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Papaya Farm, is a Malaysian term for a butterfly pub or budget version karaoke lounge. 

As said Hat Yai is not set up for farang, so no Soi Cowboy equivalent. As a married man I'm not your best guide to Hat Yai's freelancer scene. But the Hansa Entertainment Complex is probably worth looking at; the Sotus Pub and the other bars around it. Or head out to the student side of town and try Zounds/Zystem. Otherwise you can try your luck in music bars like 18-19 or Da-Za.

Probably worth trawling the Malaysian websites, I'm sure there's a wealth of information there on Hat Yai's bars, clubs and 'papaya' farms.

I forgot the Dark Lord Club in town, not been there, but heard it's a little more explicit.

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Looks like pyrite (fool's gold) to me.

What sort of action?

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2 minutes ago, topt said:

Can you tel me how Thailand actually measures that rate anyway

I can only guess they survey so many households, and ask if anyone eligible for work is actually looking for work. As you say there is no unemployment register, because there is no unemployment benefit, or government programme to place people in work. That it is a based on a survey raises a whole heap of other questions, who and how many they actually survey, and what question they ask, being the most significant.

21 minutes ago, Huckenfell said:

Does anybody know what Nationality the guilty persons were from.

The accused were local Thais, but as they were acquitted they're not guilty.

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3 minutes ago, topt said:

Everything else I read suggests that economically many Thais (lower income) are struggling and talking to a few small business owners recently they are definitely not happy.

Actually this is a purely statistics based ranking, it doesn't take into account what the population thinks at all.

(Inflation + Bank Lending Rate + Unemployment) - % Change in GDP = Happiness/Misery 

Unemployment is low because most Thais are working hard to pay off the local loan shark, whose lending rate is significantly different to the bank one.

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On 10/5/2019 at 1:49 PM, michael888 said:

Will the case of the five men be re opened now?

On 10/5/2019 at 2:26 PM, Tchooptip said:

 "despite the lack of sufficient evidence to convict any of them" 

The judge believed there was not enough evidence but at last three of them were condemned to the death penalty.
One can understand that the judge was upset and more could feel guilty for not having had the courage or the strength to refuse such an injustice.  
 

He didn't change his verdict but acquitted the five defendants. There's a full report in the newspaper we dare not mention.

On 10/5/2019 at 4:18 PM, Donaldo said:

He should have followed his conscience and handed out the appropriate verdict. If that wasn't the one he was expected to give he would be dead soon enough. No need for him to lay hand himself. 

He did follow his conscience.

On 10/5/2019 at 5:23 PM, kidneyw said:

Strange that "not guilty" verdicts were ordered to be changed to guilty verdicts. It is usually the other way around here. I guess someone has a major grudge against the defendants.

These were five local Muslims accused of murder, illegal association and gun-related offences. This is Yala, southern Thailand.

On 10/6/2019 at 9:53 AM, VocalNeal said:

Which would have meant that the case would be still open and the police would have to start looking for the right criminals.

As the five were acquitted then the case is still open.

Went to the พระนคร (Pra Nakorn) (7.0052415, 100.4846478) last night and it's closed, looked terminal rather than temporary. No doubt another music bar will be trying it's luck shortly.

The Good Times (7.004693, 100.479537) has also closed, that was a few months back.

We ended up in Eighteen Nineteen (6.998708, 100.484454), which is still going strong, though the music wasn't so good last night.

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6 hours ago, webfact said:

species in trouble

We're all in trouble

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Bingo!

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45 minutes ago, JamJar said:

AMLO

OK, so it's a consequence of the stoopid anti-money laundering legislation, not exactly Lazada's fault. 

Is it not possible to activate the wallet using a wife or friends Thai ID!?  

It's only the COD option that refunds to Lazada Wallet - credit card payments refunded to your credit card.

I doubt this is designed to be a scam, it's no doubt just one of those oversights when people think these things up.

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