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I understand and agree with most of what you say, except for one thing. I have never known a bar girl save ANY money for herself later in life, or for her kids future. Some gamble the money away themselves, some send money back to the family so as to look after their mother and their kids…..in which case the mother gambles the money away. But save? Nope, never known a Thai do such a thing

I don’t see that the car was overloaded. 5 passengers total in a hatchback is fine. Just that one of them wasn’t in the back seat, she was in the rear luggage compartment ( not a boot in the sense of a saloon car). The wife was no doubt there, so that the car did not give the appearance of being a taxi picking up passengers. That would be illegal since the car is not licensed as such. So she was camouflage, so to speak. Maybe campflage was needed because they were picking up from the airport or a hotel. The taxi mafia don’t like that happening.

Yes, it’s hard to see how a properly vetted course via submitted curriculum documents does anything to ensure that foreigners don’t enroll and then simply not turn up. Seems to be a case of doing something, anything, whether or not it is relevant or effective to resolving an issue.

A pretty run of the mill story for anyone who has rented out property. Some tenants are good, some bad. It’s why the landlord takes a security deposit. To cover damage and cleaning as a result of bad tenants

I think it’s like most topics, Thailand has plenty of laws, rules and regulations. They just aren’t observed or enforced. Traffic laws are a visible classic example. Buildings regulation observance is far less visible….until there is an earthquake that is.

In this day and age buildings are built that can withstand severe earthquakes, certainly more severe than the one that occurred recently. So the 10% lifetime risk of an earthquake, does become effectively zero if quality buildings are built. So what is the earthquake durability of Bangkoks buildings? That is the question that should be asked and depending on the answer, acted upon.

Because a lot of the cameras don’t work do to poor to no maintenance?

“The Tourist Police have integrated Social Listening technology to quickly respond to incidents reported on social media and dispel false information affecting the tourism image.” Why do I worry that they will spend more time latching onto stories so as to suppress them and avoid tarnishing Thailands reputation, rather than actually putting away bad guys

Iran, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Iraq, maybe a few more.

“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.