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I doubt changing anything will help stop the crooks and thugs. They will get a visa and do some visa hops. Where there’s a will there’s a way. What they can do is be more active and use their common sense at immigration, and the local police where these people live. They know who’s abusing the system, go after those. Stop the Russian , Chinese and Indians from opening businesses with a Thai front man. The land office needs looking into too, make sure that the people buying houses etc know what exactly they are buying , bricks not land. Lots of people have lost fortunes because the rules are not clear and the sellers are bent. There are only horror stories coming out of Thailand in the international news. If the authorities did their job ( example , stopped the illegal bike rentals) elderly expats wouldn’t be beat to the ground, the 20 000 + Thais and tourists who die on the road might hugely diminish, and make full insurance mandatory for all tourists. Just a pipe dream .

All the big concerns like supermarkets, shopping malls etc have staff sitting around, hiding in corners with their phones or basically standing there like dummies doing b….r all. I’ve been in business all my life and cannot understand the reason. Surely having competent staff with decent wages is advantageous ? Educate the young, change the archaic Thai system to bring them up to date with the rest of the world. Thailand is failing in so many ways, and as with pollution,´poverty, death trap roads and a rotten to the core police force, Thailand s future is becoming more and more bleak.

Obviously these smugglers have no idea of the risk, especially passing through Singapore. They are not professional, and somehow I don’t think the guys who organized this massive smuggling plan are very professional either !! Those men have probably been picked in a pub, a few drinks, a promise of sunshine and girls and a prize at the end, no risk. You have to be extremely naive to fall for such a plan., and for 2000£. ????

Yes.

Please read the post correctly.Medical treatment is free for THAIS’ , not foreigners. I don’t know if you’re real or not, but a girl working the bars are prostitutes . When the guys ( many) aren’t in Thailand , this what they do, Ask for money. If you’re ok with that, go ahead , but never forget who you are giving it to, its not a girl friend or friend. It’s a prostitute.

White sands beach if you want the choice of hotels, mostly small as all over KC , restaurants, bars and a great Long Beach. It’s the first beach town . Klong Prao nice too, less things to do, and Kai Bai which has lots of restaurants and music and a narrower beach., lonely beach is mostly back packers and some quite nice small bungalows. Wherever you are, you are only meters from the beach. There is one road , you can’t get lost !

Hi, so everyone has seen the new Japanese style toilets toilets in the malls that heat the seat, you can shower your privates etc . I would like to install one in my home in France, and I was just wondering how the whole thing functions ? Is it hooked up to electricity for the menus on the side of WC, spray, wash, heat, dry etc ? So how complicated is it to install for an experienced plumber ? Are there any minus points in these models , things I should know beforehand ? Thanks for any info, was hoping someone ´on AN had one , and no, there is no room for a normal bidet in this toilet.

Ok if you only have a small case. You still have to get from Pattaya to Sukhumvit. For the price of a taxi I wouldn’t bother with a bus. Door to door for me.

I was in a big Pattaya hotel not long back and I mentioned to the F&B manager that there were much less Chinese. He said yes, good ! My experience, they behave like pigs, and why oh why do they shout ?? It was nice to eat my breakfast in peace and quiet. Before I retired, we fixed that problem rapidly. We just refused to take reservations from Chinese. Only one experience was the reason. Food all over the floor, incessant moving around the table, constantly racking their throats, even so far as walking into the kitchen. They were very hard to control. As soon as there was hardly anything left on the table, we cleared away everything and gave the bill. When they left the remaining guests clapped. Never again.

The reaction of the Thai government to such subjects is like all headlines in the press here and online.. Here today, gone tomorrow.

From other reports , only richer Thais will be allowed in. I wonder how they will check that ? And for foreigners, I doubt the crowd from soi 6 and cheap Chinese will be welcome. I don’t know how Asian casinos work the doors, but in France there is a dress code and many are turned away. Or are they going to open the cheap flashy casinos you see on TV? The soi 6 and Bangla road girls will need to change their choice of clothes. Anyhow I doubt that it will be any time soon, buying land , building etc should take a good few years.

About 30 to 40 years ago I was always surprised seeing massive flashy houses built a few meters back from the main road on the way to Phuket Airport. I mean, who the hell builds those mansions off a main road with all the noise and dust it brings. I didn’t understand in those days that you had to show off your money in Thailand and not hide it away as we in the west usually do. Anyone living on Phuket in those days would have wondered as I did.

It’s all on CCTV.

Hopefully , as it was all captured on CCTV that must mean something positive for the British couple ?? Surely the British thug and Thai wife cannot get away with such blatant violence ? A slanging match I can live with, but beating an elderly couple unconscious ? I really hope court can find the younger couple guilty and that the elderly couple find peace.

I suppose if he has an official invitation from the Indonesian President then that’s enough.