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lol. If this is the first time you see this, it won't be the last. Everybody knew it's coming, You have to buy enough food for a few days and stay at home and ... wait

A combined force yesterday searched a female-only apartment complex in Bangkok's Din Daeng area and detained three women for questioning.

Lesbians ?

not lesbians. There are some apartment complexes where they rent only to women

Neighbours told police they saw Wanna come to the house with her child about a year ago.

It is written somewhere that her child is 8 months old. Anyway, the whole story is a big mess. I've seen the phone interview with Wanna on thai TV. I don't think she will come back. She also says she needs protection, lawyers etc. but her husband won't come back. He has to work. What is interpol doing? Why don't they arrest them and bring them back

Great news. I hope they will all stays there and never come back to the south. Pattaya is anyway (as the Thais says) the bin of Thailand. Please, Pattaya, keep your quality tourists and hire a huge cleaning team, you will need it

It would appear Sa Kaeo immigration is a major gateway for illegal movements - the suspect arrested the other day alleged that he came in that way, resulting in six Immigration officers from Sa Kaeo have been transferred to inactive posts, now the alleged bomber was trying to get out that way...

I must say though, he looks taller and thinner than the yellow shirt guy...

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not at all. the picture is taken from the front and the yellow t-shirt man picture is from above him, this makes a difference for the human eye to recognize the size (sorry - photographer speaking)

Who is the other guy then that they paraded around all the time. I am confused now.

Do keep up, he was arrested at a house containing bomb making equipment but was never touted as the one that placed the bomb

exactly

and anyway... this yellow T-shirt guy has left the country the same evening. I don't think he will stay 10-20 years here waiting to be arrested. It could be more useful to investigate and look for his thai friends here.

Wonder if they ever considered that the are on an ISLAND.

And??? Do you think it's impossible to escape from an island?

I definitely don't like the look of that baseball bat.

funny, this is also the first thing I noticed on this picture

now they need to pay the police extra money to do their job.

with all the cameras they have at Hua lampong, they should see it. Did they check the luggage deposit shop. Have they seen him there? Is it possible somebody deposited the bag there, gave him the ticket and he just needed to pick it up?

Don't go anywhere near Erawan or even, be in Bangkok at all at "simulation " time. Thes Kops may well blow up the

entire city !

The simulations would take place at Hoob Saboo explosion-testing area in Phetchaburi's Cha-am district, he said.

Just read everything before posting

The initial reports said the bomber had been picked up several times by a motorcycle taxi in the same area...... has every room for rent in the area been checked?

I saw that they checked hotels and guesthouses but nobody could remember him. What is if he was staying in some thai friends home?

I bet the taxi has been washed and vacuumed several times since the trip.

Do they do that?

some take care about their car more than about their wives. Also taxi drivers are men

I'm adament you guys must hang around nana plaza and patpong too much. I use lots of taxis and rarely receive the 'no meter' treatment.

me neither. I normally travel around bkk only on busses but never had problems when I take a taxi

For those who don't know the area, Charn Isara Tower is on Rama 4, about 100 metres from the interssction with Silom Road. This would be a very indirect way of getting to the Erawan Shrine.

How did he arrive at Charn Issara?

I think it was reported early after the blast that yellow shirt left the scene on a motorbike taxi. If then taking taxi then tuktuk maybe he was understandably trying to cover his tracks.

I agree with you

I can't believe that the fare was 61 baht, the guy paid with 100 baht and got back 40 baht back in change. Something very fishy about that!!

Even stranger was that he used the meter, mind you it probsbly took 5 minutes of arguing with the driver just to get him to switch the meter on.

I don't generally have a problem with taxis. I just say location and meter and that is it. I have twice had taxi drivers take me short distances and actually refused any payment. I have never had a metered taxi argue over tip (might give me a sad or quizical look). The minority of time they say won't go (maybe traffic jam or something), or don't want to use a meter.... I just say fine.... next (except for the last one that said meter not working and quoted me fare that was what the meter would have come to anyways.... so I am guessing it really was not working).

Lucky you, I have nothing but problems with taxi's in BKK, I would understand if I was rude but I'm always polite, I must just have one of those faces.

try to have a nice chat with them, they love to speak (their job must be very boring). After 10 minutes you will be friends and already know a lot about him. Speak only thai with them, all the thais like it

Must be the first time ever in Thailand that a Taxi Driver actually tipped a customer....(1Baht in this case)

are you for the first time here? this happens all the time

I do but I have it on my chest

whatever you do dont go walking around bkk with a backpack

I moved in end 1986 and yes it was a paradise. At least on Samui. Phuket was starting to become a city. I met a few people who came from Phuket because they didn't like it anymore. Sure the exchange rate was less but I paid (1986) 30 baths/day for a bungalow on the beach. We had common toilets and showers, no electricity and every evening we were all sitting in the restaurant with petrol lamps or sitting on the beach having some fishes grilled on a fire (this was in Chermon) but Chaweng was also empty (the difference is they had already electricity). No road, only a natural way. No cars, only some motorbikes. The little bridge at the end of Chaweng road was a bunch of planks. NO AIRPORT and this was great.

Sure, the exchange rate was lower but you could eat for 10 baths. Everything was so cheap but I didn't really needed money to eat. I knew thais everywhere and everybody always asked if you had some meal already. If not they automatically invited you to eat. You could eat with them, live in their places and didn't spend any money. You were very welcome. Thai people ARE friendly people. And they are not stupid but most of them didn't go to the same schools as we did, nor to university. They are a bunch of very rich people in Thailand but most of them cannot afford it to send their kids to university.

No bread, no coffee, only Nescafe or the thai coffee which is delicious. By the way, Minnehaha, they are not socks but filters (lol). Only thai food which is just fantastic. One of the beast on Earth. But now some people come to Thailand and go to Mc Donald's... or they want to eat western food or japanese food !!

Bangkok was much dirtier than now. They were lots of big rats around. Already a lot of traffic but everything on the road very very cheap. Kaosan road was also a very good place and very cheap. I had a room in a thai family home. They wanted 40 baths/night and the mother was cooking (I ate with them) and her husband was doing nothing (some things didn't change since then, lol). No big hotels for 4,000 a night. Tiny dirty rooms for nothing and activity on the road until morning. Now they have to go at midnight.

On Samui you could know everybody in less than one month. You know one, you know 50. Everybody knew everybody, they were all someway relatives or friends. Now they all stay in there villas with walls and cameras and have contact with the thai only if they are their maid or gardener or something like this.

THE ROADS ON SAMUI WERE EMPTY, was do you think about this?

they should think about a way to get LESS russians

P.S. anyway, I hope many people will chose this online option, so there will be less people at the immigration office and it will be fun again like in the old days.

I don't know if it works or not. I didn't try and I won't as well. I enjoy going to immigration here on Samui. There is one man there (I think I cannot tell his name) who is super very helpful. Sometimes he is not very friendly. He works on dozens of files alone and he IS stressed, but he is the best, believe me. I knew him already before the big immigration stress. Do you know how many people go to immigration every day? How many Russians? how many Burmese and all the others? Have you ever imagined how their day is? every day? with all these people who want to have their extension or what ever at the immigration, as quick as possible so they can go back to the beach or to the bar? And to all the expats here in Thailand: speak thai, live thai and think thai, you will never have problems.

Again, I won't try to do it online. I would miss the meeting between me and the immigration officers here. After living here since 29 years here I know contact is very important here. Neighbours, friends (I mean thai people) etc. and immigration is a very important contact when you live in Thailand.

lol, is today 1st of April???

you're all more or less joking but ghosts exist. If they are loud, they want your attention. Maybe your ghost needs something. Try to get some contact or give him some food, drink, maak (betelnut), etc. If it's the house ghost, be happy. I had 3 in 3 different places I lived. You're never alone and she (it's mostly a woman) will protect your house and you if you don't do something wrong in the house. Actually it's a good feeling. My son doesn't like them, my husband doesn't fear them, so did my father in law. my mother in law doesn't really care if they don't bother her. They are just part of our lives. I personally have a strange story to tell but it's a true one. When my son started to speack almost clearly he always told me his friends were on the other side of the river (we were living on a shore of a river) and that they are hungry and crying. I told the story to my father in law and he told me that about 10 years ago they were three boys who drowned there. So he went to see their parents and told them to go to the temple and bring some food to their kids. They did and my son told me his friends were happy now, they didn't cry anymore. How do you explain this? I could tell you hundreds of stories I've seen with my own eyes but this will be too long. It might be strange for some foreigners. Most of them live in parts of Thailand which are not really thai anymore but for them who live in pace like countryside, these ghosts stories are very common and normal.

I hope you don't have a Pee Kasoe. lol lol. If you don't know them, ask your thai girlfriend

Norbra, if you have a few Kumaan (the child ghost) in your house then good luck... lol. How act children? they are full of energy and want to play. So it's good to give him (I hope you have only one) toys, nam daeng, thai traditional sweets, just things children like (no mcDonald and coke nor IPhone please) just traditional stuff.

Ghosts? live with them, they are part of the real thai life

But anyway check your doors and windows

P.S: I'm not thai