Iron Tongue

7 hours ago, milesinnz said:

According to Charles Robert Jenkins, whose book (The Reluctant Communist) tells of the abduction as told to him by Panjoy, Panjoy agreed to take a man claiming to be a Japanese tourist on a guided boat tour. On a nearby beach, she was ambushed and forced onto the boat, before being taken to North Korea...

Shortly after her arrival in Pyongyang, Panjoy met and married U.S. defector Larry Allen Abshier. In 1980 Panjoy and her husband moved into an apartment near Jenkins and his Japanese wife Hitomi Soga, herself an abductee. Panjoy became close with the family. Abshier died in 1983.

Panjoy continued to live close to the Jenkins family until 1989, when she married an East German businessman who worked for the government. Soga and Jenkins last saw Panjoy in 1989, shortly before her second wedding.

Jenkins stated that when he met Panjoy, she wished to return to Thailand and reunite with her family.

 

Does not answer your question, but interesting

This story may contain the answer.  She was abducted to provide a wife to defectors and other "friends" of Pyongyong.  No North Korean would ever think of marrying a foreigner, let alone dare to. 

9 hours ago, vandeventer said:

I would have thought Chinese slave labor gloves would have been much cheaper.

Nothing cheaper than Chinese boss using Cambodian slaves, unless they were made with used condoms!

Anyone know why she was abducted?  I can understand abducting Japanese & South Koreans to teach language, slang & accents to their spies, but why a Thai?

5 hours ago, Dogmatix said:

 

they are incapable of offering meaningful concessions to foreign investors. They want to keep Thailand for the Chinese.

That's incorrect.  Thais want Thailand for the Thais, however, China plays a better game than the Thais and are stealing the country under cover of investments and tourism.

The only way Thailand can change for the better is if they get rid of their institutional bureaucracy, but we know how much they love wearing uniforms.

This is serious, if the shrimp industry is threatened by covid-19 infection, the Chinese will not return!

I'd gladly pay a 1000 baht fine if I could slap every kid that parents let scream in a restaurant.  I'd pay another 1000 baht to slap the parents.

Parents had her cremated because a body left floating in warm climate is not in shape to be viewed

That kind of violence to someone as close as family?

It was over a woman.

Man, you guys will throw shade at anything.  Has it been a slow news day?

Dead man found in Thai field, so first assumption is that he's Thai -just like if a dead man was found in an English field to be a Brit, a French field to be French, etc. 

Nowhere in that short article did it say the investigation has reached a conclusion.

7 hours ago, TheFishman1 said:

Tobacco industry will not allow competition ... 

You guys are so short-sighted and don't seem to know that the biggest investors in vaping products ARE the tobacco companies.  

It's already been proven that vaping of non-nicotine flavored juices is a gateway to tobacco/nicotine products for minors.  If these "pretties" are seen vaping in clubs and in media, teens will follow like lemmings.

Whatever you do, better hurry.  With the discovery of a new variant of covid-19, nations are placing a travel ban on the UK.

1 minute ago, ChaiyaTH said:

The Chinese have special ways to get that already regardless. I assume for under 1M baht. Often via military connections too.

Nope, I'm not talking about corrupt Chinese insiders with connections to the Communist Party, I'm talking about the people of Hong Kong.  They are the ones who lost all of their liberties with the passage of China's HK Security Law this year.

Isn't the shrimp industry princibly run using Burmese workers/slaves?  Probably an epicenter for covid-19, not that there is much testing so who knows the real numbers.

Means cold beer for everyone!

Well, at least it's better than setting everything back to zero year and restarting from there.  They tried that before and look how that turned out.

Didn't you read the news about how Thailand is building a rocket to send astronauts to the sun?  They plan to land at night!

21 hours ago, 2530Ubon said:

I had to google who he was. Not really a celebrity - Just some guy who posts comments about celebrities.

 

Grow a pair and stop being a little baby. Anyone who's old enough to drink shouldn't be a TikTok user anyway - it's a platform for kids to bully each other online.

I don't follow perez but I do know he does more than "comment". 

He made a name for himself talking and sharing trash about entertainment celebrities.  He achieved a certain level of power because people became afraid that their careers might be harmed if he decided to post cr@p about them.

I won't shed any tears if he slithers back into obscurity.

21 hours ago, thailandbeachisland said:

Maybe a chance for them to understand how unhealthy is jap food, only carbohydrates, sugar, how people can be so ridiculous it this $hit ?

 

What?  

What do you think real Japanese food is?  Japanese food is among the healthiest cuisines in the world.

It isn't just a bowl of ramen and other junk from a 7-11.

If you like the app, great!  Knock yourself out using it.

Don't get offended if others don't feel the same.

11 hours ago, Dumbastheycome said:

Kindly specify where my "facts" are not straight? 

Can you also provide some evidence China is Cambodia's "Overlord" ?

Simple.  By your ignorance in stating that the US declined to purchase more of Pfizer vaccine because you don't understand the manufacture & distribution timetable of all vaccines.  There will be more than enough vaccines for the US, & the additional hundreds of millions of doses will be given to other countries.

And, as I voluntarily worked for 2 NGOs in Cambodia in its redevelopment, I see the influence China has had.  Even the ex-Khmer Rouge, whom I've visited in the forests, speak of owing the Chinese.

Ever ask yourself why did King Sihanouk continued to live in Beijing, even after the Kingdom's restoration? 

17 hours ago, Dumbastheycome said:

An interesting issue. But I doubt Cambodia is alone  in the fact that now  vaccines  are on the offer the Cambodian authorities  have  missed the  bus  on priority supply.? That should not be considered  any more embarrassing  than the  reality that the US  declined to purchase an extended  supply  of the only as yet approved  vaccine with a population well in excess of  need  and  an explosion in infections.

Is  Cambodia  on the  list  with the WHO collabaration for "free" vaccines distribution? I doubt  Hun Skin would  have any  philosophical  concern except  for  self and  close support .

 

Why doesn't Cambodia get vaccines from their overlords in China?  Maybe a lack of trust in that they'll work?

...and of course somehow work this into blaming the US.

Factually, the US has preordered and prepaid for over 1 billion (1,000,000,000+) doses of vaccine from multiple pharms with the expectation that some may never reach viability.

Pfizer vaccine is the first, which 100,000,000 have been ordered and is already being dosed to medicos and seniors in care homes today.

More Pfizer vaccines will not be ordered because other vaccines will be ready before Pfizer can manufacture more, AND due to difficulties in transport and storage as these must be kept at -70° Celsius.  Pfizer is also the most expensive of all the vaccines.  Anyway, there is no infrastructure to distribute these in Cambodia.

Long before Pfizer can manufacture enough, Moderna (500 million doses) will be ready, at both a lower price and only needing 2-8° C storage.

So get your facts straight.