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I can't get out of my mind that there is some tricking thing in it.. I suppose that everybody will be checked for tax payments as the shops and stalles as well as the people who apply for it.. Nothing for free and as many Thais don't pay any tax this could be an opportunity for the Government to get more income

6 minutes ago, Lopburikid said:

I don't believe it is part of every Thai's family life, as you say, I think you can read about incidents like this all over the world in many countries and societies. (thankfully not often) Remember G Floyed? he threatened to shoot an unborn child, and the Americans built a statue of him. I can remember an incident in the UK where a teenage girl was raped by her father, brother, and her grandfather over a period of several months and many, many other incidents that happen every day in western, eastern, African, and Asian countries. Look at the guy with the crossbow in England.

Incidents yes, but in Thailand it seems to be an every day situation...

Just as today on this form again:

 https://aseannow.com/topic/1333690-hot-tempered-neighbour-slaps-teenager-for-unfriending-him-on-facebook/

THe result of the (non existing) Thai sexual education.. The teachers are too shamed to talk about to the kids so they have to find out everything by themselves with this kind of results for example

1 minute ago, Jonathan Swift said:

So you're looking to single out Thai people for what reason? Do you think this stuff doesn't happen anywhere else? It happens everywhere, your country, my country, why are you oblivious to that? I'm wondering if there's something wrong in your brain. "All kind of news like this" comes from an Asian news source which mainly covers Asian news, duh. You are drawing erroneous conclusions because you do not seek and find the big picture, the world picture. On the other side of the coin, Asian news gets little coverage from media in other countries. Go to yahoo.com, huffpost.com. AP, CNN, Al Jazeera,  and read what happens in the rest of the world. It's all the same, only more so in the west. 

20 years ago i was on holiday in Nakhon Sawan province and in the morning about 11 o'clock, my  Thai friend and I were eating in a small restaurant chicken with rice and noodlesoup. In the back there was kid not older than 2 years and crying. The grandfather told the kid to stop crying, but as it could not talk of course, he said it again. But the kid cried and he took a thin bamboo stick and hit the kid 5 or times with it, not softly and I stood up and wanted to give that a kind of the same with that stick, but my Thai friend told me not to interfere as it was Thai custom, just normal.. I never went back ever to eat there.. So I don't know from which country you are but in my country this is surely not normal

2 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

All those years reading and you don’t know that Hmong are NOT Thai people?

There are no real Thai people..if you read the history.. Thailand is built from 7 kingdoms.. all with roots from Chinese Hmong and other tribes

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

Bringing happiness to the people, not pleasure.

with so may sex toys here in on every corner??? People have pleasure with a happy ending  

Of course if success is in play Thailand must be a part of it... And as usual they have no clue or did any research, but shout before thinking... It is all a misunderstanding of course......Get rid of this man now before he will do serious harm to the country

e cigarettes, drugs than the normal cigarettes too... E cigarettes are even less dangerous than the normal tobacco... But the industry will not like it and besides that many tourists who are vaping will never come to Thailand anymore.. The more they try to control everything the less it will work and more being destroyed

56 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

So anyone earning just less than 6k per month will get <deleted> all?

70k a month

OK let the country go down now..... see what will happen next year...... IT looks good that there is a peak maybe, but with the pay back and interest the burden will surely influence the budgets...

Or another possibility is that the Government is making an effort to have an insight of how many people should pay taxes and don't do it yet.. So these people will maybe get a tax paper next year

It would never come into my  ind to buy, get or google where or how to get cyanide.... What is in peoples mind to get these dangerous poisons?? And why is it free available??? Much more dangerous than vaping or alcohol on a Buddhist day

5 hours ago, Jackbenimble said:

OR respect the local culture? Might be an idea.

what culture??? Don't know the reputation Thailand?? The land of sex, nightclubs, and gigs??? Tourism for many years and not adapted yet...Or do we also have to go swimming with all our clothes on because of the culture? Preserve the culture and stop with the rafting, but that will cost money 

economy will not grow by one time hand outs...Maybe it will be a peak but than it goes back again

1 hour ago, sidneybear said:

Bedroom behaviour really is off topic, when real reasons like erosion of competitiveness, lack of R&D, factory closures, etc, etc, are far more pertinent. 

I didn't talk about bedroom behavior.. I mentioned samesex marriage