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Seriously, You Can Eat That?

Orlando Barton

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A few years ago, my sister came to visit me in Thailand. One morning I awoke and found her already up several hours due to jet lag. On the kitchen counter I saw the remnants of a violent struggle with an exotic tropical fruit. She had seen a pomelo in my fridge and thought it was a grapefruit. For those that don’t know, a pomelo is bigger than most grapefruit and has a really thick skin with lots of pith. For the inexperienced it can be a challenge to get to the good stuff.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/933830-seriously-you-can-eat-that/

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Street Food Vendors Kicked Off Beach Road and Warned to Stay Away

Story by Albert Jack

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PATTAYA:-- Head of the Legal Department, Sretapol Boonsawat, personally led a team who ordered motorbike kitchen operators, cart pushers and other hawkers to pack up and leave the area. They were told they had been found to be encroaching on public property by setting up shop on sidewalks and streets.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/933925-street-food-vendors-kicked-off-beach-road-and-warned-to-stay-away/

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Immigration ban leaves Phuket expat knife attack victim in exile

The Phuket News

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The ‘Good Guys In, Bad Guys Out’ campaign received much support, even from expats, but John Young of Karon has been caught in the crossfire, leaving him in exile and his children cared for by friends.

PHUKET: A Phuket expat is hoping the Immigration Bureau later this month will lift his ban on re-entering Thailand instituted after an incident in which he was attacked by a woman with a knife, while the ban has left his children to be cared for by friends for over a year and a half.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/933927-immigration-ban-leaves-phuket-expat-knife-attack-victim-in-exile/

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New beggar law to provide better protection for underprivileged, improve country’s image

Tanakorn Sangiam

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BANGKOK, 24 July 2016 (NNT) – The Department of Social Development and Welfare (DSDW) is set to gear up the regulation of beggars, adding that the new Beggars Regulation Act effective 28 August 2016 onwards will provide better help to the underprivileged and improve the country’s image.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/933930-new-beggar-law-to-provide-better-protection-for-underprivileged-improve-countrys-image/

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