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5 hours ago, webfact said:

Witnesses saw the Mini being driver normally but it suddenly braked and hit the parked Altis and overturned.

Checking how many 'likes' to her last FB post, or messaging on Line, or both.

1 hour ago, Mavideol said:

and contradictory as well.... in one hand they are trying anything and everything to get tourists back but on the other hand they do make statements like the ones the judge did

Well, in this place, the right hand doesn't know a left exists, and vice versa. Never mind knowing what each one does.

As for getting tourists back, all they want is for the tourists to deposit their hard-earned cash here and once that's done, they will no longer be 'tolerated'. Never mind 'welcomed'.

'Quality tourists' in their context means those who land, surrender all their cash and valuables, turn around and <deleted> off.

5 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

The message is clear - the presence of foreigners in Thailand is tolerated rather than welcomed.

Sad, but very true.

Nah, nothing will happen to this git, or any other ministers/members of the cabinet.

Out of curiosity - anyone from Malaysia here? Is this Anutin baboon still better,  just as bad, or worse, than the Malaysian Health Minister? For the record, the latter claimed warm water cures Covid-19 infection, mistook a water dispenser for a hand-sanitiser dispenser and called the Spanish Flu 'Spanish Fly'. Amongst other gaffes, so it seems.

"The first case was reported to the police that he fainted and collapsed. Emergency service was called to the scene but attempts to save his life failed and he died at 5 p.m. before his body was collected at 10 p.m."

I hope the emergency-response personnel wore full protective gear or PPE. In Malaysia, every single emergency-response personnel must be fully-protected because one does not know whether the other is CVD19 +ve, or not, regardless of the medical situation of the patient. Otherwise, the emergency-response personnel could be end up being infected unknowingly (I don't know how long the virus stays active on a dead vector), go home, spread it to friends and loved ones, ad infinitum.

This 'senior doctor from Siriraj Hospital' is a bit too optimistic, I guess. Just look at how figures in Malaysia spiked because of somewhat-unrestricted travel. And these were just local interstate travels! Of course, that country's political turmoil didn't help, but that's a different discussion. Fact of the matter is, if Thailand isn't careful, 10,000 new cases per day will come sooner rather than later, and way, way before the year is out.

18 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Thailand's planned reopening of the resort island Phuket next month to vaccinated visitors, bypassing quarantine requirements...

@Reuters - The whole sandpit malarkey IS a quarantine in itself! It's just done on an island, instead of in a hotel room. Fourteen days on the island (vs in a hotel room) before you can go elsewhere, various rounds of tests, GPS-enabled trackers (not to mention the potential for yet another major leak of personal data afterwards) and god knows what other hoops and barriers the government of the day will put in place between now and tomorrow. Essentially, they've just turned Phuket into a large quarantine centre, that is all. Then there is the mandatory quarantine back in the visitors' home countries to think about...

18 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

... removal of the costly, two-week quarantine requirements that deterred tourists for more than a year offers some hope.

Taking everything into consideration, having your quarantine on an island is way costlier than in a hotel room!

Headline should be: 'Phuket Ready to be Biggest CVD19 Quarantine Centre in the World'.

18 hours ago, Excel said:

more like a hand brake turn

At the rate they are going it's looking more like doughnuts.

Pictorial representation of where Thailand's online technology/security is currently at. I think Thailand still use 5.25-inch floppy disks. The one in the pic is a more advanced version using 3.5-inch disks.

'Thai government' and 'truth' appearing in the same sentence is just plain bad English.

5 minutes ago, colinneil said:

Laughable, thats what it is, you go after my brother, and your time is up, ok.

As the Thais would say, it's just 'drama'. I'd wager they're all in it, just to create some news release for the NACC ????

Something to show the NACC is doing something, without doing anything.

On 4/26/2021 at 7:49 PM, richard_smith237 said:

Complete and total scripting and fabrication on the back of ‘politicians breaking rules’ follows by ‘stop pestering our politicians’...  some halfwit who everyone thinks is sharp figured it would be a great idea to present the PM as ‘one of us’......  Wow, even the PM is not beyond the law !! this guy is amazing, what hero he can be fined like the rest of us... 

Yes, this. Absolutely.

9 hours ago, webfact said:

attractions based on the studio's popular movies including "Ghostbusters", "Jumanji", "Bad Boys", "Men in Black" and "Hotel Transylvania".

I'd venture that parks like these would appeal mainly to kids, teenagers and young adults - which today means those born in 2000 or later. And so I thought the Columbia Pictures park was a little off the mark to promote attractions based on movies listed above, as most of them were released in the 90s. Heck, Ghostbusters was released in the 80s! How would these attractions resonate with the younger generation? But after some checking, I realised that these movies have remakes and sequels while some spawned into franchises, with some releases as recent as 2020/21!

I realise now that it is ME who do not belong to the target audience profile. And I'm out of it by a wide margin at that ????????????

Ah, so the Girls in Brown Circus is back in town for their annual Songkran performances.