scorecard

Or, -Legislate opening and closing times for alcohol sales (bottles / restaurants etc.), say 0800 tp 0200. and - Ban all alcohol advertising. - Must show proof of 20 years old to buy.

I can't give any official announcement but I can share that our Chiang Mai city family house (2 levels, built 12 years ago) shook quite seriously. Some cupboard / cabinet doors opened a bit, nothing fell out of cupboards. Front and back door of the house is now slightly misaligned to before the quake but both doors can be opened / locked etc. Many folks would probably not even notice the change in the doors. Our village has 410 houses, one village committee member (farang) has shared that no houses were strongly affected in terms of walls etc., falling / separating from the main construction, no houses have any cracks. and our large swim pool has suffered no damage. Our local BIG C and similar didn't close. My Thai son says there's no reports of damage to roads or bridges in the CM city area. Further: Chiang Mai city is spread out across a large area. Perhaps other CM members can share their experience / observations on this subject.

And some members are good at search. Other, perhaps older (me 80) not so good at search.

But let's see whether schools / teachers observe the ban. Case in point, parent visited teacher at his daughters primary school in Chiang Mai after teacher caused a cane to severely punish the girl. Parent tells the teacher (no language barrier) it's illegal to cane kids at school. Teacher responds 'Yes I know that but at this school teachers are allowed to use this punishment'.

So he doesn't think that the monkeys (there's thousands of them all around Lopburi city 24/7) might get out of control and aggressive / violent when food appears and try to grab the food away from the humans. And he doesn't think that the security guard is doing the right thing to try to keep the thousands of monkeys away from food thrown by visitors to avoid chaos and violence. Some folks have no brain whatever.

I have a western friend who teaches English conversation at a very good government school in Nakorn Sawan. He's highly qualified from England and very professional. He focuses on conversation development and uses many different techniques and activities to get the kids involved and talking. He has a good salary and benefits (free nice house, free electricity, gasoline allowance). Been at the same school for 8 years. The school charges the students extra for his English classes (2,000Baht per term. He privately checks which kids in the main class haven't paid the extra 2,000Baht per term and he gets an old school society from England to sponsor the kids who can't afford the 2,000Baht. I've stayed with him for several days on about 10 occasions. His Thai friends / student's parents all respect him. Most times we have been to local restaurants the owners won't accept payment of the bill. He never goes to bars or massage places and the parents etc., know that and that's a good part of why he's respected. There many small / nice restaurants, local features to visit and more.

Thanks for sharing. I guess I'm lucky; I live with my Thai son and his Thai wife and 4 kids in Chiang Mai in the North of Thailand. Both son and his wife have good jobs and their kids all getting good education. Whole family very involved in sport and never any disputes etc. Our 'world' is balanced and calm and we don't visit places where fights happen etc. We never visit Pattaya, Phuket etc. I worked in Japan 10 years ago for 2 years. Worked/lived in Osaka, Iwakuni and Hiroshima. All very calm / clean places, very pleasant people, very nice / helpful work colleagues. I'm lucky that I can make good comparisons.

Examples... things that shocked you... please share.

My wife passed away from second hand smoke from cigarettes smoked by her father. At that time vapes had not yet been invented.

"But I was reaching for my phone so I didn't do anything wrong sir." Further, seems he was going to make a call, if that was when driving that's illegal too.

Another example, I have an Australian work buddy, been with his Thai wife (married at local Amphur office 5 years ago). He's generous with gifts and support, she's generous with taking care of him and with great food specific to his wishes. But she never says thank you. One year he bought a birthday card for himself, wrote basic stuff in the card and gave to his wife, asking her to return the card and held his hand out to receive it. Her family originates from a not small village right on the border of Lao and not far from the area of Lao which was originally part of Vietnam. He's asked her politely many times to say 'thank you' but she ignores it. Sh'es mentioned several time 'why do you want me to say 'thank you'. Further, 'please if you want to give me things that's fine of course but don't give me things to get a 'thank you'.

Many professional investigations say that vaping is just as dangerous re lung cancer as typical cigarettes. My beloved Thai wife (a dr. of medicine) died of lung cancer (second hand smoke).My wife never smoked one cigarette in her life. Her 2 sisters and 1 brother and her mother all died of lung cancer second hand smoke. The smoker was her father, a chain smoker 23 hrs a day. He chain smoked at the meal table, he had a lighted cigarette sitting on the top of the shower wall at all times. He chain smoked in bed. The family car was always full of smoke, and his wife / kids had to have the next cigarette already alight to pass to him. Car windows always up (otherwise air-con can't cool the car). After my wife dies my teenage Thai son got angry with his grandfather 'Why did you kill my mum?' Son's emotional outburst ignored / shrugged off. So I support any moves to stop all forms of smoking.

Similar for Australians, you have to be physically in Australia on the day you apply (proven instantly by online 24/7 access to passport arrivals/departures data) but application can be lodge by mail. also: 1). Applicant has to initially visit an office of that gov't agency to obtain a CRN (Client Reference Number). 2). Applicant has to personally visit the same agency office and officially prove their identity.

A rather stupid and incorrect statement. I grew up in an isolated mining city where everybody was a union member. There was never ever violence. Everybody had the same principles: share the wealth, support each other, support best / equal medical care for all and same re education. The union leaders were all intelligent balanced people. None of that links to terrorism nor violence.

And why is there any mention of the damage this does to Thailand's reputation? Focus should be on whether the assailants have been captured and are being held and why they attacked the foreigner.

Money buys anything in the scaly world they occupy.

I currently have 6 on my ignore list.

I add a little more detail, this incident happened when my Thai son was at university and had a part time job for a little extra spending money and he was initially keen to see another side of life. Out of the incident I mentioned (and there were others 'featuring' the chalerm brothers and their bodyguard thugs and other 'dangerous' customers and their thugs) my son learned some lessons about life which shocked him. After this incident my son focused on his studies and sport.

Perhaps 'Character Certificate' means no convictions / no police reports etc. Why not ask the Mauritius officials if it's the same thing.

The most important thing is a reunion for the Shin family, 2 are convicted criminals who should be in jail. But of course they believe they are special and above the law.

The discussion is not about being a father. It's about their lack of maturity, go right ahead and <deleted> the girl with no thinking whatever about pregnancy etc.

Yes correct it was a cop.

The nightclub brat who shot/killed a patron at point blank range is the younger brother. Further: My Thai son worked for a short while at one of the clubs/bars/discos at RCA. Never a dull moment with fighting patrons/fighting personal bouncers etc. The owner of the club where my son worked frequently held 'pep talk' sessions with/for the bar staff. One item mentioned every time: 'if the Chalerm sons handgun toting gang come in never discuss anything with them, listen very carefully to their drink orders, be sure your respond with yes sir quickly and serve the drinks quickly and be sure no mistakes. Never ask for money. Put the drink(s) on the bar and move back. There was an incident on the stairs with the shirt sleeve of one barman accidently slightly touching the shirt sleeve of one of the brothers. Bouncer instantly punched the barman in the mouth several times, blood everywhere, professional ambulance from a nearby hospital called and arrived. Ambulance staff don't want to attend the injured boy when they realize they are surrounded by the brothers and their bodyguards. Injured barman got himself up and ran for a door, other staff quickly got him into the parked ambulance which departed quickly and straight to the hospital. Hospital called police and asked for a team of police to come quickly to protect the injured boy and hospital staff. Bar owner paid all the medical expenses. My son (rugby player) came home upset, told me the details and said 'dad I don't want to go back there'. I quickly responded 'You're not going back' and at the same time promised him a quite large increase in his monthly allowance.

Is chalerm still an elected member of parliament? Is he sober long enough to insert his member card on arrival (or does his scaly son do it for him)?

And you display clearly that you're not up to date with all aspects of these laws. And how you could get your business deregistered.