mikebell

Check out the (new) shareholders of the designated haulage company.

And look how big Pinocchio's nose grew after telling so many lies.

For the foreseeable future, Pattaya will exist for weekend Thai visitors to view the sea. During the week- doldrums.

How will he make ends meet without a regular wage coming in every month? What possible career is left open to him?

I read the headline with interest right up to the last word - 'police'. If they can't collect over 90% of traffic fines what credibility have they in tracing hackers?

And the floods washing away homes and Jomtien Beach road and the packs of wild dogs and derelicts starving on the pavement. Very picturesque.

This is a 'puff' piece written 10 years ago. Why would the wealthy visit/live in a place littered to the bottom lip with plastic debris? Why would they hazard their lives daily on Thailand's roads? Are the rich so enamoured with stray dogs that even a walk is dangerous? Expats are usually retired and have owned a house in their homeland, why would they bring their money here and cede 51% of it immediately? And then there are the police!

Our moo-baan pool is open but the gym is closed!

There are to be NO LOCAL elections in Pattaya this time around; presumably Prayuth is happy with the 'strong-arm mayor?

'no matter which ballot system is used' - What about the Bullet Ballot?

If TAT organised Shoot-a-Dog Days, there would be many takers - certainly domestically.

A new PM with drug-dealing contacts?

Killer Cop and Cop Killer - both cases have much in common; neither will do serious time.

It suggests that support for PM is not 100% within his cabinet. Prayuth is wobbling and someone from inside could give him a push.

They get 15 minutes each to wear his amulet.

It's like painting the Forth Bridge except that only takes place once a year not ten times a rainy season. It's a job-for-life; applicants must be related to the mayor.

China hurt the goodwill of the world by unleashing the virus on innocent lives everywhere.

To whom? How was it made public?

Isn't there something faintly ironic about RTP preaching morality to the rest of us (particularly at this time.)

3BB haven't made it past 2G yet.

It is possible to observe good practice in other countries and use it here; eg there are no end of Thai Committees earnestly discussing the safety of one vaccine over another; it would be a simple matter to accept the findings of better educated people in civilised countries. 'you are not a [permanent] resident or a citizen.' Would be-retirees would like to be considered as such. 'pricing out even more locals out of the market.' The people doing this are rich Thais/policemen. A 400 square metre plot would satisfy most incoming foreigners.

For looking the other way! Thailand has no shame. You'd think some powerful educated Thais would care that the rest of the world (except other banana republics) look at them with derision.

Retirees want to own their own home. Malaysia allows it so why not Thailand? Their home-owning laws are mediaeval and racist; they exist to keep lawyers/auditors in jobs to the exclusion of would-be retirees.

So slightly fewer deaths than Covid which has shut the country down; had millions spent on it; the whole medical profession put on high alert; the population fed daily death figures. Yet nothing is done about traffic deaths. The post above mine advocates CCTV to inflict fines yet over 90% of tickets are unpaid. A working police force would half these figures in a year.

Pattaya Plod continue their quest to be the Most Inept in Thailand.