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Well after reading this, I am sure that the police General in charge of this investigation, will infact step down as the officer in charge and hand over the investigation to the Thai visa Crime Scene Investigators (TVCSI) to quickly rap up this investigation and have an arrest and conviction before the final commercial break.

Police noticed a suspicious boat moving across the Mekong River towards Thailand at around 4am.

What does a suspicious boat travelling across the river look like?

Funnels of bong smoke pouring out the back, Bob Marley cranked up full blast, little Laotians with rastafa hair do's,tea cozies on their heads and blood shot eyes swinging off the boat???

So far, so good General Prayuth, Sir. You had to do what you had to do to pull The Kingdom back from the Abyss. Out side of some gaffes, I think he is the right man at the right time for Thailand. Although I am a Foreigner that works and resides here (American with Work Permit and Tabien Baan) I am still a guest here as are all non-Thai nationals. However, what affects the Kingdom's internal affairs has a direct effect on my business affairs externally. I am glad General and now Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha is steering the ship of state as it has brought stability back to The Kingdom in the eyes of the Global Community. IMHO.

Well said.

Lets hope Mr P get's heavy handed and makes an example of the corrupt and colluded rabble that have plagued Thailand for way too long now.

I Thai PM apologising to everyone for his words and actions, I love it.

Give this man a medal he, is a champion.

Lets hope he can weed out the rot and change the country for the better.

They'll be wanting to be independent and break up the kingdom next-- the sort of thing that would never happen in a civilized place like the UK.

Civilized UK???? Keep dreaming pal!!

Wouldn't it be prudent for Thailand to provide heath training to its own people first.

Clean up your own back yard first??

Not quite sure how you would translate "douchebag" or "you ahole " into Japanese, neither words exist as an insult..... You of course could literally translate ahole Or Kommon no anna as it would be, but it would not really be an insult. Would be interested in seeing the translations.

Calling somebody the stinky hole that feces get ejaculated from would not be an insult? I actually thought there was a few Japanese words that covered this orifice when it came to insults.

The Japanese do a lot more with that hole than many realise!!!

And the answer to this and many more Japanese mysteries, straight after this commercial break ... stay tuned....

"Business people happy with ministers"

Its not like they have much of a choice or would want to risk complaining about them, now would it ??

They should have made a counter offer of 1M baht and a car, then once they've named the mastermind, only give them 100,000 baht.

Or just give them a bamboo manicure and then throw them in a dark cell , never to see the light of day again!!

Ahhhh !! another report that puts Thailand behind Laos, do you think anyone in LOS will get the message?

Its a shame that The Thais have an attitude of looking down to Laos and its people, if you ever want to upset a Thai especially one from the north east, just call them a Farung Lao!

And watch the fire works!!

Looks like the blind leading the blind to me!

Simplest safety device known to miners since beginning of time - canary in a cage.

They don't have canaries in Thailand o they use people instead

They all should have been trained in the use of one of these.

http://www.draeger.com/sites/en_aunz/Pages/Chemical-Industry/Draeger-X-am-5000.aspx

Please don't believed in such polls, it's not true and fake. I born in Malaysia the education systems are bad the University place only reserved for 75-80 % Malays the rest of the races have to go overseas or private . Compare with Thailand where everybody have a opportunity to study for University with affordable price.

The survey maybe rank on English, that is undeniable but the rest Thailand are still the best.

Lots of Malay born Indians and Chinese go to Australia for University education for that very reason. And even known that they were born in Malaysia and hold Malaysian citizenship they are still discriminated against.

...and so do lots of Malay-borm Malays....why do you think looking at things in terms of race has any bearing on the matter at all???????

That is what the Malay Indians have told me many times.

The Country lost 500 million....Isn't that about the same amount of money Thaksin borrowed off the Russians, for that construction project in Dubai that went belly up and the investors lost everything.

The Russians would still want to be payed back plus interest of course.

Just throwing it out there what do you think?

The story said 500,000 million

They must have charged more interest than we thought then!

Please don't believed in such polls, it's not true and fake. I born in Malaysia the education systems are bad the University place only reserved for 75-80 % Malays the rest of the races have to go overseas or private . Compare with Thailand where everybody have a opportunity to study for University with affordable price.

The survey maybe rank on English, that is undeniable but the rest Thailand are still the best.

Lots of Malay born Indians and Chinese go to Australia for University education for that very reason. And even known that they were born in Malaysia and hold Malaysian citizenship they are still discriminated against.

Its a pity and a shame that this is the case in Thailand, Thais are not stupid or slow learners, the ones that I have taken under my wing, have proven to be very quick learners and shown how cleaver, Thais really are.

The culture of "I am older than you so therefore I am smarter than you" and "Do as I say not as I do" doesn't help, as with not allowing the children to debate with or question the all revered Ajarn as individuals, does not allow them to grow, explore and develop as western educated children do.

I think It will be very hard to uproot this age old culture and if they do put in a plan of change, who is going to implement it? as the Thai Teachers will have no experience or understanding of it.

Just my opinion

For the most part I agree apart from the "I am older than you so therefore I am smarter than you" and "Do as I say not as I do" bit. This applies to pretty much all of Asia including Japan and Korea and they seem to have no problem learning, maybe its what the olders are saying and doing rather than that being a problem.

You have a good point, however I would still say that if the elders and the Ajarn's are doing, saying and teaching the wrong way, then the culture of "I am older than you so therefore I am smarter than you" and "Do as I say not as I do" is still part of the problem and defiantly not a part of the solution.

The Country lost 500 million....Isn't that about the same amount of money Thaksin borrowed off the Russians, for that construction project in Dubai that went belly up and the investors lost everything.

The Russians would still want to be payed back plus interest of course.

Just throwing it out there what do you think?

Is Thailand really losing Russian arrivals?

Let's hope so!

Absolutely agreed. Definately some of the pushiest, rudest and obnoxious people I have encountered in a long time.

From what I have personally heard, I am fairly sure that the local Thais will be happy to see the back of them also.

Curious that it takes an accident for the police to catch the offender and discover the crime. Had the driver not fallen asleep the pangolins would already be in Lao on their way to Vietnam.

I am sure that they will still make out of the country!

"Ruen Plangklang turned himself in to Nakhon Ratchasima police and admitted he twice hit his son Poonsak Plangklang, 35, on the neck with a wooden stick"

It must have been a big stick!!