Monthly Archives: August 2007

Paradise Paved over for Shopping Malls

August 9, 2007 – 11:58 pm

My first visit to Bangkok was in 1990. I stayed at the Malaysia Hotel on Soi Duplei. The trees were bordered by sylvan compounds and I played basketball at the military school next to the Lumpini Muay-Thai stadium. Patpong was a twenty-minute walk through small sois. The city retained the charm of its past, although […]

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UK Tourists in Danger

August 8, 2007 – 12:03 am

The British Foreign Office released press report about the dangers facing UK travelers abroad. The diplomats titled the campaign Know Before You Go to counter British behaviour while on holiday. Let’s face it, the Teabags like to drink and drink a lot, which leads them into situations threatening life. limb, and liberty to themselves and […]

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The Bane of the Catholic Church

August 7, 2007 – 5:40 am

Last year John Mark Carr was arrested in Bangkok for the murder of the 8 year-old Colorado beauty queen. The US media conducted a full-coverage blitz on the pedo-epidemic in Thailand. Placards from the US Government sprouted on telephone poles in Pattaya, warning American adult men against having sex with anyone under 17. The FBI […]

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Dives of Pattaya – Entry Date – Aug 3, 2007

August 3, 2007 – 2:37 am

Aug 3, 2007 Wikpedia defines a ‘dive’ as a rundown drinking establishment offering the cheap drinks of a high alcohol content to a questionable clientele frequenting the bar for the sole purpose of drinking and not petty drinking either. New York City had been loaded with such dubious haunts on the Bowery ot the Boulevard of Broken Dreams. 50 cents […]

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Vassa Buddha Lent 2007

August 2, 2007 – 3:12 am

Nai comes from a Ban Nok in Isaan. After his military service he boarded a bus to Pattaya like thousands of 20 year-olds before him. The beach city provided an easy life and he succumbed to the allure of its vices. Even the good are weak in Pattaya. Nai told his parents he worked in hotels […]

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