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Goodbye and RIP to Chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha of Leicester City FC.
The man was a titan in Leicester and highly respected not only for the football, which is his legacy to the city as he achieved what was thought impossible. He took a team that was 5000-1 outsiders and no-hopers in the football world, and then realized a dream and brought immense pride to the city, which will live on alongside his name for generations.
He was known to be a kind, quiet and humble gentleman respected by all those who knew him. As a fellow football fan, I want to thank him and his family for what they brought to English football. He adopted Leicester as a city and gave vast amounts of money both to the Leicester Royal Infirmary ( in the millions of pounds ) He also donated large sums of money for the benefit of the University of Leicester as well as football academies and various charities.
I am sure there are many other causes he donated to that we know nothing about.
He was known during matches to give warm food and football scarves to fans in the Stadium on cold days, free of charge. with his son assisting him in making the fans feel like a big family. Such kindness, unheard of in the football world, for a Chairman to involve himself with fans at the grassroots level, only goes to show how much he will be missed.
England is already calling him the best chairman any UK football club has ever had. He will be missed tremendously. Deepest condolences to his family, the staff who died with him on the plane and the two pilots. RIP.
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1 hour ago, Emdog said:I use that terminal and EVA. "Killing diversity"? There are Chinese restaurants in that wing, pass by one every time I go down to Hello Kitty store. Have you ever considered that burgers and lattes are diversity from standard Asian fare? "Invading the whole world"? No one forces them to eat at fast food chains. Perhaps going to Western food chain is similar to Americans going to a Chinese restaurant in Sisters, Oregon. Exotic. Diverse.
I don't eat at any of those places when in transit because I'm not hungry (poor excuse, right?).
Absolutely right,
And this is why Thai people race to the new openings of KFC etc up in Isaarn in the malls or stand-alone restaurants. They want to try it out as it is new and it is their idea of trying a foreign food experience. Unless they are Thai kids from the Bangkok suburbs they aren't going to be looking at eating this kind of food on a regular basis.
Moving now to other comments regards Taiwan, I can't really see at the moment the Taiwanese being bullied or bowing to pressure by the Chinese when they are so desperate to keep their own identity and way of life. What do US trade sanctions on China have to do with Taiwan, please?
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The only thing the above links above regards US banks tell me is that your cash is probably a lot safer in one of the Thai bigger banks than it is in the US smaller and mid-sized banks!.............. especially looking at the fraud and amount of US bank failures.????
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4 hours ago, faraday said:It certainly is in the UK, Charles
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It is by far the most widely used method these days.
I did say myself personally, on hindsight, after a lifetime of love and care from my mother I would have chosen a full service and burial. However, my sister who organized it as I live in Asia told me that my Mother, towards the end, both stopped attending other peoples funerals herself, and wasn't so religious anymore.
I think she stopped attending for two reasons, she was wheelchair bound and registered blind and I think fed up of relying on others to take her everywhere as she felt a burden, and also fed up at her age of 87 years old, of seeing her friends die around her.
Back to the present subject, much as I feel for the children and the widow, if they haven't the funds to repatriate the body, they should look at the sensible option of a cremation in Thailand as it is the most pragmatic approach.
I, as I said before, have no opinion on the circumstances of death, but feel it is wrong to ask strangers, Go fund me pages and crowdfunding to pay for things such as this.
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3 minutes ago, Different said:
It is very sad but if topic is all about money to send his body home. I would say shame on British embassies and all embassies alike if they even have no regards for their citizens corpse. Instead of cremation, bury him here in Thailand.
And what about his family and his wife and kids who may want his remains to come home to the UK in whatever form that takes, body or ashes?
I cannot see them accepting what you propose as a solution.
Embassies do not consider it their duty to repatriate citizens, dead or alive, back to their country of origin unless involved in official humanitarian missions or in times of war.
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Why doesn't Hun Sen put his hand in his pocket, he has stolen enough from the country's coffers.!
After all, a large majority of landmines were laid by the Khmer Rouge, his former group of comrades and merry men; and many of them are still in the Cambodian government to this day. It was UXO that the USA was held to account on.
The problem with that country, no matter who is providing aid and expertise be it the EU, U.K. or U.S.A, unless they have monitors on the ground to control or direct aid and where it is going, especially if it's cash, it will get stolen.
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3 hours ago, Jeremy50 said:
The friends should have had him cremated straight away, no further agonising for the family in deciding how to get the body home. It's a time for blunt practicalities, bodies in tropical climes should be disposed of quickly, not left hanging around for a few days, and then shipped thousands of miles for some unfortunate UK mortician to try to deal with.
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I am on your side with this but the friends need to clear it with family as nerves will be raw with all this at the moment. Common sense will not be at the forefront.
It is a terribly sad situation and I try to remember the old saying about ' walking a mile in their shoes before making judgments' An unfortunate statistic for Thailand, but he isn't the first nor will he be the last that chooses this method.
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2 hours ago, ratcatcher said:
Quite a few comments regarding cremation in Thailand. Does anyone have a rough estimate of a "Wat funeral - barbecue, as my wife calls them." with the attendant monks and chants etc? Or, are there crematoria that will do the "ashes to ashes , dust to dust" part.
Surely must be way more practical and less expensive than shipping a corpse back to the UK.
The actual burning can be done for 10,000 baht.
You have a lot of variables with how many monks, where the temple is located ( busier the temple, the more it is ) they charge body storage by the day. With the monks and no big deal, it would be around 20,000 baht to 30,000 baht I am told. This would be without the usual two or three days eating and drinking obviously.
Some of the bones are not fully turned into ash I am also told, so his friends would have to go the day after and package up and put it in an urn for transfer to the UK as the monks have no part of that.
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51 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:
The office they send it to is determined by the Tambon, Amphoe and Changwat you select on the drop down menus on page 2.
You report is valid.
I must add that I am well happy with the speed of response and approval. Easy and stress-free and straight to the point.
Total about 15 hours after application start to finish.
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Guys,
I will not comment on the suicide as I am not a doctor and do not have sufficient knowledge of mental illness.
What I can comment on and with some authority, is the returning of the body to the U.K. and what to expect these days in the UK.
I was unfortunate enough to lose my mother and sister in rapid succession this year and of course, flew back twice to attend funerals. What I can tell you is that both of them were cremated, which has become the popular way of funerals in my hometown. These funerals were both in the region of 7,000 GBP plus.
I found them rushed, very much a conveyor belt type of service with people almost rushing you out of the door to make way for the next one coming in. I think on hindsight, I would rather have had a burial for my mother and sister, but that is a personal choice and both had funeral plans to cover everything in the event of death. What I did say to my children whilst in the UK, is that if I pass away in Thailand, I will be cremated here and the ashes were to go to my Thai partner to do with as she wishes.
When I go, the funeral is in Thailand at my expense for all food and drink for a three-day festival here. They can do as pleases them in Thai culture with the ashes. My UK family has been informed. If anything goes to the UK, it will be ashes in an urn! I would just like to finish by informing board members that the funeral home, for the above amounts of money and two funerals from the same family, gave us two bags with ashes in cardboard boxes, they even couldn't find it in their budget to provide urns! I mentioned to them had they told us urns were not provided, we would have given them money for said items.
I would not be asking the public for funds to fly a body back or crowdfunding if I was in his family's position, if they haven't the funds, then cremate here and have a memorial service back home.
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I have just reported online and been approved and was not asked anywhere on the form for which office I used????? only my address of course, in Isaarn.
Is my report valid, it says approved across the top!!
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22 hours ago, seajae said:
have had a Nissan Navara Calibre Sportech 4 door 2WD, 2.5ltr turbo, 7 speed auto(also flips to manual) top of the range for 6 months and love it. I have a bad spine and the seats are very comfortable on a long drive, very fuel efficient as well, also looks pretty good
Nice looking car and usually Nissan is very good with the extras. If it was the UK, I would definitely look.
For me, Toyota dealerships and repair shops in nearly every town and city throughout Thailand clinch it.
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On 10/25/2018 at 2:56 PM, HappyAndRich said:
As secure as it would be in any bank in the world.
Probably safer than many in Europe and the USA
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3 hours ago, Ulic said:
Complaints about an unpaid fare when the customer is forced to flee for his life, ridiculous.
It's possible as well that he had a sense of humor and was making light, excuse the pun, of a bad situation.
Thai people can be witty as well, you know!
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2 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:
I thought "lent" meant you refrained from indulging in certain religious based things. Surely the "end" of lent should mean that a celebration should take place, not a restriction of celebration, after all there should have been no celebrating during the lent period, it is catch up time for what you have missed.
In my "logic" that means we should be celebrating and having a drink to "celebrate" the end of this lent!PS: I know that the Buddhist way of life prohibits alcohol so it makes the whole selling/banning of alcohol in a Buddhist Country all the more ironic to me.????
The Buddhist way of life prohibits many things in its most strict interpretations. Thai people, however, being Thai, tend to favour the policy of doing wrong and making merit after to repent
It seems to work from their way of looking at it.
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I haven't used THAI in years and always used to fly with them or EVA air. The planes got old and outdated, the cabin crew in business class became aloof and lacking friendliness, similar to British Airways to be honest. Qatar cabin crew leave them both at the starting gate regards customer service.
I have been using Qatar Air for a good few years now but their business offers are drying up and they are definitely cutting back on the ' perks ' that once set them apart. They are also constantly badgering me with ' special offers ' which quite honestly, aren't! I should have moved a while ago but it becomes a ' chore ' when you have the privilege class membership cards to start at the bottom rung again with another airline.
I have, even though living here many years, always booked UK-BKK-UK. This is due to the fact that flight deals always seem to be better when starting the journey from the UK. I am cutting my trips back now to the UK, so will probably switch airlines again. I still won't fly THAI business class unless they give an unbelievable deal, which they never seem to do anymore.
I think I would be inclined to try Oman, who are offering great business class deals on many flights or Finnair, for similar reasons. EVA air used to be good but it is then usually a long wait in London before a shuttle up North.
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7 hours ago, z42 said:
Jesus wept let this ghastly, shambles of an airline free itself from the public purse so that it can die a swift and ugly death.
The fact that some THAI staff were wearing black smacks of unbelievable arrogance. Pathetic ????
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I think I know one guy at least making all the wrong moves in sucking up to China at his own country's expense. However, he doesn't care, as he has purely self-interest at heart and that is the despot, Hun Sen.
I cannot think of a leader that is as bad as him in South East Asia, and that is going some! Cambodia is hard and fast becoming a satellite colony of the Chinese, at the expense of the Cambodian people.
He has managed to alienate both the USA and the EU in one swoop, as well as destroying completely any ' mirage ' that there was a democracy. He, because China has offered to fill the void on cheap loans without human rights strings attached,
The EU is preparing to withdraw the preferential trade agreement that Cambodia enjoys in the ' Everything but Arms ' package. This will cost Cambodia hundreds and hundreds of millions in trade. Their biggest export being garments. I can't see China wanting that trade when they can make it cheaper themselves.
We have a guy who intends to remain in power, no matter what the cost to the Nation's citizens and a ' partner ' that doesn't care about his Human rights abuses.
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16 minutes ago, CharlieH said:
Thanks for sharing, I hope you get years of enjoyment out of it.You must be very pleased and proud of your new truck.????.Good for you, I am sure you earned it.
Green with envy!!
Thank you,
Yeah, I really like it and hope I made the right decision, I will be keeping these a good few years!
A poster earlier mentioned about getting the top spec or kicking yourself later. I think they were right as amazing all the discreet changes as well as the obvious changes they have made.
when touring.
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2 hours ago, CharlieH said:
Nice looking truck with alot of "extra's" it would seem.
Would you mind saying what the final price of that was ?
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Altogether it's come out in the very near region of 1.2 million baht, slightly more actually., about 17,000 baht more, so 1,217,000. Fully loaded.
I ordered everything that was going. There were a few bits I didn't budget for but no big deal in the grand scale of things.
This one is here for quite a while if I get my way and I won't be investing again for a good few years.
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Guys,
Thought I might share like-minded truck enthusiasts in Thailand and elsewhere, with pics as the truck has arrived fully loaded 4x4. I collected it today and I think plenty of dosh, but no regrets. It's in the white oyster pearl color which I think is great against the black.
I have a five-year warranty or 150,000 Km with this truck, as it is the third I have bought from this dealership.
My made got made up, even more, when posts here mentioned Ford were having hassles, and what I read online with the problems they were having with Ford transmissions.
I looked at Isuzu but the dealership appeared uninterested in dealing with me and more interested in chatting and eating at the particular branch I went to.
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Hi,
A friend of mine who I had mentioned this to ( he has connections in the airline industry, and I said this was causing a fuss over in the Far East), sought advice from a senior member of staff in the airline industry who made inquiries. What she came back with was interesting and this is a quote, and it makes a lot of sense, however, they say the pilot acted a little improperly:-
This flight is normally operated by Boeing 777. But due to a technical issue the aircraft was grounded, and the company decided to use a Boeing 747 instead.
The flight crew of the 777 are not certified to fly the 747, so it was decided to let them travel back to Bangkok as passive crew (deadhead).
When reseating the passengers from the 777 to the 747 many passengers were upgraded from business to first class. The ground agent forgot the deadheading crew, and the mistake was discovered after all first class seats were given away.
The ground agent asked for volunteers to move back to business class, but none of the passengers wanted to give up their upgraded status.
That said, it was a poor decision of the captain to insist on first class seats for the deadheading crew. Even a business class seat is much better than the cockpit when it comes to comfort. The deadheading crew was scheduled to have a rest period after arriving in Bangkok as well.
So this means as you can see, there is a fault on many fronts including selfish passengers, selfish deadhead crew, who were still going to get further rest in Bangkok, and a Captain who exercised poor judgment in this instance.
So really, it depends on whose side of the argument you take in deciding who was wrong.
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3 hours ago, janclaes47 said:
There is no statue of limitations on murder, Vorayuth has a statue of limitation of 10 year on reckless driving with death as result, not murder
I do remember for sure a case of a Thai educated guy that had shot a Thai policeman and disappeared and worked in London.
He came back around 1997-98. He became a friend of mine due at that time, to his fluent English and he was a manager in the condo block I was renting in Soi Suanplu. Out of the blue, he was arrested and we later found out why, as described above. I moved on to stay in Pattaya and he came and visited me whilst he was down there with some friends. I was shocked to see him.
He definitely told me that the case was thrown out as it was over either 10 or 15 years time limit. I cannot recall the exact time limit he mentioned, as it was a long time ago now. I make no claim that it is true or false. I know I made no mistake in translation as in those days I spoke no Thai and all conversations took place in English.
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Not sure how they stand on that because Thailand definitely has a statute of limitations on many crimes like this.
The cops may be out of time unless I am wrong, which I may be.
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Mastermind of gangland style execution of British man in Pattaya arrested in Spain
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You sound like a right caring soul!
What if it was your parents who had been taken in and cheated? A lot of these scammers are very organized and very convincing and people are not necessarily on get rich quick schemes that fall foul of these shysters.