Monthly Archives: April 2008

Eat Less Advice from Samak

April 21, 2008 – 10:47 am

While governor of Minnesota Jessie Ventura suggested to those constituents suffering from obesity that they should push themselves away from the table to lose weight and now Thai PM Samak has told the nation that they should do the same to cope with the rising food prices, since the increases are simply part of the [...]

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200,000 Tonnes Of Rice Vanish Overnight

April 21, 2008 – 10:30 am

Thailand had stockpiled nearly 2.1 million tonnes of rice against any shortcomings in future rice harvests, however Thai authorities were at a loss to explain how a 10% of the supply vanished without a trace from government warehouses. With fragrant rice selling at 135 baht a kilo, this loss has been calculated at 3.2 billion [...]

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Hashish Burp

April 21, 2008 – 7:46 am

The Koh Samui emergency ward was surprised to discover the cause of a middle-aged tourist’s  stomach cramps was nearly a kilo of hashish worth approx. one million baht. After a two-hour battle to extract a long plastic bag extracted from the Englishman’s intestines, police arrested him on charges of smuggling the Class 5 drug onto [...]

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Conflicting POV’s About Bangkok Torch Protestors

April 18, 2008 – 10:50 am

Thailand’s top copper popped off a warning to any foreigners planning on disrupting tomorrow’s torch run through Bangkok with immediate deportation with the added punishment of permanent blacklist running contrary to the Foreign Minister’s no one will be exiled from the Land of Smiles for demonstrations against the Celestial Kingdom’s torch relay from the Plaza [...]

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From Worst to Very Worst

April 18, 2008 – 10:32 am

No one ever said life was fair and a Thai court proved this axiom to the max by sentencing 50 Burmese survivors of the Ranong death truck to two-months in prison before deportation to their impoverished nation. The 14 child immigrants have already been repatriated out of Thailand. The lorry driver is still on the [...]

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