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how many airport arrivals? you know actual tourists

6 minutes ago, Mike Lister said:

The number of inbound tourists has been counted the same way for ever, if they are wrong currently, they were always wrong by a proportionate amount!

 

Exports are not expressed as a percentage of GDP, they are expressed as an actual amount or a year on year increase. Currently exports are up on the year, the fourth highest they have EVER been!

 

https://tradingeconomics.com/thailand/exports

 

any increase is probably down to rice price increasing globally

23 minutes ago, Mike Lister said:

Rubbish, do your homework.

 

https://app.bot.or.th/BTWS_STAT/statistics/BOTWEBSTAT.aspx?reportID=853&language=eng

Thailand is not doing well, those tourism figures are not tourists, they are just border crossings for any reason not just tourism. Thai exports are down as %GDP

nobody uses the world licitly to refer to more common legally. journo should stay away from online thesaurus

First new year in Bangkok for 20 years, and NYE and friends have an apartment on the riverside so jolly good show!

Family "loan sharks" are very important in Thailand, every Chinese family has some old lady who lends money to the locals when they need it. Ours does, and she is no shark, yes she makes money from it, but she provides a very important service to those left out of the system

Site is looking better now at least.

Isn't the eastern line in Malaysia metre gauge?, and isn't the Kunming railway supposed to be standard gauge throughout? Is there any std gauge line in Thailand

Water security! Keep saying it because it is true. Thailand needs another 3-6 huge new reservoirs to help stabilise water supply in coming years. No room for NIMBY's

Water security is vastly more important than almost anything else for Thailands future. This will go ahead despite the objections

23 hours ago, MikeandDow said:

read your history  The UN did not creat Israel

The United Nations divided Israel and the state of Palestine in 1948 through a plan that never went into full effect because Israel declared independence before the plan could be fully in place. While the UN was going to create Israel, Israel declared independence once the British left.

Brief history lesson...

in 1915/16 the British promised the whole area including Israel to the Arab nations in return for helping to overthrow the Ottoman Empire ( think Lawrence of Arabia), then later in 1916 Billionaire banker Lord Rothschild persuaded Lord Balfour to issue a declaration stating a "home" for Jewish people in Israel, totally disregarding the earlier promise to Arab League.

This is the root of never ending acrimony. The British betrayal of the Arab league on the behest of banker Rothschild, a sordid part of British history really

On 10/13/2023 at 3:00 PM, Denim said:

I thought I was familiar  with the history  of this conflict but having read many posts on AN concerning recent events , I am now not so sure.

 

So , if there are any AN posters who feel passionately about this , and can recap the viewpoints of both sides impartiality,  I would be interested  to read them in order to see if there are any indisputable facts that everyone  can agree on.

 

Thanks in advance.

Salient points are killing people face to face like Hamas is totally barbaric, but bombing 1000's of innocent children and civilians remotely is "A OK!"

They didn't fall down, they were incorrectly installed or they were sub-standard and failed

Tiger, hunters or he ate the wrong mushrooms

If he's been smoking pot, then that is the end of the pot business in Thailand

So why is it called Prikhut and not Priktom?

I do love Thai journalism. We are all still left wondering how rain makes a train derail? From the photo, it looks like the track is still intact

I see, so inconvenience tens of thousands on flight paths so a few hotel owners don't have to lower their prices. 

This has been proposed for over 7 years now, and should be done asap to provide certainty of water supplies in the North, much better than many other vanity projects

some good news at last!