Everything posted by NativeBob
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Russian foreign minister arrives in Phuket
Opening full scale consulate, not honorary section. While flying from Jakarta. Makes perfect sense. Also to meet with group of Russian diaspora / community to discuss forms of support and cooperation with MFA. What's so sinister about routine visit?
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Recent visit by immigration. No prior calling and didn't have to sign anything
my 50cents: and should match location and description according your WP. Teacher from (lets say) BBS at Huay Kwang forbidden to teach (say) at Samut Prakan, sysadmin from the same place can't touch anything IT at Pattaya and so on. Not even teach IT at the same place. Very strict and impossible to argue about.
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US$2.8Bn worth of Thai durian exported to China in four months
even at $5/kg (which is way too high for export) it is still 5 million tones. Sure-sure ) Why not say $25.8 trillions? It doesn't matter as long as it is under FTA.
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Russian man dies after jump from pagoda at Chalong Temple
He didn't climb on top. There's pass to get to that "patio", nothing special. Nope, he didn't jump. He was assisted by "rescue" workers who had no any "rescue" background. For 4 hours he didn't jump, but when "rescue team" approached... Nope, his "friends" did not say that. It was local official woman who said that "his friends blah blah .... high". So the whole story is just a bunch of rumors and insinuations. PS: don't really care, just an example of modern journalism.
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Keeping Computer Switched On.
I've heard there are interesting people with so called "Black Box" that download almost everything of particular genre non-stop. I mean like massive download. that decided what to watch, what to keep and what to delete.
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Thai Senior Immigration Officer Vows to Purge the Country of All Overstayers Within Three Months
I've been checked only once and that was some "under cover policeman" with fake ID he flipped shortly in front of me. I think it was some 2005-ish? some areas of Bangkok were/are raided regularly, indeed. But even that areas police never insisted on original passport. I've seen apartments with those copies attached to the doors - so police won't bother banging, talking etc. I think the good solution from carrying original document is color copy and hires scan on you phone. black and white is so out of fashion nowadays.
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Chatuchak opportunities
Just quick question reg. non-thai sellers at JJ: At the pet section there are bunch of shops run by some ugly Middle Asian men. For decades! Are they khun thai? I don't think so! However running small biz at JJ can be quite profitable for some, but there's a lot of "politics" to take care. My friend used to sell singing birds there
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Transgender woman is crowned Miss Netherlands for the first time in the beauty pageant's history and will now compete for the Miss Universe crown
According to Amy Chua's book "Day of Empire" the dutch used to be an Empire. Well, in her means they concurred quite a lot. I wonder how to take this story than? As a farce or as a rebirth of influential world power?
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Stream of despair: US livestreamer threatens to kill himself if jailed in Thailand for distributing obscene content
Kinda freaky dude. However he will be popular in jail for sure by the name Paulina or Polly shortly.
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Dengue fever on the rise
Nasty fever. Had it twice over 5 years. No antibodies were developed, funny huh? Amazing how taste changes: regular water tasted like sewage, beer was the worst. Insomnia etc. Nasty.
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Why you should never leave a negative hotel review in Thailand
Always leave review. If it's good place I'm happy to share it. If it is not - they should not even open it. Don't care: hotel, service center or hospital. If they can't handle reviews then pull their shop from google maps.