Regular features from July 2006 127th Issue

Do you hate Americans?

For anyone who has ever been on vacation or who has worked in the USA, if they are anything like me, they will have found some of the friendliest and most hospitable people on the planet. But if you read the American international press, you would think expatriate Americans had a serious case of angst, bemoaning how much the rest of the world hates them.

My American friend Michael from Orange County says nobody hates Americans like Americans. Reading the latest communiqué regarding taxation on Americans living abroad I am inclined to think that at least Mr. Charles Grassley (Republican) from Iowa and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, hates Americans living abroad.

Remember he was the man who tried to eliminate the $80,000 exclusion on income earned abroad by Americans.

I can never figure out why a country like the USA, the richest country in the World, is the only developed one that collects taxes from its citizens on income and investment income, earned abroad.

If it were some poor and backward banana republic where all its citizens lived in penury then I could understand and justify a tax on it's expat people. But I would love to hear Mr Grassley's justification for his imposition of this tax. Perhaps some US expat who pays this tax can let me know his or her opinion.

I mention this now because as I write President Bush is scheduled to sign the tax cut bill this week. Americans living abroad have reacted angrily to this decision by US lawmakers to approve $70 billion in election year cuts that will benefit wealthy taxpayers in the US but impose what some call the biggest tax increases on American expatriates in 30 years.

Under the bill Americans living abroad will be exempt from paying taxes on the first $82,400 earned. However the tax exemption on foreign housing expenses will be significantly reduced and investment income will be taxed at a higher rate.

Republicans are hoping the new bill will give a much-needed boost to Mr. Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress and help improve his lowest approval ratings since his election in 2000.

According to the International Herald Tribune, a single manager living in Paris who earns

$75,000 and whose company pays his $3,000 month housing would see his tax bill rise to $5,110 from $600 because of the capping on tax exemptions for housing costs.

“This is the worst hit to Americans living abroad for three decades,” said Eric Way, a tax specialist at the Federation of American Women's Clubs Overseas who also works as a senior engineer in France for Volvo. He estimated that Americans abroad who earned $20,000 in investment income could expect to see their US tax bill double.

Tax experts say that new taxes on Americans working abroad could prompt US companies to start hiring employees from places like Britain and Canada while provoking American executives in Europe and Asia to return home.

Lucy Laederich a freelance translator based in Paris said she was particularly aggrieved that her France based retirement fund would now be subject to US income taxes.

“We are 4.1 million ambassadors living outside the USA” she said “We buy American products, fly American airlines, send our children to American universities and improve the image of Americans overseas. Why are we being punished?

Why indeed you may ask?

Most of the Americans I know are retired here and will scoff at the latest attempt to eke more money from their investments to help reduce Uncle Sam's deficit.

The difference between an American retiree and a working executive is that there is little a working executive can do to avoid these punitive taxes.

Many retirees will not be affected by this change. But for those with over a million dollars invested offshore generating 10% p.a. then the new tax will hit them hard.

Of course most Americans besides being quite likable are also savvy. Most expatriates know that an investment in Switzerland is protected from investigation by the IRS or any other tax regime if it is set up right. Far be it for me to suggest anything that would encourage anyone to break civil or moral law.

If an American asked me how to avoid this tax I would explain the benefits of investing in Switzerland. Surely there is some freedom of information act that would allow me to do that.

For further information on this article contact your non-American advisor jerry@swissinvestcenter.net

The Troubled Man

By Dr. Dave Soul Monsta

When people think about great soul singers, names like Otis Reading and Sam Cooke spring to mind, but if you look a little deeper into the track records and ability to evolve, nobody could come close to Marvin Gaye.

The son of a minister in the House of God, a conservative Christian sect, Marvin suffered daily beatings from his father, although this did not deter him from singing in the church choir, later learning to play the piano and drums. After high school, Gaye joined the Air Force and, after being discharged, joined the Rainbows (later the Moonglows), a popular local group in DC. After a concert in Detroit, Berry Gordy Jr. of Motown Records offered Gaye a solo contract.

A rebellious Marvin didn't like to follow the Motown rules or be told what to do. Not wishing to be cutting edge he wanted to be smooth, wearing smart tuxedos, not unlike crooner Nat King Cole.

With a little touch of reverse psychology from Mickey Stevenson and a promise to cut the records Marvin wanted to sing he began to get it down, loosen up and start to enjoy what was to become “The Marvin Sound”; tracks like “Stubborn Kind of Fellow” (1962) “Hitch Hike” (1963) “Pride & Joy” (1963) and “Can I Get a Witness” started to lift his career.

But Marvin was still full of insecurity; he suffered from severe acne, and comments regarding his name (the real family name was without the ‘e'), which always seemed to find their way back to him, as well as accusations of favouritism from established Motown stars after Marvin's marriage to Berry Gordy's sister Anna Gordy, all affected him. But even though the accusations were flying, Motown was only interested in selling records, and Marvin Gaye was doing just this; he was Motown's top solo artist in the 1960's but he felt discontented with Motown's tight control over his material. By 1965, he had released 39 Top 40 songs for the label, with one record eclipsing all of the other top sellers - “I Heard It Through The Grapevine”, which was very much a producer's record, but nevertheless a smash hit.

This didn't really change his life, but one person that did was Tammy Terrell, his favourite duet partner where definite flirtation was evident between them, but apparently that was as far as it went, as recounted by Marvin's brother Frankie Gaye; “that they were in love with each other but more in love with each others talent”. Probably their most powerful duet was the song “Ain't No Mountain High Enough,” He also had hit duets with, Mary Wells, Kim Weston and Diana Ross.

Tammy was the favourite and had suffered with various abusive relationships including a very bad relationship with David Ruffin the lead singer from the Temptations. It was alleged that during one of these fights David Ruffin hit Tammy with a hammer in the back of her head leading to a brain tumour. Tammy Terrell collapsed on stage in Marvin Gaye's arms and died a few days later aged just 24.

Devastated by this Marvin started to look at what his purpose in life was all about, It didn't just change him in himself but it changed him as an artist, and the new direction of his music could clearly be noticed, especially the track ‘What's Going On “, which was from the critically acclaimed album of the same name, Marvin wanted to take control of his music but had an uphill fight with the iron fist of Berry Gordy, while still upset by Tammy Terrell's death, and being deeply affected by the return of his brother from Vietnam and the stories his brother told him about the war there. Thoughts of these happenings inspired Marvin's writing of “What's Going On” which at first was only a single and not a full album, and if the single hadn't been the success it was the album might never have been completed. Fortunately the single was a huge success and gave Marvin the confidence to complete the album.

The message was much more political than what Motown was accustomed to, including then unheard of radical political and social statements. Gordy at first refused to release the album; this was not the Motown sound and was totally different to anything that had come out of the Motown studios, but it was the only recording Marvin had and it was a take it or leave it situation. Marvin laid the law down to Motown, “Release ‘What's Going On' or you will never have another Marvin Gaye album”. It was released and was a monster seller. The album produced three Top Ten singles. This was closely followed by “Lets Get It On”, oozing sexuality, and a romantically charged album that was for the time quite shocking, but Marvin pulled it off.

On stage Marvin Gaye was a god, but with his private life crumbling around him, spiralling tax debts, drug abuse and two broken marriages causing so much depression in his life, he fled to Belgium. He left Motown, signed with a new record company and was living in Europe trying to find a way forward with the many problems in his life. Whilst still in Belgium he recorded “Midnight Love” to global acclaim, and the Marvin Gaye everybody knew was back with tracks such as “Sexual Healing”, one of his most famous songs, but all was not what it seemed. Marvin's drug use had grown to epic proportions, and his close friends and family feared the Marvin Gaye story would not have a happy ending. Marvin's renewed fame brought with it an increased reliance on cocaine; suffering from severe paranoia he thought that he was going to be killed and refused to go on stage unaccompanied and at times was totally incoherent.

In 1983 he made peace with Berry Gordy by appearing on a television special celebrating Motown's silver anniversary, blasting the audience away with an entourage of his hits. That same year, he also sang a soulful and idiosyncratic rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the NBA All-Star Game; it instantly became one of the most controversial and legendary interpretations of the anthem ever performed. And it was to be his final public appearance. No one was prepared for what was to happen next.

Finally back in the U.S., he moved in with his parents in an attempt to regain control of his life. Tragically, the return home only exacerbated his spiral into depression; he and his father quarrelled bitterly and Marvin threatened suicide on a number of occasions. On the afternoon of April 1, 1984, one day before his 45th birthday, around 12.30, in the frenzied aftermath of a heated argument that had started the day before, Marvin Gay Sr. armed himself with a hand gun and shot his son several times and killed him. Gaye's relatives claimed that he had purposely pushed his father to the edge so that he could have Marvin, Sr. kill him instead of having to commit suicide. Marvin, Sr. was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and given a six-year suspended prison sentence; he died of pneumonia on October 18th 1998.

Mother, mother

There's too many of you crying

Brother, brother, brother

There's far too many of you dying

You know we've got to find a way

To bring some lovin' here today - Ya

Father, father

We don't need to escalate

You see, war is not the answer

For only love can conquer hate

You know we've got to find a way

To bring some lovin' here today

Picket lines and picket signs

Don't punish me with brutality

Talk to me, so you can see

Oh, what's going on

What's going on

Ya, what's going on

Ah, what's going on

In the mean time

Right on, baby

Right on

Right on

Father, father, everybody thinks we're wrong

Oh, but who are they to judge us

Simply because our hair is long

Oh, you know we've got to find a way

To bring some understanding here today

Oh

Picket lines and picket signs

Don't punish me with brutality

Talk to me

So you can see

What's going on

Ya, what's going on

Tell me what's going on

I'll tell you what's going on - Uh

Right on baby

Right on baby

Book Review

The beginning of the Iraq war led to unusual frankness in describing the goals of American foreign policy. It was stated that Americans might disregard international law and assert that right is defined by strength. Some of the articles published just before or during the war could well have been Nazi propaganda publications. The difference is that these articles stated that, while force should be applied in foreign policy, democracy should be preserved at home. There was also unbounded optimism that, facing American might, resistance would crumble. Now the war is going badly this has started to change, as many publications provide a variety of explanations for why things went wrong.

Jimmy Carter's former national security advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, representing the Democrats, blasted President Bush for an imperialistic drive - Caesarism - and for abandoning principles that made the US great. European historians have followed suit, being sceptical of US ability to repair the damage. Emanuel Todd wrote that America is in serious trouble and in decline as a civilization, providing more geopolitical room for Europe and Russia. Finally, the American left has received a new boost. The left also provides its own explanation for the troubles. Neil Smith's The Endgame of Globalization falls into this category.

In the author's view, the US embodies capitalism and is therefore the most aggressive nation. In fact, imperial drive has defined American foreign policy, and the Iraq war continues this trend. He discards the notion that the war is just about oil, but much broader. American imperial expansion is more about the desire to install American-style capitalism all over the world.

But the effect is to create a totalitarian, fascist-type regime. This is exemplified by using the word lebensraum (living space), as used by the Nazis, to characterize American foreign policy. The author uses the American problems in Iraq and Afghanistan to argue that the American elite might try to impose their domination all over the globe, but would definitely fail to impose an actual neo-fascist regime.

One could of course challenge the author's argument. It is true that America has been imperialistic. But what country has not? Many powers have engaged in imperial aggrandizement at some point in their history. And clearly “Uncle Joe” (Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin) was not just in a defensive position at the beginning of the Cold War.

But the major problem with the book is the implicit connection of present-day American society with the Nazi regime. The idea that the US today has similarities with Nazi Germany and Bush with Hitler is certainly not novel. Interestingly enough, the idea has been popular in Germany, where it is asserted that the evil of Nazism, from which Germany extricated itself, has now passed to the Americans. The Soviet analogy has also been evoked, comparing the life of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay with those at the Soviet Gulag concentration camps. After the pivotal work of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the very name gulag became synonymous in the West with extermination of people, not by gas but by malnutrition and exhausting work.

These analogies do not fly, but not because inmates in US prisons eat better than at Siberian camps or Auschwitz. Stalin and even Hitler had sound views on war compared to those of the current US administration, which might be more successful if it followed the Nazi line. This reviewer is sure the author would recoil in disgust at the idea that a change along national-socialist lines would make the US more successful in it's empire-building and survival in a world where it is losing its economic edge. But one should remember that Hitler's policy was not just gas chambers and millions of slaves, but also a variety of sound social-economic arrangements that made it possible to fight, and almost win, a war against the majority of the world's population.

Hitler, while not discarding private property, understood that a long, global armed conflict could not be carried out on the basis of privatization, social/economic deregulation and mercenary armies, with the assumption that casualties would be low. Strict government control went along with a strong safety net, and the wounded soldiers in World War II did not need to engage in long litigation with the Reich to get decent medical service, housing and food. Their trust that the state would never abandon them contributed greatly to their fighting spirit. No democratic president could change US social/economic arrangements in such radical ways. So transforming America into a militaristic empire poised for global conquest is out of the question.

But this doesn't mean American rivals should be cheered up. The conflict between what the American elite and the public want and what they can do might lead to increasing irrationality in the elite's behaviour, reflected in recent changes in military doctrine, which now authorizes preventive nuclear strikes.

Dmitry Shlapentokh, PhD, is associate professor of history, Indiana University.

(© 2005 Asia Times Online Ltd. All rights reserved. )

Earth Report

Wonder plant to fuel India

Runaway crude oil prices have lent new urgency to India's quest for alternative and renewable fuels, and biofuels, especially biodiesel using the jatropha plant and, to a lesser extent, ethanol, are being seen as an appealing option.

Recently, private sector giant Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) set aside US$500 million to set up a biodiesel refining plant and earmarked 200 acres of land at Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh as a pilot project to cultivate jatropha shrubs.

Jatropha, a tree originating in the Western hemisphere (species name Jatropha curcus), produces fruit which, though inedible, contains a nut with a very high oil content; once extracted, the oil can be used as a fuel without further refining. The RIL facility, near the existing 33 million tonne per annum crude oil refinery at Jamnagar, Gujarat, is expected to be ready by 2008.

Last month, venture capitalist Vinod Khosla set off an exponential rise in the share price of a mid-sized Pune-based company, Praj Industries, by buying a 10% equity stake. Praj is a technology leader in ethanol production.

According to Khosla, ethanol as an alternative to petrol (gasoline) would break even in the US at crude price levels of $35 per barrel (prices are currently hovering around $70 and many are predicting they will soon breach $100). Khosla notes that “E85” (a blend containing 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline) is far less polluting than gasoline.

In February, global energy major British Petroleum (BP) announced that it would invest $9.4 million in biodiesel production in India. The 10-year project aims to cultivate 8,000 hectares of wasteland with jatropha to produce 9 million liters of biodiesel every year.

Allaying fears that cultivation could affect farm produce, BP vice president Phil New said, “Because Jatropha is drought-resistant and can grow on marginal land, it offers the possibility of an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable contribution to energy security challenges in India.”

The Indian government has identified 39 million hectares (almost 100 million acres) of land suitable for growing jatropha, termed “the wonder plant” by Rajasthan state's “Center of Excellence for Jatropha Biodiesel Promotion”.

The government claims that, if fully exploited, the said 100 million acres could produce biodiesel that can substitute for 20% of the country's diesel consumption in five years, far higher than the present 2%. Jatropha cultivation is part of a $300 million biodiesel program, in which plant oils are blended with regular diesel.

Indian Railways, one of the biggest diesel guzzlers, has planted jatropha on thousands of acres of land along rail tracks. The railway is preparing a “bio-locomotive” to run on August 10, International Biodiesel Day.

India is not alone in tapping biodiesel's potential. Across the world, there is a search for crops that can help reduce dependence on imported oil. Palm oil, sugar cane, coconuts, castor oil and even cow dung have been explored as alternatives. Ethanol (typically mixed with gasoline) is distilled mostly from corn in the United States and sugarcane in Brazil and Asia. Biodiesel comes mostly from rape seed in Europe, vegetable oil in the US and oil palm, coconut oil or jatropha oil in Asia.

In the US, a $40 million biodiesel refinery, probably the country's largest, will be built in Grays Harbor County, in western Washington state. Seattle-based Imperium Renewables is aiming to open the facility by the end of next year and produce as much as 100 million gallons of the plant-based fuel annually - a big boost to the incipient industry, now struggling to break even.

The investment followed the Energy Freedom legislation passed in the state earlier this year, which made it mandatory that 2% of all diesel used in Washington be biodiesel by 2008. The US Department of Agriculture says biodiesel can reduce carbon emissions by 78%.

Both India and China are seriously looking at Brazil's success with alcool, as ethanol is called in Portuguese. Brazil is estimated to save $50 billion per annum in terms of petroleum imports. India, like Brazil, has large tracts of land under cane cultivation. Both the Chinese and Indian governments are extending tax incentives to make biofuels economically feasible. China has set itself a goal of generating 30 gigawatts (GW) of installed power generation capacity using renewable sources within the next 15 years.

Europe has dominated the biodiesel industry to date, accounting for 90% of global production. The EU produced 2.4 million tons of biofuels in 2004, amounting to 0.8% of EU gasoline and diesel consumption. Of this, ethanol made up 0.5 million tons and biodiesel 1.9 million tons. The EU has ruled that all fuels should contain 5.75% biofuels by 2010.

Experts, however, warn that over-enthusiasm about biofuel cultivation could affect agricultural production for human consumption and result in famines in areas of scarcity and drought. The balance needs to be right, especially for a country such as India which has shown anemic increases lately in agricultural production and productivity.

But there is no doubt that fast-growing countries such as India and China need to act fast, given spiraling domestic fuel demands. After China, India has the fastest-growing motor vehicle industry in the world, currently totaling over 8 million vehicles sold per year (including passenger cars, utility vehicles, commercial trucks, and two and three-wheeled vehicles).

Booz-Allen Hamilton and McKinsey has estimated that the Indian domestic passenger car market of 1 million (70% of which are currently small cars) will double by 2010 and cross 3.5 million by 2015.

In China and India, with populations of 1.3 billion and 1.1 billion, respectively, fewer than 10 in 1,000 driving-age inhabitants currently own a car. Yet purchasing power in these two countries continues to rise, as shown by projected 2006-2020 GDP annual growth forecasts of 5.5% for India and 5.2% for China.

The developments related to biodiesel are concomitant with efforts to develop other renewable energy sources. There have been recent big-ticket announcements by the Indian wind-energy firm Suzlon Energy, plans to invest $60 million in a factory in the eastern Chinese port city of Tianjin. The company has also acquired Belgium's Hansen Transmissions International NV, one of the largest wind energy and industrial gearbox manufacturers in the world, for $500 million.

India's Planning Commission, in its draft integrated energy policy, has estimated power generation capacity requirement reaching 627,088 MW in the year 2031, up from the current 130,000 MW. It is estimated that wind, small hydroelectric and biomass sources have the potential to generate 80,000 MW of this.

By Siddharth Srivastava

The PATT Foundation ‘Baan Unrak Forest & Nursery Project

When the UK Government's Chief Scientist, Professor Sir David King, says the earth's temperature is likely to rise by 3oC within the next century, there is real cause for concern. With a rise like this we will experience more frequent and severe droughts and floods, rising sea levels, changing rainfall patterns and dangerously high temperatures in some regions. This could have a devastating impact on our native ecosystems, industries, health, bio-security and economy.

As the world becomes more industrialized and our consumption of fossil fuels grows, our emissions of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) such as carbon dioxide into the atmosphere are increasing. This is the number one cause of global climate change.

What can be done?

Reducing our emissions is obviously important in slowing or even reversing climate change – but with world economies booming our carbon emissions are, if anything, on the rise. And as your average person doesn't wield the power to influence huge companies to change their environmental policies, there needs to an easier and more effective solution, and there is. Trees. Planting trees can remove large amounts of carbon from the air within a relatively short time, particularly in the tropics. The FAO and other experts have estimated that global carbon retention resulting from reduced deforestation, increased forest re-growth and more agro-forestry and plantations could make up for about 15 percent of carbon emissions from fossil fuels over the next 50 years. This is significant.

The Plant-a-Tree-Today (PATT) Foundation is aimed at providing economic, social and environmental sustainability through community based forestry projects in developing countries. It aims to plant one million trees each year through a number of projects worldwide. PATT is a non-profit organisation with a focus is education, community forestry, sustainable development and climate change. Their latest small project was to supply 500 trees to a school and orphanage in western Thailand.

The Plant-A-Tree-Today (PATT) Foundation has just finished its latest project supporting tree planting in rural Thailand. PATT, with the support of XL Results Foundation Magazine, supplied 500 seedlings to Baan Unrak School and Children's Home in Sangklaburi, Kanchanaburi province, Thailand.

The PATT team, members of XL Foundation and interested individuals comprised a small group who travelled to Sangklaburi and assisted in planting around 300 seedlings around the site of the new home.

The trees, consisting of teak, cassia, neem and lagerstroemia speciosa (known in Thailand as intanin), will serve to provide a boundary line and windbreak, prevent soil erosion on incline areas, provide shade and beautify the surroundings. The trees will also play a role in absorbing carbon, a key greenhouse gas (GHG), from the atmosphere while enriching local biodiversity.

The remainder of the seedlings will be used to set up a nursery at the school.

The highlight of the weekend was seeing first hand the wonderful work Baan Unrak is doing to change the lives of children and women in Sangklaburi and the surrounding border area separating Thailand and Myanmar. The children showed what a happy, hard working and intelligent bunch they are as they assisted with the tree planting activities on the Sunday, ever smiling and proving a pleasure to work with.

The PATT Foundation is aimed at providing economic, social and environmental sustainability through community based forestry projects in developing countries. Through planting trees in select locations in Thailand and around the world, PATT contributes to combating global climate change and supporting forestry in rural communities. PATT also has an educational vision and is working with schools to not only provide environmental education initiatives but to support school nursery and tree planting projects.

It aims to plant one million trees each year through a number of projects worldwide.

Baan Unrak children's home, established in 1991 in Thailand by the Neo Humanist Foundation, has given destitute children and abandoned mothers a home and hope for a better future. Baan Unrak, or “House of Joy,” founded by Didi Ananda Devamala, from Verona, Italy, and Norwegian, Didi Ananda Anuraga, both of the Neo Humanist Foundation, provides a home and education to over 100 children, and employment to abandoned mothers. It is staffed by a dedicated team of locals and foreigners including many volunteers.

In order to help raise funds for it's projects PATT will be holding its First Annual Plant-a-Tree-Today Golf Tournament August 10th 2006, at the Vintage Golf Course, Bangkok, Thailand with the idea to provide environmentally aware corporations the opportunity to actively help improve the environment.

The field will be comprised of 36 corporately sponsored teams and the competition will offer both individual and team prizes. The emphasis will be on having a fun day while doing some good for the environment and creating the opportunity for sustainable economic development in Thailand's rural areas.

PATT is looking for corporate support – for only US$1,000 your company can sponsor a team of four players and get benefits that extend far beyond the day of golf. PATT will plant one rai of trees in the name of your company, and demarcate the area with your company name and logo. The trees selected will be capable of generating a steady revenue stream through a regular, renewable harvest.

For Major or Title sponsorship a company will receive additional teams, and an increasing level of exposure to the media. PATT's Patron, Dolores Couceiro, will be travelling to Thailand for this event and will be running a separate PR schedule, where the company logo will be prominently presented.

For more information or to participate in this event contact Andrew Steel or Chris Doherty at: PATT Foundation, 6/15 Ground Floor, Somkid Place, No.6 Soi Somkid, Ploenchit Road, Lumpini, Pathumwan, Bangkok 10330 Thailand

+66 2 253 6674  +66 2 253 6962

e-mail: info@plant-a-tree-today.com

www.plant-a-tree-today.com

Useful Telephone Numbers for Hua Hin

Railway station
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Bus station of Hua Hin
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Bus station of Prachuabkirikhan
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Hua Hin Hospital
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Dog Rescue Center
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Wild life Rescue Center (Tayang)
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Department of Land Cha-am office:
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Department of Land Hua Hin office:
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Department of Land Prachuabkirikhan:
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Department of Land Pranburi
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Local Government (Hua Hin)
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Local water supply
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The Power Board of Hua Hin
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Observer office:
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Red Cross.
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San Paolo Hospital
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Polyclinic International
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Shell Cooking Gas
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The Communication Authority of Thailand
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032-511 351

Rotary Club of Hua Hin
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