Hatyai Before & After Dark :- Info-sharing & FRs

[roslee7]

The weather in thailand good and occasionally rains but not serious like it happen in malaysia. i was in hatyai from 6 till 13 jan and stayed in new season hotel on 6 till 10 jan. On the first day in hatyai, i was admitted in the hospital due to sudden pain on my left stomach. i dont really know how i got it but it was my first time got it. The last time i remembered was having supper at opposite lee garden at 3 am. i ate the muslim fried chicken.

I was in pain in the hotel room for almost 2 hrs and vomitting and severed pain on the left part of the stomach, fortunately, the hotel manager send me to the hospital for trreatment. By the way, i suppose to go krabi on 8 jan but cancelled due to my unstable condition. I have already booked the hote
l online but the agent told me cant refund.

By wed onward, i was feeling better and decided to krabi on the following day. I went to this place (Opposite Old lee garden - Diana club) to book lady so that i can bring her to krabi. Its a small lane and have few karaoke there. I saw few gems there and there they only start from 6 pm onward. Price more expensive from 2500 to 3500 baht.

On returning back from krabi, i meet our samster prolink and cyberaid. Most likely i will be back again on May or i will be going to chiangmai instead. Hope we can meet next time

[roslee7]

hello, katoeylover.

just to inform you that macfan1905 is now roslee7. I will use this nickname in future. i will be back inhatyai again on may. In meantime, i will just go to batam for time being. cheers

[KatoeyLover69]

Originally Posted by roslee7

hello, katoeylover.

just to inform you that macfan1905 is now roslee7. I will use this nickname in future.

Bro roslee7,

Thanks for the info and the very interesting FR above

I think you had severe stomach ache probably because the fried chicken was cooked/fried 100%.

I used to eat the Muslim fried chicken almost every day when I was in Hatyai many, many years ago but later avoided eating it because it is deep-fried and makes me cough after eating it. Also, deep-fried food is not healthy and bad for your health.

[bestbest]

I used to love these fried chicky legs and would never miss it whenever I was in town. The crispy skin and the tamarind fragrance damn nice. But I would only go for those that were freshly fried. Best time was in the morning and joining the breakfast crowd...could see many ordering a piece of nicely and freshly fried chicky leg plus a packet of sticky rice. Went along very well with the chlli sauce. What about a cup of hot milk tea after that?....yummy.
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Never had I kena dummy upset as I would never go for those re-cycled types especially late into the night. Same goes to those fried big head prawns. The stale oil had aready put me off.

And what about a hot bowl of noodle or kuay teow soup in the deep of the night? There was this very nice beef kuay teow stall outside Emperor Hotel. Isit still there?

[bestbest]

Originally Posted by bestbest

Never had I kena dummy upset

Paiseh, not dummy upset but tummy upset. Very sorry for the typo. Enjoy all ye tummies.

[KatoeyLover69]

Report from Bangkok Post dated Thursday 25 January 2007 :-

Thieves steal ATM with B2.5 million inside from Hatyai bank

Songkhla : Five thieves made off with an automatic teller machine (ATM) with nearly 2.5 million baht inside in Songkhla's Hat Yai district yesterday. Police said the Krung Thai Bank's ATM machine placed in front of the Social Security Office (SSO) building on Chotiwiriyakul 3 was ripped out and taken away in the back of a pick-up truck about 2am.

Footage from the building's surveillance cameras showed five people involved in the robbery.

Security guard Sathaporn Nimpradub, 46, said five robbers, two armed with 11mm and 9mm pistols, held him at gunpoint before making him lie flat on the floor and binding his hands and legs.

Then the thieves dislodged the machine, placed it on a pushcart, took it out to a pick-up truck waiting outside the building and hoisted it on to the back.

Mr Sathaporn said the entire operation took about 20 minutes.

The security guard managed to free himself a short time later and informed police immediately.

Police said the robbers got away with 2,450,000 baht in cash which had been put in the machine by bank staff on Tuesday evening.

More than 50 investigative and crime suppression police officers were summoned to hunt for the thieves.
--- KatoeyNewsNetwork

[KatoeyLover69]

Report from Bangkok Post dated Monday 29 January 2007 :-


Bus mafia preys on travellers in Hat Yai

A mafia-like operation has been entrenched at the Hat Yai bus terminal in Songkhla province for two decades and complaints about the problem have been ignored.

Bus terminal chief Pairat Thongthep admitted yesterday he had no idea how to deal with the illegal bus operators.

He said they lured unknowing travellers into paying more for a substandard service.

The bus terminal provides official bus services, standard fare prices and standard buses. The service is available for passengers who buy tickets at the booths of the state-owned Transport Co and its concessionaires.


However, the illegal operators pounce on unwary travellers, who never make it to the terminal or ticket booths.


"They usually tell travellers that all tickets for Transport Company buses are sold out," he said. "They say they have tickets for extra buses for sale at similar prices and that their buses are the same standard as the company's regular buses."


Travellers buy the tickets only to find out later that the buses are in poor condition and at times they are forced off the vehicles before reaching their destination.


Sometimes the illegal operators buy legal tickets and then sell them to travellers at higher prices.


While frequent travellers would not fall victim to the trick, they found the touts irritating.


Mr Pairat said these operators have about 10 "tour" offices just next to the Hat Yai bus terminal and about 15 employees wandering around picking up victims. This had been going on, untouched, for two decades, thanks to protection from people in various uniforms.


Staff at the bus terminal used to warn travellers about the illegal opeators, but received threats and intimidation.


"Recently our drivers were assaulted by these gangsters. A complaint was filed with police but nothing was done.


"Everyone knows these people have influential backers. We know who. All colours [of uniform] control these illegal companies," he said.


He had repeatedly sent petitions. The latest was addressed to the president of the Transport Company labour union, of which Mr Pairat is a member. He said the Transport Co board includes senior military and police officers as well as executives of the Land Transport Department whose authority should overcome local influence.

"I cannot fight it alone... The problem gets worse during peak travel times like festivals. I sympathise with cheated passengers who must travel aboard substandard buses which are not insured and whose crews will abandon them outside of towns," Mr Pairat said.

A man identifying himself as Nop said he used to be part of a team preying on travellers inside the terminal. They made 100 baht per victim.

Porn, a taxi driver, said the tour companies paid a commission of 50-100 baht for passengers sent their way.

Hat Yai Mayor Prai Pattano said the municipality would leave the problem to the Transport Co.
--- KatoeyNewsNetwork

[KatoeyLover69]

Report from Bangkok Post dated Friday 2 February 2007 :-

Crown Prince visiting deep South, including Hatyai

His Royal Highness Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, accompanied by HRH Princess Srirasm, arrived in Hat Yai district in Songkhla last night, beginning a four-day visit to the restive South. The Crown Prince will hand over 80.9 million baht in donations, raised from the recent special flight he piloted, to hospitals in the South to buy medical equipment.

His visit will include the three southernmost provinces - Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani.

He was met at Hat Yai airport by Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont and army chief and chairman of the Council for National Security Gen Sonthi Boonyaratkalin.

Gen Surayud announced that school administrators had been authorised to begin school breaks ahead of schedule for safety reasons.

Meanwhile, two ice-cream vendors were killed, and one of them beheaded, in separate attacks in Pattani and Yala yesterday.

Vendor Weerachai Uttaraniyoung, 45, was shot eight times by two drive-by gunmen as he was driving his motorcycle, and then decapitated, in Ban Gueya in Pattani's Muang district yesterday.

The other vendor, Thanakrit Thammasuth, was shot on the Yala-Kota Baru highway in Yala's Muang district.

Gunmen also shot two rubber tappers, killing a man and seriously injuring his wife, in Yala's Bannang Sata district.

In Yala, militants seriously wounded a deputy commander of border patrol police forces as he travelled to a border patrol police school in Yaha district.

In the same district, a village headman's assistant was shot and wounded.

In Raman district, the 41st Ranger Regiment began training a 72-member all-female ranger force at Wang Phraya military camp in psychological operations, negotiation and crowd control.

The course is a response to the new insurgent tactic of organising women and children to rally in protest for release of detained suspects.

In Pattani, a patrol from Ingkayutthaboriharn military camp was ambushed with a roadside bomb in Mai Kaen district. No one was injured.

[KatoeyLover69]

Report from Bangkok Post dated Monday 5 February 2007 :-

Stolen ATM found buried, without the cash

Songkhla - An automatic teller machine (ATM) stolen from Hat Yai nearly two weeks ago was found buried in bushland in Chana district yesterday - minus the 2.4 million baht it had contained.

Five robbers were filmed by a security camera as they removed the Krung Thai Bank machine from outside the Social Security Office in Hat Yai district in the early morning of Jan 24.

About 100 police descended on Ban Kan Sam Khok village yesterday. They found the ATM, with its safe detached and emptied, buried near a coconut plantation.

They also found marks showing the machine had been dragged from a nearby plantation workers' hut where traces of cutting equipment, cigarette butts, a loincloth and gloves were found.

A search in the vicinity found two suspects who police said confessed to the crime and to conspiring with four others who were still at large.

Police said Phakdee Chablee, 45, a coconut plantation worker, claimed he had only opened the hut for the robbers. The other suspect, Loh Kasemsuriya, 48, lived in the house near the one-metre-deep hole where the ATM was buried.
--- KatoeyNewsNetwork

[KatoeyLover69]

Report from Bangkok Post dated Friday 23 February 2007 :-

Support for rebels 'now at 10,000' - Network could strike capital, says Boonrawd

Insurgents in the deep South can draw on the support of an estimated 10,000 young people they have moulded into a ''united front'', and could threaten the security of Bangkok, Defence Minister Boonrawd Somtas said yesterday.

Gen Boonrawd said insurgents previously could count on less than 100 people and he attributed the dramatic increase to long-term neglect of the region.

The defence minister was fielding questions at the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) about the bombings in the deep South on Feb 18.

He affirmed that students from the South were free to move to Bangkok, and that intelligence units were watching suspected militants believed to have entered the capital.

He admitted the authorities in the South still could not bridge the gap between locals and the state, despite considerable resources, including 10,000 soldiers, 10,000 policemen, and another 17,000 people the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Centre (SBPAC) could call on.

''We do not know them. We do not know who is working against us. As long as they mingle with ordinary people, it's difficult to tell them apart,'' he said.

For more than 10 years, the insurgents had been selecting young people for training. The new recruits were taken when they were about 12 years old, he added.

Pranai Suwannarath, head of the SBPAC, was among the first to attribute the Feb 18 explosions to young people. The SBPAC has been trying to access remote villages since it resumed operations on Jan 1.

In the South, sources said the Fourth Army was trying to build bridges with religious leaders in particular in a bid to form its own ''united front''. The army was also working with defectors to shore up knowledge about the insurgents' networks, operational methods and structure.

But he said the army had so far only learned about low-level supporters, such as those who attempt to hinder authorities by laying spikes and other obstructions.

''So far we have not been able to reach the leadership and their thinking. So prevention is difficult. We learn only that there will be an attack but not where or how,'' a source said.

Defectors do not tell all because they have sworn an oath of secrecy, he added.

So far, the Surayud Chulanont government's political offensive had been successful, including the cooperation with his Malaysian counterpart Abdullah Badawi. But on the ground, there had not been as much progress as there should have been, said the source.

At the NLA, Lt-Gen Waipot Srinual, commander of the National Intelligence Agency, slammed the government's failure to curb the violence that was demoralising operational officers and local people.

At the same time, he said the gap between state authorities and local people was being perpetuated by instigators working to widen the divide.

They formed a ''third group'' in the region, besides people who are for and against violence, he said.

Prime Minister Surayud yesterday admitted that the government had done little to curb the violence in the South over the past four months.

Local cooperation was key to stamping out the insurgency and help would be sought from Malaysia to turn the situation around, he said. Any idea of making the troubled region a special administrative area should be taken up by the next government, he added.

Defence spokesman Maj-Gen Pichasanu Putchakarn said the Defence Council was concerned the debate on a national religion may be used as a campaign against the government. He said the defence minister had emphasised the need to be more active in intelligence gathering.

Meanwhile, the interior minister described Wednesday's gun attack against an entourage of humanitarian fund raiser Thanpuying Viraya Chawakul as random.
--- KatoeyNewsNetwork

[KatoeyLover69]

Report from Bangkok Post dated Saturday 24 February 2007 :-

Violence affects tourism in Southern Thailand

Earnings from tourism for the three troubled southern border provinces – Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat -- are projected to decline further in the second quarter of 2007 if violence related to the southern insurgency continues, according to a leading think tank's report.

Renewed violence in the three provinces has become more fierce since its beginning in 2004, forcing tourism, both by locals and foreigners, to decline 18 per cent to 1.15 million visitors in 2004 and
deteriorating further to about 800,000 persons in the following year, according to a report issued by Kasikorn Research Centre.

Last year, tourism business in the area picked up slightly with the number of tourists visiting the three provinces remained almost unchanged with revenue earnings up marginally to about Bt1.86 billion, it said.

More than 800,000 tourists are expected to visit the three provinces this year while earnings was projected to increase to about Bt2 billion if there is no major violence in the trouble-plagued area.

The latest (and one of the most severe) onslaughts to shake the three provinces and nearby Songkhla province ocurred on February 18 – the Chinese New Year – when eight persons were killed and more than 60 persons were wounded in a series of bombings, arsons, and shootings thought to have been the doing of militants operating in the region.

The Kasikorn Research Centre (KRC) report noted that Songkhla's Hat Yai district, known as paradise for nighttime entertainment and shoppers, would see its tourism business this year grow in comparison to 2006.

KRC said some 2.7 million tourists are anticipated to visit Hat Yai in 2007, up 8 per cent from 2006, while tourism earnings are to grow 12 per cent to around Bt14.5 billion from last year.

However, it said if the violence in Songkhla improves in the first quarter of 2007, Hat Yai would lose about Bt800 million in tourism earnings. If the situation does not improve until the second quarter, it would suffer loss from tourism earnings around Bt1.9 billion.

There are signs that impact from the violence could continue into the second quarter of 2007 and tourism in Hat Yai would decline 13 per cent from an earlier projection of 2.7 million tourists, while earnings would tumble to Bt12.6 billion from Bt14.5 billion.

The earlier projection was made by the Centre before the Chinese New Year.

The report urged security officials to plan more comprehemsive protective measures for tourists during the upcoming Songkran festival, or Thailand's traditional New Year, in order to boost tourist confidence.
--- [COLOR="Blue"]KatoeyNews

[KatoeyLover69]

Report from The STAR dated Saturday 24 February 2007 :-

Malaysians celebrate Chinese New Year in Hatyai

China Press reported that many Malaysians chose to celebrate the Chinese New Year in Haadyai, Thailand where firecrackers were allowed.

The other attractive point of Haadyai was that the Chinese temples were situated near to hotels.
--- KatoeyNewsNetwork

[KatoeyLover69]

Report from The STAR dated Sunday 25 February 2007 :-

Sneaky way to cross border

PUTRAJAYA : Overstaying foreigners are said to be using the Bukit Kayu Hitam border checkpoint to sneak out of the country on the pretext of buying duty free goods.

This came to light when three Chinese nationals, comprising a couple and another man, all in their 40s, were caught at Bukit Kayu Hitam Customs, Immigration and Quarantine complex area late last month.

“They overstayed in the country from 302 to 465 days,” Immigration Department enforcement director Ishak Mohamed said yesterday.

He said the three, who were charged and fined a total of RM38,000 by an Immigration court three days ago, went to the duty free zone after alighting from an express bus bound for Haadyai which they boarded in Kuala Lumpur.

“They also had flight tickets from Bangkok to Xiamen (China) with them,” he said.

The husband claimed they wanted to surrender themselves to the authorities at Bukit Kayu Hitam.

“But all of them were mainly staying in Kuala Lumpur and did not surrender themselves there,” he said, adding that his officers had been put on alert for overstaying visitors who tried to escape this way.

“We are also trying to find out if there is an organised group smuggling people through our border checkpoints,” Ishak said.
--- KatoeyNewsNetwork

[KatoeyLover69]

Report from The Nation dated Wednesday 28 February 2007 :-

Hatyai restaurant in a spot after 'wormy' steak claim

Two female students who say they were served worm-infested steaks at a Sizzler's branch in Songkhla's Hat Yai district on Valentine's Day yesterday sought advice from the Songkhla Consumer Protection Office for their lawsuit demanding Bt2 million in compensation.

Ramkhamhaeng University students Kasitinart Noomkaew, 23, and Pitchaya Pathumwal, 20, had the questionable steaks at the Lee Garden Plaza branch of the American restaurant chain on February 14 and were hospitalised for severe diarrhoea later that day.

Kasitinart's mother Waraporn Noonkaew accompanied the two students to the Songkhla Consumer Protection Office to file their complaint yesterday. Waraporn said they hoped to get advice and assistance.

The girls are demanding Bt1 million each.

They submitted reports from Sikarin Hospital saying they had been diagnosed with food poisoning and had suffered from severe diarrhoea as well as a tape recording of a conversation between them and the restaurant manager.

Waraporn told reporters about the incident on February 25 and said the restaurant denied assistance to the victims.

However, the manager of the Sizzler branch, Supawadi Kaewsen, yesterday said she did not deny assistance or refuse to take responsibility, but that the matter was no longer in her hands.

The company's insurance division in Bangkok is working "to assist the girls", she said, declining to give further details.

Supawadi said the "problematic menu" was a promotion and had been cancelled right after the incident. In a statement, Sizzler (Thailand) said: "All ingredients received at Sizzler are temperature-controlled from our suppliers to our stores.

"This temperature control extends through our store as our staff continues to monitor the temperatures of all food and ingredients in our kitchen and at our salad bar.

"At the grill, each and every item cooked has its temperature checked to ensure that we serve our customers products that meet and exceed all international food safety guidelines."
--- KatoeyNewsNetwork

[proprimate]

Bro,
I long time lost touch of the scene. What happened to thaivisitor or teevee???? SOmetimes when I in Hadyai and wan to see him, his hp cannot be reached. Can u PM me his number or for that matter yours, so that I can drop by to catch up and have some fun. Cheers!