OTOP Sale through Sunday

10 AM to 9 PM

New "One Year Extension" regulation

No one year extension will be granted to persons whose passport expires within that period.  Extensions will only be granted until passport expiry date.

Read more at  Thailand-Tip

Lost in Translation

Bangkok Weather Forecast, August 30

"...heavy rain somewhere"

Where's the rainy season

Weather continues to approach mostly from the north.

Even though up to 90% rain chance had been forecast daily this week, the total has been less than 10 mm (.04 inch).

Increased rain is again predicted for the weekend, starting with moderate to heavy this afternoon.  Personally I'm ready to post drought alerts

Sakon Nakhon OTOP Fair

OTOP Fair

municipal grounds (near police headquarters), through Sept 1
started August 27 

Leave your mobile/Internet provider at home

Makes the news a couple times a year. 
Person returns from vacation and is confronted by phone or Internet charges costing more than the weeks of vacation. 
If you use your hometown services while traveling, you're going to get stuck with roving and international charges.
Use the services in the country you are traveling to

U.S. Citizen Services. Consular Outreach

Udon Thani, Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Sales of laughing gas  is no laughing matter	Mostly teenagers selling the stuff have been apprehended, no suppliers yet.
Pattaya has  a Mafia Free Zone	Rent a jet ski
Thailand Cuts Interest Rates	.25%
Briton plunges from balcony	A "very common" accident in Thailand.
Angry farmers  block roads, railway	"...Sept 3 when the Thai cabinet will consider a 25 billion baht budget to help the (rubber) farmers

T.i.T Plus

Drugs planted on Melbourne couple' in Thailand

Thailand looks to repeat 'Thaksinomics' economic success 
BBC

"...Thaksinomics is proving less successful."

"...high possibility of greater foreign capital outflow..."
THE NATION

Tesco Rumor

Tesco now has four shops in the area.
The main store and three mini markets called Tesco Express, which seem to be in competition with 7-11.

The rumor is that the main store will be expanded with additions to the present building, adding other outlet stores.

Highway flares not appropriate for Football Fans

Those flares spit hot lava. Anyone on the receiving end will have severe burns.
I've seen these droppings leave some nasty scars back in the seventies, at a rock concert



At Sakon FC they are now no-no. At other stadiums they continue to be in use

 

Surin
25 Aug

Sakon FC has slipped into eleventh place in the league standings.  It's a very rough road ahead for the team:

• Mahasarakam, Sunday, September 1, at home.

Sakon Nakhon FC ends this season on the road, 

• Sept   8 at Nong Kai, 
• Sept 15 at Surin.

2013 Royal Longboat Races and Wax Castle Festival October 15 - 19

Posters from past years