Dr B

Good data, but it is a shame that they distort by chopping off the bottom of the y-axis. Makes it look much worse than it is, even though it is bad enough.

Just in case you weren't aware, Professor is a position, whereas Dr is a qualification, so it is quite normal for professors to use both.

Unforunately it is not even immigration, which refers to permanent residence. Most of this is supposed to be Tourism, so there are already two different ministries involved. Best way to be able to extract the occasional "fee" is to keep it murky. Clarity restricts so many opportunities.

Police General Siam Boonsom, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Bureau, is scheduled to visit the site later today to assess the situation and oversee the investigation. I wasn't sure if my memory was deceiving me, so I checked, and it wasn't. In the very next article about foreign prostitutes in Soi Nana, who is leading the investigation? Police General Siam Boonsom! Obviously amn expert in lots of things.

I have just read all 5 pages of posts on this, and one thing is missing from all of them. What I have noted is: 1 The road, apparently a flyover, had a gentle curve to the left, assuming that the quad bike was travelling towards the camera in the main photograph in the OP. 2 The surface appears to be in good condition. 3 The weather appears to be fine. 4 The main damage is to the offside front wheel of the quad bike. 5 Given the things listed above, even with the lack of grip of quad bike tyres, there was no sharp turn so he should have been able to manage that gentle curve without skidding. 6 There is therefore another possibility, and that is that his death was the casue of the accident rather than the result of it, just as happened with my friend Colin Hastings in Jomtien 11 months ago. 7 Assuming that he was coming from the top right in that original photograph, towards the camera, he appears to have travelled in a straight line, croosed the central line markings into the opposite lane, and carried on to hit the barrier. It is therefore certainly possible that a 62 year old had some sort of heart attack, stroke or seizure, failed to take the gentle curve left and went in a straight line hitting the barrier. The amount of blood on and around the body would give an indication, but there was no reporting. Hopefully an autopsy, as with Colin Hastings, will clear it up, but then most of the posters on AN will have to eat their very cruel words. RIP Scotsman.

The OP stated that the capacity was 50 million visitors, and the cost was over Bt 2 billion. That's Bt 400 per entry, and even not knowing anything about IT costs, I am sure that is way over the top. But then why would any Government Minister care? All they want is their cut of the Bt 2 billion, so why should they even bother to check if the spec is OK, or if there is a need for a future top up budget? Now they are quite happy if another substantial sum is required, because that is another opportunity for a commission. Do you ever hear any news about this Government discussing, planning, or doing anything that is just for the benefit of the population? Answer - No. All they are interested in is capital expenditure from which they can take a cut. Unless and until that is sorted out this beautiful country and its longsuffering people will never be able to make real progress, though most of them have put up with it for so long that they have accepted it as normal. Hopefully the younger ones will grow in understanding and take more control.

If they want to increase the traffic, they need to increase the number of flights, which they have no power to do if they are handling the number of people who want to travel. All of the proposals from the Deputy Minister are either a construction contract to extend the runway (has anyone established that it is a limiting factor), or capital purchases of fancy equipment. In other words, things he can get his greedy cut from.

Simply not true. If you buy at wholesale quantities the ban does not apply.

Last year, when in Australia, my step-daughter had a device that looked like a reasonable sized biscuit barrel on their bedside table. When she turned it on it porjected an image onto the wall at the foot of the bed. Very bright and sharp, and automatically adjusted for focus and to be recatangular. Very smart bit of technology. They do not have a TV screen in their house! I could find out what brand etc if you need it.

Because they cannot sell the land?

Very successful businessman, by paying politicians and officials to allow him to obtain monopolies. In the end he tired of that, and decided to be a "politician" so that others would pay him. Just corruption whichever way you look at it, and not a good business model to be found anywhere.

I don't know anything about cryptocurrencies, but if 1 bitcoin is worth $105,000, how would I use it to but a beer, and how would I get my change? Thai Bt 3.5 million! Also, with regard to the OP, how many tourists are buying property?

Mosst important, in my opinion, is the lack of understanding about women and women's clothing. It was clealry stated at the time that she was wearing a jump suit, a slightly outdated fashion item which covers the whole body, a bit like a boiler suit but prettier, and has a zip up the front from crotch to neck. It would be an ideal garment for Tangmo to choose if she thought she might be at risk of groping. However, in order to urinate or defecate, it is necessary to remove the garment completely. So then you have the question, would a respectable 30+ year old woman, on a boat with at least 3 males with whom she was not familiar, strip naked to urinate over the back of the boat when she could have asked to be taken to a pier? Again in my opinion that is a 100% no. I even saw a computer graphic recently illustrating exactly that, and showing where the others were located on the boat, all very highly improbable.

I guess you don't use it as a rule.

I do not know the situation in Pattaya, as I live in the south, not far from Phuket, but here the space to the left of the while line is not classified as "hard shoulder" as used by used, but is generally intended for motorcycles, scooters and bicycles. There are many blue signs with white pictures along major roads indicating this. As a driver I find it irritating when mootorcyclists do not obey. So, number 1, the motorcyclist was not breaking the law. Secondly, judging by the fact that he stepped off the bike after the impact, I would suggest that there is no strong evidence that he was "blasting along". Thirdly, and probably most importantly, the Hyundai driver was in the outside lane and made a sudden left turn across the inside lane and into the path of the motorcycle, despite the fact that there was another saloon car there. This meant that (i) the Hyundai could not see any motorcycles using their correct lane, because his line of sight was blocked, and (ii) the motorcyclist could not see what the Hyundai was doing as his line of sight was blocked by the saloon. If the Hyundai had been in the left hand lane he would have been able to see the motorcyclists in his wing mirror, and the motorcyclist would have been able to se his turning lights, if he had used them.