Thechook

Roll out the, this is Thailand, stop thai bashing and go home if you don't like the way it is comments. Let's not forget it's the tourists fault, if they had stayed at home this poor taxi driver wouldn't have rolled with these Americans in his taxi.

That's a long way down

US should stay out of other countries cookie jars if they want to avoid confrontation. This is the same as the Russian flyover of USS Donald Cook in the Baltic sea, I wonder how US would react if Russia would park a Kirov class cruiser 70km from New York...

China doesn't own the international space, they think they own the entire area but they don't so the U.S don't need thier permission to fly in international space.

All the nice comments about Uber aside, they are aggressively trying to get a big market share. Hence their pricing is reasonable and their service is outstanding.

The minute that Uber has a major market share established, this will all change, of course. This is just an investment phase to try to control the market. I agree with Thai government on this.

Like in China where they gave drivers generous commissions and hand outs first to lure them in and later stopped that and charged drivers for a percentage, it is called economics.

Let it be.

If that happens, then they leave the door open for GOOBER taxi services to do the same thing to them.

Fair competition is a good thing, market disruption is a good things and consumers will decide who wins in the end.

If we just let one group have the market to themselves then we fail to progress and service deteriorates.

Let UBER put taxi Drivers out of a job. They are generally hopeless.

In the County court, Melbourne Australia today 18 May at 11.30 a.m UBER won thier appeal to operate. The taxi directorate was ordered to pay all costs. This is a good thing as they provide a far better service and the taxi industry will have to clean up its act dramatically. Cleaning thier vehicles, taking a shower, learning English, dropping the rude arrogant attitude and charging a reasonable fare will be a start. Thais should go down the same path but with the taxi mafia the courts may get stacked against them.

I wonder if he will soon seek medical treatment elsewhere.

I hear Singapore provides excellent medical services.

Why would they as monitoring is banned. It will be as they say it is.

Are there actually any ambulances in Thailand, how about actual paramedics? All you see is Somchia the mechanic, his rusty pickup with a rescue sticker on the back. An injured dying person is chucked in the back on top of old engine parts, fertilisers and is cared for by the prized rooster.

My wife's driver licence is for life, she never has to renew it.

So section 44 is the new term for nepotism. Sounds like he has wised up, when appointing friends and family to key posts use section 44.

I think the likes of Uber are far better especially in places like Melbourne Australia. They are cheaper, more reliable, clean and the drivers speak English. I would never get into a filthy taxi in Melbourne the stench and odour is overpowering and you can't communicate with the driver because they don't speak English. Uber is the way to go world wide.

There is a lesson here for the rich and famous in Thailand. Don't get caught because the caughtus virus is infectious and very incapacitating and the only cure is money and the statute of limitations. It doesn't discriminate, just look at the poor young red bull guy, a fit man in the prime of his life and all before him suddenly struck down in Singapore and now stranded in a foreign land to gravely ill to return home.

Find ways to allow political parties to express their opinions ?

Shows the extent of the mess this country has been dragged into.

The easiest way would be to simply say, feel free to tell us what you think, I promise not to execute, if you give the wrong answer.

He may be sexy to the gay community, but for a man dressed like a woman I think he is butt ugly.

Russia, China, North Korea and Thailand, quite the quartet.

Apparently the Thai economy is constantly growing stronger and stronger just like tourist numbers keep soaring.

Good to see that the aussies have been given permits to train them again. A couple of years ago they couldn't get work permits as it was a job reserved for Thais even tho they took the donations and equipment supplied by Australia.

He forgot the crown of thorns, but got the look down pat.

This guy in western dress who says western style of dress is ruining thai culture.

Australia took them to task about the stripping of free speach, gagging of the media, the expulsion of internation media, the refusal to allow outside observations, the abuse of the computer crimes act, the defamation laws and the leste majeste. How these laws are being used for personal reasons and to silence critics. The following day the junta issues a press release in the "Thai" media on how the international community supports Prayuth and his junta in the way they are operating.

Hello McFly, anybody home? These numbnuts want a seat on the U.N and think they deserve it.

Did anyone take Australia to task for their appalling treatment of migrants at camps they built; on the alleged and never denied paying of people smugglers to illegally traffic boat people away from Australia, and the continued abuse and denial of rights for the Aboriginal peoples whose land, children and way of life was stolen?

Australia, fast becoming one of the most hypocritical of the non significant wannabee nations out there.

I'm an Aboriginal, so please explain. I don't see a problem with how I have been treated. I got off my arse and made

something of myself with the guidance of my aboriginal father. Never played the race card or the pitiful me card.

Front and center young man. I am here. Saints got their pants pulled down. Got a right shafting with a white hot iron. The weagles, what can you say, they came to tear the saints a new <deleted> and they gave them 3.

Are they still allowed to compete in the Rio Olympics

Aren't thoughts and being critical ilegal in Thailand? Weren't 4 students arrested for critical thinking and the mother of 1 facing 15 yrs imprisonment for not curbing his thoughts. Come on People think critically, I have the trucks and soldiers waiting for your thoughts.

Welease Bwian.

Nobody initially noticed the fire or is burning everything just normal in Thailand that nobody thought twice.

When exactly is the next election, not in Prayuth's lifetime I'm sure.