Phil1964

Somebody? Change that to, "Common every day Thai"!

Another load of government <deleted> and spin. 1 million will use this route! Who dreams up these fantasy numbers in Thailand? 18 months application process to go live in a corrupt operation.

"Thai people are often more indirect in their communication, and they may avoid direct confrontation or criticism in order to save face on both sides of the conversation". <deleted>! My pair, (Mrs and her daughter are like Mike Tyson on steroids), at flaring up and getting all aggressive as soon as they don't like something, or believe that the whole world is against them. Save face on both sides of the conversation!? Nope, Thais believe they are always right and <deleted> what anyone else might think or actually know.

Yep its a shame the governing junta have only 'Despicable Bunch #1 and #2" to cosy up to for inward revenues. Selling souls to the devil will not work out in the long run. Sadly the corrupt Thai government and their cronies will do anything to line their own pockets and retention of 'puppet regime' power, without regards for it's populace nor future!

What do you expect with Russians? Ill mannered, rude and aggressive. Too dumb too have thought to simply tap the driver on the shoulder and ask, "You okay"? Mind you, was lucky wasn't a gun toting Soviet, or they would probably have shot the driver.

Yep. I know of a Russian woman who lives in UK, works remotely running the family's banking aspects of their lumber and forestry products empire. Company registered in UK as a 'shell' purely to transact international sales payments between lumber company and it's global clients, thus preventing Putin's mob doing what they used to do with impunity, ie: they would simply extract money from the company's accounts when previously held in Russian banks. Their profits held in UK banking system are then used to buy vast swathes of rental properties in small towns in England, enabling their other business interests to expand away from Russia. Likely the UK tax system and Ukraine war sanctions are also avoided by this 'operation' that she has quietly run for over a decade??

Russians - Those with the money to escape Putin's drafts, arrogantly believe they have a sense of entitlement and that other nationalities are beneath them.

It's because Thais are as racist as they come, they only want the colour of your money not you.

Brilliant marketing by a greedy owner who obviously can't figure that if rooms don't rent at 1000 baht, then why will they rent at 3000 baht. Honestly! And yes, it's bloody expensive more than ever here in the UK and I don't personally know anybody who has picked up a decent pay rise to even cover the extra basic living costs. Far flung foreign holidays for me are going to be a memory of the past now, (just glad I did the wanderings around the globe from 1995 to 2019)!

My wife when she lived in Pathum Thani until August 2020 earned 18,000baht/month working as a senior accounts clerk in a finance team of 7 people for a medium sized food and beverage employer.

Thais for you! While I find this level of violence and depravity deplorable, my Thai wife attempted to explain that it's not a surprise this kind of thing happened when you have experienced a hard and difficult life in Thailand. Suffice to say I don't agree with her cold and non-empathtic attitude, but I am not surprised either, when Thais appear to have massive chips on their shoulder believing that the whole world and their neighbour are against them! Thais really are wired totally different to the rest of us. I truly hope this idiot, who has destroyed the lives of many, burns in hell.

Truss was elected by 88,114 people. Now she has just rewarded them for their crosses on the ballot paper, by giving them a massive tax cut in exchange and while stiffing the rest of us in this fast declining country.

Sterling is a basket case, (both the useless England forward and the GB's currency)! ???? In terms of the currency versionit will be much worse by Spring 2023 as UK now managed by a Quasi chancellor and a PM who is solely looking after the 88,114 tory party members who voted her into #10. Expect to see $1USD = £1.10 at best in the next 6 months.

Yes. What's the mayors base salary? My mrs worked as an accounts clerk in Thailand on 216,000baht/annum, (outer Bangkok province), so what would a mayor be drawing a salary of annually, (before bribes and embezzlements), 1.5mill???

Take the BTS from DM airport to Rangsit Future Park. The minibus station there has frequent regular services to Pattaya and I'm sure for less than the quoted DM to Pattaya service in the article.