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    Boat Travel Down Mekong

    in Thailand Travel Forum

    Posted

    Hi

    Has anyone done it or know if it is possible to travel by boat from either Nong Khai or Vientiane down the river to Mukdahan/Savannaket or Pakse/Chong Mek.

    Appreciate that if it can be done it will only be possible Nov/Dec time after end of rainy season.

    Thanks

    TBWG :wai:

    Bug Attack

    in Plants, Pets & Vets in Thailand

    Posted

    Hi

    Thanks for all the input folks, much appreciated ~~~ it appears that I have nothing to loose by leaving the stump in place and hoping for the best. That bug sure is the one.

    Attached is a pic taken in 2009 it is (was) a strong healthy tree so I feel I have a reasonable chance of possible recovery, post-24662-0-58200800-1295872980_thumb.jTLC and time will tell.

    Thanks again

    TBWG :wai:

    Bug Attack

    in Plants, Pets & Vets in Thailand

    Posted

    Hi

    My prized Bismarkia Palm/Blue Palm has been attacked by red & black coloured beetles inch - inch and a half long with long thin needle like nose.

    Well they have bored into the fronds where they attach to the trunk. Left some egg type thing in a cigar shaped fiber covering which then produces a grub which looks like a giant maggot on steroids! These things have managed to reduce a perfectly healthy tree to a rotten stinking trunk in only 2 months!

    I am now left with just the trunk which I have cut back too firm stock ~~~~~~~ my question is will it eventually sprout a fresh leaf or am I deluding myself.

    I was prepared to give up on it but a similar tho (not Bismarkia Palm) looked a write off in the local nursery but lo and behold a new leaf did eventually appear!.

    Any advice appreciated.

    TBWG :wai:

    Ron Thompson R.I.P.

    in Isaan

    Posted

    Hi Cookie

    Thanks for the sensitive and informative post on Ron's funeral.

    Whilst I would not describe myself a close friend I had met Ron on a few occassions and was always impressed by his impeccable and courteous behaviour.

    Difficult to know what to say in situations like this but the world will be a poorer place with his passing.

    Sincere condolences to Cha and the family and RIP Ron.

    TBWG :wai:

    Formula One Racing This Weekend?

    in Thailand Motor Discussion

    Posted

    F1 champs to put on Bangkok show Dec 18

    The Nation: 2 Dec 2010

    F1 champs to put on special show

    Rajdamnoen Avenue will be closed on December 18 to make way for a show from the Red Bull team - this year's winners of the Formula 1 World Championships - to mark His Majesty's 83rd birthday. The event will be held at 2pm.

    Metropolitan Police Area 6 deputy chief Pol Colonel Wallop Prathummuang said the avenue would be blocked from the Phan Fa intersection to the Khok Wua intersection for an hour and a half.

    Chalerm Yoovidhya, chairman of Red Bull in the UK, said the team had already wowed fans in important cities across the globe.

    Mark Webber, a famous Australian F1 champion, and Sak "Kiki" Nana will be joining the Red Bull Drift Team Thailand for the Rajdamnoen show.

    http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2010/12/02/national/F1-champs-to-put-on-special-show-30143590.html

    TBWG :wai:

    Coffee Connection......buriram

    in Isaan

    Posted

    Brainfart! :blink:

    A great place for food & drink~~~ Coffee Corner :coffee1: in Prakonchai! By the Bus station

    TBWG :wai:

    That must be worth a free Archa ,David.

    The farang food is also very good and reasonably priced there too.

    (Do I win anything for that :rolleyes: )

    Yup 1 poppadum to go with the Surindaloo :P

    TBWG :wai:

    Coffee Connection......buriram

    in Isaan

    Posted

    Coffee Connection changed hands recently and is now run by Holgar a german guy, although everything else is unchanged. Been there a few times seems a nice guy.

    Paddys Irish pub changed hands about a year ago and is now run by Brian and his mrs nice guy well run popular place and open on a regular basis.

    There is also a great Pizza place, Pizza Muang run by a young dutch guy who prepares all the pizzas.

    Hope this helps

    TBWG :wai:

    Is there anything else within, say, 45 kilometres of Buriram ? :whistling:

    Brainfart! :blink:

    A great place for food & drink~~~ Coffee Corner :coffee1: in Prakonchai! By the Bus station

    TBWG :wai:

    Coffee Connection......buriram

    in Isaan

    Posted

    Breaking News~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    My spies tell me the Irish Bar was open recently! :D

    Is this true?

    TBWG :D

    .......... And more Breaking News from Buriram. Rockys Coffee Connection is CLOSING :D

    ..........But only on Sundays :D

    Sunday sems to be the "slow" day for them, so they have decided to have it off. (sundays that is :D )

    Business as usual Monday to Saturday.

    Ah! Thats good news I will save him a pew in church on Sunday :)

    TBWG :D

    Am passing through Buriram today- will give it a go.

    The Irish bar is run by a complete ass so usually give it a miss.

    There is a bar run by an English lad and the Bamboo Bar in the town centre

    Hi Bangkok Dangermouse

    An update opn the Buriram scene

    Coffee Connection changed hands recently and is now run by Holgar a german guy, although everything else is unchanged. Been there a few times seems a nice guy.

    Paddys Irish pub changed hands about a year ago and is now run by Brian and his mrs nice guy well run popular place and open on a regular basis.

    There is also a great Pizza place, Pizza Muang run by a young dutch guy who prepares all the pizzas.

    Hope this helps

    TBWG :wai:

    Expats Living North East Thailand

    in Isaan

    Posted

    BTW that wouldn't be Last evening's conversations at the pub that I own **...

    can you re-arrange these words <deleted> - boreing - sad -- Yes: I was planning on boring (sp.) an irrigation hole yesterday but I was sad that the GF's <deleted> got in the way. -

    ** from 'Western Foods' -- Posted 2010-10-10 23:32: We tried 150g and 200g - the latter was most popular with Falang customers, Thais prefering the smaller one.

    Mr Jazzbo - your trawling which (as recognised by other correspondents) verges on stalking is misplaced:-

    1. Farang's cannot own pubs or other establishments.

    2. I would not operate a bar if you paid me.

    3. Re-read post 14 again and take note that I was simply commenting on the conversations that were taking place.

    4. Answer to TBWG - "larger than average" seemed to be the consensus.

    Hi CH

    Thanks for clarifying that important point :whistling:

    TBWG :wai:

    Thai Stocks For Mid To Long Term Investors

    in Jobs, Economy, Banking, Business, Investments

    Posted

    Anyone got a clue what happened today?

    I was like a smiley cat SET at 1000, lost my internet supposedly to all the Issan region.

    Go back on at 1620 SET to 983

    From what i understand, the rumuor is that the quantitative easing (i.e. printing money in the US) next week will 'only' be around 500 billion USD not a trillion or more and the markets around asia went down as a result (....more money printed in US= more money flowing to asian exchanges so there was disappontment that its not going to be a trillion!)

    Quantitative easing done in the US and in the UK, (other western countries too) is state printed money that is being lent to its banks in order that the banks can restart lending, and continue lending to businesses, because all businesses (big or small) need continuously bank loans in order to keep their business in terms of production updated ... keep people in employment ... and as a result keeps the countries economy alive and competitive, hence the reason why the state prints the money in the first place.

    Due to the collapse of the global financial institutions, caused by by the failures of the original US "sub-prime funds" and as a result of which "Lehman Brothers" (a major international lender) went down the swannee, since then banks in general across the globe were very short of funds and had to be bailed out by governments in order to keep the banking sector alive, thus to ensure that they were able to keep lending money continuously to businesses, (and individual people too) since without an efficient banking sector there can be no successful economy.

    Moreover, quantitative easing reduces the exchange rate value of the given currency, in this case USD and GBP, this of course helps the countries export, which again is positive for the countries general economy.

    In addition, quantitative easing (the printed money) is not meant to be invested abroad, even those that are to get bank loans (as a result of the new printing) and then intent to invest their USD or GBP abroad, would have to pay a lot more for their investment, due to the fact that the FX rate of those currencies has dropped sharply, including the EUR.

    Hi

    Please bear with me if this is a naive question, but as someone who had money in Railtrack & Icesave you will see that I know naff all about investments.

    I can however grasp that lending money to out of work trailer home owners to mortgage a home is bound to end in tears, I also fear that just printing money for quatitive easing has all the hallmrks of an African dictatorship and will also end in tears.

    What am I missing.

    Thanks for your forbearance.

    TBWG :wai:

    The 2010 Formula One Season

    in Sports, Hobbies & Activities

    Posted

    Hi

    Interesting article by Joe Saward ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Reiterating we are in the right part of world both F1 wise and economically! See penultimate paragraph!

    Why I am glad to be off to Korea

    October 19, 2010 by joesaward

    Most of the Formula 1 circus is not looking forward to going to Korea. Many are staying at home, amid the usual rumours about things not being ready, having to eat “doggie and two veg”, and getting lost in world of endless paddy fields, where no-one speaks a word of English… And so on. I am told by my friends that the word “motel” does not mean I am staying in a hotel, but rather in a brothel. Ah well, so long as they don’t rent out my room when I am at the race track, I really don’t care. It cannot be any worse that the first year in Bahrain when I was staying in a place where Russian hookers seemed to rule the roost…

    I am sure that it will be fine. In fact I am sure it will be rather less chaotic than living in France at the moment. I live in a country village, about 50 miles from Paris and so I am not really affected by the excesses of the French unions and their short-sighted supporters. I need fuel to get from A to B, but at this time of year A is home and B is Paris, which means that I shuttle backwards and forwards along the same route. The airport is between the two. So a tank of petrol will last me a few weeks, which is a good thing in the current climate. My life is not entirely unaffected by the mess, although yesterday it did take me two hours to cover the journey. There was terrible traffic, presumably due to truck drivers doing their infamous “Operation Escargot”, which means they slow to a crawl and jam everyone behind them. Liberté, égalité et fraternité – pour moi!

    One of the petrol stations on my route from A to B

    I sneaked on to a different road but then found myself in the middle of a demonstration of college students, who have obviously learned the bad habits of their parents and do not seem to understand that if they win this strike and the government backs down they will not have any kind of pension at all, because France will be bankrupt by the time they are old and ready to retire.

    Having dodged around that I stopped for a coffee in a petrol station (disturbed sleep patterns being as they are after two out-and-back trips to Asia, with a third – hopefully – beginning tomorrow). The petrol pumps were dry because the unions are blockading the oil refineries. At least this time the government seems willing to send in the police to restore order in vital places, which is progress compared to the last time we went through all this rigmarole. Having lived through the Thatcher Years in Britain I understand what is needed in France, where the unions have too much power and, in my opinion, misuse it disgracefully. Some may not agree with that opinion, but I know that after the Iron Lady faced down the miners in the UK, and Ronald Reagan dealt with the air traffic controllers in the United States, it was a great deal easier to do business. Unions do have a role to pay in societies where there is real injustice and poor working regulation, but France is anything but that.

    When I finally reached home I found an e-mail from a mate who flits between France and England. It said: “now back in London and considering the state of affairs in France, happy to be so”. I thought for a moment that perhaps one day I will move back to the mother country.

    In the circumstances I am happy to be going off for a little bit of an adventure in Korea. In the Asia of today they understand that to make progress one has to work, because countries have to compete in a global world, where no-one is protected. No-one is living on past glories, no-one is leeching off the state. As each nation invests in new technology,or embarks on a new mega-project, Europe falls a little further behind. This will not change as long as the current attitudes exist.

    It is something that Bernie Ecclestone has been saying for years – and he is right (as usual).

    “Europe will be a Third World economy in the next decade, in particular Britain. In South America and Asia there is a work ethic. Over here they want everything for free. The National Health Service means everyone thinks they can have just what they want. I’d get rid of it. We should be running the country like a business rather than social care.”

    In the circumstances I think Korea is an infinitely more inviting prospect… at least for four or five days.

    TBWG :wai:

    The 2010 Formula One Season

    in Sports, Hobbies & Activities

    Posted

    Thailand and F1 :Thaiflag:

    October 6, 2010 by joesaward

    Dietrich Mateschitz has long been a man with ambitions in motor racing. He has been involved in the sport since the very beginning of the Red Bull story, when the then new drinks company had a personal sponsorship deal with Gerhard Berger. He then became the sponsor of Sauber and ultimately bought the Jaguar Racing and Minardi teams to become Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Toro Rosso. He also acquired the Osterreichring, which is now known as the Red Bull Ring. On top of all of this he has invested in a NASCAR team and in any number of personal sponsorships in the junior formulae, in rallying, touring car racing and so on. His ambition is to win the World Championship, while at the same time increasing sales of his celebrated energy drink.

    What is not well known is that Mateschitz owns only 49% of the business. His partner Chaleo Yoovidhya, a Thai national, owns another 49%, while Yoovidhya’s son Chalerm owns the remaining two percent, having been the man who introduced the two major partners. That was back in the early 1980s. The deal was that Mateschitz would run the business, but that the Thais would have nominal control. Chaleo (78) is now the richest person in Thailand, with a fortune estimated at $4 billion, thanks to Red Bull, and to other products that are produced by his TC Pharmaceuticals company, which continues to market the original energy drink Krating Daeng (on which Red Bull is based) in the Asian markets. The success of the Red Bull business has enabled Chalerm to become Thailand’s most celebrated winemaker, while also being the co-owner of Cavallino Motors, a joint venture with the Bhirombhakdi Family, which owns the Singha Beer company. Singha was recently seen as a sponsor on the Red Bull-Renaults in F1 and said that this was designed to promote Formula 1 in Thailand, which would automatically create interest in Ferrari.

    Now Chalerm is saying that he wants to build a F1 circuit in Thailand, so that there can be a Thai Grand Prix. He says that this will help to boost the tourism industry in the country. The country does have a 1.5-mile circuit near the seaside resort of Pattaya. This was built in 1985 and named after Prince Birabongse Bhanutej Bhanubandh (known in Europe as “Prince Bira”) who raced Grand Prix cars with some success in the 1940s and 1950s. This is not suitable for Formula 1.

    The shift of F1 towards Asia means that Thailand should be considered a sensible contender if Red Bull is willing to put up the money. Why not a Red Bull Ring in Asia, as well as in Austria?

    TBWG :wai:

    PS Roll on!

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