Entries Tagged 'Central Thailand' ↓
March 11th, 2010 — Bangkok, Politics, Red Shirts, Travel Warning
Are you in the risk of being locked inside your own apartment for a few days? What are the hotspots that the Red Shirts and the police will close off tomorrow?
If you need to travel from these areas tomorrow remember that you probably cannot get a taxi and you can probably not go out with car at all. The roads will be closed and nobody can go in and out from tomorrow at noon 12.00 until the time the Police and the Red Shirts goes away.
If your car or motorbike is parked outside in these streets you might consider moving it away to avoid damage.
Do not get angry at the police or the Red Shirts for blocking your way you have been warned about this now and just accept the fact and be sabi sabi.
If you do not want to stay inside your home for a few days then go to the sea side and relax.
Map of hot spots provided by Nation Multimedia
travel warning for bangkok
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March 10th, 2010 — Crimes, Nakhon Pathom
I waited for sometimes to write about this because I could not even look at the pictures on the site. Now I see that the page is missing from Pattayadailynews.com website so I can finally write about it. The pictures was two dogs hanging like chickens in a food stall like when you go buy chicken and rice in Thailand. But in this case it was dog and rice and you clearly see the dogs with the heads everything hanging on hooks with no hair.
In this article a journalist went up to Nakhon Phanom and the small majority Catholic village of Ta Rae to investigate the dog trade. Normally Thai Buddhist would not get involved in this trader and it probably took serve poverty to force them to kill and butcher dogs.
Most of the dog meat goes to Vietnam and are sold for $10 a dog and the profit most be huge since the dogs are free.
As usual in Thailand this illegal trade can go on because the politicians and police are getting money from it and they are closing their eyes. They must close them pretty hard since big trucks are leaving daily to the border.
From my perspective the dog has long been a helper to the human beings and not a food product as pig and cow, we have domesticated the dog and made it our pets, and we should not eat pets.
If you want to see the pictures you can just search on Google for this village and dog trade and you will find many different articles and movies.
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February 20th, 2010 — Bangkok, PAD, Politics, Red Shirts, Travel Warning
The foreign embassies in Bangkok have already started to warn people to not come to Bangkok during the end of February. On the 26 of February the court will decide what to do with the 47 billion THB the Thai government have impounded from the former PM of Thailand.
The red shirts have off course plans for this weekend with big rallies and maybe even an airport occupation who knows? When the Thai police failed to arrest the yellow shirts and bring them to justice within reasonable time they just send a signal to others to do the same.
It is all about politics but now the new government fair politic fails, poor people in Thailand always get arrested for petty crime but powerful people that bring the country to a stand still gets away with it and can even form a new party.
The Thai police should have arrested and prosecuted the core leaders for the Yellow shirts a long time ago (yeah we wish) and by that sending a strong signal to everybody that demonstrations are ok but keep it legal. Now everybody is doing what the please and the police have no real power but they have to call for the army every time something happens and do the Thai people really want to see the army on the streets?
Now some Thai media have blown up the conflict several times to gain either side of this conflicts but this time it’s not a false alarm the embassies do not get their info from newspapers but from other sources.
People are warned to not visit Bangkok during this time but on the other hand last year when the riots and gun shots were blazing down town people celebrated the water festival in other parts of Bangkok.
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October 9th, 2009 — Bangkok
The sandbags are out in Bangkok and the special unit for flooding is being alerted but I think it will be floods in Bangkok anyway. Even if they clean the drainage tunnels every week the food wanders will still fill them up with oil and food every night and then complain to the city consul when the flood comes.
If you wonder why the houses around sathorn soi 1 are so expensive it is because sathorn is on a small hill and the rain water does not affect them. Every year they can just smile and see the water in Bangkok flood the lower areas of Bangkok.
This is actually the best time to look at houses and apartments if you want to buy one. You can see with your own eyes if your new condo will be under water or not in the rainy season. You cannot ask the seller because they will just tell you they never see this soi flooded even if they had water up to their ears last year.
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