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Let's hope she's past the child bearing age. Last thing the world needs is another whacko, especially one with a law degree and a bench.

She needs a look thep

Another fuzzywuzzy problem!

Call corporal Jones, he knows the solution.

They don't like it upem!

Every year, every month the junta takes further steps away from freedom and democracy and towards totalitarianism and censorship. Spending 5 billion on Internet censorship in the year 2016 is wrong. This country is gonna fail. They should be investing in the future, making brighter students, accepting foreign investment, developing technology, science and research. This will force the Thai's to remain consumers of western products instead of being the creators of it. I am not moving back. God I miss 2013 pre-junta Bangkok.

Just put yourself in their shoes. It's not what you want, it's what they want. Funnels they can control and milk. It used to be forest resources, then airwaves, but those are no longer relevant.

They are playing catch-up by getting a monopoly on the new funnel.

Old plot, different setting, story ends the same.

A thai soap opera, it seems.

In fact it is a strategy perfected by Britain's imperial brains. Control the choke points!

Fortunately the Thai military never went to Eton, so that they are always playing catch-up...but way ahead of the pack by Thai standards.

I have always enjoyed having a maid, and getting" basic services" dead cheap. Liberating the serfs is a terrible idea: thai people should be kept in servitude, where they belong.

Ironing my own shirts? The notion is simply absurd! Imagine if thai people start to use their brains and question the status quo...... it would end in disaster for the elite.

Long live the single internet gateway!

Freedom on the information highway, no way, I say!

VPN is the order of the day.....

I would say that this has to do with the Computer Crimes Act,, which is an abomination of a law passed by the previous military dictatorship. Under the law, the registered owner of the IP adress from which a range of offences under the act are committed, may also be liable.

Section 15. Any service provider intentionally supporting or consenting to an offence under Section 14 within a computer system under their control shall be subject to the same penalty as that imposed upon a person committing an offence under Section 14.

For example if a customer was doing porn or stuff that insults the powers that be in a bar and the owner is seen to tolerate it... that could make him liable.

The License was correct International drive bike or car.

No more silly questions.

They try to pull a fast one.

When they had the choice to take it to the station and make it official.

They threw the paper work out.

They were only after money.

Full stop..........

I would say that in 90% of cases, BIB are only after money, and 200 baht does the job. In the remaining 10% of cases, involving their individual loss of face, or under the spotlight, they are after your blood, regardless of the law.

I presume Laura is in the UK and has no intention of setting foot in Thailand. If so, she is beyond Thai jurisdiction. What would be the practical effect of any investigation?

They should take her to the International Court of Justice in the Hague... Unfortunately, it might turn into a media trial for the BIB and Laura would undoubtedly be acquitted, but it would be very funny, exposing thai justice in all its gory.

yes my international licence, out of date since 1988 has its uses. You can hide a couple of red pictures of you know who in there, since it is a ragged cardboard 3 fold, When I am shaken down by the BIB it always comes back with a salute and I am on my way.

Chinese are land animals not marine creatures.... They should stay away from water....Fiery cross reef included

If she is chinese, I would suggest an auspicious figure. such as 888,888, depending on what you can afford.

I would also make it clear that that sum absolves you from taking care of her family apart from insignificant amounts.

Or pay off any property loans she is liable for so you start on an even keel... Good luck!

For what its worth...

Encouraging the sale of foreign goods, and making things that rich people buy cheaper.

What's the bet that the wife of the guy who made this decision has her eyes on a new handbag? Because it's not really a progressive move for the country in general. Ordinary Thai will benefit not one iota.

....... apart from all the ordinary thais who work in the luxury goods business, and those who work in hotels and hospitality, catering to tourists who come here for shopping.

Thai justice in all its glory

"And make that a gourmet Pizza with extra cheese, anchovies, olives, and oh, extra blue cheese"

'Well noted Sir"

and how about the RTP, whose laxity and shameless corruption are the root cause of Thailand's ruined image

would the "right to bear arms" in the USA extend to owning a small nuclear weapon or a rocket propelled grenade.

It seems reasonable since every lunatic now has an Armalite, so the reasonable majority should have the advantage, according to the founding fathers

I think the guardian spirits are in the British Virgin Islands, Switzerland or Luxemburg. Their magic doesn't work in Liechtenstein any more.......

Singapore and Mauritius also have potential!

Guess we will never know the truth of this unprecedented attack plots now that the case will be trialed by the military court. What I see is that the RTA is arresting police officers while the RTP is arresting military officers. Something is brewing.

Pigs fighting to get their snouts in the trough,, grunt grunt.

Funny little people!

...and very entertaining......

i would say this is probably hits them where it hurts...... in the parents pocket...

a short prison sentence for the girl would also be good:

I am sure that in her mind, money is something Mummy and Daddy just have, and khun nhu is the apple of their eye!

appeal to the court of

You will win

Wow the admirals really have a need for having their cars washed.

.........and the golf courses need watering..

Awkward body language by Obama:

Aside to aide "who is this idiot who wants a pic with me"

Aide to Obama " Prayut Chan O Cha from Taiwan,,, er Thailand, whispering aside (democratic dictator, long story)"

So Obama adopts the shake hands with largely irrelevant democratic dictator position ; not too warm not to close, and take that picture quickly please....

The next president of the USA will have to be seen doing more than Obama has, and that probably means troops on the ground.

The US has already lived and fought over their 9/11.

I think it a better idea to let Russia and France put "boots on the ground". Dont you? Seems to be their fight now after recent events. Hell China even has a little stake in this game now, and is beating their own war drums at ISIS.

In fact the US should pull every asset they have, including the CIA. No need muddying the waters with that bunch.

Of course the corporate sponsor's of these terror wars will be more than happy to supply what ever hardware that is needed, to whom ever willing to pay for it.

They have pissed off everybody apart from China, lets hope they manage that ASAP. Then the Plain of Dariq will unite the world

Oh goody, new hub idea.

No this is a hub drive....New technology!

Putin runs circles around most western leaders. He is a real master of Realpolitik.....

Forty five tourists in one of those large speedboats is too many the way they are built. These boats usually have 2 or 3 large outboard engines so there would be no engine room.....maybe there was a spark around the fuel tank area. All boats carrying passengers here should have mandatory safety inspections once a year.

Funny!!!! Mandatory bribes to the inspectors every year methinks.