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No shortage of kids up here in the sticks! How useful this lot is in the workforce or for a labour shortage, however, is debatable.

It looks like the bloody stock exchange, if it wasn't for the tables in the foreground, (unless that's a generic photo and there's a damn sight more than 1,000 people in that photo.

I agree, it would be very strange but not unheard of to take a random 16/17-year-old to the airport. Poor journalism with scant details, and they mention he was stopped at arrivals when one would have thought departures, so does that have any relevance? OK, I accept it wouldn't take you long to get from arrivals to departures.

I find it an obscure law in Thailand where they accuse somebody of taking away somebody between 15-18 even with parental permission. I see girls having kids and living with very young boyfriends up in Isaarn at not more than 14 years old.

I would think there is definitely a family/parental connection to this story by the Russian man.

In a case such as this one, it certainly would be no business of the Thai police or immigration.

And what has a working father done wrong?, he has stood up to his parental responsibilities, gone to work and sent 500 baht per day to look after his son. Sounds like a Dad doing his best to me. It is the adoptive parents. Bruises and bite marks? It can only be child abuse.

Sad at 30 years old. RIP.

I was thinking just the same. I thought, we are just lacking the good old 'found in the back of my taxi story' and up pops this one.

If the partner can be bothered to work, as many don't. Agreed, but it's the going rate. I remember my days of having the hotel in Pattaya, and we looked after our staff far better than Thai owned places. We paid Christmas and New year's bonuses, annual leave and correct monthly days off, advances of wages when they were short, paid the government their dues in required taxes and social security (it was checked with foreign owned establishments but not so much with Thai owned ones). However, there would still be foreigners asking staff members their salary and then reacting with scorn and sarcasm, then winding the staff up by stating slave labour by the management. We paid over the going rate and staff seldom left us. There was a happy work environment. It was these same foreigners moaning and up in arms and searching high and low around Pattaya for better deals, when we wanted to increase room rates by 50 baht or 100 baht a night.

It's 3.50am, and you are walking around with 300,000 baht necklace in Pattaya. What could possibly go wrong?

The teacher obviously lost control and has now realised he went way too far and doesn't fancy a conviction, loss of job and handing over compensation. It will happen again, maybe to a different student, if not addressed quickly and firmly. The teacher needs punishing and bringing to heel. It is illegal to hit a kid in Thai schools and was outlawed years ago. Yes, kids can be a pain in the ass, but that was his chosen profession and vocation. He had many options, sending to headmaster, sending the kid out of class, sending the offending kid home. But not to beat him in front of the whole class, causing the boy to hide under a table., and then he has cuts and bruises to head, neck and body. That's way beyond chastisement.

Maybe the Perpetrator is a friend of the reporter?

Passed away is only a euphemism for died. There was no disrespect. He was a very positive contributor to the board on visa issues

Your posts are weird.

He died.

Nothing racist in my post whatsoever, it's you who has chosen to read it that way. I left Pattaya after selling a business and doing well from it in 2006. In my view, on my brief returns to the city, it has done nothing but continue downhill since. Sure, I am getting older, but I definitely much preferred Pattaya in the nineties and early 2000s to what it has become now. I would choose Rayong, Koh Kood, Koh Chang, Krabi, over Pattaya any day, but it's a personal choice. You are welcome to keep the traffic jams, violent crime, whorehouses, and filthy polluted beaches.

Ah right, He was in the low-so part! Not the part with all the high-so Chinese, Indians and Russians making Pattaya the five-star children friendly, family orientated resort?

Maybe just lonely old guys, you could have gone and spoken with them and livened things up being 15–20 years younger than them.

Hyenas or Jackals might be more appropriate.

No kidding Sherlock!

You lead an exciting life. Have you ever felt like expanding into a career in journalism or as an influencer on social media? Maybe, you could do the pros and cons of high-end resorts for Condé Nast? It must have been a right bummer for you about the laundry.

Fantastic, An honest employee. I hope he is rewarded by the owner in decent fashion. That will bring the tourists flooding in. Not really worthy of a news headline, though, one would have thought. I suppose it makes a change from being found in the back of a taxi.

He's been practicing in the mirror to say this without laughing or getting a red face! Well done, you pulled it off shamelessly.

Speak English and clarify. It's gobbledygook