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“In a developing saga that highlights Thailand's growing frustration with disorderly foreign visitors,” I get that he was selling illegal substances, but can’t for the life of me see where it says he was disorderly. Did they mix up the story or did they just tag it on to a theme of the moment that they are trying to develop into a “thing”?

Where is the sting aspect? They just arrested him as he passed through immigration. He wasn’t lured there was he?

Well I should be ok if one of them goes for me at any time. I nullified their primary grappling hold.

If the government ever thought, or currently thinks, that restricting alcohol sales serves to culturally respect Buddha, they should think again. Buddhists throughout Thailand habitually buy alcohol and gamble on the holiest of holy days. Why? Because they want to. Trying to stop them is like trying to stop time itself. If alcohol is permitted to be sold, Thai people can pay their respects to Buddha in what ever way they wish. For some people that will mean getting totally drunk after a day/night of gambling. For others, a day spent at the temple in silent dedication.

And the BTS police were where?

I think the normal procedure is to invite them to turn themselves in at a police station so that the warrant can be executed. Not sure why the plod went out of their way to do extra work on this one. Must have sniffed a photo opportunity

Blah, blah, blah. I see no evidence of any Chinese tourists here. I see a ton of Russians establishing Phuket as a permanent base of residency ( not sure what that has to do with tourism), other tourists are low enough numbers to be meaningless. All in all a normal low season including rain each day, with an added topping of plenty of Russian residents.

Looks like Americas to me

Or in road accidents….no high alert for that particular avenue of death

“profits through high rental fees charged to unknowing tourists. “ Come, come Pavel, charging high rental fees to unknowing tourists is a protected occupation. You should know better, tsk tsk.

“The revamped curriculum will debut at the preschool and Prathom 1-3 levels, focusing on reading, writing, and maths skills as part of a lifelong learning strategy.” NOW they are going to focus on reading, writing and maths? What were they doing before? Teaching superstitious nonsense and ridiculously outdated notions of Thailand ruling the world? Surely not?

Everybody does stupid things when they are young.

I hope there are no incidents to report while these 1000 people are in Thailand. That would be egg on face time all round

He’ll turn up soon because his 90 day report will be due. That’s what they are there for, keeping track of foreigners. seriously, I feel sorry for the guy who is obviously suffering mentally. I hope he turns up and this time someone ensures he gets on a plane back to Denmark and professional help.

Well, if the owner paid the money back to Miss A, what would happen if the Russian named in the contract turned up a day later and asked for his deposit back? It would be due to him, no?

How can she be a tourist? She lived there for a year. Heck of a holiday.

I don’t think there is currently any drop in Russians in Phuket. They aren’t particularly put off by the health and safety issues which frighten away Chinese. certainly where I live, Russians abound…..but few other nationalities. TAT must be really worried, or they should be.

Is it time to bring out the “stating the bleedin obvious” award again?

Seems like the exceptions are…..most places

Can’t see this has anything to do with zero dollar tours. Some Chinese seem to have set up a company to do a/c work and employed people who didn’t have work permits. Where does zero dollar come in?

So the police were called out to deal with a late night noise complaint. Wow, exhilarating stuff. Still they made it sound like a big deal.

“Largest in years “? Isn’t it the only tsunami drill in years? I’ve lived in Phuket the last 18 years, close enough to the sea to be in a tsunami zone, and I’ve never known there be a drill. A few years back they did suddenly paint signs on the road near the beach, similar to but not exactly the same, as the one shown in the photo, but those have all worn away now. Evidently such a good idea that no one bothered to renew them.

Five Thai guys and a Ghanan dupe arrested. But it’s only the dupe that gets pictured?

Looks like they are changing the wheel, not just a tyre. i bet they were dobbed in by one of the shopkeepers along the road. Thais love to inform on foreigners to the police. But they aren’t racist, they also love informing on fellow Thais

“Led by Pol. Lt. Col. Torlap Tinamat, Superintendent of Tourist Police Sub-Division 4, Division 2, and supported by officers from Pattaya Tourist Police, Pattaya Police Station, Chonburi Immigration Bureau, the Chonburi Office of Social Development and Human Security, and Pattaya City officials” All that firepower to get 13 prozzies standing out in plain sight, in one place. They must have worked their nuts off all night long.