Yearly Archives: 2013
An ATM no more
Dear Hillary, I have come to the sad conclusion that all the women in Thailand are on the make. Every last one seems...
Double pricing or 50 percent discount?
Dear Hillary, I picked up one of those tourist magazines the other day and it had listings of good places to go for...
Teeter totter
Dear Hillary, Why do Thai women continue to wear such silly platform shoes and high heels? They are dangerous and many countries have...
Big ticket rip-offs
Dear Hillary, You hear of all these poor saps being ripped off when the short-term Thai GF goes off to greener pastures, and...
The Okinawa Express leaves tomorrow
It seems that immortality rates high in the list of things humans require in this life. It has always amazed me just how...
Thailand experiencing Yen shortage as Thais flock to Japan
A shortage of Japanese yen in Bangkok’s local exchange market is mainly due to an excessive demand by a large number of Thai...
Thailand presses on to get off money laundering blacklist
Thailand is set to announce the first batch of 100 “terrorists” in an attempt to be removed from a blacklist by a global...
Thailand overwhelmed by influx of foreign tourists
The Thai travel industry has called on the government to urgently increase the number of personnel in the tourism sector to cope with...
Active economic growth drives Thai GDP up 0.2%
Thailand’s gross domestic product (GDP) will be raised 0.2 percent higher in the next two years, the Bank of Thailand (BoT) announced last...
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