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Why dont they turn it into wine? Very popular in Europe.

Why not indeed, the Austrians once put anti-freeze in their wine so what could the Thais do with rotting rice ?

Chateau Cardboard could take on a whole new meaning.

I would have thought that leaving your shoes on would facilitate springing to someone's aid? Much better to sink the boot in. How are you supposed to do that in your socks?

Amateurs.

Are Dr. Martin boots on sale here ? Nice concession for some vendor to get into.

Who takes their footwear off to prepare for action ? As an ex cop I can't imagine kicking a door in wearing socks unless the smell rotted it VERY quickly

Let'snot worry about political conflict as it has a positive effect on tourism. The Minister of Tourism and Sports has announced that in the first four days of this month tourist arrivals were up 35% over the same period last year and he's confident continued conflict will have no effect on tourist numbers.

Joef Goebbels had nothing on TAT

4 days is the basis of your scientific measurement? You have worked for a political party in the past, haven't you?

If the barb was aimed at me it was wasted as I didn't pull the figures out of a hat, I quoted the Tourism Minister

What an absolute insult and a slap in the face with the back of a shovel. PTT is worth billions, did very little to clean up the mess (Volunteers worked hard) and offering a pissy 1K baht per day compensation around 6K in total. Drop a couple of shackles at the feet of the peasants and everything evaporates and never happened.

Why isn't Yingluck's Natural Resources Minister stepping to insure that adequate compensation is paid to the hard-working masses that elected them?

Too many vested interests in play. How many in government, politicians in general, VIPs etc are shareholders ? Politicians of course will not be but Dolly the family carabao will hold a large stake.

Yingluck proved yesterday she only cares about big business, huge profits and a few high value bills that can mean more food in the trough.

When it comes to the little hard working people .... bugger off is the attitude

This was of such concern to YL that she didn't even visit the area. Too busy getting the lunch boxes ready for the piss up on the train ?

Why is the media " agog " only now, the children have been in this playground for decades ?

I was thinking along the same lines. They act like 10 year olds at the best of times, but now they're taking it to a new (sub)level.

"I'm going to take my shoes off and hold my breath until all you bad people go away."

and more impressive, noisy and attention getting to stamp the feet with shoes on but TIT

A disgrace it took 5 years. heads should roll

Only 5 years, it must have been fast tracked !

Where we come from Blether a case in the High Court has to start within 80 days of being charged, it used to be concluded within 80 days until a clerical error allowed two armed robbers to walk so the procedure was amended,

Or the evidence was weak. I couldn't care less what the victim's father has to say. He isn't the judge or a juror.

If the evidence was weak why did it take five years to find that out ? Thai courts are usually slow to convict but fats to exonerate depending on who and what's involved.

Forget all the forward planning for recruitment and training as it's easier to use the usual Thai procedure, just drop the qualification level.

I have seen Kwanchai strutting around in Udon and he is a mean, arrogant mother but what's sick is the face and deference he gets and does he love it !

This is the kind of Frankenstein that PTP created, used and now have lost control of.

What an absolute insult and a slap in the face with the back of a shovel. PTT is worth billions, did very little to clean up the mess (Volunteers worked hard) and offering a pissy 1K baht per day compensation around 6K in total. Drop a couple of shackles at the feet of the peasants and everything evaporates and never happened.

Why isn't Yingluck's Natural Resources Minister stepping to insure that adequate compensation is paid to the hard-working masses that elected them?

Too many vested interests in play. How many in government, politicians in general, VIPs etc are shareholders ? Politicians of course will not be but Dolly the family carabao will hold a large stake.

All this " togetherness " and bonhomie is crap and will never happen unless all the opposition parties take a giant step back and agree to everything the PTP wants. They won the election and can do what they want and we know what they want to the exclusion of everything else.

And of course, absolutely no mention of how high the level of contamination was.

Is it normal? Or did it miss breaking the limit by 1 ppm? Bearing in mind, that the plankton that will eat this stuff, will be consumed by the food chain, and as such it concentrates the levels the higher up the chain you go over time. It's been a week or so, give it another week, and the levels will probably have risen.

Something tells me, the same folks doing and reporting the health testing here for the Rayong area seafood are probably the same ones who handled the testing and reporting for the surplus rice stocks... And we all know how that one turned out.

I always get nervous when government types here show up in the newspapers saying they've tested and everything in safe....but those reports rarely seem to say what exactly the contamination levels were...and how those results compare to the applicable safety standards.

No Thai seafood for me... I'm going to stick to a rice-only diet... Ooopsss...

In all the years I've been involved with Thailand and the changes seen one thing has remained constant and that is the attitude of officialdom at all levels who expect everything they say to be taken as the absolute truth, don't doubt me and definitely do not challenge .

As is regularly said in so many different threads the media falls far short of doing anything like a decent job to take this sort of thing on, no real criticism and no investigative journalism.

The problem is the defamation laws in Thailand are used as a powerful tool to stop people investigating and gag them.

Yes that's an excellent point.

He said as Thailand does not have an extradition treaty with Macau, it would be difficult to move for his arrest.

Any excuse NOT to do something . . . how about freezing his assets here, pressuring family members who are colluding with a known fugitive criminal . . . surely there must be something they can be charged with to pressure his return????

Oh wait, if they do that to this guy, they'd have to do the same to Yingluck, and, and, and . . . the list goes on.

Usual BS from Tarit and officialdom but why do we expect anything else ?

If he's overseas and there's a case against him request an Interpol Red Notice, it's not perfect but could reduce the countries he can visit as many Interpol members will actually live up to the charter.

If he's in Macau he's likely to use Hong Kong a lot and would be stopped at the ferry pier if it's requested. The point being IF it's requested and as we have seen so many times Thailand is never in a rush and for a whole raft of reasons.

And of course, absolutely no mention of how high the level of contamination was.

Is it normal? Or did it miss breaking the limit by 1 ppm? Bearing in mind, that the plankton that will eat this stuff, will be consumed by the food chain, and as such it concentrates the levels the higher up the chain you go over time. It's been a week or so, give it another week, and the levels will probably have risen.

Something tells me, the same folks doing and reporting the health testing here for the Rayong area seafood are probably the same ones who handled the testing and reporting for the surplus rice stocks... And we all know how that one turned out.

I always get nervous when government types here show up in the newspapers saying they've tested and everything in safe....but those reports rarely seem to say what exactly the contamination levels were...and how those results compare to the applicable safety standards.

No Thai seafood for me... I'm going to stick to a rice-only diet... Ooopsss...

In all the years I've been involved with Thailand and the changes seen one thing has remained constant and that is the attitude of officialdom at all levels who expect everything they say to be taken as the absolute truth, don't doubt me and definitely do not challenge .

As is regularly said in so many different threads the media falls far short of doing anything like a decent job to take this sort of thing on, no real criticism and no investigative journalism.

Free moggy bags First to be given to various government offices. FOR WHAT ??? what %.? some tourists may get to see them, maybe Hi So Chinese tourists on a pre paid package.

My doubts are what company is to make them, ??? what material is used-disposable-plastic ???? are 7-11 going to have them OR are they given out at 5* hotels.

It will be nice for government officials to carry the fiddle money home in and make a nice change from those dull brown envelopes

The head of the reds said yesterday that they should not react to any anti-bill protests as a 3rd hand may be at work and she also said that no reds had been involved in any arson in 2010.

Glad she cleared that up, I was never too sure... LOL

I see the usual Thai Bashers are out in force

Tourism is up year on year here but that doesn't stop some people knocking TAT and Thais

Well TAT says it is not that I'm saying they are liars, just strangers to the truth

No, no, no there is nothing wrong and I know because an official told me as he was tucking into seafood in full view of the media.

Oh what's that and keep it quiet, he wasn't eating local seafood. Got it !

Notice they didn't choose the Chiang Mai route.

With all that's happening on he political front there was no way the subsidy would be cut as PTP will be looking for all the support it can get rather than protests on several fronts.

I would think Abhisit and Suthep are used to bad news by now as they have a life membership to the DSI to start with

This Thai news and reports of the divers is certainly not manipulated. After all this is Thai research, and totally accurate.

Let's hope more of the truth continues to come out but no indication the area should be closed surely needed as a precaution

Are the people who came up with this scam piss poor? Were they going to use the money to help their community?

It's shocking how greedy people can be.

When Thai Airways were in financial trouble years back cost cutting ideas included all the free travel some were eligible for. An example was a gentleman who used free 1st Class fights 54 times in a year simply because he could, says it all.