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Probably the children of police officers...

Nope. Only about 15% of Thai farmers have formal contracts with agribusinesses. Most Thai farmers are independent smallholders, owning and operating their own land (source: World Bank). The reality is far more complex, with the majority of farmers being independent smallholders. Again, these farmers choose to burn based on their own cost-benefit calculations and limited access to alternatives.

a better headline would have been "Policeman posing as deranged unlicensed beer seller wields knife to increase sales"

Outrage seems to be a form of entrainment for netizens.. or just virtue signaling... one thing for sure its contagious 🤣

A little less talk, a little more action, please. Truth is farmers have to burn. Many Thai farmers, especially in rural areas, lack access to modern and cost-effective equipment for land clearing (and using people or cattle to clear is slow and ineffective especially when you are trying to turnover fields to plant sooner). Burning is the inexpensive option, and saves time and resources. You want to fix that, bring your checkbook Mr. PM. But more education of poor farmers ain't gonna help one bit.

Anyone who lets an unpaid fee for beach chairs escalate to an arrest really needs to reexamine their own lives.

That's a slap in the face to the current PM

so many scared old men fearing ganja is the end of humanity... LOL... yet if you are not smoking weed, you are probably a tobacco smoking, out of shape, booze hound with a poor diet and far too many subscription medications #classic

there is no accounting for cultural sensitivity and self awareness... but this is only news if they where asked to behave according to local customs, and then refused.

Sadly, self awareness is not a distinctive trait of many Thai people.

This is far from over... they will flip flop on this for months... But if I was one of the early investors in brick and mortar dispensaries, I'd be worried about my investment.

Sounds like 80% of ALL men in Thailand (Thais included)... Angry and perverted.

If there where ever 2 people that didn't deserve a free ambulance and rescue service, it would be these 2 clowns

I could very well be wrong... but the still images in the article look like the same images from video I saw on ThaiRath32 last night... where it looked like a woman jumped into the pool on her own accord and (seemingly) drowned herself as a man stood on the edge of the pool and watched.

Confusing as the article from Vino News says "The new tax measures will take effect shortly and will last until end of the year, according to the Thai government." As some else said, I've believe when I see it for myself.

It's bad enough with the escalation of Thais toting and brandishing firearms... But when foreigners are emboldened to take the same path, Thailand is going to have to finally admit they have a gun problem.

Once, nice. Better than never. But even a broken clock is right twice a day.

“Convenient, fast, safe, impressive.” said no one, ever, about Thailand's bureau of immigration... but it's good to have goals.

Just another day in poo-ket paradise... what you need to try to do is try to outwit them... i would have just rolled all the rear windows down. Stay tuned as the PM plans a trip to the island to get to the bottom of this, and issues a directive to taxi drivers to "be nice"

A clown dressing like a clown... nothing to see here.

Well that makes it almost certain that Pita's court case (to be decided in January) will go against him. The existing power structure is afraid of him, and will do everything it their power to restrain his ascension.

I pray this does not happen... bringing all those cargo ships to Thailand's shores on the Andaman Sea side (to be off-loaded), and then introducing all that new vessel traffic into the Gulf (to re-load and forwarded) would be an environmental nightmare. Not to mention all the new overland truck and train traffic. The region would be forever changed, and not for the better (certainly not for tourism). Assuming any maritime freight carriers would even want to undertake the additional logistics, complexity and cost (of off-loading, overland forwarding, re-loading) just to save 2 to 5 days of travel time through the Malacca Straits. Given the massive construction cost, environmental concerns, almost certain bottlenecks and delays (seeing as it will be Thai managed) and uncertainty about volumes (who would really use the land bridge), it should be scrapped.

Just under the 26.55 million they hit in 2013...

Schizophrenia with a heavy dose of delusion and disorganization... that is every agency/ministry, in a nutshell. Good luck going from somewhere south of 30 million visitors (probably 28 million, using a bit of creative counting) in 2023, to 40 million in 2024. Do these people not follow world news, or even their own news (press releases) about themselves. LOL.

More Srettha give-a-ways... if he wants to give tourist free insurance, up to him.