The News Review:

- Thailand Has Current Account Surplus as Demand Sinks
- Carter wears smudged crown as USA’s ‘dirtiest hotel’
- Recent spate of deaths in Thailand
- CNTRIVE Bassist Forced To Sit ut Thai Tour – Jan. 30 2009
- Ayada’s Elmhurst Thai Dazzles

Thailand Has Current Account Surplus as Demand Sinks
Bloomberg 
30 (Bloomberg) — Thailand had its first currentaccount surplus in six months in December as oil prices fell anddemand declined for imported goods. Manufacturing productionsank the most ever. The surplus was $91 million last month compared with a $935million deficit in November.

Carter wears smudged crown as USA’s ‘dirtiest hotel’
USA Today 
They did switch rooms after waiting in vain for hot water and waking up to hear a “scrabbling sound” in their luggage. And yes says Shaw “there were a couple of stains on the wall. ” Then again Shaw’s Thailand fleabag cost $1 a night. And with an imploding economy sending Manhattan occupancy levels into a nosedive bargains are plentiful at more reputable lodgings. The same night the Hotel Carter was charging a walk-up rate of $109 plus tax (just reduced to $89) the hip Pod Hotel in Midtown quoted $99 for a shared-bath single (promotional rates start at $79 a night).

Recent spate of deaths in Thailand
Asiane Singapore 
- n January 11 the body of a German tourist was found floating off Koh Phangan after the island's full-moon party over the weekend. Police the next day arrested local Tiwat Kasemchoke 29 who claimed to have strangled 45-year-old Astrid Al-Assaad Schachmer reported The Nation. js’>The Thai tattoo artist reportedly told police that he had been humiliated by the German woman who told other foreigners he was after her and attempted to rape her.
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CNTRIVE Bassist Forced To Sit ut Thai Tour – Jan. 30 2009
Blabbermouth.net NY 
However hospital X-rays have confirmed that Tim has broken his collarbone forcing him to pull out of the trek. The Haug brothers of CNTRIVE have managed to quickly secure the bass duties of Greg Shaw from Adelaide’s TRUTH CRRDED a band which coincidentally finished a recent tour of Asia that included shows in Bangkok. Greg will also play a warm-up show with CNTRIVE on Wednesday February 4 at The Arthouse Hotel in Melbourne. A video message from the Haug brothers for Thai fans leading up to CNTRIVE’s Living Unseen Tour 2009 which kicks off Friday February 6 can be viewed below. For more information visit.

Ayada’s Elmhurst Thai Dazzles
Village Voice NY 
bama’s Black Widow (18) Thanks to Bush and bama the National Security Agency now knows more about you My Brother the Slumlord (16) Going public is something Amy Neustein never could resist Let’s Avoid Neil Young’s Next Record (13) The old stuff enthralls but the new stuff terrorizes at MSG NYPD Seeks an Air Monitor Crackdown for New Yorkers (11) A city councilman and the cops don’t want you to have that Geiger counter without their permission Surfing Bay Ridge at Asmak Taama with Gibby Haynes Matching fish with rock stars in Bay Ridge Gambling and Gourmandizing at Colandrea New Corner Restaurant Red and alive in Brooklyn’s Dyker Heights Tossing Tentacles at the John Dory Brilliant expensive seafood in a darkling corner of Manhattan Hearty Krishna Cuisine in Jersey City New vegetarian restaurant hits Jersey City’s Newark Avenue Bushwick Tacos Redux: Tortilleria Mexicana Los Hermanos The little tortilla factory that could We stared in wonder at our raw shrimp salad ($7)—eight gray beauties beheaded and deveined each splayed specimen meticulously mounded with a tasty emerald relish. “That doesn’t look very Thai” I volunteered to our laughing hostess. “Some of us worked at a Japanese hotel in Bangkok” she explained indicating that what we were eating was a sort of Thai-Japanese fusion but one that would raise no eyebrows in Bangkok. I felt like a grizzled prospector who’d just returned from the utback—and I don’t mean the steakhouse. After several years of seeking out the fiery fishy and austere regional cuisine of Isaan in various boroughs I’d just returned at least figuratively to Thailand’s glittering capital and been amazed at the variety and richness of the cooking. The shrimp were fantastic though the sweet density and slug-like texture can be off-putting at first. Moreover it was a dish so rich that one or two crustaceans per person proved sufficient.

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