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1 hour ago, Mickmouse1 said:

So who is to blame? Is it not a good idea to move all government departments completely to a new area outside bkk? Do not grant companies permission to build more office blocks/towers in the city....encourage biz to relocate by offering them decent incentives. ?

Far too logical. You must have just arrived in Thailand (joking)

7 hours ago, bark said:

97 million. Does that make us " A HUB "  ?

Yes. Thailand is now the hub of wasted resources

3 hours ago, kotsak said:

Wondering what happened to the previous 134 plans aimed at solving the problem 

Agreed and what the plans from the previous months?

Not a bad price for buying a country

Is this guy supposed to be intimidating? If so he has failed miserably.

4 hours ago, Sphere said:

Are flares back in fashion?

If you travel back in time yes they are

2 hours ago, williamgeorgeallen said:

foreign investment down 90% so far this year. did they predict wrong? why are they reporting they predicted it wrong. confusing.

Surely you realise that predictions, at least the ones they want to be positive,  never ever go down.

They have not even given a date for the "election" so speculation on it with respect to inflow of investments is ridiculous

1 hour ago, Reigntax said:

 

Yes. Predicting the past and still get it wrong.

But they are consistent.

1 minute ago, dageurreotype said:

 

When somtum was 5 baht a bag. These back-in-the-day comparisons are silly.

1 minute ago, dageurreotype said:

 

When somtum was 5 baht a bag. These back-in-the-day comparisons are silly.

No they are not silly. The exchange rate is not fixed as you obviously think to a bag of Som Tam. I would suggest you do a little reading of economics before engaging mouth

4 hours ago, Acharn said:

Strength? You mean back when it was 28.5 to the dollar? Good grief! That was before the coup, wasn't it? I could look it up of XE dot com, but am still working on my first coffee. Just to try to normalize our language here, 35.5 is weaker than 34.5. It means the same number of baht buys fewer dollars. I recall the baht fluctuated around 32 for over a year back six or seven years ago, then it strengthened to nearly 28. 28 is stronger than 32, because a given number of baht can buy more dollars.

Back in the 80's it was a little over 25 to the dollar

The subject of the movie "The Village" is starting to be more noticeable if anyone remembers what it was about

Tell this to my daughter, I don't think she would be impressed.

14 hours ago, soalbundy said:

Oh yeah, what about the cure for Ebola

And the cure the Thai's discovered for AIDS. You forgot that one

I assume, unlike most embassies if not all, their embassy could not issue an emergency travel document. Is my assumption correct?

On 30/08/2016 at 7:55 PM, TacoGuy said:

Not that bothered with the noses in phones, but the constant selfies and foodie photos get tiresome.  But everyone is at it, not just the Thais.

Presumably you mean on Facebook. So why do you bother looking at them, you don't have to?

Politics and bad people go hand in hand the world over. Stop that combination and there is no government of any kind

Murder carries the death penalty, it is hoped he gets that sentence. Because he is Thai is no excuse for giving him anything less

5 hours ago, nahkit said:

"Pol Sub Lt. Woraphan Kaewmorakot said that he was on duty at Pattaya South and Second Road when he was confronted by three middle eastern men on motorcycles.

He was ‘challenged to a duel’ and so attempted to arrest the men."

 

" Maj Somsri, who was on duty at Dolphin Roundabout, saw the three men and so jumped into the road to apprehend them"

 

" Pol Sen Sgt Maj Somsri Sima, Chief of the Traffic Department, was treated for a broken left collar bone,

 

Two different people. The policeman who was injured was not the one that was "challenged to a duel".

 

I'm still trying to work out what challenged to a duel actually means, pistols at dawn, rapiers or sabres?

As they are Arabs probably tea towels at 20 paces

31 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

 

The reform process should start with the appointment of a Royal Commission on Police Reform chaired by the PM and consist of judiciary, NGOs, private enterprises representatives besides the police. They will be responsible to set up a Task Force to implement key reforms. An Implementation Committee will handle the key reforms implementation. It seem that the Police Chief is really not serious in the reform and only gave a half hearted attempt. 

You forgot steering committees 

So no real justice then just a slap on the wrist as usual.

13 hours ago, colinneil said:

Why did the police stop him???

They should have stepped back and let the relative give him a good hiding.

Utter scum, low life does not deserve to live, pointing a gun at a poor innocent defenceless child.

It isn't as if the police are going to give this piece of s##t justice is it. Good on him for wanting to do what is right

They will solve it. Probably be some time around the time hell freezes over

Just take a look at number 10 in the following link regarding safety:

http://mozotravel.com/2016/03/07/dont-go-there-the-13-worst-countries-to-visit/10/?utm_medium=Discovery&utm_source=Outbrain&utm_campaign=worstcountries

3 hours ago, sambum said:

"The suspects inserted the card and then pressed ‘Cancel’ to trigger the ATMs to dispense cash,” 

 

How does that work?

The Malware looks for something to happen, in this case the card and cancel, then it executes the software