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Asean Today: Manny Happy Returns; Who Won in Vietnam?; MAS Reported to be Selling A380s

Saturday, May 2, 2015
Today Around Southeast Asia

PHUKETWAN recognises the importance of Asean with the Economic Community approaching and marks what's happening around the region with a new column, Asean Today.

Philippines


telegraph.co.uk Billed as the ''fight of the century'' Manny Pacquiao's world championship bout on Saturday [10am Sunday in Thailand] has brought his poverty-stricken homeland of the Philippines to a standstill. Known by his countrymen as ''The National Fist'' and touted as a possible future president, the happy-go-lucky southpaw from a small southern fishing town is widely adored.

Vietnam


huffingtonpost.com From corporate investments to tourism, from military engagements to products, from social media to entertainment media, from the Vietnamese-American expats who return in droves to invest heavily in their homeland to a horde of Vietnamese foreign students coming to the US for a much coveted American education, Vietnam is falling quickly back into America's orbit.

Indonesia


skynews.com.au A source has revealed to Sky News that former Bali Nine lawyer Muhammad Rifan has been arrested in Indonesia. On Monday Mr Rifan went public with explosive allegations against the presiding judges, accusing them of asking for a 1 billion rupiah bribe for a sentence of less than 20 years for convicted drug smugglers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.

theage.com.au The execution of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran was illegal under international law according to high-level advice provided to Julie Bishop, but Australia's request that Indonesia submit to the judgment of the International Court of Justice on the matter was ignored.

Malaysia


cnn.com It seems big is no longer best for disaster-hit Malaysia Airlines - it's said to be offloading all six of its A380 superjumbos. Malaysia has struggled financially in the wake of twin tragedies in 2014, including the disappearance of flight MH370 and the shooting down of MH17 over Ukraine.

Laos


rfa.org Lao police are investigating a local businessmen thought to be behind the country's illegal ivory trade after Thai authorities seized a US $6 million tusk shipment from Kenya en route to the Southeast Asian nation last month, a Lao police officer involved in the investigation said.

Burma


asiancorrespondent.com At every stage in the trade there exists a facilitating mechanism that keeps Rohingya crossing the ocean. In western Burma, the government and local Rakhine community makes their lives simply untenable, so they flee, thus making the Burmese government a key player in the supply end of the [human trafficking] chain.

Cambodia


phnompenhpost.com May Day marks a perfect time for the Cambodian government to embark on a new chapter on labor rights in the garment sector. Officials can show the world in very concrete ways that their commitment to transparency and accountability is real and here to stay.

Singapore


straitstimes.com Fast food chain Wendy's has closed all its outlets in Singapore, according to its regular customers. Fans of the fast food joint have left messages on its Facebook page, expressing their disappointment and sadness that their favourite burgers, fried chicken and fries were not going to be within reach any more.

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Yesterday while riding a bicycle Nortth of Phuket, in Phang Nga, at Baan KhukKhak, on a paved road through the jungles along the seashore, 50cm from me feet I have noticed someone reminding a small Breton lobster, running to cross a roadway at the same place as me. Only then I realized that lobsters do not run.. The Giant Black Scorpion , Heterometrus spinifer , was indeed huge - like 15cm, and very large claws. I didn't know their bites are not fatal, so I hesitated to stop and to take a pic or a video. Also, I was skeptical about my assessment of its size - until I later read that these are the largest scoropios in the world, 10-20cm long. Before, scorpions that I have seen, also in Thailand, were of much smaller size.

I am curious, has anyone met a Giant Black Scorpion in Phuket recently?

Posted by Sue on May 2, 2015 06:41

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Sue,
Did you happen to weigh it?

Posted by Manowar on May 2, 2015 10:10

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Manowar,

If I would be aware at the time of the meringue that it by design lacks neuro toxins, I would not only weight it, but also would think about adopting it alive as a pet or , alternatively trying to cook it in the oil Mangpong Yak Si Dam (or Man Wow) Tod.

Look how cute it is in the video:
https://youtu.be/GjMI4u8wVBU

When I told to Thais in a vicinity of the sighting, they only precised Yak? , and yawned.

Posted by Sue on May 2, 2015 13:08

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Sue, what about the video of the one you saw?

Posted by Manowar on May 2, 2015 17:30

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Sue

They are not very dangerous scorpions generally smaller they are the more toxic there venom never seen in phuket only phang nga and Surat

Posted by Michael on May 2, 2015 20:08

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Michael,

True. If I would only know that at the time of the encounter, then I would certainly stop on the road to watch him more. I was making a turn, and that looked for me that a lobster, at high speed is crossing a street - and then appeared to be a huge scorpio. On a bicycle I had just few seconds to decide whether to stop or to go.
Actually there is a lot undeveloped land in the area, mostly a kind of forest, or just fields, but he was heading toward a plot with house, may be he has there is some rock under which he lives.

Manowar,

to make a pic or video - it required to stop and to put a feet on aground - where alien-like size scorpion running a distance fast. I was so impressed by his size, so I decided to take precautionary steps. Since in Thailand I first discovered flying cockroaches, I would expect that Thai scorpions may not only grow that well, but also be able to fly, who knows..

If I would meet again him or his relatives, now I am well prepared to take some time with him, and also, at worst, as described on websites, "a kind of bee or wasp sting, that is not lethal".

Posted by Sue on May 3, 2015 02:19


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