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The German Army as a peace maker in Europe -  well that would certainly make a change !!!

Many Thais are heavily in debt and increased spending at the year end will probably make it worse.

There is a simple solution for Thailand - inist that all non Thai companies operating in Thailand are certified to the ISO standards for Environmental Management and Corporate Social Respnsiility for their operations in Thailand. That should reduce the locals complaints and exclude rogue operators.

100 tonnes of rubbish, but 10 holes to b dug. So 10 tonnes per hole.  That is NOT a internationaly recognised landfill, it's an "out of sight out of mind" dump.  My bets are there will be no compaction and the holes will be shallow.  Again Thailand scores high on the "we're only 3rd world" scale of ignorance.

Flying pigs !

Bearing in mind the increasing debt of Thais and the current low in agricultural prices, on what factors will increased spending be based ?  Or is this buying votes for next years election !!!  LOL

This in a country with nuclear weapons is so scary.

Drunk or sober, bad driving is the problem.

If ever there was a phrase to fit its " do as I say, not as I do".

On Wednesday, October 25, 2017 at 6:25 PM, Formaleins said:

Christmas is almost upon us, everyone likes to get a present! 

 

Most problems I have has is mail coming from the West, small packages etc. coming from China and the East, very little problem.

 

Also, send it by DHL and you are asking for trouble, you will probably get your package but it will probably cost you twice the value of the goods.

Not only will you get stung by customs using DHL , but any packing around fragile goods will be removed resulting in breakages.  Furthermore small items within the package may disappear.

Easy way out, blame climate change !

Changing the crops farmers grow sounds a good idea, but is there a market for these different crops ?  Our local markets seem full of fruits and veg, so what can small farms diversify to ?      There is a hard reality coming to Thailand, small farms cannot make a profit.  Europe went through that pain during the industrial revolution, but at least there were jobs in the new factories and mills. Unfortunately Thailand has already exhausted that option.

46 minutes ago, steven100 said:

and here's me thinking Mugabe is nothing more than an a** hole .... 

That man was responsible for the murder of thousands of his countrymen.  He is far worse than just an a...hole, he is a very evil bastard.

Yet even more committees. All words but no action.  The theory's great, but without people on the ground who know what they are doing it's just hot air, yet again !!!

Yet another story about the terrible dumping of waste in Thailand ( I can't call it waste management because it ain't). So very 3rd world..  

OMG just how long is this bullshit going to go on.  Such a fine display of democracy at work.  Well at least a certain Thai General will find it funny.

Delayed ! What no, who would ever believe such a thing was possible !!!

 What biochemical checks are done on Thai produce ?

3 hours ago, Estrada said:

I helped write the Bangkok Solid Waste Master Plan in 1999. The figures should be shown as tonnes per day not tons/day (tons means short tons which is 907.19kg), we worked in metric tonnes and kgs/person/day. The figures are suspect, 20 years ago the figures for collection of garbage(wet waste) and rubbish(trash) Bangkok was  11,000tonnes per day. The above news story indicates that 11,500tonnes per day are generated. The problem is that there is more waste generated than the BMA can deal with and that tends to be fly tipped on any available waste land and not collected by the BMA. This builds up. There are less recyclables collectors these days so bins get overfull. The above story fails to point out that most of the rubbish found in the street during the floods are due to the waste bins floating and being knocked over due to flood waters. Also the ground floor of buildings being flooded and materials floating out which block also the drains. The drainage and flood prevention schemes need to prevent flooding occurring in the first place. Much of the flood prevention and waste disposal schemes still have to be completed.

That is the problem.  They have a plan but no one capable of making theF plan work - in nearly 20 years.  Not only Thailand but in many developing countries. 

This is a major problem all Thai  governments have failed to address, despite inernational advice. I guess it will take central Bangkok under several feet of water before anything happens.  So sad !

The last paragraph says it all. Anymore rain and Bangkok will be swimming !

Everyone seems to be talking about handguns.  We live on a farm on the edge of a forest ( with no protected species ) and it would be useful to have either a good 22 airifle or rifle as we have many wild chickens eating our crops.  Are such weapons included in this government decree ?

Confusing as an earlier article said the floods wouldn' t be a problem.

Speaking to soon I think.  Nature has a way of biting back at so called " experts ".

So is that why the Chinese tanks arrived early. I remember the protest in a certain square in China where tanks were used to put down a student protest.