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That doesnt surprise me , you can find them all between soi nana and ....soi nana ... staying there for sleep and for food ..... also because Bumrungrad is near by. I dont think those arabs spend a lot of money in going sightseeing or travel around Thailand . Mostly are here for medical tourism.

I thought NO CARE airlines was the low cost carrier of Thai airway . I stopped flying TG for a long time both international and domestic flights for the poor service , expensive prices. Hope TG will be back on track with better care for passengers.

Compare what should be compare ..... Thailand 20years ago was not as good as now ( I have been here for 20y) ... When I go back to my country I like the well organized road , not so much traffic, good foreign food at good price ...CHEAP wine compare with Thailand . The grass is never greener in the neighbors gardens. Maybe because Houston is a crap city but NYC,Chicago,SF,Seattle are really great to spend time.

What about PIZZA HUT ? they offer the same kind of so called pizza as the pizza company , same unflavored fatty industrial products ..

The United States and Europe have led a chorus of complaints that China's exchange rate controls have made the country's exports artificially cheap and given its manufacturers an unfair advantage.

With a very strong baht Thailand will not be competitive anymore .... look at the markets here , full of Chinese product ..Thailand is killing softly but surely its own small industry .

So if I understand ,China want to build a trade center in Thailand to re sell Chinese goods ..... and avoid western anti dumping taxes .Clever ..... but what about Thai products ? I guess its nearly the end of those if such project is done.

Amnuay said settlement between the girl's family and relatives of those killed and injured would likely be reached in the future.

That's what I said before ... Money will resolve everything and charges will be dropped ... Want to bet ?

I wonder how much money has been paid in total to drop this case ...

would have been nice to see the girl involved in killing 9 people on the tollway to be arrested that fast .... unless she was ....

First of all ,was she allow to drive her own car at 17yo ????????? Parents should be blamed for that also . Laws are the same for everybody .... except in Thailand apparently.

Thai tourism hit by poor exchange rates, rising prices and political uncertainty - see it's not difficult when you try...

Totally true , its too easy to think that snow is the cause ....Let say people dont want to come to Thailand for other reason ... its always better to put your head in a bag and forget about real problems.

First of all my sympathy goes to the families of course ... but do you feel surprise at all ? I drive on the toll way everyday , and everyday I can see those vans driving up to 140/150km/hour, the first danger comes from drivers . I have seen in17 years in Thailand too many accidents involving vans because of speeding, I think its time (for years now) for government to act. Banning alcohol wont help .... but a some behavior for stupid drivers would be better

Any other bright things like this ??????????? This is ridiculous ...... Parents should be sued to bring their kids at Mac Do . At least they still have the choice to bring their kids to ear junk or proper food.

When can we sue the petrol station in Thailand for giving free bottle of water which are not even mineral water but normal filtered water .... :lol:

I have resided in Thailand for 13 years and have been in the tourism business for all of that time. i have noticed only one year that we did not have some problem that was reported internationally. From scams and ripoffs to Sars, chicken flu and violent politics this country is determined to destroy itself. Corruption is more prevalent than before and I personally have watched as the police will not help law abiding citizens and they police kowtow to "influential people" who are ripping off everyone including Thais. If the good people of this country don't stand up and fight back soon then visitors are going to shy away from here and go to other east Asian countries.

I agree on this ... I have been living and working here for 17 years and I have the impression that renewing my visa , work permit etc .. is harder and harder ..Now they give me 30days ....then one year as new policy , strange after so many years. Do they do the maximum to send us back to our countries ? If so , I would suggest a return of all Thais living abroad as well. There are still good things of course and the kindness of the people is still here , specially up country ( not phuket, pattaya, samui or tourists spots). I dont think to pay another expensive huge tourism campaign around the world will help either. Time for a serious cleaning if you dont want to see the tourists go in some other places. After all there will always be "single men" to enjoy Thailand.

Now hear is a surprise. Lower? No shyt.

But no mention of the two real main reasons - the recession in Europe and the rise in the THB. Still in denial!

Totally agree with this comment , The denial of too strong baht will push many people with low income to travel in other countries , such as Cambodia or Laos but not to mention that Thailand is not attractive anymore , look how Phuket has became ? Not to mention this stupid "gala" dinner which is compulsory and totally over priced that all hotels force you to have. No , Thailand is not on my 1st destination anymore.

If he pays for himself where is the problem ? So now, to please the people ,the politicians must go on holidays camping in Scotland ? Or anything "proper" ?

totally non sense.

it really seems those drivers dont want to take their responsibilities in escaping like this. Or is it so easy to vanish in the air without being prosecuted by the police ? It happen to often on my opinion. But they should know that with the plate of their car or truck its easy to find them no ?

I have been swimming here for 20 years, must have missed something... I bet it's much more dangerous to cross the street

Same for me , but you need only one time . Everything can happen .

One of my friend living in Phuket has a strange visit this morning , a group of policemen asking her for money for the fight with Muslim in the south of Thailand. Pretending to be from the government. Does anyone had to face such demand from official ? Going door by door requesting for funds ? On my opinion I would think its a fraud and one way to ask money from foreigners.

If anyone had the same story please tell.

That's depresing news because Carrefour will soon become more Big Crap locations selling low quality junk with limited varieties of non Thai food products. My guess is that business will drop because Big C doesn't have much of a clue what the farang customers want. It will be a downward spiral from here for the Carrefour locations.

This is Thailand here ,the farang community is small ,its normal to find Thai products ... in Europe you dont find so much Thai products in Carrefour France for example . For farang stuff there is still Villa market or Central chidlom . Carrefour was selling farang stuff in few outlets only ,rama4, lad phrao, the one in Rangsit doesnt have any farang product.

Made a suggestion about this many months back.

1/ Should complete the partly built sky train to Don Muang.

2/ Turn the biggest unused building into a market like an indoor jata-jak.

3/ Another big building could be a mall/supermarket.

4/ Revamp all the other unused buildings as rental or for sale rooms and condos, in a range from basic to luxuary.

5/ Make all other unused space into parking.

Should be returning a good profit in a few years.

I agree with point No 1 .. could be nice to have a sky train or extension from Moochit subway

No 2 ,there are enough markets in Bangkok

No 3 also too many malls already offering exactly the same shops

No 4 hard to transform a terminal into condo

No 5 parking place ???????? for who ? you need the No 1 if you want people to get rid of their car

Well... most 7-11's seem to have an abundance of staff, so maybe this could work.

TheWalkingMan

It could work only if the staff at those 7 eleven stores can understand or speak english , and so far that is hardly the case. Imagine a Russia guy who speak really little english oppose to a seven eleven staff with the same english skill .. that wouldnt be that fun !

Hard to understand what happened there but if the pick up driver ran away ,it might be for some good reason , its very usual in Thailand apparently to run away when drivers do something wrong ,another story with this Truck also in Phuket not long ago killing also ,did the police found the driver ? For this pick up at least there is registration on plate so it might be easy to find the driver after all. Why those killers dont take their responsibilities ? Really hard to understand .

Helmet for driver ok ,what about passengers ? and kids if you have the whole family on a motorcycle ?

WOW ,that is a huge increase ,does it mean there are less tourists on the island so some people needs to find money elsewhere ?