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Thai people always have respect for one another. Be always respectful too. Avoid being alone at night in remote areas and always keep track of your valuables like wallet or camera, especially when you are in crowded public areas. In Thailand malaria is carried by mosquitoes////CRIMSON TAZVINZWA///

Thailand is generally a safe country to visit, but it’s smart to exercise caution, especially when it comes to dealing with strangers (both Thai and foreigners) and travelling alone.

Assault of travellers is relatively rare in Thailand, but it does happen.
Possession of drugs can result in a year or more of prison time. Drug smuggling carries considerably higher penalties, including execution.
Disregard all offers of free shopping or sightseeing help from strangers. These are scams that invariably take a commission from your purchases.

Government Travel Advice

The following government websites offer travel advisories and information on current hot spots.

Australian Department of Foreign Affairs (www.smarttraveller.gov.au)
British Foreign Office (www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice)
Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs (www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca)
New Zealand Foreign Affairs & Trade (www.safetravel.govt.nz)
US State Department (www.travel.state.gov/traveladvisories)

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Poor harvest triples onion prices in India and forces the world’s largest seller to import the commodity from Afghanistan, Egypt and Turkey.

A labourer segregates onions inside Shivshankar Trading Company’s onion storehouse at Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) in Lasalgaon, Nashik district, India, on Saturday, Aug 31, 2013. Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg

Onions in India are once more at the epicenter of a major controversy, pitting government officials who want lower prices against farmers that need extra income. The onion is India’s most “political” vegetable.///CRIMSON TAZVINZWA//

The Indian onion crisis involves the dramatic rise in the cost of onions across India. The crisis is caused by devastating monsoons that destroyed this golden cooking ingredients that has fed Indians for donkey years

An onion shop at Indore Mandi on Sunday. Onion prices have gone up more than threefold in the past fortnight. (Shankar Mourya/HT)( )

Prices of the vegetable, as ubiquitous as spices in Indian cooking, surged more than 200% in September from previous months after flooding from heavy monsoon rains damaged crops and reduced supplies. That’s prompted the government to ban exports and crack down on hoarding to lower prices, angering farmers who took to the streets on Monday in protest.

The onion, whose soaring prices have been blamed for bringing down past governments, puts Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a tight spot

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By Julia Hollingsworth and Isaac Yee, CNN

The body of a 21-year-old British backpacker who went missing after a beach party on a Cambodian island has been found, according to the charity assisting her family.

Amelia Bambridge was last seen on Police Beach on Koh Rong island in the early hours of October 24.

On Thursday, the Lucy Blackman Trust confirmed to CNN that a body found by police in the ocean close to Thai waters was hers. The group had been in contact with Bambridge’s family, its chief executive Matthew Searle said.

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Sayuri Kinoshita (centre) at the Free Diving World Championship in 2018. (Photo by Ali Riza Akkir/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Japanese free-diving world champion Sayuri Kinoshita has died at the age of 30.

According to police, Kinoshita was killed when she fell from her apartment in the southern island prefecture of Okinawa.

She was reportedly rushed to hospital and placed on life support, but was pronounced dead four days later.

“The injuries she sustained were too extensive to survive,” her sister Sanae wrote on Facebook.

Sayuri Kinoshita (photo credit: Francesca Koe)

“Despite this, her body was so strong that she kept fighting another four days before her heart finally gave up on Japan’s National Ocean Day, the 15th of July.

“She was surrounded by her family and friends.

“It was Sayuri’s wish that her friends and family would be able to enjoy a celebration of her amazing life at a ‘farewell party’ for a bright and enjoyable day, separate from the wake and funeral service.”

Her family said a “farewell party” would be scheduled separate from the wake and funeral service for her friends and family “to enjoy a celebration of her amazing life . . . for a bright and enjoyable day.”

Kinoshita broke the women’s Freediving world record in the Constant Weight No Fins (CNF) discipline at Vertical Blue 2016 with a 72-meter (236-foot) dive, being the first athlete to break any of the long-standing records held by the late Russian freediver, Natalia Molchanova.

At the 2018 Vertical Blue competition, Kinoshita broke the Free Immersion (FIM) women’s world record with a 97-meter (318-foot) dive, as well as making her first Constant Weight (CWT) dive to 100 meters (328 feet), making her only the sixth female freediver to reach that depth in competition.

Read the Facebook post announcing Kinoshita’s death here, and check out DeeperBlue.com’s February 2019 profile of her here.

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When Lord Buddha was alive, there were no cars or smartphones or cameras, so the rules were much simpler, easy to follow … ? EASY to bend and twist as desired, difficult to be found out, let alone called out//Crimson Tazvinzwa//

Buddhism in Thailand is largely of the Theravada school, which is followed by 94.6 percent of the population.
Buddhism is believed to have come to what is now Thailand as early as 250 BCE, in the time of Indian Emperor Ashoka

Replica of Ashok pillar at Wat Umong in Chiang Mai, Thailand, 13th century. Shows the establishment of Buddhism by Lanna Dynasty’s King Mangrai in northern Thailand

Buddhist monk chants paritta to a group of Siamese women in 1900.

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Thai people always have respect for one another. Be always respectful too. Avoid being alone at night in remote areas and always keep track of your valuables like wallet or camera, especially when you are in crowded public areas. In Thailand malaria is carried by mosquitoes////CRIMSON TAZVINZWA///

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British backpacker missing in Cambodia; body found in the sea

The body of a 21-year-old British backpacker who went missing after a beach party on a Cambodian island has been found, according to the charity assisting her family.

Amelia Bambridge was last seen on Police Beach on Koh Rong island in the early hours of October 24.

Japanese Record Breaking Diving World Champion Sayuri Kinoshita Dies At 30

“Despite this, her body was so strong that she kept fighting another four days before her heart finally gave up on Japan’s National Ocean Day, the 15th of July.

Thailand’s Tainted Robes | Monks behaving badly, naughty

When Lord Buddha was alive, there were no cars or smartphones or cameras, so the rules were much simpler, easy to follow … ? EASY to bend and twist as desired, difficult to be found out, let alone called out//Crimson Tazvinzwa//

Thai people always have respect for one another. Be always respectful too. Avoid being alone at night in remote areas and always keep track of your valuables like wallet or camera, especially when you are in crowded public areas. In Thailand malaria is carried by mosquitoes////CRIMSON TAZVINZWA///

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The body of a 21-year-old British backpacker who went missing after a beach party on a Cambodian island has been found, according to the charity assisting her family.

Amelia Bambridge was last seen on Police Beach on Koh Rong island in the early hours of October 24.

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“Despite this, her body was so strong that she kept fighting another four days before her heart finally gave up on Japan’s National Ocean Day, the 15th of July.

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When Lord Buddha was alive, there were no cars or smartphones or cameras, so the rules were much simpler, easy to follow … ? EASY to bend and twist as desired, difficult to be found out, let alone called out//Crimson Tazvinzwa//

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