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Mobile phones are also to blame, and the various e-mail and messaging services. Quite a list when you work through all the contributors.

It is the normal and natural sex drive of the teenage as the cause,

all other things are just modalities to reach an already known end game;

Get laid tonight.

Which still happened before electricity,

but now via communications, they can find cuter, or more compatible partners.

So in one way it can cause better, more compatible couplings to meet

and possibly stay together longer.

I never really liked facebook, but I may need to change my mind. How do you have sex on it?

Isn't it bad for the keyboard? Maybe I need a bigger hard disk.....

I don't think that much will change with stricter visa regulations.

The issue is that you can get away with murder if you know the right people, and have the right amount of money to oil the wheels of the bureaucracy and police.

Those who talk loudest about this probably have direct experience of the workings of the "system".

Dunno how street venders will manage, everything including beverages come in plastic bags. Imagine a soupn or drink in a paper bag.....

Get real governor.

Why not just tax plastic bags at source..... To obvious maybe and not enough PR value.

Sad!

He is saying " Come on lads, make me look good this new year, and we will all get rich together next year"

Fine CEO of the local mafia addressing the troops.

Why do they all look the same, sound the same, and do the same? Because they are the end product of a bad sausage machine. After 30 years, they became mr chief pork sausage, and the reason they became mr chief pork sausage is because all the good meat went in at one end and pushed out Mr. Chief Pork Sausage at the other end. The problem is not the good meat that goes in, but the bad sausage machine.

I wish the mothers luck and condolences in their personal tragedy.

Easy steps could be taken if the authorities seriously cared, such as:-

- requiring tachographs for HGVs and PSVs, or even governing their speed.

- Holding bus/transport companies responsible for the behaviour of their drivers, and ensuring that schedules realistically allow drivers to get enough sleep.

- having a police force that is not amenable to roadside fines paid on the spot without receipts (not in my lifetime, for sure)

- not allowing convoys of buses escorted by police vehicles to drive in excess of the speed limit!!!!

I am not holding my breath, and always choose seats in the middle of the bus between the wheels, where the chassis is strongest when I have to take the bus.

sad but this is reality in Thailand almost all the Police believe they are the law..not there to uphold it

This will not be the last time as it is a built into the culture and Guns in the hands of immature childlike imbeciles does not help

Boys, guns and alcohol. An extreme sense of entitlement, and sensitive ego. It is really a part of the Thai psyche. Probably a small average penis size does not help.

2011........a bad year for dictators world-wide.

Robert Mugabe next?? There is still time.

God, let Bob Mugabe be the next dictator to approach the gates of St Peter. My prayer for Zimbabwe! It can not get worse.

There is a storm coming....

I agree.

Time to batten down the hatches and shorten sail.

Thaksin's return could be the spark that ignites the tinder. Hopefully, the tinder is wet after the recent floods, but drying out now, and memories are short.

Sad for the masses who believe that he will be their saviour.

They will be the ones who suffer most, once again.

Doesn't seem to be affecting Pattaya. I was there recently and the place is packed with Iranian men ,Russian couples and thousands of old single European men sitting at tables looking at Isan girls.

Don't look down on the old single European men sitting at tables looking at Isan girls.

These guys are serious investors in buffaloes and real estate in Buriram, and the Isan gals are just facilitators for the deal.

The guys have a bulge in their trousers (where their wallet is/was) and the girls can accommodate those bulges with a smile and a realistic groan of extasy. One hand washes the other.

Cognitive dissonance can be a real bitch sometimes...

Impeach and kick her out of office before the next crises

Impeaching her would be the next big Shock and Awe.

Boy you got that right. Most Thais still think she's THE MAN.

Shock and awe would be the Democrats actually winning a popular, fair election, against the pork barrel politics that have dominated Thailand for so long.

They would need to convince voters that 200 baht on election day is not worth a flood, an overpriced railway line or a puppet master in Dubai. But what have they done to realise their (my!) dream....? Not much so far, and the railways were approved on their watch.

They should ditch dubious coalition partners, and stand as a party committed against corruption at all cost, be it in opposition or in power. Then Thailand might, maybe start playing catch-up in Asean, if they ever get elected.

Running with the hare while hunting with the hounds will never work!

I rather let all others murderers and rapist in Thailand walk free than to see this man return to Thailand.

After all those money he stole from us Thais.

Just when Thailand needed investment, tourism, and reconciliation we get the next colour protest handed on a plate.

I guess we can write off this year's Tourist season.... and probably next year's too.

I pity the workers who will be desperate for jobs: but Pheua Thai will do OK. Votes will be going for a song at the next election.

There is off course an easy solution to these problems of trucks and buses causing crashes.

In the UK, 20 years ago, it was mandatory to have tachographs in all PSV's and trucks. They monitored speed, driver rest times, and were signed by the driver, basically making him accountable for any infringements.

Nowadays, I am sure there are cheaper/better digital systems, including speed limiters, but I have no idea about these.

Several hundred lives a year would almost certainly be saved.

It would of course mean that the BIB would make a bit less and that the bus companies and truckers would have less opportunity for political sponsorship.

On second thoughts, it's not such a good idea!

Ask or order? Either way,please can she explain the logic behind this?

It is once again reds against yellows.

Bangkok yellows against up country reds.

It's difficult to predict the physical outcome of the floods, but the political outcome is a disaster in the making for the nation.

I do not think that the previous government would have handled it anything other than slightly better, since orders did not need to travel 4000 km.

I do hope that the people who took the PM's baht, will fight the PM's war, which means sacrifice and suffering for them.

But I doubt it...

If you keep in mind one simple sentence, you should be safe from most scams like these

"If something seems to be to good to be true, it probably is"

'nuff said

I'm confused, the airport link should be extended to Pattaya? What about the proposed high speed link to Rayong that would incorporate Pattaya? Are there 2 projects or are they the same?

Me too: interested in the link to Pattaya.

Will it actually stop near pattaya, or 5 kms from pattaya, from where it will be almost impossible to get a meter taxi. The only alternative will be for tourists (and locals) to be gouged by songtheaw mafia to take them to their final destination. If that is the plan (or non-plan) then save the money, as no one will use the link.

This means Mr. Wan, please think this through BEFORE spending taxpayers money... unless (mis) spending taxpayers money is the actual objective of all of this.....

Stupid welshman....

He should have organised relations with the BIB more conveniently.

I am not talking about bribes, off course as we all now know that they do not ever accept bribes.

That is a truly miraculous statement, and I would love to know how many judges who will try the case have paid fines without receipts.

They even give change if you can't break a 1000 baht note, and I used to get credit from a local policeman for future offences (right turns where not allowed ; 50 baht a pop in those days) but saved 30 mins in traffic

The buffalo soldiers were out in force it seems

All this education nonsense is a complete waste of time for this country. Thais will always be appreciated around the world as long as they can grow rice, cook, and erm.... you know.... erm (not allowed to say that... ) erm make toyotas.

stick to the basics.

its dangerous to put the country in this sort of peoples hand

i can feel the "change" coming.....Thai only......

I have a long tradition with tis country.....but never had this guts" feeling that we are in for chaos.

Chalarm a the helm..........i am reconsidering my position in the Kingdom.

Use your office to strengthen the reds: Jatuporn

Key Red Shirts pledge: no political favouritism

It's tragic to see a country put in the hands of people like this.

I feel the same. After 20 years here, I am starting seriously to look at options that do not involve Thailand.

Time for us unwanted farang rats to abandon ship.

It is truly miraculous that these tuk tuk gangs survive.

B8 billlion more for TAT seems a drop in the ocean.

I think abject poverty for these guys is the only way to fix it.... vote with your feet and wallet.

Sure blame anyone and everyone except the parents who had seventeen years to bring him up right and teach him responsibility.

whatever: I think the government should help the poor shopkeeper, the poor kid, the poor victim, the poor parents, the poor liquor distributor.

It's all the governments fault: let the poor taxpayer pick up the tab.

I wish they had included my phone number on the betting slips!

If these guys want a fight, they should be invited to join the Paras: first jump over Afghanistan. No parachute!