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On 9/23/2018 at 10:59 AM, humdrumdays said:

Thanks for the advice about the NE & C Mai. Trouble is I've been here 10 yrs plus and have been to most places I want to go to. And my friends have been to most of them too. My favourite is Prachuap town nice promenade, easy going laid back bars/cafes relatively unspoilt town but as I have said before have been there many times. I guess I'm trying to find something similar .....

I would stick with Prachuap, good beach at Ao Manao, also a museum that celebrates the last time Thais fought to defend their country, if you can find it, Good outdoor eating places on the left past the pier and sensibly priced hotels, Fairly quiet but enough to make it interesting  Big Market at the nearby Burmese border, What's not to like ?

On 8/18/2014 at 12:27 AM, canarysun said:

On 8/17/2014 at 10:52 PM, BKKdreaming said:

Can you post some "day trips" leaving early 6-7-8am and getting back to BKK around 8pm ,

staying a few hours in a decent size town to check it out.....

and if there is a train station like Bang Sue that you can get close to by BTS -MRT ?

I would rather spend time looking at fields than the back of buildings crawling thru BKK

Hello viewer! How about Nakhon Pathom? 2 hours approx out of town.Most of the trains stop in Bang Sue or you have trains going places out of Wongwian Yai & Thonburi Railway Station ( Bangkok Noi ) Nakhon Pathom is a fab place! I will post some info and pics soon F.J

Get the Kanchanaburi or some trains south for Nakhon Pathom,from Bangkok Noi, have a walk up to the engine sheds to see the 5 steam engines that they keep there, but you won't go through Bang Sue that way. there is also one train a day each way from  Bangkok or NP to Suphanburi but the times are inconvenient unless you want to spend  a night out in Suphanburi, which might be all right,but I have no idea. about that, apparently a lot of politicians llive there.

Nice bit of excercise on a hot sunny day walking through no mans land watching the other folk being chauffered there and back in a van

6 minutes ago, gamesgplayemail said:

hello, I previously read that the stamp costs 500 thb ? So why 960 ? Thank you.

It's a bit of a trek from leaving Thaiiand to Burmese immigration and back, you could always walk. Lovely on a red hot day

7 hours ago, theguyfromanotherforum said:

I find British and German to be particularly dumb when choosing their Thai partners.

Speak for yourself matey

7 hours ago, JoePai said:

And that attitude to life sums up most Thai girls - and boys 

That's not fair, a lot of Thai ladies, my wife included, are real grafters, come to England and get a job working in a Thai restuarant and maybe save enough money to open their own. The social  life for them is often better than for such as me in Thailand. A girl that just wants everything on a plate so she can slob around all day has probably done most of her work laying on her back, probably not the ideal choice for a partner

18 hours ago, kotsak said:

Did Alison Moyet also sing "Don't go!" ?

 

Don't know, but the Moody Blues used to sing Go Now

2 hours ago, speedtripler said:

I think he got around it because He is not listed as the owner of most of his vehicles... 

 

They belong to his staff, family, friends, acquaintances and people who don't hold political positions etc so they can't be counted as "his" assets..... 

 

Probably all dead by now

Isn't one of them supposed to be dead ?

5 minutes ago, Chris Lawrence said:

He has had a beef with the military since 1973. But that is not a crime, again on the wrong side of the fence in 2006, but that is not a crime. He is speaking out at a time when it is important to the General. 

Which points to it being unlikely that he will be forming a "Happiness" party with the General

Rumoured to be in London opening a massage parlour called Yinglucks Secret

5 minutes ago, Srikcir said:

"Pheu Thai Party key figure" says it all.

Of course, he should change his name to Suthep

Chaturong has always struck me as being a reasonable intelligent bloke. Maybe that is the reason that he is being persecuted ?

4 hours ago, fxe1200 said:

Medieval thinking to construct a coal fired plant in a pristine area like Thepha, especially as the plants construction takes six years time, and the problems involving the emissions are not being solved, let alone an environmental impact study of the necessary jetty and the unloading/loading of coal on the south-eastern coast of Thailand.

I can't understand why the issue is still being debated if the study commissioned by EGAT has indicated that building the damned thing will result in social, health and environmental issues. What else is there left to debate ?

8 hours ago, BEngBKK said:

Maybe in the future she will have a UK passport and become PM in UK.

The United kingdom is today so small it could easy become the UKS... "United Kingdom of Shinawatra"

Taksin would love that.....

Taksin was a king mate. She would have my vote for PM of England and Thailand could have the May woman as a swapsie

9 hours ago, Bill Miller said:

The Charter of Interpol specifically prevents Red notices from being issued for political crimes.
 

Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Holders of Political Office is the source of Yingluck's conviction.

From the existing extradition treaty with the UK:

"Article 5. A fugitive criminal shall not be surrendered if the offence in respect of which his surrender is demanded is deemed by the Party on whom the demand is made to be one of a political character, or if he prove that the requisition for his surrender has in fact been made with a view to try or punish him for an offence of a political character."

Non solis sed etiam:
 

"Article 7. The requisition for extradition shall be made through the diplomatic agents of the High Contracting Parties respectively. The requisition for the extradition of the accused person must be accompanied by a warrant of arrest issued by the competent authority of the State requiring the extradition, and by such evidence as, according to the laws of the place where the accused is found, would justify his arrest if the crime had been committed there. If the requisition for extradition relates to a person already convicted, it must be accompanied by a copy of the judgment passed on the convicted person by the competent court of the State that makes the requisition. A sentence passed in contumaciam is not to be deemed a conviction, but a person so sentenced may be dealt with as an accused person."

"In contumaciam" means essentially the same as "in absentia". 

Furthermore Interpol does turn down requests for Red Notices in cases which are overtly political.

It is not going to happen. The powers keep wriggling, trying to save face. There is no provision for "face saving" in international law.

In my opinion they could profit by giving up and moving on to something of greater importance.

Like Prawits watches,ha, ha

10 hours ago, Tradewind777 said:

All they are doing is keeping this in the public domain while flinging enough s&hite to blacken her as much as possible and if you throw enough of the stuff the people will forget/change their minds and some of it will stick.

There is however no skerrick of potential for this to result in extradition particularly since the object is a former head of state. Never gonna happen.

There are probably some fans of the junta that believe that it could happen. Poor deluded fools

14 hours ago, steven100 said:

Can you just imagine the faces of all the TV farang nayers who said it would never happen ...

I'm not saying it will .... but there will be egg on alot of members faces if it ever comes to fruition.

however, Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha recently said that the extradition process was “generally uneasy”.

Extradition will never happen

3 hours ago, Srikcir said:

TRANSLATION:

These State enterprises are positioned to comply with the junta's 20-year national strategy and reform plan that is mandated by the 2017 Constitutions. As such no succeeding government can do anything different without violating the Constitution.

Change the constitution then, it wouldn't be the first time that has happened

3 minutes ago, jerry921 said:

I'm not sure everyone fully appreciated the applicability of this suggestion. The LNER 4468 set the all-time steam speed record at 203kph, which would land it nicely in the middle of the new suggested 180-220kph target range.

 

And of course steam is much more environmentally friendly than diesel, right?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER_4468_Mallard

Yes, diesel fuel is being phased out in developed countries, even more toxic than petrol, nevermind coal.

19 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

...only as long as it stays on the tracks.

 

 

 

So it will be a faster slow train if they can get it to stay on the rails

1 minute ago, toofarnorth said:

Mallard was good for over a ton , my Forza if pressed would get close to the ton and the number is 4479 A3  Robert the Devil .

Sorry , where's me anorak.

Mallard was good for slightly more than 200KmPH, your anorak is still in left luggage, if you are lucky

9 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

 

Here's some previously rolled stock.

 

Not sure where it's from originally but it didn't get to where it was going.

 

It rolled though.

1 hour ago, Cadbury said:

The speed of the train was never going to be 300kph as claimed in this story. It was always intended to be 250kph so a drop of around 50kph is not so big deal. Poor reporting.

So here they are debating how fast it will go and how much will they spend only weeks before they promised construction would begin next month. Typical military style bungling governance.

So can it be expected the same will apply to the Chinese fast train line through to Nong Khai? Presumably the budgets for both have been revised downward because of other financial pressures. 

IMHO the chances of these high speed trains ever happening is almost nil. This military junta seems to have trouble making even the most simplest things happen including holding an election and clearing footpaths.

Procurring Chinese submarines appears to be going ahead.