Key-logging software are 'recorders' that stores all key-strokes made on any given machine. The administrators can then look over their records for 'user names', 'passwords' and 'bank account/credit card details'.

Do not store personal data on a memory stick or any memory card you are using at an internet café. A soon as you plug in the storage device, a program reads out all the information on it.

Before entering critical data call the 'Task Manager' (press 'Ctrl' + 'Alt' + 'Delete'). The 'Task Manager' lists the machine’s inventory. If the 'Task Manager' is blocked or lists software that you don't know, do not enter any personal data on that computer.

For an even more accurate test, we recommend to install a 'Process Explorer' on your memory stick. You can get them as 'Freeware' in the internet. They list all the programs running in the background.

A program installed at a popular internet shop in Pattaya transmitted the collected information to an account in Hong Kong, at other shops a similar programm sent the data to accounts in the Ukraine and in India. All Shops denied to know anything (in Thai: 'mai lu si') about programs running in the background and collecting personal information...

Hopefully the ladies don't date back to the twelth century...

November 02. 2007 was a black sunday morning for many Farangs and a lot of Thais in Pattaya.

At about midnight four cars from Tourist Police arrived on Walking Street.

The officers and some volontiers started patrolling on Walking Street.

Two officials drived a police pickup up and down the street.

The people could feel it: Something is in the wind.

At around 02:15 the police ordered all bars and dancings to close the lights and the music.

Many people, mostly those who had to leave the dancings, got angry.

Some Farangs told me, next time they will spend their holidays in the Caribbean or elsewhere, but not in Thailand anymore.

Spotting the police car in front of a 24 hours shop on Walking Street a Farang shout out: 'Now they close 7-ELEVEn too...'

Many Ladies used their mobile phones to inform their friends and their families about the incident.

Not only Farangs got angry - more than once I could hear Thais saying: 'Stupid. It's time, Taksin comes back.'

At last here in Pattaya a growing number of Thai citizens seems to be sick of the current unelected military junta and the unnecessary police operations on Pattaya Beach and Walking Street. Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) and Pattaya City itself publicize Pattaya as 'Fun City' - but, where is the fun?

A Thai lady told a Farang: 'Police is stupid. Many ladies don't have any choice. They attended the school during 4 or 6 years only. Therefore they can't get a regular job in this country. They have to go with Farangs, otherwise they don't have the money to support their children and families.'

There were only three people plotting last years military coup. That's me and two assistants (General Sonthi Boonyaratkalin during an interview with a radio station).

August 22. 2007:

General Sonthi Boonyaratkalin denies rumours, which had caused a stockmarket slump, that some sort of further coup was in the works.

November 10. 2007:

Coup Leader Sonthi Boonyaratkalin refused to rule out staging another coup d'etat if the People Power Party (PPP) loyal to ex-premier Thaksin Shinwatra wins the election on December 23.
"It is a future matter that we shall have to wait and see," Deputy Prime Minister Sonthi said when he was asked whether a coup will be staged if PPP gets to form a new government.

November 12. 2007:

Deputy Prime Minister Sonthi Boonyaratkalin declared he will not run for election to the House or the Senate, but did not rule out holding a ministerial office again in the future.
General Sonthi said he would accept whoever the people elect to head the next government, including Mr Samak, the leader of the People Power Party (PPP).

November 20. 2007:

Mr Sonthi confirmed People Power party (PPP) leader Samak Sundaravej’s claim that the CNS had attacked populist policies and also gave orders to bring power back to the people.

'The army is obliged to do that because it is part of the Internal Security Operations Command’s responsibilities,' Sonthi explained.

'This responsibility is just as important to us as addressing the fight against poverty or dealing with natural disasters. We are not singling out any political party in particular.'

To be continued.

Mr. Chalerm was arrested in January 2001 after being accused of paying procurers to find him teenage girls for sex.

He was the deputy speaker of the Senate at the time.

The four girls, who were under 15, were reportedly paid 4'000 baht each.

The Supreme Court presiding judge felt Mr Chalerm should be punished severely because he broke the law while he was a senator.

'The defendant was well aware that what he did was a serious crime,' the court said in a statement.

Two teachers at a primary school in Sai Mai ( a Bangkok district) where sentenced to 50 years imprisonment each after the Criminal Court ruled they were guilty of sexually abusing five girls aged between 7 and 8 years during June 1 and August 10 2006.