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Yes, quite common to take opportunities for corruption. Keep in mind that there's many situation where 'outsiders' have no chance at legitimately attaining a good position without a 'contribution' to the boss. In some gov't offices are staff all related to the boss. Meaning that 90+% of the staff are unqualifies for the job. A twist, I worked for many years at a very large oil & gas facility on the easternseaboard. Large impressive opening ceremony attented by the province governor (and others). After the ceremony the governor (spoke good English) appraoched the foreigner CEO and said 'I want senior positions created for all my young adult children (3 or 4), salary at least 100,000Baht a month and car and driver, start wihin 2 weeks'. Foreign CEO froze, didn't know what to say, so he quickly introduced the most snr Thai manager from the joint venture Thai comapy (Thai 51% shareolder). Thai snr was brave enough to push the request aside. Governer very unhappy and from that day very serious lack of cooperation /serious delays in approvals etc., from the governor/governors office and all Thai gov't offices in the province. Also one of the giant insurance companies who had written very large insurances on many aspects of the operation, suddenly the poicies all cancelled with no warning. Other locally based insurances companies refused to discuss. Eventually an offshore insurance giant agreed to write/start the same policies.

Given the similar case with K. Thanathorn it surpeises me that K. Pita didn't some time ago take serious 'express' action to completely dispose of the shares and ensure he quickly gained dated complete documentation stating 'shares sold on xx/xx/xxxx' and with clear evidence of identity/signature of the new owner. Even further perhaps it would have been wise to ensure the shares didn't remain in his family. Why no urgency?

Read the full details, but I don't disagree it would hev been very advisable to get himself TOTALLY out of the picture.

Directors and most head teachers are appointed by committee at a regional level. But quite likely there are people on these committees who carry great power and influence. If such person suggests Ms VVV for a position then that's the way it will 'flow'. A twist, at some universities the dean is appointed by a 'civilian' commitee. At other unis it's by vote of all faculty members. One such case I observed, a large number of faculty members had been lobbying hard for 1 of the 2 candidates. The hard lobbying won the day. Also in the picture was continuous leaking of surveys of how faculty were thinking/commenting/voting in informal meetings etc.

" 'Negotiation' of salaries is very likely not in the picture. They are gov't employees and like most/all governments there's a published salary scale per level etc., not negotiable.

Trying the chargesd person in absentia depends on local law, not on international law.

The headline says 'principal', further in the report the title 'director' is used. Quite meaningful because they are specifically quite different roles and school directors are paid substantially higher. Which is it?

If so, who agreed the deal?

I sincerely hope Khun Peta has done his homeweork thoroughly in regard to the family/his media shares and he has serious specific evidence that the judiciary has incicated this is not an issue.

Well said!

He's totally repetitive, so boring, I blocked him.

So your earlier claims that you had no information about the paymaters crimes were less than honest. And you're not mentioning that many 'observers' were not convinced. Bye.

Off topic or perhaps just a deliberate diversion.

And you conveniently miss 2 items which have been explained many times before: 1. It wasn' ;aw, it was common practice. This has been confirmed many imes before by respected legal scholars. 2. The main law involved was that the paymaster signed to authorities the sale on behalf of Thailand which he was prohibited from doing because of his position. The law is there (same as in most countries) to prevent/stop prime ministers, ministers, snr beaurocrats etc., from selling state assets (the common wealth of the citizens of Thailand) to family. A good and very appropriate law.

Yawn and double yawn. No further comment.

The charges and the evidence have been listed many times before. Nobody here on AseanNow is going to take hours to fin each charge and each item of evidence again. It was all shown before and the evidence. Google is your friend. Plus, the current mob are certainly guilty of numerous offences and unethical stuations. Don't forget as is customary they got by illegal/unethcal means into power and 5 minutes later passed unethical/imorral laws to stop anybody charging them. Yes many should be in Jail. But what's the chances of these acts of parliamnet being reversed? There's also the question; does Thailand need to move forward in terms of politics/elections/new younger more capable folks running the country who have intelligence and good future based development policies with value for all Thais?

I believe the comment was 'unsavoury'.

Not true.

... and wealth. Where did his wealth come from? Convinving naive folks to buy cosmetics which make outragious claims but the products have never been tested or registered.

Example; on the very busy ground floor of a big shopping complex near me. Various 'blends' and numerous bongs etc., on display, 1 girl & 1 boy trying to strongly waylaw customers as they walk through that area.

Speaking of dictators, do you mean dictators who had to flee?

Suggest you get your facts straight.

YES.

More assumptions...

And, hopefully not, it will remain as is, 'students should not ask questions it's not polite to the teacher'. Or worse punishment for trying to ask questions. Happned to my Thai son, went to a school where strongly encouraged to ask questions. Had to return to a typical gov't school, asked a question and was severly punished, failed for 2 semesters. Ultimtely the above all relates to the fact that many teachers are not capable / don't have the knowledge to answer questions. i.e. they know the correct (mosty correct) answers but they don't know why it's the correct answer. And it goes back even further, most of the current teachers weren't allowed to ask questions when they were kids and the scenario continues. Further, 99% of the current teachers have had no training in student centered teaching/learning and they therefore refuse to adopt the new methods, because they don't know 'how to do it'!