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On 9/21/2018 at 1:56 AM, balo said:

Can you change your headline please????  

 

This is not in Pattaya , far from it!  Fake news actually .  

 

As a cyclist myself I stick to Beach road and the smaller sois , I wouldn't dare to ride all the way out to Sattahip just to be able to ride on a cycle way . 

 

 

The place where the photo is taken is technically in Banglamung District and Pattaya City. The border goes along the lake that is to the right of the photo. This is just west of Wat Yan, and all of Wat Yan is also in Pattaya.

Thanks for keeping it open. This is the most informative thread on Thaivisa, at least for those of us who live in Bangkok.

He may be stupid, but she shows all signs of being a psychopat. Psychopats have an amazing way of getting other people to do things against their own will. It would be wrong to judge him without knowing the full background, which none of us will.

On 30/12/2017 at 8:18 AM, chrissables said:

You are wrong.

 

A friend of mine died a few weeks ago at his home. His body stayed in the house until he was cremated a few days later.

No, I'm not wrong. I just state what the rules are. What happens in real life is a completely different matter. We are after all in Thailand.

6 minutes ago, CanuckThai said:

Strange rules reporting cause of death and an appropriate autopsy.  RIP

 

Question: Is an autopsy automatically provided by Thai medical authorities upon a death?  Or does it have to be requested and paid for by the deceased's family?  

If a foreigner dies at home in Thailand, an autopsy is automatic, and the family won't get the body until the report has been made. As far as I know, the autopsy is always performed at the Police Hospital in Bangkok. This guy however seems to have died in a hospital. Then it's the hospital that is responsible for the death certificate. Whatever they get from that hospital, I doubt it's worth much, regardless what the cause of death was. "Heart failure" is the preferred cause of death in Thailand....

He's a very rational leader. He saw what happened to Saddam and Gaddafi. He also knows what happened the last time they were at war with USA; 3 million North Koreans were killed and all infrastructure demolished. The answer to all that is very simple: Be heavily armed. It's exactly the same logic as USA has followed for the last 100 years.

A 72 year old minivan driver who isn't able to see that there's a human body, dead or alive, in the road ahead of him? Sounds safe to me 

I would rather say that through his behavior, he is scaring Thailand and most other Asian countries closer to China. In Addition, China is a neighbouring country while the United States are on the opposite side of the globe. The good relationship between Thailand and the USA dates back to the time when Thailand was needed as a military base to kill people in Indochina. The Americans have in the meantime found other people to kill.

1 hour ago, lvr181 said:

"Thailand actually has a lot of expertise on water management."

 

Begs the question, why are they not doing anything?   Perhaps 'mitigation' does not translate into the Thai language?

 

'Expertise' is one thing, putting it to successful proper use is another. And that, in my mind, is very poor governance that has been going on for years and the current Government is perpetuating that same scenario. 

The extreme fertility of the Central Plains of Thailand is to a large degree based on the annual floodings. The fact that people have decided to build factories there and live in houses unsuitable for the climate are decisions the government aren't always able to control. The only realistic countermeasure would be more and/or larger dams, but there are serious negative consequences. That will place thousands of forests, wildlife habitats and farmland permanently under water.

Interestingly, in Cambodia, a much less developed country, people handle the floodings much better, but then they live in houses on stilts and most people have a boat in the affected areas.

Oh, come on. Ang Thong is one of the most flood prone provinces in Thailand. Historically, the government has always "sacrifised" land in Ang Thong and Ayutthaya to avoid flooding in provinces further down. If the families in question live in one story houses in Ang Thong, it's most probably because they don't have enough money to build houses that are suitable for the area they live in. They are probably very poor, and it's a sad story, but it has little or nothing to do with the water management of the government.

Thailand actually has a lot of expertise on water management. Unfortunately, cronyism and corruption affect the process, and those in charge don't always follow their own advice.

3 minutes ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

One can only smile or maybe even outright laugh of graphs like the above. If plot is as percentage of total electricity generation in China you will soon see that is accounts for less than 1.5% and it is not even keeping up with the growth in power generation.

If you start with 1.5% of the total need, and increase solar capacity with 50% each year, which would be less than they do now, it takes less than 12 years to go to 100%.

2 hours ago, canuckamuck said:

Also not taking into account the fossils fuels and resources involved into the creation of solar panels, which last only a few years and need to be replaced. Causing more waste and a new demand for resources.

Solar panels that are made today have a life expectancy of 25 years, and it's increasing steadily. Energy for the production of solar panels increasingly comes from.... guess what: solar panels.

While Thailand is not at the forefront of this development, it's happening here too. Very many factories in Thailand have their roofs covered with solar panels, and there are several, but still experimental, solar power stations running in Thailand. What is lacking is an infrastructure for charging of electric cars like we see in many European countries.

The leader is of course China, where the output from solar power stations increased 80% just the first quarter of this year:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/china-solar-power-output-increase-80-per-cent-three-months-renewable-energy-source-a7719021.html

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40341833

4 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Seems pretty normal for Pattaya. Apparently the disaster alongside the Sukhumvit Rd tunnel went on for over 2 years and is going to be repeated, TWICE. The marina debacle is being allowed to collapse without any effort to rectify it, the ghost tower obstructing the lookout will apparently be allowed to remain till it falls down, the automated car park farce is still not sorted, the boats still destroy the road to the lighthouse, and on and on and on.

Seems to me that a particular form of bureaucratic ill has afflicted Pattaya. Used to be a great place to party, but apparently descending into chaos.

You forgot the waste water plant 

Yeah, because money is more important than health... 

Oh come on, this is a miscarriage. There's probably a very sad and scared you woman somewhere who needs help, not condemnation.

How about getting the taxis to use their meters?

The man has a valid point. I've used the deposit machines lots of times, and money is always available in the account with no delay. This is the way many people in Thailand handle their financial affairs, and anything off standard should result in a clear warning from the ATM/CDM.

21 minutes ago, Crossy said:

 

Traveling outside the peak is recommended if at all possible.

That's what I would do in Europe. Unfortunately, the idea of flexible working hours hasn't really caught on with Thai employers.

Has BTS ordered material to extend the length of each train to the maximum 6 cars? Friends who live in the Udom Suk and On Nouch areas tell me that they have mostly given up on sky-train during rush hours, since it's very hard to get on a train at all. This will obviously only get worse when the extension opens and more condos etc. are built along the line as a result of the extension.

29 minutes ago, Thian said:

Some quality tourists even stole the head of that fish.....

It's those nasty foreigners again. Why can't they just stay home and eat their own fish?

Send the dogs to Vietnam or China. They know what to do with them there.

Do the USA manufacture anything that anybody would want to buy?

An interesting fact is that Red Bull on their international website don't have any reference to their Thai origins at all. "How it all began" reads

"Inspired by functional drinks from the Far East, Dietrich Mateschitz founded Red Bull in the mid 1980's. He created the formula of Red Bull Energy Drink and developed the unique marketing concept of Red Bull. In 1987, on April 1, Red Bull Energy Drink was sold for the very first time in its home market Austria. This was not only the launch of a completely new product, in fact it was the birth of a totally new product category. Today Red Bull is available in 171 countries and over 62 billion cans of Red Bull have been consumed so far."

Not so cool to be associated with their Thai co-owners anymore maybe?

While some of this is correct, the only really new thing about Red Bull was the marketing concept. "Energy drinks" have been available in large parts of Asia at least since the early sixties. Lipovitan, which is actually a Japanese product, was launched in 1962.

5 hours ago, sebastion said:

I'll answer your question on how they become so rich. It has nothing to do with worldwide sales.
About a decade ago I remember the now deceased grandfather having a interview and he plainly stated that he was very wealthy selling it throughout Thailand. He profited to the tune of 11 million baht a day nationwide. This was a decade ago.


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So you mean that the money from the worldwide sales, which they own 51% of, they just throw into the bin?