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Avoid dengue: Put fish in your swimming pool E-mail
Tuesday, 27 July 2010 08:14

THE Health Ministry has prescribed a preventive measure against dengue: put fish in your swimming pools. The agency said the fish would help eliminate the breeding grounds of mosquitoes on the island.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 27 July 2010 08:23
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Death or inconvenience E-mail
Written by Patrick Roxas   
Monday, 14 September 2009 14:05

LAST weekend, there were at least two fatal motorcycle accidents that occurred on the island, one in Bangrak and the other in Lamai.

In Bangrak a young Thai woman speeding on a rainy night apparently didn’t see another man backing his motorbike on the roadside, hitting his bike. The impact hurled the woman a few meters away and landed on the road, head first. Some onlookers who came to her rescue saw blood oozing from her head. Later it was learned that she died.

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Surviving in a recessionary bar environment E-mail
Written by FEDOR ST. RICKSON   
Monday, 14 September 2009 12:04

Samui bar manager speaks about the recession, the abnormally high Thai baht, the alcohol ban and other things that make the entertainment business tough.

RESTAURANTS, bars, pubs, watering holes, lounges and liquor stores are typically the first businesses to pop up when the economy is good and the first to go when it’s bad. With over a million visitors a year from various places and cultures, Samui is probably one of the most competitive restaurant and bar environments you’ll find anywhere.

Last Updated on Monday, 14 September 2009 12:20
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THE number of tourists in Bangkok in May, when the Red Shirt protests peaked to a crescendo of burning of buildings including malls, dropped by 11.8 percent year-on-year, while the room occupancy...
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article thumbnailSamui’s own coco rum draws foreign interest

Tuesday, 27 July 2010

LAST year’s widely advertised “best job on earth” at the Great Barrier Reef in Australia could have been offered by this spot on Samui. Visitors from around the globe packed in to see...
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Real Estate

article thumbnailSold condo units to more than double this year

Tuesday, 29 June 2010

CONDOMINIUM projects will continue enjoying the highest growth among other kinds of property projects this year, an industry executive said. Samma Kittasin, director of the Property Data Center, said condominium projects remained very attractive...
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Dining

article thumbnailBeachside dining at Sea Paint

When you enter Fair House Beach Resort and Hotel along the busy Chaweng ring road, you wouldn’t think that a romantic beachside dining experience is possible.  But as you trek through the...
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Entertainment

article thumbnailJob 2 Do at the Rock Beach Bar

The Rock Beach Bar at the Hinta-Hinyai rocks will hold an eco-friendly event on the beach dubbed “Back 2 the Nature” on Aug.6, 2010 featuring Thailand’s number one reggae band Job 2 Do. The...
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Health & Spa

article thumbnailThai yoga retreats

Up until just a few years ago, going on a yoga retreat usually meant a rigorous journey to the inner regions of India to study with a yoga guru while staying at a spartan ashram, and was an...
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