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1 Million? Hmmm.....

7 flights weekly x 180 = 1260 seats weekly = 65.520 seats yearly

There is no Suvarnaket immigration, but a Thai consulate in Savannakhet (Laos);

Definitely closed on weekends and Thai public holidays (at least).

Also closed on Lao public holidays

http://www.thaisavannakhet.com/savannakhet/th/consulate/contact/

how about upgrading the signal on the signal on the BTS?

seems that nobody get the memo.

the wife just got home with the grocery packed in plastic bags from Foodland and 7/11

Bring your own cloth bags when go shopping today

BANGKOK: -- Don't forget to bring along your cloth bags when go shopping at all 15 major companies that operate department stores, super makets, super centres, and convenient stores as they will not use plastic bags to keep your purchases today as they began for the first time to observe the "plastic bags-free" campaign.

The stores joining the campaign compruse B2S, CP All, Big C, The Mall Group, Food Land, Siam Makro, Robinson, Central, Central Food Retail, Central Marketing Group, Rangsit Plaza, CRC Thaiwasadu, CRC Sports, Power Buy, and Ekkachai Distribution System.

The campaign was aimed at reducing the use of plastic waste.

The Department of Environmental Promotion expects to reduce over a million plastic bags a day under the campaign which will be held on the 15th of every month.

Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha also urged the people to cooperate in the campaign during his address on his weekly “Returning Happinesss to the Thai People” programme last night.

The prime minister said that the amount of plastic garbage would be 70 million plastic bags less per day if every Thai stops using just one plastic bag a day.

The current government places great importance in sustainable development and is environment friendly and, therefore, has designated garbage disposal as a national agenda under 3R principle which is reduce, reuse and recycle, said the prime minister.

Beginning this Saturday, the government in cooperation with the private sector which include operators of department stores, malls and convenience stores will urge members of the public to bring their own bags to carry the goods they bought instead of asking plastic bags, said the prime minister.

He further said that it would be much better if the people could stop using plastic bags more than one day within a month or every day.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/bring-your-own-cloth-bags-when-go-shopping-today

-- Thai PBS 2015-08-15

Awesome

guess ICAO will be listening

the spirits that I've cited my commands ignore

next...skywalk between Chitlom BTS and the Erawan shrine. I see the scammers every day preying on clueless tourists.

next...skywalk between Chitlom BTS and the Erawan shrine. I see the scammers every day preying on clueless tourists.

Hmm, now we know the reason why the Thai Navy want those submarines to desperately :-)

Someone told me a few years ago that 7/ll alone were getting through something like 90,000,000 plastic bags a day. Now that is one big figure, 32,850,000,000 a year! I questioned those figures and personally don't think they are far off ..... but then I have never been good at maths!

Thais use 8 plastic bags per person per day, according to the government National News Bureau of Thailand. (2013)

This amounts to an estimated 500 million plastic bags used in Thailand every day if all 67 million people in the country are taken into account.

Anybody know who actually is contracted to do the boring? What company, and where are they from?

Looks like Ital-Thai

http://www.tunneltalk.com/TBM-Recorder-Sep12-Terratec-TBM-for-Bangkok-Blue-Line-Extension.php

Confirmed, it's Ital-Thai.

The TBM is a 6.44 mtr Terratec, designed and produced in cooperation with Japan Tunnel Systems Corp., subsidiary of IHI Group-Japan.

http://tunnellingjournal.com/news/terratec-delivers-new-epbm-to-bangkok/

Does anyone seriously believe that there is any true organic farming in Thailand?

Consumers now wary of safety guarantee

Consumer rights groups have called for action after chemical contamination was found in samples of vegetables and fruits granted the "Q mark" for safety.

Kingkorn Narintarakul na Ayutthaya, deputy director of the Thai Holistic Health Foundation (BioThai), said Monday that the samples had levels of pesticide contamination higher than products without the Q guarantee.

She said this reflected the poor standards of the National Bureau of Agricultural Commodity and Food Standards (ACFS), which authorised the safety logo for the products.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/587524-dangerous-levels-of-pesticides-will-poison-thailands-food-plan/

Published 11.09.2014

About 87% of Thai credit-card holders maintain running balances on their credit cards, increasing concerns about growing levels of household debt, a survey by the University of Thai Chamber of Commerce.

Thanavath Phonvichai, the UTCC's vice-president for research, said the survey of 1,198 people taken Sept 1-6 showed only 13% of people paid off their entire balance within the past three to six months. During that time, 28% of cardholders paid only 5% of their balance, 47.7% paid 10-20% and 11.3% paid nothing at all.

More significantly, the university's centre for economic and business forecasting also found that cardholders earning less than 20,000 baht a month had outstanding credit-card debt almost three times their monthly earnings. The groups with the largest debts were students and "for hire" workers.

Same dude?

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/604530-pattaya-police-arrest-german-in-fake-driving-license-scam/

I don't know buses...but who would be the likely winner and from what country?

China?

I'm guessing, as I really have no clue, but would be interested.

I worked for a Chinese coach manufacturing company. I assure you, you wouldn't want to buy a Chinese coach/bus. Materials are cheap, crash testing is non-existent, technology is 20 years old, and anything slightly new is copied (patent infringed, should I say).

As for Thailand, a Chinese source is a likely winner, however, because cheap, user unfriendly, unsafe, and crap quality matters not here. What matters, and what mattered to Volvo and Scania, are the bent takings by the offerers of bids. The undertable corruption was something the Western companies had no interest in being involved in, especially when they realised the graft was ultimately reducing, or projecting to reduce, their end sales prices.

Volvo nor Scania need Thailand as an entity or major market to compete worldwide, and so it is another loss to Thailand which keeps it years behind all the other developing countries. I think I made myself perfectly clear?

You are spot on!

Am I really dumb or what?

Yes.

The taxi fares have not increased in 22 years.

Last fare high hike (12%) was 6 years ago (July 2008)

Might come into the category of journeyman now, if still playing in England. In Thailand, I'd reckon on superstar if he plays to his full, current, potential. If you totted up all the transfer fees paid for him in his career it would be a very tidy sum. I'm struggling to think of another player who has had as much spent on him in transfer fees. I must look it up somewhere.

http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/nicolas-anelka/profil/spieler/3226

Total transfer proceeds: 114,72 Mill GBP

Since 4 months the traffic light on the corner Sukhumvit 105 (La Salle, near BTS Bearing) is out of order causing severe traffic jams.

Any idea where to report?

the article is from 2011 as :The largest cities in Human History

http://www.businessinsider.com/largest-cities-in-history-2011-4?op=1

The good minister is twisting the truth.

Last fare high hike (12%) was 6 years ago and not 20.

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Posted 2008-07-03 13:24:23

New taxi fares take effect today

BANGKOK: -- Taxi fares started to rise on Wednesday on the average of 12 per cent per trip although the start-up charge for the first kilometer travelled remains at Bt35.

The new rates will start at 35 baht for the first kilometer, not two kilometers as before.

The fares will then be five baht a kilometer for the 2nd-12th kilometers, 5.50 baht a kilometer for the 12th-20th kilometers, six baht a kilometer for the 20th-40th kilometers, 6.50 baht a kilometer for the 40th-60th kilometers, 7.50 baht a kilometer for the 60th-80th kilometers and 8.50 baht a kilometre beyond that.

The new fares came into effect following the today's announcement in the Royal Gazette.

-- The Nation 2008-07-03