I wanted to reassure all our friends who Phuket TSUNAMI IS NOT LIKELY! 
VF: "A man should be judged for his actions" 
| 5 hours to die, cost € 4, a rejection of the middle: a morning at Bangkok's Motors reveals a small mirror in Thailand | |
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| The fact that practically the only foreigner in the bustling building of Motor Vehicles, and Thai chewing enough to make me understand, I was probably facilitated the task. In five hours I was holding the coveted license, despite the unexpected "incident" path to flunk the quiz theoretical, with only 20 correct answers out of 30. Like every trumpet, I apologize: I was excited, some questions were illogical, images on the computer of the station were scanned from a book of terrible quality. In fact, 21 years after my first time on a motorbike and a career with two and four wheels without major incident, I was very embarrassed to make the figure of the ass and having to resubmit a month. Per fortuna mi è venuta in soccorso la mentalità thailandese del “ mai bpen rai ” (“non fa niente”). Prima ancora che iniziassi a supplicare di avere un'altra possibilità, le esaminatrici me l'hanno concessa: mi hanno dato il libro con tutti i segnali e, dopo neanche 10 minuti, già mi richiamavano nella stanza per rifare la prova. Stavolta, con risicato successo. Capita così anche ai bocciati thailandesi, vi chiederete voi? Quasi quasi preferisco non saperlo. Un amico straniero mi ha detto che al suo esame, tempo fa, gli esaminatori gli avevano in pratica già cerchiato le risposte giuste. In precedenza, le prove di riconoscimento dei colori e di reazione in braking phase were somewhat similar to those used by us - if you count the special emphasis, almost militaristic, with which the aspiring licensed (and, too, fit for use) to say aloud the name of the color shown examiner with the wand. The practical exam was finally a no brainer, on a circuit closed to traffic: a small path curves to them, a crossing on a narrow, elevated low of around one minute in the circuit of the examination, giving due regard to signals and the due precedence. In all, they witnessed two stray dogs that roamed along the way - who knows if they have added on purpose to simulate the typical environment of the street of Bangkok. Anche senza il regalino dell'esame fatto due volte, l'impressione è stata comunque quella di essere passato attraverso una fabbrica di patentati, senza una vera selezione. Non stupirà chi tra voi conosce gli standard di guida da queste parti. Ma a pensarci bene, l'esperienza riassume anche molti dei motivi per cui decine di migliaia di occidentali – pur lamentandosi in continuazione di cosa non funziona in Thailandia – alla fine rimangono in questo Paese. Non è solo il fatto che la patente mi è costata 155 baht (meno di 4 euro). Gli impiegati del Dipartimento dei trasporti erano gentili e operosi, come spesso accade nella burocrazia thailandese: ha le sue assurdità, le montagne di carta inutile e tanto altro, ma alla fine fa perdere meno tempo di quella italiana. Provate a immaginarvi la situazione opposta: un thailandese che parla solo un po' la nostra lingua, mentre cerca di prendere la patente alla Motorizzazione di Roma. Troverebbe quiz in inglese, funzionari allo sportello cortesi, e un piacevole senso di “precedenza” data allo straniero per facilitarlo nella lunga trafila? Quanto a me, anche da patentato, alla fine sono tornato a casa facendo i soliti slalom tra le colonne di bus fumanti, compresa qualche deviazione sul marciapiede e l'abituale imbocco in senso vietato della via dove abito. Cose che – nonostante la mia ignoranza delle regole, smascherata dal test teorico – qui non mi rendono a public danger, but just how many scooter riders. "It 's time to forget everything I learned this morning, and return to ride like a Thai, I wrote about Twitter fresh license. An Englishman who has been following me sarcastically replied: "Or as an Italian ... 've never been to Naples? ". Touché: The next time a friend gives me a madman at the helm to venture into the jungle of Bangkok, I'll have an argument anymore. Link: http://www.lastampa.it/_web/cmstp/tmplRubriche/giornalisti/grubrica.asp?ID_blog=175&ID_articolo=95&ID_sezione=358&sezione = | |
by http://www.donna10.it/
Her name is Supatra Sasuphan , aged 11, lives in Thailand, and the child is more hairy in the world.
On the web we are seeing as the girl-wolf, but to see the gentleness and kindness that is in his eyes, as they have been immortalized in the photos are making it known, say that the wolf has only hair but not vice!
thick hair on the face, leading to the Guinness World Record 2011, "a title that many have sweat to earn it and I just had to introduce me on stage, "Supatra has tried all sorts to try to remove his thick hair, treatments, surgeries, without coming to anything concrete.
And now like so: different, unique, and holds a record. Its called Ambras syndrome from the Middle Ages to the present have been documented only 50 cases, unique setting, then, for a girl who already pay tv and flashing cameras like a film star. At one time, made fun today and ask for an autograph: When they say, fame helps, and not just beautiful!
| Contrary to what many think, Thailand remains conservative in terms of sex. Among many contradictions and hypocrisies | |
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| course: the Walking Street in Pattaya, Patpong and Nana in Bangkok, Patong in Phuket are dens of iniquity, where throngs of foreigners pay to have sex with girls (and boys) often from the countryside. Less visible but more widespread is prostitution in Thailand for the benefit of mankind - the "karaoke bar," the " en tertainment complex" and the massage rooms where everyone knows what's on offer. The first contradiction is that prostitution is prohibited by law, which prohibits even the sex shops, in fact, many of the most popular structures are controlled by the army and police top brass, who also derive huge profits through kickbacks. (The current Minister of Commerce - among others - is the daughter of the owner of the largest "entertainment complex" of Bangkok). The other is that, although entire villages live in substance with the money that they send home to their daughters' work in the city, the prostitutes are viewed badly by the rest of society, particularly from middle and upper classes in Bangkok ( then maybe you leave their arms in the evening). With the world of the forbidden hypocritically confined in his compound, the Thai company remains conservative in relationships. Kissing in public is taboo, and also see couples walking hand in hand is rare. Virginity before marriage is - at least in theory - a respected value, even if it is common practice among young people also have different stories to a contemporary relationship. Recently, a statistical put Thailand in second place worldwide for single mothers between 15 and 19 years, including the total absence of sex education and parental reluctance to touch the topic. Le autorità thailandesi sembrano però vivere in un loro mondo a parte, in cui i giovani vanno protetti dalle malvagie influenze della libidine e qualsiasi manifestazione di affetto va censurata. Nelle ultime settimane, dal trailer nei cinema del film “Love Julinsee”, una delle tante commediole adolescenziali che tanto vanno di moda qui, è stata tagliata le dolci scene in cui i giovani lui e lei – nell'obbligatoria divisa scolastica – si avvicinano per baciarsi; le immagini del bacio vero e proprio erano già state omesse dal regista per evitare polemiche, ma per i censori non è bastato. Figuratevi la sorte toccata allora a “ Insects in the backyard (Insects in the backyard), an independent film which contained explicit scenes of sex between men, child prostitutes and meditate to kill the father transsexual. The director - who wanted to highlight the hypocrisies of homosexuality in Thailand and to reflect their prejudices - pointed to limited output, with a ban for children under 20 years, the National Film Board has instead put on the Index, by banning the dissemination in Thailand tout court, as "contrary to morality". In television, the contradictions are even more absurd. In the Thai soap opera there may be bloody images violence, but a love scene between two characters is only hinted: music and soft lighting, languid eyes, he and she might rest on the bed and then ... stop. Two seconds later you might have already covered. Do not be troubled public decency, it is understood, the problem is that it arrives on time then the scene where the man beats the woman on the bed against his will, subduing it to suit its desires. Usually ends up, to repair the rape, the woman becomes the partner of the rapist or is forced to make us business. Amazing Thailand. Link: http://www.lastampa.it/_web/cmstp/tmplRubriche/giornalisti/grubrica.asp?ID_blog=175&ID_articolo=93&ID_sezione=358&sezione = | |
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There is now no longer need to print so-called Bolshevik red or ghostly robes: the most damage to Berlusconi do the same members of the PDL, with statements and behavior at the edge of the surreal. On Feb. 9, hosted by Lilly Gruber Otto e Mezzo, Fabrizio Cicchitto , enrollment P2 card No. 2232, wondering about Ruby (& friends) gate, said: "I do not think this is a case of prostitution but varied friendships. " 
Sono tornato a Bangkok ieri sera, dopo alcuni giorni dalla parte thailandese della frontiera. Sono ripartito con un senso di assurdità per questa situazione, e di amarezza nel constatare come i rispettivi nazionalismi e i giochi a fini di politica interna alla fine causino sofferenza – in totale si contano oltre 20 mila evacuati, che ora stanno rientrando nelle loro case - a contadini innocenti da entrambi i lati del confine, che hanno vissuto intorno a quelle terre contese da decenni.
Il Preah Vihear (Khao Phra Wiharn per i thailandesi) è stato assegnato alla Cambogia dall'Onu nel 1962. E allora perché è conteso ancora oggi, direte voi? Innanzitutto per il pasticcio di non aver mai attribuito con certainty surrounding area 4.6 km square, with an entrance much easier than that from the Thai Cambodian. And why can appeal to the nationalists in Thailand joke that combined the French in the early twentieth century, tracing the border between the kingdom of Siam and French Indochina: the line coincided with the watershed on the hills, except for widening to encompass the Preah Vihear from the French side. The problem for the Thais is that they did not say anything for over forty years.
Since 2008, when UNESCO declared the temple a World Heritage Site, Thai nationalists are obsessed on this issue. They talk about "loss of territory National, pull out maps of one hundred years ago. Now, after the latest fighting, openly inciting to invade Cambodia, take the temples of Angkor Wat Phnom Penh and then forced to surrender in exchange for the Preah Vihear. E 'political fiction, and the nationalists in the square for two weeks before the government headquarters in Bangkok are never more than two thousand. But make no noise, and given that many see in their protests of 2008, the "dirty work" that contributed to the fall of two governments disliked the military establishment-monarchy should not be underestimated. Even if now the government is theoretically Abhisit Vejjajiva closer to their positions, attack him mercilessly on charges of being weak question.
analysis of "why now?" Would require another piece on the Thai domestic politics. Behind this attitude there is still a sense of superiority and nationalism, rooted in decades, the result of a propaganda based on a reinterpretation of history in favor of the establishment, and by Cambodia, the resentment of being treated like poor peasants, and private glory of the Khmer Empire.
Thais - especially the elite Sino-Thai in Bangkok - they feel better than the Cambodians, who have darker skin, strange animist beliefs mixed with their Buddhism, and are far behind economically: "They must have ran out of bullets, "he said laughing a driver to the Thai border commenting on the calm after the riots, referring to the Cambodian soldiers. Above all, see Cambodia as a former province the kingdom of Siam (which ended around on Laos and Cambodia of today) and even before the legendary "Suvarnabhumi" ("golden land") - a kind of Tropical Eden never existed in terms of how they describe it here. Thus, a typical architecture of ancient Hindu Khmer Empire - when the Thais for how we understand them today were not yet fallen on the region from China - becomes "Thai heritage" in the eyes of the nationalists. E anche se non vanno in piazza, in molti condividono questa mentalità.
Questa arrogante ignoranza infastidisce i cambogiani e i laotiani; e sul tempio, è come se i thailandesi raccontassero a se stessi un'altra verità, senza badare alle decisioni degli organi internazionali. Mentre Phnom Penh protesta all'Onu, il governo di Bangkok sostiene che la crisi si può risolvere bilateralmente: l'atteggiamento – in questa e in altre situazioni dove la posizione ufficiale è ampiamente attaccabile - è sempre della serie “non avete le corrette informazioni, noi thailandesi sì”. Oggi la Thailandia si è anche opposta a una visita al tempio da parte dell'Unesco: “Complicherebbe the situation, "they said - and it may be true, but for them.
So, hope that the two sides get down to the negotiating table at the moment is very low. The Preah Vihear there are two truths, two boundaries drawn on maps in different ways available to the two contenders. Even if the crisis falls and the weapons are silent, the issue will simply be brushed aside, not resolved. An attitude - that of putting the dust under the mattress, instead of cleaning - common in these parts, the problem is that so, the dust accumulates. Sooner or later it comes out, and it is even worse.
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Il Primo Ministro Hun Sen
Da venerdì scorso, truppe cambogiane e thailandesi si stanno affrontando lungo la frontiera tra i due paesi, e nonostante il “cessate il fuoco” delle ultime ore la situazione non migliora. Finora ufficialmente si parla di cinque morti, anche se le fonti stampa parlano di un numero molto maggiore su entrambi i fronti. Molti, inoltre, gli sfollati, costretti a lasciare in fretta e furia la propria terra.
La frontiera tra i due stati in alcuni punti non è mai stata delineata precisamente, a causa delle differenti interpretazioni delle mappe francesi of the colonial era. Subject of a dispute the area (about 4.6 km ²) where there is the 'ancient temple Preah Vihear . This dates from the eleventh century, the empire Jemer, and in 2008 was declared "World Heritage" by UNESCO.
Despite the ruling of the International Court of Justice , based in The Hague, dates back to 1962 and state and territory once part of the territory cambodian, now Thailand refuses to acknowledge this situation.
cambodian prime minister, Hun Sen , in a televised statement addressed the Security Council United Nations, to take the necessary measures to put an end to the aggression in Thailand. Obviously of a different mold statements homolog in Bangkok, which charges the responsibility entirely to the Cambodian troops and the belief that purely bilateral, judges do not require the interference of the UN.
of the day today is the announcement of the Marty Natalegawa, Indonesia's foreign minister and currently president of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which will be the first visit to Phnom Penh Bangkon and then, with the intention of seeking a diplomatic solution tra i due paesi.
In Thailandia , intanto, la situazione interna si sta facendo sempre più delicata, viste le richieste e le continue manifestazioni delle nazionaliste “camicie gialle”, che vogliono il recupero del sito da parte del proprio paese, esercitando pressioni sul primo ministro Abhisit Vejjajiva , il quale si trova tra l’incudine ed il martello, politicamente parlando, viste le future elezioni.
Link: http://www.wakeupnews.eu/il-tempio-della-discordia/
THAILANDIA - Le ‘camicie yellow 'Thai have vowed to intensify protests if the government does not react Bangkok sentenced to eight years' imprisonment imposed by a Cambodian court to two leaders of the movement arrested in a disputed border zone between the two countries. "The government has three days to respond to our requests, including the return of two convicts," said the spokesman of the movement, Parnthep Pourpongpan. one week, hundreds of yellow shirts are camped around the government buildings, accused of being too soft in its territorial dispute with Phnom Penh , and prepare a big demonstration for Saturday. Last week, the movement had led to over 30 thousand street, with a promise to show to the bitter end if their demands were not met by the prime minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva once their ally.
Tuesday nationalist activist, Veera Somkwamkid and his secretary, Ratree Pipattanapaib were convicted of illegal entry into Cambodia . Together with five other companions, including a parliamentarian, were arrested in December during an inspection near the site on which stands the temple of Preah Vihear . Dating from the eleventh century AD, temple, dedicated to the god Shiva , is considered one of the masterpieces of Khmer. In 1962, a ruling by the International Court of Justice gave the place of worship to Cambodia. A choice never fully accepted by Bangkok that given the time one of the treasures of their cultural tradition and agitated the subject of sovereignty on the area to fuel nationalist sentiment. By decision of UNESCO in July 2008 to declare Preah Vihear World Heritage Site, the dispute between the two countries deepened, and came close several times in the last armed confrontation three years
Conservatives and loyal to the monarchy yellow, meeting the people in the Alliance for Democracy (PAD), were the leaders of the demonstrations that created the conditions for the coup against former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, ousted in 2006 and now in exile to escape a corruption trial. In the fall two years ago the decision of the cambodian prime minister, Hun Sen, to name Thaksin's economic adviser led to a diplomatic crisis between Bangkok and Phnom Penh, returning when the former Thai prime minister resigned from office, ostensibly to personal reasons.
Source: NTNN.info
The dark side of the "land of smiles." Modernity and tradition in Thailand and 'entry in the future, taking with him millennial beliefs
Alessio Di Fratticciola (written for The International Micropolis , 13/01/2011)
Bangkok - In late November, the "Land of Smiles" was shocked by a ' horrific discovery: some two thousand human fetuses of different weights and sizes hidden in a morgue in the heart of Bangkok. A strong smell had attracted the police to Wat Phai Ngern - or "Temple of the Bamboo Silver " - scene of the accident was found. The fetuses, locked in identical white plastic bags were hidden in a morgue where the bodies are usually kept waiting for cremation. A warm, Lieutenant Colonel Kanathud Musiganont police said that some fetuses had remained hidden in the house for even a year. Two months after the scandal, three people have been arrested, two undertakers, guilty of hiding the bodies, and an employee of a clinic for abortions, on charges of running a medical clinic without a license and to perform abortions, prohibited by law. The undertakers could be sentenced to a maximum of one year in prison, while an employee of the clinic could face up to five years.
NOT KILL - The case in Thailand was seen as a national disgrace, a public opinion that has defined "Medieval" law banning abortion procedure, forcing every year hundreds of thousands of women and girls to turn to expensive private clinics and not always professional. The Thai government, for its part, responded to the criticisms by promising to improve sex education among young people, but has continued to difendendere anti-abortion legislation. The reasons are understandable government in a kingdom where traditions are jealously guarded by a semi-divine monarch (Rajada) and obediently complied with by the masses, at least formally. In addition, the vast majority of the population follows the Theravada Buddhism - Or "way of the elders" - a current orthodoxy that is characterized by hard-line conservative for Sangha - the community of monks - whose primary focus is the study of sacred texts mnemonic and the passage of this tradition to posterity. The Sangha, which has a tremendous power of moral leadership on this nation of Southeast Asia, is dogmatically opposed to the liberalization of abortion, because the type of Buddhism prohibits killing. But while in the Thai company develops an abortion debate that does not differ too much from that found in many other countries in this story there is still a big question: why fetuses were hidden in the house for months and months without being buried or cremated?
MODERNITY 'AND TRADITION - To approach an explanation must overcome the image that emerges from Thailand glossy tourist guides or by an overnight fast at the most popular holiday destination and enter the heart of this company. Mai in Thailand as the theories of the Enlightenment prove incorrect. About how they had predicted that science and technology would have wiped out the beliefs and religions should try to get around the streets of Bangkok for . Children with laptop in hand will stop at stalls selling amulets, large displacement cars approach the sidewalk to buy handfuls of fried insects, distinguished gentlemen come in horoscope texts where libraries are on the same shelf of Bibles, Korans and manual business management. For years this nation has embraced modernity - nationalism, finance, skyscrapers, skytrain, fashion and mobile phones. But past the appearances and the most banal stereotypes, one realizes that the land of smile is also a land of ghosts and spirits , an enchanted place where paranormal and ancient beliefs are actually obvious and natural. This strong belief in the existence of spirits and cosmic energies influence every aspect of life of this people, from religious architecture, from politics to television, from advertising to the businesses. Nothing strange, then, that in deciding where and how to build a new building, an engineer is "assisted" by an expert of Chinese geomancy . Also natural that the inauguration of the building is accompanied by a religious ceremony and prayers of Monaco officiating. Discount practices in a country where every house or business is an altar for the spirits that provide daily food and gifts to attract good luck and appease the tormented souls who may wander in there. In Thailand even more important family decisions, or business, require access to a guess it is hard for a couple convolerà to the wedding if the stars will not be favorable.
ghosts, spirits, exorcists - Ghosts and spirits, in short, are alive and well in the daily life of Thais. Tales of tormented souls and ghosts are so popular that the cinema of horror films that cast does not seem to understand the crisis. Even in comic books for children ghosts are one of the most common themes. But in this country's spirits are not just stuff to laugh or innocent pastime. The vast majority of Thais believe in the existence of spirits and a good portion of them believed to have seen a few. The phenomenon is not restricted to farmers in rural areas, by contrast, even most of the capital's university students admit to fear the spirits, and almost all the people with whom I have broached the subject had a history experienced in the first person to tell . In the Thai cosmology there are a myriad of spirits, each with its own characteristic. Among the most famous: the Phi Am , spirits who sit on the liver of humans, during sleep, causing aches and pains, the Phi Braed , ghosts, giants, long dreaded because they are capable of killing the parents, the Phi Chamob , that infest the place of the jungle where a woman died, the Duat Leut Phi, like vampires who suck the blood of their victims, the Phi He , the spirits of women dying in childbirth, are regarded as particularly dangerous the You Phi, which infest the places where someone 'who died a violent or unnatural (often enter the body of the living and are driven with whips or exorcism), the Phi Hang Kra, a nocturnal spirit resembling a winged man, and without going too far, the Krasu Phi, one of the most popular and feared ghosts, always hungry human flesh and blood-thirsty, take the form of beautiful women and glides on its victims with its long dress that hides the lower part of the body, without legs dangling, and from which the intestine. To fight this endless array of creatures, there is a sort of Ghost Buster: The Mho Phi. These 'doctors of the spirits' employing techniques and practices differ depending on the spectrum that they face, some of them have become real celebrities and glorifying revered across the nation.
RITUAL PURIFICATION AND LOTTERY TICKETS - It is for these reasons that in Bangkok's Temple of Doom , dove il 16 novembre scorso i feti sono stati ritrovati, decine e decine di persone si sono riunite più volte per pregare per le oltre 2.000 anime dei bambini mai nati e per offrire loro latte e banane, vestitini e giocattoli. Dopo qualche settimana ed un rituale di purificazione, l’obitorio presso l’ormai celebre Wat Phai Ngern è stato demolito, ma il tempio del Bambù d’Argento continua ad attirare visitatori e intorno a questo luogo si è sviluppata un’atmosfera del tutto particolare. Nel giorno della nostra visita, una decina di venditori di biglietti della lotteria aspettavano i clienti proprio all’ingresso del tempio. Uno di loro mi ha spiegato che i numeri 2 – 7 – 27 sono i più richiesti. The second is for the 2002 fetuses, 7 is the number of the morgue where they were found and 27 was the first day of the ceremony in memory of the souls of aborted babies. They say invisible spiritual energy that emanates from the mortuary temple and makes those numbers particularly lucky.
BLACK MAGIC, SEX AND POWER - The answer to our question, however, has little to do with the transformation of the "temple of shame" to "market luck": the reason for which the fetuses were hidden in temple for months without being buried, could simply be hung on the necks of the faithful who attend the tempio. I thailandesi amano agghindarsi con amuleti di ogni tipo, garantiscono una protezione contro gli spiriti maligni e contro la sfortuna in generale. Il loro commercio pertanto è diffusissimo. Grandi generalmente dai due ai dieci centimetri, possono raffigurare il Budda, “santi” buddisti ( Bodhisattva ), monaci famosi, animali o simboli vari. Alcuni amuleti – quelli ritenuti più potenti – possono valere milioni di baht, centinaia di migliaia di euro. Ma esiste anche un lato oscuro di questa credenza, paragonabile alla magia nera occidentale. Uno degli amuleti più potenti è il Look Krog , che rappresenta un bambino non voluto o un feto abortito. Secondo la credenza popolare, questo oggetto avrebbe un fortissimo potere sessuale , essendo capace di attrarre esattamente la donna desiderata. A Bangkok, un simile gingillo, ricavato da un feto umano, viene venduto a prezzi esorbitanti, pari ad anni dello stipendio di un umile lavoratore. Ecco perché – secondo alcuni – i due becchini incaricati di sbarazzarsi dei feti abortiti clandestinamente avrebbero deciso di avviare un redditizio traffico di amuleti, magari con la complicità di qualche monaco.
BAMBINI MORTI CHE URLANO - In una delle cerimonie svoltesi nel Wat Phai Ngern per le anime dei bambini mai nati, una donna di mezza età con in braccio suo figlio mi ha spiegato che questi these offerings and rituals - repeated after 3, 7, 50 and 100 days after discovery of fetuses - are used to thank the thousands of spirits that still roam this place. "I dead children screaming at night, I heard them - I said shaking her baby to his chest, visibly worried - be appeased, can be dangerous."
