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06-11-2010
British Summer Time – by Mike Bell[4,005 views]

As British Summer Time finished on Halloween Night, Thai Winter Time began. Yes you read it right first time – winter in Thailand! Hitherto I had thought there were only three seasons here in Funtown: Hot, Hot and Wet and Very Hot. Now I find there’s a fourth: COLD. Cold, I wrote it again but still can’t do it without smiling. My wife has all the windows and doors closed. When she has finished her seemingly unending chores, she sits down in front of the television, cocooned in a duvet like a curvy silkworm.
05-11-2010
Our one-night ‘sweet pink villa’ swept away by flood![1,947 views]

This is a first-hand account of a couple’s narrow escape from a flood-hit Ratchaburi resort.
03-11-2010
And So It Grows[1,382 views]

Following the publication of my last article in the previous Pattaya Daily News (hopefully it will be the first of many), my life has changed in so many ways. The article, you will remember, was a spoof on a Thai Shakespearean playwright. Yes, dear reader, you were had: I made him up, him and his plays such as Hamlek and As You Lick It. He was a figment of my fertile imagination. Since appearing in print, my self esteem has grown enormously. It was always big, my self esteem, now it is enormous. And I got paid for it! People often say ‘Oh the money’s not important.’ Not me. It means I am now a Professional Writer like Charles Dickens or Ian Fleming.
01-11-2010
Top Medi-Journal Says Alcohol Does More Harm Than Heroin[3,991 views]

Alcohol is more harmful than heroin or crack, so says a recent report in the Lancet, the UK’s top medical journal.
30-10-2010
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery[1,993 views]

Without being racist, it is generally accepted that there are national characteristics: the British are not famous for their love-making or their cricket teams; the French are not renowned for their courage when facing Germans. So it could be said that the Thais are not famed for their originality. They make great imitations but are rarely first with an idea. It came as no surprise, therefore, to find a web-site devoted to the Bard of Pattaya-on-Avon, a Mr Som Tham Zuhn.
20-10-2010
Disclosure: The Reptilian Menace (Part 1)[3,929 views]

The dinosaurs were among the most successful animals ever to live on the Earth. Their reign lasted over 100 million years and, until recently, the prevalent theory maintained their demise was the result of the KT event, 65 million years ago, when a 10 km-wide meteorite impacted on Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula causing the Chicxulub crater and leading to worldwide forest fires, several km-high tsunamis, and an 'impact winter' resulting in the dinosaurs being blasted, roasted and frozen to death.
16-10-2010
Festive Self-Mutilation Comes To Pattaya[3,003 views]

The annual Vegetarian Festival that takes place all over Thailand during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, which this year occurs from 7 to 17 October, is normally a peaceful affair, with the notable exception of Phuket. Now, Phuket has come to Pattaya, so to speak, in the form of self-piercing during the Dragon Parades.
11-10-2010
Evidence of Salient Extraterrestrial Involvement on Earth[7,181 views]

We spoke about the urgency of the moment in our last article ‘The Dawn of Disclosure’ for to quote Victor Hugo - "There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come." Certainly, the need to fully inform the populace of the world about not only the existence of extraterrestrials but the extent to which they have influenced mankind’s whole history is paramount. This point was made by the Director of the Disclosure Project, Dr. Steven Greer, in his briefing on UFO Disclosure to President Obama, requesting that he come clean about both ET-government involvement and the secret US space and ‘black-ops’ programme , estimated to be costing US$100 billion annually.
11-10-2010
Child Abuse & Sexual Assault on the Rise in Thailand[10,984 views]

A statistical report compiled by various child and women protection agencies show a worrying increase in abuse and sexual assault related crimes in Thailand. The report particularly focuses on a significant increase in rape and sexual assaults perpetrated on minors.
09-10-2010
Unscrupulous Food Vendors Selling Fake Vegetarian Fare[4,471 views]

Despite the need for strict adherence to the guidlines of the Vegetarian Festival, some unscrupulous food vendors are tryiing to pass off meat, fowl and fish as being genuine vegetarian fare. Below are the Vegetarin Festival guidelines and some recommendations to avoid being conned.
09-10-2010
Are You Surrounded by Toxic People[6,471 views]

What are toxic people and do you have them around you in your life or in your place of employment? Take a look at those around you, people you work with, friends, family or anyone who interacts with you on a daily basis.
07-10-2010
Stranger than Fiction: Was God an Astronaut?[5,886 views]

“Was God an astronaut?” asked Erich von Daniken and he was answered in the affirmative by Zecharia Sitchin, scholar of ancient languages and researcher into prehistory. And why did Sitchin answer “well, yes, actually, god was an astronaut”? Because the Bible told him so. Not the Bible as it’s ordinarily interpreted, which has been subject to numerous mistranslations and distortions, but the ancient Hebrew version of the Old Testament and the written sources from which it was taken, namely, from the Caanaanites, Hittites, Assyrians, Babylonians, and before them the Sumerians.
07-10-2010
The Dawn Of Disclosure: UFOs Paralyse US Missile Bases[6,199 views]

Is there anybody out there? Or to rephrase the question – in a multiverse of countless dimensions, containing trillions of galaxies, each containing stars with orbiting planets, many of which have all the conditions necessary to sustain humanoid existence, how could there not be?
03-10-2010
An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington[3,804 views]

This book is written as it is spoken by Karl Pilkington who hates travelling and would rather go down the road to eat English food in a beach front café than go touring round the world.
01-10-2010
Turning Your Bedroom into a Love Nest[3,298 views]

Without a doubt, the master bedroom is the most important room in your house. It is the personal private place where you and your partner/spouse can take time out to dream, imagine, communicate, caress and engage in sensual imagination, it is your sanctuary.
01-10-2010
Sudden Disappearance of the Honey Bee[2,753 views]

Honey bees need approximately 35 pounds of honey in their hive for their survival throughout the winter months.
29-09-2010
How Good is Processed Food For Our Pets?[2,452 views]

Rebecca Hosking is the person who led Britain’s first campaign against plastic bags and when her ten month old collie became seriously sick, she and her partner Tim turned detective after vets could offer little help.
28-09-2010
20th Anniversary of Devastating Bangkok Gas Explosion[2,953 views]

In 1990, a devastating accident involving a gas transport truck devastated 21 city blocks along the New Petchaburi Road in Bangkok, killing 59 civilians and injuring many more. Here we recount the news from that shocking event.
27-09-2010
Celebrities Who Start a Business Without a Business Head[2,175 views]

What makes some celebrities decide to go into business while others are happy spending what they make being just a celebrity?
23-09-2010
Data Protection Stops Return of Pet to Owner[2,249 views]

With all the PC around these days and Data Protection, is it worth having your precious pet micro chipped?