janderton

The point is that everyone including the EC understands that the elections should be delayed ....

the point is that.. there is a royal decree of house dissolution signed by HM on dec 9th: art 108 of the constituion issued by the junta clearly state that new election must be held in a range of 45-60 days, this put 2 feb as last sunday abailable within election deadline.

PS i'd never ever give my preference to a prime minister (or a party) which trample on the constitution he previosly gave a oath

Disturbing story and poor parenting also. Who would let a 10 yr old child to go and hangout at a shopping centre with friends.

who? in thailand?

better ask who don't...

is there something as decently assaulting a 13 year old girl?

in some provinces of thailand works this way:

a. a 30 yo thai male assault a 13yo thai girl...

b. (when she got pregnant or for some uncommon reason she blurt out about the rape) the rapist pay vistit to the girl's tutors, promising sinsod

this is considered DECENT

(i'm not british) i did understood the humor

Never ever paid any bribe to any official here in Thailand since 24years....

perhaps you did it unwittingly

guess in 24 years you've requested (and obtained) several resident certificates (for driving licences, buy bikes or car): so, tell me, you always get them for free?

I got one free a couple of months ago from immigration.

for free is how should be,

there are no official fees for such document

but i was ALWAYS being asked to pay 200Baht (obviously no receipt) each time i needed one;

friends of mine living in Samui told me they usually pay 600 to get the certificate...

Never ever paid any bribe to any official here in Thailand since 24years....

perhaps you did it unwittingly

guess in 24 years you've requested (and obtained) several resident certificates (for driving licences, buy bikes or car): so, tell me, you always get them for free?

Cambodia denies planting landmines

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2013/03/08/Cambodia-denies-planting-landmines/UPI-59371362766593/

if i remember well, 16yo can obtain a driving licence fit to drive only motorcycles under 110cc.
that honda is how much? i can spot a front disc brake wider that the standard, plus tires apparently too tight for rims...
drunk driving or not, if i were the brit i'd hire a laywer, and if there are enough circumstances, i'd sue the boy's family

They can vote they just have to register in BKK its that simple, nobody is stopping them. Just get added on a tabien baan

me and my thai wife are living in Bangkok, for rent, since 2006: she's from Hua Hin, can't' change the address on her ID card nor driving licence 'cause she do not own a house here (so, NO Tabien Baan);

we moved 5 times in the area between Ploenchit and Asoke, the rental contract was always in my name ('cause i need it for immigration office), the landlords always refused to add her name into the contract, which prevented her to can request to vote in town.

as i understood the favourite colour of thaivisa members and mods, i can foresee a reply as

there's a plenty of (yellow) landlords offering strangers (more likely red) to get added on their tabien baan

anyway, the whole matter is a clowning, despite the highest turnout for a gubernatorial election in the city's history, only 64% of Bangkok's 4.2 million eligible voters turned out... means 2.68 millions people voted for the governor of a city of 8.5 million (metro 14,6).

if i were your friend i'd forward the whole story to the villa market manager then let them to complain to the "avenue" management: that place is in disgrace since the opening, the only working business is the villa, so they can act tough...

There are no existing agreements of extradition between Sweden and Thailand.

guess that's why she choosen thailand...

a terminal is just an empty big box with rainproof roofing, there's something easier to build?

seems like embassy knows the amount of brit tourists in pattaya dropped drastically in the last 3 years,

...why the 'sharp knive' was ever mentioned in the report.

to suggest a different story? a road rage with drawn weapons ended in tragedy? else? who knows

..No treason there at all...

since redshirts appeared on thai political scene they never ever organized a coup, if you were a bookmaker would have noticed it, so consequentely the odds for a coup leaded by them would be a four digit number/1

... it's what their computers record your stay as, not what is stamped in your passport.

...

don't believe every entry or extension stamped by thai checkpoints (thousands, daily), are computer recorded...

never heard about the cases of those red-stamped at thai embassies (or consulates) for having travelled to thailand "several times under tourist visa"?

i tell you what, some of them had their passports lost or damaged, so they got a new one, then back at the very same embassy and applied (successfully) for a tourist visa....

....I wonder if there is more to the story as to how the bar 'changed hands'.....

that's the point!

there's a german that own bar in soi skaew beach pattaya since '90, to all the german language tourists he met he used to say "my bar would have more customer (then incomes to share) if there was someone willing to put money to enhance it": actually he never replaced even a bulb, enjoying himself the cash he got from those unfortunate tourists:

he plays this game since (at least) 15 years, as long as i can remember the number of associates deceived was up to 35 (i stopped keeping score on jan 2009), ALL of them hardly realized the truth only at next trip to thailand, seeing the bar was the same old (dirt)... most of the cheated men returned to europe hangdog, few brave attempted the legal way, usellessly, those insisted to got back their money been punched or got sudden inexplicable troubles with local police...

She will never see the freedom again, if she plead guilty, get life imprisonnement, if not, death penalty.

Really ? Wow thats a hard lesson to learn.

There's no excuse for these people but I can't help feeling that some of these drug-mules are also victims of the drug trade. IMHO I would have thought a stiff sentence of say 5-10 years would be more than sufficient (personal opinion only mind)

Another young desperate going to lose her life to incarceration over drug...

I do read dozens of crime news, daily, is not unusual to hear about felons under 30 years old already convicted for drug smuggling then caught again while perpetrating the same crime (or a different), so, seems like life imprisonment (or death penalty) in thailand over drug smugglin is rather a urban legend...

pragmatically, take a look at how foreigners are generally considered and treated in thailand (visa rules, business restrictions, dual price system, and more...) then you'll find out that that students are just applying to foreign's words the same kind of tenet: this could be shocking for someone, but in the end they're just a mirror of thai government and society

Maybe start with "Football" and "Arsenal" first.

As far as I can see neither are spelt "Arsenon" or "Footbon".............

ahhhh, BAll, บอล... my son's been scolded by the school teacher because he usually pronounce it as a foreigner do

those thai teachers, for them ล (Lo Ling) at the end of a syllable always sounds N, they spell it as N no matter if is a loan word or not: i wonder if they're aware there are loan words in thai vocabulary...

OT

... If these ####### from Pattaya One News stick a camera in my face and attempt to get personal information about me, do I have any rights to stop them?...

seems like if you're in a public venue everyone can take a picture of you, have no idea how it works at a police station, never paid attention if there is notice "no photos" or not - about personal infos, the matter is not "how they got it" (from the police?!) but rather "to publish them": i guess they are allowed to, otherwise there would be no more newspapers worldwide

i can only shake my head! some of you people are really disgusting. there's a poor chap in a coma, double poor because he has no health insurance, and you discuss whether he was drunk, asked for it, deserved it, was disguised as woman...

Aint that the truth!

Naam, it all comes because of the opinions about pattaya is safe/pattaya is dangerous

depends on where you go, when you go, how you behave, what you wear, what you speak

the soi i live in can be very safe at daytime if i walk in slippers and u-shirt, mouth shut:

can turn very dangerous nightime if i'd wear gold necklace, or yelling at people

pretend all the thinghs i mentioned above aren't important to save people's ass, stating would been better not to discuss them, this is disgusting to me

@LucidLucifer: no, i don't think regent school pressured the papers, to me is a self imposed censorship, they know all but, of course (and fortunately) there is no photo of him dressed as woman, so the article would have been only based on rumors, not enough to built a scandal article, but enough to destroy the "good teacher" article...