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These pair are screwed, the limit on the kind of sentence that COULD be handed out here doesn't bare thinking about.

Yes it does bear thinking about.

What are the available sentences for this offence?

Enlighten us, Jeremy.

Any Thai who gets caught by any money making scam deserves everything coming to them. The only people who succumb to these scams are the greedy.

Greed is a fundamentally non-Buddhist trait so any Thai who is a victim of a scam is going against one of the basic tenets of their religion/philosophy.

IMHO

Make the idiot pay for ALL the costs for his rescue, Helicopter, Manpower and everything else.

I'm from the UK where rescue costs are covered by the rescue services. I'd be surprised if Thailand was any different.

Would you expect rescue costs to be paid by the person being rescued in your home country?

Sure the Police acted stupidly...

BUT... Relaying messages to the neighbor to tell the Police to wait... What did she expect would happen? The police take a seat while she got off her lazy ass to answer them?

Didn't you read the post? She wasn't there and would be there ASAP. She was "getting off her lazy ass" to be there as soon as possible, arriving from a different location.

Geddit now?

A professionally worded explanation for an event that is obviously embarrassing. I know nothing about Gen. Pachara or his history but to have a go at him based on this article strikes me as being irrational. It sounds to me like he has been able to defuse an awkward occurrence with aplomb.

IMHO

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The Vinaya Rule specifies that if a bhikkhu touches or is touched by a woman, it is an offence — a very serious offence — only if the bhikkhu is overcome by lust, with altered mind. However, the practising bhikkhu knows that as his mind changes so quickly, he has to be extremely cautious about involving himself in doubtful situations. It is better to be safe than sorry, even if this may seem over-scrupulous. In emergency situations the bhikkhu will have to decide for himself and be sure to take care of his thoughts. In Thailand it is a tradition (not strictly a rule) that the monk uses a 'receiving cloth' to emphasize that there is no touching.

There doesn't appear to be anything lustful in his actions ; he looks uncomfortable, if anything. His real sin was generosity, allowing them a souvenir photo. One brief lapse in judgement, allowing a photo to be taken, has possibly wrecked his life. Is there evidence of something more sinister, or is it simply because the photo went viral? It would be a shame if the power of social media is starting to affect judgements in something as apparently untainted as the Sangha in Thailand.

You were going well there until the last sentence. "...untainted as the Sangha in Thailand". With the number of monks being caught shagging young girls, stealing or embezzling and committing various other offences I think Buddhism in Thailand is far from untainted.

yes I think quite a few of us were looking for the sarcasm smiley.......

Had I known there was a sarcasm smiley I might just have been tempted to insert one. That having been said I think their reaction was unnecessarily harsh.

"Officials from the department would be monitoring food stalls throughout Bangkok and its suburbs everyday"

What has this anything to do with the department of INTERNATIONAL TRADE??

Nothing, that's why it's the Department of Internal Trade.

I think you forgot to read the article.

There's clearly no point in Thammasat University urging the government and related agencies to urgently resolve economic inequality unless they have at least one idea to help.

A completely pointless article.

Maybe apartheid was bad but ending it was the worst thing that ever happened to black Africans and, indeed the rest of the world ,( Minnesota has over 50,000

black, naturally unemployed, Somalians keeping police/emergency dept. very busy and the states welfare budget crippled ).

You do realise that apartheid was in South Africa which is only one of 47 countries on the African continent, don't you?

That is 53 million people out of a total continental African population of 1.1 billion. That's about 4% of Africa under apartheid rule.

It was not the worst things that happened to black Africans; colonisation was. You're right that the ANC has not been as successful as hoped in South Africa but that's only one small country in a huge continent.

So... the ending of Apartheid in South Africa was the worst thing that has ever happened in the world? You honestly believe that? It is what you wrote. I do not believe that anyone has an inherent right to restrict the movement of people in their own country simply because of their race. I like to think that the majority of people have the same view. Except the State of Israel, obviously.

​Since you mentioned Minnesota I presume you're American. Do you have world geography and history lessons in US High Schools?

London has Somalis working hard to support their families.

All the best.

I believe he was referring to the black population of RSA not continental Africa.

I was working in Southern Africa including Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia and RSA at the end of apartheid. I can confirm he is right.

Once the ANC was voted in, there was a massive exodus of whites from RSA. Unemployment rocketed. Crime rose faster than ebola with 90 murders a day in the country (50 a day in Jo'berg alone). The Rand collapsed from 4.5 Rand to the GBP to 12 Rand to the GBP in the first 6 months (17.5 today).

Poverty rose at an alarming rate. Corruption was everywhere with most of it coming from the ANC. RSA started to resemble Kenya in most respects. Mandella was anything but a hero. All he did was make himself filthy rich.

I was there.

Funnily enough, so was I. Mostly in Cape Town but I also spent time in Zim.

Here's a link to the jungle's website. Looks impressive.

http://www.vananavahuahin.com/

Maybe apartheid was bad but ending it was the worst thing that ever happened to black Africans and, indeed the rest of the world ,( Minnesota has over 50,000

black, naturally unemployed, Somalians keeping police/emergency dept. very busy and the states welfare budget crippled ).

You do realise that apartheid was in South Africa which is only one of 47 countries on the African continent, don't you?

That is 53 million people out of a total continental African population of 1.1 billion. That's about 4% of Africa under apartheid rule.

It was not the worst things that happened to black Africans; colonisation was. You're right that the ANC has not been as successful as hoped in South Africa but that's only one small country in a huge continent.

So... the ending of Apartheid in South Africa was the worst thing that has ever happened in the world? You honestly believe that? It is what you wrote. I do not believe that anyone has an inherent right to restrict the movement of people in their own country simply because of their race. I like to think that the majority of people have the same view. Except the State of Israel, obviously.

​Since you mentioned Minnesota I presume you're American. Do you have world geography and history lessons in US High Schools?

London has Somalis working hard to support their families.

All the best.

I believe he was referring to the black population of RSA not continental Africa.

I was working in Southern Africa including Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia and RSA at the end of apartheid. I can confirm he is right.

Once the ANC was voted in, there was a massive exodus of whites from RSA. Unemployment rocketed. Crime rose faster than ebola with 90 murders a day in the country (50 a day in Jo'berg alone). The Rand collapsed from 4.5 Rand to the GBP to 12 Rand to the GBP in the first 6 months (17.5 today).

Poverty rose at an alarming rate. Corruption was everywhere with most of it coming from the ANC. RSA started to resemble Kenya in most respects. Mandella was anything but a hero. All he did was make himself filthy rich.

I was there.

I was also there.

I wonder how long it will take for many Thais to wonder if they really want to live in a country that's a mix of Singapore as for society rules and Burma for the political regime. Clearly that's what the junta is heading towards and I'm not sure that the average Thai person is ready for this.

For sure this anti-bribery scheme does not raise hurras from some road warriors I've spoken to (like clothes sellers who make the trip from they jangwat to Pratunam at least once a week). Sure, that might clamp down on the number of imaginary offenses they are charged for, but it also means that whenever they get pulled over by a cop, they might waste the rest of the day going to to a distant police station they can't find, doing a likely time-consuming paperwork and eventually pay way much more than the cop would have asked for,

I'm waiting until restrictions on alcohol selling and consumption are strictly enforced country-wide (not only in Bangkok) and other similar measures likely to be immensely popular to see whether the current ruler's aura starts fading or not.

I don't quite get your last sentence. Alcohol sales are not restricted pretty much anywhere in the world. It is individual responsibility to consume measures one can handle WHEN NOT DRIVING, and not consume when one does drive, or how much one consumes with a meal and does not, etc. You would condone going back to black-market sales, because of lessened legal sales? FFSs you must be 90 years old, and from Chicago??

Alcohol sales are restricted in most parts of the world. Sellers need a specific licence to sell alcohol, whether they be manufacturers, wholesalers, and all forms of retailers.

There were nine Burmese people playing Takraw.

The police came and they all tried to run away.

Six were caught and three escaped.

The chance of the three quilty people happening to also be the three people who escaped from the police sting, bearing in mind that all nine were trying to avoid detention, is highly unlikely.

The police decided that they are guilty not because they tried to run away, but because they succeeded in avoiding the initial rounding up.

This could be completely wrong. We'll just have to wait for the results of independent DNA tests. Until these results come through it's nothing more than speculation.

Arabian is not a nationality.

It's like saying a person is Eastern European, S E Asian or Central American.

In Thailand it's as bad as calling a caucasian a ferang. It's typically non-specific.

Results from a recent ABAC Poll indicated that nearly less than 100 percent of Thais were aware of the alcohol ban during the important religious festivals such as Maka Bucha and Asarnha Bucha Day.

How can any adult Thai not know about alcohol bans on these two days unless they're living in a cave somewhere?

I can only answer from a personal perspective and what I have observed throughout the province. Primary school is totally inadequate for what I consider my 18 month old dual national son will need. He will go to the local nursery at aged 2. He will join local extra curricular activities such as footy, judoand other sports, hobbies and interests. For his primary education I will home school him along with my wife (Thai English Teacher), who will cover the Thai curriculum aspects. When he is 9 yrs we will reassess. I have a hunch that 16 years from now universities will be totally different concepts to what the are today given advances in technology. Therefore his secondary education requirements (from an international perspective) at age 11 are a complete unknown. All we can do is prepare him as best as possible with as much travel and real life experience as possible supported by up to date and progressive IT online learning. Just my perspective on a difficult problem to square.

Not wishing to hijack the thread, but would welcome thoughts on my belief that in 16 yrs from now universities will probably be completely different beasts and therefore planning for that needs to be outside of the box and not what we are programmed to work towards currently.

To change any education system will take at least two generations. Twenty years to train new teachers how to teach creatively, plus another twenty years to remove all the dead wood from the system.

I think 16 years is a little optimistic.

It happens in other countries as well. Look at this article about the USA.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28214266

Their achievements are obviously impressive, even the socks and there are Thai prize winners on the website for the Exhibition but not those mentioned here. Strange.

http://www.inventions-geneva.ch/pdf/2014/Presse/EN-2014-PalmaresGP.pdf

In July 204 I had a motorbike accident on Koh Samui. I was unconscious for 24 hours after the accident. A hole was drilled in my skull to relieve the pressure on my brain.

I WAS WEARING A HELMET. Luckily, apart from a metal plate and 4 screws in my wrist thee was no lasting damage.

RIP Denis. Condolences to family and friends.

From reading the headline I thought the article was going to be about individuals' experiences in custody yet there's not one word about their experiences.

Will the rest of the article be coming soon?

Where did he get his gun from? Hiw can a farang buy a gun in Thailand?

How can anyone buy an illegal gun in any country? Money talks.