jamesbrock

I guess the Thai company /individuals responsible for this contamination, which prompted the clean up will not be held responsible for these costs.

They have the equipment and expertise to mine the site, they can / should be responsible for cleaning it up themselves or pay who ever gets the bid to do the work.

Considering their intimacy with the issues and their expertise, they'll probably even win the contract. Get paid to clean up their own mess...

Edit: If they hadn't closed down in 1998, that is!

That is going to be a task and a half finding enough content. Most of the news is filled with acts of violence which I know the Thai people are anything but proud of.

Yep, they most certainly need a "massive" database of manufactured propaganda to counter the reality on the daily news...

Police have called both drivers in to give evidence.

...and to compare the size of brown envelopes.

In other news, foreign diplomats "understand" the situation in Thailand.

How could they not? The PM explains it further almost every day.

They probably understand it better than most Thais.

It should be illegal to have people in the back of a pick-up. Most countries in the world ban this except the few who don't consider saving lives as a priority.

Yep, there are many more pressing issues to legislate against, such as making use of popular social media channels to share ones' opinions...

Well, it's not technically a brawl...

This "Lady Gai" piece of filth should be the one in jail.

Having read previous stories on this ...the guy had legal,licensed cafes in which he sold cannabis . He then legally sold his business and retired to Thailand, bringing his monies here legally and declaring everything . There was a question of his not paying taxes in his own country , for which he was investigated and never charged . Stating that he would co-operate completely with the government investigation, which by the way stated that he did and no problems were found . Once here someone got the idea to go after him trying to state the monies were illegal because cannabis sales here are illegal......and therefore all of his funds were gotten illegally. After prosecution his house and all of his possessions were "auctioned" off and his monies taken by the government....

He got his money form selling drugs and by saying that he retired to Thailand is kind of in the same ball park of saying that if Pablo Escobar had stopped selling cocaine and retired to Thailand then he should have been clear too as he didn't sell his product in Thailand. You can also compare this to pedophiles that commit crimes in SAE and later get jailed for it in their home countries, some didn't even break the law in the country where they where doing it but still they can get convicted as child molesters in their home country because of the differences of age of consent. OR to take this to the highest level... Usama Bin Ladin, seen as a freedom fighter by his people, killed by US as a terrorist.

BTW. Do you follow the Thai law when you are in Thailand?

* Do you have a drivers license for motorcycle if you are driving one? (Everybody need a drivers license...)

* Do you use helmet when you are driving motorcycle? (If you don't then there is probably nothing to protect anyway...)

* Do you pay the lady you pickup at the bar? (prostitution is ILLEGAL in Thailand...)

Those are only 3 examples where many foreigners are breaking the Thai law every day.

I would really like to say what I think but it would be like water on a ducks back looking at the uninformed and ill educated piece of diatribe you have written here.

1. What do you know about the drug trade?

what do you know about the effectiveness of crime prevention?

What do you know about the dutch experiment this man was probably unknowingly a part of/

Well I do know a bit more probably than you. i am a Doctor of Medicine - Infectious diseases and this my dear friend makes me a little more informed than you as I have worked and been involved in my medical capacity oin such trials and experiments and I see first hand every day when I practiced the effects and ill and side effects of drugs.

I can tell you that the model the Dutch took reduced crime, reduced drug trafficking reduced drug taking and made it easier to control. In fact it is a model that a lot of other 1st world countries are looking at adopting except the USA which politicises this and like gun laws says one thing and allows another to occur. - another topic. However, this man did no wrong in his own country, and you are being judge and jury.

And you state about prostitution. that is illegal here too and maybe before you condemn someone else, as they say, he who is without sin cast the first stone or something to that effect.

So look at yourself before you sit high and mighty. He is being convicted here for a political purpose and probably because he is a foreigner and nothing more.

I have to agree that the analogy is pretty dubious at best.

A better analogy would be if the Thai authorities imprisoned someone who wrote a scathing book about Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, which sold like wildfire, then retired to Thailand to live off the profits - because lèse-majesté is strictly forbidden by Thai law.

The very thought is ludicrous, but here we are...

During his so-called "trial" his team produced evidence that proved that tax was paid on every euro earned in the coffee shops - and this evidence was arbitrarily ignored by the Thai courts.

Indeed a Dutch justice official told reporters in January they had not asked the Thai authorities to arrest Van Laarhoven and were only after information. "The arrest was their own decision" a spokesperson said.

Thai authorities at the time said he was arrested because he made his money by doing something that was illegal in Thailand - the fact that he was not in Thailand when he was making his money seems lost on the feeble minded.

A more apt headline could read: "Shear Lunacy: Thai Students Forced to Get Mandatory Haircuts"

One down, 75 provinces to go...

He was sitting outside in uniform and said he had nothing to do with it. He said he wore an army uniform to give him a good image in his work selling food supplements.

Extortion, racketeering, possession of weapons, carrying false ID, driving a car with false plates, possession of narcotics, impersonating a soldier...

I wonder what this does to the "good name of the army"??

Right, so what they're actually saying is the influential person responsible is not going to be charged...

Do you think he placed the wiring himself? And the electricians also can't be blamed because they don't have certifications. And nope, Thailand doesn't need good electricians or special schools to train them.

What Bluespunk said...

Right, so what they're actually saying is the influential person responsible is not going to be charged...

Oh, that is good! See: the drought- problem is solved and needs no addressing anymore!

Next!

Yep, their action plan implemented thus far to perfection.

Committee Responsible for solving the drought crisis Action Plan (CRAP):

1. Wait.
2. Change name to Committee Responsible for solving the flood crisis
3. Prepare tugboats and rope
4. Wait...

Fix your radar TMD. Its broken as usually. Then you just may. see something.

They won't see anything until the water fails to drain.

Back before the 2011 Bangkok Water Drainage Delay, water began failing to drain after Tropical Storm Nock-ten hit northern and northeastern Thailand in July causing Flash Water Drainage Delays; waters were failing to drain all the way down the Chao Phraya for months, but only when they failed to drain in Bangkok in October did they get of their <deleted> and flail uselessly around for months (until the waters drained naturally).

Thankfully this year's La Niña isn't going to be as strong as that one...

I wonder how long the floods will last it will take the water to drain?

No teacher should ever strike a student anywhere no matter what.

It is always wrong.

As for the students "offence", I think they had a good point.

Should they not be allowed to wear trousers if they are in a class such as dancing?

If long trousers are banned on a Tuesday, then dance classes should not be held then.

It's not rocket science, or even high school science for that matter.

Co-ordinating trousers and dancing on the same day might just be too difficult for some

He was probably annoyed at missing out on his weekly upskirt... Didn't these girls realise the reason long pants were arbitrarily banned on dance class day??

The meeting agreed that the rampant incidence of road accidents is worrying and reflects a complex structural problem as well as the absence of any true recognition of the importance of road safety due to the lack of related national policies.

Can't disagree with that at all. It's just a national shame that we're more than halfway through the Decade of Action for Road Safety (2011-2020) and we're still talking.

Now what are they actually going to do about it?

Out of the Five Pillars of Road Safety, the one that will have the most immediate effect is Road User Behaviour (BAC Laws, Seatbelts & Child Restraints, Motorcycle Helmets, Speed Management, etc.). The WHO Programme for the Decade of Action for Road Safety notes the need to "develop comprehensive programmes to improve road user behaviour. Sustained or increased enforcement of laws and standards, combined with public awareness/education to increase seat-belt and helmet wearing rates, and to reduce drink-driving, speed and other risk factors."

In order to achieve these aims, the 8 recommended actives are:

1. Increase awareness of road safety risk factors and prevention measures and implement social marketing campaigns to help influence attitudes and opinions on the need for road traffic safety programmes.
2. Set and seek compliance with speed limits and evidence-based standards and rules to reduce speed-related crashes and injuries.
3. Set and seek compliance with drink–driving laws and evidence-based standards and rules to reduce alcohol-related crashes and injuries.
4. Set and seek compliance with laws and evidence-based standards and rules for motorcycle helmets to reduce head-injuries.
5. Set and seek compliance with laws and evidence-based standards and rules for seat-belts and child restraints to reduce crash injuries.
6. Set and seek compliance with transport, occupational health and safety laws, standards and rules for safe operation of commercial freight and transport vehicles, passenger road transport services and other public and private vehicle fleets to reduce crash injuries.
7. Research, develop and promote comprehensive policies and practices to reduce work-related road traffic injuries in the public, private and informal sectors, in support of internationally recognized standards for road safety management systems and occupational health and safety.
8. Promote establishment of Graduated Driver Licensing systems for novice drivers.

Activities 2-6 refer to the enforcement of existing road laws - which the RTP has proven to be utterly ineffectual for its entire existence.

Unless and until a complete structural reformation of the RTP takes place, they may as well continue to do nothing, because—in its current form—the RTP will never be able to tackle what should really be a national shame.

Of course it was.

Just like the blimp, the aircraft carrier and its engine-less aircraft, the APC's, the Chinese tanks, the statues at the park, etc. etc...

Oh for frog's sake... When you think you have heard it all, they just get stupider.

And this from the person ultimately responsible!

I don't know what annoys me more: that this imbecile actually thinks what he said is in any way reasonable, or that no one in the media or public will take him to task on this ludicrous assertion.

Slippery slope gets steeper...

The daily regurgitation of this one phone call by the National News Propaganda Bureau begins...

How gullible does he think Thais ar... oh, wait...

the good name of the army