Thailand: Phuket Advice

Once again sad news from Thailand. Three Estonian tourists were ushered into bar in Pattaya (Walking Street, Soi 15 — see it close to a sea shore in top-left part of map of Pattaya — it is a local “red light district”) but finally decided not to enter it (some bars have too high entry fee novadays). Thai men at entrance became angry and

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Filed under: Thailand News on January 22nd, 2008 | Add first comment!

28 children were injured after collapse of broken down watercourse in Bangkok. Four children are in critical condition. 10-12 children are in local hospital with broken limbs, bruises and light head injures. Attraction’s section collapsed then children were on the slide. Here is original story (always sad to post news like this):

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Filed under: Thailand News on January 12th, 2008 | Add first comment!
Tags: accident, bangkok.

Situation with the crime looks pretty misty. Swiss tourist (Pierre Alain Oberson) who enjoyed new girlfriend’s company (while his wife and two kids were in resort) on his yacht 500m away from shore spotted a caucasian man (who had a plastic bag) in diving suit in water and invited him aboard. After one hour drinking (?) of beer and coffee guest opened his bag, extracted self-made gun, pointed the gun onto yacht’s owner and ordered woman to tie up Mr. Oberson. At this point Mr. Oberson (who is 50 years old) charged a robber and hit him twice with boat

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Filed under: Phuket News on January 11th, 2008 | Add first comment!
Tags: crime, phuket.