bangkokfrog

Here is a creative solution... randomly (and secretly) choose a school each week to have its lunches delivered to Parliament House for our politicians to eat. And send the politician's lunches to the school! Might make an interesting comparison.

It took a fact finding mission for the Democrats to identify that water shortages and crushing debt are major problems in the Northeast? Where have they been for the last 20 years? Just goes to show the contempt and lack of interest they have had for these voters in the past. Only now, because they have been flushed from their traditional strongholds, are the Democrats starting to realize that people outside the big cities also have problems that need to be addressed by government.

In this country, "being cleared" of a wrongdoing does not necessarily equate to "not being guilty" of that wrongdoing.

The hide of the ungrateful Chinese. We go to a lot of trouble to find ways to relieve their tourists of their money here, and their government has the temerity to insist that durian production follows hygienic food processing practices

So sad for the country... but did anyone expect a different outcome?

What amazes me is how FFP seem to have had little trouble finding the CCT footage. This indicates that the BIB didn't (or were ordered not to) look too hard.

How can there be no more changes as the line-up hasn't been announced yet? Surely time for some last minute negotiations.

You can write anything on such a form, and in Thailand readily support it with credible looking fake documents. I was wondering if the answers would be made available for public scrutiny, but then reality sank in.

Adds new meaning to the slogan "finger licken' good."

"I would like to call on all politicians to be patient and help prevent the incident from escalating into a situation,” Korn added.

Sorry mate, but sadly for you and your sell-out friends in the "government" it already is a situation. If the men in green (or their paid goons in brown) behind this were not so stupid, they would realize that this is the sort of action that can galvanize people and bring down a government. The ridiculous aspect of it all is that Sirawith was apparently off to study in India this week and would have been out of their hair for a while. Now, he is still here and right in their face. Go Ja New!

Thailand along with Indonesia, Mexico, Taiwan and India are the top five countries where locals believe hospitality to be in their DNA.

To me, these hardly seem the most hospitable countries in the world. I think the respondents misinterpreted the word "hospitality" to mean "desire to screw as much money as possible from visiting foreigners". I would agree that this seems to be in the DNA of many people here.

9 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

I think I;m going to try and sell Thai immigration the idea of i.d. recognition at passport control by stool sample.

Could lead to a lot of log jams!

3 minutes ago, RobboR said:

Quelle surprise.

This lot couldn't organise a BJ in Bangkok

I thought BJ has been reduced to an inactive "post" these days.

This is a strange project, given that the "private concessionaires" are a consortium led by none other than CP Group, which seems to have little expertise to offer in the building of railways. As the only wholly Thai engineering company involved appears to be Italian Thai Development, who have some serious PR issues these days, I can only wonder if CP taking the lead role is little more than a smoke screen to make sure that the action is shared among the right families 

One possibility is that he knows that when the cabinet is announced and he can't meet his promises to all parties, his coalition will implode and he won't be able to govern... a big loss of face of this happens during the ASEAN side-show.

Hint: if you want to find the mastermind, look for someone wearing green with lots of ribbons on their uniform.