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    Thaksin Shinawatra: No political agreement was made to secure my return

    in Thailand News

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    Well, let's see now.

     

    What he said:

     

    1. He kept on bleating from abroad about how he was ageing, and he desperately wanted to be with his grandchildren.

    2. He said he wanted to remain outside politics, and he was too old to go back into politics.

    3. He said he was in ill health and wanted to be with his family.

     

    What happened:

     

    4. He returned to Thailand and was met like a VIP from his private jet.

    5. He was whisked off to Klong Prem, where he made a flying visit to the Medical corrections' hospital, before it was deemed they were too ill-equipped to deal with him, and he was removed by helicopter to the Police hospital, where he took over a suite of rooms.

    6. An appeal to the King was made, something that on average takes 3/4 years for a prisoner. He managed it in two weeks.

    7. He had various visitors from government and family at any time of the day at the Police hospital.

    8. He remained in the comfort of the Police hospital, (nobody knows if he was actually there as reporters and journalists and the public were not allowed to the floor where he was supposedly housed) until he was given permission to be at home under house arrest, whilst awaiting the King's amnesty on HM King's birthday.

    9. He was photographed in a neck brace, in his swimming pool, and walking stick etc, all which magically disappeared after the Amnesty.

    10. Various MPs and government ministers were seen entering and exiting his house.

    11. He held a number of dinner get-togethers for high ranking officials.

    12. Despite his claims of illness, he looked fine at Hun Sen's birthday party on August 5th, not a neck brace in sight.

    13. He is now holding rallies and speeches, not bad for an ill man who wants to stay out of politics.

    14. Conveniently, Srettha was found to have seriously breached the ethics code by appointing Thaksin's family lawyer to a cabinet position, and then somebody reported him, I wonder who?

    15. His inexperienced daughter is now ensconced as the new PM

     

    And he is trying to make the public believe a deal wasn't pre-arranged and done with the military, the courts and others up the chain of command, who feared a group more than Thaksin, the Move Forward Party, who threatened to upset the status quo and drag Thailand into democracy and the 21st century.

     

    Pull the other one!

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    Foreign man caught standing naked in cannabis shop in Phuket

    in Phuket News

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    5 hours ago, fredwiggy said:

    Many people drink while smoking weed, and you might think irrational behavior is from the weed, but as he mentioned, it's usually alcohol that has people doing off the wall and dangerous things. Weed almost always mellows people, making them calm and sociable. All of my life, surrounded by those partaking in the smoke, I have never seen anyone going off from it alone, but alcohol? Yes, many times. I also have never seen or heard of anyone who was only smoking pot that caused an accident, although of course it might happen. This man was said to be drunk. Because he was in a weed shop, I'm thinking you thought it was weed from there that had him act this way. Most likely he went to the shop drunk, looking for weed, and for only reasons he knows, he stripped.

     

     

    The above post sounds like a better explanation than just blaming weed.

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    2 Chinese women and foreign-Thai couple clash in Phuket mall - video

    in Phuket News

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    17 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

    Why can’t we all just get along?

     

    Sadly another one of our own (Brit) making us all look like overweight tattooed racists in public.

     

    Deport and blacklist the lot of them.

     

    Perhaps he is a member of this forum known for always getting into conflicts?

     

     

     

     

    If there is one thing that cheeses me off more than anything on this board is loudmouth people using the mantra ' blacklist and deport '

     

    You do not know the full story, you have heard one side only, but you rush to judgement.

     

    Then you use generalisations and stereotypes to describe British tourists, which is wrong on every level.

     

    There are many decent, kind, hard-working, friendly and good British people in this country.

     

    Yet you wish to rubbish an entire race, based on circumstantial evidence and guesswork.

     

    Finally, get it through your skull, you have no power whatsoever to implement immigration policies regarding deportation and blacklisting.

     

    That is a matter for the relevant Thai authorities once they are in possession of all the facts.

     

    "Why can't we all just get along "  your words.

     

    Well, it's a bit difficult and made even more so, with people like you rushing to judgement and spouting nonsense when not knowing the full facts.

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    Religion in Thailand

    in General Topics

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    I believe in the here and now.

     

    The body is not designed to last forever, it wears out.

     

    Religion has been around about 3,000 years, the Earth has been here about 4.5 billion years.

     

    Makes you wonder how it managed for so long before religion.

     

    The truth is religion is man made, sometimes for power and to rule over others or keep them subservient, and sometimes because the human cannot accept that this is it and that's all and craves for an afterlife.

     

     

     

     

     

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    Harris chickens out of extra debates

    in Political Soapbox

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    10 minutes ago, maesariang said:

    Trump will destroy her. She is a joke. Everybody knows that.

     

     

    She and the Democrats seem to be flying in the polls and are having a very successful party meeting.

     

    Unlike the orange man.

     

    His own nephew says he is displaying the same symptoms as his father did,.......early dementia.

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    Harris chickens out of extra debates

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    5 hours ago, maesariang said:

    Trump will talk to Americans on Sept 4 in a town hall after the running coward backs out of 3 debates. No President elect has ever dodged the media like this. A complete coward who ought to be ashamed of herself. A disgrace.

     

     

    She doesn't need to debate, she's miles ahead.

     

    Just allow Trump to do what he does best, make a fool of himself.

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    Teenager Stabs Foreign Man in Road Rage Incident Near Pattaya

    in Pattaya News

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    23 hours ago, Mason45 said:

    The problem is they come from up north, hit Pattaya and are totally out of their league. They're supposed to be looking for work, instead get on lao khao and yabba and become raving morons. I've been up north many times as my wife comes from there. She's the first to admit how careful people have to be if you upset them. The areas around Koh Talo have become very dangerous places. When the areas were first developed it was a very nice part of Pattaya. How things have changed in 20 years.

     

     

    We had a house there back in the 2000s in Baan Permsiri., that we had built.

     

    A small, nice development a few hundred yards from the highway and near the Temple and railway track.

     

    We sold up a long time ago now, looks like I made the right decision.

     

    Your other point is correct too, they go there from Isaarn looking for work, promising to send money home to family, and usually kids the grandmothers are looking after, then it's booze, drugs, gambling and discos and forget the family.

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    Mixed kid living in Thailand.

    in Family and Children

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    7 hours ago, khunPer said:

    If the child is born by a Thai mother in Thailand, the child will (automatically) be a Thai citizen. To my knowledge also a child born by a Thai mother in a foreign country can be Thai citizen.

     

    If you are not married to the mother, you are not legal father, even if your name is on the Thai birth-certificate. To be legal father outside of marriege either a DNA-test is needed, when the child an infant or toddler, or an approval at the local Amphor district-office when the child is 7 years or older; at the Amphor-office both parents and the child needs to be present.

     

    To obtain foreign – and thereby dual – citizenship, you will normally need to be approved father (legal married, or DNA, or by Amphor-approval) and follow the procedure from your home country with legalization of various documents. It can sometimes be little complicated, depending of the country's demand for documentation, especially if not legally married.

     

     

    It's all irrelevant.

     

    The boy is in Sweden with his father, he was born in Sweden, he has a Swedish passport and Swedish citizenship.

     

    To all intents and purposes, as it stands, the boy is Swedish.

     

    You can quote whatever you like, but I think she has no chance of extracting that boy from Sweden, and he probably wouldn't want to go.

     

    The man must have been recognized as the legal father, otherwise, what is he doing in Sweden.

     

     

     

     

     

     

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