Long term residents will tell you they've seen it all before. A crackdown, followed by money changing hands, followed by business as usual. That being the case, why should this crackdown be any different to all the ones that have gone before. Well, for one thing, serious money is now being invested in Pattaya in the shape of new hotels, condos and malls by powerful Thais and these Thais won't see their investments affected by Pattaya's night time entertainment industry.
These Thais will push for change and this crackdown may just be the beginning. Their vision will be of a Pattaya resembling St Tropez or Cannes, not Aya Nappa or Benidorm on steroids. Sure they will want to retain a zone of night time fun to give Pattaya an edge but there is no way it will continue in it's present form, all over town.
It would seem logical that farang backed establishments will be targeted first. They'll target farang visas and operating licenses. Oh, hang on, haven't they already started doing that.....
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- A follow up to yesterday's comments on the crackdown on licensed premises - It's rumoured that Go Go's or bars showing girls in less than a bikini will face a 3 month closure. To be confirmed.
- Shooters have posted on various forums that they will be allowed to remain open after 2.00am because of their food license. Time will tell !
- Miss Pattaya Go Go Round 2 starts at Wet N' Wild Go Go on Sunday, March 23rd. It's Easter Sunday, won't all the boys be in church?
- Lam Morrison will celebrate 50 Years of Guitar Playing on Sunday, 30 March 2008, with a gala gig at Pattaya’s only real rock n roll club, The Lam Morrison House of Rock. Lam will host and headline a celebration, which is being planned to feature many of Bangkok and Pattaya’s best guitarists.
- Thaksin pleads 'not guilty' to a charges of corruption [via Bangkok Post]
- Gen Sonthi disagrees putsch was "all for nothing" [via Bangkok Post]
- Thai police probe UK man's death - Police in Thailand are investigating the death of a Teesside man, the Foreign Office has confirmed. The body of Ivor Chandler from Skelton, near Saltburn, was found on 6 March in the northern Phetchabun province. The retired ICI worker, aged in his 50s, made regular trips to Thailand to visit his girlfriend who lives in the country, according to his family. [via BBC]
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Commerce Minister Mingkwan Sangsuwan is pressing ahead with plans to reduce the cost of living for Thais. His main priority when he first took office was to address the problem of soaring prices of pork, next was commodity prices, now it’s the turn of mobile phone service providers. [via Bangkok Post] Ed. Can't wait for him to tackle bar fines and ST/LT rates!!!!
- If you want something different why don't you try the nets No 1 Escort Resource. Some American governor was a regular customer.....
- More Efficient, Less Annoying Mac Widget Management [Mac Tip] - If you're even
a semi-regular Dashboard user, you've probably been irritated by the three-step process involved in removing a widget from Dashboard: You click the plus ( ) sign in the corner, which brings up an "X" on all the widgets, you click the "X" to close the widget, and then you click the plus sign again to return things to normal. Annoying, yes? Weblog TUAW points out a simple trick to prevent this Dashboard annoyance: Just hold down your Option key when you hover over the widget you want to close. The "X" button appears, you click it, hassle averted. [via Lifehacker]
- Get Administrator Access with Sudo for Windows - Sudo for Windows is an alternative for those with programs they often have to "Run as Administrator" in
Windows XP or Vista, but offers a more convenient and accessible way of getting there. Rather than having to know an administrative password, "SudoWin" lets you use your own Windows password to elevate your privileges, and doesn't tie your account to the administrator's data folders when you log in. A handy tool to have around when you need it, and it runs from a right-click context item. Sudo for Windows is a free download for Windows systems only. [via Lifehacker]
- Block Obtrusive and Bandwidth Consuming ads using Adblock Plus - Adblock Plus is a neat addon for Firefox that blocks banner ads and images that consume your bandwidth. Once installed, you can use the settings to add filters and block advertisements on webpages. Wildcards and regular expressions supported.
Right click, and set an image/ad to be blocked, it’ll never appear again. Otherwise, use the icon in the toolbar to view the page’s multimedia elements along with the networks that serve them, and block them. [via MakeUseOf]
- Ashley - such a shy girl......
- Zdenka Podkapova looking sultry
- Best gym commercial, ever
- The United Way realized that it had never received a donation from the city's most successful lawyer. So a United Way volunteer paid the lawyer a visit in his lavish office.
The volunteer opened the meeting by saying, 'Our research shows that even though your annual income is over two million dollars, you don't give a penny to charity. Wouldn't you like to give something back to your community through the United Way?'
The lawyer thinks for a minute and says, 'First, did your research also show you that my mother is dying after a long, painful illness and she has huge medical bills that are far beyond her ability to pay?'
Embarrassed, the United Way rep mumbles, 'Uh..... no, I didn't know that.'
'Secondly,' says the lawyer, 'my brother, a disabled veteran, is blind and confined to a wheelchair and is unable to support his wife and six children.'
The stricken United Way rep begins to stammer an apology, but is cut off again. 'Thirdly, did your research also show you that my sister's husband died in a dreadful car accident, leaving her penniless with a mortgage and three children, one of whom is disabled and another that has learning disabilities requiring an array of private tutors?'
The humiliated United Way rep, completely beaten, says, 'I'm so sorry, I had no idea.'
And the lawyer says, 'So..... if I didn't give any money to them, what makes you think I'd give any to you?'
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