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It's terrible her family must travel to hopefully close this part of the story. To those who contribute to the fund, that's a great gesture of sympathy. The national government, the provincial government and local Koh Tao Council should step up to the plate and offer the family accommodations during the trial. It would send a powerful message to other travelers to Thailand, that the authorities do care about security.

I guess he wanted to personally give permission to K. Yingluck to order noodles.

What nonsense!!! Trying to make it acceptable to not require English language skills as a job qualification requisite. I've been in HR almost 10 years in Thailand now. No employer that I have worked for accepts anything less than confidence in English, both written and verbal. Not just Thais, but any foreign national as well. Frankly, a candidate who doesn't have the ability to properly communicate in English is worthless to an MNC, except at the manual labor skill level.

Obvious that KFC has nothing to do with this and the extortion is an "only in Thailand" scam. I doubt they will ever identify the scammers.

Thailand, becoming more insular by the day. The solution to dwindling international arrivals, insular tourism. Pure genius.

Jet ski operators in Phuket and Pattaya were ordered to limit their jet ski damage scam claims to 100,000 baht

Karaoke bar owners in Chiang Mai were ordered to limit their check bin lady drink scam to 50,000 baht per customer

The scammers were told the price controls only apply to Chinese tourists, and that they can continue to rip off tourists of other nationalities as they please

I'm sure the money will be well-used in Thailand. It will be used to buy the best accident prevention devices known to the Thais - - amulets, both authentic and fake(?).

Finally, an admission that another of Thaksin's so-called populist successes was ultimately unsustainable.

My condolences to K. Decha's family and friends. I wonder if he had rescued some key KMITL documents from being burned in the fire, and somehow mysteriously met his death descending the stairs down from the 10th floor?

What do they expect will happen as they allow anti-Semitic people to take over the UK?

The anti-Semitic people only followed after the path was already laid by the anti-Semitic media and press in the UK.

Replace 1/2 the Thai culture curriculum with world history courses and replace 1/2 of the teachers who use multiple-choice rote-learning tests with real teachers and the problem will be solved.

The chief should contact the US diplomatic corps. The US diplomatic corps seem to be able to divine when an event is politically driven.

For example, 866 million pairs of shoes imported by the US, of which 68 per cent of them would be unloaded at Los Angeles and Long Beach, said Ms Jirapaphan.

Wow, does everyone in the US now wear shoes from Thailand?

Didn't know Imelda Marcos lived in the West Coast.

Try Makiki Heights on Oahu, Hawaii. Not West Coast USA for the geographically uninformed. Hawaii has its own history of dock worker labor strikes. Back in the day before extensive air cargo, a longshoreman strike would cripple the state's economy.