DID YOU KNOW?

It's certainly not an everyday occurrence but when you live in Thailand you are bound to encounter a snake at some time. There are something like 170 different species of snakes in Thailand, of which 40 - 50 are venomous.

Pattaya maps and all maps of Pattaya and the Chonburi Province are drawn not-to-scale. A new vector map is being labeled with more than 5,000 locators of businesses, street names and landmarks identified by Pattaya city administration, the Tourist Police, the Pattaya Police and the Tourism Authority of Thailand. A new

Since the end of last year, motorists will have noticed the introduction of the Easy Pass lane at all the entry gates on Bangkok's toll ways.

The internet around the world is buzzing from reports in Thailand of two American, major pornographic movie makers getting arrested in Thailand and then freed under legal loopholes and another case of a Bangkok blogger defaming many prominent foreigners, including a British Embassy official. Under the Thailand Computer-Related Crime Act many criminal court cases in Thailand have charged internet users for attacking a person or company on the internet and damaging their reputation using photos, movies or text on blogs and websites. Now the law is being applied to makers of pornographic movies using Thai models and against bloggers. An American-managed law firm in Pattaya is now successfully defending foreigners arrested for producing computer-related sex videos while also prosecuting bloggers for defamation under the Computer Related Crime Act.