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    'Som tum' goes to the dogs, Tai on theft rap, cops nab Ken

    News, Mae Moo, Published on 29/12/2019

    » Som tum trader takes a hit

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    Power Outage Announcement

    By prnews, Created on: 26/04/2018, Last updated on: 26/04/2018

    » In order to maintain and upgrade the electricity distribution systems for which it is responsible safely and efficiently, The Metropolitan Electricity Authority has to temporarily cut electricity supply to certain areas at certain times, as follows: [b:27p2e8de]Thursday, 26 April 2018 Bangkok: Power...

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    Power Outage Announcement

    By prnews, Created on: 12/10/2017, Last updated on: 12/10/2017

    » [b:2kibscrm]Metropolitan Electricity Authority has the plan to maintain and improve the electricity distribution system. We have to temporarily cut off the power for security on operation process in the following areas:[/b:2kibscrm] [b:2kibscrm]Saturday, October 14, 2017 Bangkok : The power outage...

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    Floods: Losses to Thailand's economy?

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 04/11/2011

    » Ongoing threats with damage still preventable far greater than damage already done in this survey of flood economic impact by economists at TMB Bank.

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    State Railway of Thailand (SRT)

    By sulasno, Created on: 28/01/2009, Last updated on: 29/01/2009

    » SRT to offer e-tickets By: BangkokPost.com Published: 28/01/2009 at 02:53 PM People will be able to buy railway tickets online, starting Sunday, according to State Railway of Thailand (SRT) governor Yutthana Thapcharoen. He said the online ticketing system will initially be tested for 16 routes for...

    • Sean Moran commented : Having ridden the Honda from Nonthaburi down to Nakhon, and then Hat Yai, it seemed at the time to be possibly safer as well as cheaper than stopping for gallons more benzine all the way back up the peninsular. Not necessarily... I didn't expect to pay more for freighting the bike than I did for my own seat. After arriving at the station, the bike was weighed and freight priced. For myself the fare was 905 thb. For the bike, 916. Perhaps it was less risky catching a train from Hat Yai than riding a motorbike (arguably), but the Honda was more comfortable and far more friendly. It's a long train running all the way from Hat Yai : [img:1xw4v5z9]http://www.geocities.com/smoranean/img/gall/hatyaist02.jpg[/img:1xw4v5z9] [i:1xw4v5z9]Hat Yai Station looking towards Bangkok, September 14th, 2006.[/i:1xw4v5z9]

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    About Face.

    By Sean Moran, Created on: 14/10/2008, Last updated on: 13/04/2014

    » One olde axiom that comes to mind is, '[i:3b539sim]If you can't say something nice, then keep your mouth s.h.u.t.[/i:3b539sim]' Just a thread that pertains to one of the cultural differences one might notice in venturing from a typical 'westernised' society of the assertive kind to the shores of...

    • Sean Moran commented : on my way down to Rayong from Nonthaburi a couple of years back. The bike was fully loaded with rucksacks and stuff, so I wasn't gonna leave my bike on the side of the road to go to the cop shop to fight it. The tea-money cop even gave me back 100 baht change because I didn't have any small notes on me. That's corruption but it was done in such a decent way that it was almost worth the money, although not a good thing to have happen everyday on a tourist-visa teachers' salary. On the other hand, I remember the best traffic cop I ever encountered on the road back from Khorat to Nonthaburi. Somewhere in central Saraburi from memory. Hot day, mid-morning, bike loaded with rucksacks once again, and after confirming that I had the right papers and all, he handed me a fresh water bottle to get a well-needed drink. "Wow!" I thought, and gratefully took a swig and went to pass it back. "No no!" he said. "You." He wanted me to keep the whole bottle of water on the ride back. Another example of saving face, but his gift was intended to save mine, although the fact that I still remember that gesture three years later might add a bit to his too, in some karmic way or other? Perhaps one of the reasons I enjoy the corruption in Thailand is that I can see it straight out, clear as mud. Here in Australia it's done so cleverly that I often don't even know the joke until after the punch-line is over and the fat lady has sung, and it's never very harmonic.

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