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Any one seen the comet?

I am looking to creating a database of various photographs taken here in Thailand and seek only thumbnail photos of actual locations that show places of interest.

The shots should be of unusual landscapes, seascapes, buildings, underwater, caves, people, temples etc --- it is important that the location should be recorded

There is no initial fee involved but should a photo be of interest then I would require a full image at an agreed price.

Please PM me or email me through Thaivisa.

Don't know what you're into, Thai Pauli, but it sounds like bad karma to me.

German sentenced to death over murder of Swiss tourist

CHIANG MAI: --  --Chiang Mai Court today (Wednesday) sentenced a German man to death for the premeditated murder of a Swiss tourist in San Kamphaeng district.

Judges Siriwan Nakawisut and Kanchana Singpaikaew convicted 34-year-old German national Gordon Adrian Koschwitz for fatally beating and strangling Raphael Baumann, 32, on October 11 last year.

Baumann, who had been in Thailand since last August, was found dead in Koschwitz's rented house. Koschwitz reported the death the next day and claimed that Baumann had died after he slipped and fell.

Police later arrested Koschwitz and seized a wooden club as evidence, but he denied the charge. The Department of Special Investigation took up the case before submitting it to public prosecutors.

After hearing the verdict, Koschwitz was taken to Chiang Mai Special Prison.

Koschwitz's lawyer, Watcharapong Tipsukum, told the Associated Press that he planned to appeal the verdict within the 30-day period allowed by Thai law.

"He says he did not kill Raphael. He doesn't know who did it," Watcharapong said.

Koschwitz has been living in Chiang Mai for nearly five years.

--The Nation 2005-08-31

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Deteriorating sex lives and relationships among Thai couples is usually caused by poor communications in a society where sex is taboo.

Like they don't look out the window , or what

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Like saying Thai's don't eat rice.

Kind of takes away from the valitity of the study.

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This is sickening news.... I'm so tired of hearing about Muslim terrorists blowing people up and killing innocent people--and it's especially sad that it has come to beautiful Thailand.

What's the answer?  Martial law?  Curfews?  More and more clamp-downs?

I know the answer is NOT to give in to their demands--NEVER!  If they aren't civilized enough to voice their grievances like civilized people, they won't be civilized (or satisfied) if appeased...

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Truely spoken... Somebody should put all of them out of their miseries (without killing innoscent people)... But giving in will never happen!!!

SD

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The problem, SD, is that it's impossible to differentiate "them" from the "innocent people" who happen to be of the same, or similar religion - albeit with a drastically different interpretation of its teachings. I, too, favor killing every person in the world who would willfully take the lives of innocent people. But, just as the Brits couldn't recognize a Colonialist from a Rebel; just as the Americans couldn't recognize a VC from an innocent South Vietnamese farmer; so, too, is it impossible for anyone to recognize a "terrorist", until, in most cases, it's too late.

I believe that most of the world is taking reasonable precautions to minimize such attacks. However, I believe that there is no possiblity of stopping them. There will always be those who believe that some "cause" can be furthered only by such dispicable acts. While we should continue every effort to discover them before they take place; and punish, preferably by death, those who plan or execute such acts; they are, in the long term, as inevitable as earthquakes, at some level.

GR

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Surely you mean "Thailand, like every.....etc.

Otherwise, a very good post.

Not a "power that be" , btw

Something needs to be done in that area. The sooner, the better. Let those with more information make the decisions. And hopefully get it right. You couldn't pay me to go there, and it will eventually hurt tourism in the whole country. All that people are going to hear is:  Thailand and bomb. Hear it enough and go elsewhere.

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