_Echinochloa_
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Set it all up in a company.Then you can turf her out at anytime and all it costs is approx Baht15,000-20,000.Ask SunBeltAsia or Indo-Siam.
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PRISONS / BROADCASTING PLAN
Amnesty slams live internet showing of death row inmates
Amnesty International Thailand yesterday condemned the Corrections Department's plan to show the prison life of inmates live over the internet, including the last minutes of convicts on death row.
According to director-general of the department, Nathee Chitsawang, internet broadcasts of prison life on were intended to deter potential lawbreakers.
In a statement, the human rights watch group called on the department to review the broadcast plan, saying its intended effect would fall flat.
``We believe most lawbreakers are poor and don't have access to the internet,'' read part of the statement.
The website should be a channel for the department to show the functioning of the justice system, Amnesty said.
It said there were several ways to deter young and adult offenders and proposed psychological methods in which convicts were allowed to talk about the consequences of their crimes.
Amnesty International Thailand, which is campaigning against the death sentence, also called on the media to refrain from reporting and publishing all forms of violent punishment.
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Published on Jan 17 , 2005
Justice Ministry halts plan for TV programme on the last days of inmates facing execution
The Justice Ministry pulled the plug yesterday on a plan by the Corrections Department to initiate a reality-show programme by installing Web cams in the cells of inmates on death row and broadcasting live their final moments before they are executed.
Corrections Department director-general Natthee Jitsawang unveiled the plan on Sunday and a Thai-language mass-circulation newspaper, gave the story front page treatment with promises of live broadcasts about executions. Yesterday Natthee reiterated the plan to broadcast live the lives of death-row inmates through the department’s website, but said his department did not intend to show actual executions. The broadcast would be terminated the moment that an inmate was strapped to the execution bed, he explained.
Kitti Limchaikij, deputy permanent secretary for Justice Ministry, countered that such programming would go against the grain of the law. Kitti said he thought the Corrections director-general had simply wanted to promote his department’s website.
Kitti said the website would only provide live broadcasts of visiting hours between inmates on death row and their relatives. When asked about Natthee’s plan, which he did not seem entirely familiar with, he said, “The live broadcasts of living conditions in prison and the execution of inmates could not be allowed as it would violate the constitutional rights of prisoners.
“Inmates would surely not be happy to be subject to minute-by-minute scrutiny and humiliation through the website. Although they have committed crimes, they are still human beings.”
Meanwhile, Natthee said yesterday he wanted to facilitate broadcasts of the lives of inmates on death row at a maximum-security prison to make the work of wardens more transparent to the public. “I would like to remind wardens and inmates who are secretly violating prison rules that they are being watched by outsiders all the time,” Natthee said. “Society can also bear witness to the hard conditions prevailing in prison so people outside will make sure not to end up in there.”
He said he intended to broadcast only the atmosphere before an inmate was strapped to the execution bed, not the actual moment of fatal injection. Natthee added that 65 inmates, five of them women, are currently on death row.
A well-informed source at the Corrections Department said 60 of the death-row inmates were planning to ask the Justice Ministry to cancel the live-broadcast project for fear that it might humiliate them and their families.
Surasee Kosolnawin, a national human right commissioner, agreed that it was unconstitutional to subject prisoners to live broadcasts. “Inmates have their rights to privacy, too,” Surasee said. “They have already been punished by law so they should not be punished again by society imposing further humiliation on them.”
Piyanuch Thamnukasetchai
The Nation
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On Monday, in Bangkok, morning around 0930 an accident happened on the Subway at Thailand Cultural Center area. Two trains collided according to news reports, one of them rolling out of the maintenance depot (obviously out of control) onto occupied track. A large number of people were injured in this accident (in excess of 100) The station staff were also unable to find correct keys to open carriage doors and evacuate passengers.
As one passengers said ," Lucky there was not a fire happening" With all the fine German technology how is it possible for something like this to happen.
Transport Minister says the Subway will be closed "indefinitely". Why? So they can train the staff in accident prevention and railway operating rules? Is he serious? Surely there must be a secure signal/derail system in place in the service area to prevent any unauthorised access to the live main line? And surely ALL personnel have been trained in accident management and first aid procedures?
Old News.
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thanks for your help i will try and find out where he has gone or if anything happened to him.
Please if anyone else knows anything about dirty nellys closing and what 'Sparky' is doing with himself now please let me know.
Thanks.
Maybe "Sparky" has legged it with your investment.
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Echinochloa.......just out of curiosity what was your turn around time at the border?
Arrived @10:45am and Departed @ 1pm.Waited in the Cambodian Q for approx 20mins during this time.
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I did it with 5 star last week,left at 6.30am back at just before 3 pm.Fully recommend it.Good breakfast to start,and a nice packed lunch.
Where do you leave from? How much? Contact details?
Leave from The Sportsman soi 13 B2300, maximum 6 pax in the mini bus,usual movie/headphone set up.Can also book at the Lobby Bar.
Pattaya-PoiPet is not much use if one is living in Bangers now is it?
Move?
No Thank You.
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I did it with 5 star last week,left at 6.30am back at just before 3 pm.Fully recommend it.Good breakfast to start,and a nice packed lunch.
Where do you leave from? How much? Contact details?
Leave from The Sportsman soi 13 B2300, maximum 6 pax in the mini bus,usual movie/headphone set up.Can also book at the Lobby Bar.
Pattaya-PoiPet is not much use if one is living in Bangers now is it?
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I did it with 5 star last week,left at 6.30am back at just before 3 pm.Fully recommend it.Good breakfast to start,and a nice packed lunch.
Where do you leave from? How much? Contact details?
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Just did a run yesterday with JackGolf and it was no probs.I still had to do the Cambodia que but that was it.Left at 7am and back in Bangers for 5pm.Lunch was superb at the Flamingo Casino.
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Brit 'beat up' killer cop
From ANDREW DRUMMOND
in Thailand
A BRITISH backpacker beat up a Thai policeman five minutes before the cop shot him dead, a court heard yesterday.
Witnesses said Police Master Sergeant Somchai Wisetsingh had tried to pull Adam Lloyd’s girlfriend into his car.
Adam hit out and stormed off. The officer then followed the couple in his car.
Shots were heard, followed by a girl crying for help — then more shots.
Prosecutors claim the officer killed Adam, 25, before executing Vanessa Arscott, 24, to stop her identifying him. Wisetsingh claims self defence.
Adam, of Torquay, Devon, and Vanessa, of Ashburton, Devon, had been drinking at a restaurant Wisetsingh runs by the River Kwai in Kanchanaburi.
Wisetsingh ... claims he killed
the Brits in self-defence
Security guard Somchat Sukplawej, who worked at a diner opposite, said he saw the cop try to get Vanessa into his car.
He added: “But the lady did not get in. She was crying.”
Jeweller Jansiri Rattanachart said he saw Adam attack Wisetsingh from his house ten yards away.
He added: “At one point the girl came back and shouted, ‘Stop it’. But the foreigner would not stop.”
Wife Nonglak said the officer finally locked himself in his car and added: “The foreigner Adam then kicked it so hard his shoe came off. He then walked off.”
The couple said they later heard two gunshots, then a gap, then three more shots.
He later heard two gunshots, followed by a girl’s cries for help and added: “They were much more urgent than when the girl was trying to get the men to stop fighting.” There were then three more shots. The case continues.
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Bangkok Post bag:
Coming to Thailand for investment purposes, on invitation, we were shocked with the laws and their application and enforcement, and have decided to reconsider.
We agreed to provide to a potential partner company some funds in order to finalise feasibility, with an agreed repayment agreement. The Thai partner company, a duly registered company with accounts at some of the major banks, issued a cash cheque together with a letter of guarantee in order to repay the said funds. The cheque was rejected by the bank as the account did not have the funds written against the cheque.
On filing a police report including private information on the chairman of the Thai company, the police agreed that there was a breach of law, but wanted 10% of the cheque value in order to collect/prefer charges against the Thai party involved. If not agreed, we were informed it could take years for action to be initiated; if agreed, action would be immediate.
A wrong is committed but the police want payment to initiate charges? Our potential investment was to be approximately two billion baht, but if the laws here do not protect potential investors, then the climate for investment is the wrong one for us.
P. SHARPE
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Why did Somchai Wisetsingh never mention the fact that he got a beating??? Ahhhh that old Face thing again.
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Anymore news about this case?
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Arrived in chaing mai this morning after spending 10 days in KohChang thanks for all the interesting info people
Be interested to know the address of the Irish pub.
O'Malley's Irish Pub
Anusarn Market
149/14-15 Chang Klan Road, A. Munag
Chiang Mai 50100
Telephone: 053-271-921
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Senior Thai officials squabbled today over who should conduct forensic identification of thousands of victims from last month’s tsunami disaster, in a quarrel that could delay the process of handing over bodies to grieving relatives.
The killer waves on December 26 killed about 5,300 people in Thailand, and left another 3,600 people missing. Among the victims were hundreds of foreign tourists, and some of their governments have expressed concern that Thai methods of identifying the corpses were not following internationally-accepted standards.
Since the disaster, the Justice Ministry has been conducting the painstaking work of identifying the bodies with the help of hundreds of foreign forensic experts.
But Police Gen. Nopadol Somboonsap, an adviser to the National Police Bureau, today said the police should be identifying the dead. He accused the Justice Ministry of not following international procedures and said they were hampering co-ordination with overseas forensic teams.
The head of the Justice Ministry’s forensic team, Dr. Pornthip Rojanasunan, said handing the operation over to police would be too disruptive because her investigators had already examined more than 4,000 bodies.
“I am the sole person who has the right to release bodies here and the prime minister gave me this mandate, so my work will go on unless the prime minister says something else,” Pornthip said.
Asked for comment, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said the police bureau, Pornthip’s Justice Ministry team and Interpol had to co-ordinate their activities.
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EMS at any post office.
EMS takes far to long for internationl mail.FEDEX 3 days.
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Do not post them here as they may well get blocked.
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Tsunami Fears Man Was in Jail for Child Porn
A pervert lied to his family about going to Thailand to cover up the fact he was convicted of child pornography offences, it emerged today.
Mark Doogue, 47, told friends and colleagues he was going to work as a chef in Phuket for three months when he was in fact going to prison.
His family only found out about the convictions when they feared he had died in the Asian tsunami disaster and issued an appeal for information.
But according to police and prison service sources, Doogue was in jail awaiting sentencing and had never been in Thailand.
Doogue, from Wilmott Street, Manchester, was convicted at Bury Magistrates Court on December 1, 2004, of distributing an indecent photograph of a child and possessing indecent photographs of children.
He was also convicted of failing to surrender to bail.
Doogue is due to be sentenced at Bolton Crown Court on January 28.
Before he was arrested, Doogue told his boss he was going to Thailand for three months.
When the island of Phuket was swamped by giant waves on Boxing Day, his sons Michael 24, and Matthew, 19, from Salford, Greater Manchester, feared he was dead.
They issued an appeal for information through the Red Cross’s special emergency website and Greater Manchester Police.
They said they were “gutted to think what could have happened” to him in the disaster.
But last night it emerged that Doogue had been lying and had not left the UK.
Michael said: “I haven’t really got any interest in talking to my dad now.
“I did want to know whether he was safe or not but now I know that he is alive I don’t want to talk to him.”
A Greater Manchester Police spokesman said Doogue was “safe and well”.
He said: “Mark Doogue was believed to be on holiday in Thailand when the tsunami occurred and his family were concerned for his well-being.
“Mark was not in Thailand at the time of the tsunami as was originally thought, and was therefore not affected by it.”
--Scotsman.com 2005-01-11
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Jomtien Park Villas auctioned off at grand event
On Sunday December 19, the Royal Cliff Hotel hosted the Grand Auction of Jomtien Park Villas, the magnificent project developed by One Stop Real Estate and marketed by MGI Global Auctions.
Auctioneers from MGI Global Auctions take bids at the Grand Auction of Jomtien Park Villas.
This was the first time in Pattaya that a luxury residential development was offered at an auction where the majority of the properties were sold without a minimum starting bid and without a reserve, regardless of price. A fact that many skeptics did not believe until they saw it happening with their own eyes.
Ninety-eight qualified bidders had pre-registered at the Auction Information Office prior to the auction date. Approximately 15 more chose to register at the hotel on auction day.
During the inspection period the project received a total of 591 visitors (actually more because a few, especially at the beginning, went in without leaving their details with the auction staff). 116 of those visitors went back to see the beautiful show villas more than one time. A few of them came every single day of the last week of the inspection period to see the homes at different times of the day.
A particularly pleasant event during the inspection period was a cocktail party, held on the evening of December 10, where 204 guests enjoyed a wonderful atmosphere in the four show villas. The majority of the people concentrated in the Van Gogh home, which proved spacious even for such a large crowd. Everybody enjoyed meeting the developer and the auctioneers.
A classical music trio performed on the patio next to the swimming pool. All guests commented on the impressive display of the 4 Show Villas at night and complimented the hosts for the excellent catering that was provided by the Art Caf้ and personally supervised by its gracious owner Jo Stetten.
At the auction the crowd enjoyed what almost everyone agreed was the most impressive and professional display for the sale of real estate that they had ever seen.
Fourteen Villas were offered and sold, without a minimum starting bid and regardless of price to successful bidders who were delighted with their purchases.
Observers agreed that the prices were extremely fair. The developer said what developers always say after the auctions: “We would have liked to get a bit more money, but we are satisfied with the price and extremely happy about having sold 14 homes in one single day.”
The prices at the auction ranged from 5,800,000 baht to 12,100,000 baht. The winning bidders will have to pay a 3% buyers premium on top of those prices, which is a standard practice at any auction (auction companies like Christie’s and Sotheby’s charge a minimum of 10%).
The remaining 7 villas have already been put on the market at prices slightly higher, but still extremely good value compared with any other project in Pattaya and Jomtien. At the time of writing this report, one more has been sold and only the last six are available.
The developer is also offering a new opportunity for those interested buyers who would like to have one of the floor plans that were completely sold-out at the auction (Picasso, Gaugin, Renoir and Van Gogh). Some of the projected remaining homes can be converted to adapt them to become any of this four show villas.
For more information, contact tel. (038) 303 871-5, fax (038) 373 794 email: auction @realesthai.com http://www.mgiglobalauctions.com
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I think the Polo-Club is Baht20,000 per year.
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Anyone asks any questions I just refer them to this site.
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I would recommend FEDEX for what you need.
Police Shooter Faces Charges
in General Topics
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A policeman faces charges of attempted murder after he shot and wounded two innnocent bystanders during a drug sting on Monday night
Pol Lance Corporal Chaiyaporn Wongrin surrendered yesterday, Pol Col Saroj Promcharoen, deputy chief of Metropolitan Police Division 8, said.
Pol L/Cpl Chaiyaporn was part of an undercover team of the 191 special operations police involved in a sting operation.
Ther went to arrest Duangklom Wongratanakan, 23, and Nopajorn Mannarong, 23, on Soi Tha Din Daeng 16, in Klong San, about 8.20pm on Monday.
While the undercover team was buying nine methamphetamine pills from Mrs Duangklom, her husband Mr Nopajorn became suspicious and ran off.
As he chased them, Pol L/Cpl Chaiyaporn fired two warning shots that hit Wanaporn Wongrat, 17, in the chest and Wanasiri Patanasethakul, 18, in the right leg.
Pol Col Saroj said Pol L/Cpl Chaiyaporn had not submitted his gun to police on Monday for ballistics tests.
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