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I assume the police and public figures will be exempted from having to have ID cards, if they have to show their income. Or will they just show the income they get from the state and not the serious money coming from other sources ?

The gross negligence was the fact that these 5 had not trained their counterparts in other divisions how to run a successful gambling den.

Moving them to the operations centre will allow them to provide this important service, thus solving the problem.

The bullets were a decoy to divert attention from the AK 47's and plastic explosive in his other bag.

You got to love it. Pure Thainess. She did not show up,and the case was suspended!

She was at the Macedonian consulate that day with a letter from Thaksin, to collect the family passports.

This guy had either dropped people off or was about to pick up a group at the airport. Frightening.

Condolences to the policeman's family, he was just doing his job. How many decades more before road deaths, particularly those caused by minibuses, are taken seriously ?

"Come to Thailand, check out the sunshine, explore the beaches, marvel at the roadkill ".

Statistically road deaths in the holiday periods are not much worse than at other times. Focussing on "the 5 deadly days of Songkran" as the media bills it, and other events ignores the daily danger everyone faces.

Prayut could make the people happy by targeting dangerous driving and having realistic penalties, not slaps on the wrists. With Thailands record being the worst in Asean ( 54% higher than the NEXT country ) and #2 in the world he has no reason to be smug.

Most refugees use boats ....

1408 of those asked work in the Kremlin ( do the maths )

How did she manage to amass 23m baht and not know that ANY passport is face only ?

If there are any other ladies out there with excess currency that they feel the need to unburden themselves of, feel free to contact me for my passport details.

I wonder how much of the THB 120m will actually fund the event. After the consultants, organizing committee and every other person on the gravy train has taken his/her cut, there should just about be enough left for 2 rockets and a Roman candle.

AThe only time I believe a weatherman is when he tells me what happened yesterday, and even then they are not infallible.

Hong Kong has its own stunning device it uses on tourists. It's called the hotel bill, I've seen people collapse when they get it.

A vengeful attack ? So if I punch the next Chinese tourist who barges in front of me in a queue, I am in the same category as those vengeful people who decide to go shopping with a vest full of explosive and ball bearings ?

I am all for security, but have the feeling that this will be a complete waste of money.

As the Americans have seen with Mexico and the Hungarians saw within hours with the Serbs, creating an effective barrier is impossible unless you throw billions of baht at it. The refugees in Serbia breached the new fence within hours, building something that works within the law ( no land mines ) and maintaining it is economically impossible for Thailand and Malaysia.

He went to get a new visa. Shows the depth of checking done pre-Erawan, nobody noticed his passport was a fake before. How many sellers of fake Turkish passports are there here, maybe the police could issue a league table country by country. In the UK Nigeria heads the list by a country mile.

Boosting the tourist numbers by putting extra flights from Jiangxi and Guangxi provinces is not in line with TAT's ambition to increase "high end tourists".

No disrespect to Air Asia, but an economy airline bringing people for economically poor areas will be good for occupancy rates and charter tour bus companies, but a disaster for the rest of the area. It will bring voyeurs happy to stare out of bus windows but very shy of putting their hands in their pockets for anything other than counterfeit goods.

I have just flown out from DM, having dropped my kids at Suvarnabhumi for their flight.

At Suvarnabhumi there is obvious police security, plenty patrolling. AT DM the security landslide is terrifying. A woman opposite me walked away leaving her bag ( Chinese ). I stooped her and told them to take it with her, no luck. She was going to the WC for 5 minutes.

Landslide the place is full of people dumping bags on seats and wandering off. Nobody doing anything about it. I stopped and asked the very few police I saw what they were doing, " what's the issue ? Of course people leave bags lying around ".

Don't the police read the newspapers here, there was an incident recently they should have seen.

Anyway no bombs had gone off before I left, so I guess that is a victory for today. Anyone planning your next atrocity, DM is the easiest target in Asia.

Nana Hotel is going to be gutted, completely refitted and rebranded as Hard Rock Hotel. Prices will be 5 times higher, but Nana Plaza will still be just across the road.

Are you speculating on that notion , throwing out a wild guess? Or do you actually have some facts on that subject?

Facts. BTW, Nana Plaza will be closing in 2016. It is to be torn down and a shopping mall erected on the site.

When was this announced ?

He managed to con his way into a job by giving false information.

How many teachers, medical professionals and others are have jobs because of fraud. I mean Thais as well as farangs. The government should vet every person working in a sensitive position.

But that would need investment and cost money, so let's carry on as we are.

kick the door down and blast them away !!

Come on that's very extreme...

At least arrest and apply some enhanced interrogation techniques before sending them to the 77 virgins.

Might be worthwhile ensuring they'll never get to enjoy the virgins before they all go.

In my copy of the Quran it is 72 virgins

They are pulling all the stops on this one. Divers will be sent to find evidence in a fast flowing murky river 48 hours after the event. Why does it take so long ( yes I know we live in Thailand, difficult to arrange, someone took my goggles ).

This post is directed to TAT.

I arrived in Wuhan yesterday for this weeks work and we had the event at the Shrine. Everyone here in China hopes he gets want is coming to him, or preferably worse. This "bombing" we hope is disposal of unused ordinance because he thankfully could not place it elsewhere. May he rot in hell.

The worrying thing is that the Chinese here are now planning to go elsewhere for their holidays Many in my factory said for the first time yesterday that they know we ( the Thais, I am farang !! ) hate them coming and this is our way of telling them to get lost.

Now I know this will bring a big cheer from most at home, but there are serious numbers planning to go to Lao, Cambodia and even Vietnam and Philippines instead of here. Yes the old ghost of tourist numbers is rattling its chains.

Tourism is 10% of GDP. It is the one thing we love to shout about more than others. Put some serious thought into the response. Not just we talked to 3 people on Sikhumvit and they won't t change their holiday plans.

Of course arrivals are up they couldn't be anything else.

I can hear my friend with a small restaurant saying ' well where are they ? "

On Chinese flagged tourist buses causing massive traffic jams around Pattaya. They are just allowed off for comfort breaks and to raid the nearest 7 Eleven or Family Mart.

Thai Airways to cut 1,401 jobs, suspend flights to U.S.

Reuters being sensationalist about this. Cutting one route, Bangkok - Los Angeles, is hardly withdrawing from the market .

And the Fat Lady has not even landed at Swampy yet !

Yes the USD has done rather well over the last 15 months. Perhaps you could tell us which currencies it hasn't appreciated against, or even which have fared better than the THB?

Saudi Riyal, Chinese Remembi, Hong Kong Dollar