stevenl

Thai women's volleyball were Asian champions a few years ago and there still is a chance they qualify for the Olympics (Japan needs to lose to Serbia this afternoon).

Paradorn quit BTW and tried to get in parliament. He was not eligible for election though because he did not vote the time before that.

They were very lucky yesterday with the TMD warning, no better guarantee for reasonable weather that a warning from them.

So he's admitted to the rape now? Must be a blow to the groin for our armchair detectives.

Yes, on Friday the 18th already.

Read this:

All official sources in Phuket involved in the case of an alleged rape of a German tourist by a Thai resort worker have unequivocally stated that the accused has not confessed to the charge

Yes, just read that as well.

IMO it is very easy: either the other news source made up the conversation between judge and accused, or he admitted to rape.

Just thought of a 3rd possibility: the police does not have in its possession the conversation between judge and accused.

Why would anyone register their car in someone else's name?

As a gift?

Or to get a big, attractive, tax rebate?

No chance. Even if he can prove it was his money that bought the car she will claim it was a gift.

This event has not been reported and clarified on another site ''that must not be mentioned''....

Has now....

yeah, i just saw it on that site. on-lookers said it as two to three people, but that doesn't matter. i continue to reiterate to everyone ... the water is dangerous this time of year, no matter how much of a skilled swimmer or surfer you are ... please be careful and sensible about places near the water you think are safe to sit.

They are reporting that the victim had just been in an argument with her boyfriend. The victim asked the boyfriend to meet her at the spot where she was then reportedly swept into the sea by a large wave just as the boyfriend approached. There may be more to this story.

Yes, I have the same feeling after reading what supposedly happened.

I thought they were female because they all came flocking to you

Had a take away from Farang in Nai Harn yesterday. Agree with previous posts, the portions were very, very small, smaller than I've seen anywhere, so decided (after reading comments here) on 2 dishes. One Spaghetti, was ok but nothing special, and one pork steak with apple sauce, was good. 2 dishes, 190 Baht, so all in all good experience.

Visa on arrival is only for 30 days at the airport, and 15 at some land borders. And it is possible to get turned away at immigration. Not sure how often that happens, though...

Visa on arrival is 15 days at the airport. Visa exempt entry is 30 days at the airport and 15 days at land borders. Which one is applicable will depend on nationality.

Residence Certificate and copies of your passport

Thanks for your reply Steve.

I keep getting conflicting stories, some say the video last 20 minutes, some 1 hour & some say say 4 hours.

Im getting too old old for all of this confusion, perhaps I will take my MP3 player with me and listen & sing along with "Lady Gaga" while I'm watching the video.

Yes, that's what I would recommend (except for the Lady Gaga thing). Just go with it and accept it.

The poll is a joke, people are voting in multiple areas, if they are really serious about a

get together the OP will pick a venue and get on with it

Well, why not vote in multiple areas. I would be ok with Kata, Rawai and Chalong so voted for all 3 areas.

Agree with you though, simply pick a venue and date, announce the ground rules, and people can confirm (or not) their presence.

I don't have a current license from my home country Australia, expired long ago. My current drivers license is from Cambodia, Will that be accepted?

I went in with all my papers in order. They would not accept my Khmer Licence & told me to get it certified at the Cambodian embassy. The Cambodian embassy in BKK can not do any certified documents and they told me I must return to Phnom Penh to get this done, it seems they only do visas.

So with out a current licence that will be accepted I will have to do the full test. The officer at TLD tells me I must sit through a Four Hour Video in Thai, Does this seem correct?

My Khmer licence will not be accepted because she has not seen one before, everything on the licence is written in Khmer and English, I walked away scratching my head.

Anyone.

Simply do the full test, will be a lot easier than doing things with your Cambodian license.

The video will be an hour, nothing to worry about. Sleeping during the video is allowed BTW.

as far as i know most western countries it is the law to put the price of a used car on the car ( dealers) in thaialnd it is not

Strange law IMO. In what countries would that be the case?

Agree with sezze, a lot of the second hand cars will be financed,. Sometimes you will even see a sign on the car saying '40000 Baht' or something like that, being the initial required downpayment. The same with motorbikes.

How does one get out of a rip?

Wait till it gets less strong, and then swim perpendicular out of it. Don't try to fight it, you'll lose that battle.

Something is happening there at the moment. Does not look like road widening though, so the OP could be right.

Peter, don't let yourself get wound up by people who's only purpose is slagging of Phuket, so Langkawi has to be better. You have been there recently and have your opinion of it, end of story.

yeah, i thought about that, but sunset is 6:40pm, and sunrise is 6:10am. Seems like plenty of time to call a boat or chopper. I would have thought the Navy must have at least one small boat at Chalong Harbor , or call out a few longtails.

I think it's probably more that the communications channels are not set up to handle emergencies. At any rate, if they wait long enough, it's no longer an emergency.

Simply a matter of reporting. There was already a search the day of reporting but to no avail. Them the following day in the morning the boats were launched that found the victim.

So whilst i agree that if fuel cost is your only consideration, you could fit LPG and save even more money than E20, but the potential drawbacks are somewhat greater.

So other than losing boot space what do you consider the other drawbacks to be?

See numbers 2 and 4.

Sorry to but in here, but did you read his post?

Why the 16 hour delay to search/rescue/recover the man?

"was reported missing at about 5pm yesterday"

and then

"This morning at 9am, officers from the Royal Thai Navy and the Tourist Rescue Unit launched two boats to search"

RIP

Because it got too dark after the sun was down to find anything there.

Cruise control is great in outback Australia where you have long straight roads

Wouldn't you have to constantly have to switch it on and of here

The pickup we have on order has cruise control and i thought it was a unnecessary extra here

No, I like it also here.

Surat by far. To go there there are 2 options: the old road, which is 2/3 4 lane already, rest is being upgraded at the moment, and the new Krabi-Surat Road, all 4 lane, with normally not a soul in sight.

I prefer the old one, shorter and therefor the quicker road I think.

For the old road: take the road left where Surat is indicated, for the new road: continue at the Surat sign for about 25 km and follow signs for Surat there.

Steve are you talking about route 44, the unfinished "landbridge"? Kind of interesting history behind it. It even has it's own wiki page. That space in the center was supposed to be for train tracks and pipelines. There is not a single intersection in 190km. It's probably the only road in Thailand where you can pin the throttle for an entire tank of gas. I have always assumed it was a casualty of the '97 crash.

http://en.wikipedia....ailand_Route_44

.

Yes, that's the one. Nice road, problem is it is a detour of all in all about 40 km's over a less than 200 km's road distance. Since I drive about 120 km/h simply not worth it for me, since on the other road I can also drive at almost the same speed. To lazy for the calculation right now, but I guess you'd have to go about 180 km/h on that road, especially since the first 25 k detour are really slow on a 2 lane road.

Do you average 120KPH or is that the maximum speed you travel at

Last time we traveled to Bangkok we spotted overnight at Cha Am and i travel at a maximum speed of 125KPH

Divided the time it took for the trip by the kilos drive and my average speed was 81KPH

I average also about 80 on the whole strech. A bit less in the beginning, a bit more later on. But I cruise at 120 (with cruise control).

Actually,...

What does Thai Labor Law say in a situation like this?

Anyone?

(No guessing please, only facts)

See this link. Chapter 11, page 19 BTW.

Maybe, check back in 10 years time or so. These things take time.

For the moment: no.

The hotel owes you nothing.

Oh but they do, according to Thai labor law.

Yes, the hotel does owe them according to Thai labor law, plus IMO morally as well.