Jean Pierre Jacquot

That scheme was never meant for westerners, just misinterpreted.

I don't think there will be anything introduced to replace this shortly.

Puzzled by your remark. How comes something for foreigners is not intended for westerners?

Dear friends,

What are the latest news about the government health insurance for non-Thais?

My local hospital tells me that the Health Ministry has abolished the old scheme of 2800 Baht per year by 30 October.

Any clue what is in the pipeline?

Sure they can't keep this for long as there are many foreign workers here who can't pay their bills.

thanks

Just another day with the usual atrocities of the Israeli jews continuing their genocide.

They probably defend this in saying that it is preventive self defense because as we all know Palestinians are all terrorists and will inevitably attack Israel at one time in their lives.

Regretful and unjustified as the shooting is, it does not a genocide make.

I know its a fun word to throw around, but do try to stick to the facts.

I am keeping very much to the facts. The act of purposefully eleminating Palestinians is a genocide. The incident here is by far not an isolated one. The Israeli were recently intentionally bombing schools in full awareness that children are there.

Just another day with the usual atrocities of the Israeli jews continuing their genocide.

They probably defend this in saying that it is preventive self defense because as we all know Palestinians are all terrorists and will inevitably attack Israel at one time in their lives.

Wow, amazing! Do we know anything about the motives for this? Looks like Thailand starts to become like the US.. plenty of brutal lunetics all over the place who could kill you any minute.

Was just a little accident, they surely did not want to kill the farang, they just need to defend themselves after they were offended by the farang.

Torture in Thai Police? Unimaginable, really unimaginable. Thai Police serves its people and are all law-abiding nice guys. They always tell us like this so it must be like this. I am sure.

No problem. The Thai authorities already laid out the plan out of this mess: suicide of the Myanmar youngsters. Case will be closed and face not lost. Very easy and utterly disgusting.

Leung is an idiot! He should know that the best tactique of Bejing to weaken up the protest is giving them some feeling that they achieved something in removing Leung and of course doing business as usual afterwards.

This was long overdue! Only absolute idiots like our police can think of such a hilarious campaign. They were the one starting this whole bribe system and not the population. There are not enough words to describe the police.... and probably my post will be deleted if I express verbally what I think of them...

But now it's official.

Official?

There is only the headlines saying that and the whole text of the article says or gives no hints at all about this being official at all.....

I'm smart enough to know that Israel has been trying to make peace since the Palestinian Arabs declared war on them in 1948 and the Palestinians have refused time after time and continued with violent jihad. Are you smart enough to know the ones who started the violence in the first place and have refused numerous peace deals deserve the lions share of the blame?

as ever the American Israel apologist doesnt want the simple recognition of Palestine as a state.

Of course I do. As soon as the Palestinians sign a peace plan, recognize the Jewish state and honor their commitments under the Oslo Accords, they should get their own country. Recognizing Palestine as a state, before that time, means nothing according to the agreements that they already made, which is why this vote is merely symbolic.

5555...as usual want to keep the last word, aren't you.....what about people not recognizing Israel because of their human rights violations record, their constant non respecting of international law and their total disinterest in a peaceful solution?... you would certainly agree that we in the meantime disrecognize Israel, aren't you...5555...

Isn't begging illegal in Thailand? If yes, charge him and throw him in jail!

God, this can only come from an American, isn''t it?

He's German. He's in Thailand. They won the world cup. It's all good. If it was my stingy American government they would allow me to sit on a street corner with a swollen foot.

Maybe, maybe not. But if this hit the news, the American people would overwhelm you with help.

In 2013, the American people were ranked the most generous in the world for charitable giving. In 2010, they were ranked the 5th most generous.

LINK

Edit. #1 in 2012. LINK

Of course, as they can deduct it from taxes......

Interesting article. However the article fails to point out the real issue: money.

This thing about combating terrorists is a total farce. 1. The US does not care about human rights around the world (as the article points out on the support of the Military Dictatorship in Egypt). 2. The US applies double standards who are terrorists and who not (Israel would be for long a terrorist state).

What the US is really afraid is that these islamic extremists are taking over a significant amount of territory and especially oil producing territory. That has always been there primary and only motive. Everything else are lies.

The US does what it deems necessary to protect US interests and safety, as does every other country in the world to the extent they can. I for one am grateful at the wonderful life and opportunities US has bestowed on me and my family.

It ain't about a popularity contest or trying to appease everyone. You can bellyache and whine all you want, but no one really cares and it won't change anything.

US is the first to step in when people need help, natural disasters occur, people are starving or a public health crisis happens somewhere around the world. If, however, you target us, our people or threaten our way of life . . . F with bull, you get the horns.

Obama has been weak, but our next President will act more decisively and hopefully be more proactive than reactive when it comes to American safety and welfare.

Typical cowboy mentality. That's what the US is famous for. That the US are the first to step in when people need help is however hilarious. They only step in if it is in their economic interest. Not that they are the only ones to do it like that though, but they should stop to play the savior role or imply their God when they a war.

Fortunately the US has lost a lot of its power so I am not so sure if the next President will fulfill the cowboy's dream. It might be more than he has to think first what Peking thinks about what he says and does. I personally prefer it like that as since the end of the cold war the US could do whatever they wanted which is a bad thing. Human beings tend to abuse their power, so a balance of power is needed in this world.

Cowboy? I hate guns, generally vote democrat, have never owned a pair of boots, listen to and play Pearl Jam and Matallica, wear Italian clothes and drive Italian cars. Never owned a truck in my life at 47.

You stereo type much? . . . because you ain't very good at it.

RE: Humanatarian aide

In our economic interest to help Haiti when devastated by an Earthequake? In our economic interest to assist Thailand after tsunami or Phillipines after hurricane? How about aide to El Savadore after devastating floods? Please explain how US benefitted economically and made money from here?

The list is a long list and a whole lot of money given by both our government and citizens. Synical, ungrateful and bitter people like you make one wonder why bother? Keep the money at home and forget helping the ungrateful types around the world, but the reality is we have the resources, actually care about others and want to help.

So you want to say that the US were the first and only ones to help Haiti, thailand and Phillipines? The whole world helped, nothing special enables to mention the US in it. But if you want to mention the US please tell me how it comes that the US did not help after Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar?

You have to differentiate between private donations and government aid. US government aid had always and will always have attachments and only reach countries in which the US have strategic interests. There is nothing to argue about it, we (at least we non-US) know well about it. The same goes with US military intervention. Or do you want to postulate that the US intervention in Kuwait was to protect Kuwaitis?

The US has been the superpower per excellence during the last 20-30 years and I don't see them having given a real contribution to improve the world. They even didn't ratify various essential international treaties like Kyoto, the Convention on the Rights of Children etc. They have been clearly showing the world that they prefer to exploit the world instead of improving the world.

Stop being overly pedantic. The Arab/Islamic block controls many votes in the United Nations and too many European nations tend to abstain or vote with the Arabs out of self interest - ie Arab oil. Only America's veto keeps them somewhat in line.

5555555555555....where did you got this one from? From extremist, zionist media as usual? Total bs.

One tourist murder suspect now arrested, another on the run

KOH TAO: -- The police have arrested a suspect in the murder of two British tourists in Koh Tao and are still hunting for a second suspect who has escaped into Bangkok.

Eighth Region Police Command commissioner Pol Lt-Gen Panya Mamen identified the first suspect as Mon.

He is the brother of a village headman in Koh Tao.

He was arrested after evidence which police collected were examined and proved he was involved, he said.

He also said another suspect is also a son of that village headman. But he has already to Bangkok.

He said both suspects were captured by CCTV cameras and the police have gathered enough evidence to implicate them in the murders.

He said the southern police were coordinating with the metropolitan police to hunt him down, and expected to apprehend him today.

The southern police chief also assured the public that there was no arrest of scapegoats in this murder case as it now is a focal attention of the world.

He also dismissed any suggestion of local mafias or influential people that could twist the investigation with promise that local influence would pose no obstacle to the police investigation.

Instead the police will eliminate all these mafias, he said.

Meanwhile a police source said the police are also looking into the cooperation of those who helped to arrange the suspect to escape. They also will be arrested.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/one-tourist-murder-suspect-now-arrested-another-run/

-- Thai PBS 2014-09-23

Congratulations!

'The police will eliminate all these mafia'....hmmmm....well the biggest mafia is the police itself, so maybe he wants to eliminate the police force?

Interesting article. However the article fails to point out the real issue: money.

This thing about combating terrorists is a total farce. 1. The US does not care about human rights around the world (as the article points out on the support of the Military Dictatorship in Egypt). 2. The US applies double standards who are terrorists and who not (Israel would be for long a terrorist state).

What the US is really afraid is that these islamic extremists are taking over a significant amount of territory and especially oil producing territory. That has always been there primary and only motive. Everything else are lies.

The US does what it deems necessary to protect US interests and safety, as does every other country in the world to the extent they can. I for one am grateful at the wonderful life and opportunities US has bestowed on me and my family.

It ain't about a popularity contest or trying to appease everyone. You can bellyache and whine all you want, but no one really cares and it won't change anything.

US is the first to step in when people need help, natural disasters occur, people are starving or a public health crisis happens somewhere around the world. If, however, you target us, our people or threaten our way of life . . . F with bull, you get the horns.

Obama has been weak, but our next President will act more decisively and hopefully be more proactive than reactive when it comes to American safety and welfare.

Typical cowboy mentality. That's what the US is famous for. That the US are the first to step in when people need help is however hilarious. They only step in if it is in their economic interest. Not that they are the only ones to do it like that though, but they should stop to play the savior role or imply their God when they a war.

Fortunately the US has lost a lot of its power so I am not so sure if the next President will fulfill the cowboy's dream. It might be more than he has to think first what Peking thinks about what he says and does. I personally prefer it like that as since the end of the cold war the US could do whatever they wanted which is a bad thing. Human beings tend to abuse their power, so a balance of power is needed in this world.

These mafia guys are not very good at their job if they went after Sean, cornered him in a shop, let him take their photo and then let him flee from behind the counter and I'm presumiing out past them, through the front door

That's it and tells everything. Might have been just some islanders who were fed up by this barman behaving like a true Brit and so wanted to scare him a bit which they obviously did successfully.

"Meanwhile DNA found on her body came from two unknown Asian men, tests revealed" Yet just last week the police told us there was no evidence of rape...

You are right, there still isn't any evidence that she was raped. Nor is there any that anybody having had sex with her is the murderer. Highly likely yes, but as long as it has not been established you cannot just leave out any possibilities. And mabye here the friend of the boy could come in. Why the hell is living in a hurry the island? Involved himself? Witnessed something and is afraid now?

Basically we know nothing. Apart of the fact that they died violently, that the girl had sex with two Asian men and that one of these Asian men puffed on the same cigarette as her (shared? who knows, maybe just picked up....).