Thai at Heart

I was told by my local Nissan dealer in Chiangmai while I was looking to buy a new Nissan Navara NP300 that if I waited until the new year to buy my new pickup due to the up and coming changes to the vehicle tax it would probably cost me 75,000 Baht more for the same vehicle.

They are starting to unwind all the tax benefits they gave the Japanese manufacturers who wanted to make cheap pick ups.

All those diesels chuffing out extra pollution getting preferential taxes versus small city and town cars. Absolutely crazy, but Toyota and the others loved it.

Of course these are household not commercial grade apparatus. It was never designed to be used for 6 hours a day 7 days a week and so it broke. Simple really.

Yes but break is one thing: stop working, fail to function. Explode ( if the story is accurate) is something entirely different.

Well presumably the plastic caught fire or some soup got in the electrics. Either way, a bloody deathtrap dressed up as a restaurant.....

Of course these are household not commercial grade apparatus. It was never designed to be used for 6 hours a day 7 days a week and so it broke. Simple really.

Funny they consider that one book can constitute the definitive version of history anyway. So typically Thai that they don't understand that all history texts are more or less an interpretation of events which are coloured by the opinion of the writer.

Thus anyone must read many opinions of the same event and for ones own opinion of what happened. Humans are not computer disks who are able to regurgitate cold data.

Thus their way around this is to say that they can only write about things 50 years old because they might offend the living. And they think they are academics? Numpties.

I think it is less a case of being numpties and more a desire not to end up as fish food, to be honest.

Possible. So why say anything at all. Just write what everyone wants to read and live to fight another day

Funny they consider that one book can constitute the definitive version of history anyway. So typically Thai that they don't understand that all history texts are more or less an interpretation of events which are coloured by the opinion of the writer.

Thus anyone must read many opinions of the same event and for ones own opinion of what happened. Humans are not computer disks who are able to regurgitate cold data.

Thus their way around this is to say that they can only write about things 50 years old because they might offend the living. And they think they are academics? Numpties.

Is this a whole article bemoaning Thainess?

Is this idiot really a Thai, sitting in Thailand and even he asks "why, why, why?"

After I had worked in Thailand for about 5 years, I reconciled this very simple problem by realising that when, all else fails, and something utterly inexplicably stupid or detrimental to Thailand occurs, the answer is very simple.

Money.

Why don't they fix the road. Money. Why does the doctor always give me 100 pills I don't need? Money. Why are the police so useless? Money.

Why does Tulsathit continue to write such useless articles....................

He's a dumbass

Why are so many blaming the PM? He can.'t possible take care of all problems in Thailand.

Yingluck promised to make Thailand the aviation hub in SEA, just talk and no action.

At least with Prayut there is a chance of improvement in this country.

I hope he will stay on as long as it takes to clean the country from corruption and nepotism.

After that is achieved, we could focus on new elections.

Clean the country from corruption and nepotism.

I mean anyone would think Prayuth got the job he has now on merit.

Let him stay as long as he likes. The slow downward spiral of Thailand is continuing. Their airlines aren't qualified to fly? <deleted> kind of situation is that to be perfectly honest.

If you can't get people, hire them from anywhere you like. If it's training train them, if it's spares, buy them.

DO SOMETHING..... Spend the money without pocketing any yourself and pass the bloody requirements.

Did the ministry of labour pay these models? What odds their paperwork was all in order.

All would be nought for Laos and Thailand when big brother China turns off the taps...

Hydro-generation does not alter the total flow in a river.

If this was a regular civilian with associates being charged for LM, this army General would already be locked up on LM charges and probably not heard of for a long time.

Expect a lot of squirming, scheming, half truths and outright lies over the next few weeks as everyone tries to cover their assess/protect their patch.

If they had dealt with this properly to start with they might have been able to nip it in the bud but, with all the denials and heavy handedness they have dug such a big hole that one general falling in his sword might not be enough - isn't the PMs brother also on the committee managing this whole fiasco???

Problem is, they are claiming these offences aren't corruption but lese majeste which allows a closed court and a muted judgement of extreme length.

What happens when someone u like gets caught up in lese majeste? U find a way to let him out of it because it doesn't suit your agenda.

37,000 tons out of 17 million tons = 2% spoilage...

Two percent, so far... It's yesterday's news that upwards of 6 million tons is believed to be unfit for human consumption. Quote from 8/15/2015

"It is estimated that Government stocks currently total about 13.6 million metric tons. Around 7.6

million metric tons are food-grade rice, of which 0.3 million metric tons are good quality rice and

7.3 million metric tons are sub-standard rice. Meanwhile, around 6 million metric tons are nonfood grade rice, of which 4.6 million metric tons are industrial grade rice and 1.4 million metric

tons are rotten rice or unaccounted for." ...from USDA report

http://gain.fas.usda.gov/Recent%20GAIN%20Publications/Rice%20Price%20-%20Weekly_Bangkok_Thailand_8-18-2015.pdf

Sorry this doesn't fit your narrative.

Well someone is telling porkies, because the Thai side doesn't admit the volume to be that big.

6mn tonnes of non food grade. Ouch. That's a lot of rice to shift into ethanol

Could u imagine the carnage in court if they actually allowed a foreign law firm to work?

The amount of public shaming that would go on and opening up of corruption to the world would be so obvious they dare not do it. Imagine actually having to hold cases and make reasonable judgments instead of going to the highest bidder.

Again I dealt whether there was any deal at all. Thais are great at story telling and making a nice escape door for when they do not get there way

China simply to smart for the cunning Thais

China no need Thailand. Thailnd needs China nand the votes succeed

They were petrified to let Yingluck sign this deal because it would have meant all the under the table funds going to her, and her cohorts plus business contracts flooding to her supporters.

Now these guys can't even get the deal done because they can't get the Chinese to buy some rubber.

The Chinese should sign the deal. They want the railway and it isn't worth much to have a line to Vientiane and not the rest of the way.

But, to walk away from the table like this is pretty serious.

I wonder what Thai people think when they read this story.

Red shirts going to draw attention to obvious corruption among the army.

And they get arrested and told not to spread confusion? How long until everyone notices that the emporers have no clothes?

Maybe they will think it ironic that two appointed non democratic unusually rich leaders, proven liars, are trying to accuse other self appointed non democratic but currently in power leaders of pocketing money illegally.

It's like the Mafia complaining about police corruption,

Thailand - Amazing, but not necessarily in a positive way.

I often think it's because Thais talk about themselves in the third person.

They talk about people others being corrupt whilst everyone knows they too are corrupt.

I wonder if they are any good at venn diagrams..

Totally and utterly incompetent

Well.

All the fanfare ending with a fizzle.

What a total and utter mess

They barely have enough work?

What I saw of it, was that the lawyers were apparently so busy, they always claimed to have had not enough time to get on with my case. Maybe they were fibbing somewhat???

I wonder what Thai people think when they read this story.

Red shirts going to draw attention to obvious corruption among the army.

And they get arrested and told not to spread confusion? How long until everyone notices that the emporers have no clothes?

They can't even get the city bound people to turn off their hose pipes and stop washing their cars.

They are going to dig a 20m whole just next to the shoreline? For 100 km? How much oil washed up? 100km long slick?

That's quite a lot.

Lunacy

Not really, makes sense for once. If you want the Thais to learn English, it is going to have to be a permanent part of their curricula. Other subjects, not just English, need to be taught in English and not just for an hour or two a week. I think teaching the Thai teachers to speak English and then have them teach most subjects in English is a better way to have Thai English competency improve.

However, there will be problems with this approach. Many Thai teachers will not want to take the English courses and many who do will struggle to learn English. The result could be a long time before enough Thai teachers speak English well enough to make a difference. In the meantime, what little English the Thai school children are currently learning will diminish considerably due to the lack of foreign English teachers.

They need to hire more foreign English teachers, and allow the best foreign teachers teach the Thai teachers. However, that would be logical, and you know how logically things operate here.

They need 30 minutes of spoken English per day from the age of 3 to 9. They need to learn to read one Mr. Man book per 2 weeks from the age of 5 to 8.

They need one or two. hour a week of grammar.

They need to take all the movies and cartoons which are dubbed into Thai and instantly ban this practice and move to subtitles.

...and the basis food this recipe is?

A reasonable minimum.

Anyone on here who studied French in the old days was exposed to something a bit like this. Little and often, regular repetition etc.

I don't claim to be a language expert but I did languages to A level and then as part of degree courses. I picked up speaking passable Thai and Mandarin in Asia over the years.

My kids are established bilingual 3 or 4 years old and are back in the UK using both English and Thai, and taking other languages well.

They have to do away with dubbing particularly for stuff kids will watch. 30 minutes a day of speaking English would be a huge improvement on what they have now, start it young, the younger the better.

Feel free to spice up me recipe however you like but I reckon it would be pretty palatable and practical.

So the air force gets an Airbus. Oh, the parties they will throw on that behemoth. Now the navy will ramp up their request to buy submarines again. Can't wait to see what the army will be getting.

With Thai maintenance it could be the navy's first sub.

Irony of irony, it might be subject to the FAA ban ......

Yes, just like the rest if the World!

Soon all rice and corn crops owned by US Companies and due to cheaper prices from GEN Products, no local farmer can make a living.

Thai rice farmers arent making a living now.

They deny 1km access along side the railway..... This will be very interesting to watch.

Shouldn't we just worry about all the stuff they spray on it and the toxins in it ? And when I look at the corn ads on fields , is GMO not already in Thailand ? I hate monsanto , they are an evil company.

Yes. The Thai govt did their own trials on GM papaya and allowed it to cross pollinate already.

GMO, Papaya was about 4-5 years ago. They said it was in an area which they were able to control( but who knows) When the wind blows it can take the pollen from the GMO trees to other farms. Also from bees, which land on the flowers( before fruit grows) to other fields or farms.

There is not a lot of true organic farming here. Less then 3 % of all vegetables and fruits. Very expensive. Normal farms use both natural and artifical fertilizers. They also spray pesticides on the crops. This is the big problem. Last year the UK rejected many air containers of THai produce for pesticides. I buy 20,000 kg of mixed vegetables every month. My QC staff test for pesticides every week. We buy from Approved suppliers only, as some farms do not follow the rules. If you buy vegetables from your local village market or from small shops; you are most likely buying crops which have too much pesticides; which build up in your body. Liver and or kidneys, the same as heavy metals(lead,mercury).

Results can be autoimmune diseases. So always buy from Tesco, Big C, Villa, etc.

What percentage of product marked as organic passes the tests?