Ragzilb

There is a huge difference in how we see detained criminals innocent or not.

In Thailand its like US you are guilty untill proven innocent.

We who live in EU are use to you are innocent untill proven guilty.

Now its all about how you see it.

Personally I am against anything that kills people and destroys the planet Peace out

Why is assistance to farmers always referred to as a scheme?

Farming is very difficult.

Environmental conditions and market fluctuations make i event more difficult, sometimes impossible to make ends meet.

Without assistance many could not farm.

What would the world eat without farms?

Farming has always been a gamble, assistance guarantees that people can continue to farm, even in bad times.

Assistance to farmers in tough times is insurance....not a scheme.

Do you even know anything about farming?

Farming is not difficult if you love it and know what you are doing. Enviroment have not changed that much otherwise our forest would not survive it.

a farmer who needs assistance should really look for another job.

I think lets still give Prayut a chance, having to clean up a after a teenagers party, often takes a looooong time to clean up

Yes Never miss a good change to shut up

I follow the old universal rule. What was one many most be one, what is one must be many

i use the trap as well. I bought a plastic disc shaped dish to feed my hens in. The roaches come at night to feast on the crumbs, but cannot get out. In the morning, the hens are greated with hundreds (depending on the time of year) of treats.

I have been warned by well meaning friends that with this large concentration of roaches in their diet, they will suffer wilh parasite issues. After 3 years, so far, so good:)

Haha and there I thought it was a question about Zen .. the Zen Zen

"May the universe always contain us, and may we always contain the universe "

Use torrentday never down always first

Ragzilb said and I quote" The Shins have a lot of money invested in Thailand and countried around Thailand as well."

Care to elaborate at little more on the names of these interests and their links to the Shinawatras? A little investigation into these interests might be needed to see if positions in power were abused acquiring these interests. Corruption is their middle name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intouch_Holdings

and the list goes on

I dont like the Shins never had.. Hope they never come back or hurt any other people for that matter. But there is an old saying "theres a calm before the storm"

The Shins have a lot of money invested in Thailand and countried around Thailand as well, Dont think we have seen the last of them yet. I would put a world wide bounty on them and have them brought to court so we can be sure we are rid of them for ever.

Peace and all the love for Thailand and Khun Thai.

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So the Euro and AUD are falling apart at the same time, whats the correlation for this ?

China.

China is not the cause of this....The US dollars is aso called petrodollar and cause of the Oil going down in price Petrodollar goes up too. But its not a good scenario we are looking at in the future if the Oil keep fall.

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Whoa folks, please take a chill pill. This is not a surprise and NOT new. There is no conspiracy and was expected.

The Chinese had observer status last year. In 2014, the USA invited China to participate in the humanitarian and civil assistance (HCA) portion of the exercise, where 17 members of the PLA assisted in the building of a school in northern Thailand and participated in the exercises civic health engagement events.

Why this is a surprise is beyond me. The Chinese participated in the far more extensive and longer RIMPAC exercise in Hawaii last year.
Cobra Gold's 2015 focus will be on humanitarian relief preparation and to a lesser extent anti piracy training. It is to be expected that the Chinese would participate as the recent events involving the loss of the Air Asia and Malaysian airline airplanes underlined the need to co-ordinate search and rescue resources.

By the way, the US navy and Chinese navy have had a few joint anti piracy training exercises in the Gulf of Aden over the past few years.
Why is it such a shock when navies undertake peaceful training exercises? How else do people expect them to work together when a crisis arises?

Fair enough, but the timing is obviously political, the abrupt cancellation (above post), and Thailand and China already have separate training programs.

It's clearly a crude move to signal to the US that China is a suitor too, so they better shape up. Not a good move, and also the Japanese won't like it. The Africans also were happy to see the Chinese at first instead of having those European hypocrits lecture them. If you want business as usual where the rich get bribed to sell out their own countrymen, the Chinese will be great for that.

Having been involved with the Cobra Gold and Cope Tiger exercises for a number of years I know this not to be the case. Do you think a country has a quick get together and invites neighbors to a bbq or something? The exercise and participants have been scheduled since last year. At least a year prior to that the governments had to talk about the participation.

The US has held numerous exercise over the years with China and for that matter many other countries.

Not everything is a conspiracy theory guys.

But this is news to some of the Fox watching red neck members of TV, who wear their bias' so obviously on their sleeves

Let's face it its not the worse that has been done, inviting the Taliban to a Texas BBQ must rank far worse than involving commie Chinese in some military exercises

Most of the Fox News viewers dont even know that Fox is owned by the Arab Royal Family

Mangroves are the most fertile systems on the planet and should never be touched, they are the original ecosystems if all other fails.

There is no democracy anywhere in the world.

Soi Watt Goo Naj, 800 baht pr month.

To describe the place : Nice people, lots of drugs, smells horrible, and always noise.

Using guns for peace is like &lt;deleted&gt; for virginity

Sounds like the torture of Pol Pot all over again...just with roaches.

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I beg to differ. Most countries invest in Vietnam before Thailand nowadays.

Maybe other countries, but Japan always favored Thailand

Japan is dying Thailand is the best place for them to invest

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A school bus is a luxury. In my day we had to walk 10 miles through the snow to get to school, with nothing more than a stale crust for lunch ... before trudging home again.

At least you did not as a parent have to worry about accidents, crazy drivers, motorbikes, and I could go on. all you had was a bit of snow, which I really love though cheers m8

If you cut down the forest you get the flood

what about the dude filming ?

My blood boils when I see these punks.

THUG BEACH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If I was on the scene it would be impossible to stop me from bashing this punk to a pulp.

Everybody copy and paste the link to this video to as many forums as possible.

If you could understand Thai you'd have realized the boy was concerned about the lady's health regards heat stroke, sun burn and future skin cancer risk.

A well educated and caring boy.

He dont speak Thai he speaks Cambodian

i would WELCOME taxi drivers' starting rate to move up to, say, 50 baht (from the current 35) plus a slightly higher per minute/km rate, PROVIDED they begin behave professionally : not first ask 'where you go?' to decide if they'll take you; automatically start the meter (rather than start it only if you insist). that would be a win/win for them and for us, the customers. perhaps a new challenge for the military government ? it will also boost tourism satisfaction and arrivals.

They have to ask because many have rented the Taxi and must return them in time or suffer the consequenses, as long as you can easily get by no problem. I know outside the larger cities the story are different