Burma Bill

You mean just like Marina in Last of the Summer Wine (UK comedy series) https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRb2GXmIUK6qdk2aq_CI-P9oYRus1DSeFYGZA&s

No problem here in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Our local MAKRO is well stocked with Skimmed, Low Fat and full cream milk in cartons from Australia.

Thanks and, yes, I agree. Interestingly, there have been several big cannabis busts by UK authorities at Manchester Airport in the north of England with many of the drug couriers arriving from Thailand. For reference: TWO drug mules were caught with 40kg of drugs in their suitcases as they were leaving Manchester Airport after an around-the-world flight.......After hours of air miles from Thailand and a connection in France, the duo were rumbled, and they later admitted a charge of being concerned in the fraudulent evasion of the prohibition on the importation of cannabis. https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/24775511.pair-manchester-airport-40kg-drugs-bangkok-flight/ Last year 26,924kg of cannabis was seized from around 750 smugglers flying into UK airports. This quantity is nearly five times more than the 5,609kg of cannabis seized for the whole of 2023, when 134 suspects were arrested.............In 2024, 430 suspects were arrested at Heathrow Airport where 14,617kg of cannabis was seized. The next worst affected airports were Manchester Airport, where around 135 arrests were made and 4,815kg of cannabis seized, and Birmingham Airport, where 40 arrests were made and 1,410kg cannabis seized..............Of the suspects, 460 were arrested having arrived from Thailand; https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/smugglers-prevented-from-bringing-27-tonnes-of-cannabis-into-the-uk-in-2024#:~:text=In one case last year,its kind at Manchester Airport.

For reference: This construction is part of Rama III – Dao Khanong – Western Bangkok Outer Ring Road project. The third contract was awarded to ITD-VCB Joint Venture, consisting of Italian-Thai Development Pcl and Vichitbhan Construction Co. Ltd., with other contractors including Asian Engineering Consultants Co. Lt, Chotijinda Consultants Co. Ltd. and MAA Consultants Co. Ltd. I see Ital-Thai are involved - very good at wild game hunting but not so good at building bridges!! RIP to those who lost their lives, also sincere condolences to their families. https://thainewsroom.com/2025/03/15/clearing-of-collapsed-under-construction-bridge-to-take-a-week/ Something strange - I can copy and paste the above reference into my post, but when I click "save", entry to the reference is blocked

what a load of garbage being written! Do I care "NO". One day Trump will fall and Musk will become bankrupt.

Pattaya's Two-Pronged Effort:

Dressed (or should I say undressed) as in the photos, mosquitoes, small biting spiders and flies would have a field day - along with the sun burn!

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And don't forget the Imodium!

"Time" has now run out for her!

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"!

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!

With a name like you've got, sounds like a wurst loving kraut!

That must have been the last straw!!

The Ninja species -

From the accompanying photo, it looks like someone has had a good night out "'on the tiles"!

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.

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.

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/

No problem for me. I can still use my 3G Nokia to make phone calls and send text messages.

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)

If that is what is intended, it is no skin off my back!

Re-opening PAI airport?

Reminder - never accept a drink(s) from a stranger especially at festivals, beer bars and go go bars!

So, how many light years away before it is completed to Vientiane?