TallGuyJohninBKK

That's so there will be more for the fire starters to burn down next time...

Folks have been burning the north for months now.... Where/when have we seen/heard of ANY folks setting the fires facing "legal repercussions"? The government is and has been totally toothless on this issue -- some would suggest, because of the close ties between the government leadership and large agri business (crop growing and burning) interests in the region.

You're expressing condolences for the alleged domestic abuser who allegedly just shot and killed his GF.... before then taking his own life. And at the same time, make no mention of her whatsoever? Did you lose the plot?

Too bad she won't have the chance to re-think that ill-considered decision.

Maybe that above was how they persuaded the Chinese guy to get into the box... ???? Well, that or perhaps a gun or two.

It's been a bad bit for domestic violence in Thailand.... Apart from this thread, just recently: And that's not all of the recent hits parade....

For the non-military immersed here, where are you getting that info from regard his decorations? Something in one of the photos?

Maybe, maybe not... as per the subsequent translated news post above: " For the perpetrator, Nat Phumiphat Chaiwanichaya, 18 years old, Army Corps, the second year military prep"

And to think... the same guy could have been a future leader in the Thai military...with family heritage connections and all.... ???? Looks like he was preparing for the part...

She looked a lot better in the other idol type photos... when she wasn't depicted as shown here, presumably after having been beaten up by someone... any guess who?

Have to wonder... --Did she somehow take him out, as she was being killed, or --is this another one where the Thai male kills his wife or GF, and then shoots/kills himself to avoid the consequences.

How can the young guy shown in the above photos possibly be a "major general" in the Thai Army? And the two have the same name?

This isn't the first time this same exact kind of thing has occurred here... Recall reading news coverage of a similar episode back in August 2022 in Samut Prakan where an electrical fire destroyed about 30 parked golf carts at the Summit Wind Mill Golf Club.

Hey, it's ONLY $787.5 million out of Rupurt's Fox corporate pocket.... One of the article's I read today on the subject said Fox Corp. had (prior to the Dominion settlement) about $4 billion in cash on hand. Hopefully the upcoming parallel Smartmatic defamation case will further lighten Fox and Rupurt's cash load. Fox News braces for more turbulence as second defamation lawsuit advances New York court greenlights $2.7bn suit against news channel by election company Smartmatic over 2020 presidential election lies "Last week [back in March] the New York state supreme court in Manhattan gave the green light for the case to proceed against Fox News, the Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo, the former business anchor Lou Dobbs and Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani." https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/13/smartmatic-defamation-lawsuit-against-fox-news I loved this added reference in the article: "Smartmatic, a global election technology company headquartered in London, lodged its defamation suit in February 2021. “The Earth is round,” was the complaint’s striking opening sentence. “Two plus two equals four. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the 2020 election … ”

The most recent week-over-week increase in new COVID hospitalizations (as shown in the first chart below) was about 250%, e.g. 2-1/2 times more new COVID hospitalizations than from the prior week, averaging 62 per day... And that's not hospital visits to see a doctor, but actual hospital inpatient admissions for COVID. Let's wait and see how big or small the current COVID uptick is in the next MoPH update due out at the end of this current week. Right now, weekly new COVID hospitalizations in Thailand are at their highest level since late January. April 9-15, 2023 https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/photos

The Dominion saga exposed Fox for the propaganda outlet it's always been, but accountability cannot end with the settlement ... "The trial presented a rare moment of accountability for Fox -- and perhaps the greatest threat to the network since its founding. Fox has steadily amassed power and profit over the last several decades, using virulent rhetoric, unhinged commentary, and baldfaced fabrications to create a media juggernaut with expansive influence over the conservative movement, the Republican Party, and the United States at large. ... But even without the trial, the network has been completely exposed for what critics like Media Matters have long shown that it is: a shameless Republican propaganda organ that prioritizes profit and politics over anything resembling journalistic ethics." https://www.mediamatters.org/foxdominion-lawsuit/dominion-saga-exposed-fox-propaganda-outlet-its-always-been-accountability Well and aptly said.

Perhaps Fox's settlement here was a recognition of how the court case against them was likely to fare, considering one of the recent comments by the judge in the case, as follows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5byuXpK7MNk I guess you know you're going down the drain when the judge handling the case feels the need to emphasize the extent of Fox's lies with the all-caps reference "CRYSTAL clear"! ????

A private hospital in BKK offering the Pfizer bivalent vaccine on a couple of upcoming dates:

I think you'd have to search far and wide to find such an egregious case of a major U.S. "news" source putting forward a sustained many months long campaign of endlessly repeated blatant disinformation / false information on such an important, pivotal national issue that, according to its depositions, even Fox management and the falsity spouting hosts knew was false. Good luck with that! In dollar terms, the media are describing the nearly $800 million settlement here as the largest defamation settlement in U.S. history. There's a reason for that, and it's based on the extremity of Fox's conduct here..

Unfortunately, of little help to anyone here now... It was at the government's Institute of Dermatology near Victory Monument in BKK. And it was free for both of us...And that site and its program were reasonably well-publicized here on the forum. However, AFAIK, the MoPH ended the vaccinations at IOD just before Song Kran, and isn't resuming them there. Instead, at least in Bangkok, there appears to be a shift to offering them at district health centers on Friday afternoons from 1-3 pm, and at the BMA's dozen or so public hospitals, most of which are probably little known to the average expat. I've heard little to nothing lately from the various better known private hospitals as to whether they have any offerings of the bivalent vaccines, or even the original ones for that matter. Another member posted here lately that he was able to receive a bivalent vaccine shot in Chiang Mai... but I don't believe he provided any details of how and where.

"In addition to the huge financial price, Dominion exacted a difficult admission from Fox News, which acknowledged in a statement that “certain claims” it made about Dominion were false." ... " the network was not forced to apologize — a concession that Dominion lawyers had sought, lawyers involved in the case said." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/business/media/fox-dominion-defamation-settle.html

Be very interested to see/hear just what exact kind of "admitting to telling lies" admissions Fox will have to publicly make via the terms of the settlement. And even more so, whether this resolution and the likely coming resolution of the Smartmatic litigation will have any meaningful curative effect on the volumes of misinformation rubbish regularly purveyed by the Fox opinion non-news hosts such as Carlson, Hannity, and the rest.

Wife and I both recently had the newer Pfizer bivalent vaccines here in Thailand. As with all the prior vax shots we've received since the beginning, not much other than some day-after arm soreness in the area of the shot, and some minor acheyness and fatigue for a day or so. All of that is standard fare for vaccinations of all types.

Worth noting: F.D.A. Authorizes Another Covid Booster Shot for People Over 65 April 18, 2023 The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday authorized an additional round of bivalent booster shots for adults who are 65 and over as well as people with compromised immune systems. The effort is to ensure ongoing protection against Covid, which is still claiming more than 1,300 lives each week. ... The agency said people who are 65 and older who have not had a bivalent booster shot in at least four months may get another one. For those who are immunocompromised, additional doses of the bivalent vaccine can be given two months after the last shot. Those who are unvaccinated can get a single dose of the bivalent booster, the agency said." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/health/covid-booster-shots-seniors.html It's interesting that Thailand's current policy on the bivalent boosters is actually broader than the one in the U.S. Here, you don't need to be 65+ in order to qualify for the bivalent booster. You just need to have gone at least 4 months since your last prior shot. Here, you just need to be able to FIND the newer vaccine....

See the following thread: