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Once again a contradictory report.
Did he wait a week before reporting the matter - or did he return to his hotel and call the bank.
Surely somebody should check what information goes out. makes the authorities and Thailand look so stupid!
He returned to his hotel and called the bank. A week later he reported the theft to the authorities. I see no contradiction there.
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Of course Thailand is problem free at the moment, so it makes a lot of sense to prepare for a minor tremor 2000 years from now.
I wonder how good the seismometers were 2000 years ago, when a 6.5 was recorded on the yet-to-be-invented Richter scale.
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Shocked by the statement made by the school. It practically says he is guilty. And a 4-year-old boy allegedly telling his mother months later?????????? I think the school should at least have said that these were still only charges, not facts.
Or could it be that he was dismissed by the school for something that should have been reported to the authorities, but was hushed up? That scenario is popular these days.
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Why all the hate against the red shirts for disrupting the life of the Bangkok residents? Aren't these the people that consistently win elections, only to have the Bangkok residents steal the result?
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Removing the billboard would have been enough of a compromise, but being forced to remove a wax figure from a private business, is ridiculous! How in the world did all the governments of the world ever allow a very small minority of people of one race or ethnicity or religion to dictate to the world?!
I don't know where the use of force came into this, except in your own bigoted head. Jews and Germans used their right of free speech to complain about the billboard, and rightly so. I would imagine that the people who designed it did not realise the ambiguity of the words they used and had no hesitation in deciding the billboard was inappropriate.
But you talk about being forced to remove the wax figure, because your bigotry prevented you from seeing the facts.
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Ridiculous thing is that you would likely have the same media uproar if this took place in the U.S. or Europe? What has happened to free speech. Let people make their own decisions. Have we no faith in humanity or we merely being being controlled through selective media.
Nothing has happened to free speech. Some people exercised their right to free voice their opinion of the possible sentiments of the billboard. If the museum removed the figure from its horror section, then it is museum officials who have acted ridiculously.
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Does anyone have any advice?
I am currently a tourist on holiday in Karon Beach.
Our hotel staff laughed at us when we asked them for advice and said that the Tsunami was in Samoa and not here.
That is a very distressing reaction. One would think that hotel staff in Phuket would be up-to-date, but it seems they had not yet heard of the Indonesia quake. Maybe 5 years is too long for them to remember.
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The police would probably catch more criminals by arresting anyone on Jomtien Beach at 4.30am that is not there for sex.
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Maybe the Thai court could take a lesson from its clearly more humane neighbour to the north and reduce the sentence to 18 years house arrest.
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But when Thais do the same, they must be doing something wrong, at least according to some know-it-all Brits....your expertise in this is about as good as the chances of England winning Germany in football...ouch.
And your Grammar is on a par with a 5 year old. It should be "England beating Germany at football".
Taking cheap shots at someone whose native tongue is probably not English is beneath contempt. But if we must be perfect, note that ''grammar'' is not a capitalised word.
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--- the same thing (baggage handlers stealing) has happened in the United States or elsewhere in the world. Why not have security cameras on these guys and display the 20 or more monitors on a huge screen at the airport and have the bored passengers (that are waiting for their delayed Air Asia flights) to look at the screens for entertainment.
Wonderful idea. We could play ''spot the thief'' with prizes for anyone spotting a theft inprogress.
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It is almost unbelievable that these so-called experts are totally divorced from reality : one does not have to be a epidemiologist (which I am) to understand that the request for Government "to tell people to avoid crowded places in order to slow down the increase in the H1N1 virus' fatality and infection rates" is patently rubbish , when one wonders how people will get to work, how children will get to school, how people will go to their markets??
What? close all factories, businesses, schools, transport systems. Switch all air conditioners. Close the Health centres and hospitals. Just in my little town with big schools the Sorng Theos arrive and leave with as many as 20 on a pickup, on the light truck as many as 40 children CRAMMED together.
Where do these idiots come from??? They might have read of Canute.
Don't call people idiots just because you are one yourself. Any sensible person would realise that the advice is to avoid crowded places whenever possible. Sensible advice.
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Why would anyone earning over $200,000/year only have $36,000 of disposable income? Maybe it is just the usual tendency of Thai journalism to get numbers completely wrong.
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Well, what crime did they actually commit?
If 1,000,000 baht disappears from your account will you be asking the same question?
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An emotive subject!! However, in my experience the biggest source of airborne (rather than intimate) virus transmission has been whilst flying. This has escalated during the past 10 years or so when most operators banned smoking on their aircraft (mainly on economic grounds due to the fuel savings made by recirculating cabin air rather than introducing a thru-flow ventilation of fresh air as happened when smoking was allowed). I'm not trying to justify the re-introduction of smoking on flights, more highlighting the practices of airlines at the moment. Not sure of the percentages, but as someone who did long haul at least twice a month for the past 10 years or so, maybe 80% of the time after a flight I'd feel like s**t for a few days, with flu like symptoms. Spending a long time in a recirculated air environment can't be good for anyone, and there's a good possibility that someone is going to end up with the same virus as any other of the 200+ passengers.
I used to think like that, but recently I heard an expert say that air in planes is constantly replenished from outside and not just recirculated over and over, making planes no riskier than any other place. For me the problem is that the air is dry and causes dry eyes, nose and throat.
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This is such a non-issue. This will never amount to anything really serious. Between 250,000 and 500,000 people die annually,
worldwide, from the normal flu. So far, 141 people have died of the swine flu, this year. Compared to approximately 125,000
to date this year for the other flu. Which flu would you rather have? Of the 27,000 people infected to date, 141 have died. Do
the math. This is a media based hysteria. There is nothing to it. I am not concerning myself for a nanosecond over this.
The Thaivisa resident medical expert speaks again. You still do not seem to have grasped the fact that we do not have immunity to the swine flu, giving it the opportunity to spread widely and possibly mutate into something more dangerous.
You say you are not concerned for a nanosecond, but seem to be concerned enough to post your uninformed nonsense here.
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Yet the figures don’t add up to anything like an emergency. There have been 20 cases of flu in the US since the story broke (not all of them confirm as flu, much less swine flu). That’s 20 out of 300 million people.
The cure for the epidemic is simple, there IS NO epidemic. The real question is, who is paying these news guys to try to incite panic?
If by ''since the story broke'' you mean ''since swine flu was first recognized'', then the US has had 13,217 confirmed or suspected cases and 27 deaths.
The real question is who is paying you to make 13,197 cases disappear?
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Who cares? This swine flu is one of the least harmful, and least dangerous flus that the world has seen in the last 100 years. So far
only a tiny fraction of people have been infected, and have died, as happens with the "normal" flus that are more common. There
is absolutely nothing to fear. This flu will subside within a couple more months, and alot of embarrassed people will be running around
wondering why they got so excited about nothing.
You must have excellent medical credentials to be able to talk so authoritavely.
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Seems she bit off more than she could chew!
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I hope the Gucci's , Valentinos ect.. go bust.... good on the fakes
Tell me if i'm wrong !
Cheers..
You're wrong!
Cheers
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I also think it's the wrong thing to do - talk about shopping malls or even 7-Eleven's with attached ATM, people inside will quickly complain when their calls get cut off once they get close to an ATM.
Any mall or 7/11 that did that would get my business. Being forced to listen to the moronic chit-chat of idiots with cell phones attached to their ears in public places is one of the biggest drawbacks of modern technology.
Like smoking, cell phone use should be banned where it is a public health threat.
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The west leads the way in suppression of democracy and systematic erosion of civil liberties.
And all in the name of Democracy and Civil Liberties (for the people who think the same way they do)
You need to travel more.
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Doesn't this type of thread bring out the stupidity in some people? The guy said 'Couriered' nothing to do with mail.---- Go back to bed so as we can keep this topic on track!I spoke with a friend last night who is a physician at Bumrungrad. They were urgently awaiting some sort of perishable chemotherapy medicines that were couriered from the USA day before yesterday. Needless to say, it won't be arriving and his patient lies dying in hospital.This is going far beyond loss of tourists and failing businesses when seriously sick people begin dying because of PAD's actions.
To be honest that sounds kinda dumb. If I had something that important I wouldn't send it through the mail. Someone sent me a package from England two weeks ago and it still hasn't arrived.
Wow. Why is everyone getting so nasty? What needs to be on track? The airport is closed. When it opens you will know. You sound like the official word will come on Thaivisa, so everybody has to stop talking in case you miss it.
Lighten up, grumpy old man.
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City-wide Total Votes
50 BKK districts
Eligible voters 4,086,604
Voter turnout 2,329,698
Percentage: 57.0 %
(Reported up to 23.55 PM )
No. Name Candidate No. Votes 1 Apirak Kosayothin 5 954,134 2 Prapas Jongsanguan 10 519,445 3 Chuwit Kamolwisit 8 327,238 4 Kringsak Charoenwongsak 2 249,439 5 Leena Jangjanja 7 7,145 6 Witthaya Jangkobwattana 9 5,063 7 Warawuth Thanangkorn 4 4,559 8 Kittisak Thirawisit 1 3,359 9 Metta Temchamnarn 3 3,299 10 Sumet Tantanasirikul 6 1,788 11 Popsak Parnsithong 11 1,525 12 Thoranee Ritteethamrong 12 1,088 13 Wachiraporn Ayuyuen 14 1,056 14 Udom Wiboontepachart 13 653 15 Somchai Paiboon 15 569 16 Nipon Simprayoon 16 385
That a third of a million people in Thailand's supposedly most politically-enlightened city should vote for a confessed criminal, pimp of under-age prostitutes, and general all-round thug as the person to present the face of their capital city to the world makes me speechless. Barred from the US (and who knows how many other countries), how can those voters live with their decision? Shades of Narong Wongwan (Wrong-One?). And Watana Asawahame. And ... and ... and ...
mathematics is not yours or?
Calculate it again, it is not 1/3
that under-age story is as well not as you tell.
I would say people are bored by the "normal" politic.
Close enough to 1/3.
Actually 0.327238 of a million.
How many decimal points do you normally require
Thai woman kills self during Internet broadcast in front of boyfriend, others
in Thailand News
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Come on! Aren't you just looking to feel disassociated from this disturbing event? After all, aren't you and she part of the Thai society that you blame?