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As long as there is a good connection between the new bus station and the airport , carrying luggage, then OK.

NOT OK. Sod the airport, it needs good connection to the city, which does not exist. Why put a bloody bus station on the city outskirts? Answer, of course: because this is Thailand.

Statement: Defence Lawyers Team, Koh Tao Case

KOH SAMUI:-- A team of defence lawyers assumed responsibility for this case in the name of the Lawyers Council of Thailand as this appeared to be a situation where the accused had been tortured to confess to the crimes they are accused of.

The accused in this case are migrant workers but all their basic human rights for access to justice as the accused and defendants in a criminal case should be respected.

The Lawyers Council of Thailand expects justice to be achieved for all parties to this case and is working to ensure the truth is revealed. The Lawyers Council of Thailand is confident that the mechanisms of the justice system including prosecution officials, defence lawyers and the court itself will be able to ensure that the United Kingdom, Myanmar and other countries across the world consider and accept the Thai justice system as adhering to standards of international justice.

The Lawyers Council of Thailand hopes that both domestic and international media will cooperate in reporting the truth in this case in a correct manner, in a way that respects the deceased and their families and in such a way as to ensure justice for all parties to the case in accordance with everyone’s expectations. I would like to thank the media in advance for your cooperation.

Mr. Nakhon Chomphuchat

Koh Samui

8th July 2015

"The Lawyers Council of Thailand hopes that both domestic and international media will cooperate in reporting the truth in this case in a correct manner, in a way that respects the deceased and their families and in such a way as to ensure justice for all parties to the case in accordance with everyone’s expectations. I would like to thank the media in advance for your cooperation."

That's very rich of them to say when the defense team, and their proxies, have been busy for months disseminating and encouraging all sort of speculation and rumor mongering to hold the trial "on the court of public opinion" directly in opposition with the stated wishes from the victim's families.

The victims' families (correcting your apostrophe) are only one section of the injured parties in this affair, and their wishes do not in any way override the wishes of the international community, of residents in Thailand, of tourists in Thailand, current and prospective, and everybody else who wishes to see justice done -- many of whom know damn well that the process so far has been deeply flawed and that speaking out about it is the best thing to do to try to get justice done.

They will never be "satisfactory" compared to the most professional service in the world, namely the London taxi, but they're absurdly cheap for the quality they do offer, and they deserve a rise. And I say this as someone on a fixed income, and a declining one against inflation.

Yes, let's package all of Thailand into saleable chunks for tourism exploitation, turn everything that's genuine into theme parks.

Me, I go to places that have had no tourism "development". They're far more satisfying as travel experiences.

all students who are breaking the law should be expelled from the university and banned from getting higher education for life. Students should study but not take part in political protesting. And there are a lot of youth in Thailand who want to be on there places in uni - to study.

Tell us you're joking, please. It's not very good satire, of course, so the suspicion is that you're actually serious with this totalitarian rant..

But will they actually put in decent vertical access? Only three tiny lifts in obscure corners of the building, ditto stairways, and tiresome time-wasting escalators going one way on one side and one way on the other -- you get exhausted simply going from one floor to the next.

It would vastly improve the place, for whatever purpose it may have, if you could quickly get from one floor to the next instead of having to spend so much time trekking from one end of the place to the other just to change floors. That means more lifts in more places, more escalators in more places.

I thought the move to a partially civilian government was a positive move for Burma, and then, KFC.

I suppose 1 step forward, 2 steps back.

There are KFC's in 118 countries including 4,500 of them in China. Colonel Sanders did well for himself and many other people.

How successful are you?

So it's fine with you that this spewer of garbage is a success due to the fact that people enjoy eating rubbish?

If you cant do the time dont do the crime.

Anybody dealing drugs is dealing DEATH. scum of the earth.

There's always one barbarian who straight away comes up with this kind of stuff.

If you can't understand the issue, don't do the comment.

Just 14 million Jews, whose global profile and troublemaking potential is unfortunately out of all proportion to their numbers.

Glad I went in 1987, when there were about two guest houses, a simple hamlet for locals and a dozen tourists. Bliss.

Singapore has some pretty tough laws against people criticizing the head of state and government. I wonder what people's views are regarding to that.

I don't like it. Why do you ask? Because you do like it?

Recommendation: Bangkok Hospital Hearing Centre (Rama 9, Bangkok), Dr Apinan, a sympathetic veteran specialist.

I sincerely hope N.Z. has the necessary balls to tell this regime where they can stick their archaic and repressive law......................

Some of the LM is something that would be highly illegal in every country....not only if it is about the King/President....I let it to your imagination what that might be.

But I have no idea what it was in this case. Other cases are known...

Not in my home country.

In the US, you can insult the head of State (the President) in the most explicit terms, 24 hours a day.

The repercussion will be that your friends may abandon you as a "whack job"; but there is no law against it as long as you do not make threats of violence.

Likewise in the UK. You can say what you like about anybody in the royal family as long as it is based on fact and does not threaten violence, exactly the same under law as for any other Briton. And in practice, you are safer to say anything you like about the royal family than about other Britons, because the royal family almost never takes anybody to court, regarding it as beneath their dignity and probably counter-productive anyway, in the sense that it would look like people of great privilege harassing an ordinary citizen.

Compare and contrast, as they say.

It moved to the Liberty Plaza building at the Petchburi end of Thonglor (Sukhumvit 55), next to the canal bridge, east side.

Haha.... Dream on, we are talking about Thai peoples here..... empower the ones with school leaving certificates, graduation papers, and maybe those who have paid income tax.... The rest only sell their votes to the highest bidder..! Truth hurts ..!

Do you think that even the biggest cretin in Thailand would vote for the party who paid him? Of course he wouldn't! He'd say thank you very much for the money and then go and vote for the party of his choice. My wife did.

It is said that villagers feel honour-bound to vote for the candidate who paid them. Call them cretins if you like, but you shouldn't judge what most people do by what your wife did.

no music at all

wine at sensible prices

well-made beer imported from Europe

So the politicians are idiots on the other side of the border too... One of the reasons would have to be similar: media which are forbidden, or don't dare, to confront the garbage that comes out of politicians' mouths.

What Thaksin said is undoubtedly true. Evidently, it's the truth that must not be spake.

The real sickness is the Mirror blasting this over its pages and online with high and mighty moralising for the purpose of making money when any decent media outlet ignores such inconsequential trivia.

How many of those foreigners who are complaining actually understand what is being said.It's Thailand not England, America ,Australia and so on.

If they understood all the lies and patronising attitudes, they'd probably like it even less.

Of course I do not blame the victim, but seriously, why do teenage tourists think getting drunk in a 3rd world country and wandering around like it's Disney World. Most Thai people have little and nothing to lose, they are not governed by the same controls found in the Nanny states. Tourist need to relaize that coming here and getting drunk and stoned and taking chances is not a good idea. I hope the catch the rapist and throw away the key, but of course, they will likely get 3 yrs, and then only if they are over 18.

You just did blame the victim.

Why do holiday makers think they can wear a bikini in when on holiday.

Why did the man have his money in his pocket when he was drinking.

Why did the girl smile and chat with the taxi driver.

It is your attitude that continues to give excuses to violent behaviour.

She is on holiday. She went out for drinks. She walked back to her hotel. She chatted to some friendly motorcycle guys. As you chat with friendly girls.

Maybe they offered her a ride back to the hotel.

She did nothing wrong.

This government needs to step up punishment of offences against foreigners.especially crimes of rape and violence. Nobody cares about a bag snatch or a scam here and there for a few hundred baht. The violence against foreigners in this country is the worst in the entire world.

You are one more of the far too many people today who continually put out a message to young women -- or any women -- that they can do what they want, without ever adding the warning that it is sensible to exercise caution in some matters and at some times, in particular to be careful about drinking to excess at night and walking about alone in potentially dangerous places.

This appears to be -- repeat, appears to be -- what this young woman did. By doing so, she put herself in a position where the crime of rape was more likely to happen than if she had exercised more caution. To say so is not to blame the victim; to say so is to simply send a message to women in general to take more care, for their own good.

That is cgphuket's point and your response only serves to send a message to such tourists to carry on regardless, no matter what the potential dangers. By not speaking about the need for caution in a world in which the crime of rape will always exist, you are making things worse, not better.

Pull the other one.

The seat was vacated after her husband, opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, was sentenced to prison on sodomy charges, which many believe were politically motivated.

Correction: which anybody with half a brain knows were politically motivated.

Wow! Enforce traffic laws! Why didn't any of us figure that one out? Guess they do have some eggheads here in Thailand....

You should read more carefully. One of the authors is Anglo, the other is Nepalese.

Yeah. Is it true they use Formulin?

I'm unable to say with certainty they put it in the beer as, as I said in a previous post, the cost of having it analyzed was too expensive. However, it's certainly used on foodstuffs. Who's going to stop them? No health and safety here. But here's a pretty comprehensive list of it's toxic effects. I've definitely had mild doses of at least three of them http://jem.rupress.org/content/6/4-6/487.abstract

Back in the 1980s a British doctor based in Thailand told me that he had analysed Singha beer and found formalin in it. At the time, it was widely said to be so, therefore he investigated it and proved it was.