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Burma Bill

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  1. I just completed this quiz. My Score 60/100 My Time 161 seconds  
  2. Very much so and for reference: Agence France-Presse Published: 2:31pm, 10 Mar 2025 Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar’s remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as his only prospect in a country made barren by conflict......... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3301759/myanmars-fields-fear-farmers-sow-opium-poppies-survival So, not only Ya Ba flooding Thailand, now the possibility of opium resin and heroin - Thailand, the hub of "junkies"!
  3. For reference (if you are German) 2016 - A German national who had been convicted of indecent acts against minors will be deported from Cambodia after being arrested by police for illegally staying in the country, a senior police official told Khmer Times on Tuesday. https://www.khmertimeskh.com/25458/german-pedophile-to-be-deported/ Well deserved Sir!
  4. With a name like you've got, sounds like a wurst loving kraut!
  5. That must have been the last straw!!
  6. From the accompanying photo, it looks like someone has had a good night out "'on the tiles"!
  7. Now living in Cambodia, I can understand this country's concerns about land grabbing by Thailand. When one uses the lesser known border crossing between Choam (Anlong Veng District, Cambodia) and Sangam (Sisaket Province, Thailand), having completed formalities at the respective immigration offices, and when travelling onwards into Thailand, within a couple or so kilometres you are stopped again at a checkpoint manned by the Thai Military. Photos are taken of you and your vehicle, along with passport inspections. This military checkpoint, according to my Khmer host, was the original border crossing and the land back to the current checkpoints was annexed by Thailand during the Cambodian Conflict 1979 - 1998. Choam - Sangam Border Crossing - no large buildings, mostly ground floor huts.
  8. Read many of the international media reports (Google search) . No fantasies, just easy answers! Do not rely on AN which often misses the main points in its articles.
  9. IMO, yes. For reference from "The Nation" and the "Borneo Bulletin" Japanese man found dead in suspected suicide at Pattaya viewpoint........ Authorities coordinated with forensic experts and rescue teams to investigate the scene.......... Officers found the body of a foreign male who had used a rope to hang himself from a tree........ https://www.nationthailand.com/news/general/40047124 https://borneobulletin.com.bn/japanese-man-found-dead-in-suspected-suicide-at-pattaya/
  10. No problem for me. I can still use my 3G Nokia to make phone calls and send text messages.
  11. By the time this deal is complete, the submarine will take pride of place in a Thai Maritime Museum!! (Royal Navy Submarine museum, Haslar, UK)
  12. If that is what is intended, it is no skin off my back!
  13. Reminder - never accept a drink(s) from a stranger especially at festivals, beer bars and go go bars!
  14. So, how many light years away before it is completed to Vientiane?
  15. Pattaya being a prominent resort, but into the sea, not a lake.
  16. what's a MAGA hat? For "Mad Americans Going Awol" ?
  17. Good advice. Go and visit your local diabetic clinic in the Government Hospital. I have been an insulin dependent Type 2 diabetic for 31 years and during my 20 years in Thailand I visited my local Government hospital in Chumphae every month for checks, tests and medication (including insulin). The Diabetic Clinic also did the comprehensive annual blood test which included kidney and liver function. It was an excellent service, apart from the time taken queuing to see the doctor. I now live in Cambodia but no problems, as there are many private clinics that deal with diabetes. My local pharmacist provides all my medication, including over the counter insulin (no prescription). Another local blood testing clinic performs my annual comprehensive blood test.
  18. Booking Air Asia with Airpaz commenced post Covid. It is NOT the official Air Asia booking site despite looking very similar in eye catching red! I was almost fooled once when trying to book a "Fly-thru" ticket from Siem Reap to Chiang Mai. There were complications and I realised I was not in the official Air Asia website. Scroll down until you see the correct site. Airpaz is a travel agency booking flights, hotels, tours etc. throughout South East Asia. For reference:- https://www.airpaz.com/en/about
  19. For reference October 11th 2021 Yesterday (October 9th), the Bali Hai Construction Company on behalf of the Bali Hai Company Limited, which has previously claimed to be bankrupt due to all the lawsuits surrounding the building, has officially filed a request for re-construction permission from the Pattaya City despite the demolition order, https://thailand-construction.com/owners-of-the-controversial-waterfront-condo-on-pattayas-bali-hai-pier-ask-for-an-opportunity-to-resume-construction-vs-demolish-the-building/ October 9th 2023 Itthipol disembarked his flight from Phnom Penh at Suvarnabhumi Airport at 10am and was immediately taken into custody by immigration police. The former minister is wanted for corruption in construction of the Waterfront Suites and Residences in Pattaya in September 2008........... Itthipol was culture minister in the second cabinet of former prime minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and is also the younger brother of former Pattaya mayor Sonthaya Khunpluem. Itthipol, 50, was Pattaya’s mayor when he helped grant permission to Bali Hai Co Ltd for the construction of the Waterfront condo project in September 2008. https://www.nationthailand.com/thailand/general/40031744
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