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Unusual for a bar worker to have 40,000 baht lying around.

Sounds like maybe was into drugs.

It sounds like the tax will be levied at the wholesale level. For retailers to maintain their margin the retail price would have to increase more than 2%.

There was only one reason that the operators of the beach chairs/umbrellas were there, they were in demand from tourists.

I have personally taken opportunity to use these facilities many times, though not at Phuket.

I don't know what the thrust of this new rule is, but sure as hell it won't improve tourism to the area.

Yes, well we get only 15 baht in Buriram

It is concrete, not cement. Cement is just one of the ingredients.

The maths are completey wrong

If the powers that be considr suicide a risk, and suicides actually occur, they should be held accountable.

Appointing other inmates to observe is not the answer, they should have proper observation from the prison staff.

how did 130,000 spectators fit in when the facility has to be expendede to accommodate 100,000???

Didn't I read the place currently holds 50,000?

The story said 130,000 spectators were present during the event

The house can be owned by foreigner but not the land.

The standard remedy is Allopurinol, one tablet a day for life.

I have had gout for about 40 years, I know all about the pain. In my case I cannot take Allopurinol as it gives me an immediate bout of thrush.

My remedy is to take a slow release Diclofenac Sodium each morning. Now that I am semi retired I have even cut this back, I think a lot of the problem in my case was stress induced by my jobs.

I have three bank accounts in Thailand and have never had a work permit.

The first one I opened was with the Bangkok Bank, in the country, and they would not do this without a yellow book.

I was going to open one with the Kasokorn in Pattaya a long time ago and if I could give them an address in Pattaya it would have been opened with no fuss, but being honest I gave them my correct address up country so it didn't happen.

Not sure why this is such an issue in Thailand.

My wife just lost a bank book and she has to go to the branch where the account was opened to apply for a new one, with a document from the police saying the book was lost. We live more than 400kms from Bangkok so a big trip for what, I don't know why another branch can't deal with this.

The southern police chief also assured the public that there was no arrest of scapegoats in this murder case as it now is a focal attention of the world.

So if not the focal attention of the world then???????????????

I have not heard of this ban, I strongly doubt that it is a fact.

We are cutting thousands of trees and selling the product.

My biggest question really is that the prices quoted on the internet average around 50baht/kilo for 2014. The farmers in Isaan get about 20baht at the moment. The middle men are certainly not missing out, but the farmers who do the work and own the infrastructure get very little. This is what the government should take a close look at.

What may happen is that, the price being so low, we won't be able to get people to cut for us. Why would someone work most of the night for a tiny pay, as we pay them 40% of the sale price. This is what will control the cutting, it is supply and demand.

Yesterday TV stated that the government had sold half of the 200,000 tonne stockpile and it seems this has not made the price drop again. There is still another 100,000 tonnes of this stockpile to sell, don't know what will happen then.

Yes, well usually there is pollution attached to the manufacture of electricity which is needed to charge the bus. Also the final disposal of batteries is not without risk of pollution.

I've had my two sizeable mugs this morning

The Country lost 500 million....Isn't that about the same amount of money Thaksin borrowed off the Russians, for that construction project in Dubai that went belly up and the investors lost everything.

The Russians would still want to be payed back plus interest of course.

Just throwing it out there what do you think?

The story said 500,000 million

For years I have flown every few weeks from Singapore to Bangkok and return of course. Thai Airways is only about $100 more than Air Asia and I do not have to complete customs and collect bag and check back in again at Changi. (This is the final leg of my trip). You need to book fairly well in advance to secure this price, if you book a few days before flying the price is something like $1,000 more and then this is expensive.

Evidence is evidence from wherever it comes. If it can be proved then what's the problem.

This guy is basically saying what they have provided is not to be trusted.

Evidence is evidence no matter from where it is derived, if it can be supported so be it