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    IS Thailand Safe?

    By Wally, Created on: 08/11/2008, Last updated on: 07/12/2008

    » Thailand is relatively safe, many of the statistics you cite are largely Thai-Thai. All countries have areas best avoided, Thailand is no different, but for the most part I think it is quite safe. Mind you this will vary depending whether you are in Chiang Mai or Pattaya.

    • Sean Moran commented : [quote="rogera":1vt5whvb] Is Thailand Safe? For Whom? Not too safe for those children on the motercycle or you if you start waving your arms over your head close to electrical wires. If you run away from, instead of toward the sound of gunfire, you too might live as I do here in wonderful Thailand. Free of bulletholes. In fact, I have never had a gun fired at me, here. I have been visiting and living here for over 44 years without undue problems IF I keep my nose out of other peoples problems. When I first came here, the price of a killing was $100.. Now I think it has gone up to $5 or 600. Keep to your own affairs, live long and prosper.[/quote:1vt5whvb] Funny that, but when you wrote "...Safe For Whom? ", I first read it as "Safe FROM Whom?" If you're 6'4" and 350lbs and you're walking across a footbridge over the thanon to the skytrain and you see a friend down in the street below and you get excited and wave your arms up in the air and jump up to say hello and you accidentally put your fingernails through the insulation of a 440v 3-phase overhead cable and electrocute yourself and unconsciously tumble over the edge of the bridge and down towards the macadam, and there happens to be a young family of five who can't afford a car yet riding back from the market with a week's supply of shopping on the back of an old Yamaha stuck in traffic at the red light below and you fall on them, you could hurt the poor little kiddies, couldn't you? I'd have to agree that the ONLY place I feel unsafe in Thailand is riding on the bike into or out of Bangkok, and it's the one place in the World where I'd always take a taxi and leave the bike back up in Nonthaburi, except on those odd occasions when I'd have to ride through Bangkok on the way out of town, or back from the train station once. Funny thing is, I never get lost in a cab, and I never get lost on the bike north of Chaengwattana, east of Samut Prakan, or west of Ratchaburi, day or night, I never lose my sense of direction in a new soi, but every single time I've had to ride through the Big Mango on a bike, I've continued to do some kind of 360 act without fail, and think I've made it to Ratchaburi until I pass by the Victory Monument again, or think I must be just crossing the railway line on the way to Sattahip, and then do a lap of Chitralada Palace, and happens every single time I try to find my way through Bangkok on a bike in a hurry. Always have the Michelin mapbook and the Lonely Planet right there in the top rucksack, but no matter how easy those maps make it to find your way around the Chantaburi markets on an overcast day, it just don't work for me in Krungthep. It's safe, but it's not much fun at all when it takes me all day to ride from Pak Kret to Bang Kapi.

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    Rubber craze

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 11/02/2011

    » Skyrocketing rubber prices have triggered a rush to plant rubber trees.

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    Pesticide: Fruit exporters need approval now

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 04/07/2012

    » Pesticide methomyl poisonous to humans & animals but very small amounts in fruit imports allowed by Japan. Fruit export industry urgently needs it.

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    Luxury airline food for rich & famous

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 02/05/2013

    » Billionaire's wife suddenly craves rare food 15 minutes before her private jet leaves Bangkok? Time for luxury service at Bangkok's private jet terminal.

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    Another year to remember, or maybe forget

    News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 28/12/2014

    » Well, we've just about scraped through another 12 months, although at times things did look a bit on the shaky side. At least all the whistle-blowing has abated. Here are a few reminders of events and characters that graced the year 2014, although some you may prefer to forget.

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    Summer treats to beat the heat

    Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 17/04/2015

    » Songkran's over but the temperature is still smothering. Stay cool with Life's selection of Thai-owned, home-made novelty ice cream parlours.

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    Flying the flag

    Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 13/10/2015

    » Going vegetarian, the old style

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    12.12 ONLINE FEVER RETURNS TO THAILAND

    By prnews, Created on: 09/12/2015, Last updated on: 09/12/2015

    » [i:295etogs][size=150:295etogs]The region’s version of Cyber Monday aims to continue stimulating the growth of e-commerce[/size:295etogs][/i:295etogs] [attachment=0:295etogs]1212.jpg[/attachment:295etogs] [b:295etogs]Bangkok, Thailand, 18th November 2015;[/b:295etogs] ZALORA, Asia’s online fashion...

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    BLUE ELEPHANT COOKING SCHOOL & RESTAURANT PRESENTS ...

    By prnews, Created on: 05/02/2016, Last updated on: 05/02/2016

    » [b:r6y16b5r][size=150:r6y16b5r]A SPECIALLY DESIGNED CHINESE CUISINE TO CELEBRATE THE YEAR OF THE MONKEY[/size:r6y16b5r][/b:r6y16b5r] [b:r6y16b5r]- Sunday, 7 - 9 February 2016 for lunch and dinner - [/b:r6y16b5r] [attachment=0:r6y16b5r]Blue-Elephant_ChineseNewYear.jpg[/attachment:r6y16b5r] Bangkok,...

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    The day I realised Thailand was different

    News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 17/04/2016

    » I trust everyone has survived the Songkran Festival, suffering little more than a few damp clothes, and maybe stuck with a hint of a fixed grin. The festival brings special memories for me because when I first arrived in April 1969, it coincided with the start of Songkran, although I was unaware of it.

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