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Feb 2007 |
Mobile
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Dec 2006 |
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| Dec 2005 | Emergency
Numbers See BahtBus for a more complete list of useful numbers
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| Dec 2005 | Hospitals See BahtBus for a more complete list of useful numbers
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| Oct 2006 | Tourist Information
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| Dec 2006 | Embassies
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| June 2006 | Thai Immigration
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| July 2005 | Airlines See BahtBus for a more complete list of useful numbers
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Thai Life |
Marriage: Murderous Wives Bar girl and the expat: a killing foretold |
| Health: Cancerous Joss Sticks Beware of health hazard in Thai temples (3rd August) | |
| Working: Working it Out Work Permit changes being implemented | |
| Banking: Siam Commercial Atm Milking Even Thai banks have started treating farangs like a walking ATM (15th July) | |
| Banking: Would you Credit it? Rules for farangs to get Thai credit cards (3rd July) | |
| Driving: Don't Text and Drive Mobile phone use whilst driving now illegal (8th May) | |
| Marriage: Farangs seek the warmth of large Thai Families: Bollox conclusion from survey (27th April) | |
| Crime: With so many Britons murdered in Thailand Why does our Government not warn of the dangers? (13th Jan) | |
| Travel: Airlines on Thai Time Compensation now due for severely delayed or cancelled flights (6th Jan) | |
| Visas: Retirement Requirement More proof of income required for visa extension (30th Dec) | |
| TV: Truely Bollox Work permit required to subscribe to True telephone, TV or internet (18th Nov) | |
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Background:
Thai National Anthem An illuminating translation (Aug 2007) |
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Diary |
Diary: Public Holidays |
| Diary: Sex Drugs and Nanny-State Politics Dry election days in Thailand's bars (11th Aug) | |
| Diary: A Return to Civility Enjoying Songkran (19th April) | |
| Diary: Civility or Civil War Celebrating Songkran (8th April) |
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Scams |
Maid Made off with the Valuables Maid drugged the food and stole the valuables (25th Aug) |
| Barcode Reader Failure Check the prices in a convenience store (18th Aug) | |
| Hanging the Pumps Beware when you fill up your car (29th June) | |
| Beach Road Surveys Fronting for timeshare salesmen (18th Jan) | |
| Jet Ski Scam Money extorted for trivial or non-existent damage (23rd Dec) | |
| Distractions and Pickpockets on Baht Buses (10th Oct) | |
| Fake ATM Keypads False plates covering keypad and card slot allow card cloning (21st Sep) | |
| Credit Card Rip Off Don't sign credit card bills showing farang currency (May 2007) | |
| Data Loss Surreptitious copy made of hard drive of PC in for repair (Dec 2006) | |
| Memory Loss after computer repair (Nov 2006) | |
| Good Gold for Bad Just hold on to my fake gold whilst I hold onto your good gold (Sep 2006) | |
| Bars Facing the Music Fake licensing police (Aug 2006) | |
| Hands Off Beware of outstretched hands, they may well be pickpockets (Aug 2006) | |
| The Suite Smell of Scam 'Only suites' available in half empty hotels (July 2006) | |
| Street Urchins: Flower Sellers and Pickpockets (June 2006) | |
| The Thai Wife Scam but hopefully rarely as extreme as this case (May 2006) | |
| Motor Cycle Rentals and the 'stolen' bike (April 2006) | |
| Beer Bar Hawkers & Pick Pockets (April 2006) | |
| Keyboard Loggers at Internet Cafes Beware your bank login may be recorded (March 2006) | |
| A McShortChange & Fries Please Check your change (Feb 2006) | |
| Lost in the Post Before it Leaves the Post Office Beware of deferred stamps (Dec 2005) | |
| Beauty Sleep Kiss a ladyboy and wake up robbed (Nov 2005) | |
| Hand Wash Towels Given Freely are not Always Free (Nov 2005) | |
| Tooth Whitening Turns Victim Red in The Beauty House, 2nd Road (July 2005) | |
| Mobile Registration Fees Registering a Pay as You Go SIM is free (July 2005) | |
| Patpong Upstairs Bar Scams Beware of outrageous charges (June 2005) | |
| Kenda Rubber Scam Don't let your relatives get screwed (March 2005) | |
| Beware of the Thai Gem Scam (March 2005) |
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Speak Thai |
A Thai Primer an introduction to speaking Thai (10th August 2007) |
| Months in Thai (15th May 2007) | |
| Not Enough Hours in the Day to Learn Thai (July 2006) | |
| Learn Online Suggested websites (March 2006) | |
| Sex & Slanging A few useful words and phrases (Jan 2006) | |
| Learn to Speak Thai in 1 Easy Lesson...and then ten years of summer school (Oct 2005) | |
| Use of the Word Farang ie Westerner (July 2005) |
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Pattaya Information |
Pattaya Phone Book Emergency Numbers & Hospitals (Dec 2005) |
| Farang Radio PCNFM 105 radio station specifically for farangs (Aug 2007) | |
| Pattaya Transport (Jan 2007) | |
| On Google Earth jj's Pattaya place markers (Sep 2006) | |
| Pattaya Movies and Times Select Pattaya for cinemas at Big C & Royal Garden Plaza | |
| Pattaya Sophon Cable TV Listings |
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Pattaya Articles |
Good guys go to heaven, bad journalists go to Pattaya (Dec 2007) |
| An Irish View Seedy Sex Resort Home to Hundreds of Irish (Dec 2006) | |
| The People's Paradise Tabloid town with broadsheet aspiration (August 2005) | |
| Costa del Pattaya British criminals said to settle in Pattaya (April 2005) |
