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CAUTION. Subject to change on a whim. 🙂 From the Thaiger The government announced plans to introduce its long-mooted 300 baht tourist fee for foreign visitors in June. The tourism fee was originally planned to be imposed on foreign travellers at the beginning of last year but the idea was put on hold after the spread of the Covid-19 Omicron variant and details of how the government planned to collect the money.

From Reuters BANGKOK, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Thai officials found assets belonging to adult children of Myanmar's junta leader during a raid on the Bangkok apartment of a Myanmar tycoon charged with drug trafficking and money laundering, according to an official record and two people with knowledge of the case.Title deeds and bankbooks belonging to Min Aung Hlaing’s daughter and son were found at the home of Tun Min Latt, 53, when he was arrested in the Thai capital last September along with three Thai nationals on charges of conspiracy to traffic narcotics and money laundering. Tun Min Latt, who has interests in hotels, energy and mining, is a close associate of …

From The Nation An Austrian man fell to his death from the fourth floor of his hotel room in Bangkok’s Khlong Toei district on Tuesday night (January 10). The deceased, identified as Mario Fruhwirt, 49, an Austrian national, suffered fatal injuries to his head after he fell from his room on to the hotel’s awning and landed on the ground, Lumpini Police Station officials said. Police found several empty cans of beer and a broken glass window panel in his room on the top floor of the four-storey hotel. Investigators speculated that the deceased might have been drunk and jumped through the window, breaking the panel. A hotel staffer said Fruhwirt ha…

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From the BBC By Jonathan Head South East Asia correspondent Kwanmueang and his mahout Lek have returned to their home town as the tourism industry changes As he ambles in for his annual health check, Kwanmueang's size takes your breath away. Nearly three metres high at the shoulder, weighing at least four tonnes, and with spectacular tusks that curve together until they almost touch, the 18-year-old Thai bull elephant is an imposing sight. Yet he and his keeper, or mahout, Sorns…

there is one "thing" that is so incredibly beautiful in most Thai guys well there are more such "things" but i am talking here about a specific one cut or uncut, it doesnt matter from Isaan or from the South, it doesnt matter it is so strong and dark and comes in many different shapes without hesitation i would exchange mine for theirs because I envy them a lot for it it has 4 letters (oh no!) What am I talking about?

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If ever there was a case for Xi Jin-ping to reverse his massively misguided covid prevention measures it is surely now. After suddenly withdrawing the lockdown restrictions without any advance warning, many news outlets are reporting Chinese officials as saying that covid cases in the country will mushroom to as many as 250 million by the end of this month. Zhejiang Province around Shanghai reported one million new cases since the new policy was adopted and expects this to double quickly. Now the government has significantly loosened restrictions for in bound tourism and is considering permitting Chinese citizens to travel out of the country again. With these levels …

From Thai PBS World At least 50 Thai gamblers and employees of a Cambodian casino in the Poipet border town were reported to be trapped inside after the casino caught fire late Wednesday night. A number of people, mostly Thais, were injured and were taken to the Thai border town of Aranyaprathet, Sa Kaeo Province, for treatment. It is not known whether or how many people have died in the fire, as some witnesses claim that they saw some people jumping from the 5th floor of the building, which is located at about 20 metres from the border. About 50 people were seen on the roof. Five fire trucks and about 10 rescue vehicles and ambulances rushed to the scene t…

Firstly, I do not mean for this post to start a discussion of organised religion per se. Inevitably perhaps some will regard it as so and I can do nothing about that. Secondly I am basically not a religious person. I became very anti-organised religion when as a child I was sometimes dragged to church and for years had to play the hymns at a weekly meeting for young people called Bible Service. I do know quite a number who do believe in religion and I fully respect their views, as I trust they respect mine. It appears from the news media that the previous Pope, the former Cardinal Ratzinger, is on the point of death. His successor, Pope Benedict has asked for pr…

When logging in to this website today via Firefox, it didnt like it. Got a message from Firefox saying the security cert was out of date, and I had to agree to proceed to the site at my own risk...

What are you going to do NYE? Anyone doing anything "gay"? I know here in Sydney they are running a gay cruise in Sydney Harbour with plenty of cabins available for casual sex whilst watching the fireworks. Anyone in Asia at the moment planning on a big night ? What about the jomtien complex and Bangkok any big events happening? What about you yourself personally what have you got planned for NYE ? Who is just staying home to chill?😃

What are you going to do NYE? Anyone doing anything "gay"? I know here in Sydney they are running a gay cruise in Sydney Harbour with plenty of cabins available for casual sex whilst watching the fireworks. Anyone in Asia at the moment planning on a big night ? What about the jomtien complex and Bangkok any big events happening? What about you yourself personally what have you got planned for NYE? I have a friend currently in Germany he says it's going to be big night there . Who is just staying home to chill?😃

As 2023 comes in let's do some visualisation and I'm not particularly talking about goals of going travelling etc ,I'm talking more about goals to improve yourself and live life more or fullest in fun😃,sex,health ,self improvement As we get older we have less time and now, time is ticking , The other day in Sydney I saw singer Leo Sayer he used to live near me in Sydney but moved down south of SydneyHe is 74 ! And still going. !! Working any shows he can get including singing in the Sydney street parade last week,then that night singing st carols by candlelight then the next day singing at Star City casino he told me just finished back to back concert…

Unfortunately I work for a very large Government department which is taking all this political correctness to the maximum Recently I sent an email to my HR department to ask about a pay disrespency " Dear Sir or Madam " I started off the email Only to get a email back with the some policy of the Department now being non gender and we shouldn't presume someone is either a male or female etc etc Apparently the HR department person reading my email was traumatised after reading it and had to take leave for counselling !! This HR guy rang me he sounded like a feminine gay his voice ,"Shana had to take leave over Xmas she was a bit traumatic at your open…

Just had a friend 67yo here in Australia this morning tell me this morning he had some problems on this meeting apps Tinder . Apparently he was conversing with what he thought was a 17yo guy , and the person had asked him to send naked pics(which he didn't and lucky ) but what he thought was the 17yo turned out to be a overseas American church group apparently looking for pedophiles . Now it seems they realised the age of consent in Australia is 16yo and got angry ( according to him ) and somehow sent him links of the church hunting group and told him to keep off the apps they are going to police etc etc which didn't happen So I heard this also going in i…

From CNN The 91-story skyscraper, also known as 111 West 57th Street, contains 46 full-floor and duplex residences. Photos released this month by the designers show opulent lobbies decked out in limestone, marble, blackened steel and velvet, floors paved in smoke-gray solid oak and original artworks by Picasso and Matisse. According to Studio Sofield, Steinway Tower's interiors were designed to evoke the grandeur of New York's Gilded Age, a period in the late 19th century when the city's boulevards were lined with the stately mansions of robber barons like Andrew Carnegie and Cornelius Vanderbilt. It sits on a Midtown street, filled with gleaming towers, t…

From Thai PBS World Director-General of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, Rutchada Suriyakul Na Ayutya, was arrested today (Tuesday) on corruption charges. Armed with a search warrant, officials from the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) and police from the Anti-Corruption Division (ACD) raided Rutchada’s office at 9.30am this morning and formally notified him of the charges. The search of his office uncovered 5 million baht in cash. He has denied all the charges. Rutchada was later taken to the ACD office for questioning. The arrest was the result of an investigation following a complaint received by the ACD f…

The telescope, that is. I am rarely surprised but I am staggered at seeing the images from the James Webb telescope launched a year and a day ago. It's not merely the images themselves, but the fact that they capture events taken so many light years back in time and my mind finds that almost impossible to comprehend. Images: Nasa/Esa/CSA/STScI via the BBC website

Saw a custom Thai script license plate watching You Tube (Steve Lehto channel) Apparently they are easily printed for you and some may be embossed. Available from many sources- search. https://www.ebay.com/itm/304744889547

I've been looking for a feel good story for the holidays and this story from a Thai wildlife sanctuary fits the bill. The embedded video speaks volumes. From Coconuts Bangkok Photo: National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department A baby elephant is regaining its strength this morning at a sanctuary in central Thailand days after it was found alone and injured. Wildlife officials said veterinarians have looked after the female calf they named Thanwa, or December, around the clock since she was transported to the Bungchawak Wildlife Management Development Center with an injured foot. Thanwa was also dehydrated, and her kidneys were faili…

For the past six weeks, the local and international media have been carrying accounts of raids on multiple locations in the Bangkok and Pattaya area where Chinese triad gangsters were operating upscale gambling and drug dens catering almost exclusively to wealthy Chinese. Here's an excerpt from an article in today's South China Morning Post (the remainder of story sits behind a paywall). Some of it reads like something out of John Burdett's Bangkok 8. "A seized private jet, supercars, drugs and palatial mansions: the spoils of crime committed by suspected Chinese gangsters based in Thailand are raising awkward questions over how foreign crimi…

From The Nation Seven Thai nationals managed to break out of the clutches of a Chinese call-centre gang in the Cambodian border town of Krong Bavet on Tuesday. The victims said they were allowed out of their detention facility at 5am after their Chinese bosses learned that they had sought help via Facebook. The victims then took a tuk-tuk to the Thai Embassy in Phnom Penh to seek help to return home. On a Facebook Live clip posted at 1am, a woman can be seen asking for help, saying they were being held against their will by security guards and electric fencing. She said she and other victims had been forced to work for more…

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