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  1. They should also check people being bilked out large amounts of money and being issued fake degrees from Universities that illegally operate from within the USA and Europe.  The Thai victims are under the impression that they have earned a Masters or Doctorate of X, when in fact they have paid for a mere piece of paper with no more value than the ink it is printed with.  If someone checked on the validity of these alledged Universities through the Internet, they would find that many Thais have been hoodwinked into thinking that they are are holders of prestigious degrees from the likes of these charlatans with school names that make no sense.  :o

    My heart bleeds for them Mouse.

  2. Newbie question:

    Hrm.. where can I pay my TOT phone bill. Really.. I have no idea! I tried to call TOT service center at 1100 but they didn't have any information or what they had I didn't understand. They also gave me some phone number where to ask more information but the number doesn't work :o

    Thanks! :D

    Any 7-11 in Thailand.

  3. UNCOVERED: Murdered couple's last snaps and emails reveal their

    happiness before horror at River Kwai

    Just stop worrying. The locals like us..

    By Mike Hamilton

    THEY are joyful mementos of a wonderful holiday in paradise...pictures packed with smiles and e-mails full of joy.

    But just days after Brit backpackers Adam Lloyd and Vanessa Arscott told of their happiness to be in Thailand they became tragic victims of a brutal murder.

    Photos from their digital camera show the carefree lovers posing on the infamous bridge over the River Kwai—the spot where they would soon be gunned down.

    Other snaps show them enjoying an elephant ride and shopping for clothes they would never get to wear.

    Their messages home describe their travels and touchingly urge their families not to be concerned about their welfare. The first e-mail, sent on July 4 after they arrived, said: "Bangkok's a bit of a shock to the system. Mums stop worrying now—got here OK."

    Days later after journeying upcountry by train they wrote: "We decided to take a trip to leafy Kanchanaburi. The locals seem to like us. Booked into treehouse-style accommodation—quality.

    "Yesterday we did some trekking and bamboo-rafting and a trip back to the railway and over the Kwai River Bridge. Everything is cool and we are both happy."

    Ironically. travel agent Adam, 25, and 23-year-old fitness instructor Vanessa were so keen on the place and its people they returned for their final few days—and were callously slaughtered in the early hours of September 9.

    Groping

    Part-time cop and bar owner Somchai Wisetsingh, right, appeared in court on Friday accused of murdering them both after a punch-up in his S&S restaurant.

    He is alleged to have sparked the fight with Adam by groping Vanessa. When the couple left, Wisetsingh is said to have chased them in his Volvo before blasting two bullets into Adam. As Vanessa fled in terror the Thai is accused of mowing her down with his car and shooting her three times as she clung to a pylon screaming for help.

    Wisetsingh— said to have mafia connections—went on the run before giving himself up in October. He faces execution if found guilty when the trial ends next month.

    He is still free on bail until the written verdict is delivered. And last night Adam's devastated dad Brian, 57, told how he fears witnesses may be nobbled or that Wisetsingh, 39, may abscond again and evade justice.

    But he revealed that the snaps from his son's camera, returned to them by police, have brought the family a little solace as they struggle to come to terms with their nightmare loss.

    Brian, who runs a hotel in Torquay, Devon, with wife Lynda, 57, said: "We're so glad we got those pictures back. They're comforting because they show that Adam and Vanessa were happy together and having a lovely time. And from the pictures we can work out roughly where they were and what they were doing.

    "There's obviously so much that we don't know, and will never know. But we think the police have the right man. The fact that he got bail on a double murder charge is absolutely incredible."

    Ironically Adam and Vanessa should have left Thailand before that awful night in Kanchanaburi but there were no plane seats available.

    Adam's last e-mail home on September 6 asked dad Brian to check the times of coaches from Heathrow airport and signed off: "Thanks Dad, I will be in touch soon. Ad."

    Last night Brian told us: "It's just a grim twist of fate that they went back and spent those extra days in the place where they'd made friends.

    "That's the big ‘if only' that plays on our minds. If they hadn't gone back there they'd still be alive."

  4. A Chinese man accused of murdering a Chinese student was found not guilty of murder, but guilty of manslaughter by a jury at the Central Criminal Court tonight.

    During the 10-day trial, Hua Yu Feng (aged 27), of The Woods, Woodbrook Glen, Bray, Co. Wicklow, had pleaded not guilty to the murder of Ms. Xiang Yi Wang (aged 21), originally from Fuxing City, China, at Woodbrook Glen in Bray on July 4, 2003.

    He had pleaded guilty to manslaughter, but this was not accepted by the state.

    Ms Wang, known as "Linda", had been living with a Chinese family at The Grove, Woodbrook Glen, Bray, Co. Wicklow at the time.

    A jury of seven men and five women delivered the unanimous verdict after two hours and eight minutes of deliberation.

    The victim's mother, who was present along with Linda's father and uncle, collapsed in sobs in the courtroom when she heard the verdict through an interpreter.

    Feng was remanded in continued custody until Monday, when Mr Justice Paul Butler is expected to deliver a sentencing.

    Earlier today, defence counsel Mr Diarmuid McGuinness SC told the jury that the killing was a "classic, if not tragic, crime of passion", in his closing submissions. "That's not to excuse it or justify it," he added.

    The court has heard that the accused and deceased had been in a relationship for 18 months. The two had been seen holding hands in Bray in the weeks prior to Linda's death.

    On the day before the killing, Linda had been out on a date with Garda Sean Lynan, a man she had first met on June 17th through activities relating to the Special Olympics, where the two volunteered.

    Gd Lynan had told the court how Linda had told him openly how much she liked him and had sent him text messages, one of which read: "You are a good-looking man." He had not replied to any of the texts.

    On July 3rd, Gd Lynan collected Linda from Portobello College in his car and they went on to Stillorgan, stopping at a McDonald's before driving to Enniskerry where they took a walk.

    The court heard the two went to a hotel in Enniskerry around 10.30pm and left around 12.30am.

    "And physical intimacy took place there, is that correct?" prosecuting counsel Mr Patrick James McCarthy SC asked Gd Lynan. "That's correct," Gd Lynan replied.

    Under cross-examination by defence counsel, Mr McGuinness SC, Gd Lynan told the court he had no knowledge of Linda having a boyfriend in Ireland or that she worked in a chip shop in Bray. He told the court that Linda had told him she had a boyfriend in China, "but that was over".

    "Were you keen to foster a relationship with her?" Mr McGuinness SC asked. "I wasn't sure at the time," he replied.

    The court heard that on the night she was killed, Linda confessed her love to Gd Lynan. "She told me she loved me, I told her she didn't know me long enough to say those words," he said.

    The jury heard that Linda alternated between being tearful and happy during the lift home from Enniskerry that night, but slammed Gd Lynan's car door as he dropped her off.

    "Was she cross with you?" Mr McGuinness asked. "Yes, she didn't appear happy that we couldn't meet on Friday," he said.

    "Then she got out of the car and walked towards her doorway. I just looked over my shoulder and saw her walking back up the driveway and I drove away," Gd Lynan said. This was at 1.07am, according to the clock in Gd Lynan's car, which was three minutes fast.

    The court has heard that the accused made 13 phone calls, most of which were two to three seconds long, to the deceased after midnight. The last call was at 1.02am and lasted 43 seconds. The evidence could not determine if the accused had reached Linda or just left her a message.

    In his statement to gardai, Feng said he called Linda and she came out of her house to meet him and they walked to a nearby "garden" to "because that's where we always go to talk", the accused said.

    The jury had heard that the accused had purchased three cans of Bavaria Crown and had been drinking alone in a local pub in Bray. He returned to his home and retrieved a carving knife, "because I was drunk".

    Asked if he intended to harm Linda, he said: "No, I never meant to do that."

    The court heard the accused then left his house with the knife to go to Linda's house, but he did not recall how he was carrying the knife. "At that moment I got very, very drunk and I was mad. I just remember the stories she told me of that man," he said.

    According to the accused, Linda had told him "love stories" involving another man and that he knew this man's name and job.

    "That made me very, very crazy, very angry," he said in the statement.

    Linda was found dead on the morning of July 4th with seven deep stab wounds to the trunk, lying face up in a green area near her home in Bray. Six of the stab wounds were inflicted from behind, two of which had gone completely through her body from front to back.

    A necklace she had been wearing was imprinted in her neck, indicating that her neck had been compressed from 15 to 30 seconds, the court heard.

    "Five of the stab wounds had injured internal organs – the liver, the heart, both kidneys and the right lung," state pathologist Dr Marie Cassidy had told the court. The cause of death was "haemorrhaging, shock and breathing difficulties from stab wounds to the trunk," Dr Cassidy said.

    Heavy blood-staining was found on three different locations in the area, indicating that there was movement from the deceased.

    According to his statement, Feng stood over Linda and asked her for any final words. "All of the time she said, 'I'm sorry mum and dad'," he said.

    "I said I loved her and I go with you," Feng said in the interview. "I found an empty can of beer to try and cut my wrist. I did not find the artery," he added.

    The accused fled to Belfast on July 4th, where he was admitted to hospital after slitting his wrists at a local youth hostel where he stayed between July 4th and 10th. He said he wanted to die where "no one else knows me".

    Feng's cousin collected him by taxi from Belfast and brought him to Dublin voluntarily, where Feng was arrested on July 13th.

    http://www.breakingnews.ie/2005/02/11/story188978.html#

  5. Well, i bought the land,  82,000 Baht for 103 Talang Wa, just over a quarter Rai or Just over 400 Sq Metres, it has road access and electric as it  already had a house on it up until the day before i bought the land, the house was  sold and taken away on a lorry ( Wooden House). The missus has the chanot in her name now. So Step one complete.

    When the rain stops she will get the ground level raised ( DIN) and maybe get a wall up. Din will be 200 baht a lorry load, 10 - 12,000 baht should do it.

    Is the house finished yet Begs?

  6. The report in the Bangkok Post today, that Prince Charles will marry Camilla, shocked me.

    It was not the fact that the HRH want his happiness, what person does not,

    but the statement that she will not be Queen when he becomes King.

    Has he forgotten what happened to his Great Uncle, Edward VIII, who wanted to marry

    a divorced woman?  Edward VIII had to abdicate as the British people would not accept a King

    with a divorcee as a wife.

    The problem Prince Charles will face, is that he is also divorced, so the problem is doubled!!

    The only opposition he will face will be from the Church of England.

    Some of them are against the re-marrying of divorcee's and as the King of England he will supposedly become the "Protector of the Church"

    Is this Thai related Mr Moderators?

  7. :o    :D    :D    :D    :D    :D    :D    :D

    Tsunami volunteers warned: get work permits

    PHUKET: Foreign volunteers assisting in tsunami-related charity work are required to hold work permits, regardless of whether they are being paid for their efforts or not.

    Sayan Chuaiyjan, head of the Phuket Provincial Employment Service Office [ESO], told the Gazette yesterday that there could be no exceptions and that his office would begin to enforce the regulations soon – possibly in March.

    There can be no exceptions. Work is work, even if it is for charity,” he said.

    He urged relief workers to apply for work permits, adding that those working for recognized charitable organizations would find them easy to obtain.

    “They can just present a document certified by the charity organization they work for and we will issue them with work permits, then they will be able to work legally,” he said.

    He pointed out that any foreigner caught working with out a work permit is liable to hefty punishment.

    If our officers, police officers or immigration police learn [of foreign volunteers] who don’t have work permits, the maximum penalty is three years in jail, a 30,000 baht fine [or both],” he warned.

    “We did not enforce this law too rigidly [in the immediate aftermath of the tsunami], because we knew that everyone wanted to help out.

    “But now that the situation is returning to normal, we will have to start taking it more seriously,” he said, adding that a crackdown could begin as early as next month.

    Phuket Vice-Governor Winai Buapradit, who is charged with overseeing work permit procedures in the province, agreed with the ESO stance and said that the law needed to be enforced both in Phuket and throughout Thailand.

    “Now that the post-tsunami relief operations are slowing down, they should have work permits to continue working. Otherwise, government officials will have no idea what they are actually doing here – and this could result in trouble in the future,” he said this morning.

    Brought to you by:

    The Phuket Gazette

    Welcome to Thailand.

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  9. KLM Complaints

    You  have  nothing  to  lose  by  putting  a  complaint  in  to  KLM. Dont  know  where  you  are  from  but  the  UK  website  is   http://www.klm.com/uk_en/index.jsp     Click  on  the  contact  link  on  the  page  for  the  complaint  e-mail  address.  Good  Luck

    need to know if i will be waisting my time . I am also a frequent flyer with KLM

  10. _40799503_thaksin203bap.jpg

    Thai PM heads for landslide win

    Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is heading for an unprecedented second term after apparently winning a landslide victory in general elections.

    The opposition admitted defeat a short time after exit polls gave Mr Thaksin's Thai Rak Thai (Thais Love Thais) party 399 seats in the 500-seat parliament.

    He could form the first single party cabinet under Thai democratic rule.

    The opposition have accused Mr Thaksin of being authoritarian, saying Thailand risks becoming a one-party state.

    Some critics - including Human Rights Watch - have also expressed concerns over a crackdown in the Muslim-dominated southern provinces.

    The BBC's Kylie Morris says the result is a nightmare for the opposition.

    They had asked voters only to give it enough seats to be able to censure the government in parliament.

    We have a strategy, we have a plan

    Thaksin Shinawatra

    But not enough voters listened, our correspondent says.

    She says Mr Thaksin's political management of the situation after the 26 December tsunami - and the Thai economy's strong performance - appear to have convinced voters to give him an unprecedented second consecutive term.

    Mr Thaksin, who has been prime minister since 2001, has vowed to eradicate poverty if he is re-elected.

    Thaksin confident

    Polls opened across Thailand at 0800 local time (0100 GMT) and closed at 1500 (0800 GMT).

    Some 44 million people were eligible to vote, with unofficial results expected as early as Sunday.

    Mr Thaksin drove himself and his 18-year-old daughter to cast their votes early at a school in a neighbourhood.

    "Democracy is about diversity of opinion. We want to see people come out to show their power in a democratic way," he told reporters.

    The single-party prospect would "be better, because we have a strategy, we have a plan", he said after the vote.

    THAI ELECTION

    500 posts in House of Representatives

    400 chosen from constituencies and 100 from party lists

    Voting mandatory

    Economy, southern violence and tsunami relief seen as key issues

    Opposition Democrat Party chief Banyat Bantadtan said he was shocked by the result.

    "We have to accept the outcome because that is the voters' will," he said.

    Earlier, he said vote-buying had increased on the eve of the poll.

    "There was a huge vote-buying effort last night" in southern provinces, which are Democrat strongholds, Mr Banyat told Thai television after voting in the southern town of Surat Thani.

    The electoral commission banned voters from taking mobile phones into polling booths in an attempt to stop vote-buying.

    It suspected that people would use phones with cameras to photograph their ballot papers, to prove that they voted for the party offering to buy their vote.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/worl...fic/4240523.stm

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