mikebell

Introducing TDAC is not the right way to go.

Cleaning up Pattaya police force once a month! It's not got any cleaner, in my view, during the last 20 years.

Anywhere you go in Thailand you will hear Look-At-Me bikes. The owners drive nails into the exhaust silencer to give the impression they own a powerful bike and fondly imagine the heads turning in their direction are admiring glances. They are not - they waste petrol and alert any cop in a one kilometre area they are riding illegally. However as all cops are as cloth-eared as the riders nothing gets done and innocent people's hearing is worsened.

As do the readers on Aseannow.

Blimey! Pattaya Plod have got really specialised now. Soon there will be a squad that deals with traffic offences.

Thai Post will do anything to avoid deliveries; particularly those with English language on them.

The annual railway feasibility scam; the bi-annual Railway road repairs; the daily lack of policing; the hourly stupidity of selfish drivers who log-jam every junction; all contribute to the mayhem.

Pattaya police have no jurisdiction in Pattaya.

The resort is ruled by two mafias in bed with each other. How many prosecutions have there been for meterless taximeters?

Having no police force is a touchy subject.

The top THREE stories today are about THREE separate road deaths one day AFTER Pattaya police were awarded a top police trophy.

Aged 82 with a very slow Spanish internet connection it took me at least an hour with many false starts. The form would not accept my Thai telephone number so I made one up eventually. 'why are you here in thailand,' I've been here 20+ years with a number of friends and a son who has a successful business in Bangkok - that's why. Vietnam tourist numbers are climbing exponentially. I will be having my 5th trip there in January to take advantage of their cheap cost of living and wonderful natural beauty where most of the local population speak English and are grateful for the tourist trade. 'Duong Global Business Consulting' - In less than 4years, Duong Global Business Consulting Group has become the #1 and fastest growing international business & law firm on Facebook in Vietnam! What does that say about your source?

Meanwhile on the roads they do nothing.

I bet he's useless at his other job too.

And they make it easy to enter by keeping things simple. No unnecessary TDAC for Vietnam.