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Flew back from Hanoi to BKK a couple of years ago with Vietjet - absolutely no worries at all.

H.

Took a van to BKK yesterday because it was convenient to do so. After this change (if it happens), I will drive my car instead, and if the other fifteen passengers on the van yesterday do likewise, there will be one van less and sixteen cars more in the city centre. Magic...

H.

Without doubt, travelling from our house here in Nakhon Pathom to visit my wife's mother in Suffolk and my mother in Scotland. By land. 5 weeks. Mega...

Great news for which thanks, but are they really open 24/7? Forgive my cynicism please, but I would be concerned about being delayed going through security and therefore a bit pushed for time, only to discover that someone had said 'noodles' in the immigration office and everybody had vanished. Anybody had much experience of using this service?

Thanks in advance -

H.

I love the idea of an Air-Conditioned bus driver. What a cool dude he must be!

Under new regulations you will be required to do the 20 hour Thai Culture Course first as this is now required to obtain or re-new a work permit,

and when you do the Thai Culture Course you will also be told that all teachers must now obtain a teaching licence, to teach in Thailand

Good point - it didn't apply when I first started teaching here. Presumably the same 'circumstances' apply, in that you probably won't have to do the Culture Course or get the teaching licence before you start? Can it also be done, however illegally, a bit later? I teach at a university now, and have done for years, and, for reasons that I fail to understand, we don't need Culture Courses and Teaching Licences. Amazing Thailand...

H.

Is it me, or is that a completely pointless article?

H.

Well I was a little surprised to see them move into Don Muang, as everybody knows it does flood there but somebody forgot to tell the FROC

I hope they don't move to Victory Monument and jinks me here where it's dry.

"What goes around comes around" จริง Yingluck ไม่รู้ เธอไม่?

First, this is the worse flooding rainy season in 50 years. Flooding started up North in July.

Don Muang acts as a control center and a distribution center for relief items to flood victims and more. Space is available there and in secure suroundings.

It would have been nice of you to say something about you being surprised about this move maybe one month ago, well before the airport had flood waters. It is easy to say what should have been done after a problem becomes a problem, but saying before is much harder. Please tell us how anyone could have seen this problem with this being the worse flood in 50 years?

I think that to be fair to all concerned, LindsayBKK's real point was that it seems somehow surprising that the government should set up a flood relief centre in a building with a known history of flooding. Your comments about it being the biggest in fifty years really only support his thinking...

H.

5.15 a.m. It's been tipping down with rain here in Nakhon Pathom (A. Meuang) for what seems like all night. Yesterday the canals were pretty full, but obviously can't see the situation at the moment. We won't have an Ayuthaya situation, but expect traffic jams, etc.

H.

He said the tablets would gradually reduce the need for paper textbooks, which were harder to update and to revise.

Since changes would be easier to make on the tablet than would be the case on existing distributed paper texts, "sincerely" concerned persons like you could jump in to make a plethora of corrections.

lol...

I would be happy to volunteer my services to correct the plethora of errors.

For a plethora of backhanders, of course...

H.

Mass arrests in Thailand - 4

You're being cynical now, arent't you? They were told to go to seven different places to find those four people...

Wasn't the haul from the UK Great Train Robbery of the 1960's around 10 million pounds ?

I think that that was only about two and a half million, but think what that would be worth now!

That got me thinking about what would be nicked in a Thai Great Train Robbery...

In this particular case, how in the name of the wee man did the MIB manage to figure out so much about the baddies? Smells of a tip off of some kind to me.

H.

The Thais in general have not much good to say about their own police force, but they live with it.

Why?

A Committee? To take care of four patients?

Is it me?

Picture of the King and his wife. Very nice, but not want I want to see at this particular moment. Is censorship clamping down?

This sounds like great news for the motorcycle riders. Presumably the government will be building suitable shelters for them off the pavement so they aren't exposed to the sun and rain day in, day out - somewhere they won't have to breath in exhaust fumes all day. And it will undoubtedly provide toilets for them, too.

Too right - great news! How sad that it only applies in Bangkok, while the rest of us have to walk on the streets, and the poor, provincial m/c taxi drivers won't have all those 'big city' luxuries...

global markets slump overnight, now pridiyathorn resigns. just a gentle reminder for those a bit slow off the bat, SELL ALL POSITIONS ON THE SET NOW!

An amateur's question:

Is the fall in stock market only a temporary setback, or is this the beginning of a crash, and what effects might that have on the Thai economy, and life for us here?

Oh ColPat....really which I can answer that question and have all the inside informations it needs to be 100% sure...but even then....

If someone can answer that question 100% he for sure is a billionäre soon

maybe China is showing only its muscles maybe there is really more behind it maybe the bubble is going to BLOB again to many may be`s

Is the business with the chair vendor just a frightening attempt to find a scape-goat in a hurry, and make sure that he is found guilty, all in the interests of the 'Greater Cause', whether, of course, he is guilty or not?

H.