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From The Thaiger Viagra is facing stiff competition from the markets in Bangkok. Police last night arrested eight foreigners and five Thais for allegedly selling fake viagra and sex toys during a search of 17 locations along Bangkok’s Sukhumvit strip. Immigration Bureau chief Lt Gen Surachate Hakparn says the operation took place late last night and into this morning. Crime suppression police and tourist police searched 17 tourist locations on Sukhumvit Road along with Kevin Harrington, a representative of Pfizer, the makers of the erectile dysfunction drug ‘Viagra’. Harrington says that the fake Viagra was potentially dangerous as it …

From The Diplomat The shrinking Tonle Sap, the river’s “beating heart,” is the latest wake-up call of the damage wrought by dams. By Tom Fawthrop The miracle of the Mekong, where the pulsating force of the monsoon-driven river every year pushes its tributary to back up and reverse its flow into the great Tonle Sap lake in Cambodia, has again been disrupted and obstructed by dams, drought, and climate change. “This is a terrible disaster for the whole Mekong region,” Thai academic Chainarong Setthachua declared. He told The Diplomat, “If we lose the Tonle Sap we lose the heart of the biggest inland fisheries in the world.”…

Thai authorities estimate that there are about 150,000 people in the country who, for various reasons, have overstayed their visas. Saturday is the deadline for requesting extensions buy many are not expected to be able to complete the process. From the Thai Examiner Particular problems associated with long-stay Non-Immigrant B visa holders under the present extraordinary conditions are being identified as the closure of the kingdom’s borders has prevented expats from earning income and regularly travelling outside the kingdom while business owners with the visa in Thailand have seen their personal circumstances diminished to such an extent that many cannot comp…

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From Bangkok Post The Satellite Terminal 1 (SAT-1) extension to Suvarnabhumi Airport is now more than 95 per cent complete while its transport link with the existing terminal should be ready by April next year, said Airports of Thailand (AOT) president Nitinai Sirismatthakarn on Monday. SAT-1 will service 28 parking bays and relieve overcrowding by boosting Suvarnabhumi’s capacity by about 15 million passengers per year. “The building [structure] itself is now 100 per cent complete, with only some interior design and landscape work now being finalised,” he said. “AOT is also working on the APM [Automated People Mover] system, whose installation in the…

From Channel News Asia Bangkok's canal communities fear they are living on borrowed time BANGKOK: Bang Prathun is like a miniature water world. A spiderweb of canals splays out through a rare green landscape of coconut and fruit trees, alongside paths that connect an enduring community. This place dates back to the late Ayutthaya period, or more than 200 years. Its people have lived around the water for generations and their fortunes have ebbed on the tides of the meandering Chao Phraya. Wisdom has been inherited from the generations past; how water moves, how it drains and how it sustains. Now, as modernity creeps closer all around this patch of …

Traffic accidents in the Kingdom are an occasional topic of discussion of the board but this one is particularly disturbing. From Bangkok Post Rescue workers try to retrieve injured and dead victims from a double-decker tour bus that overturned after ramming into a trailer truck in Muang district of Nakhon Ratchasima early Saturday. (Photo: Prasit Tangprasert) NAKHON RATCHASIMA: Seven people were killed and 40 others injured when a double-decker bus carrying health volunteers on a study trip to Pattaya rammed into a trailer lorry loaded with cassava roots at an intersection in Muang district early on Saturday. The fatal crash happened at the Chai…

From Bloomberg News Universal coronavirus tests for departing passengers offer the only realistic hope of reviving demand for flights in the absence of a vaccine, the International Air Transport Association said. The 100% adoption of rapid antigen tests, which should be available next month, would remove any need for quarantines that are currently “killing” the market, IATA chief Alexandre de Juniac said on a media call Tuesday. While the call for testing isn’t new, the outlook has turned increasingly grim for airlines taking stock of a disappointing summer with rising infection rates and restrictions dashing hopes for a recovery. Just this week in Europe, …

I would benefit from these sections a lot more if the ubiquitous photo posters would collapse their huge volume of topic headings into broader headings. I don’t need to see a theme for every photo subset. Besides which the message board was not intended to disproportionately cater to photos that can be found in a multitude of other locations. Much of the space in the two sections is utilized by a very small number of frequent posters of pics, displacing/pushing out the clues that other topics are updated.

From Khaosod English BANGKOK (Xinhua) — Thailand planned to provide the so-called wellness quarantine for foreign visitors under the anti-pandemic measures at hotels alongside massage and spa parlors, confirmed a senior government official on Tuesday. Health Service Support Department Director General Tares Krassanairawiwong said foreign tourists will be provided the 14-day wellness quarantine at the hotels where they will stay and concurrently visit massage and spa parlors in their neighborhood. Nevertheless, all foreigners visiting the massage and spa parlors will be strictly separated from Thai customers under social distancing and anti-pandemic measures…

The Thai Enquirer today begins a series of articles looking back at the little appreciated Free Thai resistance movement during the period of occupation during the Second World War. In this installment, it discusses the roles of the United Kingdom and the United States. From The Thai Enquirer An Oral History of the Seri Thai – Part One By Pear Maneechote And Jasmine Chia There are a few watershed events in Thai history that should be celebrated, honored, and remembered. This is definitely one of them. During World War II, Thai Prime Minister Plaek Phibunsongkram famously allied Thailand with the Japanese and the Axis Powers and declared war ag…

Just finished reading Namazu's reports from Brazil that he posts on Boy Toy. Absolutely sizzling accounts of sauna happenings. Guaranteed to take your mind off what we miss most. https://www.boytoy.com/forums/topic/32503-the-reopening-of-brazil-to-foreigners-some-observations/

She will be missed. I am sure the Republicans will the respectable thing and wait until the election is over like they did for Obama's last appointee. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/18/politics/ruth-bader-ginsburg-dead/index.html

From Bangkok Post Risk plan can handle any new infections Thailand will have to tolerate the possibility of new coronavirus cases when it reopens its borders to international tourists, but the country can minimise the impact and avoid a bruising level of unemployment with risk management, says the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT). After the country reported its first local transmission in 100 days last week, the TAT downgraded its 2020 estimates to 70 million domestic trips from 80 million, contributing 418 billion baht in revenue, a decrease of 61% from 2019. International arrivals remain unchanged at 6.7 million, the same forecast before the borde…

"4am on 19 September, Thailand will be added to the list of countries where self-isolation on return to the UK is not required." A small step but welcome nonetheless.

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She will be missed. I am sure the Republicans will the respectable thing and wait until the election is over like they did for Obama's last appointee. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/18/politics/ruth-bader-ginsburg-dead/index.html

Hi, I was just wondering if there are any cool clubs around to go hanging out at? John

For those considering air travel, and long haul routes in particular, the following study answers many questions about potential for contagion, mask efficacy and related issues. From Harvard School of Public Health PDF can be accessed at the following link: https://cdn1.sph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2443/2020/09/Face-Mask-Use-in-Air-Travel.pdf

What in God’s name is all fucked up with this new Inversion rev?

From Bangkok Post The Ministry of Transport will remove tollway booths and remodel billing systems to incorporate vehicle recognition next year. Transport Minister Saksayam Chidchob on Tuesday told reporters that the ministry's vehicle registration database will be shared with the Department of Land Transport, Department of Highways and Expressway Authority of Thailand under a memorandum of understanding to track vehicles using tollways and expressways when barriers and toll booths are taken away next year. He said a toll system without barriers and toll booths is being developed. According to the new system, called M-Flow, licence plate detectors will…

Bangkok Post 15 September: The cabinet on Tuesday agreed to allow in foreign tourists who agree to 14-day quarantine and stay for at least 90 days, to help the flagging economy. Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said after the cabinet meeting that the government would issue special tourist visas for long-stay visitors. The most important condition would be a 14-day quarantine. "Visitors can arrive for tourism or health services, and they can stay at alternative state quarantine facilities, specific areas or at hospitals that function as quarantine facilities," he said. "Our public health system is amongst the best in the world and people can have…