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"The CMPO will also press charges against any parties who continue to support PCAD financially, Mr. Tharit added."

Another clown........Is he going to prosecute all the yellow supporters that made donations on the streets?

And in which civilised country, people or organisations are prosecuted for making donations to a political party?

Let alone the hotels, and the toilets provided by the Bangkok authority.

They should have put Mr Tharit and Mr Chalerm to a lunatic asylum by now.

By what stretch of the imagination is PCAD a political party. Are they certified and licensed as a political party? If the hotels are are offering free rooms to them, they are breaking the law, just as much as the street people for making cash donations to a group of insurrectionists.

I don't feel that offering toilet use falls in the same category as hotel rooms and cash.

Tharit and Chalerm are enforcing the law. This does not make them lunatics.

I think it's already been said, but the hotels are not breaking the law, whether the rooms are free or not. It is not illegal to provide goods and services to people with arrest warrants. They are not hiding anyone, nor preventing authorities from arresting them.

"He also said voters had rejected the election, with 15 million refusing to vote, 3.4 million lodging "No vote" ballots and 2.4 million lodging invalid ballots."

Does he know the election results?

"the expenses on alcohol and cigarettes by the poor are several times higher than the richest."

Wait for the next election. PTP will be re-elected after promising to cut taxes on alcohol and cigarettes, and even to subsidize them for the poor. All in the name of democracy and the public good.

I went to a private hospital in Feb, from falling 5 meters thru a roof. Broke both wrists and an ankle. They started off saying they would charge me an arm and a leg (pun intended), but wound up charging a bit less, due to pleading by some Thai friends. The final tally came down from nearly Bt.200k to around Bt.80k. I had accident insurance which took Bt.30k off that. Yet, when I mentioned the 80k to Thai friends, they all were aghast at the high price. They said that a Thai would have paid considerably less at the same private hospital. That's not counting the 30 baht public hospital, where a person with a broken limb might have to wait several days before getting it set in plaster.

Different prices for non-Thais should be stamped out. Surely there is a Thai anti-discrimination law that covers this.

This is the stupidest request ever.

Start charging customers per bag and things will change.

Thai at Heart - Your thinking is like saying an Italian American with a Pizza franchise is somehow how not as American as other Americans because he opened up shops in Italy or speaks Italian. Are people from Issan, whose language is closer to Laos than Thai less Tha? They have their own cultures too .. do they harbor some loyalty to Laos? And again what you think is Thai-Chinese is actually just Chinese in terms of shops because the overwhelming vast majority of Thai Chinese cannot speak any Chinese dialect and most have probably never been to China and neither has their parents or their parents parents. Try getting to know some Thais and Thai Chinese and simply do a little research. These folks are 100% Thai and have absolutely no allegiance to China and just because some of them are rich has nothing to do with anything nor does if they do business with Chinese or any other country or its citizens. Be it Whites, Jews, people of a certain heritage or light skinned ____ (fill in the blank) who may control a significant percentage of a countries wealth is one thing but to suggest in any way shape or form because of this they are not somehow real citizens or hold any allegiance to another country is both ignorant and insulting.

I know plenty of Thai Chinese, the god mother and probably longest standing friend I have in Thailand is Thai Chinese, as are many of my closer friends. I am part of the Chamber of Commerce of my local town, which is probably 95% Thai Chinese, have plenty of kids are friends of my kids who are Thai Chinese and have worked for two Thai Chinese companies in my time. Allegiance to China is not my issue in terms of stating that they would support China over Thailand. Do they do a lot of business with Chinese companies, yes, but that is linguistic and cultural connections.

They are Thai Chinese, that's it. Does an Italian American feel some kinship with Italy and his ancestry, most do. Does an Irish American feel some kinship with the Irish and his ancestry, most do.

Does this give them a slightly distinct part of their character that connects them with other people of the same group? Yes it does. Are they all Americans. Yes. Is the culture of a Mexican American the same as an Irish or Italian American? Nope. Thai's are not some homogenous group simply because they have the same passport. If and when I finally get my Thai passport, will that make me the same culturally as Thai Chinese, Laos-Thai, or Lanna Thai?

Now that would be stretching it too far wouldn't it.

If and when you get a Thai Passort or citizenship then you will still be an immigrant. Thai-Chinese have been around hundreds to thousands of years and near 1/2 of all Thais claim Chinese ancestry. You started this by trying to contradict my stating they were 100% Thai and didn't relate to being Chinese and if you want to back off from that is fine but lets not pretend you weren't trying to suggest they were not somehow 100% Thai. You my friend will never be 100% Thai in this regards as the vast majority of Thai Chinese whose language is solely Thai, were born here along with their parents and whose culture has become a part of Thai Culture. Be it Chinese New Year (which is a Thai public holiday along with numerous other Chinese origin holidays/festivals) or the week of fasting, these are things celebrated not just but Thai-Chinese but Thais in general.

I enjoy a good discussion, so let me butt in...

You said Thais didn't relate to being Chinese. Well, many do. I know many that do. Of course they consider themselves Thai also because that is their nationality, but ethnically they are Chinese. Many have no or very little Thai ancestry.

You are wrong in your statement that "Thai-Chinese have been around hundreds to thousands of years". That's simply not true. Hundreds, yes. Thousands, no. A lot of the Thai-Chinese I know had grandparents immigrate to Thailand. That's hardly 'hundreds of years'.

Lastly, you are wrong to say that Chinese new year is a public holiday in Thailand. It's not.

So, I declare Thai At Heart to be the winner!! Thai-Chinese do identify as being Chinese as-well-as being Thai.

Photos on http://www.go6tv.com/ show the tear gas canisters fired/thrown by police. One reads 'Use by May 2012'.

Those in charge should be fired or moved to a cushy inactive post with double salary immediately.

I'd like to know how they measured these amounts. Did they examine the average amount of food the average Thai eats a day, or did they count the total amount of sugar 'consumed' in the country and divide it by the population. The second, easier, lazier and more likely option would be wrong if they didn't factor in the amount of sugar wasted, as it doesn't all get eaten. These figures could be too high.

Does anyone know of a shop in Pattaya to buy GW2 from? I don't have a credit card to pay online.

I don't. You could try and call NADZ, they ship by EMS but seems they are sold out(their site is not always up-to-date so you can ask them, I'd call, those shops are not good with mails):

http://www.nadzproje...0754_th_4868213

Gaming Oasis are ok too:

http://www.tarad.com...mctb2FzaXMuY29t

Not sure if they have it though, can't find it there but the guy is ok and can also get PC games( I know him from back when he still had a store at MBK)

Cheers,

Basch

Thanks for the info. Did some more digging and got a K-bank card to get pay-pal to get the game. Complicated, but should be worth it. Seems folks favour IoJ and 'Southern Cross', so I will have a look at that. But after playing PC games offline for years, this is my first MMO.... hope it works out.

Beautiful. A wise decision. This bone headed policy was collapsing the rice industry with a Marxist policy. Finally sensibility and common sense is prevailing? How refreshing.

Mike Macarelli

Chaiyaphum, Thailand

Sent from my Samsung SIII

Nah. 405 billion just wasn't enough for them. They've sent it back to be increased.

Does anyone know of a shop in Pattaya to buy GW2 from? I don't have a credit card to pay online.

"He said he would not file any charges against the farm owner."

But the police should if the crocodile farm failed to report the incident and tried to cover it up.

Oh dear me.

Very sad for the young boy and his family.

Why do they have to say Cambodian boy. I know it says in the article not to discriminate but I think thats already been done.

Would we see 'No doubt' Thai boy died of HFMD ?

Good point. Unnecessary information doesn't help in this case.

It's nice to see we have a smart girl running the country. Why hasn't anyone else come up with this idea before? Just make more 'safety zones'! And don't even offer to pay for it... they can do that themselves.

_{Yingluck can express her confidence in Europe, but I think she should leave it up to them to comment on their opinions of Thailand.}

I hope this is not true and simply turns out to be a story of a girl who was scared of the punishment her father would hand out for staying out all night.

She's thai.. not Australian.

Thai parents don't punish their children for bad behaviour???

is there any conceivable way that administrators will be above using corrupt practices to distribute it.

Come on. What country is this again?

He was charged because he didn't pay off the police with a 'permit'. Having pirated CDs and DVDs was coincidental.

In a democracy there is no place for violence, people who make this threat then do not like democracy. They only pretend they like democracy. If violence is done due to a court or any law decision then the violators need to be punished. But I have seen many times that this is not true in Thailand. So as they say talk is cheap and there is no democracy in Thailand

Some reporter has written 'may spark violence', on the other hand it might not.

You are right though about there being no democracy in Thailand, the army see to that and are forever lurking ready to take over at the drop of a hat.

Lots of hats have been dropped over the past 2,118 days without a takeover.

One coup is one too many in a democratic system.

We both know the army will do it when there is something in it for them, public opinion and overseas opinion is against it right now, but the army will ignore that when there is something in it for them.

good attempt though at pettiness and counting days well done you, you even manged to post without a link to a newspaper article, a link to another thai visa thread, or a complaint to the mods

Are you saying that you can't think of any situation where a coup would be a good thing?

If only the German army had taken control of that country after the Nazi party was democratically elected.

The lack of problem-solving skills in this country never fails to amaze. They couldn't finish a 1-piece jigsaw puzzle.

Arrest and charge anyone who commits any crimes.

Any student who commits a crime is expelled from college - then this will not be a problem of student violence, but just a criminal problem.

Sutting schools down only hurts legitimate business and students who want to learn.

Once again letting the whole world know that people in this country need a basic education. Surveys of student results show Thais are getting stupider every year.

I doubt they have thought this through. I think anyone who goes through one of these checkpoints, and later in life develops cancer, should sue the BIB for a huge amount.

I refuse to accept women in all traditionally male roles. Women are simply inferior in the work performance when it comes to modelling mens' clothing. If Zoolander and Hansel were here, they'd have some harsh words to say about this article.