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Tragic but on the plus side he was savvy enough to ensure he had full medical insurance coverage, Thailand is not the place to holiday and just wing it, the roads are perilous to put it politely, footpaths aren't much safe, a dispute with locals or other tourists can quickly turn deadly, and low railings on hotel balconies seem to take several visitors lives each year.

The balcony railings in many of these hotels certainly don’t comply with European standards vast majority are very low and its very easy (especially after a few beers) to go lean on the railing where you expect it to be and find nothing there and lose your balance.

So the 7 days of death becomes a 15 days of death

Did any one think he actually would? Question now is he has been too sick to return to prison (hardly a return i know after spending just a few hours there) when he is given parole will he suddenly be miraculously cured and no longer need to remain in hospital? Total farce from start to finish and despite every politicians promise that just is for all not just the wealthy and those politicaly connected You can tell its gotten bad in Thailand now, people have simply conceded that T.I.T and nothing will ever change and whats the point in protesting, they had a glimmer of light when the elections saw the move forward party won but was quickly stamped out. They would rather make concessions to Thaksin to guarantee his freedom (was public enemy number 1) rather than concede to change

Welcome to the rest of the world, you wanted Chinese visitors they came saw business opportunities and now undercut thai retailers, what did you expect they were coming here for ?

Congratulations to the doctors and nurses from the police hospital they have resurrected a man so close to death that he has had to remain in hospital for his entire incarceration. He was so close to death he couldn’t even spend 24 hours of his sentence in jail, now he has miraculously recovered enough to get parole and return to the stress of thai politics

This country will be bankrupt when the “where there’s blames there’s a claim”cases start

Anutin is leader of the coalition party which made it legal, all those individuals and businesses encouraged into investment should sue the government

Is honesty in Thailand such a rare event that a lost wallet becomes newsworthy? Kudos to the hotel worker

Been traveling to airport regularly for last few months as daughter is an air hostess, arrivals seemed quiet but the car parks seemed very busy with people leaving the country for the holidays looking at foreign arrivals but not looking at how much local tourism is being lost

Still has the rice pledging scheme malfeasance charges, the elite are definitely running scared from these new younger candidates from the move forward party, they are slowly splitting the voters and better the devil you know like Thaksin than this new breed of politicians that want unilateral changes to the country

Did they get the tourists to fill out a confidential survey to see if they felt more confident seeing an army of the boys in brown waiting for them on arrival? More than likely most were shocked and concerned how much it was going to cost them

Id be interested to see how many “regular prisoners “ die in custody each year at the prison hospital, i know an ex colleague who fell on hard times and resorted to drugs fell into a coma and died in the prison hospital without being airlifted to the police facility weeks before his release date if he was as ill as is being proclaimed and no deal was made for him not serving time in prison, why did he return and not get the required treatment where he was hiding, this is Thailand they can do what they want, the thing that winds me up is they think all its citizens are retarded and cant see the obvious favoritism. stop the the bull and just announce we are releasing him as we have made a deal the phua thai party so we can keep the move forward party out of power and protect the monarchy

People will buy locally instead of duty free shop on arrival….. what utter rubbish, Thailand cant even buy alcohol unless it’s between 11am and 2pm or 5pm and midnight get this sorted first then your big plan might make more sense

Army barracks? Cant make this up, stop trying to appease this guy and make his life easier. He is a convicted criminal not a young man serving his king and country in the armed forces.

No excuse in the big cities plenty of public transport and taxis, get into the provinces and pretty much nothing available.

He’ll get reported have to make an ingenious apology to her and a small insignificant fine, thats why these price gauging stories are heard time and time again. Traffic light point system first offense fine (green) second offense fine and 30 day license suspension (amber) third offense license revoked for 12 months (if caught operating without a license mandatory 3 months jail sentence) Thailand makes things difficult for itself because there are no severe consequences for their actions, in this day and age with social media every tourist and local getting ripped off post the interaction on social media which damages the tourist industry and locals confidence in taxi services and apps

These are not pitbulls, they are not pups these are fully grown American Bullies. I have several at home and these are the least unaggressive breed i have worked with and i was a dog trainer in the military for the majority of my career. Any dog can become a nuisance given the wrong stimuli eg hunger and fear,

50% were on drugs, thats what happens when you try to curb alcohol use with high taxation and archaic advertising rules and selling times, people will look for cheaper alternatives to have a good time, not a fan of Thaksin especially in his blatant avoidance of serving his criminal sentence but he certainly got to grips with Thailands drug problem, now you can buy several yabba pills for the cost of a beer

nothing been done about the exploitation of kids in the last 15 yrs of traveling to and living in Thailand kids still roaming the bars late at night selling gum/flowers/fruit, typical Thailand cant see whats under their noses until it hits the international news then the Ministers are coming out of the woodwork making promises that they have no intention of keeping, just make a big song and dance until things die down

They do far worse to themselves every day, constantly seeing various monks around the country engaged in sexual relationships, taking drugs. Clean up your own house and people might be more inclined to take the religion more serious

Celebrating his 90 visa, stupid lad, if he came here to avoid the draft then has royally shot himself in the foot…. Might have to do that next now he is persona non grata here

Met him on a hookup app! went on a date to a bar! Allowed a relative stranger to spend the night in your bed! Then surprised something untoward happens, do we expats leave our brain cells in our home countries when we come here

Her feet look suspiciously large for a woman

Flocking really when gbp is down to 43 baht? Chiang mai will likely kill any residents with breathing difficulties £1500 a month seems very reasonable but then need to add in the 800,000 per person for the visa which will probably be a nightmare for the family to get out of the bank when someone dies, the uk isnt great but has the national health service which is free, any inevitable age related illnesses will put a serious dent in a retirees savings