After many years in Chiang Mai cruising around on the bike I’ve come to realise that the police are doing the same checkpoints at the same time of day or night at the same spot all the time. I havn’t noticed a pattern for when they do the checkpoints but I do know that they […]
When it comes to arts and drawing so many Thai people have a flair and a knack for drawing and painting pretty much anything. Here are some videos of some Thai guys in Bangkok who have made the underground graffiti crew go mainstream.
This letter was sent to me from a reader regarding the recent crackdown on drink driving in Thailand. You shouldn’t be driving drunk especially in Pattaya so if you get caught you really can’t complain about the repercussions. In the letter it says that no assistance or translations were provided which under Thai law as
A lot of Thai girls are just nuts, and it seems they like to congregate in Pattaya, no big surprises there. A lot of tourists with cameras and video camera’s on the prowl in Pattaya as well so maybe that’s why I found so many Thailand Bar Fights on YouTube. [ad#Links Horiz 468] This first
It’s a well known fact that there are foreigners here working as undercover police informers. But who are these guys, what motivates them, how did they get into this line of work, what are the dangers involved and how do they deal with the slack other foreigners give them for turning their own brethren in.
[ad#Google Horizontal] The Jet Ski Scam in Thailand is an oldie to Thailand, most people have heard about it, a lot of people have been stung by the scam as well.The scam is most often played in resort cities of Phuket, Pattaya Beach, and Jomtien, though there is evidence by local expats that the scam
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
[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
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#Asia Crowd] For as long as I’ve been coming to Thailand I must have heard the same old story on each trip, “Man gets robbed by Thai girl in his room“. It’s a little embarrassing actually that this happens over and over and over again. How can so many guys be getting robbed by Thai
A few weeks ago I wrote a post bout the unexplained deaths in Chiang Mai and how several people have died in the hotel, some on the same night, the same room, even an elderly couple who died in their sleep together in the same room, and someone else died in the room next to
Thailand just like any other country has a number of organized scams, from jetski scams to Tuk Tuk tailor scams but one of the most profitable scams plaguing Thailand right now is the Timeshare scam. [ad#Google Adsense] How does the Timeshare scam work in Thailand Timeshare scammers tend to pray on tourists and the entire
You’ve heard the story of a corrupt police officer in Thailand, taking money for traffic violations other monies from restaurants hotels and pretty much wherever they can get it. But have you actually witnessed any of this? [ad#Google Adsense] In every country there is always an ellement of corruption even in western countries. And in
It’s stolen the lives of 7 tourists to Chiang Mai. The Downtown Inn Hotel is still open after 7 unexplained deaths have been reported some of those deaths are actually in the same room. Some have even died laying next to each other as well as next door to each other. [ad#Google Adsense] Noone has