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I don't use taxis as a rule because of the drivers attitudes, however to do a comparative perspective on swamppee thing. Has anybody arrived in Manila recently? Because that place used to be terrifying to arrive at. Female passengers in Vietnam are at a substantial risk of being sexually assaulted by drivers. A few years ago there was stories of Brit tourists being robbed at gun point in Miami by taxi drivers. A mate of mine was robbed at gun point in Birgmingham U.K airport. Not to condone the lousy rip off behavior of drivers here but it seems to be same in quite a few other places.

What is the basis of your statement about female risks in Vietnam taxis and which city are you talking about? Please substantiate or retract.

I land at swampy I go down to the first floor I walk over to the taxi queue the lady asks me where am I going how many are travelling I get in the taxi and get to my destination.

Never had a problem even when I have a few travelling with me with golf clubs a suitable vehicle is always found.

No problems at anytime as a matter of fact I find the system terrific.

Agreed. Why fix what ain't broke? Are there no real problems needing attention?

So Avast is pretty poor I guess.

Not really, been using it for years and it is rated quite well. It is intended primarily for viruses and not specifically malware and why you need more than one app. Haven't had a virus in many years using Avast.

Pay attention to this post, it is accurate.

Spybot search and Destroy seems to pick up Different Spyware than Malwarebytes too

I run Both programs and Have Avast

I don't run the Malwarebytes Anti Virus ( One virus program running in the background is enough)

Avast can run an Boot time Scan too If you do this allow plenty of time as it takes a while

Avast is very good

Pay attention to this post, and never try to run two firewalls or two antivirus programs simultaneously. The Malware scanner is good and their antivirus is probably fine too, but it is a trial version and will hound you to buy after it expires. To resolve this, it is necessary to do a deep uninstall and reinstall only the scanner. To do a deep uninstall, download and install the free RevoUninstaller and choose the maximum removal option as you initiate it to remove a program.

So Avast is pretty poor I guess.

Not really, been using it for years and it is rated quite well. It is intended primarily for viruses and not specifically malware and why you need more than one app. Haven't had a virus in many years using Avast.

I think it depends what version (paid or not ) of Avast you use as well To how well it finds and rids your computer of spyware

The real time protection is the same, free or paid. The paid version offers ancillary functions such as automatic updating of other software when needed.

"We didn't intend to make any arrest. We want to find a solution and help them, because violence against children will imprint violent memories on the child. He may repeat the violence in the future and affect society on a wider scale," Pol.Maj.Gen. Sermkit explained. "That's why we want to [determine] what was the cause of the violence."

"We believe the family was stressed by their situation of poverty, and so [Kaew] committed violence against her child," said Mr. Wicharapon.

Yet again Thailand is 50 years behind the times, not that this is anything new to us. No arrest, after beating a 5 year old? Determine the cause of violence, as if it isn't that the child is a slave to parents to earn money?

Social Services in any Western country would have removed the child immediately, and the parents WOULD BE arrested.

Yet again, with all the concern for immigrant abuse, is the internal Thai child abuse ignored, as it is too threatening to the 'FACE' of Thailand.

Take the child away, NCPO, and start to set up PSYCHOLOGICAL support units for such children, and the mentally ill. It is not embarassing for humans to have ill-adjusted mental traits. Time you got REAL.

The key point in this post is the word parents. What is the father doing while all this is going on? She lost her job, but what is he doing? He is equally responsible for what happens to the kid.

hold on ...has the army not been trying to sort out the South for over 10 years?...toys like the blimp etc were bought especially for them

Cash cow?

You would hardly call the hordes of Englush.,Aussie,German etc tourists high end either - tourists come hear because it's cheap!

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And it is no secret what "it" is that's driving single males to come..

CRACKDOWN.

Another hub.

I hope they include marine environmental law breakers as well. Trawlers, fish traps, and fishing boats can be seen in protected marine sanctuaries and national parks around Phuket daily. Speed boats and long tails drop anchors on coral everywhere. Coral and shells are illegally collected then sold in several " souvenir shops in Rawai. Illegal sharks can be found at markets and restaurants, sometimes kept as pets.

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That would be too substantive. Crackdowns are about appearances and it is hard to see the marine infractions. It is all temporary any way, in an effort to climb out of the black list cellar. Then it will be pillage as usual.

U can cut 90% of the theft and other crimes out by making Transvestites illegal in the city limits, Those are men and hey are disguised as women only for one reason and one reason only, CRIME......thats all....

Sounds an excellent idea, so why not include:

Blacks especially Nigerians

Irish

Dogs

Iranians / Arab types

Indians

Chinese

Etc etc

I have some friends who work at Tiffany - you could not meet nicer people. Transsexuals are part of many Asian cultures and are mainstream here in Thailand- just watch local TV. Please leave your discrimination at the airport.

So, you are volunteering for the list?

Mr. Meisam Shirazi aged 34 from Iran was the next to report a crime. He claimed that as he walked along Pattaya Beach in front of Soi 4, a group of between 4-5 Ladyboy’s approached him and during an embrace a gold necklace worth a reported 200,000 Baht was removed from around his neck.

Ah, that old chestnut.

I'm sure he has insurance that would cover such a loss.

You are what you embrace.

I remember back in the day going out 1 night in Pattaya with about Bht20k in my pocket and waking up the next day without it and not remembering much after seeing a group of ladyboys, a hotel maid, and several bargirls, all along the Beach Road..someone there must have stolen my money and drugged my mekong & coke later that night.

That turnip truck must have been a bumpy ride.

The downturn in tourism usually results in a crime increase, I think many Thais are currently finding it harder to make a living if they rely on tourism.

That makes it okay in your book?

If they want to curtail alcohol consumption they should plonk a heavy tax on soda water. Have you guys seen how much of that stuff the average native douses over their whisky!?

No, don't usually hang around Thai drinkers. But I'm sure they could learn to drink it straight fairly quickly or maybe with ice if soda water got too expensive. Or they'd find a way to manufacture soda water on the sidewalks.

TAT must have provided the numbers to WHO and included soda in the volume since they cannot fathom whisky without it. The typical ratio is about 10 parts water to 1 part whisky. Once a group of Thai executives were encouraged to drink like a man and were poured quality Scotch on the rocks. Not one could consume more than a few sips (and then got giddy at that) whilst their host enjoyed two double shots on the rocks. The most ridiculous thing is when they try to act sophisticated and pay way too much for average Scotch and then dilute it with water. Goes back to the underlying principle that, "they know the price of all things great and small....and the value of nothing at all."

7.1 liters of alcohol per day is about half a drink of spirit per day. If you look at the male population they drink about 2 shots per day. That is classified as a moderate drinker.

Hardly anything to worry about. I drink that much.

You got some fuzzy math going on there bub.

Just some remarks, after reading a part of the report.

1. In liters pure alcohol Thailand ranks 22.

2. Thai use of spirits has been stable since at least 5 years, beer consumption has gone up.

I put question marks at the reliability of all figures. I'm afraid, as WHO has a history of wrongly "estimated" figures (in road deaths for instance, where they estimate 20,000 per year and Thai Ministries come to 11,000 real, not estimated), that the report has its failures, but it gives a nice overview.

No reason at all to use the term "liquor tsunami", as liquor consumption has not risen between 2005 and 2010. Taking in consideration that the population has grown, it effectively means that more people consume the same amount of pure alcohol, as far as spirits are concerned. That means a reduction of the percentage pure alcohol, deriving from spirits, per capita 15+.

Interesting is a sentence from the introduction to the report:

The world’s highest alcohol consumption levels are found in the developed world, including

western and eastern Europe. High-income countries generally have the highest alcohol

consumption.

Cheers

Must be the three-letters syndrome, viz., WHO and TAT; both inflating the numbers.

Next to it was the even cheaper Song Sam -Bt271 and 40 per cent proof.

Lovely writing! What is this?

I agree that the taxes on alcohol don't make any sense to me. They do drive people, especially lower-income groups, to drink "the hard stuff" because there's a financial incentive to do so. Go sit on any beach chair and watch the Thai men. Do the same at any bar frequented by Thais. It's always a bottle of whiskey, ice, and mixers. While most Thai men I know do like to drink beer, they tend to drink more whiskey than beer. The argument that people should be encouraged to drink less spririts and more beer seems like a valid first step for me. These number are astounding if 70% of the population actually does abstain.

Well, 100% of them smile, and that's not accurate either.

The first time I came to Bangkok, one of these scabs tried to charge me 2500B from the airport to the Embassy on Wireless Rd.

"I would say that we seek their cooperation, but if they do not cooperate, some soldiers may be stationed at the taxi queue counter...”

Now that's better!

Sad state of affairs that it has come to that...

How does the new system prevent a scab from trying to charge 2500 to Wireless?

The same old movie again. Tourist on two week holiday meets Thai woman who is working in Pattaya (Patong, Samui or Bangkok). He knows little about her and they can barely communicate in pijin English but, feeling rather unloved at home and seduced by the balmy atmosphere and holiday mood, he decides to throw caution to the winds and forget the fact that they are not lovers at all but actually parties to a commercial transaction. He starts to believe his own fantasy she becomes an image projected in his own mind. He falls in love with that image and starts a family with the woman. Within a year or two the scales finally fall from his eyes and five years later.........

See if you can get immigration to print this on every visa.

just hope this woman will bring back the girls to the father ....safe

Safe is the operative word. One never knows but one might expect that those kids are being filled with stories and strategies that evoke sympathy and cooperation under whatever pretenses, and that this bloke's life will not be the same for some time, perhaps ever. Even when the kids and family are intact, at least some Thai moms are said to bend the kids minds and induce all manner of subterfuge with the dad being the recipient of deceptive schemes.

" A Bangkok car salesman who secretly role-played as a police officer..."

If all those clowns can do it, why not a car salesman?

He should've done a Michael Jackson bleach job, and posed as a foreigner. There would have been no repercussions and he'd be beating the girls off with a stick till they saw inside his wallet.

This is the best bit : Yutthana confessed he adores the police but could not pass the admission test Heck just how dumb is he !