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  1. In fact people as young as 15 can marry if the parents agree but the matter may need to be ratified by a court so it is clearly understood that both sides agree. Permission in such cases might be given when a pregnancy is involved.

    I would've though a lengthy jail sentence would be given if a pregnancy was involved in a 15 year old's marriage...

    Thai law allows a male rapist to escape any charges if he marries his victim.

    Believe it or not when this was in the news a few years some law Professors from Thammasat publicly supported said law

    Go figure !

  2. Years ago I had one (NO -- not that specific vendor, a vendor in Bangkok) and got quite ill.

    I figured it was the water in the juice.

    Much more likely that if the juice was to blame that the source of the juice or the cleanliness off whoever bottled it was the problem, not the water. Thailand's tap water is drinkable.

    Try this, with a damp white cloth clean a few oranges from anywhere. It can pretty much be guaranteed that the cloth will show all kinds of dirt and who knows what is lurking in that dirt? That muck gets transferred into the bottles with the juice as it is very unlikely that any vendors clean their fruit before juicing it.

    I often see food vendors taking a piss at the side of the road, they do not wash their hands, I have also seen where some of these food vendors prepare their food and it is far from hygienic

    Indeed, and it's guaranteed that they wash their hands thoroughly after doing a poop as well. rolleyes.gif
    It all adds to the flavour :-)
  3. Sad.

    Herbs to battle full onslaught of cancer, what folly when quite often chemo and latest science does not work.

    Homeopathy is such fraud.

    Got conclusive proof that it's a fraud and that's it's never helped anyone in its 200 plus year history, or were they all deluded and their return to good health just imaginary ? Have you used it or researched it yourself..or not...just curious as to the veracity of your opinion
  4. I guess talking our true feelings about this will get the post removed for being too real...

    So let's just say this:

    I'm very happy to be born and have lived in places without wars and horrors.

    I'm even more happy to be of this generation that had it good but won't regret when death comes because humanity is going so much to s***e that it will be a relief to escape it.

    Apart from that, enjoy having the next generation raised by sodomites.

    Damn, I'm gonna get banned!

    You'd rather die than see gay people happy?

    No, I will die when I will die, it's not related to gay people's happiness.

    And I wish tons of happiness to all gay people.

    But gay people adopting and raising children is just plain wrong.

    But that's only a tiny part of what's wrong and getting worse by the minute, and they are mostly not related to sexual orientation, some are. But gays are not the part that's wrong, homosexuality is part of nature, nature always includes an anomaly, that's the way it evolves. But that anomaly doesn't necessarily need to become the norm.

    You're aware this wasn't an adoption, it was the biological father taking taking his daughter home to be with her brother, her father and his partner. I have friend in oz who was raised by his gay parents...surprise surprise he's as normal as can be, tall dark and handsome and straight he loves his parents, says he wouldn't change a thing, his mums actually well known in the UK from acting in Aussie soaps. The fact that his parents are same sex never seemed to be an issue for him or them.

    If you're worried about sodomites raising children go complain to the pope and his band of pedopriests

  5. They want wn apology 55555. The cops at that station deserve nothing of the sort. Lazy indifferent and money hungry best describes how they police their area. Refusing to check cctv after kids have been eaten and robbed by local motorsai gangs. Refusing to make reports.

    Set ups and planting drugs are known to happen. Beating up kids who won't sign forged confessions is known. Refusing them access to family or legal counsel until they sign is standard practice.

    Joking when they think they're out of earshot about how they'd get their target bonus because they'd just stitched up another local kid on a fake drug charge. Seen it all, heard it all for years from the boys at Bukkhalo.

    So excuse me if I say to them far queue.

  6. And do hope the mother will file a countersuit to the surrogate agency and these two characters, for getting her to sign a document under false pretences and withholding information which would have been crucial to her decision making. They revealed they were gay on the day they picked up the baby. She would never have agreed if she knew. She had a right to know. They deceived her and used her body knowingly and deceptively.

    Shame on them.

    A comment from the fact free zone
  7. This Korn guy has quite an impressive CV.

    Korn Chatikavanich was born in London, England. His father was Commissioner of the Customs Department, Commissioner of the Revenue Department, and Director of the Fiscal Policy Office. Korn read politics, philosophy and economics (PPE) at St. John's College, University of Oxford and graduated with honours.

    Korn worked in asset management at SG Warburg while a student and joined the firm after his graduation. He left Warburg and returned to Thailand in 1988, founding J.F. Thanakorn, a joint venture between Jardine Flemings and Finance One. JF Thakakom became the Kingdom's largest brokerage by 1995-6 and became the first Thai investment bank to manage a public takeover, as well as the first to lead manage a Euro-convertible for a Thai firm, with Korn at the helm. In 1999, JF Thanakom was sold to JP Morgan (later JP MorganChase). Korn stayed on serving as President of J.P. Morgan (Thailand) Limited from 2000 to 2004.

    Korn left JP Morgan in October 2004, joined the Democrat Party to run for office, and subsequently went on to win a seat in Bangkoks 2nd constituency (Sathorn Yannawa) in the general elections of February 2005. After the defeat of the Democrat Party, Abhisit Vejjajiva replaced Banyat Banthadthan as Democrat Party leader. Korn was appointed Deputy Secretary General and Secretary for Economic Affairs of the Party. He became a vocal member of the opposition to the government of Thaksin Shinawatra during the 2005-2006 Thai political crisis. During the same period, Korn played a major role in examining the economic policies of Thaksin's government including the Shin Corporation Deal Scandal.

    Korn was appointed Finance Minister in the Abhisit administration in December 2009.

    Korn's significant achievements as Minister of Finance include: a 117-billion-baht stimulus package initiated in January 2009 and a second stimulus package, valued over 1.4 trillion baht over 2010 - 2012. Most of the funds was spent in improving infrastructure in Thailand especially in the area of irrigation and transportation, public health, education, and tourism.

    Korn also focused on policies that helped addressed social inequality and poverty such as pushing through the draft bill on land and building tax (property tax) in the Thai cabinet in April 2010 a part of an ambitious plan to overhaul the country's tax structure as the first step toward achieving a balanced budget.

    Additionally, Korn helped refinance loan-shark debt for over 500,000 individuals, many of whom were being charged more than 100% per annum interest for their loans.

    In January 2010, Korn was awarded "Finance Minister of the Year 2010" for both global and Asia Pacific regions by the Banker magazine of the Financial Times. The magazine complimented the Thai minister on his "financial management skills as he assumed the finance ministerial position in Thailand amid the economic stagnation. In addition, he was given credit for his contributions to promote and enhance financial and economic cooperation in ASEAN. Korn is the only Thai to have received both awards.

    In 2010, given that Thailand had recorded impressive economic recovery despite its political turmoil, Korn was also considered for Euromoney magazine's Finance Minister of the Year award. However, that year the prize was given to Alexei Kudrin for his role in enabling Russia to pay off its foreign debt early.

    As then Chair of the ASEAN Finance Ministers' meetings in 2009, Korn was also credited for helping with the creation of the Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralization (CMIM), a regional foreign reserve pool in case of currency flow shortage.

    After the Democrats were defeated in the 2011 election, Korn's term as finance minister ended and he subsequently took on the role of Shadow Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs in Abhisit Vejjajiva's shadow cabinet. He was replaced by Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) economist Thirachai Phuvanatnaranubala.

    In May 2011, the editorial pages of both the Japan Times and the South China Morning Post mentioned Korn as a possible candidate to replace Dominique Strauss-Kahn as head of the International M onetary Fund (IMF) for "his deep understanding of financial markets". Moreover, it was mentioned that the position should not be limited to candidates exclusively from the US and the European Union, as there were many good candidates from Africa, Asia and Latin America.

    When it comes to finances, he seems to know his stuff. The good general, on the other hand...

    Thai politics could do with a few more like him. I've see him interviewed in English a few times. He's a smart guy and at the opposite end of the spectrum to the current bunch of numnuts when it comes to competence and integrity
  8. Maybe it's ruse to ask the UK for compensations and restitutions for the ' invasion and colonization of Australia'.....

    Perhaps it is close to the time that the UK asks for compensation from the Romans from 2,100 years ago, followed by the Vikings, the Angles, Saxons Jutes in the 700 to 800s, and then the French in 1066 and the Spanish, Dutch etc.

    Then of course the was the invasion and colonisation of the USA by the English, French, Dutch, the Spanish who came up from Mexico and South America, plus the latest invasion by the Mexicans. Don't leave out Canada by the French and British.

    How about China and Europe conquered by the Mongol's and Tartar's, not forgetting the conquest of part of Europe by the Muslims and the Saracens.

    How much history do you want to re-write?

    They aren't re writing history so much as including a few truths that have been omitted in previous anglo- centric narratives. Can't see the problem in pointing what a total pack of %#}^ the British Aristocracy were as has been reflected in British foreign policy over the past few centuries.
  9. Students are being encouraged to use the term "invaded" rather than "settled" or "discovered", and avoid the word "Aborigines".

    I do not think that those that were forced there on prison ships would agree with your terminology.

    Yes, the convicts were transported against their will, with the vast majority of them never to see their families and homes again. It's a crime against humanity, no matter how you dress it up, even looking back with modern eyes and sensibilities.

    Which makes it even sadder that these transported convicts, once winning their 'ticket of leave', couldn't wait to join the land grab their 'betters' had instigated while they were still serving their sentences. Wouldn't you have thought they, of all people, would have had an empathy for a people disposed?

    Terra Nullius indeed.

    At the time of the prison ships, Australia's population is estimated to have been around 5000. I do not think that there would have been many land grabs or people being dispossessed.

    I take it that is what you meant and not people being disposed of.

    You may not think it but that's exactly what happened, particularly land near water resources, and the indigenous population which was estimated at between 300,000 and 750,000 comprised of about 250 nations speaking several hundred languages at the time the Brits arrived (aka the original boat except except with guns and bad intentions) by the 1930s had fallen to around 75,000.

    One family I'm related to by marriage was granted 130,000 acres in country Victoria. Pretty sure the only benefit the locals got from that deal was that they learnt to play cricket and actually toured and played the poms in England. As for their hunting grounds, sacred ancestral sites, waterholes etc access to those was controlled by their new uninvited and unwelcome landlords.

    That was no settlement it was an invasion. Some tribes waged war for decades before finally being wiped out by the sheer weight of numbers and weaponry opposing them.

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