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Legal experts challenge parliament’s rejection of Pita’s renomination
khunjeff replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
It never made any sense that a point of parliamentary procedure would be decided by a vote of the members, anyway - that should be the responsibility of the house speaker, or parliamentarian. -
Pattaya Officials Remove Obstructive Billboards from Walking Street
khunjeff replied to webfact's topic in Pattaya News
The terms "fire engine" and "fire truck" are used pretty much interchangeably in American English, at least where I grew up. -
K-Bank Email
khunjeff replied to Lucky Bones's topic in Jobs, Economy, Banking, Business, Investments
This is a problem with the "verification" process for many financial apps here (electronic wallets, etc). They tell you to take off your glasses, and then they give written instructions on the screen - look to the right, nod your head, blink - that you can't read, because you're not wearing your glasses... ???? -
RIP. Incidentally, a simple glance at any map - or even at the sign in the photo - would show that Tha Phra is a station on the MRT, not the BTS.
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High-end watch demand increases among younger Thai generation
khunjeff replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Amazing how the planted articles from watch dealers always say demand for watches is up, and the planted articles from real estate brokers and developers always say that demand for property is through the roof ???? -
Thai Senator to sue cyberbullies after Prime minister bid fallout
khunjeff replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Boo-freaking-hoo -
Police Prepare For Nationwide Protests, Parliament Heavily Guarded
khunjeff replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Damrongsak is a member of the Senate - he could avoid any unrest simply by voting for the people's choice and convincing his fellow senators to do the same. -
Just to clarify, this announcement has nothing at all to do with normal Bangkok bus services, or with the old red buses that still belch black smoke all over the capital. The Bus Rapid Transit line is meant to take the place of a train line, with limited stops, all-door boarding from platforms, pre-payment of fares, and priority running along streets. Unfortunately, the Bangkok BRT has never been a "real" BRT, as city authorities don't want to implement features that would inconvenience motorists, such as dedicated lanes or signal priority at traffic lights. (This is a common problem around the world, not just in Bangkok.) In addition, Bangkok made the odd decision to use small buses on its BRT, rather than the long articulated buses normally used on BRT systems to achieve greater passenger capacity. it's therefore kind of surprising that they're talking about "introducing smaller, electricity-powered buses into the fleet" and "incorporat[ing] additional BRT stops near pedestrian crossings", both of which seem to be steering the system into being less of an actual BRT and more of a garden variety bus service.
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New Trend In Condo Advertisements
khunjeff replied to stratocaster's topic in Real Estate, Housing, House and Land Ownership
The pool and other amenities are designed to look good in brochures and help the developer sell the units, not to be used. Many of these buildings have beautiful but undersized common areas that would become impossibly crowded if even a small percentage of tenants ever started using them. -
Previous articles were labeling this an "embezzlement" case, and now they've changed to "asset seizure" and "money laundering", "involv[ing] participants from both the police force and the general public". Let's be clear: this case is about extortion committed by police officers. Why aren't they willing to say as much? And why all the cautions that "all implicated parties are considered innocent", something which is rarely if ever stated when average nobodies are arrested, paraded in front of cameras, and forced to "reenact" the offenses that they deny having committed?
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AOT confident 95m passenger target can be achieved
khunjeff replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
216,000 square kilometers!! That's almost half the size of Thailand itself - very impressive indeed ???? -
Broken suitcase wheel may have caused Don Mueang moving walkway incident
khunjeff replied to webfact's topic in Bangkok News
"The brakes failed" -
That just isn't true. Individual countries may have their own idiosyncracies when it comes to divorce and marriage, but for the most part they follow some broad principles. One, called "comity of nations", means that they generally accept civil acts from other countries (unless they violate pubic policy, like a bigamous or incestuous or underage marriage). So, if you get married in one country, you're still married when you go to another country. Without this concept, people would have to keep repeating things like marriage, divorce, and birth registrations every time they moved to another jurisdiction. Another principle is that the authority in the best position - and with the clearest legal authority - to adjudicate civil matters is the authority in the place where the affected parties reside or are physically located. That means that it's perfectly normal and acceptable for a couple to marry in one country, and then divorce in a different country that they happen to be living in years later. This is why we used to see so many "quickie Dominican divorces" for US couples back when divorce in the USA was difficult. The issue for the OP - assuming he's not just trolling - may be that his country requires some kind of paperwork to be filed to officially put them on notice that he's legally divorced. This would be similar to how things are done in Thailand, where you are certainly considered "married" after getting married abroad, but you can't use that marriage for any local legal purpose (like a spouse visa) without depositing the foreign certificate at an amphur and having it recorded locally. This is more typically seen in civil law countries than in countries following the common law.
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Pretty confusing, as press announcements from AOT usually are. - This isn't a "terminal", it's a satellite passenger concourse. It adds two dozen gates, but no additional capacity for check-in, immigration, security, or baggage handling. - I don't understand how this concourse can increase passenger capacity at BKK. Right now, flight numbers are limited by runway capacity, and passenger numbers primarily by the capacity of immigration, security, and baggage systems. The number of gates hasn't been a limiting factor, since bus gates are always available. - Even if the new structure somehow increases passenger capacity to the "staggering" 60 million promised, that's still BELOW the number of flyers that passed through the airport annually in the years just before covid.
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Tourist police bust illegal Chinese tour guide in Phuket
khunjeff replied to snoop1130's topic in Phuket News
Maybe the Tourist Police could just carry out their assigned role of protecting tourists, and leave visa and employment law violations to Immigration and the local police? -
Senate deputy chairman says Pita “unlikely to get 5 votes” from senators
khunjeff replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
These guys are just determined to trade in their Benzes for tumbrels, aren't they... -
International credit cards are fine. Some people occasionally have had trouble registering them, but that seems to be the exception rather than the rule.
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Senator suggests Pita doesn’t have to be the only PM candidate
khunjeff replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Neither capability nor ethics was a consideration when the senators themselves were voted for...oh, my mistake, they weren't voted for at all... -
So this operation wasn't aimed at punishing taxis for breaking the law, but at eliminating illegal competition so that the taxis can continue to break the law with impunity. Got it.
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