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"Climate Change" is causing the LA fires...or is it?
Have you fact checked the story, if that picture is real, it looks like a miracle to me -
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Phuket Struggles with Escalating Waste Woes: A Call for Action
"Immediate action and sustainable planning are indispensable " Immediate action needed to change the culture in Thailand. If we observe the speed that the Thai culture is changing its behavior on the roads, might take some time, if ever. Mainly because Thai people simply do not care about these things... Garbage is thrown everywhere, land is space where to throw plastic drink containers, papers, plastic bags and so on. "Is culture difficult to change? Culture is resilient. Finally, for precisely the reasons cultures can be so powerful, they are difficult to change. Implication: Changing a culture takes committed leadership, often requiring years of concerted and consistent effort, including intensive work to communicate and reinforce desired new behaviors and values". Based on this, what would be an estimation of time required to achieve any result.... -
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Chaos on Pattaya Beach: Drunk tourists fuel brawls in hotspot
Let's be honest. This is something that has been going on ever since the "sleepy fishing village" turned into "Disneyland for adults" back in the 70s. The difference is - social media. The same stuff was happening before (not so much ladyboy stuff on Beach Road but all the rest) except most of it didn't make the news and there was no social media (or smartphones with cameras) so a lot of what went on rarely got reported. And it is not endemic to Pattaya. This exact same kind of behaviour (not so much ladyboy stuff but all the rest) happens literally anywhere you have booze and a lot of single men "on the prowl". Bar fights and street brawls are a fairly routine occurrence in most big cities but they usually don't warrant media coverage unless there's serious injuries or property damage. It's like traffic accidents. They are so common they rarely get mention - unless it's something "bloody" enough to make the news. Sheesh, I remember bars in cities that had/have military bases close by. Friday night (or more correctly, early Saturday morning) brawls happened every couple of weeks in some places. Rarely ever made the news unless there were a number arrests or some serious damage done. Same problem. Lots of booze and lots of (usually) single guys. I came up with a phrase to describe the mindset of most of those guys. When it got to be after midnight or close to last call, they would get the "F*** or Fight" attitude. If they weren't going to get laid, they were going to fight. And often didn't need any excuse for it. And it's not the "quantity" that's the problem. Plenty of Chinese tourists here and how often are they in the news for drunken brawls on Beach Road at 3-4am ? And the Indian tourists are usually only in the news when they get into a scrap with some ladyboys - or get pickpocketed by some ladyboys - or take a ladyboy back to their hotel and wake up the next morning to find all their stuff has been stolen. It's the "quality" tourists from "Western" (i.e. mainly Caucasian) countries that are usually the ones making the headlines for the wrong reasons. Russians, Australians, "UK" and Americans (not so much the nicer, more polite Canadians and New Zealanders it seems). The ONLY way Pattaya can "restore it's image" would be to shut down 98% of the beer bars, go-go bars and nightclubs in the city and restrict the rest to Walking Street. Making Walking Street like the Red Light District in Amsterdam or the Reeperbahn in Hamburg where all the "naughty" nightlife is contained in one small area. (Many other cities in Germany have a small area where ladies of ill-repute can be found. Often it's a small street that is blocked off to vehicle traffic and has large signs on each end to block the view of the street to vehicle traffic and most pedestrians.) That would cause a massive drop in the "demographics" most likely to be troublemakers (single men) and increase the "more preferred" demographics (i.e. families). Yes, there would still be the occasional problems but a huge reduction in the main causes of those problems would result in a huge decline in the number of those problems. (And possibly create other problems as all those bargirls, bouncers, taxiboys and ladyboys would have to do something to earn a living - or go back to working hunched over in the rice fields for the rest of their lives.) But there is too much money in the sex and alcohol business - and too many people willing to look the other way so long as the envelopes keep coming. Which is why the "entertainment" areas in Pattaya have expanded well beyond Walking Street and continue to expand. And why these problems won't be going away anytime soon. -
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Thai tax tangle: Expats warned of new rules on overseas income
That may have been true a few years ago but I think you'd be lucky to find one who'd charge less than £500 now - and that would not be in London. -
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Thai tax tangle: Expats warned of new rules on overseas income
Sure but you've got to consider lost in translation both in language and reporting. -
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