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*** Breaking News ***

Yellow and Red shirts reconciled!

Thailands troubles are finally over...

picture taken in Phatthalung last week

5 Square Km turns into 'Several hundred' for a 'Thaiwise' to make his point and already hypothotising , do not underestimate Hun Sen or his millions of friendly Asian neighbours .

English please.

I think it was because the logic employed in your article seemed so authentic and all too familiar.

exactly

Now I see this other post, about two Canadians killed:

www.thaivisa.com/forum/Canadians-Killed-Road-Accident-At-t226900.html

Perhaps Simon is referring to this one...

Anyway, both are tragic to say the least.

My thoughts are with the family and friends of the victims.

I think this news concerns a Dutch young lady, traveling with her mother from BKK to Phuket in order to catch a flight out of Thailand.

The lady, 34 years of age, was Eva Meillo. She was employed as an officer by the Dutch National Anti-Fraud Bureau. She also happened to be 5 months pregnant...

Her mother seems to have been unharmed, I don't know who the second victim might be.

Source: www.nu.nl/news.jsp?n=1867627&c=24&rss

(sorry, Dutch only)

--- 4000 protesters, as well as the authorities supervising need to leave the area..

--- 1000's of airport employees need to reach the airport

--- The airport needs to be fully cleaned of debris/garbage

--- Most importantly, airlines will surely not resume flights without a deep and thorough sweep for bombs, explosives or any other type of sabotage

--- Once completed, planes themselves need to arrive --- runways, bays and airspace can only handle so much craft..

I agree with the OP that clearing Swampy might take in the order of weeks rather than days.

My wife is due to fly to me in the Netherlands on 18th of December. Tickets have been bought months ago. We've been looking forward to spending Christmas together, like mad...

Now, with the current situation at Swannapoom, and with no rapid solution in sight, we decided to not sit and wait it out, but check what the alternatives are, and act.

First I thought of having her fly from Had Yai to KL or Singapore and from there take a flight to Amsterdam (my wife lives in Thailand's deep south), but she reminded me that Had Yai airport is now closed too, and that the only public airports open are Chiang Mai in the north and Phuket in the south.

I advised my wife to at least call China Air, where we had booked her ticket, to ask if they came up with an alternative... They told her that yes, their daily flight Taipei-Bangkok-Amsterdam had been rerouted to Taipei-Chiang Mai-Amsterdam. With respect of the same departure and arrival times as it were in Bangkok

Then we looked at the best way to get her in Chiang Mai, and we came up with the following scheme:

She will take a bus from her hometown of Phatthalung to Phuket. There she'll take the Thai Airways flight to Chiang Mai (5000 Baht all taxes incl.) and there hop on the plane to Holland. On the Thai Air website, you could see the tickets go "sold out" before your eyes...

This, our plan 'B', will become effective in case Swampy is not cleared by the time my wife flies. It is, of course, not completely fool-proof, as TIT... but it gave us both some peace of mind.

For the record, I use Fedora 9 X86_64, and I'm a near complete Linux noob.

The installation went fairly fine, although skype still gives me sound, but no microphone. Other than that, I'm (almost) ok. The only real problem is that I still can't type in Thai. It displays Thai fine (afik), especially online. But I can't type Thai.

Please give me some advice on how to enable it!

Ok, here's how I did it in Ubuntu (assuming Fedora uses the same Gnome Desktop, the following walkthrough should apply to Fedora as well).

right-click on the Panel (taskbar) and choose 'Add to Panel'. Scroll down in the dialog box that opens, and click the Keyboard indicator Item; then click the Add to Panel button at the bottom of the dialog.

You now have a new button on your Panel (the bar that is similar to the windows taskbar), displaying your default keyboard language. In my case, it says 'USA', that is my default layout.

Now, right-click that new button, and choose 'Keyboard Preferences' from the menu that opens.

A dialog window opens, go to the second tab, labeled 'Layouts'.

There, click on the big plus (+), and a 'Choose Layout' dialog will be presented to you. Hold on, you're almost done.

In this window, you can choose keyboard layouts for any Country or Language. Choose Thailand and click the Add button at the bottom of the dialog. Thai layout has been added to your keyboard!!

Close the 'Keyboard Preferences' dialog, after you made sure that the layout you use the most often is selected as the default.

Now, to start typing Thai like a pro, all you have to do is click the 'Keyboard Indicator' button on the taskbar to instantly toggle kb layouts. In my case, I can toggle between USA and Tha

Hope this was helpful to you.

Semantics -"dealers and junkies" very interesting - especially the comment "same thing" - a quick dismissive flick that actually misses a huge part of the debate about drug use.

i think some people here really need to do some research into drug use and how it relates to society.

Miost of the opinions expressed here are not actually opinions at all they are prejudices.

explain that to the Thai authorities

Thai bashing going on on this forum make me sick. When will you start realizing that you are a guest in this country, nothing more, nothing less, and that as such you should respect your host. If that is too much for you, please leave. We can do very well without you, and oh, what brought you here in the first place?

All I see posted by the bashers are comments against presumed Chinese conspiracy of some sort and about how stupid the Thai are, with no will or brain of their own, when they are only trying to exercise their democratic rights. I am pretty sure protests have happened more than once in your home country, but it is so easy to forget about that, isn't it. I, for one, remember the violent protests in France a few years ago. Now is France a banana republic? I don't think so.

Other than that, rest assured, I condemn violence.