madmitch

I was talking about regular bars, even restaurants and guesthouses. The venues you are talking about open whatever hours they want anyway. They pay their taxes as well......just not necessarily to the Customs and Excise Department!????

Customs and Excise officers do the rounds checking licences as well as checking tax has been paid on the liquor. Any bars found selling booze without the appropriate tax stickers are fined.

The competition starts in just over a week yet Thailand still hasn't worked out whether or not it'll be on TV! Then there's the task of getting advertisers and sponsors, not to forget the TV scheduling. Totally amateur.

Thailand desperately needs younger blood at the top. Hopefully these two fighting with each other might allow an outsider to slip in (not Anutin!). But if the US gets Trump v Biden again these guys are mere youngsters!

I take but what I said the other day that I'm happy to see some sort of compromise as the "small print" seems to have scuppered any chance for new entrepreneurs to set up. As always, big business gets its way.

Is there anything this guy doesn't complain about?

She then criticised Move Forward Party Leader Pita Limjaroenrat, saying that he should give priority to the public interest, rather than the interests of the party. That sounds just a little hypocritical to me! But, at least there's a compromise, rather than rejecting the proposal altogether, however it does seem as though the Government is taking all the credit. Without Move Forward this would never have happened.

Unfortunately it's those final eight words that Prayut and co are more concerned about. They've done nothing at all to help small businesses in the past eight years and the big guns have got bigger and stronger.

Totally out of touch with the rest of the world. Their issue is nothing to with concerns about uncontrolled product, it's to protect the interests of their supporters at Boon Rawd and ThaiBev.

But where are the masks? How can tourists be protected without masks?

........which will involve setting up tents at the side of the road in the same spots they've been doing for years and with the same inept staff manning them!

My Mrs has been saying the same. Our house and business are also off Patak Road (both different parts). Fortunately the Chinese tour buses are still mothballed but the minibuses and taxis may be out in higher number soon. Doesn't augur well for anyone on these routes, or the coast road to the airport.

The masks make the picture look even more ridiculous.

No doubt another three years of traffic chaos!

They borrowed the TAT calculator????

Of course not. They were only for carving the chicken.

Amazed how many people haven't heard of Conde Nast. Vogue, GQ and Tatler are among their publications. As stated above, Conde Nast Traveler is aimed at the luxury traveller, just the sort of tourist that Thailand wants, so they probably pride this ranking above many others (and there does seem to be a new one every week!). Of course, this is published at a time when long haul travel is still slowly recovering so I'm not too sure where the results are compiled from.

Ladie's volleyball seems to be about the only sport which gets blanket TV coverage in Thailand and my GF and her friends are glued to it whenever it's on. I find it eminently watchable as well......not sure why????? When she was in England I managed to get it on my TV via an Android box, which she was very please about. The problem was she discovered she could watch the Thai soaps every day as well!

Prawit might be enjoying his his position of power so much that he may have thrown a few watches the way of the judges.