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How about naming the bank and the phone company?? 

How about all the city buses that are polluting??

Starting to remind me of the Middle East......

Then why ever morning at the American Embassy their are long lines of people who want to come to this country. Answer that. We must be doing something right.

You judge the popularity of your country by the long waiting lines at the US embassy in Thailand?

I see those long waiting lines (outside on the street in the sun) as a sign of mismanagement.

Just like the lines outside the Apple store when a new Iphone comes out you call that mismanagement as well? lol High demand for a product or service is bound to create lines.

Would be nice if this did happen

Oops

He missed his stop for Pattaya obviously...

Nice work Army. When you do things illegally its bound to come back and get you.

All my local noodle stands have no staff. I asked one of the operators last night why this was. She said she hires Cambodians and Burmese and they all left because they are scared of the gov.

Wow.. 6,100 students. That's a BIG school! Lucky they all didn't contract it.

I am curious at where you read 6100 students.

There are roughly 5000 students enrolled in the school I used to work there. Well over 100 foreign teachers.

they don't drink bottled ozonated water? i've never heard of a school (or any institution) that supplies drinking water from underground tanks???

Bottled water is available for teachers and students but most of the students that were effected were the younger section of students where only a drinking fountain is provided which contained the contaminated water.

The school knew about this for a few weeks before doing anything. Several students and teachers had to be admitted to the hospital for a few days as a result. They have now replaced the tanks to above ground and have run in a fresh line from the city lines to the tanks. The cause of the problem was an older building within the school grounds that supposedly is sinking (17 story building).

Hopefully other schools check their tanks and try to fix this problem quicker then BCC so students and staff don't end up in the hospital.

They just want more bribe money plane and simple. Let's hope they don't just focus on Sukhumvit and the foreign owned bars but if they really want to cause problems start shutting down Thong Lo, Ekkamai, RCA, Ratchada promptly at 1am see how long that lasts. Last time I checked Whip Ekkamai and Safehouse are all opened late and frequented by the sons and daughters of these corrupt cops.

Simple Economics though if bars are going to have to pay more brides then they will raise the prices of these already expensive venues driving away customers.

I doubt anything will come of this.

They just want more bribe money plane and simple. Let's hope they don't just focus on Sukhumvit and the foreign owned bars but if they really want to cause problems start shutting down Thong Lo, Ekkamai, RCA, Ratchada promptly at 1am see how long that lasts. Last time I checked Whip Ekkamai and Safehouse are all opened late and frequented by the sons and daughters of these corrupt cops.

Simple Economics though if bars are going to have to pay more brides then they will raise the prices of these already expensive venues driving away customers.

I doubt anything will come of this.

Seems like oil was not the only thing leaking from the PTT pipe..... didn't they say all this would be cleared up in a day LOL

That beach will never be the same.

Knock it down! Total disregard for building practices and very dangerous at that.

I hope this takes off and runs all those taxi and tuk tuk drivers out of business. In the past I loved going to Phuket but haven't been in over three years because of all the headaches it now has. This could easily solve the first big one when you get off the plane.

This is a pipe dream it will never happen. As mentioned the short distance makes no sense at all. I could see one to Chiang Mai but the amount of riders don't support a billion dollar project like that. These are not like cities in China that have millions of inhabitants in a close radius to the train stations.

It is just a pipe dream that will get funding to do "research" and line some government officials pockets then it will be called off after they get millions in payouts. Just corrupt Thailand being corrupt no surprise.

Probably no maintenance in all the years they have been in operation. Some of those older train carriages could use a little TLC.