Jul 7 2008
The end of Thongchai Tor Silachai’s professional kickboxing career (in red trunks)may be good news for the Corrections Department. The Muay Thai fighter was arrested for possession of 85 methamphetamine pills, only days before his next...
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Jul 6 2008
I sat enthralled to the TV as I watched a man called Dr. Beat Richner. I was watching a documentary called Dr Beat and the Passive Genocide of Children. You can read the Dr Beat story here and it is a very good read, he is an amazing man with dedication...
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Jul 5 2008
The political circus continues here in Thailand. The Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej who has just returned from a trip to China and Brunei had claimed someone had plotted to capture him the instant his plane made a landing at Bangkok airport on his...
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Jul 4 2008
Thailand is again under the spotlight for the wrong reasons. It has come under the attention of the Human Rights Watch. And this is for a very good reason. On March 20 and 21 this year in 2008 the army conducted an interrogation on a man named Imam...
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Jul 3 2008
The political antics of the government the PPP and the opposition People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) are continuing. These two political parties are acting absolutely disgracefully; they are more like primary school kids in the school yard...
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Jul 1 2008
This isn’t a Thailand only problem but a worldwide problem. Drugs are a scourge to society; they cause problems and create crime. The profit from drugs goes to the most despicable people, the manufacturers. These people are the lowest scumbags that...
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Jun 30 2008
The political problems in Thailand have seemed to ease a little. The government survived the no-confidence vote. The current Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej will look at a reshuffle as he has admitted that some ministers have not been doing their job...
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Jun 29 2008
Today there was a scary reminder today in a newspaper about the increasing number of Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) carriers in Thailand. HBV is a disease that cannot be cured, it can be slowed by drugs, and these drugs in Thailand would be well out of reach...
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Jun 29 2008
Here in Thailand the ever popular hazing an often ritualistic test and a task, which may constitute harassment, abuse or humiliation with requirements to perform random, often meaningless tasks, sometimes as a way of initiation into a social group is...
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Jun 26 2008
Corruption in Thailand hit a new low. Corruption is a plague in Thailand and is spreading instead of being cleared up. Corruption is common knowledge for tourists or locals, if you need something done you simply give the right person some money and...
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