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I seem to recall a previous Prime Minister who went off to visit the UN in New York...

Only to find himself without a country...

What on earth can be gained from such nonsence?

Justification for a well deserved 3 million baht reward...

I agree totally DirtyDan... But if I were the judge I would have approached this differently...

As she is an elected official of the county (And not an employee)... I would have gone after the county instead...

How about imposing a $10,000 a day fine on the county every day they thru their elected official violate the civil rights of their citizens...

Give them 30 days at $10K a day to organize a special recall election... If not raise the daily fine on the county to $20,000

So if you lose your passport on ELITE visa, they make you get another visa and do a visa run out the country??

For 500K one would expect less hassle.

Losing a passport containing a valid visa usually means the visa is also lost and cannot be reinstated.

If an Elite visa can indeed be replaced by doing a "visa run" that is a small price to pay for "losing" the passport.

I thought the Elite Visa was about peace of mind, Limousines and luxury hotels & spas.

A visa run in Vientiane equals 2/3 days of boredom, queues at embassy, grumpy embassy officer, then VAN (no LIMO on fly n ride) then moody immigration officer...

Sooo not Elite style!

Can't you leave thru Swampy immigration and once thru immigration have the Elite Card VIP golf cart pick you up and drive you over to the immigration entry... Problem solved ;-)

A good start would be to train or put in place systems to prevent this...

I would first spend a little money to train or put systems in place to prevent these kind of problems from entering the country...

I think they should have stuck with origin idea that was mooted of giving everyone a wrist band...

So basically the headline is... Crime solved!... Police did a great job... You can all go home now, nothing else to see here...

Get him interrogated by top ladyboys, then he'll surely cooperate

One could assume you have had some first hand experience with this method of make a man sing...

In related news Suvarnabhumi Airport authorities are bracing for a surge in arrivals this Monday...

Criminals with fake passports? Is this unexpected?

Fake passports are a cottage industry in Thailand...

^^^ Where has it been stated or written that the foreigner/renter is responsible for the TM 30 being filed?...

I seem to remember that a repeater cuts down the transmission speed substantially??

The standalone repeaters are crap for the most part...

A pair of Airport work differently as they have two frequencies (2.4 & 5.0ghz).... They can broadcast at say 2.4ghz and transfer data between themselves at 5.0ghz - and are software optimized to work like this...

Think of it like a one lane road verses a two way road...

If you are looking for a way to get a bigger range thru walks and such look into the extenders that use the houses electric wiring to communicate between the repeaters... But the best way would really be a ethernet wire from one area to another with separate wifi routers...

Got a very old Airport Express and which now goes through 2 walls or a floor easily. At my old place it was going through 4 walls, brick surfaced with concrete/Thai plaster.

To be clear, it is not a modem too, you need a modem + Airport Express if you connect to a phone line.

Is the Airport Express just a relayer-type thing to make signals stronger?

(Serious question).

No it is a stand alone router with a Ethernet port where you would plug in a service providers modem (True & 3bb foe example) and create a wifi network - but it can also be set up as a stand alone repeater if you have another Airport Express or Extreme....

This is my setup... I have a AirPort Extreme in the first floor plugged into my True Internet router... Then an Airport Express on the second level just plugged into an electric outlet... The software easily created a dual network for me ;-)

Here is the police artists rendition form the CCTV footage... He looks foreign...

Airport Express from Apple store in Kad Suan Kaew or Airport Plaza - easy to setup, 2.4 & 5ghz rock solid - easy resell on FB and is small and easy to fit in suitcase

The most venerable Ajahn Brahm's has said said on many occasion Bhuddism is a religion for tax purposes...

I went there yesterday and dropped off all the paperwork at the outside desk... I told the nice girl i did not need it right away so the 30 day free option was fine... She smiled and checked everything and then told me I needed to go with her to the officers desk inside the glass room... we went and she handed him the paperwork... He was definitely not from the land of smiles!!!... he didn't like the unclear copy of the lease which was in english... but I showed his a copy of my last True Internet bill which I also included and then showed him my Thai drivers license (which was expiring in 30 days) where on the back it all had the same address as I put on the form... Still no smile... But he reached into his drawer and pulled out a receipt and date stamp (which I don't think he uses much) and stamped my return pickup receipt for 30 days!!!... I smiled and gave him a great big Korp Khun Kab!!!... Sadly I still did not receive a smile back from him...

Completed the poll....got the pending, never got approval. Chiang Mai office.

Same here.. Been over a month and still shows pending (I mailed it in after 3 days of pending)...

You would think there would be SOMEONE monitoring the system and at least change the status to FAIL or something after a certain amount of time...

It was reported in another post that the majority of people waitng on line in the early morning are For slots are now Thais working for theses agents... Eventually the twenty or so slots that are handed out in the morning will all go to the agents who will sell them for 2-5,000 baht...

I will get flamed here but one of our favorite cheap Thai food places is the Tesco food court at Kamtiem... Cheap, clean, airconditioned chairs with seat backs and a beautiful view of Doi Suthep

I've hear the North Gate area outside of the Moat referred to as the best night food market in the world.

This used to be the case... But lately the area has been overrun by Chinese tourists... Mainly because an interprising lady vendor that sells pork over rice has made herself famous on the Chinese Internet with a cowboy hat...

Given everyone was slated for a 7% pay increase this year a 2-4% reduction will cut the thier pay raise to only 5-3%...

If the BKK bomber (who is still on the loose) were to bomb here I would stay away from the weekend walking street evenings, Thaepe Gate area and the Nemanheiman/Maya corridor...

Have they asked any of the tourists that were near the shrine at the time for copies of any high resolution photos/videos they may have took?