Forum: Asia
April 19th, 2010, 08:10 PM Posted to soc.culture.thai,rec.travel.asia
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Forum: Asia
April 11th, 2010, 09:46 AM Posted to soc.culture.thai,rec.travel.asia
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Norwegian hit by a stray bullet
Norwegian Randi Hit by Gunshot Just Outside Her Bangkok Hotel
11.04.2010 | news Newsdesk
A Norwegian tourist Randi Fagertun Søderholm was hit by a gunshot when
she and her daughter Iris left heir...
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Forum: Asia
April 10th, 2010, 06:13 PM Posted to soc.culture.thai,rec.travel.asia
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9 killed in Bangkok rioting
Later, Bangkok Deputy Governor Malinee Sukavrejworakit said four
soldiers, four civilians and a journalist - believed to be a Japanese
national - had died.
An army spokesman, Col Sansern...
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Forum: Asia
April 10th, 2010, 03:51 PM Posted to soc.culture.thai,rec.travel.asia
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Forum: Asia
April 10th, 2010, 02:05 PM Posted to soc.culture.thai,rec.travel.asia
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Forum: Asia
April 10th, 2010, 02:01 PM Posted to soc.culture.thai,rec.travel.asia
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84 injured in Bangkok Riots
84 injured in Ratchadamnoen clashes
Eighty-four protesters and security personnel have been injured in
clashes at Ratchadamnoen Avenue, says the Erawan medical unit.
Dr Petchpong Kamchornkij, the...
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Forum: Asia
March 22nd, 2010, 06:20 PM Posted to soc.culture.thai,rec.travel.asia
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More tough security for Bangkok marchers
Thailand to extend security law for extra week
BANGKOK (AFP) - Thailand will extend a tough security law, enacted
ahead of mass anti-government protests, for an additional week in
Bangkok and two...
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Forum: Asia
March 19th, 2010, 10:52 PM Posted to soc.culture.thai,rec.travel.asia
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THE REDS ARE NOW UNSTOPABLE
Implications Of Awakening The Sleeping Thai Elephant
The mass Red-Shirt protest may do more than any other factor to
radically affect Thailand both domestically and internationally,
hopefully for...
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Forum: Asia
March 19th, 2010, 10:29 PM Posted to soc.culture.thai,rec.travel.asia
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REDS BRING REINFORCEMENTS TO BANGKOK
Red reinforcements head to Bangkok
Published: 19/03/2010 at 02:51 PM
Online news: Breakingnews
About 600 red-shirts left Udon Thani in 10 buses and one van on Friday
afternoon en route to...
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Forum: Asia
March 19th, 2010, 10:20 PM Posted to soc.culture.thai,rec.travel.asia
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M16s and MOLOTOV cocktails been used in BANGKOK
Bangkok Post
19 Mar 2010
Molotov cocktails were thrown at an exhibit tank in front of the
Second Cavalry Division at Sanam Pao on Phahon Yothin road on Thursday
night and gunmen opened fire on two...
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Forum: Asia
March 19th, 2010, 10:08 PM Posted to soc.culture.thai,rec.travel.asia
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REDS are BLOCKING BANGKOK SATURDAY
BANGKOK:
-- Traffic policemen at all stations in Bangkok have been instructed
to put more effort into controlling heavy congestion anticipated on
Saturday when antigovernment protestors start their...
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Forum: Asia
February 25th, 2010, 06:29 PM Posted to soc.culture.thai,rec.travel.asia,soc.culture.malaysia,soc.culture.singapore
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Thailand on high alert for trouble brewing
More than 20,000 troops and police have been placed on high alert
across Thailand, ahead of a supreme court decision on the assets of
Thaksin Shinawatra, the country's ousted former prime...
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Forum: Asia
February 20th, 2010, 08:50 PM Posted to soc.culture.thai,rec.travel.asia,soc.culture.malaysia,soc.culture.singapore
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Forum: Asia
February 16th, 2010, 06:28 PM Posted to soc.culture.thai,rec.travel.asia,soc.culture.malaysia,soc.culture.singapore
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Riots expected in Bangkok soon
Government asked to implement emergency decree to head off rioting
By Suchat Sritama
The Nation
BANGKOK: -- The Thai Chamber of Commerce yesterday asked the
government to consider declaring a...
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Forum: Asia
February 5th, 2010, 06:11 PM Posted to soc.culture.thai,rec.travel.asia,soc.culture.malaysia,soc.culture.singapore
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Phukets ripoff taxis
http://phuketgazette.net/news/detail.asp?id=8321
Phuket rip-off: the trouble with tuk-tuks
February 6, 2010
Seeing red ... tourists pay 10 times more for tuk-tuks in Phuket than
in Bangkok....
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Forum: Asia
January 6th, 2010, 01:57 PM Posted to soc.culture.thai,rec.travel.asia
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Canadian bashed up by PHUKET Taxi driver
Photo by phuketwan.com
Phuket Has Too Many Tuk-Tuks, says Police Chief
By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
IVAN ANWAR says he will come back to visit Thailand again,...
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Forum: Asia
January 5th, 2010, 06:47 PM Posted to soc.culture.thai,rec.travel.asia,soc.culture.malaysia,soc.culture.singapore
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Canadian beaten up by Phuket tuktuk driver
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Karon tuk-tuk driver gets bail
CHALONG, PHUKET: The Karon tuk-tuk driver accused of attacking a
family of French tourists with a metal pole on December 26 turned
himself in...
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Forum: Asia
January 5th, 2010, 06:37 PM Posted to soc.culture.thai,rec.travel.asia,soc.culture.malaysia,soc.culture.singapore
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Canadian beaten up by Phuket tuktuk driver
One-minute trip, 150 baht: A tourist points the finger at a tuk-tuk
driver
Photo by phuketwan.com
Will This Photo Give Phuket Real Public Transport?
By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian
Tuesday,...
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Forum: Asia
January 5th, 2010, 06:23 PM Posted to soc.culture.thai,rec.travel.asia,soc.culture.malaysia,soc.culture.singapore
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Brit tourists robbed by thieves on PHUKET
Phuket: Snatch-and-run bandits nabbed in Phuket
The thieves, in handcuffs, re-enact the crime as the two English
victims look on.
KAMALA, PHUKET: A pair of of English tourists will leave Phuket...
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Forum: Asia
January 2nd, 2010, 03:37 PM Posted to soc.culture.thai,rec.travel.asia,soc.culture.malaysia,soc.culture.singapore
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Phuket tourists attacked by Taxi driver thugs
Comments
So Sad for Phuket....... but its good that all this issues are finally
addressed by the media. its good in the long-term!
Fact is that public parking is reserved for car and bike...
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Forum: Asia
January 2nd, 2010, 03:18 PM Posted to soc.culture.thai,rec.travel.asia,soc.culture.malaysia,soc.culture.singapore
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Phuket rotten with corruption and greed
Photo by phuketwan.com
Phuket Economy to Suffer Unless Government Acts
By Alan Morison
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Phuketwan News Analysis/Opinion
FIRM and speedy Government action is probably the...
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Forum: Asia
December 31st, 2009, 01:43 PM Posted to soc.culture.thai,rec.travel.asia,soc.culture.malaysia,soc.culture.singapore
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Phuket tourists attacked by Taxi driver thugs
French tourists attacked for parking in 'wrong place'
PHUKET: Chalong Police are on the hunt for a man presumed to be a ‘tuk-
tuk / taxi driver’ who allegedly set upon a French family with a...
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Forum: Asia
December 31st, 2009, 01:42 PM Posted to soc.culture.thai,rec.travel.asia,soc.culture.malaysia,soc.culture.singapore
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Phuket tourists attacked by Taxi driver thugs
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
French tourists attacked for parking in 'wrong place'
PHUKET: Chalong Police are on the hunt for a man presumed to be a ‘tuk-
tuk / taxi driver’ who allegedly set upon a...
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Forum: Asia
December 29th, 2009, 04:08 PM Posted to soc.culture.thai,rec.travel.asia
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French tourists attacked in Phuket Thailand
Exclusive: Man 'Beat My Family Over Car Parking'
By Phuketwan Reporter
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
A DISPUTE between a French tourist on a Christmas holiday and a man
wielding a weapon has...
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Forum: Asia
November 28th, 2009, 02:01 PM Posted to soc.culture.thai,rec.travel.asia
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Brit couple drugged and raped on Ko Chang
British couple subjected to vile 'Clockwork Orange' style sex attack
on Thailand holiday
By ANDREW DRUMMOND
Last updated at 12:38 AM on 28th November 2009
A British couple have become victims of a...
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