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That's the way its done here. Inactive posts means the doghouse.

At least, "inactive post" means no way anymore enjoying all the goodies of

such a post incl. the constant flow of graft funds

... the tourist count is down. Hotels and businesses are reported to be lower than after the tsunami.

now comes the Thai logic to all this: "Because of this grossly deteriorated situation, less arrivals, a

trifle of hotel bookings we are forced to increase our prices now by 30% at least, another 55% beginning

of high season 2010"

apparently, you're thinking about a PlanB already ... seems you're not depending on travel partners

or a rented flat or the like: If so, just come here first, check the situation n make an adhoc decision

New office under construction off of route 224 to open around next Feb.

Barry

New office is 1 km west of the main light intersection 224 & 24 in ChokChai on the south side of 24 next to PTT gas station.

"Everyone is playing naive, closing their eyes and so on..." Kasit said.

isn't just this one of the finest, most developed traits of the highly esteemed Thai social culture?

... rent, electric bills, salary and other overheads it is next to impossible to make a profit let alone break-even...

do not forget to always have a good pot of piping hot tea money ready, lotsa tea gulpers around

I think one of the reasons why these sorts of schemes appear to thrive in Thailand is the Thai social structure itself. Family members and 'friends' can easily bring pressure on individuals to invest and the whole loss of 'face' thing comes into play, they just find it very difficult to say no or to change their mind and go back on a 'promise' of cash even if the scheme looks hopelessly dodgy.

absolutely right here; it should be added that this kind of social / family- type / "amongst friends" pressure has been the success also in Western countries: "tupper ware parties", cosmetics marketing, diet products, home fashion shows and the like

Something tells me he's going to be a very busy man for a very long time

yes, with lots of new friends

My biggest horror when swimming in areas with speedboats or jetskis

no worries for me - I never swim in open waters, just in the hotel pool. Many reasons to stay away from the sea...

The police state "Earlier, police identified 5,365 areas in Bangkok as risky spots"

how many areas, spots in total does BKK have?

Here's a hint - ladyboys have a penis

o.k., but where the heck do they hide it most of the time ?

Thai Customs Dept facing overhaul

...the department would also be providing clearer rules on product classification and evaluation methods to help businesses to better estimate importation costs. The newly appointed director-general Wisut Srisuphan will lead this change

I respectfully the new head and his crew, another bunch of guys to get rich now - this is what we call real "change leadership"

The fact that they had all the bank records was disturbing, however

no wonder - in my opinion Thailand is the country with the least secure area once it comes to personal data. Everything is absolutely open, no matter whether your computer- stored data, one's ID or ATM card, passport, immigration or wp details, credit cards, any phone number, address etc. etc. Now, this includes names of father, mother, grandfather, grandmother since requested all the way with a host of official procedures.

I suppose a shoot-out on Patong beach sums up these measures after the success of Pattaya

hush hush?

not a word of all this sofar in BKK Post nor NATION (unless published yesterday already which I did not check)

That is one huge haul of contraband - where did you say she stashed it all?!

guess she has an extra-ordinarily big purse...

Hope they caught the a**hole with the gun - and get him to suffer the full weight of the law.

Depending on his social and military / governmential etc. status: The weight

of the law might only be feather-light (if felt at all)

I think when speaking of 'losing face' this should be remembered.... I think this will destroy the remains of the credibility of this country and its people.

Luckily for the government: You won't lose what you don't have. As for Pattaya: This amiable sea-side resort town

with all its congressional and conference facilities was reduced again to what it really always has been and will be...

Let's hope those who are affected get sorted out to their satisfaction

I guess there were only very few of the total foreign card holders who laid their (real) money down - most of them e.g. politicians and other dubious government figures, ageing Western movie stars, less successful soccer & tennis players, senior management of major travel agencies and so forth got this little thing for free...

Too bad. I really loved the Don Mueang airport, will this relocation means the the property around the Don Mueng area is going down?

yes, property prices to drop for sure since the area is going to be too quiet for the trained, half-deaf THAI ear. Not even some 40k watts karaoke systems can substitute the friendly jet noise

I'm going to pay for it: heroin bust man

"I made a big mistake and I'm going to pay for it man, do you know what I mean, I'm going to pay for it."

I don't know what he means...

I have a Solomon SEGM520 (runs on DTAC) which worked o.k. with my old note book

(Toshiba, OS Win2000Prof). I now own a new machine DELL MXP1530, OS Vista Home

Premium SP1.

Problem: The SEGM520- installation appears to go through half-way only, I can enter the

Internet alright but once on stand-by or after shut-down, the Dell system seems to forget about

the modem installation. Every time I have to start all over. My Khorat shop who sold the

modem to me showed me with my own modem that on one of their mx (Acer with the same

Vista, also SP1) this problem did not creep up.

It appears to be inside of the Dell architecture, then: Anybody any good idea or same experience?

Rayong declared dengue disaster zone -- The Nation 2008-08-08

does anybody know the proper Thai language name for dengue?