Bangkok Barry

Any order I've received has the sender's name, address and phone number on the box, as well as my own. But then, they haven't tried to cheat me. And I don't know why you say you don't get to inspect the goods. Why not?

I find it incredible that, even in the centre of the city, people are forced to walk in the road as there are more often than not no sidewalks/pavements in the side sois. And those that are there are often commandeered by shops and food vendors. Hardly the 'world-class' image that the country tries to present, is it.

India has already changed the name of all its major cities. And name changing is common in the Asia region. Formosa/Taiwan, Malaya/Malaysia, Ceylon/Sri Lanka. Burma/Myanmar. Even Siam/Thailand.

The headline poses a strange question, bearing in mind that the very first thing the new PM did, his top priority, was to announce easier access for Chinese tourists.

Diabetes is a major, major problem in Thailand. Now, I wonder why. Couldn't be the massive sugar intake, could it? When I make my three-monthly visit to my drug dealer there, I have to make sure I avoid the weekly diabetes treatment day at my local Homo Sapiens Maintenance and Repair Centre when the place is overflowing with 'customers'. How Thai food got a worldwide reputation for being healthy is beyond me.

Well, I would assume the landlord would change the code, same as hotels do when a guest leaves. Assuming, of course, doesn't mean they do as that would require common sense and logical thinking.

Just install CCTV, in case. Any landlord, in my view, should have the right to periodically check his/her property, especially in view of the horror stories we read of here, But it should be done by appointment, not when the tenant is out.

No. They keep asking for rich tourists. What they get is what the country actually qualifies before. Thailand attracts cheap.

Several posters on here suggesting the Indians deserved having one of them attacked, based on no proof at all. Makes a change from Thai bashing I suppose. Let's bash the Indians instead. As for the driver, instead of fining him a pointless 500 baht and telling him to be nice, how about three months in jail for assault.

They do. they do, and the end result is always the same. Nothing happens. But, as I've posted several times before, the Thai system is that he has spoken, made his recommendations, and his job is done. Anything that happens later is not his responsibility. You, I, he and everyone else knows that what is said will be ignored and is unenforceable, but that is not the point. He has acted, done what he considers to be his job, while actually doing nothing. This happens all the time, at least once a week. Someone makes a declaration and the next day it's ignored and forgotten. But that person has done their job by 'acting'.

There are many English words that Thais do not understand. Mansions that are blocks of one-room apartments. Small-time crooks who are called Mafia. Resorts that in reality are short time rooms along major roads. And, something I've recently discovered at a number of hotels, suites that are simply rooms. One manager told me that suites is just a word, not a description. Saying things as they are is not favoured by Thais.

Why didn't she just join the party?

Did you read the link: Importantly, the report affirmed that the helicopter had complied with all relevant airworthiness requirements and had been maintained correctly prior to the crash. The wear on the rotor bearing was deemed to have accumulated gradually and could not have been foreseen by inspectors.

I guess you didn't read the link: Importantly, the report affirmed that the helicopter had complied with all relevant airworthiness requirements and had been maintained correctly prior to the crash. The wear on the rotor bearing was deemed to have accumulated gradually and could not have been foreseen by inspectors.

Not a ghost as such, but a fellow Londoner I know lived in Thailand and we used to meet up regularly. Strangely for someone who lived not far from the Spurs ground he was an Arsenal supporter, but he explained that he used to work near their old ground and at half-time they used to open the gates and he walked in for free. Sadly he died, and a few weeks later I was in London and met up with his daughter for lunch by the Thames. Afterwards, we walked along the river, and at one point we just stopped - and for no particular reason I looked over the wall and there, standing upright in the mud at low tide, was a child's scooter with the footplate emblazoned with the Arsenal logo. I didn't even know such things existed, and the chance of us stopping at the exact point is incalculable. I'm also told that we had a little old lady ghost in our house, seen by my mother and sister but never knowingly by myself. But I was told when I was very tiny I began to sing a nursery rhyme and my mother asked me how I knew it as she hadn't taught it to me. And apparently I said an old lady had sat on my bed and taught it to me.

All very vague, isn't it.

How does that work? It makes perfect sense - if you're a Thai journalist.

My wife still supported him, despite what he was. Because, she said, he did good things for the people. Kind of sums up the standards here, doesn't it. People are prepared to run with criminals. They just don't care.

Of course. Exactly as planned.

Have you ever found any common sense in Thailand? And anyway, Thais will always do what they want to do, no matter the possible consequences.

Since when has anyone in a uniform been helpful?

He was 'good looking', so to Thais he must be honest. Image is everything.

So the first task that the new PM has chosen to undertake, his number priority, is to encourage more Chinese to visit. That will go down well....with no-one.

Yes, but this thread is about fraud by bank employees, not scammers.

I've personally never heard of money mysteriously disappearing from UK bank accounts. But that's just me.