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Lt Col Prawit Engchuan of Phuket City Police said officers were tipped off by an unnamed informant that a large drug shipment from South America was expected to move through the airport.

Here is a tip for the police. If they are sitting in their office and an anonymous tip comes in saying a drug shipment is coming in on a certain plane on a certain person , you can rest assured that the bulk of the shipment is with some one else, not the idiot mule that was simply a give away. So next time they get a tip, the police should tear apart the luggage of EVERY ONE on the plane, then maybe they will find the real shipment.

Of course ! Good thinking !

I've been called "Papa" since my early thirties when I discovered Siam. But back then the girls were younger than now.

I agree that if you're still young it creates a sort of social convention barrier between you and the girl.

But if you get what you want you forget it soon !

Bangkok is the boiler-room capital of the world (the term reflects the high pressure put on salesmen and their clients, and was first used in the cult movie of the same name starring Ben Affleck, which dealt with illegal share-trading firms in the US).

Once in Carrefour Klong Toei a farang just barged in front of me in the cashier's lane with his cart. I tried to push his cart away with mine but he just kept fighting me off.

I couldn't go on with this tussle as we moved closer to the till but then I started mocking aloud non-stop the guy's physical appearance (indeed, he was an ugly fellow) until he had paid for his goods.

He made a show of wanting to wait for me on the parking lot but he was no match and he left.

My revenge was childish and rude but that's all I had !!

It's absolutely disgusting and abhorrent to make bad assumptions about a person based on the colour of their skin, their " class " status or the country they are from. The sort of person who would do such a thing is nothing more than a low life bigot who I would never wish to associate with. We are all one under the skin, all equal and deserving of the same respect as fellow human beings.

I just want to throw in my stick of dynamite and ask the question, " If skin colour is not an issue, why are Thai people so hel_l bent on being light skinned to indicate to others, they are of a higher class? Note all the skin whitening products here, most of these products are banned in the west, as being classed as known carcinogens? " Thoughts to ponder for today.

Have a wonderful day rainbow peoples.

My educated and sweet g/f is of honest peasant stock not far from BKK. She happened to be born with an ivory-white skin. Pure hazard because her younger sister was not. She uses all sorts of sun protection creams,will not go to the beach and, more to the point here discussed, speaks very disparagingly of the dark-skinned Isan girls and is mocking us farangs who seem not to mind (and even like!) dark-skinned girls. .

Doing some more research online it seems my experience and symptoms seem to match what is known as Labyrinthitis. Does anyone here have any experience with this or known anyone who has had it?

I've experieced bouts of vertigo/diziness for many, many years. Not often, though. They last from a couple hours to a day. Painless but uncomfortable. During that time I dare not drive or ride my motorcycle. I don't even like to go out. One time I got out of bed and promptly crashed on the floor because of it. From a few documentaries I've seen on TV it's due to some small debris inside (inside! not because the ear is dirty! cannot be cleaned!) the auricular canals that get dislodged at times and impede the proper equilibrium functions of the ear. No infection or virus in my case so it's not really labyrinthitis. Maybe I can trace the onset of this trouble to an ear blockage/infection I got years ago and that went untreated for some time. Haven't had it for some time now.

Ladies like me and then they like my daddy.

I went to Immigration in Bangkok last Monday to get another extension on my Retirement Visa. My letter and my passbook was updated on the previous Friday. It is hard to believe but I had to leave Immigration and go to SCB and deposit funds (or take out funds) to reflect the day I was at the Immigration office. The letter was OK being three days old. I think the passbook would have been OK if it was dated the previous day.

Last November I went to the new Chaeng Wattana ofice with my bank letter dated the previous day. They had me go to my bank's local branch (fortunately there was one) in the basement floor and deposit 100 Bahts to refresh my passbook. Of course, by then the amount in my passbook differed from the bank letter by 100 Baht but that's what they wanted.

I have no doubt that this is a serious problem, and don't wish to belittle it. But there is another side to this coin. I know of 2 Thai young "ladies" who have travelled abroad and, as soon as they could, abandoned their sponsor to take up their former profession at a much higher rate of earnings. Anecdotaly, I have heard of many others.

I also have a friend who married a Thai "lady" and took her to Oz, (his 1st marriage, her 2nd) with her son. After just over a year, she took out a Apprehended Violence Order and had him evicted from his (owned) home, and sued for divorce claiming the home because of the child. Before you start thinking spousal violence, the grounds for the AVO was his insatiable sexual appetite, and that when she was too sore to comply, he forced her to perform fellatio - he has it framed on his wall. He managed to regain his house by proving that she had been using it as a base to sell her sexual services; if he hadn't been able to do this he was in real danger of losing it at least until the child turned 18.

I can only confirm from personal experience during the decades I've known theThai bar scene that many girls will take any farang who wants to marry them and take them to their country. They will put up with their husbands only as long as it takes to obtain the foreign nationality and then off they go willingly into the much more lucrative prostituion/massage world.

Hmm, maybe she just popped into boyfriend number 2 apartment to 'charge' her battery Simon

I fear as such, yes.

There is an amusing Thai-English booklet about relationdships between farangs and Thai girls that I picked up recently at Robinson Rachada in BKK that has a page making fun of this TGF excuse when she is on with BF #2.

Just heard it wont affect tourism

I'd go further than a tax increase! Make it a law that beer-bars and go-go clubs in Pattaya serve only tea, coffee and soft drinks!

Too early!

quick everybody do a speed test to the same website at the same time!

Check your real broadband speed here:

http://speedtest.thaivisa.com

Please paste in the results, and also which ISP and plan you are using, Thanks!

PS! I'm right now on CAT-CDMA (800 Baht/month) and it looks very good:

Download Speed: 1373 kbps (171.6 KB/sec transfer rate)

Upload Speed: 352 kbps (44 KB/sec transfer rate)

source: http://speedtest.thaivisa.com

Last Result:

Download Speed: 1212 kbps (151.5 KB/sec transfer rate)

Upload Speed: 385 kbps (48.1 KB/sec transfer rate)

Latency: 357 ms

Wednesday, December 16, 2009 7:12:10 AM

Pattaya TOT 2MB contract!

No problem with facebook in Pattaya.

This scare post got me worried for a moment!

It's phone line, don't know about not needing a number. I got new install with number (five months waiting). I have had the Goldcyber version for about six months now, rarely exceed 1Mb/s, often drops to 200 kb/s in the afternoon. Sometimes service disappears completely and has been down for 1-3 days at a time. TTT is much the same. Good luck.

Same with me. I have to do all my downloads before 9 AM otherwise it takes forever to watch a youtube. I like to liste to internet radios in the afternoon. Many times it's endless buffering. I've complained but it's the LOS! And my area (Pattaya 3 rd) is not eligible for a speed upgrade!

I have two residences. The main one in BKK, the other one in Pattaya. I have obtained my retirement permit in BKK some 15 years ago. I do my 90-day reporting wherever I am at the time. Mostly Pattaya. Never had any problem. Considering how far Chaeng Wattana is from my BKK residence I'll try to do all my reporting in Jomtien from now on.

Renewed my retirement visa two weeks ago at Chaeng Wattana BKK. There was a bump because the bank's letter of my 800K deposit was dated a few days later than the last entry in my passbook. I was sent downstairs to the bank's branch to deposit 100 baht so that the last entry date in my passbook would be closer to my letter's (next day, really).

I advise to withdraw or deposit money in the passbook account the same day as you request the bank's letter so the dates will jive.

In a couple weeks I'll buy a new Compaq laptop with W7 installed by IT CITY. No Pantip for me when it comes to the O/S. I have two HP desktops and one HP laptop, all three from IT CITY (great after sale service!) with Vista Ultimate (the real one).

I have seen them recently doing their rounds in the Queen's Park in BKK.

I remember a young, very attractive and very much for sex, woman in Belgium who was running her shop alone. Got visited repeatedly by these guys and ended up converting and allowing sex to her husband only once a week. Lasted a few years.

No costly US visa needed for Australians (and Europeans) but I'd still recommend getting one. Without a visa it's up to the passport control officer to let you in or not. With a visa he'd have to refer you to a supervisor before your being rejected. As a Belgian citizen traveling single I've had less than welcome receptions at US passport control over the years; especially since 9/11. Only my having a visa saved me many times from being summarily rejected by European-hating immigration officers. BTW, I dress and look very conservatively, no hippie-looking me! It's just my "wrong" nationality. Now, as citizen of "friendly" (ie lapdog) Australia, you should have no nationality problem but one never knows!

I wonder if any of the people posting the negative comments about Rottweilers have ever owned one or even had any interaction with one? I seriously doubt it as it seems none of you actually know anything about these dogs! Dogs attack people every day for a number of different reasons, mainly lack of training and socialization when the dog was young, it's nothing to do with the breed. Most people who have owned many different breeds of dogs say that Rotties are their favourite as they are the most loving and least problematic. Because Rottweilers are one of the most intelligent and easily trainable breed of dogs, and they are also big and strong, people often have them as guard dogs. But the majority are kept as loving family pets and are absolutely fine with people, including kids, and other dogs. My neighbour had Rotties when I was a kid and all they ever did was play with the local kids, even when we were a bit rough with them. I am the proud owner of a 6 month old female Rottie and she's had lots of training and socialization and loves everyone, she's never shown any sign of aggression towards anyone or other dogs and meets many people, including kids, on a daily basis. But there are sometimes people who avoid her when she's walking towards them and that is for one reason...ridiculous stories in the media and internet (like this one on thaivisa!) which gives them bad press. This story wouldn't have been posted at all if the dog involved wasn't a Rottweiler, I see soi dogs chasing and biting people on a regular basis here in Thailand but they don't get shot! THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A BAD DOG, JUST A BAD OWNER!!!

I completely agree. Rottweilers are wonderful and lovable dogs. Their playful disposition make them particularly suited for families with young children. They also make parfect companions for the elderly and handicapped.

Well lets see maybe he did get the notes from a bank in Uk and maybe they were real notes.

Maybe he handed over the real notes to the in the Nakorn Luang Thai Bank and as he was probably unable to track the movements of the notes from the time of handing them over who is to say that he was not a victim of yet another scam in Thailand with the bank replacing his real notes with fakes they had inadvertently taken from another customer.

There is no mention of him posessing any other fake notes or otherwise and as has been posted many times already where did he get the bail money.

This is noy making sense really - I guess another case of tourist or farang beware.

Once in Manila I went to a money changer with a $100 bill that was coming straight from my bank. My bill disappeared for a brief moment behind the changer's desk and then reappeared as "it's counterfeit money, Sir". I protested but nothing to do. Nicely done! After that I made a show of writing down the last numbers of the $100 bills I wanted to exchange at money changers.

I went to TOT this morning.

3/ Instead of the monthly 1,000/month I'm paying now I could cancel present contract and opt for the promotional 490/month with a 12-month contract. Reverting to normal fare after that.

Why it should revert to normal fare after 12 months?You need to sign the 12 month contract because they try to keep their customers from running to the competitors.

The promotion discounted fee applies only for a 12-month billing cycle contract. Normal fares would apply or be re-applied to anything shorter than one year.

Get the contract, in English, from TOT!

TOT Promotional Terms & conditions

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6. When the contract period is due, the users will be served with the same speed level ... together with normal rates or special rates according to TOT announcements.

I hope he manages to fight the charges and is set free.

Given politics however, who knows how the court case will go.

Do you have any idea what he is accused of? What about the liberties of the thousands he alleged to be responsible for the death of? However I don't see why usa has to continue to be the worlds self appointed police, the UN should really get there finger out and take control.

Being an American, I don't understand why we have to be policing the world either. I wish the rest of the world could take care of themselves and stop relying so much on the USA.

It's not so much about the world relying on the USA as the American Empire insisting it has a God-given mission to rule the world. Ever heard of PNAC?