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by jambo
Fri Aug 04, 2006 12:12 am
Forum: Speaking Thai
Topic: ·Õè¹Õè·ÕèËÒà¾×èÃ
Replies: 17
Views: 5643

british culture is about 95% different to thai culture so if you do everthing totaly oppersit you will only br wrong 5% of the time
oh and a bobble hat and scarfe if essential
enjoy
by jambo
Fri Aug 04, 2006 12:03 am
Forum: Health Issues
Topic: malaria tablets
Replies: 5
Views: 1419

malaria tablets

just visited the docs next time over there i will be driving upto nong kai the doc recomends a course of tablets cos of traveling near the lao border there on a private prescription so quite costly (yes i do value my life to be worth more than the cost ) but was wondering if you can buy malarone ove...
by jambo
Fri Jun 02, 2006 8:24 pm
Forum: News
Topic: amazing thailand
Replies: 23
Views: 2214

grandma wrode the goat to the stream
by jambo
Tue Feb 28, 2006 12:11 am
Forum: News
Topic: tutt tutt tutt thailand - asian coruption stats
Replies: 2
Views: 622

tutt tutt tutt thailand - asian coruption stats

HONG KONG , FEBRUARY 27: Corruption in most Asian countries is not as bad as a year ago, with the notable exception of Thailand, a survey showed on Monday. "Thailand's case is special. Accusations of high-level corruption have been intensifying in recent months -- to the point where they could ...
by jambo
Sun Feb 19, 2006 6:43 am
Forum: News
Topic: krabi-youths in gunpoint drama
Replies: 3
Views: 687

krabi-youths in gunpoint drama

Two youths travelling in Thailand were held at gunpoint by a group of men as they accepted lifts on motorbikes. Chris Goward, 22, from Northern Ireland, and Jack Brown, 20, from Bristol, had left a bar in the coastal resort town of Krabi. The pair agreed to go on to a party with the men and rode pil...
by jambo
Wed Feb 15, 2006 11:40 pm
Forum: News
Topic: another reported rape on samui
Replies: 7
Views: 1056

another reported rape on samui

A CUMBRIAN teenager was raped by two men on the Thai island where backpacker Katherine Horton was murdered. Three weeks after the New Year’s Day murder, Corrie-Anne Holt, an 18-year-old student nurse from Curthwaite, near Wigton, says she was drugged and dragged out of a bar in front of police bef...
by jambo
Tue Feb 14, 2006 11:08 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Arrests on Visa Run.
Replies: 30
Views: 2867

Ranong 12 finally set free

RANONG: “The Ranong 12â€
by jambo
Sun Feb 12, 2006 8:25 am
Forum: News
Topic: Arrests on Visa Run.
Replies: 30
Views: 2867

no no no no no chelsea wrote: It also makes me wonder, when you go on a run, do you have to let the operator know if you have a valid visa or not. Because if you have to do that, my guess is that they may have been a call from one of the operatives on the coach to let the Jobsworth's in the tourist ...
by jambo
Sat Feb 11, 2006 8:46 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Arrests on Visa Run.
Replies: 30
Views: 2867

points taken lomu but i have never wore a hemet on a bike in the kingdom i know my limits i am always the passenger if i was the driver it is not visas or imigration that would be my concern it would be the hospital bills on my first trip to los as a newbie 30 days just isnt enough this is the case ...
by jambo
Sat Feb 11, 2006 10:47 am
Forum: News
Topic: Arrests on Visa Run.
Replies: 30
Views: 2867

mike totaly agree overstays of 1 to 6 days have always been looked upon as a minor misdermena in the kingdom lomu i have no gripe with you but comon have you never broke a rule in the kingdom people gripe about a 200 baht fine for not wearing a helmet this is the same punishment for 1 day overstay y...
by jambo
Sat Feb 11, 2006 2:57 am
Forum: News
Topic: Arrests on Visa Run.
Replies: 30
Views: 2867

RANONG: A group of 12 foreign tourists arrested for overstaying their visas have spent their second night sleeping on the floor of a jail cell at Ranong Police Station.

Ranong Immigration Police, who have announced that they will deport the group, say they are only following “standard proceduresâ€
by jambo
Sat Feb 11, 2006 2:56 am
Forum: News
Topic: Arrests on Visa Run.
Replies: 30
Views: 2867

apparently all 12 will be deported