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Phuket duo swipes 600 euros from Belgian with a fake hug
I always get kick out of “The Point “ in these photos. -
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Woman Dies After Being Set on Fire in New York Subway
Unfortunately your argument that he "has to go through that" falls over quite quickly when compared to a man who stabbed someone on a subway in "self defence" and killed him. No charges and no trial by jury. Perhaps you can shed some light into why this person did not have to go through what you believe Daniel Penny definitely did have to go through. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/charges-dropped-jordan-williams-nyc-man-accused-fatal-subway-stabbing-rcna91780 -
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Thai PM Pressured to Dissolve House Over Skyrocketing Power Costs
Whilst this is true, power gets more expensive the more you use, the actual base tariff hasn't changed since January 10, 2024. The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) of Thailand set new electricity charges, ranging from 4.68 baht to 5.95 baht/unit from January until April 2024. However, the government later intervened and reduced the rate to 4.18 baht per kWh for households consuming less than 300 kWh per month. The Fuel Tariff (Ft) has also remained constant during the same period, meaning that if you use the same amount of energy your bill will be the same as it was in February this year. Nothing has rocketed, sky or otherwise. Bills have of course increased over the summer, because people are using more energy for aircon during the hot weather. -
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Day-to-day life in Myanmar
I just got back to my hotel in Mandalay, after 3 days visiting/donating at orhanages and a 6-hour car journey back over the bumpy mountain road. As usual, there were many checkpoints, including a major checkpoint where all vehicles are x-rayed for hidden weapons or drugs. The x-ray machine is a customised mobile unit, with an extendible gantry that goes right over the road and zaps the vehicle moving slowly underneath. (God knows how many bechtels of radiation the car driver gets...). Interestingly, that mobile x-ray vehicle was a modern-looking Ford... Here we came unstuck. Seeing a foreigner in the car, the police officers sent me and my Burmese translator over to speak to the chief police officer. That man had us stand in front of him while he harangued my translator non-stop for at least 20 minutes! My translator kept saying 'sorry' in Burmese and 'ok' to everything that the officer was saying. We were finally saved by 2 rotund Burmese women, who waddled over to pay their bribe money to this officer. These 2 were dripping in gold jewelry and they winked at me :). After they waited for some minutes while the officer shouted at my translator, one of the women physically dug her fingers into the man's ribs and said effectively "Oh, give it a bleedin rest!" in Burmese, at which point the officer let us proceed. My translator later told me that the officer was annoyed at him for bringing a foreigner into this dangerous place. 'What would happen if he gets injured?'. (Well, the chances of ME getting injured are next to nothing, whilst the chances of that officer being on the receiving end of an RPG are somewhat higher!!). I asked my translator later what will happen when the pdf fighters take over this region, (as they no doubt will at some stage). He said that the soldiers will either die in the fighting, or they will run away or surrender, since most of them are conscripts. As for the local police who are aiding the soldiers, they will just change sides... -
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Mall Apologizes After 2-Year-Old’s Electric Shock From Decorative Lights
Hey; this is Thailand, where getting an 'apology' from any Company ,Government Institution or other Organisation is a massive breakthrough in itself !! -
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Fatal Motorcycle Crash at Notorious Bend Sparks Local Superstition
You just have no idea, do you..... "a similar bend" you obviously have no understanding of traffic engineering. Of course it's easier for those with no idea to try and imply they are somehow "superior" by blaming others. So your bend is an accident blackspot too? -
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THAILAND LIVE Thailand Live Thursday 26 December 2024
Phuket duo swipes 600 euros from Belgian with a fake hug By Petch Petpailin Photo via Facebook/ Phuket Times ภูเก็ตไทม์ Police yesterday, December 25, arrested a Thai woman and a transwoman for pretending to greet a Belgian man with a hug and stealing 600 euros in cash (approximately 21,000 baht) from him in the Patong area of Phuket. Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1347219-phuket-duo-swipes-600-euros-from-belgian-with-a-fake-hug/ -
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Thaksin Predicts Pheu Thai Govt To Last Full Term Amid Challenges
Why they are unelected?
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