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"surveillance bill that would allow officials to inspect any form of communication without a requesting a court warrant"

You're deceiving yourself if you don't think MICT was already doing this, albeit, illegally.

Does the British Consulate do anything for its citizens here in Thailand? I've never seen such a lazy bunch of do nothing SOB's. They don't even have the decency to handle passport renewals and replacements. Passports which are made with too few pages for frequent travelers and the government refusing to add pages. Of course, they are following the lead of the HMRC who bin any written corporate annual return, insisting they all be filed electronically. The British government - a load of <deleted>.

Another step in the right direction. It's sad that BTS fought this through the courts instead of acknowledging that equal access is better for the nation. It's just too bad the funding for the capital improvements won't come out of the pockets of the less progressive thinking BTS administrators.

Well, worldwide that's the case with most migrant farm workers. Are Burmese, Cambodians and Laotians working in Thai agricultural fields treated better or worse than the Thais working in Israel?

That's not the point, here.

If Israel wants to call themselves a civilized country they should look and treat their migrant workers with respect.

At least respect as fellow human beings.

All the rest is just excuses.............

Are you implying that Thailand does not want to call itself a civilized country? The point is that migrant workers are mistreated everywhere in the world. This is just a cheap shot to single out Israel, because HRW opposes their treatment of the Palestinians in Gaza. HRW could find the same thing in any country with a large agricultural economic base, such as the US, Italy . . . or Thailand.

Well, worldwide that's the case with most migrant farm workers. Are Burmese, Cambodians and Laotians working in Thai agricultural fields treated better or worse than the Thais working in Israel? And, is the mistreatment illegal in Israel, but legal in Thailand?

The taxi drivers in Thailand have to be some of the worst businessmen. Japanese tourists are known for being big spenders. An example of cut off your nose to spite your face. Can't expect much more from the taxi drivers who would turn away a paying fare because it means sitting in traffic, and preferring to drive around aimlessly with no fare, waiting and hoping for the one big fare.

There are ghettos that are "no-go zones" in the US and Europe. The Charlie Hebdo gunmen lived in such a ghetto. Some of the ghettos in Europe do have a lot of Muslims living in them. I think Fox News and other media outlets have probably sensationalized their reporting when they refer to them as Muslim "no-go zones". Still, the Muslims who live in these ghettos are easily radicalized by others, and that's the problem facing the west.

What a great example of AFP bias, they make no secret of who's pocket they are in.

"her administration's loss-making rice programme, whichfunnelled cash to her rural base"

No, it funneled money to rice millers, large rice growers, rice warehouse owners, foreign rice smugglers, and all the PTP politicians and cronies who earned secondary profits and kickbacks from them.

If she eventually complains about the process, her complaint will lack credibility, because she failed to personally participate.

More crap journalism from The Nation. Chicken blood is not normally used when making khao man gai. You take a whole chicken, remove all the organs, and then boil it. Chicken blood is used in making the pudding blocks shown in the picture (don't know what that's called). I avoid it like the plague.

Banning hate speech in the west works because there is a body of precedent and constitutional protections which give the Courts guidance in enforcing decisions. Where you have a new and untested Constitution, and no legal reporting system so no body of precedent upon which courts can rely, the law just will amount to arbitrariness.

This is typical Thai legislative nonsense. Extremely vague laws that will be misused for personal gain or political advantage. Just about any activity you can imagine falls within "a threat to democratic rule or administration". This type of legislative drafting is specifically designed to allow Thai politicians and government officials to misuse governmental processes. There is no hope or future for this country.