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    <description>Blog about the daily life and what makes the news in Thailand. Written by an expat and an Eurasian in Thailand -  Blog sur la vie de tous les jours et sur les nouvelles du jour en Thailande. Ecrit par un expatrié et un eurasien en Thailande.</description>
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      <title>Cheese in Thailand</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Do you like cheese?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You probably do if you're from continental Europe, especially the French.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But well, the Thais do not really like cheese. Or said differently, Thais never tasted cheese when they were young and hence, are not used to the taste. And the smell. So they do not buy it and no cheese is produced in Thailand.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And  for cheese lovers, the only choice is the imported ones.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And imported means not really cheap. Photo taken in Carrefour Bangkok 2 days ago.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Cheese in thailand" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/712.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But did I say it is expensive...? &lt;img alt="" src="/frt/Providers/HtmlEditorProviders/Fck/FCKeditor/editor/images/smiley/msn/teeth_smile.gif" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Cheese in Thailand" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/713.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Baht 498 is more than Euro 10&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So, if you can't live without cheese and come to Thailand, bring some with you... &lt;img alt="" src="/frt/Providers/HtmlEditorProviders/Fck/FCKeditor/editor/images/smiley/msn/teeth_smile.gif" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 12:39:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Prix des fromages en Thaïlande</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Les Thailandais n'aiment pas le fromage. En général, on n'aime pas ce qu'on ne connaît pas...Donc, il n'y a pas de production de fromage en Thailande, tout est importé, et donc très cher.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Et pour ceux qui lisent ce blog et aiment le fromage, un conseil, si vous venez en Thailande et aimez le camenbert, je vous conseille d'en emmener avec vous... &lt;img src="/frt/Providers/HtmlEditorProviders/Fck/FCKeditor/editor/images/smiley/msn/teeth_smile.gif" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Photo prise au Carrefour de Rama 4 à Bangkok aujourd'hui&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/713.jpg" alt="Camenbert au carrefour de Rama 4 à Bangkok" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;498 baht est environ 10 euros.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Et une autre&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/712.jpg" alt="Fromages en Thailande" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Et bon, si vous pouviez en prendre un peu pour moi aussi, ce n'est pas de refus... &lt;img alt="" src="/frt/Providers/HtmlEditorProviders/Fck/FCKeditor/editor/images/smiley/msn/embaressed_smile.gif" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 12:28:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Price of beer and alcoholic beverages up steeply in Thailand</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;The Thai government, as any other government in the world, needs mre revenues in this time of crisis. More revenues to feed the US$ 41 stimulus package they just approved.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And one way to get more revenues is to raise the taxes on alcoholic beverages and this is exactly what they did 2 weeks ago.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For beer, excise tax went from baht 55 to baht 60 per litre, from baht 110 to baht 120 for white liquor, and from baht 280 to baht 300 for blended liquor.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So how much more are you going to pay?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Let's take the example of the beer. Beer is usually sold in 66 cl bottles in Thailand, so an increase of baht 5 per liter means you're going to pay baht 3.5 more per liter, right?  Wrong...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A bottle of Heineken in a supemarket was sold before the hike at baht 59. Today, it is baht 66, i.e. an increase of baht 7, double than the one coming from the rise in excise tax. Supermarket mathematics, I guess...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Not sure how much it increased in the pubs, they probably have different mathematical formulas also.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As for the stronger alcoholic beverages, I'm not sure how they calculated the new prices but considering they're far more expensive in the first place, the impact is little.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are today prices, picture taken in Carrefour Rama 4 in Bangkok, white alcohol (supposed to have increased by baht 10)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="360" height="480" alt="Alcoholic beverages in Carrefour Rama 4, Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/710.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;The price did not seem to have changed much but I'm not sure, I never buy any.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 04:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Le prix des boissons alcoolisées a fortement augmenté en Thailande</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Le gouvernement Thailandais ayant un trou budgétaire à combler a décidé ce mois-ci d'augmenter le taux de taxation des boissons alcoolisées.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Pour la bière, la taxe passe de 55 baht à 60 baht par litre. Pour les alcools blancs, de 110 à 120 baht et pour le reste, de 280 à 300 baht.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mais que représente exactement pour le consommateur une augmentation de 5 baht par litre pour la bière? La bière, en Thailande, est généralement vendue dans des bouteilles de 66 cl, elle devrait donc augmenter de 3.5 baht par bouteille environ.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Et bien non, cela ne semble pas être une règle mathématique aussi simple. Prenons un exemple, une bouteille de Heineken coûtait 59 baht avec l'augmentation des taxes, elle coûte maintenant 66 baht, soit une augmentation de 7 baht et le double de l'augmentation due à la taxe. Même principe pour les autres bières...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Pas sûr de l'impact que cela a eu dans les cafés et autres pubs, le triple peut-être?&lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Gender reassignment in Thailand. Willingly or unwillingly...</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"&gt;Plastic surgeons in Thailand are well known for a procedure that, here, is considered as standard, gender re-assignment surgery.  And they are also extremely skilled at re-attaching male private parts that would have been "accidentally" removed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"&gt;I'm going to elaborate a bit on these two points since the second one has been in the news lately.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"&gt;Transsexuals, called Katoeys, or ladyboys, are generally more accepted in Thailand than in the western world. You can see quite an important number of them working in shops, restaurants, beauty salons or in the entertainment industry, as singers, dancers and well, prostitutes. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"&gt;There are many cabaret shows, with Tiffanys in Pattaya being one of the best known. But you'll find others in most cities, like in&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://farangrakthai.com../../../../../evening+in+hua+hin.aspx" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"&gt;Hua Hin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/u&gt;where this photo was taken.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0px;"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;
&lt;p align="center" style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"&gt;&lt;img alt="Ladyboys in Hua Hin" src="../../../../../Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/259r.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"&gt;And hence, since you have a lot of them, you also have a lot of surgeons who developed a world class expertise in gender reassignment. They are also submitted to less stringent rules than in the west, where you need a psychiatric evaluation in order to be allowed the procedure. Not here, you've got the money, you'll get the operation. And for a fraction of the cost in the western world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"&gt;And now for the second point, not only are they good at removing male private parts, they are also very good at re-attaching a severed male organ.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"&gt;The reason being, Thai women, some of them anyway, if they think that their husband is seeing another woman and could them for the new girl, will cut off the body part of their husband/boyfriend that they think is the cause of the problem. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"&gt;This happened again recently in Pattaya and in Rayong.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"&gt;In Pattaya, a woman married to a Belgian guy she thought was seeing another woman, just bit it off. Here is an except from the Nation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"&gt;A Belgian tourist was severely injured early Thursday when his Thai wife bit his male organ and almost severed it, police said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;
&lt;div class="AdsDetail" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;
&lt;div id="google_afc" class="google_ads" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id="google_afc" class="google_ads" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"&gt;And about one month earlier, in Rayong&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"&gt;On the night of April 26, he had been drinking at a friend’s house. When he got home, his wife accused him of being out with a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"&gt;kik&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"&gt; (mistress or casual sex partner). An argument ensued and when the fighting eventually died down, the man fell fast asleep, owing to all the alcohol he had drunk.&lt;br /&gt;
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As he was sleeping, he felt a sudden, searing pain in his groin. He looked down to see what must be every married man’s worst nightmare: blood pouring from his genitalia and his wife leaving the room clutching a bloody knife.&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;font&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"&gt;The first guy made it to the hospital and is expected to recover with the severed part having been re-attached.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"&gt;The second guy also made it to the hospital and is also expected to recover, but the missing part will be missing forever.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"&gt;Because, you see, these days, Thai women are also well aware that Thai surgeons are very good at re-attaching what they just cut off. So what do they do? They make sure the missing part will be missing forever.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"&gt;By giving it to the dogs, the ducks, or the meat grinder...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"&gt;And even if I'm sure it is considered a crime in Thailand, I never heard any of them being jailed for doing it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"&gt;So, for the men having a Thai girlfriend or wife, some advice, be careful...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>Thai children looking for their Japanese father</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Since the little Thai boy, Keigo Seito, found back his father thanks to his story being published on the front page of the newspapers ( &lt;a href="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Thailandblogs/tabid/64/EntryId/7098/Keigo-Sato-the-Thai-boy-looking-for-his-Japanese-father.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Keigo&lt;/a&gt; ), 2 more children came to the newspapers, asking for help to find their Japanese father.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;An 18 years old girl, Narumi Hamada, from Chiang Mai, and a stateless boy, also from Chiang Mai, who was left with a neighbour after his mother died and his father, Masato Niimura, went back to Japan.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I guess we will see plenty more in the coming weeks since the little Keigo is still part of the news almost daily. He is now going to school and talked to his father at the Japanese Embassy yesterday.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But I'm afraid the story will eventually lose its novelty and Kego will disappear from the news.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And with him, any hope for thousands of abandonned children in Thailand...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 13:23:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Une touriste allemande n'est pas morte de la grippe porçine à Hua Hin</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Le Ministère de la Santé Thai a déménti la rumeur qui circulait hier disant qu'une touriste allemande était décédée de la grippe porçine. Elle est en fait décédée d'une pneumonie.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Pas vraiment un démenti, en fait, il a toujours été dit qu'elle était morte d'une pneumonie mais qu'elle était aussi atteinte du virus H1N1 qui aurait compliqué la pneumonie et l'aurait rendue mortelle.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Mais voilà, le Ministère dit aussi que les tests effectués en Thailande, tests qui montraient qu'elle avait le virus, c'était un blague de journaliste, une rumeur pour faire vendre les journaux. Les tests étaient en fait négatifs, pas la peine d'attendre une confirmation.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Et savez-vous, Messieurs les journalistes, que la Thailande a perdu assez de touristes sans avoir besoin d'une nouvelle grippe pour les effrayer?&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Donc, non, la touriste allemande n'est pas morte de la grippe porçine, on en parle plus, s'il vous plaît...&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 11:04:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A German tourist died of swine flu in Thailand. Not true says the Deputy Health Minister</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;They said yesterday the German tourist tested positive for the H1N1 virus and were waiting for further confirmation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;They say today she never tested positive for the H1N1 virus and died of pneunomia .&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We know she died of pneumonia, it was said the first day. But it was also said that, maybe, she died of pneumonia because of complications coming from the flu virus. And that some tests came back positive.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But I do not think Thailand wants to scare the tourists more than they already are. So, we don't talk about it anymore. She died of pneumonia, no need to wait for further tests.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Well, I think she died faster than the rumor will, whatever the Health Minister is saying....&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And, as of today, there are still 25 other people in quarantine in Thai hospitals for possible H1N1 infection. Four are foreigners: two from France, one from Switzerland and one from the US.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Hôpital Bumrungrad, encore.</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Je suis sorti de l'hôpital il y a à peine 3 semaines et j'y suis de retour.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mais plus pour la même raison.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Depuis hier, je n'arrive plus à manger, je vomis, j'ai la diharrée et une forte fièvre.  Et je me sens vraiment mal, bien plus mal qu'il y a 3 semaines. J'ai mal de tête et mal au ventre tout le temps.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Les docteurs pensent que ce n'est pas trop grave, juste une infection bactérienne, mais par les temps qui courent, on préfère ne pas prendre de risques et je vais donc rester ici un peu, de nouveau.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Je suis dans une nouvelle chambre, à un étage où tout a été remplaçé. C'est beau mais j'en profite pas vraiment. Qui d'ailleurs profite de la beauté d'un hôpital? Les visiteurs peut-être mais sûrement pas les malades cloués au lit, comme moi.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Et cette fois, c'est sûr, je sors demain.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 11:12:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Une touriste allemande serait morte de la grippe porçine à Hua Hin</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Une touriste allemande en vacances avec son mari et son enfant dans une station balnéaire de Prachuab Khiri Khan, un peu au sud de &lt;a href="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/hua+hin.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Hua Hin&lt;/a&gt; , serait décédée de la grippe porçine appellée aussi H1N1.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ils sont arrivés le 12 mai en Thailande et, après une semaines de vacances, elle a ressenti des douleurs dans la poitrine et a eu des difficultés à respirer. Elle a été emmenée d'urgence à l'hôpital de Hua Hin et a d'ailleurs du être réanimée sur le trajet vers l'hôpital.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Son état étant critique, l'hôpital de Hua Hin a décidé de l'envoyer vers un des meilleurs hôpitaux de Bangkok, à savoir l'hôpital Samitivej.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Elle n'a malheureusement pas survécu au trajet et est décédée avant d'arriver à l'hôpital Samitivej.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On attend maintenant la confirmation des premières analyses faîtes à Bangkok qui montreraient qu'elle était bien atteinte du virus H1N1.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Cela renforcerait certainement l'inquiétude du WHO, eux qui ont annonçé récémment qu'une combinaison du virus de la grippe porçine avec celui de la grippe aviaire pourrait être dévastateur.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Et le virus de la grippe aviaire est présent en Thailande depuis pas mal de temps maintenant...&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>A German tourist died of swine flu in Hua Hin. Rumor or true?</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;If confirmed, this would be the first dead in Thailand from swine flu.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The German woman, Mrs Barbel Wilhelmine, came to Thailand with her husband and child to stay in a resort in Prachuab Khiri Khan, not far from &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/hua+hin.aspx"&gt;Hua Hin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After one week, she had chest pain and difficulty breathing and went to a Hua Hin hospital. But she was in a critical condition and they sent her to Samitivej hospital in Bangkok.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;She never made it, she died on the way to Bangkok.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We are now waiting for the results of the analyses that would confirm, or not, that she indeed died of swine flu.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That could reinforce the warning by the WHO that a combination of the bird flu and the swine flu could be very dangerous. And Thailand is the perfect place for this combination to happen, the bird flu having been here for quite a few years now.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>On a retrouvé le père de Keigo Seto</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Le petit garçon a retrouvé son père, cela n'a pas traîné. J'ai oublié de dire que SM La Reine de Thailande s'intéressait aussi au cas Kato et voulait être tenue informée des progrès.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Et donc les progrès ont été très rapides, son père a été retrouvé et bon, est un peu mal à l'aise.&lt;br /&gt;
Lui qui essayait, avec succès probablement, d'oublier qu'il avait laisser mourir sa femme en Thailande et abandonné son fils.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Il ne veut donc pas renconter Keigo mais lui parler au téléphone. En quelle langue? Je doutes que son fils parle Japonais et je doutes qu'il parle Thailandais...&lt;/p&gt;
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Quoi qu'il en soit, il n'échappera pas à la réunion devant les journalistes de Thailande et du Japon.&lt;br /&gt;
Et comme disent le Thais, som nam na, ou les anglais, serve him right, en résumé il n'a que ce qu'il mérite...&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 08:43:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The father of Keigo Sato has been found</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I would guess it was not too difficult to find him. After all, he was married to the mother of Keigo and had to give quite a few documents in the process.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And besides, HM the Queen of Thailand wants to get a progress about this case, this helps speeding things quite a lot.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But well, how do you react when you've been trying to forget you've got a son in Thailand for the last 9 years and suddenly get reminded?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You're shy, and you sure have a lot of reasons to be.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So the latest is, the father wants to talk to his son by phone but does not really want to be seen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Well, I don't really see how he'll be able to avoid the reunion, and in front of quite a few journalists...&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Un petit garçon Thailandais de neuf ans cherche son papa Japonais et un petit garçon de neuf est atteint d'une maladie mortelle</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;C'est dans l'ordre les deux nouvelles qui font les titres des journaux anglophones à Bangkok.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ces 3 derniers jours, nous avons eu droit à deux histoires qui font appel à l'émotion.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Elle sont toutes deux sujet d'un garçon de neuf ans, en fait de deux garçcons de neuf ans.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Le premier s'appelle Kato Sato et est le fruit d'un marriage entre un Japonais et une Thailandaise. Et son père est parti après sa naissance. Et sa mère est morte d'une maladie vénérienne (pas spécifié dand l'article, probablement le SIDA). Mais a dit à son fils sur son lit de mort que son père viendrait le chercher. Un jour. Au temple de Pichit, le Wat Tha Luang.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="../../../../../Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/691.jpg" alt="Keigo sato cherchant après son père Japonais" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Et donc il y va, tous les jours, avec une photo de son papa. Qu'il montre aux touristes Japonais. Savez vous où il est? Et non personne ne sait. Mais un article dans les journaux et en première page ne passe pas inaperçu. Le gouvernement Thailandais est maintenant activement à la recherche du père.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Les journaux Japonais s'y sont aussi mis et des journalistes Japonais sont maintenant à Pichit pour collecter des infos. Ce matin, le chef du Développement Provincial a aussi été viré pour n'avoir rien fait plus tôt.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Espérons que cela aidera non seulement le petit Kato mais aussi les milliers d'autres enfants de race mixte qui n'ont jamais entendu parler de leur père et qui n'ont pas eu la chance de faire les grands titres des journaux...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;La deuxième histoire concerne aussi un garçon de neuf ans qui a attrapé la grippe porçine. Et donc fait les titres des journaux comme ayant attrapé une maladie mortelle. Je ne veux pas diminuer l'importance de cette grippe mais je penses qu'il y a beauc de chances qu'il mourra d'autre chose. Et je lui souhaite un prompt rétablissemnet.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Keigo Sato, the Thai boy looking for his Japanese father</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;In Phichit there is a temple, Wat Tha Luang. It is a nice wat regularly visited by tourists. And if you go there, you'll see a litlle boy, a 9 years old little boy. He will show you a picture of a Japanese man, his dad, and will ask you if you know where he is, which I guess only a 9 years boy can hope he will get a positive reply.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/691.jpg" alt="Keigo Sato, Thai boy looking for his Japanese father" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By why is here there? Where is his mother? His mother died after having been infected with a disease she contracted while selling her body somewhere in Bangkok. So he lives with an auntie and his grand father and goes every day to the wat where, he was told by his mother on her deatbed, his Japanese father will come to take him.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;How do I know this story? The Bangkok Post ran an article about him on its front page two days ago and the little Keigo became an overnight sensation. Offers to help him came from many places and now the Thai Foreign ministry will be looking for his father in Japan.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I'm all for it actually and hopefully his father can be found and made accountable for what he did but I also hope this case will not just be a flash in the pan, only a good story for the Bangkok Post. There are thousands of abandonned  mixed race children in Thailand who did not get the chance to make the front page of a major newspapers and who would need a bit more attention, so that more efforts are made to find the fleeing father.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I'm not really holding my breath but well,  let's just hope as this little boy did for so long.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 10:53:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Trafic à Bangkok</title>
      <description>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="426" alt="Trafic à Bangkok pendant la nuit" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/690r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Thailandblogs/tabid/64/EntryId/7095/Trafic-a-Bangkok.aspx&gt;More...&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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      <title>Traffic in Bangkok</title>
      <description>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="426" alt="Traffic in Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/689r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Thailandblogs/tabid/64/EntryId/7093/Traffic-in-Bangkok.aspx&gt;More...&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 12:26:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Visakha Bucha day</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Today is a public holiday in Thailand in order to celebrate one of the most important day in Buddhism, Visakha Bucha Day.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Buddha was born, reached enlightment and passed away on the same month and day, i.e. on the full moon day of the 6th lunar month, which is usually in May and is this year the 8th of May.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Buddhists in Thailand and all over the world will pray, go to temple and make offrands to Buddha.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In Thailand, it also means that alcohol is not on sale today, in bars, pubs, hotels, restaurants, shops, in brief everywhere.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 06:17:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Marché flottant</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Un des endroits que j'aime le plus visiter en Thailande, à part la plage de Hua Hin, est le marché flottant qui se trouve à environ 2 heures de voiture de Bangkok, au sud-ouest, dans la province de Ratachaburi.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Et cela pour au moins deux raisons:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;- Cela me permet de faire une balade en bateau, et j'aime beaucoup les bateaux et tout ce qui a un rapport avec l'eau&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;- C'est très coloré et j'aime les couleurs&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="426" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/644r.JPG" alt="Marché flottant de Damnoen à Ratchaburi en Thailande" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;Je n'y vais malheureusement pas très souvent vu que l'aller-retour de Bangkok prend 4 heures et que en plus, il faut louer un bateau pour environ 600 baht.  C'est donc une visite que je ne fais que quand mes parents ont des visiteurs, soit 2 à 3 fois par année. Mais j'aime autant à chaque fois.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;Si vous n'y êtes jamais allé, vous trouverez des photos et des explications ici &lt;a href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=70&amp;tabid=64" target="_blank" name="Marché flottant de damnoen à Ratchaburi"&gt;Marché Flottant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;Sur le retour, on stoppe aussi parfois à la ferme des serpents, mais j'aime beaucoup moins que le marché flottant.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="425" height="640" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/643r.JPG" alt="Ferme aux serpents à Bangkok" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 06:56:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Farang Rak Thai</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Il n'y a pas vraiment de nouvelles Thailandaises intéressantes sur lesquelles faire des commentaires pour le moment, je vais donc commenter sur le nom de ce site, farangrakthai.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Quand Thaksin a décidé d'entrer en politique, il y a quelques années, et donc de fonder un parti, il a choisi un nom pour le parti dont il savait qu'il aurait beaucoup de succès avec les Thailandais, à savoir Thai Rak Thai. Ce qui se traduit assez facilement en "les Thailandais Aiment les Thailandais", et donc la Thaïlande. Ce qui est bien sûr vrai mais, même si cela n'est pas dit implicitement, peut aussi vouloir dire, les "Thailandais Aiment les Thailandais" mais pas les étrangers...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Et vu que son parti a été fondé quand la crise Asiatique a eu lieu, 1997 - 1998, il est très problable que le sentiment nationaliste des Thailandais était l'objectif principal du nom du parti de Thaksin.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Et donc est apparu le nom Farang Rak Thai dans les journaux et forums, en dérision du nom Thai Rak Thai. Les étrangers aiment aussi les Thais. Le nom farang venant du mot Français qui s'est transformé en Farangset quand il était prononçé par le Thailandais (et qui veut toujours dire aujourd'hui, la langue française) et finalement en farang qui veut dire un étranger caucasien aujourd'hui.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Cela a maintenant disparu et je penses que c'est une bonne idée de le remettre au goût du jour, d'où le nom donné à ce site, Farang Rak Thai &lt;img alt="" src="/frt/Providers/HtmlEditorProviders/Fck/FCKeditor/editor/images/smiley/msn/shades_smile.gif" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 09:14:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Farang Rak Thai</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;No major news to comment about, so I'm going to comment on the name of this website, farangrakthai. When Thaksin, quite a few years back, decided to go into politics and to set up a party, he chose to go for a name that would appeal to most Thais, a name that reflects (or reflected) what most Thais agree with, i.e. Thai Rak Thai.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What does it mean? Thais Love Thais and sure love Thailand. But since it was at the time of the Asian crisis in 1997-1998, it also had undertones that were not that nice, i.e. Thais love Thais but do not really like foreigners. Foreigners are a problem, or could be a problem. Like the IMF, for example, at that time. A very appealing concept indeed, for Thais. And most probably the main reason Thaksin chose this name, an appeal to the strong nationalistic feelings of the Thais in time of crisis.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So some foreigners here came with the idea that we should unite into a "party" that would convey what we think about Thailand, i.e. Farang Rak Thai. "The Foreigners like Thais ". Farang is how we are called in Thailand, comes from the word Français (French) that evolves into farangset (meaning French language these days) and eventually farang. And we love the Thais and Thailand or we would not be here anymore, I guess.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It did not really take hold but I thought it would be nice to revive the idea... &lt;img alt="" src="/frt/Providers/HtmlEditorProviders/Fck/FCKeditor/editor/images/smiley/msn/shades_smile.gif" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 08:49:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Bumrungrad hospital - Part 3</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I'm finally out of the hospital.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And I want to show you my doctor, the one who was there when I was born ( &lt;a href="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Thailandblogs/tabid/64/EntryId/6889/When-where-and-how-I-was-born-luk-kreung-in-Thailand.aspx" target="_blank"&gt; My birth&lt;/a&gt; , he is the one holding the stethoscope on the picture )  and who followed me during my few pulmonary infections. I kind of like him.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="border: 1px solid rgb(247, 247, 247); height: 150px; width: 120px;" src="http://www.bumrungrad.com/photos/%7B820f77f9-a613-11db-b24c-505054503030%7D.jpg" id="FindDoctor1_dgDocInfo_ctl03_imgDoc" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div align="center" style="padding-top: 5px;"&gt;
&lt;table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" border="0"&gt;
    &lt;tbody&gt;
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            &lt;td width="80" valign="top" align="right" class="gray11"&gt;Name:&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;td align="left"&gt;&lt;span class="gray11" id="FindDoctor1_dgDocInfo_ctl03_lblDocName"&gt;Dr. Karl Kalavantavanich&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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            &lt;td width="80" valign="top" align="right" class="gray11"&gt;Speciality:&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;td align="left"&gt;&lt;span class="gray11" id="FindDoctor1_dgDocInfo_ctl03_lblDocSpec"&gt;Pediatrics (Children), General Pediatrics, Pediatric Allergy, Pediatric Pulmonology(Lungs)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
        &lt;/tr&gt;
        &lt;tr&gt;
            &lt;td width="80" valign="top" align="right" class="gray11"&gt;Language:&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;td align="left" class="gray11"&gt;Spoken:                                                                             English,Thai&lt;/td&gt;
        &lt;/tr&gt;
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            &lt;td width="80" valign="top" align="right" class="gray11"&gt;Qualifications:&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;td align="left" class="gray11"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Medical School:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
            - M.D., Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, 1991&lt;br /&gt;
            &lt;strong&gt;Board Certifications:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
            - Diplomate of The American Board of Pediatrics, 1996&lt;br /&gt;
            - Diplomate of The American Board of Pediatric Pulmonology,   2000&lt;br /&gt;
            &lt;strong&gt;Fellowships:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
            - Pediatric Pulmonology, USA, 1999&lt;br /&gt;
            - Allergy and Immunology, USA, 2000&lt;br /&gt;
            &lt;strong&gt;Special Clinical Interests:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
            - Asthma, Allergies and Flexible Bronchoscopy&lt;/td&gt;
        &lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;And for the people considering going there, their website is here&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.bumrungrad.com/"&gt;Bumrungrad Hospital&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Bumrungrad hospital</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I was supposed to get out of the hospital today but I'm still in the hospital. I'm not sure why. I feel much better, so much better that now I can eat and they could remove my IV. But when I eat, I still need to put a mask with oxygen for some time. In order for me not to vomit. My brain and my stomach are competing for oxygen when I eat, says the doctor, and my brain always win. So I vomit.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But I feel much better anyway.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Before they removed the IV&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="480" height="320" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/572.JPG" alt="Bumrungrad hospital in Bangkok" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;And after they removed the IV, on my feet again. How nice it is to be able to walk freely again. Even if it is in an hospital. I'm on the 9th floor, the pediatric aisle, I know they have a playground here.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="320" height="480" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/573.JPG" alt="Bumrungrad hospital in Bangkok" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;And I found it&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="480" height="320" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/574.JPG" alt="Bumrungrad hospital in Bangkok" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="480" height="321" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/575.JPG" alt="Bumrungrad hospital in Bangkok" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;And you have a nice view of Bangkok from the window&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="480" height="320" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/577.JPG" alt="Bumrungrad hospital" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;With a view of the highest tower in Bangkok, the Bayoke tower&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="480" height="320" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/578.JPG" alt="Bangkok buildings" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;And if you're like me and have a blog you need to update regularly. But are in the hospital without a laptop, this hospital can help you &lt;img src="/frt/Providers/HtmlEditorProviders/Fck/FCKeditor/editor/images/smiley/msn/shades_smile.gif" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="320" height="480" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/579.JPG" alt="Bumrungrad hospital in Bangkok" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 09:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Hôpital Bumrungrad</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Et oui, j'y suis toujours. On m'avait promis que je pourrais partir aujourd'hui, mais le docteur ne veut plus. Il dit que si je pars maintenant, je devrai revenir dans quelques jours. Et que ce sera encore plus grave. J'ai encore besoin d'oxygène de temps en temps, mais bon, cela va beaucoup mieux. Tellement mieux que j'arrive à manger maintenant. Et donc on m'a enlevé le baxter ce matin et je suis sur pieds.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="320" height="480" alt="Hôpital Bumrungrad à Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/573.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ce qui me permet de sortir de la chambre et de me rendre là où ils ont mis des jeux. Je suis au neuvième étage, l'étage pédiatrique et donc tout le monde à cet étage aime jouer.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="480" height="320" alt="Hôpital Bumrungrad à Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/574.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;Donc cela me dérange moins maintenant de ne pas sortir aujourd'hui, je triendrai bien le coup une nuit de plus.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt; &lt;img width="480" height="321" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/575.JPG" alt="Hôpital Bumrungrad à Bangkok" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 08:47:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Bumrungrad hospital in Bangkok</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;As my dad wrote here : &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Default.aspx?tabid=132"&gt;Essentials to know about Thailand&lt;/a&gt; , the hospitals in Thailand are very good, especially the one where I was born, the Bumrungrad hospital in Bangkok, the most important event in my life that I described in my first post in this blog  &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Thailandblogs/tabid/64/EntryId/6889/When-where-and-how-I-was-born-luk-kreung-in-Thailand.aspx"&gt;My birth&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And since then, I had to come back a few times to the hospital, usually for pulmonary infections. And here I am again.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="480" height="320" alt="Bumrungrad hospital in Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/562.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But this time, it is not really because I'm sick, I have no fever, no infection, nothing, but I just can't breathe. Happened to me last night, in the evening, I started to vomit and could not breathe properly anymore, just trying to fill up lungs that were hungry for air but I just could not do it. And I was trying hard, why can't I breathe?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I know I'm allergic to a few things, eggs and seafood make me so sick, I can't even touch them with my lips without looking like Angelina Jolie within seconds...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But it resulted  in vomiting so far, not difficulty breathing, up to last night, that is.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My parents took me to hospital at 5 in the morning, I just could not sleep and so they could not either. And the doctors got angry on them "Why did you wait so long before coming? The oxygen in his blood is far too low". Well, I think they did not know what to say, it never happened before.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And they gave me more oxygen&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="480" height="320" alt="Bumrungrad hospital in Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/566r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And I started feeling far better, my happy mood came back&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="320" height="480" alt="Bumrungrad hospital in Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/569.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;And the doctors suspect it is not the allergy but something they call asthma.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;Whatever it is, I want to go back home. The hospital is very nice, they have new flat screen TVs now with plenty of channels and I can order any food I want from the 3 restaurants (something my mum loves very much...) but I want to go home anyway. I want to walk, I want to run, I do not want to watch TV or eat food, stuck in a bed with a needle in my hand.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;Tomorrow, the doctors promised, I can go.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Hôpital Bumrungrad à Bangkok</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Je suis né à l'hôpital Bumrungrad, comme je l'ai écrit sur ma première entrée dans ce blog : &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Thailandblogs/tabid/64/EntryId/79/Ou-quand-et-comment-je-suis-ne-luk-kreung-en-Thailande.aspx"&gt;Ma naissance&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mais depuis j'ai du y retourner quelques fois, le raison principale, de nombreuses affections respiratoires et des allergies. Je suis allergique aux oeufs et aux fruits de mer. Très allergique. Une fraction de goutte d'oeuf me rend malade. Toucher une crevette avec mes lèvres me fait ressembler à Angelina Jolie en quelques secondes.  Et voilla, j'y suis de nouveau aujourd'hui.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="480" height="320" alt="Hôpital Bumrungrad à Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/561.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Cette nuit je n'arrivais plus à respirer. pas la première fois que cela m'arrive, mais la première fois que cela me rend si malade. Pas moyen de dormir. Je suis donc allé à l'hôpital à 5 h du matin. Et les docteurs ont dit que j'aurais du venir plus tôt. Que le taux d'oxygène dans mon sang était déjà tombé beaucoup trop pas. Ils m'en ont donc donné plus.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="480" height="320" alt="Hôpital Bumrungrad à Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/566.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Et cela va déjà beaucoup mieux. Il semblerait que cela ne soit pas une crise d"allergie cette fois -ci, mais d'asthme, enfin quleque chose comme cela. Ils m'ont pris du sang et font des tests, j'en saurai plus bientôt.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mais je vais déjà nettement mieux et je voudrais bien retourner à la maison. Même si l'hôpital est super, ils ont des nouvelles TV à écrant plat, comme vous pouvez le voir sur la photo, avec des tas de chaînes, et je peux commander ce que je veux à manger dans les 3 restaurants de l'hôpital (mais cela, je dois dire, c'est surtout ma maman qui en profite).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mais moi je veux sortir, courir, pas être coincé dans un lit avec une aiguille plantée dans ma main.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Demain, c'est promis, ont dit les docteurs, tu peux rentrer chez toi.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Thai orchids</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Thailand export a lot fo orchids, says my father, so I have to know them. I'm Thai, orchids are part of the Thai culture.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Maybe, but I sure like elephants better and stopping in an orchid farm before going to the &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=144&amp;tabid=64" name="Maesa elephant camp in Chiang Mai"&gt;Elephant Camp&lt;/a&gt; is not really something I was too keen to do. But well, sometimes, you need to please your parents.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But it was not that bad, they really have beautiful orchids.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="427" alt="Thai orchids" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/540r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And many more photos are here&lt;a href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=147&amp;tabid=64" target="_blank" name="Orchid farm in Chiang Mai"&gt; Thai Orchids&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As well as in the &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=118&amp;tabid=64"&gt;Photo Galleries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Les orchidées en Thaïlande</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Il y a beaucoup d'orchidées en Thaïlande et la Thaïlande est un gros exportarteur d'orchidées coupées, dis mon papa.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Je suis donc aller voir avec mes parents une ferme d'orchidées à Chiang Mai. Pour leur faire plaisir parce que moi, ce qui m'intéressait, c"était les élephants plus loin sur la route, que vous verrez ici : &lt;a name="Camp d'éléphants de Maesa à Chiang Mai" target="_blank" href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=144&amp;tabid=64"&gt;Camp d'élephants&lt;/a&gt; . Mais bon, si ils aiment les fleurs, je suis...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Et quelques photos des orchidees prises sont ici&lt;a name="Ferme d'orchidées à Chiang Mai" target="_blank" href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=147&amp;tabid=64"&gt; Orchidées en Thaïlande&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="427" alt="Thai white orchid" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/532r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ainsi que dans la &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=118&amp;tabid=64"&gt;Gallerie de Photos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Bhuping Palace in Chiang Mai</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;If you go to Doi Suthep and vist the temple there, you should also go a bit higher on the mountain and visit the Royal Palace that was buit there. There is a very nice garden that can been seen from April to December (January to March, it is closed for visitors). And you'll see lot of flowers in a nice environmnent.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And it is best known for the roses garden&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="426" alt="Rose in Bhuping palace in Chiang Mai" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/523r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can even rent an electrical car with a driver if you're too lazy to walk through the park there. As I did...&lt;img alt="" src="/frt/Providers/HtmlEditorProviders/Fck/FCKeditor/editor/images/smiley/msn/teeth_smile.gif" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="427" alt="Bhuping palace in Chiang Mai" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/526r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;And here is some more info and some more pictures&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=146&amp;tabid=64" name="Bhuping palace in Chiang Mai"&gt;Bhuping Palace in Chiang Mai&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Les éléphants en Thaïlande</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Les éléphants font partie de la culture Thaïlandaise. Ils ont toujours été présents en Thaïlande, pour se battre dans des guerres avec les Birmans, il y a longtemps, et pour aider aux travaux de défrichage en forêt plus récemment. Mais maintenant leur utilité n'est plus que de distraire les touristes. Les éléphants en Thaïlande sont devenus un coût et disparaissent donc petit à petit.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mais bon, cela ne m'empêche pas de participer à leur conservation. En visitant le camp de Mae Sa récemment.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Et en leur donnant quelques bananes &lt;img alt="" src="/frt/Providers/HtmlEditorProviders/Fck/FCKeditor/editor/images/smiley/msn/teeth_smile.gif" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="427" height="640" alt="Le camp d'éléphants de maesa à Chiang Mai" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/471r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Ou en posant avec eux et ma maman&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="427" height="640" alt="Le camp d'éléphants de Mae Sa à Chiang Mai" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/470r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p align="left"&gt;Et vous trouverez d'autres photos dans le   &lt;font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#c0c0c0" size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=118&amp;tabid=64" target="_blank"&gt;Gallerie Photo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt; ainsi que sur  &lt;a href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=144&amp;tabid=64" target="_blank" name="Camp d'éléphants de Maesa à Chiang Mai"&gt;Camp d'éléphants de Maesa&lt;br /&gt;
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:18:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Thai elephants</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Thais love elephants and I'm no exception. It must be in our genes. They helped us fight and win many battles in the past and we love them for that. They're just part of our culture.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When I was in Chiang Mai, I went to one of the elephant camp there, the Mae Sa elephant camp, and could ride an elephant as well as play with them. And I just loved it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="427" height="640" alt="Maesa elephant camp in Chiang Mai" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/472r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;And with my mum who I think, despite her smile, was not too comfortable having the elephant trunk on her head...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="426" alt="Maesa elephant camp in Chiang Mai" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/469r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;More pictures can be found in  &lt;font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#c0c0c0" size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=118&amp;tabid=64" target="_blank"&gt;Photo  galleries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt; as well as here &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=144&amp;tabid=64" name="Maesa elephant camp in Chiang Mai"&gt;Maesa Elephant Camp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Long neck Karen</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;When I was in Chiang Mai, I also went to see a village where the women wear brass rings around their necks. They do it to look beautiful but well, I think they would look beautiful even without the brass rings. Must be a girl thing.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="427" height="640" alt="Long neck Karen " src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/496r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;I even saw a girl not much older than me wearing the rings. They told me they start wearing them when they are 5 years old. Must be very uncomfortable when you play and Thailand is so hot.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="428" alt="Long neck Karen" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/450r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;They told me that they usually do not speak Thai but their own language, a language coming from another country. But they sure spoke good Thai.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;And they also explained that every evening  they remove the rings and it is the best time of the day...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;My dad put a few pictures of them in the
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      <title>Insectes Thai grillés</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;La Thaïlande est un des pays où on mange le mieux, je penses. Il y a une variété de nourriture, de cuissons, d'épices, extrêmement importante et il y en a vraiment pour tous les goûts. La préférence des Thais est en général pour les produits de la mer mais vous trouverez aussi beaucoup de volaille, canard et poulet, ainsi que du porc. Mais peu de boeuf. Et si vous êtes aventureux, vous trouverez aussi une variété d'insectes grillés à manger en snacks. Les principaux sont les sauterelles, les fourmis et une espèce de cafard d'eau.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;J'étais récemment à Chiang Mai où sur le marché de nuit, j'ai pu apprécié la spécialité du coin, les vers de bambou grillés. Ce n'est pas mauvais en fait et une bonne source de protéines. Mais pas moins cher qu'une cuisse de poulet, donc à choisir..&lt;img src="/frt/Providers/HtmlEditorProviders/Fck/FCKeditor/editor/images/smiley/msn/teeth_smile.gif" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Les vers de bamboo sont à gauche, à côté des sauterelles&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="427" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/438r.JPG" alt="Insectes grillés en Thailande" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Et les prix&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>Thai bugs</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Food is cheap and good in Thailand. There is something for everybody and a wide variety of flavors and cooking ways. The Thais in general prefer to eat products from the sea, i.e. seafood and fishes. Some pork and chicken but little beef. And in the north and north-east, they like to eat what westerners and Bangkok Thais seldom eat, the Thai bugs. It is more a snack than a main meal and they are usually fried. And not that cheap by Thai standards.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I was recently on the night market in Chiang Mai and tasted a bit of the speciality from that part of Thailand, the bamboo worms. Not too bad actually... &lt;img src="/frt/Providers/HtmlEditorProviders/Fck/FCKeditor/editor/images/smiley/msn/shades_smile.gif" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p align="center"&gt;But there if you prefer something with legs, it is available also&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="427" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/439r.JPG" alt="Thai bugs for snack" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;And here are the prices&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>Visit of the historical park of Sukhothai</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;During the Songkran holidays we went to Chiang Mai by car, enjoying throwing water with the locals as you could see on my last posting. We also stopped for one night in Sukhothai in order to visit the historical park, 45 km2 of ruins that reminds us of the past glory of the first Thailand capital Thailand in the 13th century. I enjoyed climbing the small hill to &lt;a name="Wat Saphan Hin in Sukhothai" target="_blank" href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=140&amp;tabid=64"&gt;Wat Saphan Hin &lt;/a&gt;as I mentioned in my french blog &lt;a name="Vie d'un eurasien en Thailande" target="_blank" href="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Thailandblogs/tabid/64/EntryId/7071/La-visite-du-parc-historique-de-Sukhothai.aspx"&gt;Eurasien en Thailande&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But everything was very impressive and huge for a small boy like me.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="427" height="640" alt="Wat Mahathat in Sukhothai" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/409r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There were very few tourists, so we could take many pictures without having people obstructing the view. My father posted them in the &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=118&amp;tabid=64" name="Thailand photo gallery"&gt;Photo Gallery&lt;/a&gt; as well as on  &lt;a href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=117&amp;tabid=64" target="_blank" name="Historical Park of Sukhothai"&gt;Sukhothai&lt;/a&gt; page et the pages  &lt;a href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=137&amp;tabid=64" target="_blank" name="Wat Mahathat in Sukhothai"&gt;Wat Mahathat&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=138&amp;tabid=64" target="_blank" name="Wat Si Chum in Sukhothai"&gt;Wat Si Chum&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=139&amp;tabid=64" target="_blank" name="Wat Sa Si in Sukhothai"&gt;Wat Sa Si&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We stayed in a nice hotel called Pailyn hotel that was also mainly empty, we had it all for ourselves and a few groups of French tourists. Cost was around 1000 baht/night including breakfast.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="426" alt="Pailyn hotel in Sukhothai" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/400r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="427" alt="Pailyn hotel in Sukhothai" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/399r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>La visite du parc historique de Sukhothai</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Durant les vacances de Songkran, sur le chemin de Chiang Mai, nous nous sommes arrêtés à Sukhothai. Sukhothai a été la première capitale de Thailande, entre le treizième et le quatorzième siècle, une période qui est consdérée comme l'âge d'or de la culture Thai. Nous avons visité le parc historique et les nombreux temples plus ou moins restaurés.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Celui que j'ai preféré est celui-ci &lt;a name="Wat Saphan Hin à Sukhothai" target="_blank" href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=140&amp;tabid=64"&gt;Wat Saphan Hin&lt;/a&gt; parce que il se trouvait au dessus d'une petite colline que j'ai beaucoup aimé gravir.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="427" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/432r.JPG" alt="La montée vers le Wat Saphan Hin à Sukhothai" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Et me voici au sommet&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="426" height="640" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/433r.JPG" alt="Bouddha debout au Wat Saphan Hin à Sukhothai" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Mais la descente a été dure, je n'avais pas vraiment les bonnes chaussures&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="426" height="640" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/436r.JPG" alt="La descente de la colline du Wat Saphan Hin in Sukhothai" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;Mon papa a mis beaucoup d'autres photos dans la &lt;a href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=118&amp;tabid=64" target="_blank"&gt;Gallerie Photos&lt;/a&gt; ainsi que sur la page &lt;a name="Parc historique de Sukhothai" target="_blank" href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=117&amp;tabid=64"&gt;Sukhothai&lt;/a&gt; et les pages annexes &lt;a name="Wat Mahathat à Sukhothai" target="_blank" href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=137&amp;tabid=64"&gt;Wat Mahathat&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a name="Wat Si Chum à Sukhothai" target="_blank" href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=138&amp;tabid=64"&gt;Wat Si Chum&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a name="Wat Sa Si à Sukhothai" target="_blank" href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=139&amp;tabid=64"&gt;Wat Sa Si&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>The short-lived red shirts revolution in Thailand</title>
      <description>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="427" height="640" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/398r.JPG" alt="Thai red shirts protesters" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Thailandblogs/tabid/64/EntryId/7070/The-short-lived-red-shirts-revolution-in-Thailand.aspx&gt;More...&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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      <title>Songkran</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I'm now 3 years old and this is the third time I see Songkran come and go but the first time I'm old enough to make it memorable. I was in Chiang Mai this week and they really know how to celebrate the Thai new year, I learned from the best &lt;img alt="" src="/frt/Providers/HtmlEditorProviders/Fck/FCKeditor/editor/images/smiley/msn/shades_smile.gif" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;See how focused I am&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="427" height="640" alt="Songkran in Thailand" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/388r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And I sure got wet, but I just loved it, can't wait for next year Songkran, I'll get a bigger water gun.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And I posted some more pictures in my blog in French&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/FarangrakthaiBlogs/tabid/64/BlogID/8/ParentBlogID/4/Default.aspx"&gt;Un eurasien en Thaïlande&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And in the &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=118&amp;tabid=64"&gt;Photo Gallery&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:59:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Mon premier Songkran</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Ce n'est pas vraiment mon premier Songkran, j'ai 3 ans, c'est donc mon troisième. Mais c'est le premier où j'ai vraiment participé, le premier où je me suis vraiment senti Thai et fier de l'être.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Je suis prêt&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="427" height="640" alt="Songkran en Thaïlande" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/385r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Et je vises bien&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="426" alt="Songkran en Thaïlande" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/390r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="427" alt="Songkran en Thaïlande" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/392r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Mais bon, il faut s'attendre à être un peu mouillé&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="426" alt="Songkran en Thaïlande" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/397r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Quoi qu'il en soit, j'ai adoré, vivement l'année prochaine&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:44:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Thai PM Abhisit has to go say hundreds of thousand of Red Shirt protesters in the streets of Bangkok</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I wrote quite some time ago that I was thinking Thaksin's influence was fading away in Thailand and that the Red Shirt protests would not last long, by lack of motivation or just lack of money.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Obviously I was wrong, they're back in the streets of Bangkok and not in small numbers. It seems today 40 to 50,000 of them are gathering aroung government house in the afternoon and many more are expected to come from the North and North East provinces in the evening.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What do they want? The dissolution of the Thai parliament and new elections, which they're convinced will put back in power a party associated to Thaksin. And they're probably right. For them, the government led by the Democratic Party and Mr. Abhisit gain power unlawfully or let's say not in a democratic way and if they were not happy with that in the first place, the deteriorating economic situation and the loss of thousands of jobs in Thailand sure does not make it more appealling...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So, basically, we're back to square one, different color, from yellow to red, but same protests and for the same reasons, to get rid of the Thai government. But well, with very few chances of success in the case of the red shirts...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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