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Wait, until the West has found out, that Myanmar has rare earth and then the race is on again .........
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2 hours ago, newbee2022 said:
Is this the similar joke as it is in in Thailand?
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Allemachtig prachtig!
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Some might have parted with loose change?
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On 8/16/2025 at 12:45 PM, Will B Good said:
When I'm trawling around the bars in BKK I never see anyone dealing drugs, taking drugs, buying drugs.......where am I going wrong?
You might trawling around the bars for different reasons - like having a drink or so? Just curious 😉 -
Shows only how narrow-minded those geeks are literally everywhere in this country.
Given the fact, that during my working days I sponsored language and computer classes to staff which the company would pay for I obviously had a look at the "schools". For computer classes I ended up doing those in-house with/by my own IT staff - overseas trained and fluent in English; for teaching the English language there was ultimately only one option, the British Council. All other "schools" were too much Thai-style and focussed on everything except the main subject for what my staff went there in the first place.
Education and Thailand - please never use these two words in the same book. Having said that, I am sure that there are good teachers but the material is carp and hence the Burmese lady kept immigrant kids off the roads and tried something useful.
Good on you, Thai Authorities, I feel soooooooo much safer now after you've booked this alien from different milky ways busying herself in an illegal activity.-
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Every day is school day, specially in the Land of Smiles.
I - for one - never heard, that any other senate has an "Ethics Committee". The face is more important than the rotten character of the unknown senator. The committee's duty is, most likely, only the possible …. breaching of the “upper chamber’s code of conduct” ……..
What kind of animals lure in the halls of the government of this country; how terrible for country and its people!-
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I am all for positive news, trust me, but the way the tourism promotion board is blowing continuously its own trumpet is second to none.
Quality over quantity was the doctrine in the past and it worked very well. Today it is quantity which comes with the usual range of problems due to the lower education and interest level of the visiting avalanche of (mostly) Asian tourists. The average spending must have nosedived.
Quite obviously the only increase is the sheer number of arrivals. As a non-Thai citizen I dilute the arrival figure by weekly crossing into neighboring Laos and the weekend shoppers from Laos and Malaysia are also in those figures 😉-
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Next to this motorbike incident and the tuktuk case you can add jet ski operators as well. A bunch of cheaters, liars and undercover supporters of the boys in brown.
The other way round when a foreigner is ground to toast by a bunch of innocent sons of the Land of Smiles .....
There is a reason behind all this but the majority (i.e. the host country's citizens) are not interested and hence just drop the whole story - there is better news of more attractive content - me thinks! -
Thailand's immigration = the ultimate IT hub of the universe 😉
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THB 10K (USD 300) as "pocket money" without work, everything paid? This is above the private allowance of what Western married women get. Latter do (mostly) much more if not all housework, bring up kids and are seriously busy most of the time.
If it is a serious relation, then share a common account (test the water first with limited balancing of the account to see, if she can handle that); for a girlfriend I suggest she carries on working .... Latter mainly for her to understand, that having money means work and not a Western ATM machine with endless refills -
Shame on Kamol Rodklai, what kind of beast is chairing the Senate Committee on Education! Explains the human quality of such pr1ks; this human manure exit should be thrown out of any political office for life.
Irrespective of anything; a child has the right to education, free from any pressure (financially, ethically or religiously) but as long as education costs a single cent, the future is questionable if not doomed.
Certain countries in Europe, Finland and Switzerland spring to mind, provide absolutely free education to the level of a PhD to the gifted which allows the brightest minds to carry their country into the future while brainless rich kids .........
Here it is the opposite, spoilt brats linger around in all sorts of private schools, unable to provide for themselves as grown-ups simply because the parent(s) spend (sometime ill-gotten) funds on school fees and generous contributions to underline the promotion into the next higher grade with the kind support of teachers and headmasters alike .....
I hope, for Kamol Rodklai, that I never meet him - for his own advantage!-
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Now that is a very interesting way to put it - "a significant factor in the profit surge was favourable market conditions".
I hope that the consumers are aware that they are skinned alive with such monopolies, the CP conglomerate controls the entire line from animal feed via poultry production to Chester grill. Makro, Big C, Lotus's, 7/11 - go and have a look who owns these "independent" players in the food range.
Some time ago I drove along the Mekong and saw farmers harvesting tomatoes from "floating markets", sorting them into stackable crates by size of the tomatoes, carrying those crates up to the road level for collection. In asking they told me that they would get 5 Baht a kilogramme; while I bought a few hours earlier tomatoes at 41 Baht. The farmers surrounded me and shared their misery while stating, that nobody else would buy the tomatoes and selling them directly was not an option either due to lacking staff and knowledge.
But Dhanin is a very generous man, on the other hand. Some years back the media covered his generosity in handing over a certified bank check over 800 million Baht 😉 -
Sicks minds - very worrying indeed.
It highlights two problems; the first one is the dumping of animals at temples, remaining not neutered and continue to do what every living species on planet Earth is doing. Apart from a countrywide programme to neuter stray animals there are also possibilities to vaccinate them to avoid rabies and other diseases.
The second, actually much more worrying problem is the mindset of these teenagers. What is going on in their minds to not only torment a helpless animal but to also tape this for social media exposure? Don't tell me that this is borderline normal; they need to be not only properly smacked but re-educated in working in a morgue or something similarly unpleasant with the stern message that if there is a "next time" they will be locked up in the slammer and the keys are getting thrown away.
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It is for exactly this reason that I do never prepay anything on Lazada. If COD is not available, then I do not buy it - simple as that.
Shopee is, as mentioned, no frills and the refund either instant or the payment gets released only upon the buyer confirming having received the merchandise. -
Tip of the Cambodian iceberg .......
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Given the fact, that the sweetheart daughter certainly did not make this phone call to Hun Sen without having informed and consulted Daddy before ............
The mind boggles; this country is in free fall, botched to the limits and nobody does anything about it - least not the voters who got short changed during the last two elections in such an obvious gobsmacking way .......-
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Another blow to tourism given the fact, that Thailand's pricing is no longer in relation to services rendered and the neighboring competition in the ASEAN region has not been sleeping either.
Exports must be limping as well, possibly a devaluation is on the cards to rescue Thaiiland's ailing situation?-
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Tip of the iceberg?
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Go and see Dr Roy Chumdermpadetsuk at the www.rutnin.com eye hospital in Bangkok (Asoke Road, Sukhumvit Soi 21). He treated me, successfully, over a 3 ½ years period with regular injections, absolutely painless in a professional sterile operating theatre - on an outpatient basis of course.
Apart from being a senior professional his English is on a bilingual level and a very pleasant gentleman to deal with. Make an appointment as he is not there every day.-
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If that airport can handle only 1,050 passenger an hour, then replace the operator. The airport is - to be timid - HUGE and has a much higher capacity. Latter not needed as there is mostly commercial traffic on a domestic scale only.
The runway could accommodate serious widebody aircraft - as a relict from the Indochina war. No lack of self-confidence refers to Ubon Ratchathani INTERNATIONAL airport except, that there are no international flights nowhere.
Today completely oversized it will serve the destination goals for years to come; the security issue is another subject but, in this context, I believe it has to do with "instigating fear" rather than be a factual piece of news 8-)-
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They want to replace 100,000 legally employed Khmer who meanwhile departed for understandable reasons with 42,000 new labour imports?
Nobody stated the number of illegal workers; the bureaucracy, avalanche of paper and corruption is paramount in getting an ASEAN citizen (apparently the freedom of travel and work has not been understood in all offices in Thailand) is self-explanatory.
Why not getting all those Thais, apparently unemployed, back to work again? Well, that would have to include proper working conditions, legal salaries, social security benefits and possibly provident fund access? But most Thais hanging around are low if not non-skilled, misused in the past and hence almost impossible to convince to get back to work for money. They rather resort to other non-work income possibilities, be it borrowing forever, being a leech with friends and family or then catching up with a family member who has access to a rich Farang.
The pendulum starts to swing back now, keeping the underlings uneducated and invited to neo-slavery has not only perks.
The other day there was an article on referring to Sri Lankans not being up to the jobs. While this is not true, Thailand might want to look to its western neighbour Myanmar with its civil war raging for 3+ years. A lot of Burmese I know are now in Taiwan and Korea, in jobs they hate or are hazardous to their health. They would prefer working in Thailand but the gruesome stories from crossing into i.e. Mae Sot is known to literally any Burmese emigrating to Thailand 8-)-
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Inferiority complex in total overdrive meanwhile - all those alien attackers need to be kept at bay .........
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It is called law and stipulates helmets ......... does not beautify the disappearance of the "foreigners" but lots of blood and possible scars could have been avoided by the affected.
Fury Erupts After Foreigners Brutally Assault Local in Patong
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The whole story is out of context and has no journalistic value whatsoever. The only probable intention is, again, to boost the racism against all non-Thais. Wondering, if the Thai press is reporting the same.
The only sentence to be commented on is actually "“Thai laws are too weak” as said by a Thai. This is absolute nonsense, Thai laws are excellent but the rampant corruption literally everywhere ensures, that this excellent set of laws is not enforced to the benefit of the higher-ups, the semi-divines and all those in the driver seats 😞