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Highly unlikely salaries of poor workers, which are the vast majority of workers, are going anywhere.

Just another misunderstanding of Thainess.

"...the soldiers were merely making conversation with Wattana and ensuring he was safe..."

“...It was an effort to engage in conversation, exchange opinions and coordinate information...”

Wow! They sure know how to spin a good tale.

This country was flirting with widespread chaos if that vote had gone through. As the poster in post #3 said...a moment of sanity.

A "People's Council"......hard at work restricting freedom of the press any way they can.

Yeah, that'll do the trick Mr. P. Just ask.

Maybe the government should take a more proactive role and come up with alternate solutions. Nah, that sounds too much like work.

"..Prime Minister Prayut Chan-c-cha yesterday did not chair the crucial meeting of the Royal Thai Police board, leaving Deputy Premier General Prawit Wongsuwan to preside over the vote..."

Does anyone really think it matters if Mr. P is there or not?

"...He also admired the Royal Thai Army whose debt management program had succeeded in reducing debts and led to efficient financial management among security officials..."

Give yourself a pat on the back Mr. P.

Well that was a whole lot of words which amounted to a whole lot of nothing.

Typical rhetoric from a Thai bureaucracy.

They are against it and rightly so, because it is not a draft for a Democracy. It is a draft to keep the elite or a "minority" of rich Thais in power.

...............witnessed the taxi driving the wrong way through the tiny lane at Soi Charansanitwong 31.

Even when you are wrong, you are right!

It's a Thais natural defense...always act as if you are right and everyone else is wrong.

I don't understand the point of the investigation. Just so the international community can give an extra gasp of disbelief? Do they think the IS really gives a @#$# what the rest of the world knows or does about it? Do they think there are any threats they can make that will get these low life barbarians to stop using chemical weapons when they proudly show people being beheaded on the internet. Are they going to penalize them by putting one extra bomb on each plane leaving Turkey? What's the point? Why waste the time unless they are going to try and find the source and bomb the hell out of it.

I’m sorry Mr. Castro, but America does not owe you or your country one red penny. Maybe you have forgotten, but it will be a long time before America forgets or forgives you for allowing the Russians to almost place nuclear missiles in your country and on our doorstep. Nothing we may have done justifies that. For that you deserved all you got. If you keep talking like this then maybe everything should go back the way it was.

What else could it have been? Its not like there is another B777 that's not accounted for. The good bit is at least they know they are searching for the rest of wreckage on the correct side of the globe but that's about it really

Exactly. Once they confirmed it was from a B777, there were no other wreckages it could have been. Shame on the French BEA for creating confusion in the minds of the passengers' families.

This is a part. While there are not likely a lot of spares that have ever been sold, there certainly are spares around and it could have been an unaccounted for part. Find a bunch of floating parts or debris, and then there's a plane to account for. But find only one part and then you don't know what you've got.

You have got to be kidding. That is some pretty bad logical thinking. I'd have better odds winning a multi-state lottery than the odds you are right. Probably a billion to one I'd say.

She is an employee of a county office. She has no right to inflict her religious belief on a citizen. Fire her butt and sue the county government office for lots of money.

"...Another strong candidate was Deputy Police Commissioner Pol Gen Aek Angsananon..."

Must not have been all that much of a strong candidate since he didn't get one vote. Makes one wonder if there was really only one vote that counted.

I see another legal challenge;

These 11 were sentenced to death. Their incarceration was pending their deaths and not a sentence in of itself. The death penalty no longer exists in the state. Thus their current incarceration is redundant. They can't have another trial just to change the sentence because of double jeopardy.

Read the article again.

"...The 2012 repeal, which set life in prison without the possibility of release as the punishment for crimes formerly considered capital offenses, was passed prospectively by lawmakers amid public outrage over the prospect that Komisarjevsky and Hayes might be spared execution..."

Oh, how wonderful DNA is turning out to be. Catching a lot of liars.

It's good this family finally has the truth out there for everyone to see.

Sounds like a neat way to totally eviscerate and ignore Democracy and continue the present government under a new committee.

I couldn't agree more.

Every since the coup has taken place there has been a systematic routing of the Pheu Thai party members and all other associated parties so there would be no contest in the next election and this is just more of the same. Like them or not, Pheu Thai and it's offshoots represent a majority of the people in this country. Eviscerate them and you have effectively killed Democracy and handed the country to the elites.

Bad idea. People need to get use to the idea of owning a car for a long time, rather than getting into more debt and trying to keep up with the Jones's which is an epidemic in this class based society.

Brings to mind the phrase, "searching for a needle in a haystack".

The highest fines I know of are 1000 baht for something like running a red light.

But for something that is not dangerous and causes no harm to another person, they want to fine them twice the going rate.

All you can do is shake your head in wonder.

This is symptomatic of the problems in Thailand these days.

There is far more concern over one's reputation than actually doing a job which is supposed to be helping the people of this country.

I'm here to tell the Thailand government that graft is still alive and kicking in our land office in Kalasin and most likely every single land office in Thailand. If there is one government office that needs reform and set prices it is land offices.

We had to pay 26,000 just to get a reasonably timely measuring of the land so 3 new Chanotes could be made from one Chanote of 7 rai, just so we could have our own Chanote for our 1.5 rai. This was more than 50% of our land cost. The wife was blatantly told it was that much because it had to be divided between too many people. If we were not heading to the US for a long time we would have just waited the ridiculous 8 months they gave us before the land could be measured. Now we still have to wait 3 more months to actually get the Chanote.