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Gee, who would have guessed? A Singaporean worrying about food security in the only Asean country which is a net food exporter.

What could his motives POSSIBLY be?

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It is the law that will finally give the shove Scamper, but you are right, Khun Suthep played the lone hand in bringing discredit to the PTParty , to the courts attention, to the people and importantly to the international community.

It's a shame you think the courts only react to intimidation from public power groups - or react to it in any slight, tiny manner AT ALL, never mind because the intimidation is "the lone hand".

It's a lot more shame that there is a small, non-zero chance you could be right. For sure, it's what large segments of the public opinion from yellow, red, black and other sides all think. That is not least because of the massively exposed corruption at the Supreme Administrative Court, the one that ruled against Yingluck for wanting to have her own national security adviser. When the public doesn't trust the courts, then the courts will get the benefit of every ill-intentioned bit of rumour-mongering such as your unfortunate post.

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Well you wont get him Blitzed in the Rockhouse in Walking St as its in LK Metro not that theres anyone ever in it as I walk by !!

Not only that, but you are not going to get him blitzed at all on Saturday, May 13. There is no such day.

It"s also about how much you have in ready cash.I have just spent 40k today for my daughters schooling.No problem I knew I had the money.I am not an economist,but I have always lived within my means.

I will/would vote for you no matter how high the office you run for. In fact, you should make it the very highest, otherwise you'll just be surrounded with people who refuse to live within their means.

I know for a fact that Kenan has a bunch of smart people, and would not release a stupid report as detailed in the OP. What they said is probably interesting, at least more interesting than "poor people often can't live within their means".

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Today (1 May) is a public holiday, as is Monday. Neither are dry days however.

This is correct. It's amazing how many ways you can permutate three days into ways that each are wrong.

May 5 is Coronation Day. It is likely that many districts will "request" liquor sales to cease and bars not to open and serve alcohol. It is not an official dry day.

May 9, the day of the Royal Ploughing Ceremony is NOT a holiday. The Department of Redundancy Department has confirmed it also is not dry.

May 13, Visakha Bucha Day, *is* an official holiday, *is* a Buddhist (high) holiday, and is officially dry.

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Heartbleed is only one if 1000's of ways your sensitive data can be compromised (including directly from your own PC). The thing is, the more sensitive data you put into the cloud, the more points of failure there are, pure and simple. Even saving your web credentials in your browser locally is a security risk you have to consider.

Again, you start out great, but don't finish as well. You are totally correct there are thousands of risks to your data, and Heartbleed was an example. But it was a pretty "good" example because there was nothing we could do about it. It was between the thieves and the places where we left our passwords - stores, banks, doctor's offices, Thai Visa administration.....

My point is, given Mozilla's track record of bug after bug, memory leak after memory leak (have they *ever* had a non leaky release?), would you really feel confident string your credentials in their cloud?

So I ask you, where DO you feel confident about storing your credentials?

This is not a trick question, it's an entirely personal one. You are the only person who can answer it. Well, you and I that is.

First. The only way to be secure is not to be on the internet at all and stay away from Thai Visa and everything else. Completely. So you haven't chosen that path.

Now. You can have 1 or 7 or 14 passwords that you remember, and you can re-use them and try to remember which is which, so they are stored in your brain only. Most people can't handle this well. So they have to store passwords - credentials as you say - SOMEWHERE. They write them down - on paper, on disk, ask the browser to keep them, get password managers.... on and on.

You would have to define "confident" for me, but compared with all the available places to store my credentials, as of now, I consider a well-designed and well-known (popular) cloud storage to be the second best. I don't think Mozilla is better or worse. Saying that, I would NEVER trust my banking login, for example, to the actual browser. "Would you like me to remember that banking login?" is not a question I ever answer "yes". I don't even type in the password, let alone ask the browser to keep it for me. But Thai Visa? Sure, Firefox and Chrome can help me out by saving that one. I try to evaluate the risk at each step, all the time.

Best system that gives me the most confidence is public key encryption, using a removable disk/device/thumb drive for credential storage, and keeping it with me. Neither that or the cloud is close to failsafe, but combined with the obscurity of the individual user, they're probably okay if you keep your wits about you.

Case after case after case, I find that ALMOST all people whose personal credentials are stolen from personal storage (not from Amazon or Target or HSBC or similar) have been quite careless in a very, very basic way. They didn't encrypt or they used the same password at Thai Visa and Bangkok Bank or something along that very witless line. Hackers are kind of like house-breakers. They're always looking for the easy score, the careless victim in waiting. If you do the computer version of solid doors, bolt locks and bars on all windows, the thieves might well take a look and go to the next soi to look for flimsy doors and fibreboard window frames.

People get bots on their PCs, combing through their information and keystrokes, almost always because they are careless, thoughtless, ignorant.... They are the same people who get burgled and have their cars and motorcycles stolen. Not all. There is always a random element of luck. But usually. People whose email gets hacked usually had a password of "password" or similar. Really careful people get hacked, but in tiny numbers.

Being really careful is a layer of security.

But you seem to agree, and it is true beyond any argument nothing, I will repeat that NOTHING is secure if you connect to the internet, and that knowledge is also something you should bring to your effort to stay as safe as possible.

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With security vulnerabilities like Heartbleed that rendered SSL ineffective, and Mozilla's history of buggy releases, you'd have the be very brave, very stupid, or not do anything important online (like banking or shopping) before you'd let your passwords be sent up to their cloud...

You almost got it, and then failed.

Password thefts, certainly including Heartbleed, has nothing to do with what YOU do with passwords (so far). Mozilla, Google, Apple and all the rest of the cloud storage of personal information has been fine. Password theft, certainly including Heartbleed (again) happens at the place you USE the passwords (the store, the internet company, the bank, the tax man) and not at the cloud site you personally use. To this moment, your own computer is a far, far more dangerous place to store passwords than the Mozilla cloud.

As you say, not doing anything important online would give you a very good boost in security. You'd still be vulnerable but not SO vulnerable. The problem is that shopping and banking online is very convenient and helps our quality of life. Security is always a tradeoff, because ....

This violence had been going on for years...the Thais seem unable to make any progress towards ending the carnage...South Thailand is not a safe place...especially if you are a gov't official...teacher...nurse...Muslims seem to love to kill the innocents...

Yes you would never find Thai Buddhists doing that.

(What, never?)

Wel-l-l-l-l-l, hardly ever. Right?

I don't flinch from who started this mess, but "the Buddhists" are doing one of the worst jobs in recorded history at attempting to clean it up. They have killed hundreds and hundreds of innocent people, and brutally savaged others without any reason at all.

This week is the 10th anniversary of the Krue Se mosque massacre, by non-Muslims, for no reason. Acts like that help to assure that the circle of violence never is broken, and blaming Muslims for it is like blaming the drunk driver in the pickup who hit the drunk driver on a motorcycle on the wrong side of the road.

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Success does not come from nay sayers. The only to advance is to move forward.

As you have papers, you should apply at the Amphur nearest the birth location. If that fails, see a lawyer in Bangkok.

You took the words out of my fingertips. All you can get from TV is some general advice, including a couple of really excellent pointers. But it's only pointers. You never know FOR SURE until you find out for yourself, from the people who have the power to do it. My own guess is the OP will not get Thai nationality based on what he has posted here, but he definitely should consider the advice and documents he got here, then go and apply and see what happens.

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Section 112 bail actually depends on your wealth and connections for Thais like everything else but the bar is higher.

Really? Can you give a name or six of Section 112 defendants out on bail?

Because I can give you a name or six of Section 112 defendants who have no money problems whatsoever and can't or couldn't get bail. One of them, denied bail 16 times despite having cash in hand, today is the third anniversary of his going inside, still awaiting trial.

I disagree with part of that. He's 25. If you still can't drive at 25, being young has nothing to do with it. He said he had no experience with the Pajero. Well, okay, but that just means that rather than inexperienced he was pretty dumb to push the car well beyond his own limits to control it. Again, 25 is way, way more than old enough to realise his limits and to decide whether to obey those limits or ignore them. He made some wrong, bad choices, because he IS old enough to make them.

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What a selfish bunch. They never even tried to start any kind of reform. They want things to stay as is. Full power through vote buying in order to rob the coffers and at the same time try to eliminate all checks and balances. Viva nepotism and cronyism.

Unlike whom?

I'm with you, but you know, here comes the white knight military, and all the old buddies get posts in a huge display of cronyism, and the worst government in memory - not only without reform, but a step backwards by wiping out the mildly progressive Anand constitution.

Here comes the Democrats. Reform? Rub a lamp.

And Yingluck, promising this that and everything - not a shred of reform.

If you think that if only the current government were not in place then we could get some reform, you may be making other serious errors about Thailand as well. Spend a minute or two mulling all the reform proposals put forward by the crony-rich Suthep crowd (spokesman his stepson, adviser his wife etc etc). No, wait, you won't need a minute to carefully consider all of them.

This is an endemic problem. Blaming this or that group completely misses the point. When that Suthep man got arrested on Saturday, what was the first thing he did? Phone Daddy to arrange bail.

Reform is an attitude, and takes a lot of people. No one is stepping up, where by "no one" I mean the whole lot of them in the current many spotlights.

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Lime prices soar nationwide following shortage

Breaking news from 2012.

The use of formalin by street vendors has been reported by mainstream Thai media and government inspectors. This thread just proves that a lot of posters don't want to believe that their beloved street food is toxic garbage,

On the contrary, I think a "lot of posters" won't believe that one woman eating the same food as many other people including her boyfriend not only got formalin poisoning (pretty well impossible on its own) but then was cured in 5 hours.

Even the scary posts describe something very close to an allergic reaction - and not to formaldehyde, which doesn't cause allergic reactions but something much worse, and to everyone, not one random consumer.

The thing is that NONE of that has anything to do with whether food is toxic garbage or isn't.

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There is no desire by the Thai government to really investigate this and other HR abuses.

You can leave "Thai" out of that statement and it is equally true in any forum, anywhere.

But I don't understand the headline at all. Both the truth and the facts about the "Krue Se incident" are very well known to anyone who cares. They were and are not addressed by many governments. No one has been or is made to be accountable - but you can't get any closer to truth than we were already, 9 years and 6 months ago. There is no controversy about the truth.

And in respect to the truth, I would leave "innocent" out of that statement. Even the families knew pretty much what was going on and for various reasons, some of them quite sad, did nothing about it until their sons and brothers were dead. Many of them were caught up, even unwillingly, in terrible events,but "innocent" doesn't describe it well. "Unwitting" maybe, if you're generous.

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If one of his parents is Thai, he is Thai. I assume you aren't Thai, but his mother is. That information should be on his birth certificate.

Not quite. If one of the parents is Thai, the child MAY BE Thai. As you say, this should be on the birth certificate. If it is not, go to the amphur office and set it straight, and then he can be Thai (rather easily once the documents are straight).

A Thai citizen/child by age 12 has to have an ID card. If your child does not have one, that is the SECOND reason to head for your amphur office and straight it all out.

A child born in Thailand can stay in Thailand forever, really, no matter the technical nationality or stateless. But once he exits, he has to come back as a foreigner or a Thai. So far as getting on the tapian ban, few if any district officials are going to say anything if a kid, any kid, is put there.

Yes, the blue tapian ban is supposed to be Thais only. No, it does NOT have official meaning for nationality. If a mistake was made and the child is on the tapian ban and is not a Thai, he still is not a Thai.

PLEASE go to the amphur and get this straightened out because every poster in this thread including this poster cannot give you a definite answer about your specific case.

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Obviously no big deal to sing a song once a week about how the land is girth by sea. You're obviously not fluent in Thai if you think a single song is all that's being put in to them.

Perhaps. Or perhaps a mirror is needed. It seems you are not fluent in school affairs if you think 10 minutes at first bell is the total "indoctrination" involved. Meanwhile, you and your child both are earning reputations for something completely different from what you intend, including the reputation as lazy and disrespectful people, unable for some unknown reason to attend a simple event on time.

None of the above is speculation, it simply *is*.

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Very inventive. I like it. And I'm sure the Thai Navy would be thrilled by the chance, at least in its present mood.

But no, testimony in court isn't subject to defamation/slander laws. Court while in session is a sanctuary for speech, just like parliament. Nothing said in court testimony is actionable. That said, if someone didn't like the court testimony, and a witness were to give his/her name and address, then a different type of threat, entirely non-legal, rears its extremely ugly head.

But legally... *IF* this case proceeds, Reuters is going to have a problem with these "witnesses". If you read the Reuters series and notes and background and Pulitzer Prize speeches, it seems that no Reuters employee witnessed Any Of The Above, about Thai navy action. That doesn't speak to the truth, only to a serious court problem. Reuters people can't testify DIRECTLY about what they wrote. And it seems all their witnesses of the actual series are Rohingya, most/all of whom are not in Thailand and in any case would be.... shall we say politely, "reluctant witnesses".

This is Reuters' biggest legal problem. The court of world opinion already has decided about their story. But an actual, real court needs witnesses. "The Rohingya told me" isn't a witness. It is not admissable evidence in any court, anywhere in the world. And there may not be any available witnesses, at all.

In the worse possible scenario, It wouldn't be the first time a person with a true story has gone to court and on to prison for telling the truth. Name a country, I'll give you a recent example. The truth can set you free, or the truth can land you in serious trouble. Equal chances.

(P.S. I never mentioned my mother earlier, learn to read, then learn how to comprehend)

I know that. You mentioned mine*. I rated that comment: Despicable. I ranked your incredibly hostile and serial refusal to answer a really simple question about your racial interjection: Strange. I consider your denial of any racist motive because some of your best friends are Thai: Technically possible, credible to some.

We will soon see if the world outside cares about the Thai legal system once again, if this case against Reuters is filed. In the meantime, my own prediction is we will very, very quickly see more of these sorts of stories (six days ago from Australia). Australia is outside Thailand and seems to care quite a bit about the Thai legal system. In fact, I predict we will see several such stories, as well as editorial comment, from Australia (plural) within 24 hours.

Let's see which of us is right about the outside world caring, hmmm?

(Reuters, by the way, is NOT outside Thai borders, which is why it will have to answer any criminal defamation suit filed in Thai court.)

* Flashback, just for the record:

I cannot recall a case of suicide by overdose in Thailand. Falling from tall buildings, for whatever reason, seems to be the sole mode. Strange

And yet, poison and pills are the top single method of suicide in Thailand. I can't find a breakdown, and of course lots of people resort to the tired and true pesticide method. But overdose (not counting accidental overdose) is common, the most common of all according to the CDC's figures.

In general, I think you find that most suicide methods are simply what's easily available. Most suicides in Thailand are not "falling" from tall buildings, simple because most people committing suicide don't live in tall buildings. Most suicides in Hong Kong, though, ARE leaps from tall buildings because that is where almost all people live.

A leap is an easy way for a depressed man living on the 7th floor. Poor man, I do hope he found peace.

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So we have no clue as to "where" in Thailand these deaths occurred. 50 deaths so far s not an insignificant number for a "seasonal flu."

It's a lot less significant than the HUGELY unusual 0 deaths last year.

Example: In 2009-10 flu season, there were 198 deaths. This is working out to not much above average.

There is an influenza Type A (H1N1) outbreak EVERY year, and in Thailand typically beginning in the north since the annual flu comes, always, from northern China and migrates around the world. Every year. Watch your health, wash your hands, etc etc, but as even the higher than usual numbers this year indicate, the flu usually makes you feel horrible for a few days before it passes on, like a really severe cold for most people.

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And too bad no thai press condem these officials.

Where did you get that strange idea?

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Accountability, what a concept! Now that he has some spare time perhaps he can come to Thailand and teach the politicians here?

Right, because Thailand is the very last country where politicians don't resign to show responsibility.

I sometimes think this whole sepukku-like ceremony that follows every big disaster or train crash in Japan and Korea is a bit much. It's not that I celebrate politicians who dodge responsibility, but this man would probably better serve the country by sticking around to start taking action to improve the response, while calling in those who were REALLY responsible and getting some better regulation under way to prevent another one.

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So what did arresting him actually achieve? What's the point?

Actually, it showed that the PDRC will use nepotism and call Daddy to subvert rule of law, even though it says it wants to get rid of this. So in a way, it DID achieve something. It showed the massive hypocrisy of the corrupt Mr Suthep and his band of Daddy's boys like Sakoltee who phone their connected friends and families to get them off the hook and get special treatment. "Reform before elections". 555555

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