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I have plan to go to Bangkok on April 2008. I try to contact my friend to ask the best transportation at there to transfer from suvarnabhumi airport to Center of Bangkok City. He smile to me “Generaly Bangkok is not like Jakarta, you can choose one of the transportation mode at there” He said to me. Here is some details of the transfer model in Bangkok : Center Of Bangkok is only 30 minutes from the new Suvarnabhumi International airport. Taxis are plentiful and inexpensive, though dense traffic in the centre can make even short distances a long trip. Taxis cost approximately USD 1 for the first two kilometres, then about USD .10 for each kilometre thereafter. In Thailand, driving is on the left. Exit Suvarnabhumi Airport from the North Exit Turn left to the new Bangkok-Chonburi expressway (motorway) Take the new elevated expressway, Sri-Raj at Srinakarindh Toll Gate A noisy, motorized three-wheeler with covered seats, the tuk-tuk is really only suitable for short journMore Details Read More

The two big wings of Islam-Turkey in the West and Indonesia in the East — are reforming and changing at a lightening pace, confounding those who only measure Islam by its seemingly stagnant middle ground. Next week Indonesia goes to the polls for its final round in a presidential election that so far has been largely free, courteous and non-violent. Turkey continues with reforms that began in Ataturk’s day in the 1920s but which have recently accelerated under its relatively new Islamist government that is determined to meet all the criteria for entry demanded by the European Union. In fact the countries that contain the largest numbers of Muslims — Turkey (70 million), Indonesia (240 million), Bangladesh (114 million) and India (121 million) — are all liberal minded and democratic. All have populations that overwhelmingly reject the terrorist jihad. All prefer their women uncovered. All find the rigidity of Islamic belief as exhibited in the many smaller countMore Details Read More