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BBC Our World 2018 Who Cares About Israels #Thai Workers
Israel's forgotten Thai workers - BBC News

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Car and Motorbike Rentals in Chiang Mai

AC Car Rent

Address: 3/2 Ratchamankah Road

Tel: 053-277-786

Avis Rental Counter

Address: Chiang Mai International Airport

Tel: 053-201-798 -9, 089-969-8677

Web: http://www.avisthailand.com/EN/index.php

Budget

Address: 201/2 Mahidol Road

Tel: 053-202-871 -2

Web: http://www.avisthailand.com/EN/index.php

Journey Rent-a-Car

Address: 283 Thapae Road

Tel: 053-271-579, 081-681-2192

Web: http://www.journeycnx.com/carrent.php

North Wheels

Address: 70/4-8 Chaiyaphum Road

Tel: 053-874-478

Web: http://www.northwheels.com/

Pop Car Rental

Address: 35/4 Moonmuang Road

Tel: 086-911-1218, 053-276-660

Web: http://www.popcarrentchiangmai.com/news.php

Ruby Car Rental

Address: 104/2 Moo 5, Tambon Chaisatan, Amphur Saraphi

Tel: 081-595-554, 053-115-801

Web: http://www.rubycarrental.com/

Web: http://www.rubycarrental.com/bike.html

Does anyone know where this Institute is located?

Thai friends need International Accreditation.

Canadian Father brings justice home from Thailand in case of killer off-duty PAI policeman

The Calgary father and his wife spent 10 days in the Asian country to watch the final court proceedings, and they laid a wreath near where Leo was gunned down in the street.

Leo Del Pinto, a 25-year-old backpacker, was shot dead by an off-duty, plainclothes officer in the tourist village of Pai in 2008. His friend, Carly Reisig, was also hit but survived.

The officer first insisted Leo attacked him and the shooting was an accident. However, subsequent witness testimony, a pathologist’s examination and reports from Thailand’s human rights commission cast doubts on those claims.

Finally, in July, Sgt. Uthai Dechawiwat pleaded guilty to killing Leo more than five years after the slaying.

Dechawiwat was already serving a 25-year sentence for clubbing his 18-year-old pregnant wife to death. full story from Calgary Herald.

Leo Del Pinto

Is this the place?

This show runs several times a day. I saw it a few years ago. My wife says she has heard of many trainers bitten this way and its common to hear about it. Some Farang got this on their phone and it went viral around the global news. Thats what people like to see. Actually the show was entertaining and appreciated. There is an obvious technique to this but went wrong this time. As usual the trainer is ok but more cautious next time. If you have some time to spare and a few baht take the wife and kids to see the show. I think there are several such places in Thailand. One near Pattaya and one outside of BKK that I know of.

I have heard that the crocs are drugged but just hearsay.

I really enjoyed my drive from CM to Tak through the mountains. Lots of places to stop and eat and get a bottle of gas at the same time. I came back on the super highway and it was a drag. Dangerous too with those dont give a damn black SUV's. Stay in the bike lane and enjoy the scenery rather than the fast lane. Met some great Thai guys on superbikes at most of the gas stops. They were traveling together fast.

The Elephant Conservation Center is worth a stop.

They have 2 or 3 tourist shows a day there.

My wife was in the show for 4 days after taking the Mahout Classes and we had the time of our lives there.

Youtube

for more use YouTube search words Wimolnan tecc

The ladies might also like to see the Umbrella factory outside of CM (Bo Sang) and the Art factory beside it.

Not much walking involved and very interesting.

Another video

Pinhole photography is lensless photography. A tiny hole replaces the lens. Light passes through the hole; an image is formed in the camera.

Click the link above for more.

You can get Pinhole adapters for most DSLR cameras these days to have some fun with. They are cheap and no film to worry about and you see your digital results immediately.

Click to see samples of digital pinhole photos.

You need to be able to remove the lens from your camera to install the adapter.

Actually its just a plate with a pin hole that screws on where your lens was.

There are adapters made for specific cameras.

Perhaps someone with the Chiang Mai Photo Group has one to share for a bit.

They are usually used for a few days and then forgotten about but might be good to demonstrate to your child.

You can also use photographic paper as a negative in a homemade camera with a pinhole.. a cardboard box camera.

Once you develop the paper negative you can take a pic of that and get a positive~!

Interesting experiment but I have seen old cameras just for that with developer etc built in.

Used shooting tourists in Mexico many years ago.

Photo of lightning strike on rock wall of overlook

Reuters) - A married couple killed by a lightning bolt near the Grand Canyon this week was identified on Friday as tourists visiting from Thailand.

Aram Kawewong and wife Ratchaya Tantranon, both 20, were among a group of people struck by lightning on Tuesday at the LeFevre Overlook, about 30 miles north of the Grand Canyon National Park, the Coconino County Sheriff's Office said.

The two tourists, from Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, were pronounced dead at the scene. Their identities had been withheld pending notification kin, the sheriff's office said.

The lightning bolt also struck and injured a boy who was traveling with another group of adults.

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Both were from the city of Chiang-Mai in northern Thailand. A relative says Kawewong's age was 30.

Authorities say a lightning bolt struck Tuesday afternoon in the area of the LeFevre Scenic Outlook on state Route 89A in Fredonia.

Sheriff's officials released a photo of the scene that showed a broken rock on the wall of the overlook.

They said it's believed the couple was standing on the rock seat beneath the wall when the lightning struck and they were pronounced dead at the scene.

Read more: http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_northern_az/flagstaff/Thailand-couple-IDd-as-Arizona-lightning-victims#ixzz2aGDw2lLs

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Got the torrent on Pirate Bay. Didn't realize it was a cam copy till the lady returned to her seat with Popcorn. Too funny~! The movie was too hokey to pay money for and hard to know it was Johnny Depp.

EUGENE C REBCOOK was born 22 October 1930, got Social Security number 325-28-8883 (indicating Illinois,) and died 29 July 2011.

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Myanmar Benefits From Thai Rice Subsidy As Thai Traders Increase Rice Trade

The Thai government has embarked on a disastrous and costly rice subsidy program to benefit its rice farmers – the program cost the government $4.4 billion last year – but an unexpected beneficiary turned out to be Myanmar, as Thai traders flock to the neighboring country to buy rice that will then be sold to the Thai government at a hiked price.

"For a long time, Thailand did not buy any rice from Myanmar… But at the beginning of this year, Thai traders started to buy normal rice and broken rice [grains] from Myanmar and transport it across the border," said Ye Min Aung, the secretary of the Myanmar Rice Merchants Federation (MRMF), according to the Irrawaddy, a Thailand-based Myanmar newspaper.

Thailand’s scheme had been simple, according to Time magazine. The government would buy rice from local farmers at a generous price, as high as 50 percent above market rates at times, and it would cut off exports to the rest of the world. Being the largest rice exporter, Thailand expected global prices would spike from the resulting shortage, allowing the government to recuperate its cost by selling to the world at a premium.

Unfortunately, for Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s administration, it underestimated the power of the global market. Traders began to switch their purchases from Thailand to suppliers in India, Pakistan, Vietnam, and in some cases Myanmar.

Sophie Song writes about emerging markets in Asia, and is particularly interested in foreign investment in the Southeast Asian economies.

Early Mortality Syndrome Threatens Asia’s Shrimp Farms

The emerging disease early mortality syndrome (EMS) has caused large losses among shrimp farmers in China, Vietnam, Malaysia and Thailand. Causing mass mortalities, its spread points to the need for increased awareness and cooperative reporting, writes Eduardo M. Leaño, Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific. Taken from the Global Aquaculture Advocate, a Global Aquaculture Alliance publication.

The Asia-Pacific region, the top producer of aquaculture products in the world, is continuously beset by emerging aquatic animal disease problems that can cause high mortalities and economic losses among small farmers as well as commercial producers. Over the last couple of decades, diseases such as white spot syndrome, yellowhead disease and Taura syndrome heavily impacted shrimp aquaculture in the region and caused the collapse of the Penaeus monodon industry.

More recently, an emerging disease known as early mortality syndrome (EMS) – also termed acute hepatopancreatic necrosis syndrome or AHPNS – caused significant losses among shrimp farmers in China, Vietnam and Malaysia. It also reportedly affected shrimp in the eastern Gulf of Thailand this year (Flegel, 2012).

EMS affects both P. monodon and Litopenaeus vannamei and is characterized by mass mortalities during the first 20 to 30 days of culture in growout ponds. Clinical signs of the disease include slow growth, corkscrew swimming, loose shells and pale coloration. Affected shrimp consistently show abnormal shrunken, small, swollen or discolored hepatopancreases.

- See more at: http://www.thefishsite.com/articles/1459/early-mortality-syndrome-threatens-asias-shrimp-farms#sthash.C9Ty8ag3.dpuf

Shrimp Exports From Thailand Poised to Decline 50% on Disease

Shrimp exports from Thailand may slump 50 percent this year because of a disease called Early Mortality Syndrome in one of the industry’s worst crises, said Somsak Paneetatayasai, president of Thai Shrimp Association.

Shipments would decline from an annual average of 350,000 metric tons, he said in a phone interview today. Supply may also fall about 50 percent from normal production of 500,000 tons per year, he said.

The disease has killed cultivated shrimps in several countries in Asia where one million people depend on this type of aquaculture for their living, according to a report on the website of the United Nations’ Food & Agriculture Organization. Asia produced 3 million tons of shrimp with a value of $13.3 billion in 2011, it said. The industry is showing signs of recovery after hatcheries, farmers and the government worked to stop the disease spreading, said Somsak.

more on this story click from Bloomberg

Insight: Smuggling rice to Thailand - like coals to Newcastle

(Reuters) - Hidden in 18-wheeler trucks, carts and pick-up vans, hundreds of thousands of tonnes of rice are being smuggled from Cambodia and Myanmar into Thailand, although the country holds enough stocks to meet half the world's annual trade in the commodity.

A populist program to support prices has led to the Thai government paying its farmers almost double prevailing prices in Cambodia and Myanmar. Farmers and traders in the neighboring countries are trying to take advantage, sending their grain across the border to be sold into the Thai intervention scheme.

The equivalent of 750,000 tonnes of milled rice is being smuggled into Thailand a year, mainly from Cambodia and Myanmar, according to estimates of analysts and traders who have studied the illicit shipments.

"No one can differentiate which one is Thai rice and which one is Cambodian rice. That makes it easy to smuggle rice in and make a profit by selling it to the government," said Kiattisak Kalayasirivat, managing director at Thai trader Novel Agritrade.

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You can sprout your beans or lacto-ferment the beans or sprouted beans for added vitamins, probiotics and added nourishment. Soy beans are cheap and best fermented with a soil bacteria Bacillus Natto.

You can buy the culture as a powered or use purchased Natto at a Japan grocery store. The bacteria is soil based and is very gut friendly and is Natto is used to prevent diarrhea. Its is also used to make several types of anti-biotics.

You can ferment it in a yogurt maker. Yogurt is also a good probiotic and can be made from Soy milk to turn it into a very nourishing product as unfermented soy is really not good for you.

Soy sauce is fermented too as is fish sauce. Vegetables are easy to lacto ferment too and I simply use a plastic bucket to ferment in light brine solution as you do making Saurkraut or Kimche.

I can Skype pdf books to anyone interested in learning. Rural Thai can also teach you other ways to ferment your food for good health. There is a Thai verson of Natto that you can use as a starter called Thuanao Thau-nao. as it used the same bacterium. Having these good bugs in your gut will prevent a lot of Traveler's Diarrhea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natt%C5%8D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_subtilis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natt%C5%8D

http://foodandnutritionmag.org/The-History-and-Health-Benefits-of-Fermented-Food

You can order Tempeh starters on line.

This link will help with understanding.

The basic culture is fungus Rhizopus oligosporus spores.

But symbiotic bacteria can also be involved to further process the soy.

Yes un-fermented soy is not good for you. Tons of hype from those who want your money and don't care about your health.

You can lacto ferment soy beans or other kinds of beans too with simple live yogurt or kefir whey.

I make my own soy milk then soy yogurt with a kitchen yogurt incubator and I use the same one to incubate my Natto.

Or you can do better making Natto which has good vitamin K's to keep your arteries clear of plaque.

Widely used in Japan and you can find in the frozen section of Japan Grocery stores and use as a Natto starter.

The Natto bacteria, Bacillus subtilis is a soil bacteria and was originally cultured from rice straw.

It converts the soy to very good things for the body and is used to make many antibiotics now through various fermentation processes.

German military used in North Africa to cure disentary which killed thousands of their troops.

Apparently the Egyptians just ate a bit of warm Camel poop when they had a problem and this was the clue they needed for research.

Now get on to Kombucha which is fermented sweet tea and get your gut full of more good probiotics. I have seen it in a health bar in Pai but no where else as yet.

You need a starter for this too called a Scoby. "Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast" Maybe someone reading this has a scoby to share.

You can get them on line from the States but don't know if they will survive the trip.

Singha is my fav ferment~!

There are some Thai fermented products too my wife tells me. Of course coffee and vanilla are fermented beans and I hear some fellow Canuk is getting some help from Elephants to ferment the beans~!

In Vietnam and other places they use a ferrite like animal I think called a Trivet to ferment them and this coffee is quite expensive.

fao Fermented Foods.pdf

I have not found any reference on ThaiVisa about the famous Thai Doctor who is a world pioneer of Stem Cell research for Heart Patients.

Memorial to Kitipan V. Arom, MD, PhD

You can follow google news on this guy here http://bit.ly/SGIeQX

His name is Sanghvi Ritesh Narpatraj and the link should update daily.

It is a google search "Sanghvi Ritesh Narpatraj murder"

Also have Thai lady friend who is going crazy with this to make her fortune.

I checked the web and see a lot of familiar type of hype which is becoming the thing of the day.

The mention of stem cell in a commercial product rings bells instantly with me.

Many websites touting this product. Many reviews on Amazon too but hype is hype.

High Prices and Promises brings in a lot of money for the web geeks to be paid well for their promotion effects.

Those who pay high money to look 10 years younger must be right~! Mirror mirror on the Wall~!!!

^{A Quebec coroner is challenging the autopsy findings of Thai officials that ruled two Quebec sisters found dead in their hotel room in June were accidentally poisoned.}

^{Coroner Renée Roussel told Radio-Canada the concentration of the chemical DEET in the sisters' systems wasn't enough to be fatal.}

^{That contradicts the conclusion of Thai authorities, who performed post-mortems on the bodies of Noémi Bélanger, 25, and Audrey Bélanger, 20, shortly after the sisters were found on June 15 by hotel staff.}

^{A pathologist determined the women likely ingested DEET, a principal ingredient in bug repellant, in a euphoria-inducing cocktail that is popular among youth in Thailand.}

^{The sisters from Pohénégamook, Que., had just arrived on Thailand's Phi Phi Island and were last seen partying with two Brazilian friends in the early morning of June 13.}

^{Investigators said there were no signs of foul play in their hotel room, but there was evidence that the women may have suffered some kind of toxic reaction.}

^{DEET levels not fatal}

^{Dr. René Blais of Quebec's poison control centre said the DEET concentration reported by the Thai pathologist doesn't correspond to a concentration that would be toxic, "let alone a concentration that would be fatal."}

^{It's still unclear what caused their deaths if it wasn't DEET poisoning.}

^{Secondary autopsies were conducted in Montreal, but the results haven't been released.}

^{Thai investigators haven't closed the case. They submitted their investigation report to the Canadian Embassy in Thailand without making the findings public.}

^{Other mysterious deaths}

^{In the last three years, a dozen vacationers have died under suspicious circumstances in tourist areas of Thailand and Vietnam.}

^{In 2009, two young tourists, one from the United States and the other from Norway, who were staying at a guest house near the hotel where the Bélanger sisters were found, also died under mysterious circumstances.}

^{Their deaths remain unsolved, but there was speculation the women had been poisoned.}

^{The news report claimed DEET, a neurotoxic mosquito repellent, is used as an ingredient in a euphoria-inducing cocktail that is popular among youth in Thailand. The drink contains cough syrup, Coke, DEET and ground kratom (Mitragyna speciosa) leaves, which are a mild narcotic indigenous to Thailand.}

^{Information on the internet suggests the overuse of DEET, which is applied to the skin to repel mosquitoes, can cause seizures, but only four deaths have been reported.}

^{It is understood that the drink is served at establishments on Phi Phi Island, but there has been no report from police authorities on efforts to crack down on its illegal sale.}

There are 5 McDonalds.

Several Starbucks also... but i'm not sure if the Americans come for those... or they came for the Americans

Sad if they dooooooo.

If they decide to stay they soon discover Black Canyon and other better places but newcomers don't know where else to go for wifi. Mostly tourists at Starbucks and its a convenient first meeting place because of the sign and location.