Purdey

This is the first time I noticed that Thaksin looks similar to Jack Ma. Maybe they swapped places?

Sounds like a tight misery guts who kept a grip on his money.

He has a good point. The Bangkok government is biased against the South, which is the cause of a lot of misery there.

Pleased to see one party interested in an issue that people care about for half the year.

Let's hope PT learns a lesson from this and bucks up.

Relieving the current debt of farmers will lead them into more debt as their perception will be that the government will bail them out again and again. Maybe better to teach them to grow other, more valuable crops than rice. I remember visiting some of Rama IX's projects that taught farmers multi crop rotation. It meant they could grow food through the year

Saw a Jackie Chan film in India. The crowd was all into it with constant cheers and cries of, "Hit him Jackie!" Better entertainment than the film but once it's enough.

Thais have never seen a Scandinavian prison I guess. Television, fridge, hot and cold water etc. The difference is one system seeks to punish, the other to reform.

Thais watch too many soap operas. When the bad guys says, "Kill him" they think that's real life.

Every time there is an oil spill there is a report telling everyone it had no effect on the environment. Every time. Until it is revealed later that....

Interesting bit about helping cartography as Thailand has had border disputes for centuries. Maybe more arguments with Cambodia to follow.

Interesting bit about helping cartography as Thailand has had border disputes for centuries. Maybe more arguments with Cambodia to follow.

It's like deja vu all over again. I can remember when Russians were an important part of the Pattaya economy, with Russian restaurants and menus in Russian everywhere. Now they're back to a different reception.

I noticed that in some countries there are diabetics’ food stores with low glycemic index foods. Are there none in Thailand?

I think this could work out well for Move Forward. The only party to stick to what it pledges.

Not sure how releasing him solves the problem. Move Forward biding its time.

It seems things have moved on from the "Biden crime family" to the "Hunter who committed a crime(s)."

The key line in the article (that lists the very petty crimes the family was caught for) is "There is no evidence that Joe Biden, now the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, ever personally interceded on his family’s behalf." Hardly a "crime family".

It is really good that people are sharing their exercise regimes.

If you don't add your phone number and real name to your AN profile, I am mystified how anyone could get it.

The irony is, they write the word Bharat in English script. Real nationalists would write भारत Now that would make the change of name confuse the world.

Arizona. Just the one though.

You do know that Finland is world famous for its quality education? Also, that Scotland is infamous for its alcoholism rate.

No easy answer but purposefully pouring fuel onto a fire is obviously not a good idea.

Thailand has 28 universities in the overall Times Higher Education World University Rankings, while Russia has 481. Thailand ranks 55th in the IMD education competitiveness ranking, based on 20 criteria such as university education meeting the needs of a competitive economy, pupil-teacher ratio, and student mobility. Russia ranks 51st in the same ranking. Thailand’s adult literacy rate was 96.7% in 2018, which is lower than Russia’s 99.73%. Thailand’s students scored below the global average on PISA tests in 2014, ranking 35th out of 40 countries. Russia’s students scored above the global average on PISA tests in 2018, ranking 31st out of 79 countries. Yes, I get the joke.