deecee10

Talking the talk is one thing.

Whether you people like it or not, we think of male Farangs as sexually depraved and potential paedophiles. You will have to work hard to change this perception while such incidents continue to appear in the news.

So are you speaking on behalf of all cats, all nazis or just nazi cats?

Trafficking migrant workers is one way to bolster tourism figures.

I know that there aren't too many icebergs in this neck of the woods, but I can't help feeling that the overcrowded long-tailed boat called the 'Thai tanic' is heading for a collision.

There will be the same mad unseemly scramble for safety as there was in 1912.

Govenment ministers and their families first.

Designer label water wings for her ladyship?

The more one finds out about this story, the sadder it becomes.

Unfortunately when someone, perhaps a foreigner in particular, takes their own life in Thailand, the chance of a dignified and sensitive treatment of it by the authorities is not very likely.

So sad,she is gone,but leaves relatives and friends to carry on with pain and mourning, suicide is a very selfish thing, i hope it was worth it..RIP.

Worth it?

How on earth can anyone determine whether this poor woman's suicide was 'worth it'?

It's just a very sad way for a person's life to end.

They will get off lightly because they have been doing business with the rich and (in)famous, who will make sure things go quiet.

The cops don't want to follow a paper or money trail because who knows where it might lead.

The photo is absolutely hilarious.

What's on the seafood menu?

Abalone and rice or baloney and rice.

More of the latter, methinks.

Not much onboard competition at 30,000 feet. Can't exactly pop out for a Big Mac or a freshly baked baguette..

Alcohol and testosterone fuelled handbag swinging contest.

Why not have a compulsory foreigners' fee levied at the airport on arrival of say 5000 baht.

On the receipt would be listed what the fee covers eg.

travellers health insurance,

rice scheme contribution,

tea money fund,

P.M.'s footwear allowance,

tuk tuk drivers benevolent fund,

jet ski insurance,

facesavers account,

etc.

Would save a lot of time and grief.

Ultimately it is another example of a country desperate to grab more and more of the tourist dollar without regard to a matching improvement in infrastructure, required to cater for the increases in tourist numbers.

Ideally tourists should buy tickets but not travel.

Good or Bad will be written in history and future generations will know the actual facts

Depends, because history is written by the victors. Look at the quasi history and indoctrination being force-fed in schools around the world with American liberal academia leading the way.

Not to mention American right wing conservatives 'versions' of history.

We don't want truth distorting propaganda now, do we?

How would Fox News survive?

Presumably 'reconciliation' is a euphemism for 'stop making life difficult for us'.

“Central to fixing Phuket’s woes, he said in the interview, “is cleaning up the messiness along the island’s beaches.

Can't agree that this is central. There are plenty of decent beach areas around the island.

Key problems are the tuk tuk, taxi and jet ski scams and ripoffs. Add to these increasing violence and criminality and you have far greater threats to tourism than a messy beach.

Doesn't want to be linked to any kind of bad news story.

Let's keep it out of sight and out of mind.

Oil slick? What oil slick?

It's all gone.

TAT never considers what tourists want (and don't want), only how to exploit them.

They ought to be embarrassed by jet ski scams and tuk tuk rip offs etc, but it appears that they don't care.

How do the police know that 100 mill baht is missing?

Perhaps they counted it first.

A bomb with a clock and batteries.

tick tick

tuk tuk

Reminds me of a Jackson Browne song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qIKD2Mmg84&feature=player_detailpage