Moruya

Easy solution. Tell the taxi drivers that if there isn't a 30% improvement every month on complaints, the taxi fares will drop 10% every month and the offenders names published

I use Uber nowadays

For freight? High speed freight?

So what will Prayuth, seizer of power, do to fix it?

Could he be held responsible for any deaths resulting from inaction?

I suspect something is already in place. A couple of weeks ago my internet went dead and I had to reset my router settings in order to get back online - that usually only happens when True has fiddled about with something at their end, only this time there was no notice of any change or upgrade. My internet has definitely been disrupted since then. Ordinary websites often won't load. Switching on a VPN will get them to load instantly, presumably implying a gateway issue. Unfortunately, the VPN only works briefly, then webpages stall again and this time I have to switch off the VPN to get them to load for a while.. and so it goes on. It's not a problem with my computer because I was in Singapore last week and all webpages loaded without problem.

Perhaps they have earmarked some people as guinea pigs for testing the new gateway...

I'm pretty sure you're right.

I should have been monitoring the routes and checking out new hops (not the brewing ones)

Wonder if he brought the donuts?

good one moruya, he was the one left that money for the court on the table, that time, accidentally. .

Actually he wasn't. Yet more lies from the usual suspects.

Pichit happened to be in the court at the same time as Thana Tasari handed the box of money to a court official in a closed room. The court official then took a photo of the money and handed the money back! Investigations into the alleged bribery took place a while later. Normal people may wonder why Thana was not arrested on the spot. As The Nation said at the time the reason the Judge found Pitchit guilty was

The court believed Pichit and Suphasri were also "working closely" with Thana as all of them appeared at the court on that day.

"They kept talking to one another prior to Thaksin's and Pojaman's arrival at the court, and thus they must be regarded as one team."

Bearing in mind that they were working as Thaksin and his ex-wifes legal team there was probably a very good reason for them beeing at the court together.

Calling him a liar is a bit harsh - probably an honest mistake..

Noppadon is the one who attempted to sell the Pra Viharn temple to Cambodia for Thaksin and miraculously avoided serving his prison sentence

In this world of ever shortenning new bites forever repeating themselves on TV and PC ticker tales ad nauseum, this type of short story is perfect.

Coup, headlines, reaction, boredom, next story.

Absolutely perfect for the numpties that the BBC employs nowadays and longer stories just confuse modern journos as happened in the MH370 saga with CNN

Methinks Prayuth is gonna make the mother of all Unity governments with this assembled rabble.

Either that or he's going to lock them all up until it's all over

An honest politician is an oxymoron. Gen. P has a very unenviable task ahead of him. Maybe he should take a leaf out of China's book and make political corruption a capital offense?

Not a bad idea.

There are many rules relating to corruption, voting, behaviour in parliament that need a short sharp shock

Sort of like Thaksin's war on drugs that certain people here keep banging on about..

The Bangkok elites can get to shoot their political enemies for free in the name of fighting drugs corruption.

Your mind must be a real mess if you join the dots on what I said and got what you said.

Thaksin's war on drugs was a disgrace and is just one small part of why the nation is in a mess.

I don't care who is guilty of corruption - but if in government it should mean immediate action - suspension from work - followed by a full investigation and severe punishment

BBC just interviewed US Ambassador Kristie Kenny

q: It was your Government that supplied the Thai Military with the means to take over the Country

a: We have had a very long relationship blah, blah, blah

Screen freezes.

The US military gave Payuth a stern demeanour and a telephone?

Left to face the music while the boss family cowards run and hide as normal.

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Sacrificial on the lam

Methinks Prayuth is gonna make the mother of all Unity governments with this assembled rabble.

Either that or he's going to lock them all up until it's all over

An honest politician is an oxymoron. Gen. P has a very unenviable task ahead of him. Maybe he should take a leaf out of China's book and make political corruption a capital offense?

Not a bad idea.

There are many rules relating to corruption, voting, behaviour in parliament that need a short sharp shock

Methinks Prayuth is gonna make the mother of all Unity governments with this assembled rabble.

Either that or he's going to lock them all up until it's all over

The quality of PT's legal teams seems to be piss poor. They have many people claiming to be "legal experts" who regularly make pronouncements to the media interpreting the law on Constitution in a self-serving manner that often makes no legal sense. Then they claim it is not fair when the judgements go against them. The B2.2trn Borrowing Bill and the voiding of the 2 Feb elections are cases in point. There is no way the court could have ruled otherwise in either of those cases.

The mentality is the same as the first Thaksin government when they could fix and intimidate their way out of legal corners and get just about anything passed. Sorry, the times have changed and the momentum is now against you. So you need cogent legal arguments to win cases now.

In this case, the main argument they are putting forward is that they would like the NACC to postpone the case indefinitely, whereas an impeachment case against a sitting PM is obviously a priority. They disadvantaged Yingluck and made her disrespect the NACC by telling her not to bother show up to the first hearing to obtain the evidence against her but the NACC was generous enough to give her the evidence anyway and extend the time for her to respond by 15 days.

Now she will have to face the consequences of her actions (or lack of them) and the incompetence of her "legal experts".

That's all very true.

In fact half their legal team has either been imprisoned or should be.

Nopadon for trying to sell off part of Thailand to Hun Sen and the Pastry Box Boy who has served his sentence.

The amnesty bill was a disaster too

Long may the team continue it's role.

Of the four regions of Thailand the North historically has the highest rate of suicide, hanging being the method of choice. The North is of course the poorest of the four regions, the Central Region being relatively wealthy. The Bangkok banks have made the current predicament of many Thais in the North particularly severe.

Farmers are staying home being patient, biding their time while the elites slug it out in Bangkok. Farmers are too smart to allow themselves to be exploited by the PDRC and the DP against the government which is making every effort to assist them.

If the DP by some force majeure should win an election, farmers know they are screwed. If the so-called "People's Council" comes to pass, the farmers know their political allies in Bangkok will be purged from politics, the government and, very likely, the country itself.

http://www.academia.edu/248988/Suicide_In_the_North_of_Thailand

How many Thai farmers do you actually know?

Have you ever met one?

My Thai friends have taken me up into the hills outside Chiang Mai to visit villages and to meet villagers, to see three-room school buildings, and to visit the homes of people whose dwellings are constructed over dirt floors. The further one goes into the forests, the more unpleasant the experience becomes.

The farmers and their families are staying home because they have the political awareness not to be exploited by the virulent opponents of the government, which also shows the solid and unified support the government will get if the chronic opposition of the EC to a new election can be overcome.

they maybe farmers in Thailand, but I'd wager they aren't Thai farmers.

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Tell the EC to cease its systematic and premeditated obstructionism toward any election this year so the country can go out to vote. Let the people of 'Thailand, the Thai people, vote. No thugs at the polls. Just vote. The Thai people. Let them vote.

the people you describe you met and call thai farmers are staying home because they can't vote.

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Aye lad.

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: Aye, very passable, that, very passable bit of risotto. SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: Nothing like a good glass of Château de Chasselas, eh, Josiah? THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: You're right there, Obadiah. FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Who'd have thought thirty year ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Château de Chasselas, eh? FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: In them days we was glad to have the price of a cup o' tea. SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: A cup o' cold tea. FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Without milk or sugar. THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: Or tea. FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: In a cracked cup, an' all. FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Oh, we never had a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper. SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: The best we could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth. THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor. FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: Because we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness, son". FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Aye, 'e was right. FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: Aye, 'e was. FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: I was happier then and I had nothin'. We used to live in this tiny old house with great big holes in the roof. SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: House! You were lucky to live in a house! We used to live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, 'alf the floor was missing, and we were all 'uddled together in one corner for fear of falling. THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: Eh, you were lucky to have a room! We used to have to live in t' corridor! FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: Oh, we used to dream of livin' in a corridor! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House? Huh. FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Well, when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was a house to us. SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: We were evicted from our 'ole in the ground; we 'ad to go and live in a lake. THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: You were lucky to have a lake! There were a hundred and fifty of us living in t' shoebox in t' middle o' road. FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: Cardboard box? THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: Aye. FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt. SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky! THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife. FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah. FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you. ALL: They won't!

I see the daengophiles are out with their half-cocked conspiracy theories once again.

The truth of the matter is that Sukhumband's reaction to the legal action is how someone with honour should react to the courts. Classy

Yingluck, on the other hand, is classless

so how many thousands against 20mln voters, millions, who were prevented from voting and millions intimidated by armed and violent mob?

If you want to quote stupid and irrelevant figures then you should refer to the majority of voters that DIDN'T vote for Yingluck

Please give us a link to where the counters say that the PTP got the highest votes than they ever did in the Feb 2 election

I though the final figures where never released

Indeed.

Yingluck polled the same in 2014 as she did in 2011

Zero

All very odd, and does it make any sense ? If the plane crashed... until yesterday we have been led to believe they got Pings for x amount of hours, now is stated the plane was going faster and may have crashed 1,100 km before.... so if it had crashed ? why were the engines still running/sending a ping ? = must have still been running at least 1 hours after possible crash

each report get more confusing...... 20 days and no one knows if the plane did crash into the sea or not.

I believe the times of the pings are not disputed - however I would like to see the details behind the past (incomplete) ping.

The arcs themselves are based on the latency (time between ping send and receive) to the actual satellite visible to the plane's antenna.

The same calculation enabled the engineers at Inmarsat to determine that the plane had crossed the equator - hence the southern arc

Boeing have looked at the available data from ACARS and other systems until the handover to Vietnamese ATC and have determined that the plane was burning fuel at a high rate during its initial flight - probably due to head wind.

Using that information to calculate the remaining fuel coupled with the remaining flight time based on the pings it has determined a shorter range.

I would say that all this is based on minimal data........

"Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra insisted that she has not considered taking a break from politics in the near future"

Of course not.....And why should she even consider it?.......Just because the PAD-Dem's want her gone so they can improve their electoral chances?

The coup-mongers try to spin the story that they have had an effect, and the PTP will have a reduced majority.....Wishful thinking to the extreme....The electoral base of Ms. Y. and the PTP have strengthened immeasurably in the face of anti-democracy noise and acting-out.

Her support has magnified to such an extent, that the DP really want her gone....

But that is all self-serving rhetoric and posturing.

The PAD-Dem's would be better served, by re-considering their own leadership. Their penchant for pointing everywhere but themselves as the cause of electoral futility, continues to haunt them.

"And why should she even consider it?" She already has - How about doing the honourable thing having presided over a massive amount of lying and cheating, ignoring the horrendous amount of corruption, and overseeing all the deaths and injuries

"coup-mongers" - don't you ever stop polluting the threads with your nonsensical BS? Losing half the voters represents an increase in the voting base? Not in my maths class.

"But that is all self-serving rhetoric and posturing" - that's about the limit of your posts.

Tell me - who represents that PAD part of your "PAD-Dems" nonsense that you pollute every thread with?

I'd venture to say that if any of us was given 3 days to peruse,, and prepare to address 289 additional pages we'd be a bit miffed too I know I would... 289 pages of legalese to respond to.. but thats the plan... by the non independent agencies withhold the paper till the last minute then refuse the opportunity for redress... gimme a break... independent...? Laughable given the pedestrian way they have prosecuted things in the past... I'lll bet they are all chuckling in their noodle bowls... pathetic really

I could be wrong, but from what I read last week, this statement might be a little economical with the truth. YL may well have only had 3 days to view those documents, but that could well be down to her legal team. As part of their case for submitting the second extension request, they asked for extra time to consider the 280 +/- pages, so they must have had them at least 10 days ago. On the other hand, if YL had appeared on the day requested, I believe but may be wrong, she would have received everything there and then.

As I say, I could be wrong

If I remember correctly, if the defendant fails to attend the initial hearing then he/she has no right to the documents.

The NACC made an exception in Yingluck's case and provided the paperwork to her legal team.

If anything she has been treated more than fairly and is now doing everything she can to paint the commission black.

She is in danger of contempt

I'm not convinced that hot tea and biscuits followed by deer stalker and investigation is in the NHRW's job description

Tell me again, who was running the country and who ignored the advice of the Election Commission?

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I think we can safely look a bit earlier than that.

The PTP cheating and conniving in the house over at least 3 bills brought the people out on the street that caused this.

Therefore the PTP sinners can foot the bill