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Rescued "Wild Boars" Footballer Dies in UK February 15, 2023 Luang cave survivor Duangphet “Dom” Phromthep, the captain of the Wild Boars football team, has died suddenly in England. One of the young "Wild Boars" footballers rescued from flooded Luang Cave in Chiang Rai in 2018 has died suddenly in England. The death of teenager Duangphet “Dom’’ Phromthep came as a shock to his family and friends. The cause of death was unclear. Unconfirmed reports in British media said he sustained a head injury. He had signed up for the Brooke House College Football Academy in Leicester, England, last year. Social media was inundated with messages of grief and condolence when the news broke on Wednesday. The Zico Foundation posted a message and a photo of Duangphet, or Nong Dom, who had received a football scholarship from the foundation. Phra Khu Prayut Jetiyanukarn, abbot of Wat Phra That Doi Wao in Chiang Rai, said Duangphet’s mother phoned him around 6am and said that her son had died. The abbot said initial reports were that there was an accident, a fall, and Duangphet was injured. He was admitted to hospital and put on a ventilator but later died. The family was in touch with the Foreign Affairs Ministry and details would be announced later. Relatives in tambon Wiang Phang Kham told reporters they were informed the boy had been injured in an accident that led to his death. Details would be given out by the boy’s football club in England, they said. Duangphet was the captain of the Wild Boars football team whose rescue from a flooded cave captured the attention of the world in 2018. He won a scholarship to study at the football academy in Leicestershire. Duangphet posted a message on his Instagram account after receiving the scholarship. "Today, my dream has come true because I will become a football student in England,'' he said. Between June and July 2018, Thai and international rescue teams scoured flooded Luang cave in Chiang Rai's Mae Sai district to find 12 "Wild Boar" footballers aged between 11 and 16 and their 25-year-old assistant coach, who went to explore the underground complex on June 23 after football practice. They were trapped inside by a sudden storm and flood for 17 days before being finally found by two British divers. A complex and dangerous rescue followed. One rescuer died in the flooded cave. The Zico Foundation posts a message of condolences and a photo of Duangphet "Dom" Phromthep on its Facebook page on Wednesday. Duangphet was the first person to talk to the rescue team when he and his friends were trapped inside Luang cave in Chiang Rai's Mae Sai district between June and July 2018. https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2507244/rescued-wild-boars-footballer-dies-in-uk

Not yet, but Moses tells me he is almost finished. He has upgraded the board to the newest version and is moving the whole thing to a different server. He's trying to do everything he can to try to prevent this from happening again. If all goes well, I might be able to give the "green light" as soon as this weekend. Rest assured, I will post a new message when the board is open and safe to access again.

Men advised against masturbating during video calls by Wassayos Ngamkham February 14, 2023 Pol Col Siriwat Deephor, deputy chief of the Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD), advises men not to masturbate during video calls, or they might end up being blackmailed. Police have warned that men who masturbate during video calls may leave themselves open to blackmail by gangs using phoney profile photos of beautiful women. Quite a few Thai males, both children and adults, had already fallen prey to these gangs, Pol Col Siriwat Deephor, deputy chief of the Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD), said on Tuesday. The gangs used bogus photos of attractive women in their profiles and sent friend requests to potential victims on social media. After they became online friends, the chats would become sexually oriented and eventually the victims would be enticed into turning on their camera and then masturbating during a video call. The gangs recorded the videos and used them to blackmail the victims, the TCSD spokesman said. If the victims refused to pay, the gangs would threaten to send the masturbation videos to their friends or family, or to make them public online. Normally, the gangsters concentrated on extorting money from their victims and did not publish the videos. However, recently some videos had been disseminated even though the victims had paid the money. This caused damage to the victims, Pol Col Siriwat said. He advised men not to masturbate during any video call or send such videos or photos to anyone. People with information about the operations of these gangs could alert police via https://tcsd.go.th around the clock, he said. https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2506199/men-advised-against-masturbating-during-video-calls ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ If these fools want to try blackmailing me, go for it! They would send the videos to friends, family, or publish online? Fine with me. When it comes to masturbation, I would be delighted for them to provide the proof that at my age, I still can . . .

Update: Moses told me that he is going to have to wade through a good 5000 files to find and eliminate the virus plaguing my board. I am in no hurry and, Moses, please take your time. I'd much rather have this done correctly than quickly - and take whatever security steps are necessary to prevent this sort of thing from happening again. Those of you who have memberships on my board, once it is up and running again I suggest you change your board password - just in case.

It doesn't work anywhere in Thailand if it is your first address report. I should have mentioned that. Your very first address report has to be done at an immigration office. After that you can use the online system. I don't know how it works if your address ever changes. My guess is you would probably have to personally go to immigration for the first report after changing your address. Also, when the time comes when you have to get a new passport, the passport number will change. You would have to go to immigration for that. While you're there I would advise making sure your new passport information is also given to the address reporting desk so it can be entered into the system and won't interfere with online reporting. To me, it would make much more sense to have to do an address report only if your address changes, but they don't do it that way. At least now you can do the 90-day address reports online. Not exactly a major difficulty or inconvenience.

It works perfectly now - no problems at all. Now I'm hoping Moses will soon be able to do the same for my board . . .

Those of you living in Thailand are well aware of immigration's 90-day Address Report requirement, which can be done at any immigration office. Some may not be aware that you can do the whole thing online. The programmers have done a good job with this one. It works perfectly and can be done on a desktop computer, mobile phone, or tablet. No more trips to the immigration office. Those who live nowhere near an immigration office, no more mailing in. What you do is log in. Here is the URL: https://tm47.immigration.go.th/tm47/#/login Use that URL on whichever device you have or prefer. If you're doing it for the first time you'll fill out the simple "Apply" form. An Email will be sent to you with a password. Save that password, although after the first time you log in your password will probably be saved. You probably won't need to reenter your password unless you change devices. Once you log in, now you'll fill out the Address Report form, which is very simple and actually requires a bit less information than the form you fill out if you go to immigration. For instance you won't be asked for your arrival card number, how you arrived in Thailand, etc. After filling out the form, you will submit it. Not long after you will receive an Email telling you your submission has been received and accepted. Not long after that, usually within an hour or two, you will receive another email telling you you have been approved. Then you go back to the web site, click on the green "Status of Application" button. The page that pops up will contain the approved form that you download (PDF format), print out, and put into your passport after removing the last address report form. If you don't have a printer you can copy the form to a flash drive or take the device itself to any copy shop and they will be able to print it out for you -for about 10 baht. After you have done your first submission, now you will receive an Email from immigration when your next report is due. I'm glad they do that now. They make sure you don't forget. Who knows? Maybe one of these days they'll come up with a way to do the Retirement Visa extensions entirely online, but I'm not holding my breath for that one . . .

Of course those of you who wish to attend both ceremonies are welcome to do so, but the more important of the two will be the Tuesday ceremony. ______________________________________________________________________ Funeral Rites for Dr. Iain Corness Scheduled for Monday & Tuesday by Pattaya Mail February 4, 2023 Funeral Rites for Dr Iain Duncan Corness will be held at Wat Chonglom Temple in Naklua, Banglamung District as per the following schedule: Monday 6 February 19:00 hrs: Religious Rites. Tuesday 7 February 14:00 hrs Cremation Service. https://goo.gl/maps/95DkzaA3VA8mL7KP9 https://www.pattayamail.com/pattayamail/funeral-rites-for-dr-iain-corness-scheduled-for-monday-tuesday-423276

You're right. I don't. Crew: "What never?" Captain Corcoran: "No Never" Crew: "What never?" Captain Corcoran: "Well . . . hardly ever" - Gilbert & Sullivan, "I AM The Captain Of The Pinafore", 'HMS Pinafore'

Pattaya has a bar scene? I'm getting to the point that "self service" doesn't seem like such a bad option. Besides, it's probably much less expensive to every so often send flowers to my hands . . .

You mean the boys in Bangkok are not also in Pattaya - two places at once? Thank you. I never would have thought of that . . .

Dr Iain Corness obituary: a Pattaya man of all the talents By Barry Kenyon February 1, 2023 One of Pattaya’s best-known foreign residential achievers has died here after a long battle with cancer. Reviewing the life of such a gifted man with so many success stories and fields of interest is no easy task. Iain’s achievements ran from medicine to motor racing and from photography to philanthropy. He was a restaurateur and a raconteur who opened Australia’s first fast-food Thai eatery and later became Pattaya Mail’s most prolific and original contributor. Twenty years ago, special correspondent Peter Cummins admitted he couldn’t decide whether Iain was an over-achiever or an over-whelmer. We now know it’s both. Born in Northern Ireland in 1941, Iain always stressed he was a Brit of Scottish ancestry. “Just because you are born in a stable doesn’t make you a horse,” he used to say. As a young teen, he was a guest of the Australian government courtesy of the 10-pounds assisted passage scheme for families. The youthful Corness attended Brisbane Boys College and introduced himself to the labour market with jobs as a night watchman and a petrol pump attendant. He took the advice of his nurse mother to study to become a doctor and duly qualified in UK. He paid for his passage back home to Australia by being the ship’s doctor. “I wasn’t too busy, “he recalled, “after one patient with a toothache screamed during the difficult extraction.” A positive avalanche of activities in Brisbane duly followed. Iain opened his own medical clinic and, subsequently, the Thai restaurant in his spare time. Not to mention getting married. He also indulged his life-long obsession with car racing, building his first MGB model under his house. Successful racing soon caught the attention of British Leyland and the by-then modified MGB was recognized as the fastest of its class in the world. In 1990 he formed his own racing team. He also became a commercial photographer and became accredited to the Institute of Australian Professional Photographers. “The camera was expensive, so it had to earn its keep as quickly as possible.” Not everything was plain sailing. In 1992, he miraculously escaped from a blazing inferno on the race track losing only his eyebrows and lashes, carrying scars on his back for the rest of his life. After vacationing in Thailand in 1975, Iain planned to start a fresh life here and finally moved permanently in 1997. Asked why he chose Pattaya to domicile, he explained “it was the only place with an auto race track (Bira Circuit).” He never travelled abroad again and explained in 2022, “You see, I absolutely hate filling in forms and the immigration procedures made it impossible for me to consider going abroad.” Pattaya in 1997 was a very different venue from today. There seemed few opportunities outside of sex and booze. But Iain managed to weave all his qualifications and interests into a truly revolutionary career. Never a retiree waiting for the bars to open, Iain bumped into the Bangkok Pattaya Hospital where he became a non-practicing consultant, work permit and all, where he advised thousands of patients over the years about the real deal and won praise for his empathetic bedside manner. He wrote two books on idiosyncratic Pattaya Expat Life which were a sellout at Bookazine and on Amazon. He was a regular attendee at Pattaya business meetings and social gatherings too numerous to mention. His car racing continued with gigantic enthusiasm until a year before his death. His connection with Pattaya Mail, the resort’s first and now only print newspaper with daily internet updates, went back almost to the foundation in 1993. Iain wrote regularly and voluminously under his own name – Automania and Modern Medicine – as well as under barely-concealed pseudonyms. He was, of course, the gastronome Miss Terry Dinner, the flash-photographer Harry Flashman and the book worm Lang Reid. Not to mention Dear Hillary, the agony aunt coping with naive expats and their heterosexual wanderings. He also produced news items, one-off columns and multitudes of “fillers”, the bits and pieces between the commercial ads. Iain’s journalistic contributions often revealed common-sense advice to the expat community: don’t fall in love with ladies of the night, be careful when ordering Indian curries which are often too spicy and don’t forget an annual medical if you are middle aged or worse. Dr Iain Corness, the Good Doctor as he was affectionately known, is irreplaceable in Pattaya annals. Pattaya Mail offers to his family deepest condolences from both management and the general readership. In one of his last public appearances, at the Pattaya City Expat Club last October, I asked Iain what he would do if offered the keys of the city. “Ask for a duplicate set of course.” Requiescat in Pace Iain Corness: 18 November 1941 – 30 January 2023. https://www.pattayamail.com/latestnews/news/dr-iain-corness-obituary-a-pattaya-man-of-all-the-talents-423117

Me too, to the point that sometimes the page times out rather than loads.

Don't lose any sleep waiting for it. I'm not going to Bangkok any time soon. Even when I do go to Bangkok, I don't often have time to go to saunas. The only plan I have for Bangkok is to go to the Chatuchak Market and most likely return to Pattaya the same day as soon as I find what I'm looking for - and that won't be until at least until March or April.

Most Pattaya expats either knew or were well aware of Dr. Iain Corness. Sadly, he died January 31, 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcVRLyNMveY

Thailand Will Begin Building $9 Billion "aviation City" This Year The project is one of Thailand's biggest megastructure proposals to date. by Charlotte Seet January 29, 2023 Smaller aviation cities are growing in popularity, such as Saudi Arabia's NEOM City in the Middle East, and now Asia could soon have an aviation city too. Slated to begin construction soon, Thailand is investing nearly 300 billion baht ($8.82 billion) in its aviation city project, known as U-Tapao 'Eastern Aviation City.' This is one of the country's largest megastructure projects. Transforming a historical airport The massive investment from the Thai government is planned to revamp the historical U-Tapao airport, which dates back to the Vietnam War and is located in the Pla subdistrict of the Baanchang district of the Rayong province. The revamped vision of U-Tapao International Airport is to see the post-war building become a new international airport occupying approximately 1,040 hectares of land. A new passenger terminal building will also be connected to the revamped airport, primarily serving low-cost flights with a dab of full-service carriers, connecting passengers to flights to Don Muang Airport and Suvarnabhumi Airport. But the massive size of land occupied won't just include one terminal building, as the construction plans also include a free trade zone for commodities, a flight training center, and an aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul center. Designing the most innovative airport in Asia The international architectural design and consultancy firm One Works was appointed as the lead masterplan designer for the airport by the GMR Group and Thai AirAsia, among other project stakeholders. When coming up with the airport master plan, One Works decided on the following guidelines: The proximity of the passenger terminal to more expansive facilities; Inter-modality and high level of accessibility, both locally and regionally; A functional mix of buildings based on receptive, tertiary, catering, retail, and leisure activities; Incredible architectural detail reflective of Thai culture; Reduced environmental impact; High sustainability standards; Increased integration of public areas - private buildings. With these guidelines in place, One Works designed the U-Tapao 'Eastern Aviation City' to be the most innovative multi-modal transport hub in Asia, seeking to maximize passenger comfort and put Thai culture at the forefront. The architecture is designed for ease of navigation and comfort, with optimized walking times, smartly designed nature-inspired interiors, and maximized spaciousness. The interior is also designed with Thai culture in mind and is inspired by the architecture of nearby coastal towns in the Rayong Province. Natural light will be diffused through overhead skylights, lush interior trees, vegetation, and vibrant retail and food & beverage offers that are in the spirit of Thai street food, which is accessible to everyone. With the optimized walking times, passengers are afforded more time to dine, shop, and relax. One Work's 'Eastern Aviation City' master plan will not only serve the needs of travelers to and from the airport but will also bring together everything a genuine community needs to thrive. Also within the airport's infrastructure is a centrally-located Smart Eco Hub Retail area and Culture Village to provide a unique entertainment component for all visitors. Enabling growth and connectivity for Thailand Besides putting the needs of passengers and the Thai culture as a priority when brainstorming designs, the master plan simultaneously ensured the expansion of U-Tapao International Airport could ultimately reach the 60-75 million passengers per annum required to meet demand in this rapidly growing market. This highly intuitive and visionary airport will enable Thailand’s aviation industry to grow as it'll provide an additional 15,600 jobs for the local economy within the first five years and will also promote public and private sector innovation; and enchant passengers and visitors with a unique customer experience reflective of traditional and contemporary Thai values. Story and artist conceptions: https://simpleflying.com/thailand-u-tapao-aviation-city-construction/ If you Google Aviation City Thailand several more stories will come up

Don't worry. Next time I go to Bangkok and have time for a sauna, that is exactly what I'm going to do. At my age and the way I look, if I get stares I'm expecting nothing more than their natural curiosity at spotting the bizarre. If anything happens better than that, I'll be very pleasantly surprised. Meanwhile, if some other customer, or even a staff member tries to tell me I shouldn't be there, they will very quickly be reminded that I have as much right to be there as they do and if to them I'm an eyesore and it really bothers him, let him be the one to go elsewhere. I didn't always look the way I do now and there was a time when I too was young and attractive. Those days are long gone - very long gone. I wonder how they will react when they reach old age and start encountering people who no longer want to accept them. I would go expecting nothing more than enjoying the sauna part of the sauna and a chance to feast my eyes on good looking boys. If nothing more than that happens, Fine with me. I'm not expecting anything more. If I want sex, but nothing happens at this sauna I still have two options - go somewhere and pay for it or go back to my room and get it by self-service . . .

You know how much attention I would pay to that? None. Zero. Nada. He doesn't speak for anyone but himself. Many Thais are attracted to us old, fat farang and more than just me can attest to it. There is an interesting currently active topic on the Sawatdee board about just that. See: https://sawatdeenetwork.com/v4/showthread.php?23019-Non-commercial-is-it-possible The Krubb web site is written entirely in English. Who do you think that's for? When was the last time you noticed a lot of young, fit, handsome farang in any of the gay saunas? Instead of worrying about what one guy said, I would much rather go to the sauna and see for myself. Maybe I'll get lucky and maybe not, but it would take more than just one visit to convince me it is always going to be "not".

Exactly. I'm worried if I try to do anything myself, all I'll do is just make things worse. And if anyone will know what to do to try to prevent this from happening again, it will be Moses. Once my board is up and running properly, I'll post a new message.

While I appreciate the advice, apparently you are assuming I even know what that means, much less how to access it or do anything with it. You are talking way above my scope. Folks, I'm doing the best I can. I have already made it clear - when it come to handling this kind of problem I am clueless. I am going to wait for Moses and that's that. Moses is already well aware of the problem. If he has any advice, he'll let me know and I'll follow it. I truly understand some of you are genuinely trying to help, but I'm getting advice I didn't ask for from people I wouldn't know if they were sitting next to me, and it is advice I have no idea how to follow. No offense intended, but I am going to wait for Moses. If he has any advice for me in the meantime, I'll follow it. If anyone truly wants to help, please send your suggestions to Moses, not to me. If it's something he thinks I should do, then he'll tell me and will tell me how to do it.

Moses is my web site guru. He is my hosting support. He hosts my board on his own server. In order to fix that, or other problems that have occurred, it requires him to have full administrative access to my board - the same access level I have myself. There is no one else I would ever trust with that kind of access and his level of expertise. So, I'm sorry, but I'm going to wait for Moses. Also, 10tazione's advice to remove the link is good advice. TotallyOZ has my full "green light" to edit it out.

Not yet. He is traveling and won't be able to get to it until he returns home, in about 1 week from today. I\m not going to try it with my own mobile phone, but apparently people are getting through on mobile phones rather than computer browsers. I advise not trying to access the board at all until we have the problem fixed and I post a message announcing it's safe. I'm sorry this happened, but in my opinion it's just not worth the risk.

Not potential. According to Moses, definite. From what I have read about it, this is a virus that can change your home page - and keep changing it, along with placing extra ads on web sites you visit, and several other problems that are not easy to fix. The part that is potential is it could potentially force you to format your hard drive and re-install everything in order to get rid of it. This is one to keep away from. I don't want some scumbag hacker or my board to cause problems for anyone. As I said, I will post a notification once it is safe to access my board again. To me, the scary part is I have no idea how this got onto my board. It wouldn't hurt anything to change the password that accesses this board, which hopefully might prevent the same thing happening here. I changed several of my passwords and I will change the password I use to access my own board once it is safe to access it.

Folks, Moses sent a message letting me know he is aware of the problem, but he is traveling now and will e back in about 1 week. He can't do anything about it until then. He told me the problem is definitely a virus. Please don't bypass the warning message. If you do, now the virus will end up on your own computer. If you bypassed it anyway, to be safe I advise you to change all your passwords - all of them. Otherwise the hacker might have access to your passwords. I'm sorry, but that's the situation the way it is.

This morning my board apparently has been hacked. Please do not go to my board until we have the problem fixed. I will post another message once it is safe to use my board again. If you try to go to my board now, you will see a message similar to this: _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Website blocked due to a suspicious download Download blocked: LINK Removed by Admin Malwarebytes Browser Guard blocks downloads that either come from websites that see relatively light traffic or may contain potentially malicious content. This is intended to protect you from new scams. However, if you trust content from this site and would like to proceed, click "Continue".