Eric Loh

South Korea used to be called the country of coups from the 60s-80s and their history was marked by alternating periods of democratic and post coups autocratic military rule just like Thailand. Democracy enjoyed by South Korea today came about from student and civic movements that brought enormous changes to the constitution and political system. THailand may seem like a lost cause but I believed that in everything it has its threshold and limit. Pressure must be maintained by the youth and civil groups to break this cycle of coups.

Not BS but their constitutional rights to protests. What comes next worry me too. Hope a general election can be held in the near future to elect the government. Prayut's government is faux.

Th rumour ablazed that he may lose the confidence vote this Saturday when his own party House representatives will turn against him. The party coup is engineered by some of his closest military friends as rumoured. If true he will have to resigned. Pray that this will happen but I dread who will replace him. He also losing hard liner royalist yellow shirt supporters like Tanat Thanankitamnuay or popularly known as Hi-so Look Nat. Famous for driving his Porsche into a red-shirt protesters in 2010 and joined the street rallies held by the PDRC. He is now a regular feature of anti-Prayut protests. His wealthy Thai royalists family support his street protests.

As the situation improved and more restrictions lifted, there are lessons to be learned from mistakes by countries with spiking cases even with high percentage of vaccinated population. The commonality of highly vaccinated countries like US, Israel, South Korea, Australia and Netherland is that all of these countries abandon basic precaution like masking and totally relaxed the need for social distancing. The new normal even with 80% vaccination is that basic precautions will still have to be maintained and hope the virus will run itself out and nullified. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-57796133

Most Thais do exercise the necessary precautions to limit their exposure to be infected with restriction partially lifted. Mask, social distancing and the desire to be vaccinated can be expected of Thais. We don’t have much of the western values for individual freedom but rather a sense of communal well being.

Cognitive intelligence is the ability of human brain to digest information and form intelligence and meaningful rebuttal. Anutin and the corrupt government are total craps and vaccines are not.

The long term credit rating for Thailand remain at BBB+. Stable outlook affirmed.

You do know there are female police officer.

My view is that she is more in danger out in the open and can be dissappeared without a trace or known to anyone. She better off in custody or protection from the police which will be responsible for her safety. Should any untold accident happened to her, there is accountability. The absence of her whereabout played into the hands of those who don't want her to be a witness.

From Dailymail.UK with many incriminating photos. Layers of plastic bags that even covers the contours of his face. Those disgusting corrupted beasts.

More importantly is the sound reasoning by the Health Minister to include Sinovac and Sinopharm. What is important now is the difference between those who are vaccinated and not vaccinated and less so between different vaccines.” He noted that the WHO is a "widely accepted" reference organisation. "It sets a 50 per cent vaccine effectiveness threshold for listing in the emergency use list. So there is some assurance of a minimum and verified standard," he said.

Fair that we don’t believe in the daily reported numbers. To me the trend line, death and vaccination are the numbers that I pay much attention besides SET and exchange rate. If they moving in the right direction, I tend to think that the situation is making progress. We all need a break.

Good vaccines is oxymoron and a myth. All vaccines are good and protect you from serious illness and death.

Just where is the victim’s girlfriend who is a key witness to the murder. I see no attempt by the police to find and protect her. I really fear for her life.

Cases of hospitalisation and deaths after fully vaccinated with Pfizer reported in New Zealand and Singapore. What's your point.

Kind of fit the description of most countries. In any case, those who visit Thailand don't really bother with the political system. They just want to have fun and a good tan.

You see the same posters with the constant negativity. Small group, mostly Thai residing farangs. Rest of Thailand is looking up with the declining covid trend. See you here soon.

Income inequality hurts economic growth as it wastes human capital and human potential. Health and well-being from inequality contribute to low productivity. Competitive salaries rather than expensive salaries contribute to attracting and retaining good staffs and lead to increasing productivity. Thailand need to improve its productivity and I feel that allowing competitive salary rather than minimum wage is the right approach besides improving education, training etc

Does it really matter that Vietnam outstrip Thailand’s economy. Vietnam prosperity will benefit the region and good for Asean. Asean countries including Thailand are the largest FDI investors in Vietnam. Don’t need to be a economic expert to realize that Vietnam has a youthful and cheap labour force compared to the aging demography for Thailand and in a long haul will be critical for economic growth. Thailand will need to move up the product value chain and use technology to replace the aging labour force rather than compete with Vietnam on low value products. End of the day, the middle class in Thailand must have improve per capita income and the inequality of income narrowed and not challenging for economic supremacy.

A decade late. ETS (electric train service) trains have been running in Malaysia since 2010. Smooth and quiet ride. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTM_ETS

My Chinese suppliers said the same. They really had a hard time with the zero tolerance lockdown and the extensive flooding. Just last week, the restrictions were lifted and they could get to the bank and able to did a financial transaction to me.

Those are the same one who refused to be vaccinated and yet complain that they can’t get a shot.

I see you can’t handle the truth that the west mismanaged the pandemic while China did well. As for the lab, it’s more politic than science. Opening the labs will not stop the politicking by those who have an agenda.

Chinese vaccines work just fine. Stop delta in its track. https://fortune.com/2021/08/23/china-covid-local-cases-zero-delta-variant-control/

Wirach Ratanasate from Palang Phacharath Party as chairman of House Committee vetting police reform is like having Jim Jordan as chairman of the Jan 6 commission. Nothing less than a independent panel Royal established commission of bipartisan politicians, prominent public figures and Chuvit as chairman of the commission will be powerful enough to uproot the deeply embedded corruption in Thailand.