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Ice addiction in Thailand is affecting people from all walks of life and all ages! I see kids eating the stuff and it just makes me wonder how little they know about the damage it does to their enamel!

Ice bucket challenge?

BANGKOK: -- CERTIFIED by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the attenuated [low intensity] Japanese encephalitis vaccine from its Thailand-based factory will be eligible for distribution worldwide.

The certification means we will be able to export the vaccine to any country," Patchara Kootiratrakarn said yesterday in her capacity as senior director of the Government Pharmaceutical Organisation - Merieux Biological Products Co (GPO-BMP).

It now seems as if Japan has become a vassal state of Thailand, indeed a change from the situation that prevailed in the middle of the last century.

The vaccine is not Japanese, the virus is called Japanese encephalitis (JE).

Don't expect too much from the aged TV population bro

Yes, and just a few months ago they had the cure for Ebola.

And I don't think I'm smarter than any Thai person, but I am smart enough to require proof of claims, other than media reports.

The proof of claim is in the article, and this shows you're own statement that you're not smarter is correct, otherwise you would perhaps have understood the content.

Why couldn't the newspaper just limit their smear campaign to Jesus, and leave Mohammed out of it? There would be outrage just the same, but devoted Christians aren't that trigger happy in these parts of the world, so it would have been a tat safer, unless the Army of Christ would get involved.

how does one look English?? please tell do Aussies look Australian do Canadians look Canadian

pale skin that glows in the dark - always a giveaway

You could tell an Aussie from a mile.

Contrary to what many on here think - that they are smarter than any Thai person - the following will set the record straight.

Read before posting!

http://www.graphene-info.com/thai-researchers-synthesise-proprietary-formula-graphene-polymer-conductive-ink

Employers will be contacted later to repay the 400 million baht

No, you start arresting employers and seizing employer assets to cover the payments. Swift and fair justice.

It's a band playing the National Anthem.

There are people who we call "doctors" that deal with these kinds of complaints, perhaps visiting one or two would be advisable.

Planet of the apes right at your doorstep!

I seem to remember some time ago reading an article on TV., that the Thai government were going to implement compulsory insurance for tourists arriving in Thailand, if they didn't take it out before they left their home country, they would have to pay for it at the Thai airport they arrived at. What happened to that idea? They could charge tourists for insurance say 100GBP., per person when they arrive and as long as they could keep the thieving hands of the government officials that collected the insurance premium from pocketing it, they could put the funds into the Thai government hospital system to bolster it and if some unfortunate tourist needed hopitilisation they could be sent to a government hospital. Just a thought that could give the Thai national health funds some support and also give basic treatment if needed.

It's like asking, "What happened to making every tourist wear an electronic tracking bracelet?"

Neglect weighs tons.

I don't know buses...but who would be the likely winner and from what country?

China?

I'm guessing, as I really have no clue, but would be interested.

I worked for a Chinese coach manufacturing company. I assure you, you wouldn't want to buy a Chinese coach/bus. Materials are cheap, crash testing is non-existent, technology is 20 years old, and anything slightly new is copied (patent infringed, should I say).

As for Thailand, a Chinese source is a likely winner, however, because cheap, user unfriendly, unsafe, and crap quality matters not here. What matters, and what mattered to Volvo and Scania, are the bent takings by the offerers of bids. The undertable corruption was something the Western companies had no interest in being involved in, especially when they realised the graft was ultimately reducing, or projecting to reduce, their end sales prices.

Volvo nor Scania need Thailand as an entity or major market to compete worldwide, and so it is another loss to Thailand which keeps it years behind all the other developing countries. I think I made myself perfectly clear?

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My support is for the elephant.

Aren't elephants supposed to have a special significance for the Thais.

Ooop's

I forgot., it is only when the elephants are made to walk the streets in appalling conditions so as to solicit ''donations'' for the handler and thus the handlers can pay the rental to the elephant owner that the elephants then assume any significant importance.

Yet more Thai bashing ...

How many wild animals are allowed to wander into a town in your country without the end result being the animal is 'removed' ( read 'shot') under the pretence of safety.

The very fact that this animal lives in relative freedom makes your post sound as bigoted as it really is.

In my country, the UK, we don't have elephants out on the streets collecting money for their owners, we don't have boxing orangutans, we don't have various types of monkeys being kept as money making pets. If you want to start talking 'facts' maybe you should consider that in Thailand wild animals (rather former wild animals) are often seen as entertainment and means of making money.

So I'm guessing London Zoo is not for entertainment, and is a non-profit organization without any elephants etc. What was the entrance fee again?

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My support is for the elephant.

Aren't elephants supposed to have a special significance for the Thais.

Ooop's

I forgot., it is only when the elephants are made to walk the streets in appalling conditions so as to solicit ''donations'' for the handler and thus the handlers can pay the rental to the elephant owner that the elephants then assume any significant importance.

Yet more Thai bashing ...

How many wild animals are allowed to wander into a town in your country without the end result being the animal is 'removed' ( read 'shot') under the pretence of safety.

The very fact that this animal lives in relative freedom makes your post sound as bigoted as it really is.

In my country, the UK, we don't have elephants out on the streets collecting money for their owners, we don't have boxing orangutans, we don't have various types of monkeys being kept as money making pets. If you want to start talking 'facts' maybe you should consider that in Thailand wild animals (rather former wild animals) are often seen as entertainment and means of making money.

Since when is London Zoo a non-profit?

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My support is for the elephant.

Aren't elephants supposed to have a special significance for the Thais.

Ooop's

I forgot., it is only when the elephants are made to walk the streets in appalling conditions so as to solicit ''donations'' for the handler and thus the handlers can pay the rental to the elephant owner that the elephants then assume any significant importance.

Yet more Thai bashing ...

How many wild animals are allowed to wander into a town in your country without the end result being the animal is 'removed' ( read 'shot') under the pretence of safety.

The very fact that this animal lives in relative freedom makes your post sound as bigoted as it really is.

In my country, the UK, we don't have elephants out on the streets collecting money for their owners, we don't have boxing orangutans, we don't have various types of monkeys being kept as money making pets. If you want to start talking 'facts' maybe you should consider that in Thailand wild animals (rather former wild animals) are often seen as entertainment and means of making money.

Since when is London Zoo a non-profit?

A salt lake would have been a more appropriate venue to organize this..

Ignore Thaksin.

"Being unable to afford any proper health care I have already decided on a course of action in the event of a terminal illness."

What then is it that you decided?

Duh! I had expected her to look more like this:

Can we have some French Fries with that?

Never heard of the police asking the green men for help. What a loss of face that was!!!

Why not use what Thai use..... the public streets and highways. Select a stretch with three lanes so there is more room for errors and it is easier to drive with the car ON the white line instead of between them.

The rule here is "if you have ridden a bicycle, you can drive a pickup." Didn't you know that?

Is that really you I your profile picture giving your daughter "away"? Who is the lucky guy?

Not anywhere, Not without a WP, unless you want to take the risk.