Steele404

The Sky News reporter who stepped in to her own story should be ashamed of herself.

Doesn't matter and certainly is not the main issue, the whole thing was a circus and a big joke to begin with.

No disrespect has been given from the Sky News reporter compared to how the Thai authorities dealt with this case.

Thanks for the quick responses guys. Okay crap, lucky I didn't waste money by being impatient.

Looks like http://www.mechashop.com is a good place to get those handhelds walkie talkies.

Getting the Midland LTX110 they are offering for 1900 baht a pair.

Cheers!

I ordered my Dell battery for my laptop from eBay. Arrived within a week.

I think the seller was from Hong Kong I'm not too sure. I had to pick it up and faced 20% import charges at ThailandPost.

Happy with what I got, paid 3,800 Baht.

The thing is, the older the model of your laptop, the more rare and expensive the replacement battery becomes for some reason.

Hey Folks,

I'm getting a pair or four handheld walkie talkies for some of my staffs down in Koh Phangan.

I am already eyeing on some brands (quite affordable on eBay and Amazon, both shipping to Thailand):

Midland (LTX500)

Cobra (CXT135)

Motorola (T50)

Will I have any problem importing them? Will I face any legal trouble? I don't think they transmit that much of a power to be illegal.

Or am I better off buying them at a local electronic shack such as Amorn, Pantip?

Thanks for all the tips guys. I think I would play it safe and take the detour.

I'm sailing a small Hobie Cat 16 from the Northern side of Hua Hin and I need to get to Prachuap Kirikan.

However, this requires me to pass the heavily guarded coastal area in front of the king's palace in Hua Hin.

What is the marine rules there? Do I need to detour around or can I just sail close to shore?

Being a beach catamaran, I wish to stay as close as possible to shore.

Any info will be hugely appreciated.

- Mark

What about Koh Phangan?? It's not mentioned in the announcement but it is covered from the exemption?

Surely if they exempted Samui then Koh Phangan is part of it to no?

I stumbled this video on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuJjqQYraf4

Apparently there is a whole club dedicated to real life anime fight club.

A player chooses a Japanese anime character with a weapon of choice

and battle it out until someone bleeds or give up.

Anything goes with no safety or anything..... insane

15 minutes to inflate each balloon

How big are these balloons???

We need to give politicians those boxes

Better not forget to reenact that dance at the end...

1) Raja ferry to Surat Thani, then VIP night bus to Bangkok. Tickets can be bought at any travel agents, or hotels that act like travel agents. Can also be bought at http://www.thaiticketmajor.com/index.php?la=en
2) Raja ferry to Surat Thani, bus or minivan to train station, then overnight sleeper train to Bangkok. Can no longer be bought online.
3) Raja Ferry to Surat Thani, bus to Surat Thani airport, then flight back with Thai airways

4) Small ferry to Samui, flight via Thai airways or Bangkok Airways. Most expensive option but fastest

I always bring a bottle of wine. Now, the price of the bottle should be in reasonable relation to your income. I would say no more than 1,000 THB bottle of wine is more than enough.

An estimated 86,500 (95% confidence interval [CI], 68,400-104,600) balcony fall-related injuries were treated in US hospital EDs from 1990 through 2006; - US National Library of Medicine

Balcony-related accidents are bound to happen, because balconies exists. Its no different from electrocution, slipping in bathtubs, tumbling down a staircase, or choking from eating. Balcony + human = Murphy's law...

http://video.sanook.com/player/50415....

Apparently they have already apprehended the culprit... The whole fiasco was all about the fare jumping to 51 baht. The unhappy tourist then decided to get out of the cab while in traffic.

"Stopped 2 other previous robberies" .... that man deserved a medal

So what do you think? Little innocent ploy like these pisses me off. Here's my explanation:

*False

Already 90 mins into the black out - @ Haad Rin, Koh Phangan

Hope this is only temporary because full moon is coming up in a couple of days and we got a business to run.

It depends on who is receiving them. Some people don't mind email. Others want double triplicate signed in blood.

Have you ever been in a Thai office? Paper, boxes, folders everywhere, every piece of parer generates at least 5 extra pieces of off paper (PO / PR / Quotations / they glue small invoices on A4 paper, hold that together with another piece of paper)

Work permits, tax papers means piles of documents - between one and two centimeters thick - with signatures on EVERY piece of paper (sometimes two on one piece of paper).

To make a long story short, I don't think so, Thai just love to generate documents as much as possible...

I'm sure they do not know the concept of being productive.

However, if it's the case the digital copies are considered as legal tax receipts for the recipient - provided that you follow the guideline and format, then I will definitely have it a go. Though I have yet to find somewhere on the net that references these things or someone that knows this is definitely doable here in Thailand.

I am currently running guest housings in the South and usually I send out receipts (or tax invoice) to hotel agents via post (printed on A4 sealed in envelopes, stamped on so on... etc).

So I leave it with the postman everyday, sometimes it doesn't even reach the receiver, a bit of a nuisance....

Is it possible here in Thailand to send out those receipts as PDF files instead? Going paperless save me a great deal of load.

- Mark

looks like he's giving them a lesson in the time out corner