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Pork barrel merry-go-round

Friday, 24 February 2012 Issue Vol. XX No. 8
Editor; Re: Beach Road beautification: When friends of city hall have the contacts for concrete and road resurfacing, this is a tried and tested winner for generating massive volumes of…

Another typical scam?

Friday, 24 February 2012 Issue Vol. XX No. 8
Editor; Create a nice looking beach side, then narrow the footpath making it hard for the tourists to enjoy it. This sure seems like another typical scam. Football fields would…

Out of town students trashing our beaches

Friday, 17 February 2012 Issue Vol. XX No. 7
Editor; Saturday February 11th, the Pollution Solution Group was watering and feeding the stray dogs, replacing the older posters and removing staples. We saw several buses full of older school…

Re: Good grace of car drivers

Friday, 17 February 2012 Issue Vol. XX No. 7
Editor: In regards to the response last week from your reader “Good grace of car drivers”, I believe his assessment is somewhat incorrect.  I have been driving for nearly 45…

Pattaya beaches

Friday, 17 February 2012 Issue Vol. XX No. 7
Dear Editor, Regarding Trev Witts’ letter: Your observations are not surprising anyone, of the ever increasing amount of rubbish on what is left of the beaches in Pattaya and Jomtien.…

Tourist violence

Friday, 17 February 2012 Issue Vol. XX No. 7
Dear Editor, I am dismayed to read of yet another case of extreme violence perpetrated against tourist and local people by mindless drunken thugs, in this case involving two knife…

Boycotting Nestle’

Friday, 17 February 2012 Issue Vol. XX No. 7
Dear Editor; Last year I had a letter in this newspaper about a boycott of Lipton tea because they were engaged in cruel experiments on animals. Because of the publicity…

More dishonest jet ski operators in Thailand

Friday, 10 February 2012 Issue Vol. XX No. 6
Editor; In Bangkok Post’s Letters, Saturday February 4, ‘A real Thai experience’ by Siritip Helton told of their family’s unfortunate experience with one of the jet-ski operators on Jomtien Beach.

Paranoid at the ATM

Friday, 10 February 2012 Issue Vol. XX No. 6
Editor; Perhaps I’m just being paranoid, given all the news I’ve been seeing about international credit card and ATM theft gangs.  But I was at the ATM just now, taking…

An Anglophile’s view of the German Film Festival

Friday, 10 February 2012 Issue Vol. XX No. 6
Editor; I, as an anglophile, have a well entrenched idea of the German psyche.  German people are remote, distant, aloof and have no sense of humor.  After one evening of…

Public buses

Friday, 10 February 2012 Issue Vol. XX No. 6
To the Editor; This is our 8th winter in Jomtien and my husband and I were full of anticipation that a normal public bus service was in the offing, as…

Good grace of car drivers

Friday, 10 February 2012 Issue Vol. XX No. 6
Dear Editor, Jerry S. (Mailbag Feb 3 2012) says that “cars intentionally drive dangerously close to bully” poor defenceless motorcycle riders! It is very difficult to avoid kamikaze motorcyclists who…

Friends vanish when things go wrong

Friday, 03 February 2012 Issue Vol. XX No. 5
Editor; (Re: Thank you City Hall, Mailbag, Jan. 13) Koto, why would you need to remove the staples if they are not doing any harm to the trees?  If (as…

Police should have regular beats

Friday, 03 February 2012 Issue Vol. XX No. 5
Editor; Police, tourist volunteers, regular or otherwise should have “walking beats” year round all thru Pattaya and Jomtien. Walking and presence of police at unscheduled times and places have proven…

How long before there is a bad accident?

Friday, 03 February 2012 Issue Vol. XX No. 5
Editor; (Re: “Police volunteers raise Jomtien profile during peak period,” Jan. 27) Perhaps the good volunteers would like to visit another night, not in uniform, without telling anyone and observe…
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