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As long as they can roam around freely these [fill in religion] terrorists publish one video message after the other and threaten a "sea of blood", "death to all infidels" and "eternal jihad" but once they get caught they start grovelling and come up with the most lame and pathetic excuses to deny any involvement.

Why don't you little rats have the balls to stand firmly to your jihadist enterprises?

Even if they get convicted - as their defense is just too stupid - they will be released on bail and put on the next flight to Teheran. The relations between Thailand and Iran are more important than having some Iranian terrorists rotting in the Bangkok Hilton.

Innocent until PROVEN guilty.

"Realty boom seen in Hua Hin next year"

Now that's an interesting use of the past tense; describing an event that may happen in the future.

Does The Nation have sub-editors?

Who in there right mind would travel to Narathiwat province, much easier to cross from Satun province on the boat.

It's a very dangerous area.

The province has police/army stops that compare to say somewhere like

Iran.

When the deputy prime minster's son did this trip it was a long time ago

and much easier to get away with then, and he went across through the

jungle.

He would stick out like a sore thumb as no other white people in the

area, who in there right mind would do this.

Classic bullxxxx story, hard ever to know the truth, but it sounds like a

story designed too _________

I wish I could say

So... what are the police/army stops like in Iran? There may be ThaiVisa members going there in the near future. I'm sure we would all like to know how to prepare for a police/army stop there. Do they give you coffee or mint tea while you're being questioned?

The big questions is: "Which chemicals does it test for?"

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Cheers and happy smoking.

This is the most stupid biased and uninformed article i have read in awhile

To the author; wake up moron!!

Maybe you would like to write a clever, unbiased, informed reply rather than simply abuse the author.

Don't you just hate it when reality rears its ugly head from time-to-time?

BANGKOK (Reuters, AP) - Thailand yesterday banned a dictionary published by the British company Longman after it provoked government and public protests by describing Bangkok as a city known for its prostitutes.

A police special branch officer told reporters that Longman's Dictionary of English Language and Culture was banned as its Bangkok entry eroded the good moral standards of Thais. He said copies of the dictionary would be removed from bookstores.

It described Bangkok as a city known for its Buddhist temples and as 'a place where there are a lot of prostitutes'.

The Thai Foreign Ministry has demanded that Longman delete the offending reference, and said yesterday the company had apologised for offending the country and its people.

Della Summers from Longman said that her company 'understands the concern expressed by the Thai government in connection with the (Bangkok) entry'. She said the edition aimed 'to set words in their cultural context, and the connotations attached to the word Bangkok and commonly understood by native-speakers of English are drawn from books and magazines in our wordbank'.

Although the statement fell short of promising that Longman would delete the offending reference, it said the company would revise the dictionary at least once a year.

Abhisit Vejajjiva, a government spokesman, said defining Bangkok by its prostitution problem was like defining London by soccer hooliganism and Irish Republican Army attacks.

'We do not deny the existence of the problem. But we do not believe it should be used as the definition of this city,' Mr Abhisit said.

But others want Thailand to attack the problem, not the dictionary. 'The government should take action instead of just being ashamed of the international image of the country,' said Chantawipa Apisuk, head of a prostitutes' rights group.

Officials say there are some 80,000 prostitutes in the country, but unofficial counts are far higher. Twenty per cent of the prostitutes are thought to be under 18.

Ms Chantawipa said some unemployed young women are lured from villages with offers of secretarial jobs in Bangkok. Others are sold to brothels by impoverished parents. Many end up in bars, entertaining the tens of thousands of foreign tourists who visit every year.

Source: http://www.independe...ur-1483226.html

thought to be 80,000 hookers in the country? &lt;deleted&gt; there is more than that on Sukhumvit alone... ( allegedly )

The article quoted from the Independent is from 1993. 20 years is a long time.

Had they learned anyrhing from Ambassador hotel ??

Fire starting at several points at the same time !

Look like the hotel was not making profir enough !

From the article it seems to have started in one place and then spread to other places. Nowhere does it say it started at several points. Sounds like the fire spread up the building from the first floor storage cupboard, and then ignited the bedsheet trolleys that were probably stored at the same end of the building.

One day someone like you will get locked up for making such unfounded comments.

I see your point but this quote from the article suggests that the trolleys were alight but not their surroundings.

"Hotel staff reported that the first fire alarm went off on the seventh floor and responded immediately. They saw a cart stacked with bed sheets on fire. But soon they came across more bed-sheet trolleys on fire on the fifth and sixth floors."

If the fire apparently started in a store cupboard on the first floor then why is it that the first fire alarm to go off was on the seventh floor? It sounds suspiciously like arson to me.

Check out our bad a$$ new auditorium. A little architectural eye candy for ya - http://www.op.mahido...auditorium.html (Opening Dec. 2013!)

Since its more than two thirds of the way through its construction have you got any photos of what it looks like now?

Architects designs and reality are often quite different in Thailand.

Guess it won't effect us farangs. I actually think they should have a national I.D card in Australia also, help stamp out a few ilegals.

F..uk you

That's a very grown up reply. Shouldn't you be in school studying like a good child.

Disgusting! Thai culture or just the need of money?

Thai culture.

1 million pills that would have taken a fair bit of time to count !

There's a new invention on the market now called scales. You use them for weighing. First you weigh the total quantity of pills. Then you weigh one individual pill. Then comes the tough part. You divide the larger weight by the smaller weight. The answer is... wait for it... the total number of pills. No, it's not magic; it's called mathematics.

I know this because I've just been teaching my Grade 4 class about it.

If you're interested, I do private tutoring for US$30 an hour.

Shame though that while maybe 100% know Take 5, only 0.01% could probably name a second piece ;-)

Well, I have to include myself but I'll correct that tonight.

Blue Rondo A La Turk, off the top of my head.

He's one of my favorite jazz musicians. Saw him at Ronnie Scott's many moons ago. An extraordinarily talented and versatile man. To think he nearly became a vet instead.

RIP Dave. It was a great pleasure to meet you.

BANGKOK: -- Thai educationists have been receiving some practical and useful lessons about teaching and school improvements from experienced counterparts in Germany.

BANGKOK: -- Thai educationists haven't been receiving some practical and useful lessons about teaching and school improvements from experienced counterparts in Germany.

BANGKOK: -- Thai educationalists have been ignoring some practical and useful lessons about teaching and school improvements from experienced counterparts in Germany.

My god, they even managed to get "The Hub" in this article

Not only that; they also managed to get Muslim insurgents in too.

Even if armed conflicts were to flare up in the South China Sea, regarding China's over-reaching imperialism, Thailand (and Cambodia) would sit on their hands on the sidelines. So happens: the disputed islands in the S.China Sea are, at a minimum, twice the distance from China than they are from the other countries in contention. The smartest course of action would be for all parties to declare the disputed islands as 'World Protected Sites' (or some nomenclature like that), and have them off-limits to commercial and residential activity, similar to Antarctica. Trouble is, Asians can't perceive of that. There's nothing in their heritage or culture which fathoms sharing or protecting properties. In the Americas and Europe, there are 18 shared 'Cultural Heritage Sites.' In Asia: zero.

Same could apply to Preah Vihar temple ruins, but again, it's too far-fetched for Asian consciousness to fathom.

I'm not disputing the number of shared Cultural Heritage Sites in Europe and the Americas but would you mind listing them to satisfy my curiosity.

Thank you.

Mario named some important ones. Free healthcare and so on. Other longer-term benefits include potential access to Permanent Residency, the ability to import a set amount of household goods duty free and so on. You'll also have access to credit and what not, but you'll have (understandably) substantially less favorable terms than Thai citizens for the obvious reason that you can simply flee the country when you incur a debt. Once you've invested a significant amount of money and built up a network of contacts, though, this impediment largely disappears, but if you're just working a regular job and pulling a regular salary and not making large capital investments or not making headway with local contacts you'll find that everything from revolving credit to mortgages is significantly more expensive for you here than it would be for a Thai citizen.

EDIT: Some people get angry about that, I personally don't understand why. Anyway, it is what it is, no matter how one feels.

That's interesting. Here in Vietnam, although it's harder for a foreigner to get a credit card and/or accumulate debt, the terms and conditions are the same for everybody, including interest rates.

Pending investigations; since the invention of the elevators, I believe all elevators DO have safety measures in place to prevent uncontrollable decent. I wonder what happened here.

I can't tell what did happen but what didn't happen was "Preventive Maintenance". They don't do PM on motorbikes so why should they do it on lifts.

"Some 200 dogs were rescued from a smuggling racket, found in a truck,"

A truck is a strange place to find a smuggling racket. I did leave a tennis racket in a truck once but luckily I got it back the next day.

so if he admitted to being on drugs then he could have done anything and he wont rememebr i might aswell blame him for my robberys while we have some muppet in the frame

Nowhere in the OP does it say he doesn't remember the events of that night. He just has a different version to that of his victims. That is usually the case when someone commits a criminal act against another person.

Are you really suggesting that anyone who is high on drugs automatically suffers from memory loss?

Don't forget alcohol is a drug. Do you always forget everything when you get drunk? Think before you write.

How could anyone be trained, to any acceptable standard, to be a professional photographer, hairdresser or mechanic in six months? I guess you could have a go at training a hairdresser in such a short period but I wouldn't dream of using a mechanic or professional photographer who had only six months training.

There's no information as to what the re-education involves aside from the above mentioned vocational courses. Are they going to be re-educated as Buddhists? Have they renounced their Muslim faith? Do they now believe that the government of Thailand are working for the best interests of the Muslim population in Southern Thailand?

It all sounds a bit suspect to me.