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I think the fact that this is even allowed to happen raises questions. Like why hasn't any other nation picked him up and sent him back to Thailand? Why hasn't Interpol done anything?

The fact that his lawyer is knowingly working for a fugitive, accepting money from a fugitive, should be evidence enough that the law is being scoffed.

I wonder why no one has ever gone after his support network here, just take away his voice, and with no one to listen, he'll disappear.

Just my opinion, getting tired of hearing the same old b.s.

Well, it's like the grand opening of a new mall. We've had the set up, the soft opening, now it's time for the grand opening. Invitations have been sent out, friends and family took their seats, now let the raping of Thailand begin!!!

Shows how inept this government really is. Legalize mafia activity. The USA never legalized loan sharks. There is a private lending industry which is regulated far beyond anything that Thailand is even capable of doing. PTP just wants their grubby little hands in another honey pot, and they don't care how legal or illegal it is.

Using half truths, lies, ignorance, and fear mongering is what they're good at.

Sounds fun!! Just hope they make all the proper preparations in time, and leaned from the FUTSOL debacle

I wonder if they realize this is a huge loss of face in the international community.

It will be funny to watch the crash and burn in 2015. They expect to fix 90 years of horrible education in 3 years!!!!! Guess what people.....you're going to see you aren't the center of the universe!

Thai nurses are the backbone of the medical industry. They are a seriously talented & hard-working lot, often forced to work double shifts & work thru breaks, and paid a pittance for what they provide to society - they diagnose & treat w/o doctors for the most common diseases and can prescribe medicines for these, they run pharmacies which actually function as very low cost medical consultancies providing essential services to poor & working class Thais, they provide ALL personal care to patients in hospitals unlike in the West. The level of work, care & expertise they provide would be the envy of the USA.

They deserve real jobs, real hours, real respect.

I couldn't agree more with you. My GF is a cardiac surgery nurse, and she works 8 hours a day, standbye all night, every day (at a government hospital). When she's not working there, she's got another job at a private hospital. Two weeks ago she was IN the hospital, working for 27 hours straight on pre-op/post-op and surgical assistance!!!! She makes a good salary because of her specialization, but I agree 100%, she is vastly under-compensated for the amount of work she does. Her doctors only work a few hours a day, and then they go home.

It's ridiculous. This is her schedule, I can't remember her last free weekend. It's really made us consider her redoing her education in America where she can get paid what she's worth.

"Being a democracy is not only about exercising one's freedom. The rule of law must also be observed and obeyed. In exercising one's rights and freedoms, one must not impinge on the rights and freedoms of others," she said.

Yingluck, maybe you and your whole family should listen to what your speech writers have you say!!! Also, I wonder just what is all this evidence........

Seems like a scare tactic to divert attention from the 70 billion baht loan they're trying to secure to keep the rice pledging scheme going......

First step for the Ministry of Educations English program is to write the name of the program correctly!!! It's not "Let Learn English", but rather "Let's Learn English". Just saying if they're worried about it, maybe they should start using spellcheck........

"For instance, the private sector has expressed concern over such sectors as telecommunications, information and communications technology, finance and intellectual property." - Seems like they're more worried about their underground economy of burned software and DVD's at MBK, JJ, Silom, and Sukhumvit. Not to mention having to actually acknowledge all of the music they rip off for their commercials and tv shows. (Heard an Aerosmith song in one of those girly drink commercials on the BTS for a few months). Seems like they might actually be forced to get with program and stop their bickering and actually install a reliable, up to date telecom industry here.

"According to the FTA Watch Group, the TPP negotiations would have a direct negative impact upon the affordability of medicines and access to health care in developing countries." - I've lived in some of the TPP member countries, and medicine and healthcare were always affordable. According to the article, they don't want int'l patents or extended patents coming here. Wow, Thailand not respecting patents or copyright???

All in all, TPP doesn't trump the local laws of the land, it just increases access to foreign markets, but you have to meet certain criteria. Seems to me Thailand doesn't want to meet those criteria and is already looking for excuses to bow out. Seems to me like it would force an increase in standards across the board from medicine, finance, technology and telecom, to copyright and patent enforcement.

It's a shame because economic blocs like ASEAN, TPP, and NAFTA really help increase jobs, trade, and opportunity. What could one expect from a gov't after they signed the agreement for a shared visa with LAOS, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Malaysia only to back out during the week it was supposed to take affect.

Sounds like she didn't receive a cut of her initial 42,000 baht investment, got angry, and double crossed her partner/future husband.

Sounds like a typical scam, she just got mad and did the Thai thing, pull a 180 and look out for number one.

Everybody looks out for "Number 1". Don't you? It's human nature. What's wrong with that?

Read what I'm saying and maybe you'll understand what I'm saying. She tried doing the wrong thing, it didn't work, then she decided to do the right thing.

Is this something you're used to doing? Do you try to scam people, and if it doesn't work, then you become a saint? Seems like you're justifying her actions or trolling for an argument with asinine comments like that.

I was actually referring to the part about looking out for "Number 1". No, I don't scam and no I'm not trolling or looking for an argument. You wrote that it was a "Thai thing" to look out for number one. I'm saying it's not just a Thai thing, it's in our nature to look out for ourselves.Thais do it, we do it, everybody does it.

Just in case you haven't understood the case: she was the victim of the scam, not the scammer.

Maybe we just have a different perspective. To me she looks like an accomplice who turned to a victim who then turned into an informant. That's my point, I can't condone her as outsmarting the guy and being a model citizen. If you steal money and return, it doesn't negate the theft. The same, she invested with this guy and wanted to marry him then she turned him in. It doesn't negate the fact she participated until she lost her 42,000 baht.

What is it? Is it a credit card? What is it used for, aside from showing off? Sorry, I'm not familiar with the first Elite card either

Sounds like she didn't receive a cut of her initial 42,000 baht investment, got angry, and double crossed her partner/future husband.

Sounds like a typical scam, she just got mad and did the Thai thing, pull a 180 and look out for number one.

Everybody looks out for "Number 1". Don't you? It's human nature. What's wrong with that?

Read what I'm saying and maybe you'll understand what I'm saying. She tried doing the wrong thing, it didn't work, then she decided to do the right thing.

Is this something you're used to doing? Do you try to scam people, and if it doesn't work, then you become a saint? Seems like you're justifying her actions or trolling for an argument with asinine comments like that.

Sounds like she didn't receive a cut of her initial 42,000 baht investment, got angry, and double crossed her partner/future husband.

Sounds like a typical scam, she just got mad and did the Thai thing, pull a 180 and look out for number one.

Surely his great concern, with the affairs of just one family, is also 'political' ?

But at least he displays his loyalties !

All PTP are as loyal as a dog following the person with a bone. Loyalty only lies with the person with the biggest bone. Once it's gone, the dogs are gone.

I wonder why they're even debating it. Seems to me the plan was withdrawn when the government fought and bickered about it before, and ignored a deadline set in June. The US gave them a deadline because they need to prep vehicles, and as usual Thai's ignored something they didn't want to hear.

Wonder why they're debating now? Doubt there' any conspiracy, just Thai's fumbling at politics as usual!

I agree, this article has a very misleading title. I've already read in international publications speaking of the mismanagement of funds to fix the damns, I think it was 30,000,000,000 baht that has magically disappeared. The confidence isn't there, and this guy is warning the Thai government to publish in English to give investors an accurate view, he says if it keeps happening small investors will leave. Naturally, after that the big guys leave too! With the rice pledging scheme, the populist policies of the government and lack of funds to pay for them, rising costs, a housing bubble that international investors know will pop, investor confidence isn't rising, this is just another case of misinformation put out by the media to make things look good inside the country, when any international publication will say a completely different story.

Thailand isn't famous for opportunity, it's famous for drugs, women, corruption, and beaches!

As I've heard so many Brit's say.....thank god for the empire......sad in my eyes! It's always interesting to speak a Thai who has lived in the west, and is no longer ashamed to be tan because they know the world doesn't end at the Thai border.

I haven't met many PhD's working in bars.

You haven't been to Southern Europe recently.

You're right, I haven't. I thought we were talking about BKK

PTP seems to be instituting a lot of new fees and taxes lately. Probably to pay for their absurd populist policies??? I mean, can't help the people with government money (that's for fat-cat pockets!)

Ice is terrible sh!t.

Bar girls using drugs, not controlling their tempers, and arguing over a guy. Not one surprising thing here. Learn some self control

And if someone gets slashed to death by a drunkard, isn't it also a drug-related?

The 'holier-than-thou' crowd are making hay with the terms 'bar-girl' and 'drug' in the title. Yet alcohol fueled slashings outnumber other drug-induced slashings any day or night of the week.

As for 'bar girl' label. It's easy to typecast, but slashings can be done by people who do all types of jobs. There are bar-girls who are well-adjusted and pleasant, and there are those who are hot tempered and erratic. Incidentally, most Thai visa fellows who are married to Thais, probably met the gals in bars - though few would deign to admit it.

Seems strange, you talk to other like they shouldn't type cast, and you do the same in the end of your statement with "most Thai Visa followers who are married to Thais, probably met the gals in bars...". I'm sure there's a lot who didn't as well.

The point is in certain professions, certain personality types are more attracted to it. I haven't met many PhD's working in bars. Fact is, there's a higher percentage of people with no self control frequenting and working in these places.

You can always point out acceptions to rules, it's not hard to do that, but stereotypes exist partially based on fact, partially based on opinions. I'm sure more people here have been saved from bad experiences by listening to stereotypes of bar girls than by ignoring them.

Another reason there are more alcohol related deaths is because of the ratio. More people drink, period. More people drinking, the more incidents related to alcohol there will be. Not a surprise that alcohol fueled incidents outnumber drug ones.

They did the same thing in Korea as well. They accept lifetime membership fees, collect a bunch of cash, then take off to the next country. It's a total scam. There's no way they can sustain business operations without a revenues stream. 11K at one time is good, but 100 baht a year for renewal, 3,000 a year for a locker, it's unsustainable. A scam from day one! I don't know the attendance in the classes, but those were probably the only revenue generators.

In Korea, nothing came of their lawsuit.......