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Not sure about the market for this. Chiang Mai to Bangkok will have trouble competing with air in terms of cost and convenience, shorter distances with have trouble competing with coach. Far more important would be to develop short and medium distance tracks in and out of Bangkok where traffic is a bigger problem. When you get out of Bangkok traffic is generally ok.

Not sure about the market for this. Chiang Mai to Bangkok will have trouble competing with air in terms of cost and convenience, shorter distances with have trouble competing with coach. Far more important would be to develop short and medium distance tracks in and out of Bangkok where traffic is a bigger problem. When you get out of Bangkok traffic is generally ok.

Is that 10,000 Baht per person, or for 2 people. Either way for 200,000 people it's going to cost either 1 billion Baht or 2 billion Baht. There really is no end to the creativity of Thai officials and politicians to squander public funds is there?

Oh no, don't ban them from politics for 5 years. Oh the punishment is too harsh, what on earth will they do? Have fun spending their ill gotten gains while their sibling runs instead. Great punishment!!

I didn't care who won and I still don't, but it seemed to me that the Filipino threw and landed way more puches and dominated the fight. I wouldn't be surprised if corruption played a part here, and would be interested to see a few independent analysis of the fight stats, I wouldn't trust the figures that the judges claim they saw.

Don't fully understand this. So if it was proven that Yingluck skipped parliament to have a meeting, then Malika would have been sued for telling the truth, but because it wasn't proven then she isn't sued for potentially telling a lie ...

Questions 3 and 4 are pretty much identical, meaning only 16.5% are optomistic about the future of Thailand. Don't forget that thing just around the cotner that we can't talk about, and the power struggle that will follow.

I suppose the next stage would be to stop a shop or restaurant displaying the drinks in a glass fronted fridge.

The same as they do with cigarettes, where they are hidden in shuttered display cabinets.

I know Thais are weak but this is ridiculous.

Farangs are selective with what they drink. Unlike Thais they will not drink any crap that gets them drunk quickly and cheaply. Most have good taste ( with drinks anyway ) and like their own particular brands.

Thais call every spirit Whisky, They have no concept of the difference between Whisky / Rum / Brandy / Gin / Vodka / etc

Their height of sophistication is a bottle of Spy they call wine. So a choice is not important to them.

This maybe true of the Thais in your village in Nakon nowhere dear boy, but not all Thai's are rice picking peasants,

I have been to dinner with some of the boys who drink bottles of wine which are more than your pension or teachers salary so maybe less of the all encompassing generalisations about a population you obviously know very little off outside your little farang bwana bubble you live in

Hardly something to extoll, given crippling poverty in Thailand and elsewhere...

That's not the point, the poster was as making all encompassing derogatory comments about a whole nation of people so called his BS that's all

The majority of Thai people fit into his description, the minority fit into yours - so you're both right, but his generalization is more fitting stereotypically.

Surely the batteries don't last for 20 years?

So the maintenance of NGV is 34M over 20 years, or 1,700,000 Baht every year equal to 140,000 Baht every single month just for maintenance? That seems quite a lot.

The total cost of the electric bus over 20 years is 45M (15M + 30M), compared to the NGV bus of 38.5M (4.5M + 34M), but the maintenance is cheaper so let's buy the more expensive option? Weird logic.

I guess if the total cost is higher, then there's more bounty...

I'm still trying to fathom out how you sever a main leg artery by kicking a "wall mirror", unless it fell off the wall in huge slices and his leg fell on a piece or the wall was hollow.

Yeah exactly.

In fact it says that he "severed an artery in one leg and badly injuring the other one.", so there must have been 2 large chunks of mirror that just happened to fall off the wall and just happened to cut deeply into both of this legs. hmmmmm

I mean, to penetrate deep into the legs the mirror must have fallen from a height to have pickup up enough momentum, or like you said have been a very large and heavy chunk of mirror with a couple of small pointing juts that happened to catch his legs...

Your last point about the hollow wall is most likely if his injuries were actually caused from a mirror. I once knocked to hard on a friends front door (whilst drunk) and my hand went straight through, cutting my wrist quite badly, so it is doable.

Expect, expect, expect... bla bla bla.. expect, expect, expect

Or in TAT's case... expect the unexpected!

Fruit seem to have gone up in price. Fruit at Bic C/Tesco are crazy expensive.

Haven't experienced it, but Singha's sneaky 500ml bottles are a big con

I wonder how they will control the traffic? I could easily see the problem of getting stuck being people, especially as everyone is hogging the railing.

When Yinluck's government came up with these initiatives I thought to myself 'Here we go, another few trillion Baht is going to be stolen from public money.' And now... I'm thinking exactly the same

The main problem as we all know is that so much money gets put into peoples pockets and not spent on the right things.

I think this tax is a good idea (and it will affect me), but it makes me feel sick to think that it's my money going into the government feeding trough. I'm sure there are rich influential people who will try to stop this happening, let's see if they will succeed. Or they'll exempt themselves somehow.

He mentioned about loopholes, why not just close those up first?

Er, Father Ted is fictitious! Seems a bit of a pointless comparison to make to something that isn't real.

In real life it is easy enough to find what this bear eats and feed it, or organise for someone else to care for it if you can't be bothered. These monks clearly are sick heartless neanderthals.

I recall that the law was changed recently to punish people who are cruel to animals. I hope these monks aren't above the law just because they're monks

Whilst the council should take responsibility and at least apologize to the parents, the mother should also shoulder a portion of blame for not ensuring her daughter was properly restrained in the car. A seatbelt could possibly have saved her life ?

BTW I did express my condolences to the family on the original thread, so don't bash me about it now...

How many of us really make our kids wear seat belts in the car? The problem is that unless you have the child on a booster seat at exactly the right height (which I'm not even sure you can buy here) the belt runs over the child's neck which would also be catastrophic in this kind of situation. Since this accident I've made my boy wear the belt under his arm but around his body, although I'm really not sure if this would secure him.

I'd heard that the parents were starting a private prosecution against the local authority, but haven't heard any more on that.

SDM

I'll go ahead and say that all responsible parents who care for their children make them wear seat belts. If a booster seat is needed, you get one – simple as that. Even if you haven't got a booster seat, my guess is that the pros far outweigh the cons.

If the mother didn't make sure this poor child had a seat belt on, she is equally responsible for her death as the people who allowed that hole to remain.

I assume you live in Thailand, have kids and always make them wear seat belts using a booster seat if appropriate. Only yes or no answer required, anything else and let's assume no.

I live in Thailand and always insist on passengers (children and adults) to wear a seatbelt, because I'm responsible. If you don't then shame on you, you're no better than the idiots driving motorbikes with children and no helmets.

Im sure there are so many unemployed fluent (in one or both Chinese languages) Thai wedding photographers on Phuket that are now so grateful they can feed their families once again.

I'm even more sure that the couples want language problems, over charging and poor quality photos on their special day.

Its all just such a WIN yipeee!

When in fact if you cant speak the language you cant do the job properly.

'Thailand' still acting like a 6 yr old who sees another with a toy they want to play with.

The police just want money. It'll cost the Chinese guy 10,000 - 20,000 Baht to get out of this one (a nice little earner for the police). I know first hand as I was caught by police in Phuket moving a coconut (while overseeing th family business) and my work permit is in Bangkok so they nabbed me. Fortunately my sister in law knows some well positioned police in Bangkok and a quick phone call got me off the hook

Good move.

This is a tax on the rich very overdue.

There are many rich Thais that own a lot of land and they leave it untouched as they have no need to sell or cultivate.

About time they pay their taxes.

This is unheard in the western world.

We all pay taxes for houses or land owned.

What I don't like is that they shouldn't exempt Buddhist temples.

They make enough money to afford to contribute to the country and not only take.

Based on recent news ... I have a hunch that a significant amount of money laundering goes on with the assistance of temples. I'm not trying to criticize buddhism or anything, just saying it seems like the two would go hand in hand quite nicely.

All temples should have the word "Jumgad" after their name

There's only one reason I can think of why the police haven't arrested the guy yet. They're still negotiating with him !!