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Petchburi provincial prosecutor has said he "lacked good evidence" to take the case to court. He only had 65 photos of the complete group of 9 inside the national park with exact GPS location and time, the police Lt-col was apprehended inside the park by DNP rangers making them credible witnesses and when arrested they had protected animals in their possession... All this evidence was provided by Chaiwat, the head of the Kaengkrachan national park to regional police AND the prosecutor.

This provincial prosecutor, a certain mr. Worawit, is the same man that let at first a police man walk after killing a tourist in Kanchanaburi a few years ago...

It is common knowledge amongst the locals that Provincial Prosecutors are just as easily bought as the police. It's just they cost more.

Ok, so let me see if I understand correctly. This obese man pictured drinking alcohol with a man accused of serious crimes including poaching, is not charged while the man is charged. His police colleagues cite a lack of evidence to charge him although the same evidence is deemed sufficient to charge the others.

It appears to me as a searing demonstration of the disgusting depth of corruption in the Thai police force. What exactly does it take to charge a police officer in Thailand with a breach of duty and a criminal act? Why is this police commander partying with poachers?

What an incredible display of arrogance. Absolutely disgusting. Doesn't anybody in any of the political parties give a sh*t about the systemic corruption?

Yea, yea, I know. They don't.

Not saying you're wrong, but ..... How can you tell he's drinking alcohol?

Well it ain't iced tea, izzit

Pol General Jaramporn Suramanee, an assistant National Police chief, said each suspect would be prosecuted differently according to the charges laid against him, including gun possession, illegal hunting in a national park and trespassing in a national park.

They forgot "ingesting pixelated drinks in a national park".

Yeah I was curious about the pixelation myself...... No idea what Theerayuth's drinking buddy is doing. The buddy has his drink

in his left hand. I can only think in his right hand he was either flashing a gun, or flipping off the photographer. Strange.....

The paper reporting the story pixelated the brand name of the whiskey. Free advertising. Orrrrr, Yes, go shoot up what's left of the country's fauna, but good God man, don't show yourselves drinking alcohol in a National Park, this has recently been deemed illegal. You really couldn't make this silly place up.

...What you need is a Certificate of Finalization of your case from the courthouse at which you had to appear (did you?)...

I doubt very much that this, by itself, would be enough. He needs to get himself off the blacklist. For this, he may need a suitable lawyer or other person who knows his way about in such matters. It's a pity that he has no longer access to his old passport for a copy of that stamp in Thai, but from the answer he got when he phoned the IDC it seems clear that he is on the blacklist.

Maestro, I can tell you from personal experience that when found to have been blacklisted (the long and bizarre details of which I will not bore you with), I went to the local provincial court to get this certificate, my lawyer having sent it off with a bunch of other papers to God knows where in an unrelated case with me as plaintiff. This was duly produced to Immigration and my visa was renewed.

Hi there,

Yeah, I am sorry for this red stamp, but I really was in the mind of forgetting this story when I came back in end of November.

I wanted to make a new passport not to see the red stamp anymore and also because my old passport had only 1 free page left.

For new passport procedure, the gouvernement here requests the old passport back. So I gave it back and was very happy to get a new passport.

You are right, I stood about 4 hours at the airport before the immigration between the first office to the second office. I arrived at 2.00pm and I had a fly back at 7.00pm. It's no problem because we have the money. Just a bit tired.

Now I am more and more sure that getting the report at the police station will be good for me, but I need someone to get it for me. The police station is the one at LadPrao, near LadPrao 51.

I have Thai friends there that should be able to do it, if not too busy (they are people from office).

V.

Ah you sound like a laugh! What you need is a Certificate of Finalization of your case from the courthouse at which you had to appear (did you?). Can be applied for and received in around an hour or so. If it was only the police giving you the bum's rush to IDC, good luck with them trying to find it. Good luck and ignore the usual holier than thou's on this forum

For all those posters getting all uppity over selling fake sunglasses/clothing/videos etc, if you drink anything other than the local beer or gutrot, it's very likely fake. And you rarely hear/see this http://www2.mof.go.th/www2picture_news_detail.php?id=2006#maincontent do you?

burn me and throw my ashes into a lake or the sea, depending on where I will die... and have two big parties, one in Thailand and one in Switzerland with whatever money my families deem ok to spend.. this way I will soon be where I always wanted to be... all around the world... and no, I don't care about the polution I will be responsible for

Um, they don't grind your charred skeletal remains into a fine dust here, as is the case in Western countries. So they'll be slinging your bones off of the nearest prementory being careful to avoid any soi dogs

I just read the article on BP, as well the comments.

Does anyone ever match up any police officers income and life style. . . Their salaries are far to low to keep a decent standard of living. Therefore they need to add income from other sources, simple.

No way to change that.

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As was posted by someone on another thread, when setting up the police force they were told 'okay, we know we're paying you peanuts, but you have our permission to 'gin meuang' - steal from your countrymen. The police should take it up with them.

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Firstly let me point out that I am far from being able to speak Thai. I know words and phrases, but that is about it.

The guy that says 'Thais are to lazy to listen' I can understand where he is coming from.

As an example I have asked for 2 ice coffees in KFC, in those little counters that only sell coffee and ice cream, and the woman couldn't understand what I was saying. Now I'm not saying my tones were perfect, but the words were right. Why couldn't she fill in the gaps? Cafe yin, song. It's not like I'm asking something random is it?

I have a Thai language book which states 'do not expect the Thai people to understand that which you are attempting to communicate in the Thai language if the tones are not correct, they have very little imagination when it comes to language'. I have generally found this to be frustratingly true.

The Aussie dollar is now only getting 31.4

So she is wrong about quantitive easing? Cluelesscomes to mind, and its scary someone like this is running the country?

'She' isn't.

Whilst I found whistleblower's post funny, I do believe the Dutch were being their usual insensitive selves. Weren't they responsible for many deaths following some stupid cartoons and a 'movie' about The Prophet? To those who would cite 'freedom of speech', get on down to the Bible Belt (or almost anywhere in the USA come to that) and try slapping some pics of The Christ on their 'rest rooms' then come back and tell us all how you got on

I am one of those insensitive Dutch, we just value of speech and if others use violence against it they are wrong not us. Any religion is fair game why not why would religious people have more rights then those who are not.

Anyway, stupid action of putting Buddha images on toilets, but i would not have been offended if they put the queen of Holland on a toilet. Its just an image and a toilet is just a building. But some people take offences of everything.

But the cartoon and the movie.. freedom of speech and if people start bowing to violence then that is gone soon too.

Freedom of speech is not an excuse for insensitive rude behaviour. There is a difference and this company did not think before acting. Justifying every action or remark as excersisng free speech borders on arrogance and anarchy.

Agreed. And to Roblok,on an insensitivity scale of 1-10, how would you, as an 'insensitive Dutch' rate this joke - 'How do you make a Dutchman? Get a German and take out all the intelligence and leave in all the arrogance'. I told this to my Dutch friend, and he laughed Are you? By the way, I was told this by an Australian

I agree, most ladyboys are not deceitful, they are openly trying to steal your money or your phone. Why they are tolerated,and not removed from various party areas such as Soi Nana, Walking Street, Soi Bangla, Soi Green Mango etc. is beyond me. Afterall, I am quite sure that if a known gang of ordinary male thieves were standing there openly robbing tourists night after night, even the ineffective Thai police would do something about it!

Is this your attempt at humour or are you being deliberately obtuse?

Whilst I found whistleblower's post funny, I do believe the Dutch were being their usual insensitive selves. Weren't they responsible for many deaths following some stupid cartoons and a 'movie' about The Prophet? To those who would cite 'freedom of speech', get on down to the Bible Belt (or almost anywhere in the USA come to that) and try slapping some pics of The Christ on their 'rest rooms' then come back and tell us all how you got on

“As I said, we are not targeting tourists." Bullshit. Then why is this route confined only to the tourist (farang) (you think the average Thai gives a shit?) centric regions of Patong/Kata/Karon? If they really are sincere in providing alternative transport to those island 'residents', why no Chalong/Rawai route? 'Oh look, we tried but it didn't work (again)/certain sections of mafia reneged on promise not to attack drivers' so back to status quo. God people here are naive.

Of course, these figures do not take into account the sex industry.

Which is illegal/non-existent here

I'm always nonplussed by the Tourists Make Up An Insignificant Amount Of Thailand's GDP brigade. If this is so, why do they (TAT et al) go to such lengths to attempt to mitigate bad news for tourism here?

Police Commander Chalit Kaewyarat, who for years served as a senior officer at Chalong Police Station tells you all you need to know why the 'culprit' has not yet been found/arrested.

It's not just the locals (Thais), although they do have a pack mentality to rival the Italians and the Greeks. Anyone anywhere stepping in to to save some woman in a 'domestic' will invariably be on the receiving end of the woman's ire 'You not beat on my man!' too. Sad but true.

Many years ago when having to visa run, I was taken by a driver to his home to fill in the form for immigration before setting off. He'd parked his big spanky new car in what looked like the big empty space underneath a shophouse. My heart sank when I noticed gold framed photographs of his aged/dead parents, on a nearby table. I hadn't removed my shoes. Well, it looked like a bloody garage On returning to town, I asked him to take me to a hotel. I'd noted his erstwhile cheery attitude had done a volt face He dumped me at a Wat some kilometers out of town.

The first of many of some of the more bizarre aspects of Thai culture.

Stories like this would not happen, if the looser of the court battle have to compensate the other side for all money spend in connection with the court battle. The whole system is at fault and designed to be misused by people who know all loopholes. I hope that they will stand their ground. In the end they will win and the landlord will suffer a massive loss of face. Som nam na

The accuser loses virtually nothing.

It definitely is not a well functioning system.

To file a civil suit the plaintiff must pay a percentage of that amount which is being sued for as compensation. I'm guessing this is to deter false claims in the hope of winning, however unlikely the plaintiff's case might be. However, in these cases I would imagine the amount of compensation being sued for is quite small and the landlord is just being bloodyminded.

Read the Coconut article and you will see it appears the landlord is common to Lee Chestnutt. And it appears the business competition or whatever the link may have this Thai 'landlord' just causing deliberate mischief. What recourse do either have? Nothing - Farang have no rights in Thailand so don't kid yourselves.

Farang most certainly do have rights in Thailand, the problem is being prepared to jump through all the same hoops the Thais do having to traverse the insane amount of red tap and waiting time. Three years is about average.

The only difference in these two particular cases is the defendants are farang, who are seen as (1) stupid and (2) rich. they wouldn't bother trying this particular scam on a Thai.

I wrote a similar thread last year but I have come to realize that threads will never stay on topic, people just love to show off there 'knowledge' of all things irrelevant...

I must admit it does make reading them more fun though, never know where it's gonna go

Seriously? You believe the 'usual suspects' and their total meanderings on sweet sod all to do with the original post 'fun'? I'll take the trouble to click on a headline if I find it mildly interesting but hardly ever bother to follow the thread after a certain number of boring bickering posts.

This was posted on the Issan forum

Udon enjoying a property boom prior to AEC kickoff

Somluck Srimalee

The Nation

UDON THANI: -- Listed property firms are itching to roll out residential projects in Udon Thani before the Asean Economic Community gets going in 2015, as the northeastern province is the gateway to Vientiane, the capital of Laos.

"Udon Thani has all the facilities to support people's lifestyles. Most retail businesses have opened a branch in this province," Naporn Sunthornchancharoen, senior executive vice president of Land & Houses, said last week.

"There's also infrastructure such as roads and a ring road linking Udon to Vientiane.

"It is suitable for Thai and foreign investors to use as their hub to invest in Laos when the AEC blooms in 2015."

According to a survey by The Nation, Land & Houses, Sansiri, Supalai, LPN Development and Pruksa Real Estate bought land in Udon after they saw strong demand from both local and foreign investors. Most buyers have a business in Vientiane but prefer to live in Udon because it has better facilities and is only two hours away by car.

Srettha Thavisin, president of Sansiri, said the company sees potential in Udon for both high-rise condominiums and low-rise projects, mainly single family homes and townhouses. The company has bought land to serve demand from both local customers and foreigners who operate a business in this province or are venturing into Vientiane.

Demand is focused on homes costing less than Bt5 million per unit, said Opas Sripayak, managing director of LPN Development. The company is considering condos priced at not more than Bt2 million per unit in this province.

Land & Houses became interested in Udon when it noticed the demand from both local investors and those from other provinces who set up in Udon to export or trade with Vientiane.

Land prices in the central business district of Udon have shown signs of doubling, said Porntip Thanasriwanitchai, president of the Udon Thani Property Club.

Leading property firms from Bangkok have started to look for land in the CBD. For example, Land & Houses has succeeded in securing property to develop a residential project this or next year, while Supalai also has to find a site to develop residences in this province.

The cost to buy centrally located land has surged at least 100 per cent from Bt100,000 per square wa to Bt150,000-Bt200,000, she added.

The Udon Thani Provincial Lands Office has raised assessed values by an average of 61 per cent.

For example, land on Posri Road in Udon Thani city shows an official reference price of Bt150,000 per square wah or Bt60 million per rai.

But the market price averages Bt200,000 per square wah, Porntip said.

Udon Thani's property market averages Bt8 billion a year, of which a third is developed by 22 local builders, a third by landowners who hire local contractors and a third by local homebuilders offering designs to landowners wanting to build a home.

Housing demand from natives of Udon also comes from those who marry foreigners and those who work overseas and send money back to their family.

They gravitate towards single family homes priced Bt2 million-Bt3 million with an average of 120 square metres of space and two to three bedrooms, she said.

-- The Nation 2013-01-14

The usual bs we've come to expect from those in the property biz, and as to ASEAN, don't make me laugh. From a mindset which says 'the IMF is not my father' to ongoing dispute with the ICJ over a temple and cherry picking every 'FTA' that comes along.

Those who believe there will be any radical change/co-operation with neighbouring countries under this empty acronym are seriously deluded.

some foreigners sometimes try to strike up a conversation, having in common the same question coming jokingly after a short time " Do you have a boy friend?"

In a Western country one could hardly ask bluntly such a question to a woman utter stranger, I mean in a super market or in the street.

As long as they remain polite and friendly, I think this is rather a good thing and nothing to be shy about.

I don't know why it is so complicated in Western countries and can't see any advantage in making it complicated.

Seriously. How likely is it you will have seen a fat balding middle aged man openly giggling and flirting with a young shop assistant down your local Sainsbury's? I can't count the number of times I've squirmed with embarrassment at the sight of this here.