket-propelled grenades, surface-to-air missiles and other weaponry picked up from North Korea and destined for…which is where the trail grows murky. The crew and manifest claimed the cargo to be “oil industry spare parts”.
Research uncovered layer upon layer of suspiciously new and previously unknown companies and an extremely elaborate flight path. Starting in Baku (Azerbaijan) it first flew to Al-Fujairah (UAE) and Bangkok before taking on its cargo in Pyongyang (North Korea). It then returned to Bangkok where it was then held. If it had been allowed to continue on its journey it would have continued to Colombo (Sri Lanka), then Al-Fujairah again, on to Kiev, where it would double back to Tehran (Iran) to offload and then ending up in Podgorica (Montenegro): in total, a distance of over 24,500km.
The web of companies is just as tortuous. Overseas Trading FZE, a leasing company based in Sharjah (UAE) and owned by Svetlana Zykova, leased the Il-76 to a Georgian firm, Air West, owned by Levan Kakabadze. Air West in turn leased the aircraft to SP Trading, a company that was created by Yury Lunyov only weeks before the deal was set in motion. SP Trading charted the aircraft to the Hong Kong-registered Union Top Management (UTM). UTM was also only created a month previously. The founder of UTM – Dario Cabreros Garmendia of Spain – cannot be found nor can the North Korean company that sourced the weapons.
Lunyov claims that another company – the Ukrainian Aerotrack – had responsibility for chaperoning the shipment from North Korea to Iran and that it was Aerotrack that originally falsified the charter agreement and packing list to suggest the freight was the spare parts.
No Aerotrack has ever been at its listed address and its main contact’s – Victoria Doneckaya – telephone number is a private residence that has never heard of her or Aerotrack.
In fact, all the companies’ owners (at least, those that could be found) – Zykova, Kakabadze and Lunyov – deny ever knowing what the shipment was. However, they all share one connection: Alexander Zykov, husband to Zykova and known associate of Lunyov.
Zykov owns East Wing a Kazakhstani airfreight company. It was his crew that were detained. Companies and aircraft belonging to Zykov are known to have been involved in arms trafficking in sub-Saharan Africa. However, Zykov claims that the crew were on temporary leave when they were caught.
Friends and family of the crew say that working for Zykov is well paid but in return the crew must ask no questions of the shipments and be prepared to fly dangerously ill-maintained aircraft into conflict zones, such as the Sudan and Somalia.
A friend and once fellow pilot of one of the crewmembers – Mikhail Petukhov – said: “It’s not easy working for [East Wings]. For one thing, their planes are old, so the flights are dangerous. And it also means being ready to break pretty much every aviation law on the books. But it’s work, and they pay well," he said.
An engineer who regularly works on Zykov’s aircraft said: “You get paid to do the flight, and you don't ask any questions about what's inside the boxes.”
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"Part of the money was transferred from financiers in the country and some were smuggled through normal channels,"
Smuggled thru normal channels - mai kao jai boss?
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"Viktor Bout has been in Thai custody since March 2008."
Probably the safest place for him
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Talking with a pattaya based thai construction guy the other day said he has three
falangs pull out of housing projects in the last couple of months because of the
political uncertainty...some herren folk take this all too seriously.
Methinks more likely teeruk has run off with the deposit.
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"Can we be assured zat our sunbeds are secure?"
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"Funny...I always thought I was a citizen of the UK"
Well you never were a citizen.... only a subject. Part of the price we Brits pay for never having had a revolution....well not recently anyway
Thank you Citizen Robespierre....
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Funny...I always thought I was a citizen of the UK, now according to dear
Quinton we are all "customers", nice one.
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.....which is why my Toyoto Vigo pick-up comes fully-equipped with a large
machete under the driver's seat
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As a general piece of advice, absolutely no need to use an agent.
Got married last november, took letter of affirmation to Brit embassy, after that
walked across the street to get a copy translated, picked up embassy letter next
day and took to translation service for them to compare were same same and paid
about 300 baht.Then hopped in taxi straight to MFA, where it took all of 15 minutes
to hand in documents, which were forwarded three days later.
No problem with local amphur when registering marriage, but suggest you take
a good thai speaker to speed things up.
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If you are getting married at local amphur then they will issue new ID at same time,
also update tabian baan. Easy exercise to get new passport at Chaeng Wattana.
Advantages ? For starters you will not get such a dirty look when checking in with
your "wife" at a Thai hotel. Less hassle from immigration when travelling to other
countries.
My wife could not wait to change her name to Mrs Falang, particularly for when she
checked into the 5-star hotel she used to work in Bangkok - a real "look at me now"
moment.
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Thanks guys - that clears that matteer up
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OK it is a non immigrant 'O' multiple entry visa expiring feb 18, now
extended to Mar 31, which from you commets means I do not have
to make application for extension based on retirement until month
before Mar 31 - Yes?
What Ever Happened To Jonathan Head ?
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Yes, now we have a ms rachel harvey reporting for the bbc and
obvious completely out of her depth
"Looking down the road, it is completely packed, it is a sea
of red - red shirts, red flags, red banners."