Dogmatix

There are far worse places she could end up in. Flying into Moscow, for example, even the immigration and customs officers can't speak or understand a word of English but hassle you in Russian nevertheless. Trying to buy a ticket at the Moscow railway station was a complete nightmare.

Nothing new. Vietnam's economy has been growing at a faster rate than Thailand's for many years already.

He may be right but who would listen to someone agitating for a casino in Thailand? Shows what kind of tourism he wants to promote. If you have ever been in casinos in Macau, Monte Carlo, Genting or Las Vegas and seen the seedy characters that are attracted to this mindless form of losing money, you know what I mean. Macau is the worst and would probably be the model for Thailand.

Perhaps Eden should have flown to Phuket without him and looked for another bloke without water damage to his passport.

Perhaps the prosecutors will do a better job than in the court of first instance where they were somehow unable to present convincing evidence to the court in what would probably have been an open and shut case, if the defendant were a mere mortal. Whether you agree with the existence of an LM law, as it stands, or not, it does exist in Thailand and, as such, should be applied equally to rich and poor.

You nailed it. It is time that Thai people were allowed to move on from this toxic family. Hopefully this will finish Thaksin and his family can just enjoy their billions in peace and not inflict themselves on public life any more.

You can argue the merits of a lese majeste law but, if there is one and it is enforced, it should be applied equally to rich and poor. The evidence in Thaksin’s case looked much more robust than many others which resulted in stiff sentences for lesser mortals and it is correct that the new Anutin appointed AG should appeal. He was caught out on the tax because he stupidly believed that Temasek would buy his offshore companies with the SHIN shares in them ( and god knows what other liabilities) deposited at Singapore with UBS Bank. Most serious investors refuse to do that and It was obvious that a government wealth fund could not do that, even though they did some dubious stuff to conceal the illegal foreign majority ownership in SHIN afterwards. Then he was forced to transfer off market at an artificial price below market price and sold to Temasek on market at the tender offer price. It is a totally clear cut tax liability and there are precedents where others had to pay tax on similar off market transactions at below market price. Thai listed shares sold off market are liable to tax and only exempt if sold through the market.

It is complete BS that this to protect Thai businesses. Thai businesses cannot make any of the stuff I import from China and no one stocks most of it here. Thai sellers have shop fronts on Lazada and Shopee and get the products drop shipped from China. So they will be affected. Since so much is bought this way, the impact will be inflationary.

No point in these regulations. The 2-5pm dry period is a revolutionary decree from a military government that seized power in a coup d'etat and it would make more sense to just repeal all such revolutionary decrees in a spirit of democracy. It had fallen into abeyance by the 1990s but the arch convict decided to revive it for reasons better known to himself.

Have they choked their way through noxious fumes through Chiang Mai's pollution season yet?

https://metro.co.uk/2025/10/22/prince-andrews-nights-dozens-floozies-uk-funded-thai-visits-24485849/ The article has a photo of Andy visiting Father Joe's orphanage in Klong Toey with the British ambassador at the time, James Hodge. It also mentioned he eschewed accommodation at the wonderful but now demolished British ambassador's residence in favour of a hotel with a disco full of hookers in the basement. I think most Bkk residents can figure out which hotel that is.

That should do the trick. Never mind about shoddy buildings collapsing after approval by corrupt officials and 60 metre sinkholes plus Chinese citizens being abducted by Immigration connected gangs to be shipped off to call centres in Burma and tourists being shot in shopping malls, blown up at the Erawan Shrine or drowned in unseaworthy tour boats.

This is all exaggerated as part of the Thaksin PR machine. He benefited from the tough steps taken by the Chuan government to get Thailand to meet all the IMF requirements which were already met when he took office and took the credit for that, stupidly repaying the loans early as a PR exercise when he could have kept the low interest rate rates to maturity and made profits for Thailand just by buying US treasuries. He benefited from the rebound from the Tom Yum Kung crisis in Thailand and the rest of Asia and from strong global growth with low inflation. He had some good ideas but they came from his dynamic advisors, not him. The Yingluck, Srettha and Ung Ing governments were disastrous for Thais. Yingluck's rice pledging scam drove Thai farmers to suicide when her government took their rice and didn't pay them for it, leaving their families with no money and nothing to eat. In the Srettha and Ung Ing governments all the dynamic advisors were long gone and he surrounded himself with elderly yes men like Phumtham and acted on his own ideas - handouts, landbridges and casinos etc, none of which moved the needle. Then there was the massive corruption from someone who came to power with more money than he and his descendants to the Nth generation could ever use in their lifetimes which freed him to do something useful for Thailand, such as reforms. Yet his only interest was in enriching himself further.

555. Thaksin was the perpetrator of a power grab that led to the unelected and farcical Srettha and Ung Ing governments that dumped the Thai economy and living standards deeper into the toilet. Good riddance to bad rubbish, including the useless Phumtham. At least we won't need to see him dressed as an elderly ice cream salesman in daily in the media any more.

There's no doubt THC and CBD can control certain types of epilepsy and can reduce inflammation and joint pain as well as deal pain caused by cancer. Medical science has made little progress on this though due to the US federal ban and bans in most Western countries. Not re-criminalising it in Thailand will help refine those uses for Thais.