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Oh, don't worry, the public will still be allowed to give gifts to the police officers they respect and whose work they appreciate :-)

Absolutely: as we all recently learned from our ever so eloquent DPM: it's not graft it's a tradition

Smart piece of politics. Blowing up the issue and scaring the hell out of citizens.

If it does happens they will say: see, told you so.

If it doesnot happen they will say: your government did a great job

Very good. Unfortunately only 1 bus per day. How to buy a ticket online or at least make a reservation? Checked the co. website, but all info in Thai.

http://home.transport.co.th/en.html

One step could be require all 7/11 stores to adjust the thermostat more than five degrees above freezing.

Add all department stores and malls nationwide

The open hillstands are great value for money.

Pack some rain gear.

Sepang F1 is famous for afternoon rainstorms

KL

did 1-year-non-O multiple in Dec 2012.

no problems at all.

submitted docs:

-my wife's thai id + signed copy

-house book original + signed copies

-letter from her in thai & english requesting to grant the visa

-marriage cert + copy signed by both

-my passport and copy (signed)

-recent passport sized photo

-bank statement showing 100k+ (was not checked and returned)

-scans of bank book and all pages, all copies signed

Fee: 550 RM (5500 Baht)

visa collection: next working day 14:30-16:00

advise: check before for possible Thai or Malay public holidays. embassy will be closed

I'm already getting dizzy with all the hubs, projects, megaprojects, gigaprojects.....bearing the question: where does all the money come from? If I follow correctly foreign investors are not really lining up.

BANGKOK, 7 December 2012 (NNT) -

Chalerm : Thailand is not terrorism land

Deputy Prime Minister Police Captain Chalerm Yubamrung has affirmed yesterday that Thailand is not a country of terrorism after it was ranked eighth in the global terrorism index by the Institute for Economics and Peace.

Police Captain Chalerm downplayed the ranking by the US agency and attributed the misunderstanding to recent political protests in the country. He expressed confidence towards the operation of immigration police, the special branch police and other security units.

The Deputy Prime Minister said that the US has once believed that the terrorist group Hezbollah came to Thailand, but the issue was later proven false.

Police Captain Chalerm also expressed confidence that Thailand is not terrorism-prone as it is a Buddhist country and is not aligned with any major power bloc. He said the unrest in the south is deemed as being instigated by insurgents and separatists, not an act of terrorism.

The Deputy Prime Minister then pointed out that media reports which cover the incidents in the Deep South has been causing fears among the public while the local people do not share the same level of panic.

He however noted that he has been working closely with the authorities and is aware of the situation in the region. By RADIO THAILAND & INSIGHT INFO

http://thainews.prd.go.th/centerweb/newsen/NewsDetail?NT01_NewsID=WNPOL5512070010004

Thai Airlines is the most expensive airlines in the asia would. The Thai's in other countries that visit their families use this airline. They will pass this employee increase to the customers...The salaries for flight attendents are not cloose to the flight attendents in the airline industry!!! Maybe $300.00 per month...

The salary of a Thai Airways senior FA is about 100k Bt (3.300 USD) per month plus allowances. New recruits earn about 30k Bt (1.000 USD) plus allowances.

Family/business connections, and/or cash payments help to land a job. Many 'Hi-So' families’ girls/sons in this club.

A dream will come true for TS and cronies, and it will plunge many Thai's deeper and deeper in gambling debts.

As a previous poster said: the urge to gamble in this country is unbelievable.

Most of my Thai friends will vote for Sukhumbhand, although they are aware that he had a dull performance and they would prefer to see a fresh face. But voting for the PTP candidate is no option whatsoever. Bangkok in the hands of Phua Thai scares the hell out of them.

Expo 2020 in TH? This is a bad idea on so many levels

There is no genuine political will in Thailand to change the status quo and political will is paramount in any fight against corruption.

If political will implies, the zeal, the desire, the commitment to fight corruption, then it must start with genuine democratic reform, then, governments that rig elections all the time cannot fight corruption, because; electoral corruption is the root of all forms of corruption.

Ratifying international anticorruption treaties, creating national anticorruption commissions and national anticorruption strategies in themselves will not lead to any results, if much energy and resources are not invested in building genuine democratic institutions and a rule of law through which citizens can hold those in power accountable.

According to de Speville, there are seven essentials to fighting corruption:

1. Political will

2. Values clearly stated in law

3. A national anticorruption strategy - clear, concise and comprehensive

4. An effective mechanism for implementing it

5. Community support

6. Resources

7. Endurance

http://despeville.com/

But we all know this will never happen as long as money politics and a feudal culture dominate this country.

2.5 Million Malaysians??

Wow, that's 8.6% of their entire population of 29 Million.

Impossible, unless you count the daytraders and vendors as tourist arrivals.

Same goes for Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar.

Not to mention the numerous visarunners.

Myself I delivered 6 arrivals for the 2012 stats.

I think a number of 15-16 Mio would be more realistic.

120 billion for a 16.6 km expressway??? <deleted>!

That can't possibly be right.

Indeed! 120 billion for 16.6 km expressway.....

that would make the projected 382-km Bangkok-Phitsanulok high-speed train route.with a budget of 240 billion baht a real bargain.

Something doesn't add up me thinks.

And again we witness the Thai Government’s complete failure to even recognize that "education" is indispensable to these challenges. No mention of it in YS "strategies".

Where will the knowledge-based workforce come from to lift Thailand out of the middle income trap?

Ikea is not getting it right in many ways here !

Warning !!

Ikea home delivery is overcharging big times !

Compared with their advertised rates on ikea.co.th di they want 8 times the price when i asked.

I was lucky that a good man in Ikea told me to check their delivery rates before i paied (a man employed by Ikea) and he was right !

So i kicked the wagon with goods for 35.000 back in the shop !!

They wanted to charge 7500 Baht for less then one M/3 to Khon Kaen, advertised rate is 900 Baht.

So take care !!!

Although Thailand is very cheap in terms of transportation, you cannot be serious about transportation cost of 900 Baht for a 700km delivery round trip to Khon Kaen.

Before making overcharging accusations check their website properly.

The costs are clearly stated.

BTW, what happened to the PTP 20 Baht BTS flat rate election promise??

Total waste of money. Within a short period they will have the same fate as the public water dispensers. broken and dysfunctional. I was glad the BMA removed most of the old telephone booths and now they want to obstruct the sidewalks again? Come on.

When traveling by BTS these days,... has anybody noticed, how bad the breaks were for a couple of weeks now. I mean, when it stops at a station, the train is shaking 2-3 times...

That makes me think something is wrong with the maintenance of the train engines... anyone experiencing the same????

You are absolutely right. The ride is not smooth.

It's not the maintenance, it's the new Chinese made 4-carriage trains.

The old Siemens 3-carriage trains are just fine.

This is going on since decades in Bangkok. And guess who has it's hands in the cookie jar?

Team-Korn Chatikavanij English

Note to government, the reason why there is a gap in wage rates between different provinces (higher in more developed provinces and lower in less developed provinces) is so that there is an incentive to invest in the less developed provinces.

If wages are the same all over the country, who are you helping?

https://www.facebook.com/teamkornENG

As expected it was a total fiasco. Crowd of perhaps 2-3000. Beer 200 baht. Music stopped at 3:30am.

Organizers are now busy deleting all the negative posts from their FB site.