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Dear all,

I was searching for a flood relief volunteer center in Chiang Mai but could not find one. Drinking water and dried food of course are the first items required in the flood areas. There are also other requirements the affected people will need such as: clothes, shoes, bedding, books, electrical appliances, and more. All these can be second hand of course.

The problem is where to collect for disbursement?

And if anyone else would like to query the same but for your province of abode please feel free to copy/paste/edit the above for a new topic in your respective area or province.

We all can lend a hand one way or another.....

Dear all,

It has come to my attention - as I'm sure all of yours as well - that all the empty shelves in supermarkets, produce markets, and general consumer stores have been emptied by SOME unscrupulous people intending to make BIG profits on goods that will be hard to get soon.

3 days ago, we went into a Kubota center to purchase some spare parts for our rice harvesters. The service people know us quite well and all other customers as well, a friendly lot! Well, they proceeded to tell my wife that some people came in with several pick up trucks and bought out the stock. My brother-in-law was contacted later on by someone on the phone saying that he has spares that he could sell to my bil BUT for a higher price!!!

Has anyone heard of a hotline number to call and complain for the price-gougers? And wasn't it very recently that a certain ministry announced that there were to be no price increases for goods?

To all of you folks out there that plant rubber whether it is 10 rai or 1000 rai. The govt has announced that they want to fund with soft loans to farmers, 800,000 rai of rubber farms. This is once again, a concern to us as the price could (notice, I said could)drop dramatically.

See TV news post:  

Post #8 on this link

And please note the 6th sentence....               Maybe Supachai is a shaman or wizard of sorts....    

Do any of you other TV members know if there are any quality tennis instructors around in CM? My son would like to further develop his game. He had tried the instructor at 700 yr. stadium last year but it seemed that the guy only wanted to volley the ball and not really put his expertise into the instruction session.