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Editor;
Re: Streetwalker drugs, robs German tourist (PM Friday, 09 November 2012) - There are easy ways to prevent such robberies from happening to you and your friends. If you live here for any length of time, you will quickly realize that these drugging/robbery attacks happen often here.
Rule 1: Only wives and girlfriends are allowed in our real rooms, whether that be an apartment, home, or hotel.
Rule 2: Before you go out to pick up a “short time partner”, remove all expensive items from your body. Leave your room with only a small amount of cash, and take your less than 900 THB phone for emergencies, not your smartphone (if your smart)!
Rule 3: Ask one of your friends to take a picture of your and your “new friend” before moving onto Rule 4.
Rule 4: Your new short time friends are only invited into short-time rooms - they exist for your protection - use them!
If she is still stupid enough to drug you, get down to Soi 9 immediately with your friend from Rule 3. We need these criminals jailed, then deported from Pattaya. The police may be able to help apprehend them, and that is why a high quality picture is very helpful. This should be obvious, but for the record, do not ever tell, show, or discuss where you actually live with a short time liaison.
If you found this information helpful, do our community a favor and help spread the word.
Anonymous
 

Thank you sponsors

Editor;
Re: Ladyboy water-volleyball tourney a huge success (PM Friday, 16 November 2012) - Many thanks to the bars for competing and to those other venues who contributed: Areca Lodge, Evergreen, Soi Diana, Fabulous FM103, Sportsman Restaurant, Soi 13, Baadshah Indian Restaurant, 3rd Road and thanks to Pattaya Mail for publishing about the event.
Tony Sales

Expat clubs do far more for the children

Editor;
Re: Swedish social workers given overview on Pattaya programs for poor children (PM Friday, 09 November 2012) - Expat clubs do far more for the children of Pattaya than all govt. agencies combined. Yes, the agencies have good intentions but the road to hell is paved with “good intentions”. The various foreign organizations “do” while the agencies “mull”!
Don Aleman

I was a victim of the scam

Editor;
Re: Yet another jet ski scam leaves 2 Chinese students robbed, beaten (PM Friday, 27 April 2012) - I was a victim of the scam in August 2012 and I was demanded 10,000 baht, but negotiated it to 5000 baht. My hotel owner later said I am lucky to escape and that there was an Indian group who had to lose much more. I really feel bad for what happened to me. There was practically no damage to the boat, just a minute scratch which I believe is also manipulated. Seeing (this news story & comments on the web) reminded me of that bad luck day again.
Sidhu

Angels are still amongst us

Editor;
Some of your readers may remember me from my writing of regular golf reports for the TRGG or in my position as an English teacher in Banchang.
Well that all came to an end in October of 2011 when a car accident left me hospitalised for five months and paralysed in my arms and legs.
I had been with my Thai partner Kwan three years at the time but I am sure she could never have imagined the position she would find herself in.
But she turned out to be an Angel in disguise.
I did not at the time know that she gave up her job as a maid and stayed at the hospital helping look after me and often slept on the floor by my bed.
She is still looking after me 24/7 doing everything for me including jobs that no man would really want his partner doing.
We often hear bad stories about Thai ladies and I am sure that many others would have packed their bags and headed for home where ever that might be quicker than you can say Thailand.
But mine is an Angel and that is the difference.
The other Angels that I have to make reference to are the many true friends that live in the Banchang area and golfers that I came to know during my three years of writing reports who also started looking after me.
Organising a hospital type bed and a wheelchair plus other resources and finance when it was needed, many still visit regularly and often bring English food for me.
These are Angels in any ones book and all I can offer all of them is two small words that mean so much.
‘THANK YOU’
From Barry Hooper
Banchang

TPP situation is being severely downplayed

Editor;
Re: Public protest against Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement escalates (PM Friday, 16 November 2012) - The whole Thailand-TPP situation is being severely downplayed by the mainstream media ahead of the US Presidential visit. The USA has never brokered any deal that didn’t result in a win for the USA. The TPP has been described as the “most important trade agreement that we know nothing about.” Medicines Sans Frontiers, Amnesty International, the Electronic Frontiers Foundation and members of the US Congress have all spoken out against what little is known of the 26 provisions of the TPP. More information on the Secret TPP trade pact here: http://photo-journ.com/2012/thailands-tpp-application-threatens-to-overshadow-presidential-visit/#axzz2Bvl CmOIL
John Le Fevre

Should Sam Rainsy be a hero or coward?

Editor;
Re: Thai PM to attend ASEAN Summit in Cambodia (PM Thursday, 15 November 2012) - Is Sam Rainsy, the main opposition leader in Cambodia, a coward or a hero? He is afraid to enter Cambodia because he is afraid of arrest or imprison. He stays in France meekly asking Hun Sen, his opponent, to pardon him before he returns to Cambodia.
Sam Rainsy, please be a hero and think of Gandhi Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi. There will be a tremendous amount of political and popular gain to be obtained by Sam Rainsy if he were to take good advice by returning to Cambodia to face the jail sentence during the Asian Summit in Phnom Penh. His political plight will be in broad daylight and his courage would earn him more respect and, of course, votes and trust among the electorate.
Without a doubt his arrival in Phnom Penh unexpectedly at this time would put Hun Sen in a clumsy and precarious position of deciding what to do with Sam Rainsy. More likely than not Hun Sen will arrest him despite strong objection from western leaders, but the negative pressure created on Hun Sen and his government by the imprisonment of Sam Rainsy will have far reaching and more serious consequences for Phnom Penh than the inconvenience of Mr. Sam living in Prey Sar jail.
It is certainly a suggestion to be considered seriously if one wants to play Cambodian politics which are usually dirty and can be deadly. Well, you can’t be a cook if you are not willing to be dirty and get burned every now and then.
Ajeay

First fall for Thailand

Editor;
Re: Thai PM seeking Thai, UK business opportunities (PM Thursday, 15 November 2012) - So Thailand wants more investment? The first measure that all countries joining ASEAN are to implement is new Visa regulations to make it easier, but already Thailand has said it will not comply - so therefore the first hurdle and first fall for Thailand.
Ray

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Expat clubs do far more for the children

I was a victim of the scam

Angels are still amongst us

Should Sam Rainsy be a hero or coward?

First fall for Thailand