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MAJOR NEWS FLASH. Thailands weather is going to be pretty much the same as normal for the time of year over the next week.....

"Bangkok and its vicinity on the other hand, will face cloudy skies and rains up to 40 percent throughout the country." so that makes it all crystal clear...

No-one will believe that this is not a cover up unless the British police take a DNA sample from this young man to prove his innocence. Sadly, the RTP have proved themselves hopelessly incapable so far in this case. How can anyone prove that the DNA obtained at the police hospital is the same DNA that is submitted to Sirirat hospital or the university?

So go on then David Attenborough: what are your qualifications for appearing as an urban wildlife expert? - a couple of links to YouTube wildlife vids would convince me - I can't speak for the other doubters,of course.

'American thinker' in this case appears to be an oxymoron. Next business.

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I worked on the Burj Khalifa, also the River Project in Bangkok. Love to get a gig on this baby

would you care to translate your post into English?

What a laugh - no not the abject failure to secure a seat on the Human rights body, but the Nations editorial! Talk about having your cake and eating it! A few short months ago The Nation was baying for a military take over, advocating Suthep and his 'People's Council', opposing democracy. Now a few months later and the inevitable is happening - the country is being ostracised by the world, the economy is going backwards, foreigners - Westerners, Burmese are leaving in their droves and suddenly, suddenly, the editor of the Nation is an advocate of democracy and Thailand's woman Prime Minister. I stopped buying The Nation and its fellow traveller The Post after the coup. I'm glad I did.

If the shop owners were forced to rent shop houses at reasonable rents, instead of the extortionate amounts they currently charge, the locals wouldn't have to sell their wares on the side of the street.

The answer: Sukhumvit to Bangkwang - 1 1/2 to two hours

Bangkwang to Sukhumvit - anything up to 30 years.

4th, 5th and 6th of November, Willie.

Suwanna Chungrungroeng or her equivalents always draw up these killjoy criteria for occasions like Loi Kratong and the people always roundly ignore them. Loi Kratong without fireworks? Is there to be anything left of the fun Thailand we all knew and loved? Unless the authorities are going to provide palm tree Kratong bases at or cheaper than the styrofoam ones, that will be ignored too. The average Bangkokian doesn't have a palm tree in their garden. Same old, same old from the authorities.

Now, how about the BMA setting up some parks for people, ideally where dogs are banned. Bangkok (and most other Thai cities), have a lamentable lack of green space. Typical of the BMA to put middle class dog owners above families with children. We have a tiny park in the Victory Monument area that is so busy it's not fun to be in. How about putting the city's kids, joggers, aerobic fans and the rest of us, ahead of pampered pooches?

Would you care to divulge its name?

The option chosen will doubtless be the one that involves the biggest bungs for BMA officials, Skytrain officials, whoever owns ST bridge and anyone else who can get on the gravy train. That will reduce the budget, then the result will be substandard, then our military dictator will get involved because the army didn't receive its share. Finally, years late the work will be completed. It was ever thus..

Unless your g/f is particularly well endowed in the breast department Dave, I'm surprised at a foreigner having such an obsession -I mean Thailand is not a hub of large breasts. I'm not excusing his behaviour, which is quite reprehensible, but generally that sort of perv would be better served in Africa or Europe.....all bra and little substance here generally....

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Last time I was in California buying a new car, they didn't speak Thai. Weird...... lousy customer service.

Hopefully they will spend some money getting English speaking staff for their support of Mazda car buyers in Thailand. My last attempt to speak with them revealed they had no staff with good English skills

Okay, I understand your frustration BUT!!

Let us suppose for a moment that you are English and that you live in England where you own a Mazda Franchise and a Thai Customer, who doesn't speak much, if any of YOUR Language comes to you, wanting you to spend money on employing THAI Speaking Staff....what would your response be?

How many Thai customers are buying cars in Britain - or America? Precious few I would think. And I bet the Brits could rustle up a Hindi speaker if it helped make a sale or the Yanks could find a Spanish speaker in the same circumstances.In any event we brits happen to speak the worlds language and the Americans a reasonable approximation of it There are thousands of Westerners resident in Thailand as well as possibly tens of thousands of Japanese, Koreans, Malaysians, Singaporeans who want to buy cars and have them serviced. Surely enough to merit at lest one reasonable English speaker on the staff of at least the larger franchises.

As to the subject of this post. I am disappointed that the Japanese, who believe in democracy nowadays, are seen to be rewarding' the military dictators with this announcement of investment. It would help to encourage a return to democracy in Thailand if Western (including Japanese) companies would hold off investment until the dictators put away their guns and restore power to the people.

If the DNA match is transparent, let a British police doctor collect DNA directly directly from the two accused and match it to the DNA they already hold taken from the deceased. Then the whole world would accept that the two Burmese lads were guilty. How about at the same time getting the DNA of the Koh Tao headman's son - just to proved that it WASN'T him. Job done.

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Mr Prime Minister, why are you and your previous ignoring this problem on Koh Tao, you have a very , very serious problem on that island.

Are you happy that Koh Tao has become a centre of murder and rape?

SIR, TIME TO ACT in the name of HUMANITY.

What leads you to suggest that Ko Tao is any more a centre of un-natural deaths in Thailand than anywhere else in the country? There have been unsolved murders or unexplained deaths (the jumping out of hotel room window syndrome) of foreigners elsewhere in the Samui archipelago, in Pattaya, on Phi Phi, in Phuket, in Chiang Mai. The list is ever lengthening.

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Why does this statement worry me so much? Am I being overly cynical? Would a double suicide followed in quick succession by a double cremation, cover a multitude of unrecorded sins?

It wouldn't cover any sins to you, me, anyone with an ounce of belief in the rule of law or the humblest peasant on the planet with a sense of justice, but in Thailand, it works perfectly. Thoughts and prayers for these poor Burmese guys.

I've seen Kronenburg in a few places, not sure if Bully's was one of them. I wouldnt pay the price myself. I wouldnt pay a lot of money for lager. i save my missing-home beer pennies for Old Speckled Hen!

come off it she can't be a genuine poster! Who would set up a tanning salon in a country that has 330 sunny days a year and a population that shuns any colour than alabaster white. As has been said above failed business model!

http://www.reuters.c...N0P71F020140626

this link from Bruce, illustrates my point

As per the bill, a committee - chaired by the Social Development and Human Security Minister - will be set up and tasked with monitoring the homeless, providing them with shelter, food and clothes as well as helping them find employment.

It's hard to believe that this 'provision' will amount to anything other than a Victorian style workhouse. and of course once the bill is passed (as it inevitably will be) they will have to make it illegal to be homeless -otherwise they will lose face.

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Impeach. everybody was impeached de facto when the great leader had a coup and declared himself the great leader under martial law

Exactly. she has already been impeached at the end of the army's gun barrels. This is all part of the process to destroy PTP in order that that can't win the next election. The trouble is it didn't work last time and it wont work this time. The people don't want the army to continue usurping power and they don't want a non elected Legislative Assembly arrogantly passing laws. TRT, PPP, PTP what combination of the three letters will the next elected government use I wonder?

Villa at Ari had them yesterday.

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you find riding a Motor bike in Bangkok safer than British roads, very good considering British roads are one of the safest places to drive or ride a bike. in Europe and the world.

That's because virtually no-one is allowed to ride a bike in Britain.

Go ahead OP give it a try. Most of the time its quite safe as nothing moves at more that 10kmph. count me out though, I'm a strictly 4 wheels type of guy.

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i see it as not negativity but a waste of time to get a visa at the embassy which entails a waste of half ur day and added expense (taxis, skytrain whatever) when u can get it on arrival,

Same with getting a visa for Cambodia at the Embassy in Bangkok

So newbies read thus an think, "oh, i need get my visa at the embassy"

Now, if this was about getting a Burmese visa that would be valid info

No not the same as getting a Cambodian visa: In my experience there can be significantly longer delays at Cambodian immigration - particularly entering overland at Poipet, than there generally are in Lao. Also Cambodia issues e visas which mean you don't use up a whole page of your passport with a visa stamp, which is an issue for those of us like Brits that cannot get extra pages stuck into our passports. For Lao sure in most cases VoA is the way to go, but in Cambodia the balance is finer.