mran66

What??? Not surprised of Thai govt doing things like this, but British??? Where is this world going.

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Quite a few words to say 'everything seems to be normal'

Did he fund the house with welfare payments using the same system as this monk, stolen temple funds or by selling good luck insulation tape eyebrows?

Youth everywhere, nowadays even in Thailand, have new ideas. But for any of the progressive things to materialize, dinosaurs need to get extinct first. And they die very hard here, they survive youth dies before them

Buddhism with thai characteristics is different. Farang no understand.

Next step is this becomes 'social media frenzy' and the monk will cash it by selling these makeshift insulation tape eyebrows as good luck fashion item!

Locals believe a mysterious destructive force caused the collapse It's the same mysterious destructive force that is behind many accidents in Thailand. Outside of Thailand it's called gravity. Mass inertia is the other appearance form of the same. Not much known about it here so it actually can be called mysterious. Many accidents as people have no idea about it.

Amulets sold by this temple must be useless.

What is the controversial part of 'rental wives' in Pattaya? The whole existence of Pattaya as it is, is based on rentals, though more of girlfriends than wives. So maybe it indeed is the 'rented wife' that is controversial issue, however that is rare. Isn't the whole concept of rented wife an oxymoron

Other (Thai) news channels report that they were in Burmese waters due to fish plentiful there and depleted on thai side. Presumably common practice.

Too complicated for thai people. Will see messed up sorting places and a lot more rubbish along the road sides

Sure. However the reality is that travesty remains and heads won't roll. TIT.

News about this starting to feel like reading the same joke every day week after week. Everyone effectively knows how the story in the joke went so getting kind of boring. This is how things work in banana states like Thailand, like it or not.

He certainly will say her fault as she not using burkha in public area

Getting set up to compete with SpaceX?

The day prostitution is over in Pattaya, a lot of guys will have sleepless nights in hunting the extinct species!

Fellow officers scolding him undercutting the market with 500 baht.

555 look forward to see the 'plan' In reality bigger problem than cheap substandard import products is that many thai products are of low quality and still expensive, overpriced compared what similar stuff is in other markets. Decent quality market priced import products certainly attract customers over the overpriced low quality local ones.

Thailand indeed has some seriously innovation ability in the business system area. Two specific sub-areas show remarkable capabilities at world class level, namely scamming business system and goverment corruption business system innovation.

Transit passenger is clear to everyone I think. AOT chief was talking about transit flights and was wondering how he defines those.

The most irritating thing in BKK is when you come to immigration, either arriving or leaving, and you see long queues of passengers, and substantial percentage of immigration counters unstaffed. The absolute waiting time may not be any longer on average vs other main airports, however it just irritating to wait in queue in such situation, and makes the whole airport operation feel like being run by idiots not caring about their cash-bringing visitors. Other that that, I agree bkk is okay.

This is exactly the challenge to increase PERCENTAGE of 'transit flights' when primary target remains to bring cash spending tourists to Thailand. Sure there is and has always been transit passengers, I was one of the frequent ones of them for 20yrs when working in the region. However that is different from airlines counting on business to bkk being driven by transit passengers.

... And how do you define a flight being or not being in the 'transit category'?

Look forward to see the cable installations in local nuclear plant. And see how they mix concrete with half of steel and cement stolen. Observe it all from other side of the planet.