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Why are these children being left unattended.

Do you have to keep all children under surveillance at all times? How will they ever grow up if they are cosseted forever in the grip of parents.

When should we stop this children surveillance? At 12? 15 years old?

Even security guards do shift work and are not expected to be on duty for longer than their shift. Why should parents have to watch intently all the time what their children are doing?

If guilty, Hang me High!!

must be a Typo ?

You really have to watch out for the damn automatic spell-checker if you are making such assertions - maybe the lynch party is already on its way over to his place. . . . !

Why not apply for refuge status in Australia, and then accept re-settlement in Cambodia.

Unfortunately this would not work for me as I come from Ireland. There is no war or internecine struggle there now so cannot claim refugee status on that basis. I cannot even claim any discrimination - not even if I were gay, now that there is marriage for everyone. Besides, I would have to cross so many other countries on the way unless there is a container ship that goes from Dublin port all the way to some Australian port without stopping.

Besides, back in the day my forefathers were punished by being sent to Australia - the court sentence was called transportation, usually the standard penalty for stealing a pig or something like that.

Not sure what you want - to meet women who are not hookers, to meet male pals or both.

Any Irish bar will not have ladies who bother you. Finnegans on Soi 4, for instance. Any pub (such as British pubs) will also not have ladies who bother you either.

If you want something a little more highbrow, then join the Press Club (or whatever it is called).

If you want to meet regular middle class folks, best to join a club of some kind - like sports or other activities. Tennis always seems to strike the right mix of people.

Here's a video that shows how to deal with soi dogs. Never tried this myself.

They guy in the video makes a good point although the dogs there already know him and know not to mess with him. But there are a couple of other things you need to have if you are to successfully deal with such dogs because you will be running and that can set them off especially as you run away from them.

1. The best item is a retractable metal rod or baton, preferably light with a weighted end. I think the UK cops use them. If you cannot find one long enough, then use the golf stick or bamboo, as mentioned by others. Make sure it is long enough.

2. Consider carrying either a pepper spray or a container of ground white pepper with dried chilly pepper mixed in. I used to be chased by dogs when cycling in a village - I would dribble some of this in my wake and those dogs got the message very quickly. It is also handy for those dogs who creep up behind you as you are running.

3. Most dogs are afraid of stones. If you are really stuck and you have no stones, lean down as if to pick up a stone and pretend to throw it. That probably saved my life one late evening in a town in Laos when 40 dogs started to stalk me. But best to carry a few stones on your person - a catapult also helps your aim as you can bounce the stone off the ground so that it catches the dog under his belly where it really hurts him.

By the way, I don't think you are being aggressive. I think you are a person who wants to go running and it helps your well-being and health. Good on you. Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you are this or that because you like to run.

And before the pseudo-dog-lovers come out to point fingers because of alleged dog-cruelty, I too deplore the fact that dogs are allowed to roam around the streets to attack humans and kill each other (I have seen this happen). I own dogs and care for them especially well. Dogs should be kept behind gates at night especially. Otherwise they roam in packs which is the same dog mentality as dogs who worry and attack sheep. When it comes to dogs attacking me, it is the same as when a human wants to injure or kill me - it is him or me. Full stop. If I can stop the dog from killing me while not killing him, well and good. But I have had the worry of having to take endless shots against rabies which made me ill for months after a severe dog bite in Thailand 20 years ago and since then I take no prisoners against dogs who even slightly growl at me on the street.

Maybe this was just bad editing but why report the Facebook commentator who said that massage parlours were operating openly throughout the country or words to that effect. Do they want Thailand to join the likes of Pakistan or Saudi Arabia where massage parlours cannot operate openly throughout the country? Yes, while a few massage places operate as brothels, there are many that provide massage therapy. Why shut them all?

So they have had two boats sink.

Must have been really scary for the passengers, especially those with children.

Sounds to me like they were already taking on water before but used a pump to pump it out all the time. Until the pump failed, they were able to keep afloat. Hitting a rock sounds very strange to me as they will know the route very well anyway.

It's Thailand, you can do what you want here. Want to make a depraved sex video and hurl racial slurs.....can. Want to solicit children for sex.....can. Want to buy drugs.....can. Doesn't mean that it's right or legal. But, there is money to be make in sex and drugs, so we know it will be overlooked. I love how he government overlooks all of this crap, then will act surprised when it all comes out on social media.

Before readers of this forum get the idea that they can come to Thailand and get away with pedophilia and taking drugs, I would like to point out that in fact that pedophilia has for some time been on the wane in SE Asia, including Thailand. Foreigners who come to Thailand with drug taking and under-age sex in mind are highly likely to find themselves behind bars following a sting stitch-up. Criminals who are likely to offer such services will be only too happy to shop such tourists to the police so they can get brownie points as it makes the police look good (and no Thai person was involved).

We may not like the motivation that leads us to this result or the fact that well-connected Thais get off while foreigners do not but it has probably brought at least under-age sex offences down to levels that are below that found in certain parts of the EU.

Red wine should be stored at 18 degrees C to be served at European room temp, usually not higher than low to mid twenties C.

In theory, there is nothing wrong with boxed wine but some are better than others. Experiment with them and find out which is the best one.

If you are buying bottles of wine, get them from a reputable source and avoid any Thai wine.

I also found that some bottled wine sometimes needs to be decanted and aired before consumption. I discovered this when I opened a bottle of quality wine and it did not taste great and left it open for 24 hours. When I tasted it again, it was really nice. You can speed up this process by decanting the wine into a proper decanter and swirl it around to aerate it.

As long as you are living in a city which has a few decent wine shops, you don't need to give up on wine when living in Thailand. In Vientiane, Laos, I found that there were a few good wine shops too. It pays to look around. If you don't live in a city, gas up the vehicle and buy in bulk - perhaps you should try and find out where the wholesaler/importer is, if you are keen to get a better discount.

I have the perfect solution to the Rohingya problem, which is that no one wants them (least of all their own country!) No one wants to give them sanctuary of any kind. And yet, anyone with a humanitarian bone in their body cringes when they hear the stories of these refugees being pushed away from the shores of several countries.

The superpower (or wannabe superpower) in the region is China. China has a Muslim problem of their own and are doing their best, although in a hamfisted way, of trying to play as fair as China can with their Muslim minority.

But China is also building islands in disputed waters, disputed precisely by those countries who have been refusing entry to the Rohingya. Why not move the Rohingya to those islands to live and work on building and staffing the facilities there. China would get big brownie points from Muslims for providing a homeland for the Rohingya. They would gain points in using the atolls for this social purpose and could bolster their case for "ownership" of the newly created islands. Besides, which country would then want to take over jurisdiction for an island that is full of Rohingya who will remember their earlier treatment by the neighbouring countries?

There are no ethnic problems on those islands because no one lives there. As long as the Chinese did not exploit them too much, the Rohingya would probably appreciate being able to live, work and raise their children provided that it is being done right. They already do this with some Philippinos on one of their atolls.

Next they will have to deal with the psychiatric problems that arise from the maximum security regime. There probably will be suicides too. Those that lived under a very restricted prison regime come out in a worse state than when they entered the prison years before. They may very well be a big danger for society.

The USA runs such supermax institutions that involve very little communication between prisoners and even with guards. They keep you alive while driving you insane and then put you on suicide watch. And no one except the guards and prisoners gets to see inside those places because they are supermax.

In SE Asia especial in Thailand, Cambodia and to an extent Laos, if someone who is hi-so comes and the place is full, they get someone who is less hi-so to move. Nothing you can do but grin and bear it. I have heard about such behaviour in golf clubs, bars and other places. If you don't comply, you run the risk of getting beaten up by the bouncers as you are making them lose face in front of their boss and you are making their boss lose face in front of the hi-so person/people.

Get a retirement visa and enjoy Thailand first!

Live in your chosen place for 6 months or a year, do your research and get to know the folks around you so that you can know what you will be up against. But do not jump into any business as you will suffer. Wait until you hear the stories from other expats. Learn who the mafia is in your chosen place and what the police are like in that area. Do not even think about setting up a business in competition with a local Thai person. And ignore all of those who tell you that they can get you the permits cheaply because they know someone - most likely you will lose your money and get into trouble.

Have to agree with , if this was an American city, the guy would likely be cuffed face down on the pavement in no time flat for talking as aggressively and confrontationally to officers as he did.

That doesn't make it right, of course, but there's not any suggestion of a shakedown in the video.

In less visible and public circumstances I'd say the American, by challenging the authority of RTP officers, would have run the serious risk of having his phone smashed, being roughed up a little and spending a few days at the King's pleasure, with a large contribution to the RTP's welfare fund at the end of it.

He got lucky, IMO.

I agree with Asdecas - We all know how aggressive the US cops are - videos are all over the web that show this, including videos that show the cops infringing the rights of individuals. I can understand the American being aggressive because he is programmed that way - it is the only way in which a white guy can interact with police officers in the USA. (A black man should put his hands in the air and keep repeating, "My hands are up - don't shoot."

But in more civilised countries, when the police stop you to check something, like ID or politely ask a question, you politely comply.

I somehow doubt that this pair of numpties would be up to forcing a pavement piss test on a pair of foreigners let alone extracting any cash from them.

There is a surreal side to all of this.

The guys who went in shooting were both rightfully on the FBI list but the latter stopped watching them because they went quiet.

The Imam of the mosque where they prayed was interviewed on BBC. He was asked why he did not spot them as terrorists. He responded that neither he nor the FBI who have completely infiltrated the mosque were able to spot what they were up to or anticipate their actions. By the way, he was not being anti-FBI - he was just stating a fact that was well-known.

My take on this is that too many resources in the USA are spent trawling through universes of personal data, invading the privacy of the majority of law-abiding individuals while those with "form" who should be under suspicion are allowed to slip away. Same with the surveillance of the mosque - they infiltrate the mosque but don't apply the resources to known jihadist types.

Instead of using up resources to box-in Snowden in Russia, why don't they just pardon him on condition he turn his knowledge and skills to track down jihadists. This is what they did with the infamous Captain Crunch eventually (famous as the original hacker who hacked into the ATT phone system but later worked on computer security after a stint with the original Apple company).

With the scarcity of jobs in the PI, why is any company allowed to hire a Thai foreign worker? I can't see Cognizant needing to hire a Thai IT worker, when there are probably thousands of Filipinos that could qualify for the position.

There are all sorts of reasons why foreigners are hired to work in the Philippines. Some are hired to protect the interests or assets of foreign companies. Some are hired because of their highly specialist experience in addition to their qualifications.

As anyone who has worked in relation to Human Resources, having qualifications is not necessarily a guarantee that you can do a certain kind of job. other factors also come into play.

Besides, any foreigner over a certain age (I think it is 35 years old) can "invest" in a certain investment bond (used to be around US$20,000) and then get a retirement visa that gives them almost all the rights of a local except for voting. That includes the right to work. This was created so that Philippinos who become foreign nationals and retire from the US armed services can still come back and live and work in the Philippines without giving up their valuable USA citizenship. Of course, many foreigners take it up and work in the Philippines in all sorts of jobs or run businesses. If they decide to give up this visa, they get their bond refunded. And I think it is with interest too.

This "group" a radicle left entity who get it's funding from overseas sources tasked with the sole purpose to

demonise and show Israel in a very negative lights, this group is one of many, the army has asked them

repeatedly for their 'evidences' so they can investigate the allegations but none was supplied,

This "radical" group as you (appear to) call them, were themselves in the Israeli army. There is no evidence for your claim that they get funding from overseas - funding to do what, exactly? Why would veterans who put their lives on the line for their country, right or wrong, now have "a sole purpose" to show their own country in a negative light?

If your dog had no kidneys, it would not live longer than a few days or perhaps a week at least not without dialysis.

I am pretty sure that kidneys do not show up on X-rays.

Just because some medical/veterinary practitioners are stupid, unprofessional or whatever does not mean that some kind of "distant healing" is any good.

Ask yourself, which practice is evidence-based? Would you try something that has no label, no studies undertaken? And, even if you think that "distant healing" actually can work, it also means that it can do harm if it is not properly used. Just like every other intervention that is actually effective.

You might be motivated to practice Buddhism simply because you are convinced that we are all condemned to reincarnation and you would like at least to take a few steps in the direction of getting off the repetitive birth-suffering-death treadmill.

Although I have a lot of time for certain forms of Buddhism, there is a paradox at the heart of Buddhism, which is that although Buddhism aims at the negation of the ego (in the form of desires etc), it requires a supreme effort of the ego to even take a few steps in the direction of achieving enlightenment.

If you are only going to use fans and LED lights, why go to the difficulty of installing a back-up generator along with the costs of fuel etc.

Can I suggest you invest instead in a battery-backup system instead. Less maintenance and fuss and probably cheaper in the longer term.

Going from Phnom Pehn to Vientiane is not torture when you fly. There are direct flights with Vietnam Airlines and Lao Airways.

The body was already decomposing, so the hotel didn't do the rooms everyday ?

Not when you put a "do not disturb" sign on the door!

Why would the US give oxygen to this group? Have a read of the following...

https://www.thenation.com/blog/205521/cult-leader-will-tell-congress-fight-isis-regime-change-iran

Whatever her background and motives I think her comments on concessions to Iran on the nuclear deal are valid. Furthermore regime change in Iran, the world's largest sponsor of terrorism would be a good thing. Just take a look at their latest moved hijacking merchant ships to imagine what an Iran with nuclear weapons would behave like.

The last time I looked up Hijacking it did not say detaining a ship by a sovereign state on suspicion of illegally entering sovereign waters. But perhaps I am indeed out of date.

Please be aware that when countries (esp USA, UK and others) get into the business of regime change, the long term result is often not what they bargained for. The last time Western powers got involved in regime change in Iran was in the 1950s when a dirty allegation was made against the then elected premier and the Shah was installed. The current regime is the result of a series of events that arose because of the disruption causes by Western meddling, mendacity and providing support for tyrants (like the Shah).

Regime change always looks good before the fact. Remember Iraq under Saddam Hussein? And by the way, just as the USA was best buddies with Saddam, so was this organisation when they were based in Iraq.

Nuclear weapons are already in the hands of some strange people - Pakistan, for instance. A much more unstable country than Iran. Leave well alone - the middle east is not in a good state at the moment - sometimes when you meddle, you get worse scenarios. Saddam was an evil dictator but under his watch there was no ISIS/ISIL.

You do the crime - you do the time.

Not sure that the saying works in this case. After all, the prisoner is not asking for less prison time. In fact, what she is asking for is more time in prison, alive.

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The army really is terrified and losing the plot it seems.

Not really. It just shows the stupidity and ignorance of "Peace TV" who have already been shut down at least once.

Thay are so arrogant that they STILL don't believe that the law applies to them also.

Exactly , similar to The French Resistance and the Russian Partisans. They were so arrogant they wouldn't let the Germans do what they wanted without "Interfering". But the Germans followed the law and shot them all

You need to take the "ex" out from the beginning of your name.

Comparing Thailand now to wartime Europe 70 years ago is pitiful at best.

PeaceTV (or as it's know locally, "The Thaksin Channel") is constantly encouraging armed, violent unrest against the "Bangkok Elite", cos they care about "the people" so much and want everyone to be "equal" (just so long as their red leaders are more equal than everyone else).

Just so that I get this right, you think that any country whose government does not please the elite should just shut-up when that government is shut down, democracy suspected and rights curtailed? Have you any idea what would happen in a country like the USA if the military tried to take over and impose a dictatorship? What is truly surprising is the level of non-violence in Thailand given that the majority have been disenfranchised.

I am not a Red Shirt or a Yellow Shirt - I also find much that is reprehensible about Democrats and Republican in the USA. But that gives neither me nor anyone else the right to overthrow the whole democratic process.

Thailand is becoming more and more like the way Myanmar was. No one can criticise anyone in the Junta or in the [ ] (Thai law forbid that I mention the last item). Of course you can point to the fact that corruption has been reduced (or been moved on or delayed) - but under the Nazis, corruption that had been rampant under the Social Democrats disappeared (although the Nazi party elite were extremely corrupt, helping themselves to state assets, not paying tax etc). Is that what you really want?

If you think, as an expat living reasonably comfortably in Thailand, that it is OK to live under a regime that is not prepared to listen to the wishes of the majority, you cannot complain if they bring in special laws against foreigners like you - a special tax here, higher charges there. How about they decide to rescind all residency rights for foreigners? Who will you complain to then? Where will your voice be heard?