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Mae Sot – Myawaddy – border to Myanmar closed

The international border Mae Sot – Myawaddy from Thailand to Myanmar (Burma, Birma) is actually closed since a few days.
There are rumors, that Myanmar closed the border as a protest as on Thai side the are working at the shore of the border river Maenam Moei and making the dam better. Burma complains this will [...]

Touristvisa Thailand free till 2011

The Tourist Visa for Thailand were free till march 2010. From march 2010 each entry usually costs 1.000 Baht. But just today we got informed, that the Thai Government keeps going on with free tourist visa for Thailand till the end of march 2011.
Touristvisa are available as single, double and triple entry (each entry is [...]

Big Tsunami warning: Southamerica, Australia, Asia!

Today 03.14 pm local time it had a big earth quake at the South American Westcoast (Massive 8.8 Magnitude Quake)
First “only” Tsunami warnings came out for South America, the USA and some Islands. Now it became a massive Tsunami warning including countries and continents like Australia, Japan, Russia etc. But also for Indonesia and the [...]