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thai men being lazy is a stereotype. while probably a good percentage of them are, most of them where i live work really hard. it would be unfair to them to make such assumptions.

it makes sense that thais have low unemployment when anyone at any time can throw up a little table and start selling somtam or fruit.

Thank you for defending Thai men. The level of racism here can be quite shocking sometimes.

it remains in the top 20% ruling class (CHINES, petty monarchy, faux vip's and govt lackeys) to keep thailand as it is.

um, who did you just call "petty"?

What is wrong with Thai men?

How much bandwidth we got? (j/k)

And people here wonder why Thai men hate farangs?

This coup is merely a house cleaning which will hopefully rid the nation of the arrogant divisive vermin...

And a military controlled regime is better? Nice that you are thinking of the best for the Thai people

'love' is some quaint notion that Thais become peripherally aware of by watching TV or movies or reading books. Oh forgot, Thais only read books if they have to.

thank you for you kind comment

This government move single-handedly puts out several hundred travel agency employees out of business.

I think this is enough to get me to vote for someone besides Thaksin.

Great article! The good farangs should be happy that all the bad ones will be caught and deported, thereby leaving the ones remaining with a better reputation.

Pretty harsh backlash against teachers. Check out the comments from Thais on this article about a crime against a farang teacher:

http://www.manager.co.th/Crime/ViewNews.as...D=9490000085120

He actually likes Thailand. He once said his favorite women were from Sweden and Thailand.

His comments are directed at CERTAIN FOREIGNERS (not all) living in Thailand, not Thailand itself.

Great! I don't have to worry about my future kids being taught by criminals.

Why would any farang be against that? Hmmm....

It's great to see Thais supporting each other.

This is a country that is seething with violent Thai men upset by the education (female college graduates far exceed male college graduates) and earning power and independence of Thai women.

And farang men really wonder why Thai men don't like most of them? Nice job in shifting the blame and insulting all Thai men. Yes, I'm sure you moved here to "save" Thai women - hahaha.

Hahahaha. So many farangs talk the talk, but the complainers will never leave. Be grateful Thailand lets you stay here, as the more successful farangs are.

We know that certain unsuccessful types will always fail and always blame others no matter where they live - no need to cater to them.

You have no chance of getting that kind of job here:

-A company can easily hire a Thai person WITH a college degree to do the same thing

-Nearly all of it is computerized anyways

-All documents are in Thai

-you have to communicate with co-workers in Thai

I think she deserves what she got - a lesson to all those con-artist prostitutes down in Pattaya.

Siding with the murderer? I'm glad I'm not your Thai wife. I would hate to see what you do to Thai women when you get angry.

It takes very little money to start a business in Thailand, and everyone here knows someone rich since we're all inherently related. That is the fairest you can ask for.

Said like a true hi-so Thai / Thai-chinese!

go back and read his first few pages of history on T.V. .... farang? Thai? who knows ... simply troll ......

Everything I say is true, and you're scared to find out what Thailand is really like.

But feel free to call any Thai that knows English a troll if that is the most intelligent response your mind is able to produce, and if you think Thais are really too stupid to learn English.

If you're insulted by me saying that there is upward mobility in Thailand, I'd hate to see what kind of life you lead.

Socialist farangs should stop trying to start a class war in Thailand.

The truly brilliant will make money no matter what.

There is no need to start something when it already exists! Ok, i wouldn't go as far as using the word 'war', but more often than not, those born within the under-class in Thailand, even if they have the inate potential, are not going to make money no matter what.

Thanks for proving my point - you are trying to start a class war.

It takes very little money to start a business in Thailand, and everyone here knows someone rich since we're all inherently related. That is the fairest you can ask for.

However, you sound like you want to start a communist society, or at least a socialist one, where we give welfare to the lazy. Please go home before you start more trouble. The last thing Thailand needs is another Killing Fields via some communist revolutionaries.

Socialist farangs should stop trying to start a class war in Thailand.

Sorry, but not everyone is born with equal intelligence. This is true both in and outside of Thailand. Sorry if some of you didn't succeed in your own country, but no need to bring your baggage here to Thailand.

Thailand is a free capitalist economy. The truly brilliant will make money no matter what. If you really believe that there is that much discrimination here, then go ahead and start a business and hire all of the "discriminated". If your theories are true, then you should be able to make a killing taking advantage of the inefficient labor market.

Sop our beloved PM's sister is planning to sell expensive houses to foreigners. Very interesting.

This will stop as soon as the election campaigning begins.

One of the biggest complaints against Thaksin is selling out to foreigners. While selling a company is one thing, selling Thailand's very own land takes it to a whole new level.

You can bet that the opposition parties will pound this home this everyday. And Thaksin, while only having so much control over his sister, can still change the laws to prevent his sister from selling out and making him look bad.

Higher limits on Foreign Ownership

Thailand currently has a limit of 49 per cent on foreign equity in most sectors, although this cap

is more restrictive in some sectors such as telecommunications and banking. Once TAFTA

enters into force, Thailand will permit majority Australian ownership of mining, construction,

management consulting and hospitality ventures. Annex 8 of TAFTA lists Thailand’s specific

commitments in these sectors.

That sounds good to me. This is REAL investment into productive businesses, not real estate (a NON-PRODUCTIVE asset) speculation.

anyways ... things are fine just the way they are today here in Thailand .. i would love to see it change ... but if it doesn't it won't change my being here

I believe this is the way most farangs feel. Renting is not the end of the world.

The only ones that are threatened by the land ownership laws are speculators that want to resell later to a Thai at a higher price. And Thailand definitely does not need anymore of these bad influences.

To me, what is of far more interest, and relevance is the sheer volume of articles, including the front page story, and a quoted lawyers opinion, in today’s Pattaya Today, that keeps ramming home the contention, that existing companies aren’t affected by the crackdown and that going forward, the new loophole is to simply transfer 49% shares from a 100% owned Thai company, after the land has been registered. Of course, they all have a vested interest in saying this, but it’s looking increasingly likely that this may well become the new accepted 'norm', until there is some change in the law, which is not going to happen any time soon.

This loophole can also be closed in days. Wait to see what happens after the October election. And if Thailand does not sign an FTA agreement with the US, there is no reason left to let farangs circumvent the law, as if they were above it.

So are you saying that thai's are really chinese and indians as they own all the prime real estate in Thailand

True, but Thailand has realized this mistake and is now passing laws to prevent losing all of its land to foreigners.

Additionally, these groups actually do invest in Thailand by creating sizable businesses which employ Thais. Most farangs, on the other hand, think that hiring a gardener for their new house is "investing". These groups also show their love of Thai people by actually learning to speak the language, while very few Westerners can survive without their girlfriends as translators.

The entire marine lesuire industry of marinas, pleasure craft, sailing schools, etc employing training and improving the lives of normal Thais is all farang started, invested, and created from nothing.. Its not 'rich farangs' coming here and buying everything up its the fact that without an uneven playing field the local population cant compete in providing these services.

It also looks to me that the farang based businesses are the most keen to pay fair real wages and hire people irrespective of if thier skin is a shade darker or thier nose a touch wider.. Look at a business like Yachtpro on Phuket, they have hired and trained thai staff now up to instructor level and started them in professions with carear structure and advancement opportunity.. The loyalty and way the staff speak about thier employer is unlike I have ever heard when you hear of staff working for thai hotel chains or other business where low wages and little job security is the order of the day, no one screws 'poor thais' harder than the rich thias IMHO. Which form of business was most likely to hold its staff through the lean times after the tsunami and which just fired and sent them away ??

So along this line of thinking, Thailand should sell all of its land to the US and have its citizens become servants to the Americans living here.

I have a slightly better idea - howabout we encourage REAL investors such as Toyota to build factories here that employ hundreds of Thai people to create goods that can actually be exported to the rest of the world, while learning technical skills so Thailand can create its own car company someday. And we keep the property to ourselves to prevent inflation and misallocation of resources to wasteful speculation, such as what happened before the 1997 crash. Even farangs here can't afford to live in their home countries, and now they want to spread this speculation contagion to our country.

Excuse me - so my Thai wife and I should not be allowed to buy our home our house the place we bring up our child and then later let our child have it for her own children- grow up and start living in the real world or do you want Thailand to stay undeveloped, poor etc - i bet your a rich Thai who could nopt care less about your fellow poor thais unlike the wonderful normal Thais who livein our village (all quite poor but most happy to have me as a forang amongst them with my Thai wife)

So give your Thai wife 100% ownership. If you don't plan on divorcing her anytime soon in order to find a younger wife, it shouldn't be a problem.