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The government, in the shape of the Ministry of Finance, is a 10% shareholder of Bound and Beyond, the company that owns, operates, and sold the cadmium to the Chinese criminals.

https://www.boundandbeyond.co.th/en/investor-relations/shareholder-information/shareholder-structure

10 hours ago, The Old Bull said:

I hope they continue to report on this showing how it plays out.

The whole article was removed from BP so I guess they've already silenced it. Anutin would have seen to that.

14 hours ago, CanadaSam said:

 

The one way system on Jomtien Beach Road is a disaster.  You have all kinds of vehicles going the wrong way, and not a single policeman along the whole stretch to stop the madness.

 

The traffic jam where the one way ends is horrendous, as all the vehicles from the one way have to turn left, and so do all the vehicles coming from the two way stretch!

 

Only a single drive down this disaster of a road by the Mayor or anybody in authority, would make them cancel this immediately, but I guess they are too busy counting money.

You can go straight on at the end of the one way heading south. But yeah, no police checks means chaos. Same up and down Soi 6 and 7. There are no information boards explaining what the schedule is. All the (reduced) business owners are pixxed off, but no word from City Hall.

3 hours ago, Andrew65 said:

I've long thought of Israel as being like an overseas territory of the USA, almost like a colony. Also, who ever thought that establishing what is basically a European country in the middle east was going to work out well?

Yeah, I often wonder if relocating Cuba in the mid west would be a suitable comparison. Or the rohingya.

This is one of Minister of Interior Anutin's mob. And there's Anutin upbraiding the Swiss guy for bad behaviour. Meanwhile this drunken thug assaults a police officer in the execution of his duty, trying to do what's necessary to prevent road kill. At the very least, resign!

Meanwhile down at Jomtien the one way system is all they've got to show for the mega shambles planned, whatever it is.

23 minutes ago, brianthainess said:

Thank you for your concern, I'm not overweight by long chalk, 60kilo max, I eat quite healthy food, it takes me about an hour to drink one big beer, can't walk very far, buggered painful hips from a broken pelvis many years ago , Tonight dinner is lamb pasty with extra veg on the side, followed by a 0% fat fruit yoghurt. Yes smoking is my bad habit 1 pack a day. I live what I consider a normal life in the evenings watch TV, bed by 10pm I'm 73 very soon. Just because I live in Thailand I don't have the need to go to bars anymore. 

 

60kg? Man, that's extremely trim. Maybe height has something to do with it?

I've read several scientific reports done on the propensity for cannabis plants to store heavy metals. This, according to all the research, is true. Cannabis is what's known as a hyper accumulator, meaning it is highly tolerant of and indeed, highly attracted to, heavy metals in the growing medium it inhabits. So in all the tests, highly elevated levels of eg Cadmium, arsenic, and lead, were found. But I suggest that it is very much dependent on where the plants are grown, and the growing medium. Hydroponics, for instance, surely allow a great degree of control over the growing medium?

It also means cannabis plants can be, and are, used to clean soil of all the accumulated crap, fertilisers, pesticides, insecticides etc etc with which mankind douses the soil. But I guess the resultant uptake of potentially harmful metals could prove hazardous to human health. So I guess sourcing the product for human consumption becomes of very much greater importance.

Anyway, I'm only posting as I've not seen this topic raised before. I'm not a user, but I follow the politicians idiot pronouncements, so try and educate myself accordingly.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10519194/

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230903/Marijuana-users-have-elevated-levels-of-cadmium-and-lead-in-their-blood-and-urine.aspx

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/30/health/marijuana-heavy-metals-wellness/index.html#:~:text=Marijuana users also had 22,out to through the kidney.

Angelina Jolie's taking  a break  from shooting "First they killed my father" in a luxury resort in Fooket? A book that had me sobbing the whole flight from Heathrow to BKK years back? Christ, they have no shame. From Tomb Raider to the Killing Fields. What a sick joke. Just bug off the lot of you. Not required on journey.

11 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Perhaps they can understand that weaponising the justice system against a candidate for POTUS isn't a good thing in a country they thought stood for freedom and justice.

Lock him up!

Try neofenac, made by New Life Pharma Company, which is the NL on the tab. Not the same shape but it's an anti inflammatory, so pain killer.

https://www.medicaya.com/product_detail_outofstock/64

1 minute ago, brianthainess said:

He could have easily entered Cambodia legally why not? 

So why not fly straight there then? And he was unable to provide the police with any documents (passport, ID)? How'd he get into Vietnam? Or out? Or into Cambodia? Or hire a car in Thailand? All this for 20k?

This is just another mumbo jumbo story.

1 minute ago, brianthainess said:

Well it did to me, he flew from China to Vietnam, paid 20k to a human trafficker to enter Thailand illegally snuck through a natural channel, in Sa Kaeo  where he caught a minivan to Pattaya. do have a reading problem?

I have just typed all of this out because you didn't read it. 

Er, I read it several times, and you could have copied and pasted it. Vietnam doesn't border Thailand. He paid the trafficker where? In Vietnam, or Cambodia? Was he illegally in Cambodia too? Where does it mention that? You've wasted your time.

2 hours ago, Lapun said:

Not sure if my translation is correct but the bottom RHS has the Thai word

 

ไหวัสวย = beautiful 

 

& a laughing emoji

 

Not very "beautiful" at all!

I think it was supposed to be ironic. It means beautiful "wai". I guess alluding to the guys arms being raised in a sort of wai.

3 hours ago, brianthainess said:

The full story almost explains how.

The full story in Pattaya News? Doesn't explain it.

Opposite are 3 places I've frequented. The coffee shop usually has a number of foreigners enjoying a roadside cappuccino. The 2 restaurants are good Thai and Russian food places though I've not tried the Russian food. However this appears to have happened at night, so maybe the places were closed. Thai style attack. 6 onto 1. But the person filming seems unperturbed. Maybe he/she was directing it.

So how did he get from Vietnam to Sa Kaeo? It's not like they're adjacent.

20 minutes ago, MartinL said:

Since when has Phrae province been in Isaan, or has there been a wholesale redefinition of Thailand's regions while I was asleep? A few weeks ago it was 'crocodiles in Nakhon Sawan' now this.

Where does the article mention Issan? I can't find it. Oh, I see, it was in Issan News.

10 hours ago, Lacessit said:

The supreme irony is, we have trapped ourselves already.

I remember the fuss when the Australian government wanted to have a national ID card.

Said card is unnecessary now, we carry around something that can identify and locate us any time the government pleases. It's called a mobile phone.

It's why Islamic extremists don't use them.

 

Along with a lot of old faxrts on this forum.

It's like when you do your own accounts, you figure out how much you want to show to adjust your tax bill. Same crap here. Invent some loony spending figures, tourist figures to include migrants workers, day trippers, transit passengers etc etc. And then holler about how tourism is back on track, Pork Pie Party has saved Thailand. Tourism figures are just a nonsense. Anyone can make them up. No evidence. No checks. No audit.

6 minutes ago, Stocky said:

No you'll hear the sound of hoards of Malaysians complaining about standing in line for two hours.

 

With the Hari Raya Idul Fitri holiday coinciding with Songkran this year it's also a long holiday in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia too - so Hat Yai is full.

Of devout Moslems looking for a jump I guess?