I think that it was just last week that there was a report here that the tourism tax had already been implemented! I said at the time that I thought it had been shelved.
I don't know whether this is intended to indicate some sort of racism or not. It can only indicate racism if a high percentage of the killers were actually white people shooting black people because they were black.
I am quite sure that they didn't dream this up just to give us expats something to debate and moan about!
They just see it as easy pickings. It doesn't occur to them that wealthier expats may just leave and retire elsewhere.
Most of us already pay more tax than most Thais by VAT etc.
Many say that what expats contribute is negligible when compared to the bigger picture and it may be, but it is not negligible for the 1000's of families that we support and the knock-on effect.
It reports that the dogs were safely subdued and immediately follows that only 2 were tranquillised and captured!
So, the dogs were NOT safely subdued, 2 dogs were.
Hamas were the murderers! They put the civilians in the way of the bullets and bombs.
Considering the dense population of Gaza, Israel has been careful to kill reatively few civilians. No other army has managed to kill so few in similar circumstances.
Why would anybody with half a brain consider that the number of a vehicle involved in a crash may be lucky? Especially when people are seriously injured or killed, wouldn't that make it unlucky?
The article said that he was shirtless, not naked.
I assume that he was wearing something on the lower half of his body, so his behavior may be somewhat odd, but I really don't see what all the fuss is about.