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These are sidewalk vendors, for god's sake - not Batman supervillains...

Why do so many news articles keep referring to this as an "embezzlement" case, when it's clearly bribery/extortion? Nothing was embezzled - a cash payment was demanded in order to drop a criminal investigation. Or is there some additional case that I'm not aware of, filed at the same police station and involving the exact same amount of money?

Drunk driving is just outrageous behavior. If she stuck to the approved activities of MPs, like heroin trafficking, rape, and murder, she would be good to go.

Why would any parliamentary vote be secret? Aren't the constituents supposed to know how their representatives voted on any issue?

There have certainly been a number of foreign men who have attempted/committed suicide at Suvarnabhumi over the years, usually jumping from the 3rd or 4th floor on the day of their departure flight, but I can't recall any woman doing the same. I hope she's ok.

If you're coming up on the BTS, it's quicker, cheaper, and easier to just get off at Mo Chit and change to the A1 or A2 airport express bus (or go all the way up to Yaek Kor Por Aor and then take a taxi). The SRT Red Line gets you there, but it's a walk of a few hundred meters at each end, and runs less frequently than the bus.

I was sitting on my sofa on the 10th floor near Asoke when I felt the building start to sway. At first I thought I was suffering some kind of strange vertigo attack, so I looked around for physical clues as to what was going on. I saw that the pull-chain on a nearby floor lamp was swinging back and forth, so I decided it was probably an earthquake, but I was still debating whether to evacuate the apartment when the swaying stopped. Very disconcerting...!

Lyft doesn't operate in Thailand, and the Thai language article in Siam Rath doesn't mention "Lyft" at all - it says the conflict was between a Grab driver and an Udon Airport Limousine driver.

How remarkably convenient. I'm not aware of any business that goes to the trouble and expense of installing CCTV, but then erases the records within 24 hours. Electronic storage is cheap.

So they don't normally crack down on these folks? If they know who and where they are, why haven't they already arrested them? And if they don't know, how are they going to find them in a city of ten million people?

How many restaurant owners would really just send out money without even confirming that the order had really been placed? ????

With no pedestrian bridge and no crosswalk or traffic signal, what choice do students have other than to run across the road and hope for the best?

They spelled "arrested" wrong.

Every article keeps stating this as fact, but it's totally false. The "Revolutionary Decree" was revived around 20 years ago under the puritanical Interior Minister Purachai duringThaksin's administration, and the 2015 regulation just re-codified the same policy.

Bail for murderers, but partyers "constitute a threat to society". Ok...

So the party in Huai Khwang was actually in Bang Kapi? Interesting ????

Some countries don't allow the extradition of their own citizens, but many do. In addition, most extradition treaties allow countries to refuse to extradite their own citizens, but normally with the proviso that they must then be tried in their home country instead.

1) "not banned by the constitution" is certainly not equivalent to "nothing wrong with it" 2) I think the point people are making is that military-connected politicians effectively have a media machine at their disposal, but reformist politicians can't even own a few shares of any media company. It's a stacked deck.

If the whole world seems to know about his arrival in Norway using a false name and passport, why wasn't he immediately arrested for that by Norwegian authorities? Even leaving aside the murder charge, flying around under a false identity or with forged documents isn't something that's taken lightly by any government. Or are the articles somehow suggesting that the Norwegian embassy in Hanoi knowingly issued the bogus passport to him?

As long as they're tilting at non-existent windmills, they might as well also announce that they firmly oppose any plan to establish American unicorn breeding farms ????

It's a great relief to know that from now on I'll only be victimized by Thai criminals, not foreign ones. Thanks!!

They approved the tax with no idea of exactly who would pay it, how it would be collected, or what it would be used for - how shocking that its implementation has been rocky ????

"Police arrested the Vietnamese vendor under suspicion of, “acting in a way to increase the weight of the scales used to trade and sell goods beyond the margin of error exploiting customers”" ...which is an occupation reserved for Thais.

If there's really a law requiring them to waste time holding hearings on a tax that hasn't been levied in over 30 years - in order to "assess its effectiveness" - that would truly raise the bar for bureaucratic inanity.

The first article is wildly inaccurate. The proposed tax would apply only to Thai citizens and permanent residents, not to tourists and others. And contrary to what they claim, there is no "existing outbound levy for tourists" - there is a Passenger Service Charge (PSC) for people departing by air, which is an airport user fee - not a tax - and which applies to all outbound air passengers, not just tourists. There is no charge or tax of any kind for people leaving the country by rail, road, or on foot.