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1 hour ago, URMySunshine said:

 

I want one !

See the true full list of viral epidemics here

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

3 hours ago, Teddy3943 said:

Since Thailand is attracting the Chinese to come in as many numbers possible. We, western tourists have to come sooner or later to the crowded airport to go home and maybe bring the Thai airport virus, acquired from the attracted Chinese, home with us... Because, as in so many cases, the Thai government does nothing, just wait and see what happens...

Don't not panic and enjoy your holidays

7 minutes ago, jonnit said:

I don't see anything wrong with this arrest. I do agree with the second part where you say the truth may never come out. He may never disclose the true reason, but I don't think that should/will be necessary for a conviction.

Ok then think about this who are the victims of this carnage besides the dead and injured, let's look at the financial aspect, how many new buyers will still enter that shop to buy gold with so many ghosts that are waiting for them (Thai mentality very rooted in population on ghosts) so why a professional killer or an amateur killer made such a traumatic carnage if there is no motive behind it or an order. This is to eliminate this hypothesis obviously does not correspond with the efficiency of the police of the speed of the solved case which obviously suits her perfectly. This mystery remains because this carnage to be made public that was not just for a simple robbery as many think is thus making us forget the real reason that there may be many.
The only answer that he is a madman under drug effect does not stand up as he has been well-premeditated, the question remains unanswered why make a carnage?

4 hours ago, Guitar God said:

I was going to ask if all you cynics were happy now with all the evidence released and how they found out it was him, but evidently not. 

Thaivisa disease I guess...

 

I’m guessing you don’t have a hobby and you’re not happy here. 

 

I’m not picking just on you, this Is for everybody that’s been slagging  off the police and coming up with their own armchair quarterback <deleted> theories. 

You definitely have a problem and you want others to have because you will stay alone with your personal problem 

1 hour ago, CGW said:

I'm used to making a fool of myself so I will have a go at stating what I find wrong ????

The motive changes by the hour, was it a "hit", did he do it for the money as he was in debt, or did he do it for the "thrill", jealousy was a part? regardless - he then went calmly out that night for a meal!

DNA, do the 'Police" now have a mobile testing lab, if so where is it accredited? Sweat sample, murder, carnage, chaos, lots of people, yet this newly established unit managed to match sweat samples from the perp, given their history with all things criminal & DNA, I can't help but wonder?

To an intelligent comment I can always answer indirectly, what I wrote I did not say that it is not the killer, but what I meant and that will never come true because simply, the killer could be a professional killer paid by someone very powerful that probably not even the killer knows.

Have matter to reflect also in this way.

13 hours ago, sirineou said:

Dude at my age I have trouble handling the first one, never mind getting another one. ???? 

Ok more seriously. It seems to me that you live in an area where winter is never there if I am not wrong, I understand if one lives in Canada or Scandinavia where winters are insurmountable for the elderly with rheumatism, but you because you have fixed Thailand ? I would probably know that many foreigners have left or plan to leave in the near future like me personally.
I believe that instead of staring at changing your mind about your wife you should see inside yourself if that's what you really want, a solution could be to come and live a long period in Khon Kaen (a city with a high degree of pollution in this period) I think that in the long run you may see that the neighbour's grass is not so green.
If you follow this site you can read a lot about how Thailand has changed for the worse in recent years and the future is increasingly uncertain on many areas of life here.
Personally, I don't think it's a good idea to endanger a good relationship for an idea that only you decide is the best, and that you may blame yourself in the near future.

Good luck

19 hours ago, Woolsgibb60 said:

Hua hin China town will be off my travel destination then some everywhere else where Chinese 

Thanks for the translation, for sure you had bad experiences with the Chinese, my little experience is also not well fine

  I am sorry to contradict you dream love, maybe you for all this time you do not know Thai mind work, If this should happen, there is no problem to get a second wife in Thailand, with money everyone is a handsome man????

The main reason why dogs die in Thailand is not the deadly virus is because the majority of Thais do not care about their dogs, in fact when they eat chickens dogs receive bones, which chicken bones chip easily and remain implanted in the intestine after "days the dog is dead and nobody knows why, then they take another dog and the cycle repeats itself, the puppy runs an even greater danger because he swallows everything without regard.

7 hours ago, steven100 said:

I agree the cables should not be hanging down as they are dangerous .... as witnessed,  however,  I am just saying that tourists come here with zero experience riding a motorbike and as such need to be aware of the inherent dangers within Thailand and on the roads. We see low hanging cables everywhere over Thailand.

Lets hope the cables are relocated higher by the offending party.

I want to believe that you only drive a car and never come across thin cables like the internet cable with a bike.

34 minutes ago, nglodnig said:

We're in a very similar situation. We sold our (now overlarge with no children) house 20km outside Zurich last summer and our main base now is Chiang Mai. I'm on a contract in Singapore (maybe until middle of the year, maybe end) and my wife bitched about being in Thailand in rainy season (even though she spent every winter in TH and we used to go on holiday in July/August because of strict Swiss school rules). The cost of even a basic apartment and getting yet another car (that sits idle and/or empty six months of the year) would be at least 2-3 thousand francs a month (six months of which are wasted) not to mention the horrendous cost of living in CH - I reckon it would be far cheaper just to travel around three months of the year staying in hotels (and friends if possible) and rent a car would be far far cheaper - plus more interesting. Assuming we can go anywhere with a British passport then.

I agree with what you write, many people do not realize that things are what make us slaves, a house, a car, dogs, the good question and we are free or more stupid. Now I understand that for those who can afford it, it is better to have a home without debt, but two houses as I see many coming to Thailand for a couple of months I find completely stupid, with this money you can go to the best hotels not only in Thailand and make yours life much more interesting.

One of the many unwritten traps on tourist guides for the LOS

40 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

Bit offended my that. My wife is/was a teacher. Studied for ages. took out loans for studying. When she worked she paid back the loans, bought 4 plots of land, planted loads of vegetables and rubber and built a house, etc.

 

It's society in general , not just teachers.

The article says that 20% of teachers have no debt, the problem remains mainly with teachers

13 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Considering most teachers are earning in the order of 25k/month.

And the monthly repayments on 3M (over 25 years) are about 23k/month

 

That's a bit of a disaster. 

This make not teaching well on official work and the family children have to buy overtime same teacher, university only delivering toilet paper, what go more wrong ?

I reread the article twice because perhaps I had misunderstood that this President of the Council Engineers Thais has no idea how to reduce pollution in Thailand and therefore the forecast of pollution is even worse in the years to come, maybe see how other western countries do it and in particular Japan to reduce pollution was too mentally tiring; So if these are the expertises on the problem, there is no hope that the government will do anything.

2 hours ago, Cake Monster said:

The Pollution is pretty much all over the Country.

Much is being caused by the Chinese Owned Farming Enterprises in Cambodia, where a Satellite counted over 900 fires Yesterday.

And there were 156 in Thailand

Thats a lot of PM 2.5 going into the Air

It is interesting what you write, do you have any links?

8 hours ago, GeorgeCross said:

typical, i knew it would get better today..

 

my air purifier just arrived 

 

 

Don't forget to sometimes open the windows to get some stinking air ????

Let me guess, close the road traffic around the glamorous neighbourhoods to the cars of the non-resident owners

6 hours ago, Borzandy said:

In Thailand, all the pretties are ready to go to the moon.

In Thailand, all the pretties are ready to go to the honey moon, for the moon not sure

2 hours ago, Brunolem said:

I think the same, yet there are (at least) two issues with this. 

 

First, China's economy is not as strong as many are led to believe, with massive, and probably underestimated, debt (lots of it used to finance white elephant projects), as well as highly massaged stats that are as reliable as those of the former Soviet Union (GDP growth, for example, is probably half, or even less, of what is published).

 

The second issue is that Thailand is too close to the US military for its own good. 

 

It's as if the country wanted to play for both teams at the same time. 

 

I am among (the ever growing number of) those who are convinced that a conflict between the US and China is inevitable, because the former will not give up its crown without a (real) fight... 

I hope if a case of war like it seems to me also soon or later that it is inevitable that Thailand will not receive bombs from China and the US on our heads ????, play two game is not neutrality but stupidity

The queen Elizabeth at 93 and still decides for the whole family for four generations, true that with all the imbeciles of the family she has no choice, and  Meghan not will make also a fatal accident but nothing is sure about this dangerous family, the murderous ancestor is not a good guarantee.

35 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

TL;DR

I have use translator for know, but he said me is Hmong language ????

If you look at the map of the silk road, it is clear that Hua Hin is a perfect Chinese vision to colonize Thailand, no major investment is made without the approval of the Chinese central power, so these large Chinese investments in Hua Hin have a very specific plan. Another clear example was my surprise yesterday when, seeing the Chinese machinery working on the doubling of the Hua Hin / Chupong railway line, China evidently loses patience in the construction of its Chinese route and wants to speed up the work by intervening directly in the construction of the Thais railway lines.
No information in the Thai press is also surprising or not.

I congratulate many of the really interesting comments to better evaluate the future of Thailand and it was a real pleasure to read you, to add a small grain of sand I added this map of the silk road where the interest of the force must be taken into consideration economic crisis as a transit and investment corridor where there is a potential US / China conflict of interest in my view that could be very negative for Thailand, and it is in this perspective that one should read why the big Thai companies are looking for to diversify abroad off the silk road.