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"paying $1400 USD/month for a small room in a bad neighborhood with a shared kitchen/bathroom and he considers himself LUCKY to have landed such a deal". Most of us here can afford a mid size / bigger condo with own kitchen facility, own bathroom.

Nice. I'll put it another way; Khun Pita please don't give up! Yes there's a chance at the next election the military / thaksin's mob / whoever will create another road block but that can't continue forever. You will ultimately succeed.

Please share the details re this photo. Thanks.

But there is a case to say Thailand would be well served to take an appraoch which develops such knowledge and such skills for the future and should integrate such 'learning' into courses in universities and technical schools.

Such purchases should be made through appropriate government / ministerial discussions by officials who are tasked to look at / make decisions on such subjects. Did Thaksin seek agreement from the appropriate authorities that these items woul bd useful, safe, etc., and how would their operations / maintenance be financed? All of the above would be standard procedure in all countries. But on the other hand we reecently had trump accepting a gift of a multi million large jet aircraft from another country, to be used for transporting of the POTUS and it's systems used for safety and security of the POTUS and numerous other official senior US officials. Strange indeed.

Sorry I don't buy that. The US Embasy is going to report whatever sounds nice / complmentary for trump regardless of the truth.

Maybe, could be that the powerful / demnding seniors in plce before the raid demand part of the payoffs made to the next senior cops in that area.

And no dubt he'll be the next to claim trump should be given the nobel peace prize for his contribution to this cause. In reality trump did nothing, he desn't even know wher thailand or cambodia are located. and any praise should be given to the Malaysian PM for getting talks started and making progress.

Or just enough (out of a massive mountain on money) to ensure he gets a photoshoot.

- Massively reduce management positions (as mentioned above) - Restructure so that the ratio of managers to reporting staff is the same of accepted international models /realities - Massively reduce cabin crew (currently massively overblown) - Masssively reduce administration and ground crew positions (currently massively overblown) - Change recruitment processes so that there is a much closer fit of new recruits / internal movements to the documented capabilities and experience needed for all jobs - Make policies whch strongly limit appointments which involve nepotism - Massively reduce cabin crew benefits - Retrain cabin crew to be much more aware of /practice more politeness and ensure strong customer satisfaction all flights and all passengers - Step by step reduce cabin crew salaries and benefits to gain alignment to other Thai industries / occupations - Completely get out of other activities (cake shops etc) and focus totally on operating an airline. - and more ...

Come on guys; there's good beer and better beer but there's no bad beer.

And keep in mind that the readings are affected by your recent actvities / experiences, if you have been upset by a famiy (or other) incident it will affect your blood pressure for a period of time. If you've just had a serious shouting argument with your wife / husband, wait an hour before taking your blood pressure. Also the user should be careful to have their arm in the correct position to gain an accurate reading, and same position every time the machine is used.

Netanyahu believes... I don't believe any comment made by netanyahu, an evil man with zero belief in any form of human rights for anybody.

... Lieutenant Colonel Roden Orbon mentioned that a blood clot might have led to Patigayon's collapse, But who is Lieutenant Colonel Roden Orbon? Where does he fit in this story? Poor reporting.

A critical (compulsory) item needed to achieve Thai PR is working in Thailand with a work permit for 3 consecutive years, plus a number of other items including an interview. Note that achieving Thai PR is not just a tick the box application. The number of applications approved each year* is a very small number. I received Thai PR 28 years ago, for that year the number of applications (from my birth country) approved was a total of 5. From anecdotal comments the approval rate hasn't changed. (*All the applications for the current year go to a committee which sits once a year.)

Still alive and working well for me.

"A LONG way to go, starting - I should think - with teachers & headmasters/mistresses." Agree, older (most) current teachers, especially headmistresses will fight to the death against children being allowed to speak / ask questions in the classroom. Seen this with my own Thai son, he completed high school in Singapore, a bastian of student centered / 2 way teaching and learning then came back to Thailand and graduated from the 5 year bachelor degree in Education. during work experience hHe tried to get the studentsto talk / ask questions. Other teachers discovered this and they protested strongly to the headmisress 'students cannot speak in class'. Headmistress tried o explain 'this is coming' but other teachers refused to listen and indicated they would never comply. Headmisress frightened of the 'mob' of other teachers dimissed my son and sent him back to his Thai uni, and they got engry with him for causing a problem.

and they don't give way / they don't obey traffic laws...

EVs are the future and sales are increasing (other fuels <e.g. hydrogen> will no doubt come into the picture) and gasoline engine cars will ne douby continue to decrease. Seems to me the Thai authorities need to create policies which help Thailand get out of the gasline engine market / manufacturing and get into EV manufacturing / marketing.

Nice point.

" where many of my Thai colleagues were issued from affluent middle or even upper classes and had supposedly the best education, including often years abroad (UK, USA and so on). I noticed that most could not "think out of the box". Also, struggled when having to consider uncertainties and multiple scenarios, mapping out decision trees." There's also the arrogance / extreme arrogance factor. I worked for many years in the Bkk office of an international management consultancy. Local manager was a very highly qualified / very capable / well experienced Thai man, educated in the IK and Us, had 2 Ph.D.s Rest of the staff (about 30 folks) all Thai except me - foreigner, I was there as a regional director based in Bkk beause that was convenient for regional work and my family in Bkk. Just one incident: -Young hi-so Thai girl from very wealthy family, never worked, just returned from the USA with 2 MBA's, was employed as a junior, on start day she came to the office and left several bags and several pais of second hand shoes on the floor right at the GM's door, bocking the door. But didn't stay. One after agreed start time GM requested the Admin Mngr or try to find her. Calls to her family indicated she had left the family house (with her driver) quite early. Calls to the girl not answered by anybody. About 10:30 a.m. Admin Mngr went to a nearby big cake shop / restaurant to buy cakes, donuts, sandwiches, drinks that would be needed for inhouse meetings that day. Admin Mngr instantly noticed the new girl sitting laughing with several friends. Admin Mngr approached and said 'today is your first day, you should have been at the office before 9:00 a.m. Girl responds 'don't be so serious I will come when I am ready and don't try to embarrass me in front of my friends'. Admin Mngr calls the GM and shares the above. GM comes on the line and tells her 'be here within 20 minutes'. She doesn't arrive. Admin Mngr and GM try several times to call her but no answer. Next morning she arrives at 9:15. Admin Mngr tells her to go to the GM, s office. She refuses and starts to move all the books files personal items etc., from another desk and has put her belognings on that desk. GM comes and asks her 'what are you doing?' She responds I don't like that other desk, I want to sit here'. GM says 'Is your driver with car waiting in the building carpark?' She resonds sharply 'Yes, why?' GM says 'you're dismissed right now, tell your driver to get here now and take your things and be totally gone within 30 minutes.' Five minutes later her father calls and insists that she has done nothing wrong and insists that her dismissal be withdrawn. GM responds. 'No and there's no further discussion' and hangs up. That incident was shared with all new employees for many years, no names given. it helped to get new employees to understand that that they cannot play games, try to control anything. It worked.

And how will the Sri Lankan workeres travel to Thailand? By boat and with many accidents / deaths because not enough life vests / unsafe boats ...

Seems to me there's several negatives as to why it takes so long, including a severe lack of management skills: organizing, planning, controlling, availability and allocation of resources, monitoring progress and fast action where progress is not OK. Many Thai universities offer enginering degree including courses specific to the paragraph above but somehow...

FROM ABOVE: "I have had quite a few conversations with Thai teachers and the common thread seems to be a fear of the little darlings when they raise their hand and ask "why"." My first degree, in AUstralia, was in education. I always remeber the spedific lecture relating to this point. The elctuer shared: - For primary / high school: Make an excuse to give you enough time to check for a correct answer and give it quickly (same or ext day). - For university, turn the students question into a quick case study, divide the class into small teams (no more than 3* students) and give all the teams 15 minutes research** time and then quickly share their answers. * More than 3 in a team and 2 will do the work while all the rest check fashion / cosmetics / cars etc on their phones and very probably get credit for a good work but they didn't do anyting to achieve the grade - not fair. ** In many unis students are allowed to have a tablet / smartphone for research work in their bag, but outside of research time phone cannot come out of the students bag.

So trump didn't achieve the ceasefire / agreement at all!