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  1. Crackdown looms on Mafia-style influential figures

    Jitraporn Senawong

    The Nation

    BANGKOK: -- THE nationwide crackdown on Mafia-style influential figures will be launched as soon as Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha signs an order to establish a committee to carry out the task, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan said yesterday.

    Prawit said he would issue the operation's official order later yesterday or today after Prayut signs the appointment of the working committee, to be chaired by Prawit and comprising representatives from the National Council for Peace and Order, the Interior Ministry, the Royal Thai Police and related agencies.

    Prawit said the policy would focus on the suppression of crimes featuring military-grade weapons. He also revealed that the government was considering introducing a law to prohibit the carrying of weapons. He said Mafia-style figures at entertainment venues would also be investigated and, if any military or police personnel were found to be involved, their supervisors would also be held accountable, he added.

    In related news, Police Commissioner General Pol General Chakthip Chaijinda yesterday said he was ready to cooperate with the nationwide crackdown on Mafia-style influential figures.

    He said the police force had some information on the influential figures in question and was waiting for Prawit to call another meeting on the matter. Police have also started monitoring big cities such as Chon Buri, Phetchaburi, Lop Buri and Chai Nat, which were known to have many influential figures, he said.

    At a Cabinet meeting last Tuesday, Prayut issued a six-month deadline for related authorities to rid the country of Mafia-style influential figures, be they politicians, soldiers, police or bureaucrats.

    Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Crackdown-looms-on-Mafia-style-influential-figures-30271662.html

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    -- The Nation 2015-10-27

    Fair warning, my dear gentlemen of the mafia: it is last orders now, so please take your ill gotten gains and stash them in Singapore, (though that is becoming problematic, as we all know!). If you do need advice on this, our agents are always happy to assist you.

    Please take your time to drink up though: we gentlemen in green don't like to disturb our fellow gentlemen of the mafia, or indeed our senior gentlemen in brown.

    We shall soon be conducting a "crack-down" on your operations, and we should be thoroughly disappointed if our "crackdown" reveals any links to our operations.

    Given our past cooperation, please do excuse this temporary interruption of business. We will naturally do our best not to disturb VIP members of our club, though some of their junior staff may spend some time in less pleasant surroundings. We will keep you informed of operations well ahead of time, so as to avoid inconvenience to members.

    You can trust us to normalise the situation as soon as the peasants have stopped being revolting.

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    I now use expat tv. around 750 per month for most channels I want. played through hi speed internet. It works like a dream.Highly recommended!

  3. Only 13 firms out of 6000? They obviously did not look hard, thus is this really a crackdown?

    No it's a crackup!

    55555555

    ( Oh what wit, and all that before the first Chang of the day!)

    Must get back to work, or my nominee will be pissed off....I think its that time of the month

  4. Wow, five pages of posts by people who most likely never go to national parks more than once or twice a year, if ever.

    Good to see real issues like female circumcision and throwing homosexuals off rooftops in Iran haven't been forgotten about.

    Well I suggest you start a thread about female circumcision or flat homos in Iran if that floats your boat.. This particular thread is about double pricing, in case your obviously limited reading skills did not lead you to that conclusion!

  5. There are several places I have never been to. The emerald Buddha, and Sukhothai spring to mind. Once I took a company outing to Sukhothai and 40 people left without entering the ruins because they sensed my fury at being overcharged.

    I have never been to Suan Nongnuch, or the Sanctuary of Truth for similar reasons. I have never accepted double pricing in national parks largely because the "farang allawad" parking his car at the entry gate was blocking traffic. I asked the highest official in the park to explain the law to me which required him to come to the gate, and he let me through, so as not to make a scene. Actually, money has nothing to do with it.

    I am certain the Thai businessman driving a BMW right behind me was richer than me, but paid less tax.

    I think many will think that I am nuts, but I do have certain values on which I will not compromise.

    Please let me know if I am mistaken, aside from Tourists, but regarding Foreigners who live here, do you not pay the Thai price if you show a Thai driving license or yellow book?

    It really depends on who is sitting in the ticket office. Some places will let you in at the Thai price and others absolutely refuse.

    What is the purpose of charging foreigners more? Pure greed? It certainly isn't because we make more mess.

    Is it to provide foreigners with more service? I doubt it.

    Recently we were a group of foreigners, together with Thai government officials on a cultural visit to Ayutayha. We wanted to visit one of the museums and despite serious arguments from the Thai officials they refused to let the foreigners in at the Thai rate. We paid the 200 Baht.

    The question is What on earth did we pay for? Everything inside was written in Thai and although there were a few electronic playback devices allowing foreigners to listen in English, not one of them worked.

    Several of the technical exhibition pieces (slide shows etc.) didn't work either. Even if we had paid 20 baht it would have been a waste of money.

  6. Please let me know if I am mistaken, aside from Tourists, but regarding Foreigners who live here, do you not pay the Thai price if you show a Thai driving license or yellow book?

    Wrong: in national parks the law is that it depends on citizenship..

    I have lived here 24 years and always have an argument about this. I have it from the highest authority that this is the law. The particular C8 official told me its a stupid law, and everyone hates it, but it is the law. I often have my work permit, passport etc with me to prove that I have paid tax.

    He let me in as a Thai when I asked him which half of my kids has to pay the farang price and which way I should cut them in half.

  7. Good for her for standing up for what is right.

    Good for you for knowing what is God's will. Since you are obviously entrusted with knowledge that is not endowed to us mere mortals, would you mind telling me if a short call option on AAPL expiring Jan 2017 at 100 USD would be a worthwhile trade. I will invest my life savings on your advice.

    Ask the old lady (man/transgender/?) in your prayers and get back to me...

    And by the way, is it safe to fly to america, or will I fall off the edge of the world...

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