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6 hours ago, Rampant Rabbit said:

Oh god  Nooooooooooooooooo anyhting but namplate removal...........anything, doesnt get more serious than that!!

It means he has been fired 

With Thailand dependent on both exports and tourism as a healthy part of GDP, I wonder why they simply don't peg the baht to the dollar, the euro, or a weighted basket of currencies such as the DXY index? Pegged currencies have some disadvantages, such as the potential for inflation, but imo it is easier to manage that through interest rates and other fiscal policies than to manage the baht itself, unless one engages in US and EU style depreciation via massive bond selling and debt creation, which I believe is not the way to go for Thailand. I don't see much of a downside to doing this, other than a very short term market disruption. Thoughts?

6 hours ago, smew said:

Sad and all true.... next year tourist numbers will reveal the real story of the stare of Thai tourism.

No, the official numbers will be up no matter what really happens, as they have for years and years. people on the ground know better, but no tourist minister is going to say they are doing a bad job

3 hours ago, Aachen said:

but: "hiding place among clothes in a wardrobe" - so secure!

At 89 he probably would have forgotten the combo of the safe if he did have one

The question many should be asking is, 'why only this firm'? Maybe just the start of things and maybe they are being targeted for a reason

You get what you pay for - to a degree, but lately the combination of generally rising Thai prices and the high baht make getting suits/clothes made here a less appealing affair in general. The best suit I have ever had made was in HK, by Raja and fit much better than an Italian custom tailored suit that was 3x the price, though the Italian fabric was nicer. I used to pay a tailor 600-800 baht for cotton shirts here and now they are 1200-1500. Take the dollar which is down 25% or so against the baht and to be honest I can buy better clothing elsewhere, cheaper

Any chance of back to back 6 month MEV ? Or is it 1 max then you have to be out of Thailand for a certain number of months?

With the difficulty various Thai governments have in even tracking say, bags of rice, this like every other plan they come up with will be a massive failure, and they will retract it but not until they have completely pissed off millions of people from around the world. One enduring and primary trait of Thainess is the complete inability to mentally project an outcome from a set of actions. Light a tree on fire and be completely surprised that the forest burns, etc. Look but do not see...

"Hussan was charged with rape of a child under 13 and abduction of a person under 15"

The Thai legal system is full of these oddities, this implies that raping a 14yr old girl and abducting someone 15 or older is a much less serious offense

look at the single light and tiny pots, so close to the light. The plants would have to have been very small. Very likely this amount WAS for personal consumption (5 starter plants plus 5 in veg taking 12-16 weeks to grow. Still illegal there he would have been better off buying from the police guy or his buddy

More opportunity for more rewards to be paid out, with 15 suspects and only a few under arrest! This is a heyday payday for the RTP

to ensure fairness to consumers

My lordy lord, how magnanimous of them.

They mention nothing about all the other commodity prices that have collapsed, not just oil related product, Copper hit a multi year low last week, all industrial metals down at lows now. Plastics are petro products too, funny how prices ratchet up 100% but when the raw goods drop 50% prices go down by only a few %, 'in fairness to consumers"

Why does everything they do come off as some ridiculous 40's propaganda campaign?

They need to fix the root issues and get on with it already

"but the prosecutor overruled the objection, claiming that officials need to interrogate more suspects"

Doesn't the Judge overrule? The prosecutor is the lawyer for the state

There is a regime change in the air, might take a few more years but it is well underway. NK is going to open up shortly to the world and it's going to be shocking, mostly to themselves

Dr. Pornthip was very clear that no Forensic physician was present during the initial investigation so under what circumstances were the original DNA samples taken from the victims, and under what circumstances were they taken from the suspects?

Has a Forensic physician ever been involved in the case at all? The procedures of this case at bare minimum raise strong questions about any evidence procured so far. Not to mention the manner in which the police have ignored key issues and decided on others.

So someone there sent to help them and protect their rights is prejudicing the case by revealing to the media that they have confessed to him that they are guilty? good lord

The police posted on social media that anyone circulating alternative theories against the police's official story would be prosecuted

You guys are like 8-10 yrs late on this. These were the 1st flat roofed modern style buildings on the island, and after these were approved and built, they decided that there should be no more. There are a few more of course, courtesy under the table handshakes, but these were the first, and approved.

I'll say it again, the answer is simple. Lengthen the lease terms by law and you won't have any more issues.

The byzantine legal structures are there simply because Paying 30m baht for a property(or what have you, just an example) that has a 30yr lease is unacceptable to 99% of people.

Leases elsewhere in the world are 90 and 99 years, why not in Thailand?

Typical of everything in Thailand, this is a problem created by Thais by not understanding how to analyze and simplify things, and to align themselves with how things are done elsewhere.

The Thai nominee issue is also a problem for Thais, as previously, they had to have a minimum of 7 shareholders (changed a few years back to 4). Who wants to have a company where you sign up people who have no financial interest in the company just to satisfy some government regulation that makes no sense?

If this is really a backdoor way of addressing the land ownership issue, and likely that is what they are really after, then these solutions I propose are also simple :

- Make all land in Thailand of 2 types of title, Chanote that can be owned, and Crown Land/State land that can not. Thailand now has something like 13 different types of titles, it's a total mess

- By law all Chanote land has legal access to it, and access of utilities. No one can hold you hostage for ridiculous fees, this is simple and written in law.

- Foreigners can own a condo, or lease land.

- Leases to be increased to world standards from 30yrs maximum to 90 or 99 years as elsewhere.

- The end

Thailand desperately needs to end the thinking that to solve one problem, you simply create 3 or 4 new problems.

They will have to clean up the motorbike rental shop mentality of keeping your passport as security for renting the bike. No way can you go without your passport now.