SoFarAndNear

Seriously, if you work as a Taxi Driver and are aware that your register plate has been filmed at least 10.000 times per day in Bangkok and you find a purse in your Taxi with this amount. It would have been only a matter of a few hours after the police report until Police shows up on his home.

Not so much tragic as stupid and they never seem to learn. Told our friend it was dangerous for her 3 year old to be standing at the front of her 4.4, not well received. Few weeks later after breaking hard he went straight into the windshield so hard it cracked and had to be replaced, luckily he only had bad bruising. After the truck was back on the road the kid is still standing at the front playing about, idiocy. Another local kid recently came off a bike while standing at the front nearly died- they are still letting him do it. Anyone ever seen a child seat in a car here, anyone ever see the cops pull over a bike with kids standing at the front or for no helmets?

I was FORCED to buy my nice a car seat her family refuse to buy one

Then I had to (trick) them into using it by taking it to a monk and have him scribble "magical" writing all over it..

Showed them how to use it and told them the monk had blessed it and it would protect the baby in the car..

It was used for a while then one day I noticed it was gone...

I asked where it was was told in the car in the trunk..

They believed it only needed to be in the car and not used to prevent a crash.... Like the stupid Amulets in the windshield..

I gave up after that...

The worst part is the parents are FATHER cop "BIB" MOTHER school teacher...

No hope here just let darwinisum take care of it...

Show them the old public information films on YouTube.

I'm not swallowing this story. A 2yo isn't tall or strong enough to act as described,furthermore their hands are too small to turn the throttle. I suspect 'face' might explain how this came about, even in death.

Probably forgot to mention that Granpa had a few Leo's before...

Not so much tragic as stupid and they never seem to learn. Told our friend it was dangerous for her 3 year old to be standing at the front of her 4.4, not well received. Few weeks later after breaking hard he went straight into the windshield so hard it cracked and had to be replaced, luckily he only had bad bruising. After the truck was back on the road the kid is still standing at the front playing about, idiocy. Another local kid recently came off a bike while standing at the front nearly died- they are still letting him do it. Anyone ever seen a child seat in a car here, anyone ever see the cops pull over a bike with kids standing at the front or for no helmets?

I was FORCED to buy my nice a car seat her family refuse to buy one

Then I had to (trick) them into using it by taking it to a monk and have him scribble "magical" writing all over it..

Showed them how to use it and told them the monk had blessed it and it would protect the baby in the car..

It was used for a while then one day I noticed it was gone...

I asked where it was was told in the car in the trunk..

They believed it only needed to be in the car and not used to prevent a crash.... Like the stupid Amulets in the windshield..

I gave up after that...

The worst part is the parents are FATHER cop "BIB" MOTHER school teacher...

No hope here just let darwinisum take care of it...

Who FORCED you?

Superb... if 31.000 people generate an income of 283mio per month then ther monthly average income is 9130THB.

Enough to rent a 10sqm apartment room with shared toilets and daily Mama Soup rations...

Not necessarily true! You are using foreigners expectations for renting. It is not difficult to find a place for 2000 a month. How do you most of these people buy cars or iPhone or other expensive things?

They don't have a 4000 baht electric bill like us or a 3000 a month food bill.

I remember when I met my wife after she had just finished college. She ate well and had a room with her own bath. Paid 1500 a month for it.

Yes, this is what I ment with the apartment and shared toilets. I know how the majority of Bangkoks workong class is living. 1500-2000baht in a small room sometimes even without a window and shared toilets and showers. Then send money back to the family, pay off the motorbike and the rest goes to go food... this is it... my

R.I.P I hope this case will be solved quickly. But I am feared that because his origin he has a disadvantage to get justice...

Superb... if 31.000 people generate an income of 283mio per month then ther monthly average income is 9130THB.

Enough to rent a 10sqm apartment room with shared toilets and daily Mama Soup rations...

It is called sarcasm... we do this in western media all the time... ever watched a Quentin Tarantino movie?

Hello,

a friend of mine is asking me if I can help him to find a small retail space to open a coffee shop. Is there any website where I can find retail spaces? I tried prakard.com and ddproperty.com but only a few offers.

I am looking for a small shop around 20-30sqm on a main road between sukhumvit 71 and sukumvit 101. Someone can help me?

I think they misinterpreted between "digital economy" and "digital surveillance" ...

So in 6 days 4500 have been reserved and in the next 6 days 40.000 more will be sold. Now that is, "confident" to call it in a Thai way.

RIght now it is only a Showroom with but I have been told that soon they will also offer after sales service. Not in the shop itself but in a space at the parking garage at Mega Bangna.

They showroom itself has a massive collection of super-high quality hardware and tools. Most stuff is imported and sold very overpriced. They sell computerized wrenches for up to 20.000 Baht. But they also sell rider gear and helmet for affordable prices.

Price list shows only older Hypermotard Models. Hypermotard HYPerformance and HYPE Adventure. These are models from 2014.

549,900

I know this list but this seems to be the old Hyermotard Models. Not the new 939 and also not the SP version.

Someone know when the Hypermotard 939 will be available in Thailand? Will it be assembled in Thailand and also price ranged like the old 821?

But he said that, in reality today, the traditional massage profession has become widely recognized and has earned the country a huge sum of foreign exchange each year.

-- Thai PBS 2016-03-24

So as the "dark side" of the Thai Massage.

damn.... Christian you are lucky... she does not seem to care of being look like a Korean... this is the Thai beauty you rarely can see in the Thai Media. Only photoahoped and operated people who want to look like Korean and Japanese...

Put her in jail for the next 4 years. I would not wonder if she already behind the wheel in the last 3 years...

Ok, now give foreigners who are married or have a child the right to stay and legally earn money without restrictions that you have to feed mouths of other Thai's.... lawyers, employees, corrupt officers.....

In some countries, you may get away if you can offer the officer or police some cash in exchange for not having your passport with you. And these are not communist countries.

Yes and there are countries, I am not mention any names now, where police will demand money even if everything is in order.

There are many reason why Thailand can't reach this status. Unfortunately mention these reason or public discussing about them is against the law.

Mr Ayuth said the Commerce Ministry should first hold talks with TPP member states so Thai business operators have more time to adapt and will not be put at a disadvantage, because major foreign traders would quickly export their products to Thailand, pressing small Thai businesses to close down consequently.

This is exactly what it is. TIP and TTIP is just global race to the bottom to boost the profits of large corporations where local businesses have no chance to compete.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_Thailand

Tourism numbers shown and where they are coming from. And where they used to come from.

Interesting link.

#8 is Singapore with 937k visitors last year (2015). This is nearly 20% of SG population.

#5 Laos with 1,2m visitors (2015). How many these are "Tourists" or simply "workers" same goes for Cambodia, unfortunaly Myanmar is not even in the list.

Would be very interesting to see how many travelers are here when there no visa border runners left.

Has any of the 'influental people' been arrested already??