Thailand #21 waar het genieten is van heerlijke vakanties.

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Op zondag 19 juli 2009 06:41 schreef MissHobje het volgende:
Zo wij zijn klaar voor massage

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Danish Embassy Warns Against King Power Dutyfree, British Embassy also warn Suvarnabhumi passengers.

Now the danish embassy also warns agains the King Power/police scam:

It is in danish but is a warning about a danish woman that had to pay 65000 DKK(11000 USD) to police because she showed a lipstick to a friend. Maybe she took the lipstick across the shop border. It is not quite clear.

Here is a google translation:

Danes warned against airport police in Bangkok

Published 20.07.09 kl. 14:01

Be careful if you shop in stores in the international airport in Bangkok. You risk being arrested and charged of corruption of Thai airport officials.

That is the warning from the Danish Embassy in Bangkok, who knows a young Danish woman who recently had problems at the airport.

"Be careful with the stores where there is open space, and it seems that you can freely move around," says Mads Beyer, who is deputy head of the embassy in Bangkok, to DR News.

Claims for money

He says that the woman had taken a mascara or lipstick, and would show it to a fellow passager, who was just nearby. Without knowing it the unfortunate woman crossed a shop invisible border and was snatched by the police.

"The police who carried out the arrest, and a translator seemed very aggressive and let know that they must have a lot of money to help," says Mads Beyer, adding that the police clearly expresses that it can be a lengthy and difficult process if you do not choose to pay, says deputy head of DR News.

The embassy does not want to give details about the case, but according to BBC News has more visitors every month problems with the police at the airport.

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Op maandag 20 juli 2009 16:34 schreef APK het volgende:

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Op dezelfde pagina ook een verhaal van de BBC over een soortgelijk geval.

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Op maandag 20 juli 2009 18:56 schreef ozzietukker het volgende:
De scam is inderdaad bekend. Het management van King Power zelf zal er overigens niet zozeer iets mee te maken hebben.
Het lijkt mij meer dat er bepaalde personen ter plekke, medewerkers en politie deze scam hebben opgezet, om zo geld te verdienen aan toeristen. Omdat ze er vanuit gingen dat ze wel wilden betalen om zo hun reis te kunnen vervolgen. Al zijn ze iets te ver doorgeschoten omdat mensen niet wilden betalen, en het een echte zaak werd van de politie, welke in Thailand natuurlijk voet bij stuk wil houden omdat ze anders iemand gezichtsverlies opleveren.

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Ministry reports 20 flu deaths in 7 days

Writer: APINYA WIPATAYOTIN
Published: 23/07/2009 at 12:00 AM
Newspaper section: News

The Public Health Ministry is reporting 20 more deaths from the deadly type-A (H1N1) flu and estimates more than 500,000 Thais have been infected.


The new fatalities recorded over the past seven days raises the country's death toll to 44 from the flu pandemic.

Another 35 patients were in hospital, seven of them in critical condition, the ministry said in its weekly report, which replaces its daily report in an attempt to calm public panic about the disease.

Kamnuan Ungchusak, a senior expert in preventive medicine, said the estimated figure of 500,000 A (H1N1) cases was based on ministry calculations, which used the number of patients who had sought hospital treatment as a factor.

More than 25,000 people have sought treatment for flu-like symptoms at hospitals each day, the ministry has found.

But he said a surge in A (H1N1) cases was not beyond expectations.

"If we can't quarantine the patients with mild symptoms at home, the figure will absolutely skyrocket," Dr Kamnuan said. "If 50% of them stay home, the rising infection rate will stabilise. And if more than 70% of them stay home, it is good news. We can successfully control the outbreak."

Paijit Warachit, deputy permanent secretary for public health, said the ministry had revised its medical procedures to curb the death rate. New measures would ensure patients received antiviral drugs in time and those in critical condition would be supervised by medical experts.

Yong Poovorawan, a virologist at Chulalongkorn University, said school closures had reduced the virus's spread.

"Based on my lab tests, I found cases of infected students have fallen. But there have been more infections of people aged under six and between 20-40," Dr Yong said.

The ministry will review the rate of infections during the school closure period next week and consider whether the measure had been effective.

The World Health Organisation yesterday said A (H1N1) flu deaths had doubled in the past three weeks to over 700 from about 330 at the start of July.]

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Op dinsdag 21 juli 2009 06:23 schreef MissHobje het volgende:

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On/8 soi 8 dus
als je het skytrain station Nana hebt dan zit het hotel precies naast de roltrap opgang
Zit je daar ook in de buurt ofzo >?

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Op dinsdag 28 juli 2009 14:53 schreef Xlarge het volgende:

Verleden jaar heb ik met China Airlines gevlogen, was ik ook erg tevreden over, maar later zag ik in een of ander statistieken lijstje dat ze toch niet zo veilig zijn.

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Op dinsdag 28 juli 2009 15:00 schreef APK het volgende:

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Dat had geloof ik geen betrekking op intercontinentale vluchten, maar ik vind die 747 die ze gebruiken vanaf AMS maar een vage rammelbak die tijdens het opstijgen en de eerste kilometers in de lucht alle kanten op wiebelt.

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Op dinsdag 28 juli 2009 14:12 schreef Mert het volgende:Planning is om 10 januari te vertrekken en dan minimaal 4 weken daar te blijven.