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Would that be "currency manipulation" by another name?

In the mean time they will be parked alongside of all the other planes for sale in the Arizona desert.

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Phuket marks high season with boat parade

By The Nation

This means the hotels can now start charging high season prices and the taxi guys will follow suit.

9 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

BANGKOK (NNT) - Deputy Prime Minister Gen Prawit Wongsuwan has delivered the government’s policy for the Ministry of a Digital Economy and Society, to tackle fake news and illegal websites, while promoting online media literacy among members of the public.

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By this he means anything he does not agree with should be banned, poor dinosaur has not grasped that most of the public especially the young'uns understand the digital world better then him.

9 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

On the economy, Gen Prawit has urged the MDES to step up digital technology implementation to help the general public generate more income, drive forward the national 5G network and promote the utilization of this high-speed mobile network infrastructure.

This will increase digital literacy, which comes with the side effect the population learns how badly they are treated.

Wait for it..... Jail for Tanathorn and the government confiscates the money. 

31 minutes ago, webfact said:

He said that, if he resigns, the whole Cabinet will leave the office automatically, in accordance with Section 167 of the Constitution, but he and his Cabinet will stay on, in an acting capacity, until there is a new Cabinet.

So nothing will change until the party is told what to do. 

In other parliamentary democracies there would be a line of contenders all sprooking their abilities to the ones that vote for them (other MP's and senators) and in the press. The process would take anything from a couple of hours to a week, however this is Thailand.

Given only a select few Chinese tourists can come to Thailand, the protests will be having very little effect on the tourist numbers, and a very small impact on the tourism based businesses.

This makes it a perfect time for the protests. The protests are after all a purely internal Thai affair. If they delay them till when the tourists are allowed to come the business owners would have a legitimate complaint.

This sounds so much like the "investment visa" that was created post Asian Financial crisis (the one started by Thailand pre-GFC). Buy a condo for more than 3MilB and get a visa. It did put some life into the real estate market at the time. Successive governments effectively killed it.

Just rehashing an old idea.

A number of year ago an agent was trying to sell me a business in Phuket. I said it was a one trick pony of an area. All it needed was the rebellious southerners to plant one or two bombs and the tourists would stop coming and the economy would collapse. His response was to literally put his index fingers in his ears and say "lah lah lah". Would have been funny if it was not so pathetic.

It was a virus not a bomb that proved me right.

Send in your new trade representative Tony Abbott. He will fix it just like he did with Australia's trade negotiations.

While he is there give him back his British citizenship so we can strip him of his Aussie rights.

Did anyone notice the source for this article? 

The Taiwanese pres are not known for their pro-Beijing stance. This can be filed under scare mongering and attempting to get the attention of other countries.

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Students should be encouraged and supported to voice their opinions but also educated so they can think clearly and critically, she said.

 

Where are they going to learn critical thinking in the Thai education system?

By the look of things these students have gained that part of their education outside of the formal system and are demonstrating their understanding very clearly.

There is another possibility. The testing is not up to scratch, giving false results, both positive and negative.

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Sontaya Khunpluem highlighted that one of the main issues was that after contracts for agreed maintenance schedules with private companies expired the cameras started to break down. 

 

Originally there were assurances that 95% would be functional. Now it is under half. 

 

Maybe, just maybe, those maintenance contracts need to be renewed, or at least put out to tender close to their expiry.  Not the big saving someone thought when they were not renewed.