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not sure whether this really good, users who call their own network get charged more by median cost plan.

Its just the same, but now you can not choose.

If the guys is guilty, I have no problem with this arrest. No country needs that kind of input among their people. We'll see.

I concur.

Who wants to believe that?

Thailand's government has been urged to lift a state of emergency

and drop terrorism charges against leaders of recent anti-government

protests.

The International Crisis Group (ICG) warned the "legitimate frustrations"

of protesters were "being forced underground and possibly towards illegal

and violent actions".

More can be read at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/asia_pacific/10506794.stm

regards

left his car unlocked with his bank card in it? couldn't cancel his card cos the bank was closed? (no 24 hour 'report your card stolen' number???) how did they know his date of birth? I think he's a mug and they deserve to keep it all

They also took 'various documents' from his car...

Cant cancel credit card? <deleted>? The Bank must be in Antarctica or near Sahara....

he will already be shaved when this pic comes out... guess another pic without beard could help

Clean them all up I say!

There's a few more shady characters that need to be eradicated from the area.

Pattaya was great before the farang takeover!!!!!!!!!!

20-30 years ago?

A 90-year-old "abuses" four lively Thai kids/teenagers, and the father of the daughter files a complaint after 2 years(!) Hmm.., I reckon there is more to the story.

Did the father ask for a handsome pay-out?

Ha, was just thinking the same...

Too many negative replies on some very positive news.

I don't feel that it's positive news, its sad that so much comes into Thailand. It's

only a small percentage which really is in the country, think again...

Since we can't really comment on the charge then, who is the falang looking guy in the background with all the badges on his shirt?

He is heavily suffering from Alzheimer and doesn't remember anything...

Someone can give me the definition of "sexually mollested"? From where to where does it go?

check here Sexual abuse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

American man arrested for paedophilia

Police brought Mr Holley to search his residence in order to find whether or not there was further evidence for human trafficking or any other offences. (TNA)

-- TNA 2010-06-18

Presumably they found nothing when they searched his room then. Then again, what would they expect to find? A NAMBLA members card or something?

Drugs, weapons, illegal stuff or the like

...that they have strong evidence to take legal action against him.

72 years old

I wonder what more could that be then the word of the girl and or other people hearing it from her.

Family Reunion!

What suprises me is that the "fear of/ love of establishment" moderator for thavisa hasn't censored half of the comments posted? Whats going on in Thailand is just one big joke, if you made a movie on it, people wouldn't beleive it was non-fiction, they would laugh and think it was a comedy, but alas....

This post would be the first to be censored

1,000 baht fine eh!.

That's not a deterrent, it's a licence.

Your absolute right

A country with 60m and they only arrest 259? Even if they only talk about Bangkok, think again.

The big cash goes over internet. They can't control it. Even if they block all websites,

people have ways accessing them.

One PayPal account to rule them all !

I am not surprised at all. They try to keep those few farangs, which are still left, in the country.

Its a desperate move, but it works

what can the police do anyways? There just to many possibilities to gamble online...

ZzzZZzzzz

Thai's will gamble. Nothing can stop them.

If you says to a child: DON'T OPEN THAT DOOR!

what you think will happen?

Thanks for posting my son's story and photo, if anyone thinks they might have seen him in Bangkok anywhere or has contacts who might be able to get us to get the local police interested in helping us find him, please get in touch.

He was last known to be being held in the Saphan Taksin Soi 8 area.

Martin

Martin,

I went through a very similar situation in 2004 when my 3 year old dissapeared.

I was asked for 1 million baht to see my son. The asking party was the in laws.....

To cut a long story short... it was an extortion plan from my wife's family and included my wife; even though she was by my side every day pretending to cry.

I was "wisened" by a police officer who advised me not to believe my wife. This was hard for him to do and for me to believe.

In the end it turned out that my wife was keeping a tab on me while my son would be moved around every time we (I) got closer. Even though I had arranged to pay the money, nothing happened. I did not hand the money over as I insisted that only when I saw my son they would get the money. My wife knew I had the money ready but she also knew that I would not hand it over until I saw my son. I did not give in and held on.....

Eventually I got away from my wife and tracked them all down myself. It took me six months but I did it. These would have had to be the worst 6 months in my life....

I got my son back, divorced my wife and took my son overseas where he has been schooling now for the last 5 years. AND he/we is very HAPPY!

Some notes:

The police officer that made me open my eyes said to me;

1) In Thailand the father has a right to the chidren just as much (if not more) as the mother (not like in our western countries where mums get their way).

2) I was told if I ever saw my son to pick him up in my arms and just walk away. Don't fight, don't argue just walk away! WITH MY SON. In his words who has has. If I had my son no one could take him away NOT EVEN THE POLICE! Same if she had him.

3) Make sure that no friend helps me to carry my son. I was to do it alone. My friends if any helped could be charged with kidnaping. I could not as I am the father.

4) Arrange for a divorce settlement and if there is property involved the wife would be more interested in the property than the child. THEY were 100% correct. She signed away her rights of my son and I walked away with 0% of the house. Not that we foreigners have any right to property as we are made to sign that land is purchased entirely with funds of the wife and 0% contribution form us (foreigners). You can own the house but not the land. I prefered to carry my son away rather than the bricks and tiles...

This is my story and I hope your is really different.....

BUT I tell you these ladies are great actors right to the end.... this is not to imply all Thai ladies but the ones that get up to it they are bloody good at it!

GOOD LUCK!

I am -negatively- amazed...

ok its uo again... wonder what caused this

I try for over 2 hours to connect to facebook.com but without success. Screen keeps being white and status bar shows only

'Waiting for static.fk.fbcdn.net'

Anyone else having this problem? I use CAT but any other site has no problems as far as I can see

Time to call in the big time high priced BOUNTY HUNTERS.. Have Gun Will Travel..

They should have been called long time ago already

To the reds - if it has not escaped your attention - you have won! - there are to be elections in November - but if the protest and violence continues then you are putting those at risk because you cannot hold fair elections in the immediate aftermath of something like these protests - the country needs time to settle down and reflect on the political choices in an atmosphere of calm....... oh wait or is fair and free elections really their aim? Maybe anarchy and a "triumphant return" by a "hero Thaksin" is what you really seek.

that is EXACTLY correct.

the reds are winning, and if this isnt stopped we'll have anarchy and devil thaksin will return.

the way to stop it is to grant a general amnesty to all Reds except OF COURSE to the devil himself.

you cant bring the Reds back inside the poltical system if their leaders are in jail AND the coup plotters and assissasins of sae daeng arent. double standards isnt what convinces people to return.

if the sunni tribal chiefs could be brought back into the fold in iraq, so can the reds in thailand. amnesty and internationally sponsored free and fair electins are the way to do that.

and every day the killing of innocents (and others) in places like Din Deang and Bon Kai continues, the goverment loses support.

abhisit is a very wise guy. IF he is still in charge, we will have amnesty, just as thailand granted it to the communists in 1976. its only a matter of time.

ABSOLUTELY AGREE!

Good! You can't negotiate with anarchist criminals who have been shown remarkable tolerance thus far. Their criminal mob have held the Country to ransom for long enough and their concern for human life is hypocritically one sided stemming only from the desire of their leaders to get an amnesty so they can go off and spend Thaksin's millions.

Where do you get such garbage? They want democratically elected governments to be left alone to rule without the elitist army backed thugs removing them from power and then slaughtering them in the streets when they protest. It's the government who are the criminals.

How about informing yourself before showing attitude? The government already gave in by having elections in Nov 14. The red are not interested in peace. They want chaos.

Think again...!