SakonNakhon Auto Show 2010 and more

A slight almost unnoticeable drizzle, this morning, as local car dealers set up for the first SakonNakhon Auto Show.
The show runs through July 30 in the BIG-C Plaza







Illegal logging 
in Phu Phan mountains


details at 76.nationchannel read at Google Translate

Original Thai version 76.nationchannel


Other recent SakonNakhon news at  at 76.nationchannel 

June 30: 477 dengue fever cases reported during first six months of 2010 read at Google Translate

Sakon FC heads to Loei for a match on Sunday
Sakon FC ranks sixth in the league of 16

                                                                

Tropical storm CHANTHU

Five day tracking forecast at wunderground
The center of the storm is moving into southern China from the South China Sea, in a northwesterly direction.
The storm seems to have a face and a big smile.
Southern China has not yet recovered from recent heavy flooding caused by two previous storms.



Local weather appears to be coming from a north westerly direction

An honorable mention for SakonNakhon Produce

SakonNakhon won runner (up) in a recent study of pesticide free produce according to AlmostTheBEST2010 

A SakonNakhon First

Sakon F.C. 3 - 2 Udon Thani F.C.

      

I knew this was going to be a great game.
In a previous match at Udon, the teams walked away as equals 1-1.
The first half of the game was intense. At times neither team kept control of the ball for very long.
Udon Cheers outnumbered local groans, as Udon Thani scored the first goal fifteen minutes into the game.


It took The Sakon players ten more minutes to come up with their first goal.
After that it looked like it was going to be an easy victory with successive  goals by Sakon

   

Early in the second half Udon scored again making it a 3 - 2 game.
It almost was going to be another tie game, but what looked like another goal by Udon was nixed by the referee.

Thailand to unleash swarm of wasps in Khon Kaen

Thailand's first Suksuk offer  look up the meaning first !!

British Behavior Abroad (BBC NEWS UK) interesting statistics


Chicken came before egg, evidence suggests


How to judge your wife's memory, look at her... posterior (BBC NEWS HEALTH)
also explains why I haven't had  any loss of brain function


fun stuff 10 Innovative Subway Advertisements

Weather Warning: Tropical Storm “Conson”

Typhon Conson, responsible for a number of deaths in the Philippines is heading in a northwesterly direction.
China is preparing for 'worst floods in years.' Today Online

Thai Meteorological Department has issued 
a weather warning for the next four days.  


SakonNakhon is not among provinces listed in the weather warning

Three day storm tracking image of Conson


Over the past week SakonNakhon has seen little rain, with rain to the north and south.  
Two days ago there was a light sprinkle at my front door and sunshine at my kitchen door.

    

Sakon F.C. 1-1 Nong Bua Lamphu F.C.

1:1 Draw 
Sakon F.C. at
Nong Bua Lamphu
View video  here
Sakon F.C. hosts Udon F.C. this Sunday, July 18 

U.S Consular Fee changes effective July 13 travel.state.gov/news

More video by gorbhong

Australian Business Travel Plan

Thai venture goes to water 

The Sydney Morning Herald

A great combination

England soccer team gets three new sponsors 

Pattaya Rag

British English has changed more 

than American English 
read about it here:  nicholasjohnpatrick...did-americans-in-1776-have-british-accents

Coming Soon: Sakon Tourism and Sports Office

The building seems to be complete and awaiting it's Occupants.


With the school a matter of five minutes from my house, I went there briefly this morning, after having been invited to watch what must have been local Junior League Football.

  

 

Thai Tourism Resuscitation

Tourism Thailand is developing a new site: 

• Amazing Thailand  Amazing Value  Beta.

I've been following the building of the site for the last few months.  
There have been continuous improvements.

It's the first time that Sakon Nakhon and many other areas of Thailand 
have been added as Thailand travel destinations, with more than a paragraph or two.
There's plenty of information available about Sakon Nakhon. 
 It's a Beta version, that means "there's plenty more to come."
http://www.tourismthailand.org/where-to-go/cities-guide/destination/sakon-nakhon/


Thai Language Travel videos


IamExtender has uploaded six more videos over night.  Raising the total of videos from 444 yesterday, to 450 today.  


Even though the video's are in Thai, there's plenty to learn and see

Grand Prize winners of the 2010 Microsoft Imagine Cup

• Team Skeek from Thailand