5% Growth For Thailand In 2008

Prominent bankers are optimistic that Thailand's economy would grow not less than 5 per cent in 2008.

Bangkok Bank president Chartsiri Sophonpanich said Thailand's commercial banking sector this year has been rather sluggish due to the economic slowdown in the country. However, the banking sector's lending in 2007 would meet its previously set target and the general economy will improve after the December 23 general election, he said, adding that he is confident that the country's economy will grow at least 5 per cent in 2008.

Meanwhile, Prasarn Trairatvorakul, president of Kasikornbank, said a hint by US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke recently that another US interest rate cut may be needed to boost his country's economy may not affect Thailand's interest rates in short-term because rates in this country had been considerably low for quite a long time. But rates could be affected next year because the US economy is expected to continue to be impacted by the sub-prime problem until middle of 2008, Mr. Prasarn said. [via Bangkok Post]

 

 

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• Rodeo Girls 1st Anniversary Party - 8.30pm, Sunday, Dec 2

 

• Baccara, Soi Cowboy is being tipped on the boards as being one of Bangkok's best Go-Go's

 

• Are you the type that just sticks it in and does his thing without a thought for the needs of your partner? Is it a while since you've had the satisfaction of hearing a woman orgasm in your bed? Well I have the thing just for you for Christmas but you might have to buy it for yourself. With your selfish fecking attitude I don't see anybody else buying it for you..... It's not an actual, living woman mind you, I’m referring to this sleek-looking Orgasmo Clock. Just set the alarm and you will be gently coaxed from your slumber with the soothing sounds of a woman getting her rocks off. Not as good as the real thing, but certainly better than the irritating alarm from most clocks. Available from Gobaz.com for £12.99. The bonus is your neighbours will think you're a cock star

 

• Great free download to help manage your music - It's the law of entropy: as your digital music collection increases, you're bound to run into mislabeled songs, duplicate tracks in multiple file formats, and other problems. Apple's iTunes does a fine job of displaying song data and letting you edit it--as long as the song's in a format that iTunes supports (if you

  

  try to import a WMA file, for instance, iTunes will ask if you want to convert it first). Microsoft's Windows Media Player has an advanced tag editor, but it's buried a few menu options down, and it only lists songs in your My Music library. And as I've mentioned before, the new Zune software apparently wasn't designed to help you manage your library--it's hard, and in some cases impossible, to edit song data.

The answer could well be an exceptionally helpful utility, Mp3Tag. As you can see in the screenshot, you can point it at any folder on your hard drive and it will list all music files in that folder. You can arrange them any way you like. Arranging them by album title me to see when I had duplicate WMA and AAC (.mp4) files for a particular album--a common occurrence for me, since I rip into WMA and then use iTunes to make the songs playable on my iPod. Since my Zune supports AAC files, and my iPod doesn't support WMA, I could delete the WMAs to save space. It also showed me where the file title didn't match the song title, where song order was missing, and any other flaws. Changing data is easy--use the upper left panel, type what you want, and hit save. [via Crave]

 

• A Chilean prostitute has auctioned 27 hours of sex to raise money for the country's largest charity during an annual fund-raising campaign. Maria Carolina became an overnight celebrity in the conservative Roman Catholic country, making news headlines and appearing on talk shows since she made her unusual donation to the televised charity event, which runs for 27 hours starting on Friday evening. "I've already auctioned off the 27 hours of love," Maria Carolina told Reuters on Wednesday, saying she had raised about $4,000. "One of my clients already paid. It seemed like a good deed to him." [via yahoo! News] Ed. Her fist confession after this lot should be very interesting. Can't imagine how many 'Hail Mary's' she'll have to say.

 

• The Daily Mail reports how an elderly disabled couple whose Christmas shopping trip to Tesco cost more than £300 have been given a warning for taking too long in the store. "They may say every little helps, but it's clearly only if you're spending your money fast enough," said Mr Hodgson, a retired marine engineer. "Between us we spent around £1.25 a minute – that's better than

  

  they'd get from any pay-and-display car park. But they still want more. "

Of course Tescos "still want more". They're a greedy profit-obsessed multinational plc, a company whose sharp practices embody everything that is wrong with today's turbo-capitalism. After the treatment they received from Tesco, Mr Hodgson and his wife will be boycotting the store in future. Let's hope that after reading this sorry tale, millions of other people in Britain will do the same.

A bit of background to this story. Tesco, who threatened Mr and Mrs Hodgson with a £100 fine should they take "too long" with their shopping in the future, recorded profits of £2.55bn in the last financial year- equivalent to more than £4,800 a minute [via Neil Clark] Ed. Don't you miss that good old Christmas spirit. Doesn't it make you want to pack your bags and jet off home on the first available flight. Not feckin' likely.

   

 

• Jessica Alba Cosmo photoshoot. Loads of pictures but sadly not loads of flesh......

 

 

 

 

• Rodney King, whose videotaped police beating in 1991 led to deadly rioting, was hospitalized Thursday after being shot on a San Bernardino street corner. His wounds were not life-threatening. Police say he was spayed with birdshot from a shotgun. They don't think it was a random shooting since Rodney looks nothing like a bird. But accidental shooting can't be ruled out until they confirm where Dick Cheney was on Thursday

 

• A man and his wife were having an argument about who should brew the coffee each morning. The wife said, "You should do it because you get up first, and then we don't have to wait as long to get our coffee. The husband said, "You are in charge of cooking around here and you should do it, because that is your job, and I can just wait for my coffee." Wife replies, "No, you should do it, and besides, it is in the Bible that the man should do the coffee." Husband replies, "I can't believe that, show me." So she fetched the Bible, and opened the New Testament and showed him at the top of several pages, that it indeed says . "HEBREWS"

   

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