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September 2009

Big Trouble in Tourist Thailand – Episode 4

by Admin September 30, 2009 Expat Life
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The hits just keep on coming. In this episode:
Plane crash in Koh Samui
Songkran Road Accidents
Drug Crackdown on the Border
Manchester Kid Busted for Smuggling

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Thai Vogue

by Admin September 29, 2009 People

I got a kick out of this. Thought others might enjoy.

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Good Thai Girls and Bad Thai Girls – Is There More to the Story?

by Anonymous September 29, 2009 Popular

One frustrating thing about talking about Thai girls is that it’s so easy to make these huge generalizations due to the fact that us farangs aren’t really very well tuned into how Thai society and culture work. Some people try to delineate at the highest level putting Thai girls into Good and Bad camps. [...]

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Big Trouble in Tourist Thailand-Episode 3

by Admin September 23, 2009 Expat Life

For those of you who have been enjoying Big Trouble in Tourist Thailand here comes episode three.

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Big Trouble in Tourist Thailand-Episode 2

by Admin September 17, 2009 Expat Life

Here is episode two of the Bravo program that is causing so much controversy.
Big Trouble in Tourist Thailand – Episode 1
Phuket acts to clean up jet-ski woes

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Best and Worst Dressed Sex Tourists on Soi Cowboy

by Admin September 14, 2009 Bangkok Nightlife

Stickman posted a link to the worst dressed video but he failed to note the same person also made a video of well dressed men visiting Soi Cowboy.
To be honest, while the worst dressed aren’t exactly dressed to go to the opera, IT’S SOI COWBOY!!! Shorts and a t-shirt are pretty much [...]

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Think-tank calls for welfare state

by Admin September 13, 2009 Thai News Snippets

A really interesting story in The Nation about a think tank’s recommendation that the Thai government develop a welfare system.
I do disagree when they say the market system failed in Thailand. Something that doesn’t actually exist can’t fail. When the government is nothing more than a way for people to enrich [...]

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Phuket acts to clean up jet-ski woes

by Admin September 13, 2009 Expat Life

The other day I posted some links to the first episode of Big Trouble in Tourist Thailand. Well, it appears that Thai officials saw the program too and they’re none too happy. Phuket Governor Wichai Praisa-ngob has written to embassies trying to explain that the reason they haven’t cracked down before is because [...]

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Big Trouble in Tourist Thailand

by Admin September 10, 2009 Expat Life

I know some people may have already seen this but I thought it was interesting and wanted to share it with you. Basically, the show is about what a mess Thailand is for tourists. From the old jetski scam to getting banged up for drugs the program shows Thailand in the worst light [...]

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Topics from the Message Boards 08 Sep 2009

by Admin September 8, 2009 General

We announced awhile back that we added message boards to Bangkok Diaries to give people a chance to ask questions, share opinions, etc when there isn’t an existing post on the blog and/or people don’t want to go to the trouble of writing an entire blog post. Just to keep people updated, here’s a [...]

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