BestBitterPhuket

So it is clearly like the PM said, the justice process will go its NORMAL way.

Yes, it will go it's normal way and the perpetrators will be prosecuted.

All this has happened during the Yingluck administration and before.

So, well done to this PM for sorting these scum out and bringing them to justice.

Some of you, please, open your eyes and realize that a new era has come across Thailand.

Hope with all my heart it will continue and I can't see why not.

I do trust this administration and believe to their intentions and capabilities.

I really hope you are right....

This country just can't reform it's economy because it will hurt the buddies in the elite. Policies benefitting the already rich elite have always been more important than policies benefitting the whole country. Thailand will probably only change when it's too late, when the economy crashes for real and the masses rise against the elite. It is unavoidable unless they change course ASAP. They need foreign advisers, because there is nobody capable in Thailand. Why? Because all Thais on that level are involved or affiliated with the elite, and are therefore not capable if unbiased advising.

Youth crime....if the junta can't doesn't change the laws dealing with young criminals, then Thailand will have serious problems in the future. Try them

As adults and let them share cells with adults. That will be the best prevention.

This is a good move! Much is needed here.

Those who cheat and steal from children and the poor, should be sentenced to death and executed with no exceptions.

They are all rotten, except from some of the secretaries and civilian staff. An honest police man would report his colleagues for crimes, corruption and failure to carry out duty. An honest policeman would have been frozen out or sacked fairly quick.

General, the Thai people knows the truth about the police. All must be reformed. They need to be retrained and sit for exams again, with those failing losing their jobs. Only honest and skilled personnel should be involved. Hire more women.

Promising! We have to accept that many of the old police got away with it, but what is important is that what happens in the future. Arresting a few big fish and parading them in front of cameras and taking their assets, is a good deterrent, I am keeping my fingers crossed. The police is the organization that needs the most cleaning up of all.

what sort of British person has a name like "Rurik Jutting"?

A man with eccentric parents, perhaps. He was pure British. Not "imported".

How about these ideas?

1. Let free market set prices

2. Allow questions to be asked in schools (not label those who dare "troublemakers"?)

3. tell us what "high value service sector" means? Bar girls? Amazing to get any service imho

4. repair existing infrastructure (rail etc) before blowing money on system that won't be maintained

5. make laws international business friendly (contrary to proposals made last week)

Those are just for openers. Might want to add mandatory economics classes for those who decide strategy for economic policy.... Nah, can't have that

Exactly!

They are all extremely corrupt, but we just have to accept that they can't arrest and charge all of them. They need to arrest and destroy some of the top officers, in order for others to stop or slow down. The fight against corruption will be useless unless you bring down some of the big fish. This is promising.

Wow! Finally! This is big news. This is just what the fight against corruption needs. This is promising!

How can a senior official just make up things and lie like a 5-year old child, take no responsibility and STILL keep his job?

When local companies are not ready to compete, then the government should do everything to bring in foreign companies in those sectors to facilitate knowledge, skill and technology transfers in order to lift the local sector in the LONG term. The Thai policy is the opposite. The stupidity is tragic. Only short term solutions and personal greed serve as the platform. All the empty talk about reform, and then the new government serves anti-reforms of the worst kind.

Sorry to say it, but if you don't know the alphabet after more than a year of "studying", than you should not be a student in a first place. I fully understand that they close this loophole. The "goalposts" should have been moved a long time ago, and when they finally are, there will always be someone learning. The Thai alphabet is not like the Chinese. If you can't memories the alphabet in a few weeks, then you are not trying hard enough.

Would it not be easier just to audit all govt employees(incl. land office) and see who is unusually wealthy? On a salary of around 15k per month, it always strikes me as odd that the staff are driving around in Mercedes and Porshes, often live in huge gated mansions, and on occasion splurge out half a billion buying a few shares on the SET. They might be canny investors or amazing savers but I'm not convinced. PS check these employees gardeners,chauffers and maids assets too, sometimes money gets lost or mistakenly transferred, accidents will happen.

Were we not cautioned by the PM not to jump to conclusions about wealth ?

It might be possible that EVERYONE married a wealthy woman !

This is why the spouses should be checked too. You can be sure that a spouse of a super corrupt official or politician will not be working, so she/he will not be able to show any convincing and legal money trail either.

I got mine from the Thai embassy in Singapore in less than 24 hours from the time it was submitted. I am a Singapore Permanent Resident, which means that I have already been subject to a very strict and thorough vetting by the Singapore government, and the Thai embassy here demanded copies of my Singapore ID card and reentry permit as part of the visa requirements, even though this is not mentioned on the website.

I was surprised at the speed and efficiency.

Absolute scum and dirtbags. The main deserves no justice.

So what are they going to do about it? They need to hand down the death sentence and life sentences to corrupt top officials. It's the only way, but it won't happen in Thailand any time soon.

The police officers who let them go, should be investigated AND lose their jobs.

But I guess the Junta wants to keep such "quality" policemen.

I wonder if the Russians got a refund. You know, for endangering the life of an 8-year-old for starters.

Refund? Why? Experience of a lifetime!

Selling CD's collected from the trash: Almost two years imprisonment!!

Sicko trying to export bodyparts: Released!!

Thailand is as sick as this guy!!

One act was illegal the other wasn't. Nothing sick about it.

"Thailand is as sick as this guy!!"

What was Thailand's "sick" part in this anyway? This is about an American buying something unusual.

Who was selling him and in which country did I it happen?

How can they let this disgusting piece if garbage leave. He should be detained until they all DNA testing and investigations are done. Fortunately the US embassy reps where presents and I am sure they will alert FBI to look into these people. Utter filth.

Sadly, it looks like there will be no real reforms any time soon. But this is the army's last chance of getting it right. They don't have much support in the north, and support in the south is eroding. Support among young urbanites will also erode fast, if they can't keep their promises or show proof of real progress.

Its fraud and she should be prosecuted , Otherwise this is a very morally sick country.

It is a morally sick country.