Today in News from Thailand:
• Dossier: Is the mortgage system for rice a bad system?
• Minister wants to rename grocery store in 'show-suay'
• Governor Bangkok gets a dream team of four deputies
Thailand is under international pressure to end the illegal ivory trade. Now that stricter measures are looming, ivory sellers fear for the survival of the beautiful craft of ivory carving.
Bangkok is one big traffic jam. The municipality will ask residents for solutions. Students from local universities are the first to come up with suggestions. A good example of a bottom-up approach.
A Dutch tourist has withdrawn a report of rape after she could not remember anything about the crime.
Soj and Jacques Koppert from Wemeldinge hibernate for five months in Ban Mae Yang Yuang (Phrae). After two months they were ready for vacation. On to Hua Hin and Kanchanaburi.
Cor Verhoef is surprised. He walked past the television and saw an advertisement for a curious product.
We would very much like to build a future together in Thailand. But wherever I go, you're almost completely covered in regulations.
Dear editors of Thailandblog, here is a small report of Ramon's cremation.
Thailand has a number of public holidays. It is useful for tourists to know which ones because government services, large companies and banks are closed on official holidays. Most shops, all shopping malls and almost all tourist attractions are open normally.
Today in News from Thailand:
• Sukhumbhand needs to get on the mat at DSI
• Credit rating Thailand point up
• New section: Dossier
• Thailand crocodile proposal fails
'Discrimination' and 'violation of human rights' are what two Thai organizations call the Red Cross's policy of excluding gays from donating blood. But that is international policy.
Thammasat University students give sex education to teenagers. That works better than when teachers do that. 'We don't dare ask questions to teachers.'
The average price of a hotel room worldwide increased by 2012% in 3 compared to the previous year, according to the latest Hotels.com Hotel Price Index (HPI).
Does anyone know if a Happy DTAC SIM card can be charged in Belgium?
Today in News from Thailand:
• Woman (86) receives 1 million baht compensation for salinization of a field
• Another amnesty proposal; the ninth
• Dubious disinfectant threatens Thai food chain
Thailand will have to sell its huge rice stocks, bought up under the controversial rice mortgage scheme, at a huge loss. Minister Nawatthamrong Boonsongpaisan was reluctant to admit that on Thursday.
Sitting on the back of a 'moped', the drivers drive you to your destination at lightning speed. Moped is actually not a correct name because you can definitely not call 125 cc a moped.
