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Its a good idea for the tourist industry, but it stops there. There is so many chances of getting sick traveling to and from. Some of the tourists would arrive or become active spreaders inside the bubble. There is a significant chance you would get sick needing weeks of extensive hospital treatment. This is Thailand, someone have to pay, and good luck finding an insurance company willing to touch the 10+ hour plane trip and stay inside the "bubble".

At least they could use the opportunity to fix the left turn from beach road to make it safer and make traffic flow better once the world opens up again.

Its all about those polar jet streams. 

Thing is, they might be right about their flooding statement. It happens everywhere when there is massive flooding. People store stuff where water normally not go. Flood comes, that stuff ends up in the ocean, and no matter what it looked like it becomes trash. 

Of course, reduced use of plastic and quick collection for recycling of said plastic is the main thing.

Even so, any beach will be littered with about anything after a storm. Even nature made bio stuff looks like trash for a long time. If there is a system for collection that is good. This is where the deckchair system works. For any part of the beach that is public, there need to be a public system to clean the beach of a clean beach is what the public wants.

What I hope they do on that plot is open it toward the sea somehow, not a "dead at night" kind of thing, but restaurants and small storefronts and some 24/7 police presence to make the area less desirable for the less desired elements that currently frequent and squat on that piece of beach.

On 28.7.2017 at 9:53 AM, Jonathan Fairfield said:

Disgusting and no excuse for it.

I dont agree. I have children in the "no diaper" age. Dont judge the parents unless you know the full story. Having children you sometimes have to compromise on personal boundaries. If the kid says I have to go, and you know that these few weeks "have to go" means now now now now, you chose between a dirty pant with the cleanup job that is and a humiliating experience in public, well you might chose the humiliation.

Oh and thread starter might want to anonymnize the faces on photo. Unless you asked for permission to use the photo, this is pretty much illegal to post.

Guess its time Google drove its map car trough Pattaya and Jomtien again. 5 years is a long time in a place like Pattaya

On 8/8/2017 at 1:47 PM, Thaiwrath said:

She also pointed out that most foreign men that marry Thais are actually only lower or middle class and don’t earn much

 

 

That should upset a few posters on here ! 

Well that is part of it. The truth is that there is a wide range of types that marry thai girls. And yes you can generalize that they more then a few for various reasons do not do very well in their local dating pool. Something that is not just because the potential housband is bad dating material, but also because at a certain age its not much to chose from, and when weighting the options between 40 year old divorced western woman with 5 children and various degrees of queen-personality-disorder, versus a 20 somthing thai girl with 1 child and $-signs in their eyes, the local dating pool might not be that attractive for the man in question either.

Up to a certain age difference it would make sense for thai girl to go for the divorced 40-low-50-something farang. More likely they are at the end of their debt cycle. 

What they should teach them is very simple.

- Check that their future housband can actually support them in the begining. Very few place they will be able to work from day 1. More likely it is half a year to a year before they can get into a paid job.

- Establish rules on how much money are sent back to Thailand and at what frequency. It is my opinion this should be done in writing at the amphur and be a legal binding contract for both housband and wife.

- Make sure the thai wife understand she is expected to learn the local language within the first 3-6 months, and that the better she know the language the better paid jobs she will be able to get

- Leads on to YOU WILL BE EXPECTED TO WORK

- Your housband dont know all the rules in their home country. Most often they will be as frustrated with the local bureaucracy as you are. Your housband will help as well as they can but things will take time.

- And YOU ARE EXPECTED to participate in the houshold economy when you start working.  Too many of these little dolls think his money my money, my money my money. 

Flooding will happen from time to time. The cost of infrastructure to avoid even a 50 year flood is staggering, and wont help when that 100 or 200 year flood strikes. The most important thing is that society is PREPARED. That response agencies have a PLAN. That each citizen know how to survive long enough for said agencies to start responding. 

Having my family in south-east corner of Sakon Nakhon province, so trying to get updates from them. Just how bad is it right now? Still rising?

He is just trying to make Pattaya great again. He really do. Try hard.  You do your job, you keep your job. Do it well, you get a better job

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.

He is the leader of this "state". Very profiled leader of Thailand. And it is not the first time he have ordered this to be solved.

Love the THAI reaction though, no problem, no fly there any more. What happens when the EU follows as they usually do on matters related to FAA. Not many long hauls left then...

There is "establishments" in every little and big place in Thailand. Pattaya (and other farang hotspots) exists on that widespread trades shoulders. For every sex tourist there is 1000 thai men shopping for the same commerce.

I would not be proud of having my country in this image, but singeling out one Pattaya bargirl as the one evil in the country is hypocritical...

How about domestic airlines... Would NOK Air pass a strict audit?

"How can we keep our honeypot without sharing"

I doubt a return to feudalism will reduce corruption.

Sort of a wet dream that they have to put down every stray dog in Thailand...

How about the thai police try the case in a british court? Against a british lawyer?

These guys face the death penalty. Any doubt in the world should be gone before that sentence is handed to them.

Right now I'm personally convinced they've been tortured, people paid to give false testimonies and evidence have been tampered with. There is just too much dirty smell about the whole investigation to be just lost in translation.

Good for the police. However, my guess is most still have that little lingering doubt in the back of their heads. The two myanmar are of course toast now. Its jail, court, death sentence for them. Most likely within 2 or 3 months. Maybe even earlier if the government want to show the world they are safe before december.

Oh and this is also why I'm opposed to any country to have the capital punishment no matter how "clear" the case is. Humane treatment of even the worst criminals is one of the things that make for a better society.

While the chrime is shocking, the death penalty is another wrong. Cold blooded state sponsored murder is wrong. Please Thailand, join the modern world and abolish the death penalty!

Peace on earth in 2016?

Nah, just tell them to be happy.

Public bribery? This must be lost in translation, because if HE is implicated in the murder, the state of Thailand should get a whole lot more then 1 million baht from him. For one thing his freedom, and I'm sure his fortune could buy a few gadgets for the military too.

Maybe PM Prayuth should treathen to be the first country to ditch Taxis for Uber...

It's quite amusing (putting aside the actual seriousness of the events leading to this) the way the police are going about solving these murders. In a PC western country this sort of DNA mass gathering and mass detentions would not even be contemplated due to civil rights and legal wrangling. Might not be western PC but that the police have one suspect firmly in custody and are on the trail of another suggests that away from the norm they may solve a Falang murder and gain some much needed start point of respect from the western world.

Two things from this case to date come to mind. One that with a good hard kick up the backside from the Junta leader the RTP are capable enough in spite of their lack of modern crime solving resources and second that the RTP are very much in need of having that expertise and resource made available to progress their ability to get results more efficiently and professionally. Another tool in beating corruption is applying professionalism and enjoyment to ones work.

Thats bullshit. In my country, that is as western and social democratic as they get, mass gathering of DNA is very much done when a murder is discovered and an exact time and location can be found. Mass dententions wont happen, but mass interogations happen.