Purdey

He has just cottoned on that if Thailand is the only ASEAN country to raise wages it will lose out to other cheap labor countries. Singapore is in ASEAN and wages there are appropriate for their level of development. Also, the education level is higher than Thailand.

It must take time to open one of those numbers accounts.

I voted in 1975 to join the Economic Community, only to not be allowed to vote whether to leave the EU. Voting is not fun when your vote doesn't count.

Thailand seems to attract loonies. Don't know why.

Maybe someone can confirm or deny, but aren't foreigners supposed to carry their passports, or a copy, at all times? I was told my permanent residence pink card would suffice, but how about tourists?

Hopefully, this whole saga will have made voters turn against Pheu Thai, in greater numbers, in the next election.

https://www.autoblog.com/2024/01/16/hertzs-tesla-liquidation-sale-likely-means-more-depreciation-for-used-evs/ Hertz, the largest U.S. fleet operator of EVs, has blamed the sale on high repaircosts and weak demand for the vehicles it offers on rent. I guess this is only in America but worth noting.

Politicians, eh? Showing their maturity to run the country.

I don't see education as a student problem but as a political will problem, followed by a teacher quality problem.

Strange that weed is a big story and not alcohol fueled rage attacks or yaba induced truck crashes. Weed is probably the least dangerous soft drug.

PRIME MINISTER SRETTHA Thavisin said today (Jan.11) he unfalteringly intends to run down the country throughout a four-year term There, corrected it for you.

Great. Sell the land to creditors, maybe buy a motorcycle for the 12 year old and rent the land from the former creditors, who will lend them more money when they can’t feed the family.

They appear to be lying on the grass, so in the temple area rather than in the temple.

I have see a few Thai action films promoted as "thrilling" and was completely bored. Anyone remember a film called Fa? They said it was like an international film. Aside from the BMW the cops drove (!) it was utter rubbish.

I had thought when you entered Thailand by plane you had to have a return ticket.

Yes, I understand what you say but he was only a lieutenant colonel, not that high. I think as a former PM he held a lot more power. Still, if I were in hospital, I wouldn't want anyone I didn't know visiting...

Apparently the world is still worse off than Thailand in terms of COVID-19. Can't imagine the reason. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1043366/novel-coronavirus-2019ncov-cases-worldwide-by-country/

Not sure why he had 5 policemen outside his room blocking anyone from entering. Does it take that many?

Very fast work by the police. Better to wait to learn what happened before passing judgement.

Kids used to play good clean games with Action Man or G. I. Joe killing each other, or dress as cowboys with 6 shooters when I were young by gum. Then they went to high school and joined the army cadets and learned how to shoot with Lee Enfield 303s at Bisley. Aye, those were the days. Kids today don't even volunteer for the Thai army.

Well, they surely dropped a bit of money in Thailand making the video. Imagine if they made it in India with Indian girls playing Thais.

The U.N., or UNO, was formed after World War 2 “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war”, to protect world peace, not from world wars, but all wars. There have been 478 wars in the 76 years between the UN formation and May 2021, so it has failed in its raison d'être. A new war has started somewhere in the world on average every two months. I would put the blame for its failure overall on the structure chosen by the winners of WWII, who must have felt they knew how to prevent war (having been unable to prevent the war just concluded). There were 54 founding members, with 193 today, and the allies structured it so that five countries only, the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, China and France, have permanent seats on the security council and worse, have veto power over all decisions made by the other represented countries. Hardly a democratic institution. Roughly 49 per cent of the vetoes have been cast by the USSR and thereafter the Russian Federation (let’s just call it Russia for simplicity), 29 per cent by the United States, 10 per cent by the United Kingdom, and six per cent each by China and France. The fact that the USA and Russia have vetoed decisions that an overwhelming number have supported is telling. You may have noticed that the US has vetoed any vote against Israel throughout its existence. So much for respect for the U.N. and its members. Next, the running of the U.N. is racially biased, with the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Spain, by the U.N.’s own calculations, overrepresented, meaning they have more employees per capita than other countries in the world. 6.75 percent of the entire U.N. workforce is American. UNICEF was founded in 1946. Since then, the UNICEF director has always been a white American. It has had eight Executive Directors since 1946. All eight were citizens of the United States, and all were white. UNICEF has begun giving occasional lip service to quality but continues to focus on enrollment – which is the only sphere in which it can claim to have achieved anything. Only U.S.A. citizens get the top spot at the World Bank, only Europeans at the International Monetary Fund. Carving up the most lucrative bodies is not even questioned. Preventing conflicts requires closing development gaps, shrinking inequality and bringing hope to people around the globe, or so senior UN officials told the Security Council in 2021. However, a lot of doubt about its success has arisen. One example: A UNESCO study claimed that mobile phones increase literacy. Actually, the study showed no such thing. It didn't look at what increases literacy. Nokia paid for the study.

I assume the government problem is that simply banning something will have a knock-on effect on the livelihood of the poorest, and most uneducated, part of the citizenry. Telling farmers who know of no other way other than burning stubble that they are bad for trying to grow food won't work. Telling the guy driving to work that he should not, when there is no efficient mass transport close to his home, won't work. Educating farmers how to make money without burning would help. Building a mass transportation network where every station was within 10 minutes walk or 5 minutes by songthaew would help.

Importantly, the government has not provided any statistical evidence that banning advertising and strange closing times have lowered alcohol consumption. In fact, they dream up and implement ideas without proving any factual information to the public that such measures actively control anything.

Cult leaders come in all shapes and sizes. There was one guy who wore a long dress and lived with twelve men.