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I have some video for you..if you want higher quality then please let me know.

Future VT7 owners take notice

Yes and they also might take notice of this !!!!

Somchai Khunpleume did a Thaksin to God knows where

Why not ask his son the Mayor of Pattaya..he might know

My favourite at the moment

Land of Smiles

I'm using it...pretty good speed during the day up till about 4-5pm when it does slow down a lot but stilll usable

also has been very stable, not one droped line for 3 months

I would say try it and see first then upgrade to the more expensive package if you feel the need.

No mention of the event at Bali Hai Pier here in the Pattaya forum.... no one went then ??...

There was some very good acrobatic performers on the first day 24th ( didn't take me camera )

25th was quite poor, much like the first day but without the good acrobatics.

26th was good lots of people turned up to watch the dragon shows.

27th Joey Boy was good.

There where plenty of food and drink venders for refreshment.

Best of all it was free !!!

...so a few pictures

A really horrible site....in Adobe flash

but you can get the schedule if you go to the program tab and select the second option

there is a pdf file appears in the bottom left of the screen ...click on it to view full size.

Programe_26_1_February_2009.pdf

was it this bloke ?

Where abouts were they taken?

They where taken opposite Mcdonalds Walking street end of beach road.

the police had started closing beach road from 4pm...judging from Jimmyd's photos the parade must have got stuck

for a while trying to get out of Central as his where taken in daylight...dark by the time they reached Walking street.

Some photos of the parade.

More like 6.30 pm.....waited and waited bloody hel_l it was dark by the time they got going :D

most who use their land via company route use a retirement and not a business visa

So nothing to worry about, business as usuall then ???

Ahh yes reported here crikey !!! something dodgey there.

www.pattayadailynews.com/shownews.php?IDNEWS=0000007307

There is a recent thread about visa run companies with a few recomendations for this one

I will use them at the end of this month too.

There is nothing in the article pertaining to issue of people owning their personal residences/land through a Thai corporation. The vast majority of these people are retirees and do not use the "dummy" Thai corporation route in onder to legally reside in Thailand. (They have retirement or marriage visa extensions.)

The whole point of the article is that they will be checking for bogus companies....

many people have gone via "the company" route to own land and houses in Thailand

most of them would in fact be bogus : ie not really doing any trading..

how will those people now stay in Thailand if they don't have a visa ? what will happen to those bogus companies ?

I was of the impression they were already enforcing this

Yes Monty but in the article it says " Pattaya immigration is now requiring compliance with the new visa regulations and is visiting every place of business to make sure the business is operating "

I read that ( maybe wrongly ) to mean that they will be making special visits just to keep the business on its toes.

Sorry if I'm not very clear..

Here is the article read it and see what you think.

An article in Pattaya times ( Jan 1-15 2009 ) suggests that the new Pattaya immigration superintendent Anonnat Kamolrat

has said, officers will be visiting every place of busness ( in Pattaya ? ) to make sure that they are opperating

within the law...

"when our inspectors go to the registered business address they find Thai relatives of the guys girlfriend instead of employess"

Might be bad news for those who "own" thier land by the company route

Seems there was a fire at a furniture wharehouse ( Sukhumvit ? ) this was mentioned on cable tv news last night.

and also a fire at the PTT petrol station on Tepprasit road.

www.pattayadailynews.com/shownews.php?IDNEWS=0000008154

There was definatley something going on, because the owner of the Cafe at front of our place asked me this morning if I knew what all the fire engines and ambulances where rushing to at 3am this morning..I was asleep and didn't hear them.

off course all the online news sites are on holiday so nothing on them.

Went to Bali Hai Pier .. had 2 bottles of Leo,was dissapointed with the fireworks

(at Bali Hai they had a better show on 25-30th)

got stuck in horrendous traffic jam of poeple and moterbikes trying to leave the area.

Happy New year

Which mall is hosting this cultural highlight?

I believe its at Ripleys in Royal Garden Plaza.... will go and see for myself this evening.

There was some eye candy too...

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Did this have anything to do with a factory worker protest which closed the Bang Na expressway?

Yes it was on Thai news last night at 5pm the Chonburi governer went down to talk to the factory workers and assured the news crew that it would be resolved by 5.30pm