I reported the other day about the shooting of Australian Teacher Lynda Cody in Chiang Mai is full of holes. Firstly it was reported by the Age newspaper, yet there are no real accounts by any journalist in Thailand, I havn’t seen any real news from Thai newspapers. [ad#Google Horizontal] I did some of my […]
The owners of www.Kapoosa.com are in hot water today after learning of a class action lawsuit that may be taken upon them. The Kapooosa service was a sort of pay to use forum website were members would pay a monthly fee so they could browse and post on the website. Now the website was mostly
A Melbourne schoolteacher is lucky to be alive after being shot in the back of the head while on a school trip to Thailand. [ad#Links Horiz 468] Teachers Lynda Cody and Jess Lambden of Ringwood Secondary College had just departed a night market in Khum Kan Tok, in the northern city of Chiang Mai, when
A Melbourne teacher was treated in hospital after her car was allegedly shot at during a school trip in the north of Thailand. [ad#Google Horizontal] Two teachers, from Ringwood Secondary College, were travelling in a car near Chiang Mai when the front windscreen shattered on Sunday. One of the teachers, Lynda Cody, suffered a minor
Although you might not think, Ebooks in Thailand are huge already and will only increase in Time. Ebooks make it easy to get your latest book and take it with you on the go. Let’s say your going to Thailand for a year, do you really want to cart a bunch of books along with
If you’re visiting Chiang Mai and want to try something tourists don’t get to do, then how about swimming at the Mok Fah waterfall just 60km outside of Chiang Mai and on the non-tourist road to Pai, Mae Hong Son. It’s really a spectacular waterfall and one of few you can actually swim at. I
[ad#Google Adsense] On the 8th of July 2011 at 6:40pm the police joined forces with the Division of Child Welfare and Women, to track down and arrest a couple in Nakhon Sawan who were making extra money online in Thailand by setting up a web cam in their hotel room, room 409 at Thai Resort
The majority of Thai people come from the countryside of Thailand, therefore to get a good idea of what Thai people are really like we can start there. The general idea that Thai people are all the same is not true, there are actually 4 different type of Thai people that are generally segregated by
Pattaya police raid warehouses and find smuggled cigarettes and pirated products valued at 10 million baht and counting. [ad#Google Adsense] On July 5 at 18:30 Pattaya police were given a search warrant to search the premises of a company in Pattaya. A 3-storey high at 312/82 Soi Bua Khao Pattaya, Moo 9, Tambon Nong Prue,
[ad#Google Adsense] An Australian Tourist by the name Marc Gerard Hoy jumped to his death in Phuket. The Aussie was first spotted by a receptionist at the Bel Air Resort in the early hours of the morning, he was sitting down on the couch drunk and incoherent. The receptionist asked the man if he wanted
Yingluck Shinawatra won the Thai election as the first prime minister in Thailand, her words: “The first priority is the economy” The party allied to ousted and exiled ex-leader Thaksin Shinawatra has won a major victory in Thailand’s general election, provisional results show. With most votes counted, outgoing Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has conceded victory
Don’t you just love how many Thai signs are just can be downright funny. Even though you learn and study English since kindergarten in Thailand spelling mistakes on signs are abound, guess Thai people haven’t got the memo about spell checker before they print their signs. The stupidest Thai signs are always because of bad
[ad#Google Adsense] Most men cheat for physical reasons and when for emotional ones, though why is it exactly that makes Thai girls cheat on their boyfriends and husbands. For Thai girls it’s not your normal reasons for the most part but some are, Thai girls are not only jealous but it’s also more likely that
[ad#Google Adsense] Tourists hunting for a quick fix were getting more than they bargained for when they bought illegal drugs at the Falafel King Restaurant in Chiang Mai. The restaurant was a front for international drug dealers who had set up shop in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai. The International gang with leader
A Thai girl born in Isaan or Norther Thailand is a completely different girl from one born in Bangkok. Bangkok Girls are much more educated not because they are more likely to go to University but because the schooling system in Bangkok is much more developed as is the quality of the teachers in Bangkok.
[ad#Asia Crowd] The teacher of a student in Chon Buri discovered that a 13y/o student had been raped by her father and grandfather and took the girl to the Chon Buri police station where the girl is now in the custody of child protective services. At 1:30pm June 1 2011 Mr Montri General of Child