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I was interested to learn more about Thanathorn. He's an interesting guy. He went to university in New York before becoming a development manager at the UN. At the age of 23 he along with his mother took over the already successful family business when his father died. They've grown the business 500% and now employ 16000 people worldwide, many of them in the United States where the company operates a number of large factories supplying auto makers there. The company won the contract in 2005 to supply Tesla with components and is still that company's main supplier.
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On a trip to the UK I travelled on the high speed train from London St Pancras to Ashford International in Kent. That took 38 minutes to cover the 82kms with one stop at Stratford. It's mostly a straight line and on the fastest stretch it hits 225kph. It's that one station stop that really slowed the journey. With multiple stops proposed I can't see a journey time of as little as 45 minutes between Bangkok and Pattaya which is quite a few kms more. I think the service will be most convenient for tourists and returning expats travelling Suvarnabhumi to Pattaya.
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15 hours ago, olfu said:
Yes, Thailand is a democracy and so is any country who like empty talking like USA, North Korea, Vietnam etc.
And before anything I recommend research democracy as it originated in Greece.
The PM certainly isn't a general with the democratic stature, statesmanship and philanthropy of Pericles. The gulf between the two is infinite.
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1 hour ago, Nice Boyd said:Speak for urself Yank basher , Ignorant reply, Mr.Broad Brush, Everytime I go on this site , Yank bashing Constantly, btw I was in the Newspaper industry a Voracious Reader , also, Quit judging people, TV stop the constant bashing of Yank’s
To be fair, Yanks are not alone in receiving a bashing. At times there is also Chinese bashing, Thai bashing, Brit bashing, Russian bashing. and also Indian bashing when the opportunity affords itself.
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18 minutes ago, Iem said:
The UK got it's financial status from the days when commodities etc were traded in pounds . Before that was handed to the USA at Bretton Woods .
That's true, and it all began with sugar grown in the West Indies. The immense revenue generated from the crop helped to fund colonial development and the industrial revolution.
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7 hours ago, fxe1200 said:
Prajuths wealth had been published back in 2014. Then it was 4.06 Mio. USD. Should be double by know.
He also transferred over $14m to his daughters.
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8 minutes ago, IvorBiggun2 said:
Once again. Use 'Browsec' free VPN. Place yourself as being in UK and you can watch RWC for free on ITV. Just done a test run and all appears to be working. ????
Hi IB, I'll be doing the same. I use a cheap paid VPN now as the free ones I tried in the past used to buffer and drop out when I was watching programs with a lot of traffic. The new one works nicely. In conjunction with fibre optic I get seamless viewing.
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1 hour ago, the guest said:
Good on Thailand, Muslims are one of the few minorities who refuse to fully integrate with their hosting country. Mosques and so-called "religious" schools are potential breeding grounds for hostile ideology.
There have been many reports in Europe echoing the same concerns that tighter controls should be in place.
Now you may understand why Burma and China will not tolerate this type of ideology, as it undermines their culture and values.
Burma is somewhat intolerant of all minorities, religious and ethnic. Following its independence after WW2 its ill-treatment of the predominantly Christian Karen, Kachin and Chin led to those people taking up arms against the state. Encouraged by Buddhist zealots, murder and rape of these minorities and the burning of their Christian villages has been practiced by Burma's Tatmadaw.
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My wife was 18 and I was just 26 when we married. She has turned from a pretty teenager to a smart and beautiful 50 year old woman. She's always taken good care of herself. When I nearly died from a stroke in 2018 it was her who shrugged off my depression and drove me on to recover. I wouldn't want anyone else.
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1 hour ago, AI5AASIA said:
They didn’t actually move the rice, they just created documents to say it had moved around
That's why I put 'moving' in quotes. It was metaphoricaly moved, not virtually.
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I was born into a farming family in eastern Rhodesia in early 1960, and served 2 years national service in the Rhodesian Army as a teenager throughout 1978 and 1979. The internal settlement of 1978 whereby Bishop Abel Muzorewa became PM of the country was the best solution. ZANU was barred from the election then and the tribes people in the Tribal Trust Lands were protected by the security forces from intimidation. The turn out was extremely high because of the security offered. The UN, the UK and the US refused to accept the result because ZANU had been barred. ZANU's military wing ZANLA, buoyed by western support, upped the tempo of the war even higher. The battleground was rural Rhodesia and ZANLA's targets were the white farming community, and the innocent black population caught up in the middle in the Tribal Trust Lands. ZANLA killed far far more innocent blacks than it did members of the white population. ZANLA was a poorly trained, highly politically indoctrinated opponent and about 80% of them that entered Rhodesia were killed by the security forces, most of them by the RLI and RAR small airborne Fire Forces directed to contacts by Selous Scouts hidden up in observation posts. Thousands of ZANLA and Nkomo's ZIPRA were also killed in camps in Mocambique and Zambia. Margaret Thatcher and the British Conservatives had promised to support the internal settlement if they were voted into government. They reneged on the promise when they came to power. By the end of 1979 sanctions had taken too much of a toll and the Lancaster House Treaty was reached and elections set for early 1980 following the ceasefire. Mugabe sent young camp followers instead of ZANLA guerrilas to the holding areas, thereby breaking an agreement of non intimidation. The armed guerrilas instead entered the Tribal Trust Lands and brutalised the innocent blacks into voting for Mugabe. The British Government was informed of the situation but chose to ignore it. Mugabe won the election and he and his inner circle embarked on a program of implementing a Marxist agenda, the result of which we see today. The war was a tactical victory but a strategic loss for the Rhodesian Army. Ground could not be held because of the chronic manpower shortage. Mugabe himself said he 'didn't win a military victory but won a political one, a compromise'. It's worth remembering that 80% of the Rhodesian Army was made up of highly trained black volunteers, many of whose forefathers had served the Allies in WW1 and WW2. Andrew Young who was the United State's ambassador to the UN described Mugabe as an incorruptible fellow. He got that wrong. In 2000 Mugabe won the jackpot in the Zimbabwe Lottery. I left for the UK in 1980 for further education and became a British Citizen. In 1986 I arrived in Thailand on a temporary work assignment, met my wife and stayed. Zimbabwe could have been the most successful black governed country in Africa. The new president is proving to be even worse than Mugabe.
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2 hours ago, ChipButty said:
How come the sister only got 5 years?
She wasn't charged with being involved in the fraud. Her charge was dereliction of duty because she was PM when Boonsong and co. were 'moving' the rice around. Different sentencing tarrif for her charge.
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11 hours ago, HeyHeyHey said:
time to shoot some citizens again, they haven't done it for quite a while
it's not like Thai army ever fought against someone else
The army actually gave a good account of itself in the Franco - Thailand war of 1940/41 in Indochina. It ended in an honourable draw, but it looks like an early incarnation of TAT was supplying the French casualty figures.
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Rooster, your writing is very much in the style of Richard Littlejohn. I believe he is a dyed in the wool Spurs fan too ????
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2 hours ago, yellowboat said:
That woman, Aung Yan su Ki, is infuriating. For decades, people were waiting for her to take the country out of oppression, and this is what they get.
Get stuck in cave or develop, or a long flying paper airplane, and you may inspire the junta to do something.
I sometimes wonder if she has no sympathy with the Rohingya, or for that matter, the Wa, Karen, Kachin and Shan because they all had Allied trained guerilla forces that waged a long campaign against not only the occupying Japanese army but also against the Japanese aligned and equipped Burma Independence Army led by her father.
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Just now, keemapoot said:
Except the wiseguy Goodfellas were not Canadians or New Foundlanders.
I don't think he is either.
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He sounds straight out of the set of Goodfellas.
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4 hours ago, jerojero said:
Rumour or not, of course there is no money for frivolous citizens. Got to keep buying submarines and tanks and other military equipment that will never be used for its genuine purpose. When was the last time Thailand was in a war. 100 years ago?
In 1942 the Thai army invaded the Karen and Shan states in Burma and also part of China but was eventually forced to retreat by the Indian army and Chinese forces. Thailand also had a very large, over 80,000, anti-Japanese guerilla force that worked with the Allies.
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1 hour ago, dcnx said:
Absolute scum. Deport him.
After a spell in the stocks outside Government House.
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2 hours ago, nahkit said:
As long as they keep the dual language option then I can't see it being much different to what they offered for the previous season. The good news, for me anyway, is that Facebook didn't get it.
At least I won't have to listen to Bein's Peter Drury and Jim Beglin commentary team.
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'In an effort at mitigation she claimed to have borrowed the money from the tourist whom she said she knew'.
I'll buy that ????
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A more appropriate sentence would be to drop him off in the middle of the jungle and let him fend for himself surrounded by big cats.
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36 minutes ago, JRG23 said:Yes, gotta love TH members. Punishable by death! Hang him!
No need to go over the top. A public flogging followed by castration should suffice.
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The daughter seems like a decent enough person. She helps dog and cat rescue organisations in Thailand and the Philippines.
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Security beefed up at Iran, US embassies
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Iranians have already got form here. If you remember 8 years ago some set off a couple of devices in Bangkok, followed later by one of their number blowing his own legs off with a grenade that he attempted to throw at a pursuing policeman. It bounced back to him off of a tree.