Bangkok Barry

Usually it can be translated as 'going too fast to stop'.

I agree. No real fault of the staff in this case.

And now they own Asean Now.

Understaffing, not corruption, is to blame for an underperforming police force. They decided a couple of years ago to not even pretend to investigate minor crimes such as break-ins. The world continues to go backwards in so many ways, and that is just one example.

I've been reading this for as long as I can remember. And if they reduce the fare to 20 baht they'll also need to add more carriages to the trains as every man and his dog will ride it. Well, maybe not dogs.

And arrange for 500 protesters to gather at the tuk tuk stand.

Here, the flash is to tell you to get out of their way when they're hurtling towards you on your side of the road.

That's the custom in Thailand. It sounds a bit draconian, but they are held responsible for their carelessness. That is why, often, someone will count the money several times in front of you in a shop or restaurant or bar. There are positives in that, I suppose. Teaches staff to be careful and being responsible in their job.

He went to the UK with his family for a week, and returned rather than diverted to Dubai on his return. That might tell us something, that he believes he can prove he is innocent. If he isn't, then we have corruption and law breaking in the RTP right up to deputy national police chief level. But we guessed that.

I have used a VPN in China, but not during the CCP congress.

Your experience appears to be the polar opposite of mine. I guess I'm lucky, for example, in knowing the names of V:PNs from countless social media and news posts. And rarely finding connections don't work.

There is no hyphen in Asean Now, nor should there be in initialising it. If you think differently, okay. So be it.

A comedian not an.....dear oh dear. AN = Asean Now. Most people know that.... dear oh dear.

Have you been living under a stone? There have been countless such reports, with a sizeable number not involving a beating but threats or worse with a gun or machete. I was personally told by a taxi driver who said he was an off-duty cop that if he had his gun with him he would have shot me over a trivial incident (my protesting that he was in danger of crashing the taxi and injuring me when he played cat and mouse with a car that had dared to overtake him, while refusing to stop the taxi and let me out). You take your life in your hands if you cross these neanderthals over anything at all. Just a couple of days ago we had a report of someone being shot as the victim looked at him the wrong way while passing on his motorcycle.

Nice way to start the day in the land of smiles. How many of us know of market vendors fighting and stabbing each other in our local market in farangland? Anyone?