Scott Tracy

One presumes there will be border checks in p!ace to prevent tourists from accidentally stepping one millimetre outside the specified areas? Or perhaps there will be fences or a big beautiful wall... As far as I can see, it's a step forward, but impossible to police. No joined up thinking.

I am mindful of the statement that says they came from out of Province, but saying they were not under the jurisdiction of the temple abbot smacks of hiding head in sand. Get a grip, abbot. They were at your temple, in your home. You can't tell me it's nothing to do with you. Your authority is effectively undermined. You should be fired too, coward.

Fire them all. I'm sure there's something in the Buddhist faith and mantra about false gods, etc. Or perhaps they view him as the second coming, or maybe someone likely to depose someone else, of high Buddhist rank.

I found I had to read the linked article to find out the reason for failing to distribute the kits. The Society has deemed them inaccurate and the manufacture standards and quality of manufacture questionable. I do hope they have evidence of this, as to the withholding of the kits when they should be out there working is a serious matter. Presumably there are standards which the manufacturer has to achieve before putting these kits on the market. Who audited them? and now...we ask the question, how accurate are any of the test kits? Food for more conspiracy theories. Trust, but verify, the efficacy of the kits and make the results public. Someone is wrong here. Get it sorted, or the confidence in the system is undermined.

I'm also wondering, is the owner of the building a Chinese national? How does that work with the 51/49 rule? This sounds like a legal minefield. Time to get a Thai lawyer involved, and yes, the theft/extortion needs to be reported to the Police. Failure to do so by all those affected could play against the claimants. In any country, theft is a crime. Extortion is a crime. In my view, the owner contracted someone to act as their agent. Their agent stole their money. It is their problem. But this is why lawyers need to get involved.

I would suggest that if the owner is in China, they would have an issue in trying to kick you out. What would they do, send the boys round? They have lawyers involved, eviction orders? What would happen if you ignored any written correspondence from the owner? Wait until the courts get involved?

I buy shed loads of tick treatments from Tesco and end up treating most of the village dogs that come into contact with mine. It helps for a while, but no one else seems to care. I just don't want my dog bringing them into the house. Keeping the dog in the garden doesn't work either, he wants to run with his freinds, but sleep indoors.

Who needs world wars when a virus can kill nearly half as many people as world war 1?

Good job, Israel. But, like the French Embassy's actions, the US and UK's government actions and many other donations to this blighted country, it goes to show how badly the country is being managed. The country seems to be run on donations from other countries, even from those who are supposed to be less well developed than Thailand. The government in Thailand has no shame, and it all really comes down too the nurture side of childhood. Giving to other people is the way to make merit, so the government says these countries are making merit, and is grateful for the money they save, not having to support their own population.

There has always been the debate about the need for drugs, their pricing and the copyright issues. Why are some drugs cheaper in some countries than others. Classic example is The disparity between some drugs prices in the US and those same drugs in Canada. The issue about doctors and health care staff being what they are and the reasons behind it has also been an issue for a long time. Since barbers were surgeons. No nurses, no aesthetics, no pills, no injections. Medicine has moved on, greed has not, and, even before the UK's NHS, some doctors were where they are because they made money. I recall my mother's doctor, an NHS General Practitioner, being left a private patient's Rolls Royce car in her will. This is a discussion that's prevalent in UK, at the .moment and a long time before. In the GP practise where I was registered, not one GP worked full time. Most of them worked 2 1/2 days or 3 days at most. They were not working in other GP practises, so they were either being paid sufficient for their needs to be working these reduced hours, or in private practise. Another story. My aunt had dementia and was seen by an NHS doctor who said she could not have a replacement knee, as she would not be a able to remember to the do the required exercises. My aunt, in one of her more lucid moments, said she would go private. The doctor's response was: it wouldn't matter as he would be the doctor she would see. NHS or private, seems that they are the same doctors.

Great idea.

Infamy, infamy...they've all.got it in for me... Sorry, had to do it. Leaving gates unguarded or unsecured is asking for trouble. There are some gates from canal to canal near me. No locks, no guards. Someone opens them 'to water their rice fields' and floods a whole village, as they forgot to close them. Drunk, as usual.

Load of bullocks. Yesterday, everyone in the village hall, nissed as pewts. Today, back from Temple, same. Tonight, wifey has gone to the local bottle shop, 'to pay bill from yesterday '. She'll be back around 8pm, drunk... What alcohol ban? It just seems to encourage them more around here.

Who isn't...?

Not so discreet...someone is pointing at them.

There will be no floods. Thus spake his PMness. There are no floods, along the roads to Ubon and Sisaket. Just a surfeit of water. Get the boats or hovercraft out, boys...

Here, where I am...went to a bar on Saturday night. Plenty of Regency. Hotpot Monday, beer there too, popped outside to a bar prior to driving home..plenty of beer and Regency there too. I don't drink while driving, but just saying, the wife and her sister were drinking as if there was no tomorrow.

It doesn't matter.

Excellent. I'll get the buckets and barrels out.

And nothing for anyone that took part in the coup that followed shortly therafter...

Don't use it. I'm sure there are other routes to use. Just block up the side roads, maybe someone will do something about it then...

I had no issues after the first shot, except the arm was sore and the injection site for about a day. Second shot...around 12 hours after and for a period of around 7 days, severe gastric issues. Had to go to a pharmacy to get some Imodium equivalent. Took them for 2 days. Have been good ever since. May have been coincidence.

Time may not be an issue, however, a place to stay maybe. I sold up and moved here, lock, stock and proverbial, thus have to pay for stay in UK, if I go back. Rather not spend money stuck in a ASQ hotel room, thanks very much, no matter what percentage of my holiday it would be.

I'm sure somebody somewhere has said... Baby elephants can't read signs.

45 year old, or 6 year old...? If I can't have it, no one can... Type of attitude. Make him sleep in the streets as he made himself and his family homeless deliberately. Look after the family, though. Just hope he never finds out where they are. But I know that's just wishful thinking.