New tax, on sugary drinks to be applied from October 2019. The Thai government seems to finally take the mesure of the deadly excess of sugar in a lot of products. Sugar is an addictive product, that can make people sick if consumed excessively. Cancer, Diabetes, and overweight are some of the ...

(scroll down for the photo gallery) That's the low season feeling. Everything is more dark and humid. Wind is blowing and waves are taking the lives of some reckless tourists. The sunsets are dramatic and the tourists are staying only one night, the time to take some pictures, do some shopping ...

There is a lot of excitement, mainly from the entertainment business owners who are thinking that having 24/7 entertainment hours would be a good thing for their business. They are pushing to an extension from the 2am closing rule to 4am. Meetings in Pattaya with all the "actors" of the ...

2 pictures I did myself, one in the USA, one in Thailand. In Thailand the ham, beef and chicken are low grade industrial crap that no one would eat in the USA. Subway, USA / Thailand. Not the same! If McDonald, Burger King, and KFC for example are doing the same size and have the same ...

Yesterday I was driving enjoying the smell of the clean beach and the clean water, but this morning everything has changed. After some strong rain at the around 8am East, the flushed drains pulled out enough food for a huge algae proliferation. The water this morning turned to green. Is it ...

This is not going to please most of the readers, but it is based on my own experience, being in Thailand full time +9 years. Update: my Facebook page has been deleted just after I posted this article.  Update 2: the page has been deleted 2 times, and reinstalled 2 times after I appealed the ...

The Pattaya construction team is going berzerk at Pattaya Tai, opening all the road like a surgeon to extract these old sewerage tubes that are leaking and smelling. Apparently, the idea is to replace them with these new plastic tubes that are strong and will not let people know what shit is ...

Big C and Tops brands wants to convince you that the pollution in the Ocean is because of you. You are the cause of all these problems! You are the one to blame. And it is working. The Monkey Customer can take his own bag every time he goes to the supermarket and he gona feel better, "I have ...

Here are 2 panoramas being taken only at a few days interval, showing the difference between before and after the thunderstorm. It will help to get an idea about the extend of the damages done by one thunderstorm to the once named "Miami Beach of Asia" by the city officials.

Here is a gallery showing the state of the beach after the first strong thunderstorm from April 2nd. There are a dozen of strong thunderstorm within a year, we are in Thailand and rain season can bring important downpours that are draining the sand from the beach. Last year, the city invested ...

I am not a supporter of any party, but at a geopolitical scale, it is obvious that this election was the occasion for the West to get control over East Asia again. The coup in 2014 was a major blow to the Western powers that were totally controlling this part of Asia through the Taksin ...

The price in Thailand is simply the double or triple of what you would pay by buying on eBay for example, or directly in the USA at Sweetwater or Thornman in Germany. Does it means that the local dealers in Thailand cannot buy at normal dealer price? Or maybe they want to make too much money ...