Bangkok pavement clean-up. Street vendors are forced off the sidewalks
BANGKOK PAVEMENT CLEAN-UP Bangkok pavement clean-up takes on a new phase with the tearing down of stalls along Maharaj Road near Tha Chang Plaza. Will Bangkok be a better or worse place if the street stalls are cleared away? Opinion seems to be greatly divided on this one but whatever your thoughts the hustle & bustle […]
Jomtien beach road Pattaya
Jomtien beach road Jomtien is immediately south of Pattaya and, practically speaking, they form one municipality. Jomtien, like Pattaya, is popular with tourists, but has a significant population of permanent expats and some workers, making for a more sedate bar and nightlife scene. As with most Thai place and street names written using Latin […]
Jomtien Pattaya Thailand
A few shots taken on Jomtien Pattaya Thailand Jomtien Pattaya Thailand Jomtien (จอมเทียน) or Jomtien Beach (หาดจอมเทียน, Haat Jomtien), on road signs and road maps also often written Chom Tian, is a town on the east coast of the Gulf of Thailand about 165 km southeast of Bangkok in Chonburi Province. It is about 3 km […]
Mushroom farming in Thailand
Mushroom farming in Thailand My wife has started to grow her own mushrooms for home consumption and i was surprised at how easily and quickly they grow. I have taken some photographs to show you the equipment an methods that are used to do this. there is also a tutorial below if you want […]
Ancient Siam pictures
Ancient Siam pictures Ancient siam pictures. Ancient Siam (also known as Ancient City)(Thai: เมืองโบราณ, Mueang Boran) is a park constructed under the patronage of Lek Viriyaphant and spreading over 200 acres (0.81 km2) in the shape of Thailand. The founder’s original idea was to create a golf course with miniatures of Thailand’s historically significant structures […]
Thailand taxi driver returns passengers iphone
Kind thailand taxi drives two hours from Pattaya to Bangkok to return passenger’s iPhone Thailand taxi. While we’re all familiar with the bad behavior of Bangkok taxi drivers, here’s a feel-good story to show us that not all cabbies are awful human beings. A Pattaya taxi driver made a Scottish man’s birthday even […]
Teaching in Thailand
Teaching in Thailand. Officials to slash number of foreign English teachers Teaching in Thailand. Although Thailand ranked at the very bottom of the English Proficiency Index by EF, the government’s next move is to cut back on hiring foreign English teachers and have Thais teach English to Thais. The Education Ministry wants to cut back […]
Suvarnabhumi airport Bangkok
Prepare to Pay 35 Baht More for Plane Tickets Suvarnabhumi Airport BANGKOK — Beginning in December, air travelers will need to pay another 35 baht when traveling through Thailand’s six major airports to pay for upgraded security systems. Six months after an alarming security lapse exposed outdated systems at Suvarnabhumi Airport, the company […]
Bangkok half marathon
Bangkok runners to get shirts for ‘longest-ever’ half-marathon Bangkok half marathon: — Organisers of the Standard Chartered Bangkok Marathon have promised to hand finisher jerseys in compensation to participants who were made to run an extra 5.5 kilometres on top of the standard 21.1km in Sunday’s early morning race. Organisers of the Standard Chartered […]
Koh Samui Island in the Gulf of Thailand
The beautiful Koh Samui Island in the Gulf of Thailand Koh Samui Island (or Koh Samui, Thai: เกาะสมุย, Thai pronunciation: [kɔ̀ sàmūj]) is an island off the east coast of the Kra Isthmus, Thailand. Geographically in the Chumphon Archipelago, it is administratively part of Surat Thani Province. Koh Samui Island is Thailand’s second-largest island after Phuket, with […]
Thai Culture Mobile Application
Thai Culture Min of Culture’s new app touts 70,000 tourist destinations BANGKOK, 12 November 2015, (NNT) – The Ministry of Culture recently unveiled the ‘Thai Culture Mobile Application,’ offering smartphone users a collection of more than 70,000 cultural destinations and related information in the ASEAN region. Culture Minister Weera Rojpojanarat explained the application would display […]
Thailand superstition
Thailand superstition: Four year old twins ‘get married’ to help ward off evil spirits CHAINAT: The parents of four year old twins have held a wedding ceremony for their children in the hope of saving them from bad luck and evil spirits. The ceremony, which was held at the family home in Chainat province, […]