Sealbash

They are paying for a work permit but still getting slave wages

Only in Thailand

Disgusting

Or they could just stay home in their own country?

The world commodity market revolves around tomatoes, over supply of Tomatoes price drops , shortage of tomatoes price rises, look at iron ore price from $150 ton 12 months back to $48 tone yesterday, go figure.

Agree. You can also use oil as another example. The drop in price took oil companies, and the entire energy sector by surprise. None of the so called experts predicted that severe of a drop in price. But one thing is certain, as oil is a commodity, the price will eventually rise again.

Remember, you read it hear on TV first:

The context of any fallacious agreement is taking place against the backdrop of unprecedented shia aggression and expansion. Many of us have been noting for weeks that we are on the verge of a considerable shia sunni war. IMO, this permission by the US to Iran is an unmitigated disaster. All this arrangement will do is further escalate all sides in a now inevitable conflict.

The great oddity is the US has seemingly switched sides. However, when viewed in the train of US foreign policy context, this should be no surprise at all. The US administration has facilitated, conducted, and made permissive war throughout the region, if not the world.

So, the sunni religious leader of the holiest muslim site on earth declared war on shia. Egyptian and Iranian naval vessels exchanged fire. The ridiculous paper drill in futility meets the real world in near comic fashion. Obama has pursued his bipolar middle east dream at the cost of untold lives, suffering, and war- its a "dream in the air (pipe dream)" but nightmare on the ground.

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2015/04/02/Muslim-Cleric-Calls-All-Out-War

Regarding Obama: fewer humans have so insidiously enabled war under a banner of peace

Last sentence bold emphasis by me.

You seem to imply that enabling war openly (a la Dubbya Bush) is better?

What! you think there isn't a war coming, if not between the west and Iran certainly Shia v Sunni. You think the gulf states are going to sit back and let Iran have its own way?

Why would the western world not condone this?

The French drive on the wrong side of the road anyway, not surprising really.

I thought they drove on the right side?

This view has something to do with me being happy in Thailand, among many other things.

Nice photo, but it's not always green.... dry and hot most times of the year... I hope there's more that keeps you here.

Yes, there are many other things which keep me here and I think my 38 years of living here can attest to that. For some of us Thailand has afforded us a wonderful life.

Wow, you must have been a rich young fella when you moved here... for me I accept my mortality, so am moving wife, and daughter, back to Australia, where they will have a far better life, even after I kick the bucket. Something others should be considering, instead of ONLY their lives.

Please define "far better". In what way? Just curious.

Keystone cops come to mind.

I can imagine the looks on these guys faces when they figured out it was the wrong guy.

How do we know the abductors were police? Because the news article says they were?

Years ago the written multiple choice test was in Thai only. But the girl handing out the tests would put little pencil marks beside the answers you were supposed to pick. The system worked well.

Yes, it's almost unbelievable. If Somchai had crashed the truck this would be a 100 page thread already.

Thai bashers.

We do not have the full story yet. Maybe the Thai pilots backed the plane into the food truck.

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With enough money, you do not need any of those.

I imagine the same was said when Thailand approved development of their offshore oil and gas reserves. Seems that has actually proved beneficial to the country. Why is everyone so against Thailand developing and producing their natural resources? Is this not what all countries do?

When one looks at minimum wages in fully developed nations, they appear much higher than Thailand's minimum wage. The majority of posters here prefer to keep the wages low.....but that is only of benefit to them. Why else require Thais be kept at poverty level? Most of us settled in Thailand because it was economical. Thailand is moving forward. If police receive a fair wage, it may reduce corruption. Comparing Thailand to Cambodia or Myanmar is unfair. Why not compare to Malaysia or Singapore? Again, it is most likely that it affects our lifestyle if Thai wages increase. God forbid that the Thai middle class earns the same as we do. As for Thai labor being inefficient, that is only a statement made by people who are employing uneducated Thais. There are many honest, hard working ethical Thai people working in various professions. And for common labourers, people who tout Myanmar have absolutely no experience or knowledge of working with the common labourers. Again, Myanmar has many capable, honest, ethical people working in various professions, and it is only a matter of time until their wages rise, much to the chagrin of foreigners who wish to be richer, live cheaper, and feel superior to their adopted countrymen.

Why are there so many Myanmar and others working here.

Because they work!

It is quite obvious you have never done business in Myanmar

I always assumed forward momentum and glide ratio would prevent a plane from falling from the sky?

Any aircraft can stall at any speed. When it stalls, sometimes the pilot can reestablish laminar flow over the wings and sometimes they cannot. In any case it takes time to recover from a stall and during that time, it falls like a lead balloon.

I have some doubt that any aircraft can stall at any speed as you state. I believe there is a certain stall speed associated with any fixed wing aircraft. It would be interesting to be proved wrong though.

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Well, his name looks classically German, so ethnicity is likely not an 'issue'. But what are you saying? That airlines should discriminate against people of certain ethnicities or faiths in their hiring??

Do you deny that there are certain "ethnicities or faiths" that are causing more unrest in the world today than others?

Cheapest piece of marketing I've ever seen. Despicable announcement.

But at least they are one step ahead of someone posting a photo of the aircraft with a cracked windshield on Facebook.

Whres the mystery?

Is that another photo of all those dangerous telephone cables?

The success of singapore is not unique and is very little to do with LKY, despite his constant megalomaniacal claims. Singapore is a city state, really just a city, one which allowed itself to become a hub for foreign companies. So don't compare to countries, compare to cities. Compare to Zurich, New York, Hong Kong, Tokyo, London, Sydney etc etc. Then you see that urbanization has led to huge economic success in all these cities, in fact far eclipsing that of Singapore. Infrastructure wise these cities have subways and all the rest. In terms of health they cant exceed the average of their countries, nor can they control borders and maintain the same grip on law and order. But to compare Singapore to real countries and talk as if LKY was some kind of genius is pure stupidity. And saying Singapore should be a model for other countries to follow is like saying Manhattan should be a model for the rest of America. Doesn't follow, doesn't scale, its just naive.

And compare crime rates, unemployment, homeless people between all the cities you mention to Singapore. Yes, Singapore is unique.

Try Google translate app. It seems to work quite well, but does not yet speak Burmese.

Maybe he should study how Lee Kuan Yew did it for Singapore.

Lee Kuan Yew was a dictator

Yes , and Singapore has a thriving economy.

surely you must agree that if we don't the tourist area living expats have even less chance.

who cares if they understand it or not, that's their choice, understanding a country doesn't make it any easier getting a visa, some people are not that insecure that they feel they must do everything they can to "integrate" and be accepted as some sort of pseudo-Thai at one with their "Thainess"

If someone goes out their way to "understand a country" great knock yourself out, but please don't start inferring someone is less worthy of being here because they don't want to "understand a country" or cant be bothered..

Agreed. And just perhaps it is not mysterious, and there is really not all that much to understand?