Over the past few years the top tier Thai courts have simply been stellar in their performance. Because of the care involved to follow the law and all its procedures, there is a real sense of fairness. Unfortunately that is not the case with second tier Thai courts. [Read more →]
It is not uncommon for the convicted fugitive Thaksin Shinawatra to disappear for a few days or a few weeks at a time when things do not go his way. You can call it imagination or a gut feeling, but somehow this disappearance seems different. [Read more →]
The power of the Blog is a growing strength in the war against criminals who wish to go unnoticed. This is not without risk to the bloggers, and that is why the bloggers that shine their light in dark places prefer to keep their identity secret. Now the Mexican drug lords have told the media to be silent or die, and that is no idle threat. [Read more →]
Convicting someone for something only hinted at is a bit difficult to do. That is particularly so if one or more of the jurors is an Alpha and just doesn’t follow along and uses their own observations and conclusions of the alleged crime. [Read more →]
It has been growing ever since the day after the Red Shirt occupation in Bangkok was disbursed. The desire to come down hard on the Red Shirts and enforce the law is now dragging way too many innocent well meaning people into the gravity well of this political black hole. [Read more →]
Pattaya however is a fun place that can be experienced by everyone. The only people that truly need worry are the people who lack self control, and being a novice in this place of extremes and temptation. If you are a skier, Pattaya is most certainly a black diamond trail. [Read more →]
Believe it or not, Pattaya is such an extreme place for fun, people who live in Bangkok can only endure a few days at a time. The full on fun of Pattaya can take its toll on the body as well as the wallet. Even that Pattaya is only a 2 hour ride on a bus from Bangkok, it is a world away. [Read more →]
To a man that has been to Pattaya once, it becomes a place he dreams about. Pattaya is so far removed from the politically correct world it is actually intoxicating. But as with being intoxicated, foolish choices are made often with disastrous results. [Read more →]
For many Thais Pattaya is a place a lot of money can be made. But as the world is not the wonderful loving and caring place that Catholic schools teach about, there is a price to pay for that big money. [Read more →]
In the Pinocchio story there is a place called ‘Pleasure Island’ that is filled with wonderful exciting and fun things. It is also a place of peril and that if you stay too long you eventually turn into a donkey. In the real life Pleasure Island that is in Thailand, it is filled with wonderful exciting fun things as well as perils. The one difference is you won’t turn into a donkey, but there is a good chance you will turn into an ass. [Read more →]
State of Emergency (SOE) is one of those panic phrases that is right up there with ‘Shark’ or ‘Fire’! But when it comes to Thailand’s present SOE, there are more people welcoming it than one would imagine, and we are not talking about the government who imposed it. [Read more →]
Stepping back and identifying what could be described as Lèse majesté actions, we see that it is indeed a network of people each doing a different task. As each task alone does not warrant being called a Lèse majesté action, collectively they do. [Read more →]
As we continue to look at how being an Alpha plays into life in Thailand, it becomes a battle of loyalty. As time and age play an ever increasing role in the status of the Monarchy, most if not all Thais dread the thought of the news that the day of change has come. [Read more →]
As Alpha visual qualities are so important in Thailand, it becomes easy to forget the qualities of achievement. No matter how much good was done in the past, being an Alpha is all about today and not yesterday. [Read more →]
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