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Global Warming Warning On The River Kwai

November 5, 2017 – 3:49 am

Recently my wife daughter dog and I toured the River Kwai. The  deforested mountains were sported plumes of smoke from where  farmers were burning the slopes to cut back vegetation for orchards. When I mentioned this violation to the rangers at the forestry station, they shrugged with ineffectiveness. “Mai mi alai samlat yut fi mai.” They had no way […]

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Siam or Thailand?

November 3, 2017 – 12:31 am

Pattaya is not in Siam but Thailand. Why? Supposedly military-backed government was scared Burma might invade Siam and sent new maps to Rangoon with Thailand instead of Siam. The generals figured the Burmese would think that Siam had vanished from the face of the planet, eliminating the need for war anymore and to be truthful […]

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Crime and Punishment in Pattaya

October 29, 2017 – 8:12 am

Several years ago a 61 year-old farang stabbed his girlfriend three times. She was in her twenties. The hospital staff declared the unfortunate lover DOA at the hospital. The idiot in a fit of remorse slashed himself with the murder weapon. This sad story occurs regularly in Pattaya but also everywhere else in the world. Hollywood […]

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Dying Solo Ala Pattaya

October 26, 2017 – 7:41 am

Back in 2007 a local Pattaya paper reported on a desolate death as follows; Residents of Nongprue municipality, near Pattaya, reported to the police that a man had sighed his last next to a wooden bench in a built-up area. Arriving at the scene, police found the corpse of Mr Jamreon Racha, aged 55 and […]

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The Best Ordovician Horseshoe Crab in the World

October 4, 2017 – 1:51 pm

Dating back in time to the Ordovician age 450 million years ago horseshoe crabs are considered living fossils. These ancient invertebrates’ eyes are a million times more sensitive to light than humans, but they don’t have wear sunglasses while mating in mud or sand of shallow coastal waters. Sadly these extraordinary creatures are threatened by […]

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