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This is an opportunity to degrade illegal scam centres on the Cambodia side and remote military bases which are used for smuggling of drugs, land clearance, trafficking of wildlife, timber, and people. If the conflict leads to the degradation of infrastructure used to facilitate illegal transnational business its a good thing for Thailand and for the region. The Hun family loses both money and face in the process. The downside is that the Hun family playing the victim as a tool to shore up political support from within Cambodia and the collateral damage are the poor and marginalized people who live on both sides of the border whose livelihoods, and lives, are now at risk.

How absurd that contestants were expected to promote Thailand during the pageant. Even more troubling is that the chief financial beneficiaries of MU2025, Mexico and Thailand, where winner and runner-up, respectively. Two judges that resigned claiming the results were fixed confirm this pageant was an utter disgrace all around. Hats off to Miss Cambodia Neary Socheata (Fiyata), who stole the show with her 10kg gown and other outfits, and copped flak and scathing comments throughout the event.

More to this story than we are being told! How much of the 10 day absence did he spend lost and how much time at the temple?

United Airlines is a full 3-Star airline, not even a top 50 airline globally. Not a great choice to recommence flights on such an important route for Thailand! Give me Cathay via HKG, Japan Airlines via NRT or Korean via ICN any day over United direct from BKK.

Half way to Singapore he thought the medical care might be better somewhere else! Apparently awaiting clearance to proceed somewhere in the Andaman Sea then continued on to Dubai !!!

If 180 traffic related deaths on Thai roads led to reform in alcohol and motorcycle helmet laws we'd be winning! Instead this....

Great speech but the reality is Cambodia has been preparing for this for months with infrastructure and military assets, including mines being moved into place on the border. HS double crossed the Shinawatras causing a power shift on the Thai side and massive loss of face. Now in the short term HS will pay dearly with lost revenue from scam centres, casinos, human trafficking, timber, wildlife, drugs, and other illegal cross border business run from the Cambodia side, and lost military positions and lives of many RCAF on the border. In the long term HS wins more loyalty for his son shoring up the family position as Cambodia rulers.

Presumably TAT sponsored this competition and self nominated?? Burning during the summer, and flooding during the winter. Crowded at best, polluted and smelly for most of the year. Chiang Mai is paradise lost and no longer gets my tourist $$.

Sea level rise at the Gulf of Thailand is already well advanced with parts of Samut Prakan already heavily under water. Just go and take a look at Wat Khun Samut Chin, a temple already all but completely flooded by rising sea levels and coastal erosion. It doesn't matter whether or not you agree with the politics, the reality is that at the rate that land is sinking and sea level rising the entire central plains of Thailand will be under 2-3 m of water by 2100. https://earth.org/data_visualization/sea-level-rise-by-the-end-of-the-century-bangkok/ Nothing can stop that trend and melting of polar ice-masses and glaciers in the Himalayas will make it happen faster. Moving the capital to Ayutthaya won't escape the inundation that's coming! Better try Sukhothai or Chiang Mai. Divesting of coastal property between Rayong and Hua Hin and buying in the north would seem a sensible 20 year strategy!

The combination of sea level rise and land subsistence from erosion will lead to the ENTIRE area of Bangkok and neighbouring provinces being inundated within the next 75 years. Eventually Thailand voters may be rewarded with an elected government that actually decides to address this reality and move the capital northwards to higher ground in the central plains. Other countries already made this decision for various reasons (Myanmar moved their capital to Naypyidaw, Indonesia is moving their capital to Nusantara). After all it will be a business opportunity for the ruling government at the time so politicians will all make loads of money from land speculation. So its a wonder why it hasn't already happened!

This is what happens when business deals between Thailand and Cambodia's mighty ruling families go sour!

No need for military intervention. Just close the border for a week and Cambodia will feel the (economic) pain. Keep it closed for a month, border markets will shutter, the supply of fresh produce, electronics and household goods will stop from Thailand and they'll be on their knees pleading for reconciliation..

Thailand has good Marine National Park laws, why don't they support staff who implement enforcement of those laws! Belligerent tourists who refuse to to follow the rules should be ejected regardless of whether Thai or Farang. Also rangers need to acknowledge the limits of their remit which is kicking tourists out of restricted zones, not the country!

This needs to be qualified. Its not self harm as Trump and cronies will stand to benefit from back door deals with unscrupulous leaders of the countries worst hit with tariffs (Cambodia, Lao, Vietnam). The real loser is the American consumer. But just wait til the penguins take reciprocal revenge. Then Americans will really know they backed the wrong horse in their election.

They range from computer hard drives, machinery, rubber, pickup vehicles, plastics, optical equipment, seafood and agricultural produce. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/imports/thailand

Do you understand what a tariff is? Its a tax paid by the buyer of a product coming from the exporting country. In this case its US consumers who will be paying this additional tax on Thailand products. Thailand is free to redirect its US exports to other countries that honour free trade. Only the US consumer loses in a trade war!

America being great again imposing 10% tariffs on islands in the Antarctic where only penguins live! Absurd! https://www.wired.com/story/trump-tariffs-antarctic-islands-heard-mcdonald/?utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2ytF0nO7cxkbgKo_rKOc3UPaM2Ldecsmm2qzPAMgPA6ghW0twwAzzDqyg_aem_-maNL86LCZ3NmdDZ8r4L_Q

The only certain result of this is hurting the American consumer, and driving Thai exports to other trading partners. Making Americas Gullible Again!

The day Thailand breaks ground on its first nuclear plant is the day all subcontractors scheme how they can build a thinner concrete wall around it and pocket the change. All sensible citizens should be moving to the next country when that happens!

These are human lit fires and the objective is to expand cornfields and pasture for cattle which farmers will raise and sell to China. Unless enforcement is implemented and big agro companies reigned in there will be no forest left in a few years thus affecting water supplies across the entire north, and in the meantime people are suffering from unhealthy levels of PM 2.5.

The ship sunk in December 2022. Surely the wreck has already been dived on? It would make an excellent deep recreational dive but who else might already have been down there to take a look at equipment lying around on the sea floor? What might be left to salvage now?

“The government was thinking about charging tourists a special fee to help pay for this insurance, but they've decided to wait a while. For now, they will usegovernment money to help tourists in need.” Wow, so people who pay tax in Thailand are to foot the medical bills for random tourists who hurt themselves. Knowing this hospitals are free to charge what they want for the misadventures of a few who should have taken out travel insurance. Amazing Thailand indeed!

If the new regulation ever happens it will be meaningless without a driver education campaign, supported by enforcement and fines that encourage compliance.

8.2 million woken up to scams, cheating and rip offs in Phuket, Chiang Mai and Bangkok have decided instead to take their vacations in Sihanoukville, Luang Prabang and Vientiane. Chinese tour companies already scheming with local governments there how to take advantage of the coming tourist wave. Good riddance, lets have more quality tourists in Thailand!!