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I am a British man and I have heard from Thai girls that Aussies are smelly.....very smelly.

might be remnants of "The Golden Fleece"....

a close female Thai friend once told me that many of her lady friends prefer Indians, Pakistani, any sort of Arab country, Nigeria and Sierra Leone ... for that.

Anybody except you...

would you please be a little less impersonal...

why don't you pin this as exclusive weekly news on TVF - repeat it once a week - the girls don't change, the 100 baht fines don't change, the place does not change, the pride of the police officers does not change...nothing changes, so also no need to update any photos: easy journalism

a close female Thai friend once told me that many of her lady friends prefer Indians, Pakistani, any sort of Arab country, Nigeria and Sierra Leone ... for that.

Based on the traffic, I'm convinced everyone in Bangkok was in Chiang Mai for new years, so it makes sense that city had the highest numbers. All you could see were Bangkok plates. Chaos. Glad it is over.

Almost all cars on a "finance scheme" carry BKK plates because the credit- issueing bank (who keeps the original car papers and is the de facto- owner of that car) has its H.Q. in BKK...

btw: we should also note that the country in 2014 was flooded with another close to 1mill cars under the "first car first owner" scheme of the government - most of them can still be seen on the streets (a big portion, however, was recalled quickly by the banks because drivers could not pay back the loans ...)

Great! Maybe the prices and amount of unwarranted TAXES will be lowered to reasonable levels. But this being Thailand they will probably RAISE both.

yes, Thailand loves to call herself "the hub of negative turn-over increase"

I don't understand why the word MAFIA had not been mentioned.

nobody in these nationalistic "for Thai Only" rounds speaks a foreign lingo...

<the absence of tire marks on Boromratchonnanee Road suggest Sakdipong was unaware of the vehicle and struck it at full speed>

too daft or a simple suicide

My Izuzu D Max ... Except for a new battery every couple of years

I have been using a charger all these years: Let it work overnight very regularly once a week and I still have the 1st battery after 9 (!!) years

Tue Nov 18: why this gruesome thing is not yet on national papers e.g. BKK Post, The Nation nor on international tabloids - anything wrong with the story?

Certainly doesn't assist those at the bottom of the societal pile who find their finances squeezed once again

oh yes it will - benefit their state of health! It is a world-wide phenomenon that obesity based on 3rd class quality food and drinks which are amber- liquid (coz of the sugars in them) comes with the bottom of society - look at all those tons of excessive weight walking about e.g. in Mexican slums or any lowly area of the U.S. ... or the U.K. ... or BKK for that...

Sure he isn't Burmese?

no - he hails from Cambodia and is an accomplice to the Burmese leader

I can understand the rice thefts when the 'Rice Scheme' was in operation but not now

even more understandable these days with the price down to < thb 10; in order to make a decent cut same as last year / 2 yrs ago you need to substantially increase the quantity of your crop - that's about all...by the way, Buriram is very close to Cambodia so we venture to guess that no Thai thoroughbred pinched all these piles, must be the notorious foreign gangs from yonder the border - how about they get DNAed just for sure?

That is one of the most accusatory finger "points" I have seen in a long time. This is a man with practice or just a natural born pointer.

I think he is of the U.K. breed of the famous five-legged pointer

"he went over to his motorbike and got his gun" So he just happened to have a gun on him? normal people don't ride around with a gun on them.

you do not have the slightest clue about Thai society as a nationwide well- armed bunch...

"notifications can be made online"................just as long as you can read and write Thai that is.

you "not being able to read or write Thai" - farang do not have to do anything about this notification; your hotel, hostel, private host, girlfriend or your brothel or beer bar ... whereever you spend most of your time ... - has to take care of this

<we can only arrest one Nigerian man Oshi-Oma Declan, 30, and his wife Songsee Khamsee, 31, for the 20 grams of cocaine. They are also dealers, but we are still looking for another Nigerian man who personally dealt with Mr Jeremy>

oh, those <removed>...when coming to Thailand they make immigration believe they are just sports students -- their playground being Lower Suk and similarly well-visited venues

SEND HIM HOME HE IS A NUTTER

send him home to where? Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Syria?

"Mr. Walid Chami aged 36"

Before, I did not intend to go there and this simply remains valid (nothing to do with the present case of highly or lowly thugs)

....did I read correctly........spent 1000 Euros in a matter of hours.....???

no problem...if you (and I) can do then they can do just as well

AGREE - The airport train has been a disaster waiting to happen from the beginning

AGREE - Everyone behind the project should be held accountable for these failures

AGREE - Before we embark on a high-speed train project or any other large-scale infrastructure construction, let's scrutinise the mistakes made in previous projects

One example of the cost of corruption and cronyism. Accountability is definitely on the right track.

and again - which particular group gets mad about all this? foreigners, visitors and expats alike. But the real Thai amongst all of us sits smug and cozy in just another big bag of money and that was the only reason for all this ap link exercise. Why the foreigners will never understand that mega- projects like this are never started in order to do something real worth- while about infrastructure and all that crap: They are initiated just for one single reason, gentlemen (and ladies...)!

What a nonsense, instead they should cut it down to less 10 provinces.

agreed, around 8 would help...but then: the U.S. cuts down to 10 states, In Oz, Victoria merges with Tassie, Germany reduces to 4 states, France to just a handful of provinces (that country had been max- centralized ever since despite that many provinces...) etc.

I'm surprised none of the left wing women's rights media/journos have given him grief over the "...unless they are not beautiful." aspect of his comment.

I am not surprised --- all those ageing female office staffers must have consulted their mirrors prior to muttering something about "slender, natural beauty..."