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It's more likely "crushing the can" that can't produce a kickback on the debt payment just ahead of a national election wherein PM Prayut campaigned partially on fighting corruption.

You don't have to have PR, O visa with spouse, First Class or Business Class to speedily pass through immigration. With LTR and Elite visas you can use Fast Track for both entry and exit through immigration.

Locals know you can find alleged Rolex et al gold watches in Chinese-owned online marketing platform Lazada for as little as 2,500 baht, comes with purported Rolex box and certificates. And Lazada has a great return policy if not satisfied with a purchase.

The junta NCPO government led by Prayut used its absolute power to undertake projects that it thought would gain it political support without regard to cost or efficiency. Hopefully under the Pita democratic regime that will change.

Yes, that's where Patani belongs culturally, ethnically and historically by common religion and sharia law. In fact "Patani" citizens can hold dual Malaysian citizenship the list of which the RTM has tried to obtain and failed. However, the Federation of Malaysia ( previously the Kingdom of Malaysia) had in effect conceded such annexation when Britain offered Malaysia the Muslim Kingdom of Kedah (also on the southern border of the Kingdom of Siam) in junction with Britain's offer to the Buddhist Kingdom of Siam the Muslim Kingdom of Patani. But I believe that Thailand is too closely tied to Patini's natural resources to ever give up its economic interests and political power gained through the RTM's dominance over the region. Even to allow Patani autonomy or semi-autonomy could divert enough of the region's economic and political power away from Thailand's pro-royalists/RTM and weaken them nationally as a power block.

"At the conference, MOU signing ceremony was held, following the business matching between private sector of the two countries" it appears to me that the entire deal was negotiated and agreed during the conference. That Prayut fully intended to use the conference to further secure the RTM-royalist partnership (via an MOU that diesn't require parliamentary approval) with Chinese Communist regime in advance of the progressive democratic MFP coalition government as a last gasp- hold to continued power. And remember the 2017 Constitution written by the junta embeds the junta's 20-year National Strategy Plan that defines national development according to the junta's priorities. Any deviation requires a constitutional amendment that requires majority approval by the unelected Senate. With regard of Prayut vs Trump in trade negotiations, it's "apples & oranges." Literally ????. They operate under different government systems Parliamentary vs. Presidential so it's a reach to find similarities regarding length of time to negotiate foreign trade agreements. What is common is that both systems require support of the parliament/congress to make any foreign agreement binding. So on effect the Prayut-China MOU is just politics that ultimately reinforces the junta's cash cow the EEC before Prayut is finally replaced.

Pick-up driver had clear view of the two lanes to his left side to see the motor bike crossing lanes. May be a question of the truck speeding and driver inattention. The highway design itself seems potentially flawed as well as possibly too broad (six lanes?) For any cross- access, no easy access for anyone on the left street side to safely enter traffic going the opposite direction to the lanes on the right side of the highway and having to cross three lanes with traffic moving broadside on the left side of the highway.

If the stance was that the fault is inactive, then it wasn't "hidden." It's just not showing evidence of surface disruption.

You don't need a new border. Just re-establish the original border for auto/semi- autonomy defined by the previous Kingdom of Patani that coincides with the current northern border for the Southern provinces. Good luck with the decades of national bigotry though towards the Malay Muslims.

Desperate spin by the anti-constitutionalist pro-juntas to paint gloom and doom for the nation in hopes of providing another excuse for the elite vis a vis to save the nation from the Progressive savages.

You're comparing a golden eagle to a frog.

The Navy recrived

Senators abstaining is a political out for them and can be used for either PTP or MFP and a success where their vote is not used to vote for Prayut/Prawit/et al pro-royalist. Maybe some are looking to extend their term under PTP/MFP?

When the third runway is completed in 2024 the airport will receive 94 flights per hour from the current 68 flights per hour. (ref. 2/03/2023; www.nationthailand.com) That's 34 flights more per hour than provided by the recent airport upgrades. Then what?

"tourists" Was this requirement waived? "for foreign blood donors, the requirement is that they have resided in Thailand for at least six months" Not the typical tourist but maybe they were Thai tourists.

About as heart warming as what POTUS Nixon once said, "I am not a crook."

I've read "The Senate under Transitory Provisions of the Constitution" and do not find any provision wherein the Senate members can vote on the Speaker of the House. Only for the PM under certain conditions. However, in the combined Senate and House called the National Assembly a member of the Senate acts as Vice-President while a member of the House acts as President of the National Assembly. Wherein the Vice President of the Senate in the absence of a House of Representatives or absence of a President of the National Assembly can then act automatically as President of the National Assembly.

Flawed referendum with a low turnout of about 54% of which 58% approved the junta-written constitution. That's only about 31% of the total turnout but a majority in terms of the "whole" vote. There were "repressive" conditions. No campaigning allowed for no vote Criticizing the draft results in detention and charges Few saw a copy Few read through the legalized 279 articles From what I recall, there was no public media that was allowed to go through relevant portions of the draft and how Thais might be affected, ie., an unelected PM by the junta-appointed Senate. ref. www. BBC.com/news/world-asia , August 2016

I agree. She's still conscious after having her leg amputated? And normally Thai news media blurs out a victim's face but not in this horrendous accident? Furthermore, without the victim's consent the photo may violate the Personal Data Act.

“You have to pay the court 500,000 baht for the temporary release of the suspect. Are you convenient for that? And may I ask you straightly? Could you pay the same amount to my team? It is the Thai Criminal Procedure followed by the ruling court that stipulates the criteria for bond application. Not RTP. The granting of bail depends on the court's discretion and analysis, not RTP.

You are aware of course that Malay Muslims were independent as a sovereign state known as the Kingdom of Patani. Great Britain had made a deal with Thailand to allow Thailand to annex KoP without any permission or public referendum by Malays in exchange for an exclusive trade deal of the area's resources.

It's a political power issue, not an ideological split, aka "schism." Same happened when PM-elect Prayut had to negotiate his Cabinet and Speaker position with his coalitions.

"Bangkok stops up efforts to maintain economic ties with Britain following Btexit vote" ref. July 2016, thediplomat.com So finally after seven years? And what Thailand has now is an MOU and a "partnership." Neither of which had any real enforcement to a breach of contract that one would find under a Free Trade Agreement. Why no FTA? "The EU and Thailand announced the relaunch of negotiations for an FTA in March 2023. In 2020 total bilateral trade between the EU and Thailand amounted to €29 billion." ref. Policy.trade.ec.europa.eu Glad to see UK finally got a partnership with Thailand.

Check your qualification the Long Term Resident Visa 50k for two 5 year back-to-back terms. Unlimited re-entries, 1 year residence reporting, Fast Track exit and re-entry, etc,

That's a meaningless statement as "nationalistic" and "democratic" are not choices. A federal government is nationalistic in nature as it enjoins the entire nation under a particular ideology, ie., democracy, authoritarian, absolute/dictatorship, etc.. What you cannot have is tolerance for freedom of speech outside of a "full" or "flawed" democracy (as defined by the EIU Democracy Index) regardless of what a nation's constitution may claim to protect.