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Weren't 2 foreign journalists shot dead covering the red shirt uprising, one being Japanese? And they expect them to report on potentially similar situations without armour? sheeesh.

Perhaps they'd rather that Foreign Journalist didn't come to their country. Potential tourists might be told of scams, airport invasions, oppressed migrants and all sorts instead of smiling friendly wai's on pristine beaches with crystal waters.

This is just a ploy for Cameron to scare the British electorate. MRSA is found in hospitals. In the UK most hospitals are run by the NHS. Cameron's party are trying to destroy the NHS. Go figure. April 6th you say?

My first computer was a LEO. My favourite OS George III. I've had some horrible experiences with MACs and PCs. The problems are not inherent in the structures of the OSs but in the strategies of the organisations that intend to capture your custom.

In 1994 I got a tourist visa for India into my British Passport at their High Commission in Hong Kong, where I was domiciled at the time. The High Commission clerk smudged the stamp and clarified the date with his pen. On attempting to enter at Mumbai I was asked why *I* had changed the date. I explained that the person in the High Commission had made the clarification. I was detained for over an hour whilst my passport was unceremoniously chucked around the office.

When I noticed the flight crew for my airline proceeding back towards the aircraft I asked the Immigration Officer if I should ask the airline to take me back to my origin. Only then was I admitted to India.

It will be a cold day in hell before I spend another tourist dollar in that country.

If anyone's interested, here's the link to the report . . .

http://www.imd.org/uupload/imd.website/wcc/NewTalentReport/IMD_World_Talent_Report_2014bis.pdf

Yes. I'm interested but could not find the mention of IT skills in this report. What page is it on? Is it the report the original story is based on?

I never knew Harvard had a college called Oxford University. <deleted>? Learn something new everyday, hey!

Edit: Maybe it was time Geography was introduced as a school subject? Kids and reporters might then know that Harvard is not in Oxford, and Oxford is not in Harvard, and that Harvard is a name, not a place. Kids might be able to find Thailand on the globe, and actually see that there's a lot more beyond its small borders!

I've only briefly looked at this thread but it seems to me that a Doctorate was granted at Harvard and the researcher has a post-doc position at Oxford. These are pretty sound endorsements.

No disrespect, but what on earth is an Italian doing studying the role of motorcycle taxis in the Bangkok protests. Isn't there something a little more useful in the world to study?

No disrespect, but this seems to be a serious political/social science case study whose results may be replicable to many similar situations. Why should it not be studied by an Italian researcher. Academia tends to be an International venture.

https://www.shrimpnews.com/FreeReportsFolder/NewsReportsFolder/ThailandCarrefourSuspendsCPfoods.html

"Carrefour Suspends Purchases from CP Foods"

On June 13, 2014, British retailer Carrefour, a multinational retailer headquartered in France and one of the largest hypermarket chains in the world, announced that it was temporarily suspending all direct and indirect purchases from CP Foods. Carrefour called it “a precautionary measure” as a result of articles in the British newspaper, The Guardian, about slave labor being used to source the fishmeal used in CP’s shrimp feeds. Carrefour was a major buyer of shrimp from CP Foods.

Carrefour is hardly known to most people in the Limited Kingdom except those who go to France for their holidays, which isn't many. Soon there won't be many Brits going to Thailand for holidays either. Whilst, Thailand may produce some quality prawn, British people enjoy a varied diet and the idea that they would "claw (sic) back to Thailand" for a slave produced prawn is laughable in the extreme.

Mister Fixit, on 05 May 2014 - 08:54, said:

skippybangkok, on 05 May 2014 - 08:36, said:

webfact, on 05 May 2014 - 08:30, said:

“We began enforcing the rule from May 3 [saturday] after receiving an order from Bangkok,”

Mmmm.... So both houses of the govt make rules, but it's up to the immigration / police to decide to enforce them ?

Interesting

It's always been the rule that the final decision rests at the individual Immigration officer's discretion, despite the letter of the law.

As it is in most countries.

If a gay comes out of the closet but no one sees it, are they out of the closet?

The closet is metaphorical so if nobody sees metaphorically speaking he hasn't come out, init?

Wasn't Freddy Mercury the greatest?

Yes.

It's particularly great that he found his true self after migrating from Zanzibar to London. London is still a great place for gays to live but there don't seem to be as many Thais around these days.

Ok...my English is far from being good so maybe you would care to explain the meaning of.....

Here is a space for NON-GAYS to ask a "gay" anything they want

This isn't the Spanish Inquisition,

Does this mean you're not Spanish, JT?

555. The Daily Mail and an insurance broker from Nottingham with a hidden camera are not amongst my arbiters on what is "appropriate", moral, spiritual or artistic.

If the conalition think this measly discount is going to bring a flood of ex-pat postal votes in next year's election they need to think more deeply.

Bleating about an isolated IT/Civil Service processing success is like spotting snowflakes in Bangkok. When will they learn that organisations, administrations and services (e.g. nurses, teachers and lecturers, firemen, etc.etc) which are starved of middle level pay rises lose the people who know how things work or used to work. This week they announced they will ship in Shanghainese school teachers; they had to ship in the army to sort out the Olympics yet yesterday they announced their plans to screw public servants with below inflation rises of 1%.

I don't mean to hate on Thailand and I don't want to be accused of Thai bashing but it strikes me that there are two things that Thailand should NEVER get involved with:

1. Nuclear power.

2. High speed rail.

So desu ka?

Oh Pleeze! A lot of these young garbage Aussie and Brits only come to Thailand to attend these parties to get high and get wild......so knowing all these in advance...these garbage are asking for trouble. I would not spend a moment or any sympathy or help for garbage like these . I wonder what type of decent parents would allow their kids to come here for drogs, booze and sex parties.Besies these full moon parties, you have al ot of these garnage in Phuket, Pattay, Chiang mai and bangkok these days too.

If anything, the bloody thai authorities should ban all these full moon parties that are an invention of the Westerners in the first place.

You are calling them garbage and you don't even know them or do you just refer to all Australians as GARBAGE. I see you are some sort of a Supremacist. Which non racist country do you come from from?

The clue is in the name. Probably Upper Caste.

However, he does ask a good question. "I wonder what type of decent parents would allow their kids to come here for drogs, booze and sex parties." Probably wage slaves with several jobs to service the mortgage who have no time to get know their kids, who anyway are on an education treadmill and live in fear of their jobs being exported to low cost economies because fluid global capital wants "trained" not "educated".

On my last visit to Phuket in the early part of the century, I was appalled by how much it cost to go a short distance, the attitudes of persons attempting to sell me a retirement property, the lack of authenticity in the Muay Thai stadium and the poor quality and high prices for any other form of entertainment. I vowed never to return and have heard nothing to change my mind. I now understand that many of the things that I find unappealing have structural roots.

Phuket isn't able to reorder some of its structural problems and having suffered poor publicity, is yesterday's news as a tourist destination in some markets. It will attract the huge numbers from its giant neighbour. Good luck to them both.

Well, I flew a Thai International from Bangkok (Don Muaeng) to Singapore (Paya Lebar) and it was really rather nice. It was 1971 though.

I just don't get it. Do Thai's not know he was a very extreme white supremest. He would not think of Thai's a human.

Not sure that is true. He seemed to get along with their friends the Japanese.

Ummm? Presumably this story is part of the advertising strategy?

That's why it's called viral advertising. It's now reaching ex-pats who not only never watch Thai TV but spend a lot of time whingeging on TV about how bad it is. It reaches the parts other advertising strategies cannot reach.

This story is obviously a complete fabrication. In England they have Estate Agents. In Scotland they work through Solicitors. There is no such thing as a British Realator, so if someone tells you he is such a thing, tell him he is an oxymoron.

This happened yesterday and the BBC are actually covering it which is unusual as they rarely mention the carnage in the south yet all but suspended normal programming for the Boston Marathon bomb.

Just a thought though, does anyone know if the government restricts international reporting on the south maybe seeing it as some sort of failure, bad publicity ?

Odd that, isn't it. As a BBC license payer I often wonder why news about America is so important. They even seem to buy into an idea that an American life is the most newsworthy form of life on the planet after an English life. Scots don't seem to count and it seems that the Welsh are a figment of Dr. Who.

The cheapest and safest way is to use Traveller's cheques. No skimming und pishing possible, very common in Thailand.

Just know that getting your cash back if they're lost or stolen isn't quite as straightforward as the ads would have you believe.

Don't lose them. Treat them like cash. "Lock" in an inner pocket of your carry on bag or maybe in one of those round the neck/belt wallets during flight.

You have to be very well organized keeping track of which you've used and which numbers you have left, and God forbid those notes get lost along with the cheques.

Send the list to yourself by e-mail. Send yourself an e-mail each time you cash some saying where and when.

And if you make a claim once, don't use the same vendor anymore, if they think you've claimed "too much" they flat out refuse to pay.

Maybe Thomas Cook is better than Amex, not sure.

Apparently all the profit margin on these come from people losing them, leaving them sitting in a file or drawer somewhere and forgetting about them.

There's also a per-cheque fee/tax, which makes a difference on small-denomination cheques.

And the exchange rate is different.

Good for backups in case the whole ATM networks go down for a while, given the above cautions.