Karma80

The new US administration is not a reliable partner. Thailand will be smart to look to regional neighbours. Indonesia just became a full member of brics, and Thailand a partner member last month. Only a matter of time before full membership.

Remind me why the Kingdom of Thailand should care about the whims of the President of another country?

Phuket is the new hub of money laundering. Just opening the floodgates to more Russian mob cash and tax evasion.

I am so glad Lazarus has returned from the grave to lead the nation in an entirely unelected, but completely barred, way. I'm confident that Thailand will make great inroads back from being considered an international joke of a government based on coups and elitism.

I think they vastly underestimate how this has blown up all over Chinese and HK social media. Today the HK security services dispatched a task force to Thailand to co-ordinate rescue operations for their missing citizens. Social media is full of people cancelling flights and bookings. HK people have plenty of choices about where to go. The HKD is very strong, and they have a lot of spending power.

My wife is HKer and everyone on that side is messaging us, urging to keep our doors locked when in the car. The CN social media is in overdrive with warnings of Chinese being kidnapped off the streets in Bangkok or here in Phuket. It will be very hard for Thailand to counter that. Chinese have a choice of where to travel. Japan and Korea will benefit. Guess we'll just keep on transforming Phuket to a Russian province.

And yet, every year, nothing is done except have more meetings.

If you have not travelled to Japan in the last 12 months, you might be in for a bit of a shock about hotel prices in Tokyo, Osaka, etc, as prices have surged with no slowdown in demand, in line with the collapse of the yen vs USD. My colleagues in Tokyo are now trying to limit domestic travel as business hotel prices are stretching our budget.

And in other news, sunrise happened today. A testament to the cronyism and corruption in the Thai government and elite circles, this farce should be ended.

Welcome to 2024 as we enter a new era where power over politics and entire nations is openly wielded entirely by the unelected and wealthy who remain unanwerable to anyone because of it. Want to challenge him? Sure - be buried in a billion dollars of law suits. Thaksin is just Thailands version of Musk.

Thailand has one of the most corrupt police and justice systems in the world, backed up by a political system which is mired in equal amounts of corruption, all sitting on a platform of extreme societal inequality. And you're somehow cool with letting a few innocent people die? Have a look at the offences you can be sentenced to death for in Thailand. It might surprise you as being quite easy and with a slip of the tongue.

Maybe Dad doesn't have the time to write the extra speeches for her.

We want to give tax cuts to corporations, and can you pay for it. Welcome to Thaksin-onomics.

Seems he can just tell MPs to do his bidding and be completely open about it with impunity.

I wonder at what point the rest of the establishment just says enough is enough with the puppet PM and the openly meddling father who is still banned from politics.