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Greece will probably exit in the next month or two further depressing the euro.

Willing to bet on that? I say definitely *not* by July 31st 2012.

“While the police officers were questioning the suspects, one of the Malaysian woman, the large one, asked to use the bathroom at the police station. But she ended up running away from the station. We are now searching for her,” Col Jakkrapan said.

Oh, what a classic! And it worked too!!!!

That's the funniest thing I've read on TV in a long time.

Chamezz, what a load of total <deleted>.

I wish I could go. I do like her a lot (and I'm 19 x 2 + 11 years old ). I hope it will be a fantastic and safe event for all involved.

Beware of places advertising "69"

This is why I hate Facebook

I guess you hate phones, email and face 2 face talking too then? It could have happened by any means of communication, obviously.

Someone posted mental health issues in many homeless and I cant deny that. But what came first, the mental health issue or the homelessness.

Excluding some cases of temporary situational or elective homelessness, in most cases the tendencies and cognitive processes come first. Nevertheless, a distinct mental illness may take a while to develop and be triggered by a traumatic experience (later) in life.

I'm sure it's a good product but call me old fashioned I do not wish to give my money to Middle East airlines.

But the definition of "gay" is a bit blurred over here: Guys who define themselves as straight do have sex with men, and why not. I have noticed over the years many guys who had gay relationships in their early twenties and at a later time fall in love with and married a girl.

Hence the term MSM (men having sex with men) is used to classify these people, rather than gay.

Ain't that the truth! How many guys engage in sexual acts with other men (and I do use the term "engage in" very widely here) while in prison or because they live in a strict muslim country, like Saudi Arabia (almost on a level with being in prison, imho)?

Men just like to have sex, it seems and I hope that one day we will see us humans just as sexual beings without the need to create all these boxes and labels, discrimination and all that destructive hate.

I didnt know anybody went to Bangladesh.

On a serious note, Cox's Bazar on the coast is supposed to be quite nice and perhaps some of the less populated areas as well.

Clearly more info is urgently needed before more comments apart from offering condolenses can be made.

Yes, I did the Singapore Airlines Singapore to New York flight quite a few years ago...the one that did a short (about 2 hour as I recall) stopover in Frankfurt...but the same aircraft all the way. Not sure if they still have that flight...but the Singapore to Newark flight sounds similar.

The worst part was flying over Siberia with nothing but trees and snow to be seen for hours. And I had a window seat, too.

Will never do that again. I was young then and thought I could handle the flight. Now, in my 60's, I wouldn't even think about such a flight again. As it was, in my 40's, it basicaly wore me out.

That must have been somewhere around 1990 I guess...and was close to the limit of the range of most international passenger aircraft at that time.

SQ still operates SIN - FRA - JFK to this day. I believe this is the first US bound flight that leaves FRA every morning for the U.S. at something like 8:30 a.m.

However, SIN - FRA does not even come close to Siberia. It goes up via India/Pakistan/Middle East/Eastern Europe as always.

The downside is that I think EVA will raise its airfares.

Considering the price of oil and the fact that production won't increase, I think not only they will raise prices. I still remember flying to BKK from SFO on ANA for just over $600 return in July of '99. Seems like a dream now.

When they say do not resist in an armed robbery - and an ordinary one could quickly turn as the formerly hidden weapon suddenly comes out much more likely as the victim is resisting - they aren't kidding!

Thais cannot be honest with each other. It's a thought I formed after having lived in the country for a couple of years. This does not mean I agree with the statement the activist finds offensive; I just understand how this all got to this point now.

....no security guard has the right to club the guy on the head....

Yes, they do and they routinely do it all over the world. The clubs are not for show only and these guys have the authority, which you accept by entering the system with your ticket.

The big question is how did it get to the point of the clubbing? As we don't know, we simply cannot say if it was justified or not based on the actions of the other party. Nothing to do with "hatred of their own kind at all". If it were Thai-on-Thai, I'd still say the same thing.

I know the people involved, heard about it when it happened & they have seen the CCTV footage which shows the whole episode, started by the guard hitting him with his metal detector, hence the cut eye at the start of the youtube clip.

Yes, OK, but that was not the real start of the events. There must have been some kind of communication between the two parties. And without watching that we really judge what happened.

I will say that Westerners and Thai have a hard time dealing with each other when it comes to confrontation. There's plenty misread signals and body language, fear and prejudice.

Now here's a new helpful service for ThaiVisa: Swampy wait times for departing & arriiving passengers & recommendations of where to queue delievered via email/mobile/Twitter

Pay someone to watch the queues for you, George.

To the "balloned" foreigner with the jai ron: get a taxi next time, mate.

Where are the jellyfish when they could be useful?

Only as a deterrent of course. Liek many I am split on this - my Western tolerance vs. respect for Asia's decency customs.

Cambodia is not Thailand, in that regard (thankfully). I will do this myself next month and have done it several times before.

Hello TAT, well I'm coming on the 13th

... now if you could just get me past immigration at the airport in a reasonable time after the mid-day arrival of the TK flight, please... I guess I'll bring some reading material.

Oh dear, oh dear oh dear. Oh dear oh dear oh dear.

Someones grassed him up, he's <snip>.

Who cares? Lock him up and throw away the key. He might just spend the latter years of his life drug free!

boring, old boring news. If you can't do it, don't do it!

mel.

Ridiculous post! Not interested - don't click on link. Others ARE interested.

While the issue of long arrival queues is not limited to Thailand - let me mention IAH (Houston) in the U.S., for example - it simply will not work to not come up with a Plan B when removing 2/3s of capacity from the immigration screening process and to state that one has no idea when the renovation work will be finished is just unacceptable.