bri1guy

Don't require a pub or club for what your on about, all goes on under peoples noses.

I can remember when i was a teenager, maybe some people on TV are just to old or never had fun when they were young.

If people on TV think the authorities care about young people in Thailand, they are wrong.

Anchorites only care about there own positions and money.

Its one of the negative sides of Thai culture. Me, Me, Me and more Me.

Go have fun kids, one day you will be old.

Used to be able to drink 24/7 in pattaya, much more fun then.

Yeah pattaya was better back then, if asleep & woke up at 4am still could go out to a beer bar , drinking & get girls. They closed at 6am & news places opening at 8am hahaha. Lots cheaper beer to cause sold 200% more due to it being available. Pattaya should have a waiver & return to these ways!!! It will make more $$$ money is a no-brainer !!!

When one looks at Thailand from the outside .. bars, prostitution and corruption springs to mind.Perhaps the Government should consider and ask itself, is the image that the country wants to portray to the world ?

I think they have considered.

Removing hookers and beer from Pattaya would add up to quite a bit of lost jobs and money.

Looks like business as usual.

Plus many people who own condos, will sell & go elsewhere if they closed bars down completely.

They can only give a reprimand because the conditions at that school are not different than at many other places.

No smoke detectors, no fire plan or drills, no regulations to fulfill.

It should be a cautionary tale which could change the system. but actually it barely made the news.

In Thailand who does the safety responsibilities fall on in this situation? This school is exactly like many other schools, except they paid the consequences with 17 young lives. R I P

If you're out at 230am in the dark, probably drunk, & wearing a 50k baht gold necklace. You could be robbed by anybody anywhere.

I had a HSBC debit card from Malaysia with 6 pin code. It worked in Thailand but not in Canada. I have had BBL, SCB and KK bank debit cards with 4 pin code and all worked in the region and in Canada.

HSBC is the best Worlds bank I have found internationally, & have just upgraded there, security chips, & banking security devices for its international banking.

Who's her lawyer, I need to hire her firm if I need Thai Justice

So in Thailand, a Ecig is like drug paraphernalia? Is it illegal in my checked baggage ?

Ban them all from Pattaya city. Bangruray did. The place is a much nicer place now. Less crime and no! bullshit like this.

Give them there own area where all the ladyboys can go. If found in beach road arrest them.

If this were true, everyone will want to sell there condos, including me & start over in Cambodia, or the Philippines.

Maybe oranges is the code word for opium?

Well if no crime has been committed , he should get his gold & money back. Try a bank or safe next time!

I'm glad to hear all ended well, with no underage girls. To allot of westerners the girls appear to look underage especially if new to Asia, But end up being in there early 20s. I do not want to be unintentionally with a underage girl from a gogo !!!

1st off manila isn't the city to relax in or judge the philippines on. Same kind of as Angeles / Clark. Yes there is more poverty but allot of world wonders. #1 tourist destination , boracay island is like phuket was 15 yrs ago. Volcanoes,Rice terraces, world wonders, There is so many places to see , I don't know where to start. I've been to both Thailand & Philippines over 2 dozen times each & both have different advantages. Lastly corregidor island is a fantastic tour if your into war history.

I knew a girl who we were only friend who worked at soapy making over 100k baht as well during high seasons. She wasn't even the most beautiful or expensive women similar to the raided massage places.

I lived next to a very attractive girl who worked at the shop that was raided...she was also a model and actress for print and commercials here in Thailand, and would work "massage" at night...according to her bf, who was a farang, she made about 100,000 a month in tips and salary...I doubted it initially...but he was a young guy, and she took care of him entirely...her plan was to work for five years of so, and purchase a home for her family, and a condo in bkk for herself...

The new passenger terminal at the congested Phuket airport is not expected to be completed until September it said in the bangkok post, last week.



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This moron, is either lazy or ignorant. He could of easily got 6month visa or an extension before going thru a deportation! Does he get a free flight out of the kingdom?

This moron, is either lazy or ignorant. He could of easily got 6month visa or an extension before going thru a deportation! Does he get a free flight out of the kingdom?

Why would a Japanese person want a selfie of all things standing on the site of such a great national shame? 'Would be like a German wanting a picture of himself standing next to one of the ovens.

You would be surprised. In fact, there are a lot of Japanese apologists who think they acted swell during WWII. That said, I bet it was one hell of a photo.

Here's a photo of a Darwin Award candidate taking a train selfie, and being kicked by the train's conductor so he wouldn't fall into the train.

IN JAPENESEE its also a Tellfie = 自分撮り Jibun-dori = SELFIE

Since they seem to allow masks now, what exactly is the point of the photos?

Underneath the photo, it explains it is the mask he was wearing, when he carried out the attack.

Its great they let him pose wearing the mask huh. Maybe let him pose with his gun too .

I hope he gets 30yrs in prison, minimum...

go to the weekend market or street markets the ones of soi buakow there is always a vender selling 2nd hand phone. As cheap as 300Baht - 1000 for a real cheap old one but it will do the trick..

I have been told in the past that its not $50,ooo but $10,ooo with is a serious difference.. we need to have this amount confirmed!!!

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So you split your assets up among a variety of banks in Thailand and never let a balance exceed 50 k usd so the banks report nothing...it would be wise to have several accounts anyway since eventually the Thai version of FDIC only insures each bank account up to 1 million baht.....unless you are a very wealthy person I don't see the problem. As for spending 5000 usd to pay someone to file your taxes then somebody is either very lazy, dumb, or rich. As previous poster said there are all kinds of tax software programs available.

Can't imagine giving up my usa citizenship and unlike someone in the article who says she doesn't know any Americans who are NOT considering it I frankly don't know any who ARE considering.

Number one in Thailand maybe, but the region or the World, no way. To many other airports that no how to operate better.

NUMBER # 1 IN ASIA possibly

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