John Drake

And will there be a follow up to arrest, fine, blacklist, and deport these triad members?

There is a "less sodium" soy sauce available (44 percent less). Seasonings can easily be reduced simply through making two or three uses out of the packages, instead of just one (don't usually need an entire package anyway, as it overwhelms). There are even no salt and less salt tortilla chips manufactured right here in Thailand, which are cheaper than the salty imports. Salt reduction is not difficult if people move their eyeballs to the right and left on the shelves.

Hope the flight is non-stop.

Do triad members travel FIT or in tour groups?

There will be another upwards revision next week, when it will be announced that one billion Chinese are now expected to visit Thailand and hand out 1000 baht notes on every street corner.

The debbil made me do it!

There are those in Thailand who do fear the increasing Chinafication of the country. Just yesterday in the Bangkok Post there was an article about 600 illegal Chinese associations being used to funnel in Chinese to live here. And that was 600 illegal associations in just one province. Today, there is another article in the Bangkok Post about the Federation of Thai Industries fearing a tidal wave of cheap Chinese manufactured goods. Right now, a lot of Thai food and raw materials are exported to China, while Thailand receives manufactured goods in return. That is model for colonial mercantilism. https://tradingeconomics.com/thailand/exports/china https://tradingeconomics.com/china/exports/thailand

Ah, so that explains the welcoming warmth and yearning for deeper ties that Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Ukraine have towards Russia.

Non-sequitur in the first bit. And I don't know what that last line means.

I see that someone has already answered your first paragraph. So, I'll go on. Why should Thailand be listening? Because if they help Chinese firms evade sanctions and restrictions (as Thailand has openly been advertising for them to do the past three years), Thailand itself could be sanctioned. The US has already warned Vietnam about this. And, no, Thailand is not free to trade with anybody to their liking. It takes two to trade. Perhaps the US will announce increased safety inspections and tariff equalizations with Thailand. Or more. And Thailand can't do a thing about it. Your last paragraph is an attempt to make a personal smear rather than discuss the topic. But I'll answer. I was recruited by the Thai government to come here, because they and the university in which I was hired had only one or two other specialists in my area.

Lives in Pattaya.

Iran and Ted Koppel going on air every night leading with the Iran Hostage Crisis Day (fill in the blank). Compound that with inflation continuing to go out of control and Carter had a problem. And if Carter had one personal flaw that contributed to his defeat it was his tendency to micromanage. He would get himself involved in every issue and political battle. It hurt him in his own party. People forget that the person who most damaged Carter in 1980 and sank his chances was Ted Kennedy. There were other things too such as the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.

98 years is a long time. Even with helpful genes, you don't live that long unless you exhibit self control in your anger, diet, stress, and exercise. And those things come from maintaining a good relationship with the people around you and faith in something other than your own self interest. Those are all tangible virtues. That made Jimmy Carter a living testimony to a virtuous life. Happy to say that I was one of the first people to sign up for Carter when his campaign was just getting started and was a Carter delegate in 1976.

I remember the derisory remarks made about Musk and Twitter when he introduced the blue check. A few months later, and, now, his competitors are following him along the same path.

So, the Russians can park their arsenal and armies 100 meters outside Ukraine's border and freely attack from there and everywhere else in Russia without any counterattack allowed?

Time to start treating China/Russia as a single entity, politically and economically. Sanctions on one require the same sanctions on the other. And don't forget to target and isolate China/Russia satellite countries. You listening, Thailand?

It really has been China/Russia all along. One and the same, essentially, plotting to disrupt the international order and impose totalitarian dictatorships in their own image. This should be the last straw. Western nations should move to sever their relations with China/Russia and isolate the former along with the latter. And, yes, Thailand you will be forced to choose.

Great timing. AQI in western Bangkok is 160 today.

Almost nobody is "forced" to publish at Thai universities. Often, maybe usually, it's option. Faculty members can either get a teaching contract or a research contract. Most opt for the teaching contract, because they can't publish. There are top ranked Thai universities where the faculty members have maybe published a couple of book chapters over the past three years and nothing else. Yes, they spent Covid sitting at home on their rears and didn't manage to publish a single article in a top tier journal. And this is especially a problem among foreign teachers who are hired because they speak English and otherwise have very thin vitas.

In reality, Thailand is popular because it cuts corners with safety on the set. Working conditions that call a halt to production anywhere in North America are SOP here.

You are 100 percent correct. Any insights the Thai military acquires from the US will go straight to their commanders in Peking.

Chy-nuh! Chy-nuh! Chy-nuh!

Yes, the medical "trust fund" has become a tourist industry slush fund.

Tofu building standards

Can't find that story anywhere, including the Bangkok Post.