Emdog

wishful thinking.... it's them or us. who can outlast who?

Not really. With some asking them to lower the volume will set them off

Anyone who goes to Pattaya, especially around areas like walking street, can expect to be harassed. Besides that, the article was referring to Thai people, culture and infrastructure. That so many Indian tourists are ignorant ill mannered POS's is a reflection on them, not Thailand and Thai people.

judging from the photo, why would anyone want to come to that crush of humanity?

Now that current US administration has given the green light for US businesses to bribe overseas, I see smooth sailing for the project

try again: there is no income, rather there is expense, if she follows this line. Hit men aren't free and if you do a balcony dive she loses a future customer or someone to blackmail. It's all about the money

Always shake my head when it is the backdoor man who gets shot and not the wife. The victim made no vows of fidelity to the shooter... many times the male doesn't even know the woman is married, or she lies about status... oh well, different culture, different targets I suppose add: oh yeah, the adage "you don't sh*t where you eat" applies as dead man worked for shooter

How an msg tax just to cover the waterfront?

Better would be to gift it to Laos...

As anyone clearly knows. "86" refers to an acceptable positioning between unmarried men and women in Amish communities. Everyone who has gone to more than 3 years of grade school should know this

Chinese, the Tai who invaded Thailand from S China and suppressed the natives, who had darker skin. It is typical of conquered people to try to emulate their new rulers. For once it can't be blamed on Europeans I think....

And thanks to defamation laws, we can't be told the name of the company, which would forewarn us to this sort of scam. Thank you, Thailand. How about some hints? maybe "rhymes with..."? "First letter is same as governor of Trat...?"

"...focusing on reading, writing, and maths skills..." AKA "the 3 R's" What were they teaching before, or maybe were they teaching before? Vital skills like never asking questions (those students seen as "trouble makers". Seriously. How to assemble and stand in formation for no good reason (future police officers?). Learning that competency has no relationship to life outcomes (It's who you know, not what you know) This radical view that students might learn something useful is bound to upset apple cart of Thai culture

"Surprise raid?" "Uncover" it is no surprise it took the cops so long to get off their backsides and face some public... Uncover? Something as loud as a 747 is hardly hidden "...nightly parties had disrupted their lives for over a month. Locals reported that the music made it impossible to sleep, prompting swift and decisive action from the district office." somehow those two don't quite mesh, unless you consider one month to respond as "swift". In a sane country, a cop on the beat would stop by and tell the party goers to turn the music down and keep it down. Do this on day one, not day 30. Don't need a whole raid and all that

Doubles as a dart board, too.