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The words drop and ocean spring to mind

Thailand still groping in dark! Exports drop, housing booming but less foreign buyers, why? Thnk you fellas! Dont think chinese... The world still exsists without them

Good idea

Yes teach foreigners how to drive in Thailand, is easier than teaching a Thai to follow rules, let alone learn what is existing! Question: does that mean the police will turn a blind when a foreigner follows thai bad habits?

Coming from a Country with so many fit women why would he??

Madness.

left his brain at the airport like most tourists to Thailand.

Sleep-starved Thais

No such animal exists.......It's what they do best

funny but I really cannot see thailand as sacrificing sleep for Work. impossible. perhaps to succumb to bad habits of drinking or playing cards in secret...

if they pay peanuts you only get monkeys and if you put monkeys in charg. they inly think peanuts

Where do all these billions of dollars come from?

sugardaddies the tourist buziness

then thereafter monkey business,.., reposses and pay collection agency. who are these colection agencies? hmmmm many red plate rentals popping up.

Where do all these billions of dollars come from?

sugardaddies the tourist buziness

You think that's embarrassing, you just wait until you figure out how the rest of the world considers your level of corruption!

Thais live to maintain face! Once lost they take it on everybody... Corruption is the root of thailands proble and it needs to clear it first in its own Government and law force.

So 10L of coke a day is not recommended? Good to know.

In other news, the sky is high and bears sh1t in the woods.

Remember it is coke sold in thailand... And a Thai doctors verdict- amazing Thailand the stories pile up like bricks!!!! Suggestion at the airport keep a box for farangs to keep their brains to collect on departure. Common Thailand Think

Yeah send them faster to their grave in humility! Farang is only a living ATM there are no rights and no protection

Yeah Chalerm Encourage Thais to feed the Dragon...,.chinese tradition.. My foot! This is legalised thuggery. Loose face now loose money this is definitely chinese

So it will manifest itself as disruption to the mobile phone network, electricity supply and the internet?

And this is supposed to cause panic in Thailand? Just try using truemove for a few weeks....... Seems like these guys are trying reaaaaaaaly hard to get a budget of some sort.

Thais do not have to worry. slept missed the two wars and would only realise there was one solar fallout. if it stops the floods

Phuket is a GETTHO and MAFIA TOWN of Thailand

PLEASE ADD PATTAYA - Stopped by police, harrassed even though I have a Thai License, cannot explain their reasons but love to put a ticket in your hand.

This is not justice...just a silly joke and a reflection of law in the hands of legalised thugs. Bribe or pay.... Thais pay out of ignorance of their rights. Frangs have only the right to remain silent Thai amazing treatment by the law!

Looking for a decent holiday....without touts, thugs and tricksters - stay within the EU.... Turkey has wonderful beaches and good food, Spain has great food and beaches, Portugal has good beaches and food. Thailand has lost its charm.....its just left with amazing criminality!

The German is brainy enough not to complain, as the Police are in with it. How come if they are efficient that they really find hard eradicating this from Phuket beaches..... the thing is they know who is behind the scams....they all profit from it. Best left as it is.... Thailand has gained its reputation. Amazing Thailand!

RT @RichardBarrow: 8,635 foreigners in Phuket have work permits: British 1,169 people, Filipinos 668, Russians 646 & French 554.

Isnnt it obvious they cannot count

We are a society with a bad habit of addressing ethical questions when it's nearly too late.

When did the question of ethics or - now we're on the subject - moral, responsible behaviour ever come in to it?

Self-serving, power obsessed, money grabbing, arrogant immoral and amoral attitudes and behaviour have long been and remain to be the norm in Thailand among the so-called elites and those in positions of 'authority'.

Another hand wringing, crocodile tear ridden piece of abject journalism from the Nation.

Start a campaign the Nation to investigate and expose crime and corruption across the whole spectra of Thai society and publish what you find.

The biggest hinderanceis 'loosing face' if people cn talk openly and take on reponsibility then progress can take place.

This is Thailand the Thais don't want a level playing field They know they cannot compete

This shows and says a lot Thailand is not ready for ASEAN. Poor English, corrupt, disorganised and prejudice. Perhaps let the Indians and Chinese compete with the Thai....

We have 9yr old P 3 boy who stays with us and his cousin, a girl in the same class comes to our place to do her homework.

We also have another boy from the same class who comes to our place to do his homework.

Each one has a different amount of homework each day as the homework they have mostly depends on what they have or have not finished in school.

The girl usually has very little of none while our boy has only a small amount, he other boy who is easily distracted has a lot.

Our boy and his cousin are bright kids and close to the top of their class, the other boy is way down.

However since he has been coming here he has improved greatly and I will say that is because of a good healpful environment to do said homework.

In his case homework has been what has pushed him along and helped him to want to learn.

Parents need to take an interest in their kids homework, check what the kids have done and help where needed, and the Govt should keep their sticky fingers out and leave it to the teachers to decide.

If home work is rewriting a printed book.!!!! Stop this charade, education is teaching to be thinking and creative.... But that is too much for the twachers to handle! I have know teachers who teach with mistakes and when it is pointed out the student is penalised.... Just because the teacher lost face!

I don't know. I think Thailand could be ready by then. What with the high speed train and BTS extensions all completed by then. Traffic congestion will be greatly reduced as motorists commute to work by mass transit. A lot more people will be speaking English by then. Who knows, corruption might even be in check. 8 years is a long time......

.............oh, who am I kidding

Thailand is long way from playing international host to any exhibition.... Security, corruption among the police, attitude to foreigners, double price systems for locals and foreigners.... Language barriers!

If Thaksin enters Thailand on a foreign passport does he have to apply for a work permit to work?

"The mixing of modern medicine into a drug branded as traditional could be within the frame of fake drugs, Boonchai said."

Perfect combination. Fake erectile drugs to go along with the fake women who pretend that they care about the old farangs who use them .

Yingbangbang.....and they got those pricks now! now everything seems to be hanging low in sales.

I would suggest that some of the public laws be introduced as a course in the education system. Perhaps revealing to people their civic rights, the process in which they can lodge a complaint or even take action. "CIVICS" is it taught in Thailand? Is it possible to buy a book on the laws in Thailand? In Germany we have 3 law books - the state laws are taught in school and every child knows his rights to some extent.

Money alone doesn't restore? confidence in law enforcement.

What does is the attitude of NK police as this morning, i needed them to intervene in a drunk whom is disturbing our neighborhood for a couple of years,and who's actions became dangerous to my family.

I went, spoke, and 15 minutes later 2 officers arrived to solve the matter with the neighbor.

Even in the event he re offends, it makes no difference, i was noticed at the police station and they took the matter serious.

Isn't JUST THAT, what we all want.

NongKhai police....Good job, well done!!

They seriously spoke with the drunk! be it a Farang he would have wound up in the police station. I would not go to the police for such matters. I do not trust them... infact doing so would put your family in more danger, because they would quote you as being the one who reported the matter. BE CAREFUL and VIGILANT in these matters... POLICE does not mean POLICE as in some countries. Use your rational and if need be change your location. AVOID any rash decisions with these people! There is no common ground for any terms. Words known to us that are used are not the terms that we know which are bound by laws known to us.

making thais pass actual driving tests would be a great start, pulling a couple of pieces of string and being able to distinguish between red, green and yellow does not give them any driving skills. Knowing road rules would also go a long way to saving lives as well as police actually patrolling the roads but that would mean that they wouldnt have time to collect their bonuses from the "shops".

Well Said!!! I think Thailand should introduce a better driving License system. The present one only contributes to chaos on the road. Chaos because the road markings are International and hence does not mean a thing for the Thai riders. Hazard lights used for going straight instead of meaning "Danger" Blinking red light???? Blinking Orange more applicable. RED means STOP. otherwise you might as well use a blinking green light... if it means you can still go.