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My export business in Pattaya failed after the cyber-crime police raided my house. I was without funds for the three months prior to trial for copyright infringement and my finances soon mimicked Zimbabwe. I could have toughed it out, except the economic climate in Pattaya was also dire. The westerners in this town pride themselves […]

I’ve spent an hour in Pattaya jail awaiting trial for a civil suit. I ordered khao-gai for the jailers. As much as I wanted. From what I heard from those unfortunates incarcerated for longer periods than 60 minutes, the diet in Thai prisons is very lean. Rice and more rice but never enough, which would […]

Songkran marks the official start of the low season and this year promises to be a lean one. Gas prices and tight credit are impacting the West. Perrennial visitors to Pattaya are cutting back on both the length of their stays and the number of trips they take this year. Bar girls are starving for […]

Men come to Pattaya for one reason.
It is not golf or the beach.
They come for the girls.

“I never pay for it.” First-timers say as they evict a bargirl from their hotel room without even taxi fare only to get a high heel thunked against their skull the next time the stiffed bargirl spots her cheap […]

A Thai university lecturer tried to convince a female student to submit to an indecent oral exam in exchange for a better grade. The student escaped the dastardly professor and returned with the police, although unlike in the case of President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky there was no semen-stained black dress to act as the […]

Thai girlfriends are renown for their devotion to untruth, especially when it comes to letting their absent boyfriends know their whereabouts.

“I’m in my village with maih.” I’ve heard this phone conversation from the bed of many a naked woman and Soi 6 is certainly not Isaan.
Many suspicious farangs increasingly hire detectives to track down their […]

Koh Samui Hospital has reported that the UK resident smuggling ingested hashish has died while under care. Three of the capsules containing the hashish burst in his stomach and he overdosed on the cannibas resin. The doctors said he felt no pain. Let this be a warning to farangs everywhere that easy money has its […]

For years farang residents in Thailand have dealt with the ever-changing kaleidescope of immigration restrictions; most recently the elimination of the eternal tourist visa border run, however their seemingly anti-farang sentiment is much more liberal than the Celestial Empire to the north, for while China will welcome of horde of big-nosed barbarians for the Summer […]

Warning.
No beer April 26-27 as Chonburi province holds its election this weekend and then next week a similar ban on booze for May 3-4 for Pattaya’s mayoral and city council elections.
The nation wants sober decision on who should hold power over the populace for the years to come and everyone knowas that like driving drinking […]

Longtime farang residents flee Pattaya during the Songkran festival, however the city council has reported that over a half-million people visited the Last Babylon to participate in the festivities and mayhem, spending as much as 1000 baht a day. Mostly on beer and whiskey and hotel rooms. Business leaders have reported that the total visitors […]