Dogmatix

Is that so? I would have thought the opposite. If you are working abroad for a UK company, you are no longer covered by UK employment law and would have no protection under Thai law either, as you would be a free lancer, as as far as they are concerned. But if you work for a Thai subsidiary or affiliate, you are at least covered by Thai employment law which has provisions against unfair dismissal and for redundancy payments.

Because she is not in Thailand and, is standing her ground and can't be intimidated, this may end up in childish threats of criminal defamation charges which would be meaningless, since she claims she never wants to set foot in the Kingdom again. That's how it went with Hannah Witheridge's sister when she had to temerity to criticise Thai police for framing the 2B for the murder of her sister and David Miller. Also for their disgusting behaviour, luring the Witheridge family to police national HQ with the pretense that they had new information to share but actually merely to make money by selling access to the grieving family without their knowledge to reporters and photographers who were allowed to photograph them huddled together and stick microphones in their faces to ask them how they felt about the brutal murder of their family member and the corrupt police investigation into it. The police have shown themselves able and willing to fabricate and destroy evidence in far more serious cases then the Taiwanese actress, so why would they hesitate to the same in this case.

Yes and how about police body cameras too?

That could be a winner. No need to go South America or Afica to experience the thrilling risk of being waylaid by highway robbers. It's available in Amazing Thailand right here in SE Asia provided by Bangkok's finest.

Initial police response was to pretend they didn’t have a roadblock in that area at that time.

The motto of this story is that Chinese, Taiwanese and others should pay for the police escort and protection in advance and they won't be harassed. Thailand needs to make up for all the lost tourism income.

Yes, very boring non-post.

Looks like a link to your own FB page. Tegridy Thai looks like a small coffee shop in HH. It has FB page with a lot of unrelated content. No more detail.

The UK discrimination is quite pernicious because all decent unis there are state controlled and therefore apply the dual pricing. The US does it but I think residents' prices only apply to state residents in state colleges, which seems more acceptable. No benefits in this for getting Thai citizenship but no discrimination either.

This type of escort service had been available for a long time. I remember being given a quote that was something like 10k a day for a police car and 5k for a motorbike plus tips to escort VIP visitors around Bangkok. We used the service for a visiting director from our parent company. They did a great job in traffic turning on sirens to get cars out of the way - well worth it. The director believed it was because the cops considered him genuinely important.

Very funny. The van was from my mother-in-law’s village. These were real people with husbands, wives, children, mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters.

Back in the 70s the Edinburgh drug squad was known to charge people arrested for possession of cannabis and other drugs with a fraction of what they were actually caught with and sell the surplus back into the market. None of the people busted ever complained about this. Often it meant the difference between a prison sentence and a fine and probabation. So why would they?

I thought they had promised China they wouldn't be disclosing the nationality of Chinese criminals in future.

I think you've probably nailed it.

A love tap maybe but then what was she doing with cane.? I bet a few love taps with that cane across her naked buttocks from a gym instructer in front of the class would soon change her mind about corporal punishment.

I went to schools ruled by disgusting sadists who caned boys on naked buttocks till they were a bloody mess purely for their own sexual pleasure. We were also subjected to painful ear twisting and other tortures by teachers including having heavy wooden board dusters hurled at our heads in class. This made boys fear those teachers but definitely didn't make us respect them. We despised them utterly, realising that they were not fit to be teachers or have anything to do with children. As a result of these experiences I cannot condone any teacher hitting a child and, if one dared to hit my son, I would seek him and her out and pay the cops and anyone else whatever it took to destroy their career.

I have an ID card with prefix 8. I got the number when I got PR and kept the same number when I upgraded to citizenship which was convenient as there was no need to change my driving licence or tax ID. I believe pink IDs can be issued with the 0 prefix and tax IDs and possibly yellow tabian baans and pink IDs can be issued with the prefix 6 but will be changed to a new number with the prefix 8, if the foreigner gets PR or citizenship. Messing around with fake IDs may be the way to go for many foreigners from neighbouring countries and Chinese who can pass as Thai at a casual glance. But they need to accept that being caught with a fake ID can land them in the slammer and get them permanently blacklisted from Thailand (under their own name that is). If the only way they can earn a decent living and send money back to families is to live with that Sword of Damocles hanging over them that may descend at any moment, then I can understand that may be the way to go for many.

Some years ago I went to Phyathai and they were totally obnoxious and insulting and asked for documents that were clearly not necessary. I was a permanent resident and the head of registrations said my alien book was fake because, in his ignorant opinion, they were only issued to Chinese not farangs. Having wasted out time with that brain dead idiot we bid adieu made a dash for the Sathorn office before closing time and they were all smiles and couldn't have been more helpful. They made a big effort to get it all done for us before closing time, including providing the two witnesses for us for a couple of hundred baht extra. If nothing has changed, I would recommend Sathorn over Bang Rak as the latter must get swamped with marriage registrations because of its name.

Only available on the NHS for 70-79 year olds. So 50-69 year olds and over 80s have to pay the 450 quid for themselves. I guess they think at 80+ it's not worth bothering with patients as they are going to die soon anyway. At least that's what my mother used to say about the NHS treatment she got in her 80s and 90s. Partly an excuse to avoid going to see the doctor and partly true I suspect. Anyway lucky that the NHS provides Shingrix at all. It has been progessively gutted since I left the UK when it was still possible to see an NHS doctor without an appointment as a walk-in patient and get elective surgery in less than two years.

Hilarious. Reminds me of when Banharn was PM and he visited Patong disguised with a wig to investigate the rumors that prostitution was taking place there. After visiting some Patpong venues thus “incognito” but with a retinue of senior cops and bodyguards, Banharn was relieved to be able to announce that the rumors of prostitution were totally unfounded

That is tragic. Which vaccine was that? Zostovax or Shingrix.

Unfortunately most of the information about it is from the manufacturer.

Most of the dispensaries have continued to sell online which is already illegal, not to mention the unlicensed sellers of brickweed and the like on FB and LINE. I guess this will encourage more people to buy on the black market. Who wants to be in a police database as a drug user? Very hard to crack down on the black market sales while possession of the substance remains legal. They will have to catch vendors in the act of selling. They could try to bust people for possession without a receipt from a licensed dispensary and a corresponding entry in the database but that would be very onerous and virtually defeat the purpose of decriminalizing.

It's boring to see the off topic posts arguing points irrelevant to the topic. The thread is about the requirement for Thai citizens to have their ID cards and details of their purchases put into a database to sent to Gods knows which government departments. A fantastic database for Thaksin's next war against drugs when he gets back into power and recriminalizes cannabis. It's odd that no mention of foreigners was made but I find it unlikely that foreigners will be let off the hook. Most likely they will also demand passport and visa details or just ban foreigners from buying completely.

I am pretty sure they scanned the fingerprints database. I seem to remember reading about that somewhere. Just give it a try. I think it is possible to get in. It wasn't an offence that led to imprisonment and he doesn't mention that he was ordered blacklisted by the court.