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Bloody hel_l.

All he ever really did of note was to sack Sven and now he is a football guru.

The business side of football. Credit to his sharp eye for identifying and started the ball rolling for turning Man City into one of the richest club in the EPL now in serious contention for trophies. Anyway you spin it you cannot deny Khun Thaksin is a shrew business and marketing guru

travelling to Africa to look at diamond mines.

Please tell me this is hyperbole. Diamonds from Africa are not called blood diamonds for nothing. It is a horrible industry where workers are exploited and work in unsafe conditions. there is widespread child labour.

I have always had a bit of sympathy for Thaksin's situation because his overthrow was the result of a military coup. However, if Mr. thaksin is investing in african diamond mines he may find international sympathy will vaporize quickly.

I haven't found anything from Foreign Affairs saying he is barred from Canada.

Well, if he invests in an african diamond mine that does not have a labour and work code and gets the diamonds via the exploitation of child labour, I am sure he can then claim refugee status and kill 10 years or so waiting for a decision from the IRB.

Not ALL diamonds mined in Africa are blood diamonds.

blood diamond (also called a converted diamond, conflict diamond, hot diamond or a war diamond) refers to a diamond mined in a war zone and sold to finance an insurgency, invading army's war efforts, or a warlord's activity, usually in Africa (source: wiki)

Would Saudi Arabia be a good place for Khun Thaksin?

Then how do you epxlain a guy like DB Hooper who jumped out of a jet after robbing it?

"Cooper then ordered Scott to leave the cabin unpressurized. An unpressurized cabin at 10,000 feet (3,000 m) would curtail the risk of a sudden rush of air exiting the plane (and ease the opening of the pressure door) if he were to attempt to exit the aircraft for a subsequent parachute landing"

WiKi

Was this the same DB Cooper/ Charles Westmoreland that was portrayed in Prison Break the TV series?

Thailand has consistently done well in the Mis Universe contest, proof that Thai ladies are beauties even by international standards

Limthongkul was said to have a Jartukarm phayant in his hands when he was ambushed, the newspapers reported widely that he survived due to power of the phayant

He committed the offfense in Thailand and not in Singapore. So he should be tried in Thailand!

From my understanding after he finish his sentence in Thailand and gets sent home he will face jailtime in Singapore too.

What about monks/arjarns using aborted foetus to make lukkot or kumangthongs? Is this practise only exclusive to thai buddhism?

I was just wondering if there were anyone following this Buddhism forum had found any books written in English with the teachings of Luang Phor Luesi Lingdam... I see them in Thai, but surely someone has translated them into English.. If someone has knowledge of them and where to find them, please let me know... thanks

Was he one of the teachers of HRH Princess Sirindhorn?

I remembered I paid for the beer (Beer Lao) at my ex-sister in law's wedding in Phon Phisai, Nong Khai. It was 10 bahts each.

remove internet freedoms and remove thailand from the face of the world . which is which that thailand wants? as it is most thai despots try to stamp their marks on the thai nation absoltulely with no due regard to the rights of others to co-exist. a sad conclusion but not without justifications .

Keep going at it and soon Thailand will catch up with North Korea and Cuba

Thaksin is my hero.

Thaksin is a hero in the eyes of more than 50% of Thai people. Jailing him will divide the country further. Yes he might be corrupted but not anymore than the rest of them

Thai FDA Approves Production of Buddhist Flu Amulet

Government to spend Bt17 billion to manufacture 60 million amulets

http://www.notthenation.com/pages/news/getnews.php?id=810

BANGKOK - Responding quickly to the H1N1 pandemic, Health Minister Witthaya Kaewparadai announced today that the FDA has completed fast-track approval for a special amulet which would protect all who wore it from catching the virus. The amulet is being manufactured by the Nakhon Si Thamarat temple, which gained notoriety a few years ago for creating the Jatukam Ramathep amulets which were believed to bring fortune to its owners.

However, Witthaya assured the public that this time was different.

“I have spoken to the abbot himself, and he has promised me that this amulet really works,” he said at a press conference. “These amulets are made with the hair of the revered monk Luang Pho Daeng of Wat Choeng Khao, who lived to 90 and whose body has never decomposed.” It is believes that the monk’s special powers may have also included resistance to flu.

Some health professionals, however, have expressed skepticism that an amulet could actually provide medical benefits.

“No clinical trial has ever established a correlation between the wearing of jewelry and increased resistance to pathogens,” said Dr Gary Mendergart, an epidemiologist for the international Red Cross in Thailand. “The very idea is, in fact, quite unscientific.”

These and other criticisms have been dismissed as anti-Buddhist and further evidence that outsiders simply do not understand Thailand.

Now for the difficult part....different types of wai

How to Wai

Bangkok has no Cable internet only ADSL so it will never work !

Oic pardon my ignorance

Thanks, saved me the trouble

Will my cable modem work if I bring over to use in Thailand?

I bought a Motorola 100Mpbs cable modem from US to Singapore and it could not work initially. I had to bring it down to the internet provider that I had a subscription with to 'register' it.

Now I want to bring the same cable modem to use in Bangkok. Will I face the same problem? If so how do I go about it in Bangkok?

Waow........ had 20 cops around him, and still fled the country...........

MALAYSIA BOLEH!

Any link to the video of that speech?

Half that number is probably more accurate. 2500 as a ball park figure.

Promotion in the Thai military is based more on time in service and patronage more than anything else.

I read some where about a quarter of the generals have no specific responsibilities and as early as a decade back when they realized the problem, the government came up with a early retirement scheme for these generals but was not well received. A joke going round about generals always out playing golf is because most of them do not even have an office

Anyone convicted of LM have routinely been pardoned.....will Thaksin be treated any differently?

By some interpretations of the Vinaya it already is. The fifth of the ten precepts (which are the first ten of the 227 precepts for fully-ordained monks) is to avoid intoxicating drugs. I used to smoke, and while I didn't feel anything particularly intoxicating about a cigarette after I had been a smoker for a while, I remember the buzz I got from my first cigarette. After smoking regularly for a few months, you no longer feel that buzz, but by then you are already addicted. And by continuing to smoke, you are at least in contradiction to the Buddhist goal of extinguishing desire.

Not trying to preach here, just being pedantic.

That's an important point that's often passed over in discussion over whether or not tobacco falls under the 5th precept.

what about caffine?

Luang Phor Koon is a famous monk who never fail to find him with a cigar.

If you're willing to do for a year what others won't, you can enjoy the life for a lifetime what others can only dream about!

Doing something illegal will bring in the big bucks

> Thaksin seen here kowtowing to General Suchinda Kraprayoon "

!!!!!The same Suchinda that CHUAN gave a medal and effectively rehabilitated while he was PM!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No really, give it your best shot.

Funny how so many people seem to be claiming the rehabilitation of Suchinda. Suchinda was responsible for the murder of pro-democracy demonstrators (undisputed). So Chuan let him off the hook. So what? Sunthorn, Suchinda, Chuan, Thaksin, Abhisit. All part of the elite. All simply looking out for themselves.

Surayud was Suchinda's pointman during 1992 crackdown on anti-government protestors. he gave the order to fire and kill the protestors

Chamlong is the point man for Prem