Sydebolle

Maybe this time they keep her .........

Don't forget Thailand's money minting industry - tourism and hospitality.

The shortage of trainable staff in hotels, hospitality and tourism, i.e. everywhere where there is an interface need to a non-Thai speaking person, is frightening.

The need of basic educated willing people with a working command of English is much more than the welders and carpenters - me thinks!

The German government told everybody that they could handle it.

What they could not do is differentiate between (illegal) migrants and refugees. Start here by fingerprinting all those arrested and collected that night wherever those attacks took place and extradite them for good.
Some innocent bystanders not doing anything against it - sorry, you just were at the wrong place at the wrong moment. Establish a database of those bastards.

I - for one - would not imagine that real refugees, having ran for their lifes, would do such things.

Note to Merkel: those who sow the wind will reap the whirlwind. Me thinks the whirlwind came much earlier without asking

He who sows the wind shall reap the whirlwind:

As long as they bash each other - good riddance!

Impound the vehicles at THB 10'000 a piece - good money for the state coffers and trust me, it drives the message home

Despite all those do-gooders out there; there is a justified range of misbehaviour which call for the death sentence. In this particular case sterilise the bastard otherwise we shall be reading about this bloke anytime soon again - most likely with the news that he achieved his goal!

Could anyone try to get the list of, say the top 100 income tax payers in the land by nationality please?

Maybe a little late in the season; after more than a generation I can witness each and every day, that in tourism driven areas English is spoken less and less and, those who sa-peak Engleet, sa-peak mai gaaeng tawlaee!
Nobody was ever serious about education here in this land; uneducated fools make a much better electorate

Apart from the collection of THB 64.95 as a revenue, the costs against it is Somsak on the ladder - each an every time. Regulate the subject and ensure adherence - if latter fails, fine the culprits painfully. Would work but I am forgetting - TIT

A nice little storm is brewing up; the puppet masters are moving into place. Wondering when and how the proxy war starts. As long as they knock each other off only - fine with me = good riddance. Maybe, for once, the rest of the planet is just sitting put to avoid exporting the problem(s) and reduce this cleric madness to a manageable size.

Maria has been an "old hand" in this part of the world. I remember getting my first glasses from her when she was running "Lao Optic" or so on Settathirat Road in Vientiane.

The shop folded up as the whole idea was too new for Vientiane then and she moved on (with clients like me). Pricing is not everything and customer, resp. after-sales service is something I - for one - appreciate and am also willing to pay for.

The others better go for the two-for-one options at Top Charoen or other shops with arguably hardly any clue except 20% discount - Nuff said!

Just who are the "others"?. Yes I have been to Euro did not find it particularly good on service or more particular on price . Seeing as you have only experienced this one,obviously you are not knowing.

Stick with the one,the only one you know ,but for the "others" there is a far better option ,as other posters have found on this thread nuff said

The other shop I used (as I reside in Bangkok for three decades) is St. Moritz between Sukhumvit Soi 5 and 7, where professionals are at work. But the choice is yours and good luck we live in a country of choice.

I, for one, just cannot see how people view everything over the price; but good luck there are different people too

Well, I happen to see the video and am surprised, that these two girls got all the attention.

Just wondering what is going on in all this go-go bars in Patong, Patpong and Walking street. I, for one, saw considerably juicier stuff than these two twenagers hanging out of a CRV with a bottle of water while inching its way through Patong.

Guess it has to do with work permits; as the bust in Pattaya's best known Russian/Uzbekistani Go-Go bar proved So we all know now, have work permit and plenty of cash - no promprem!

As long as they kill and murder themselves and leave all those infidels out of the game - good riddance!

Maria has been an "old hand" in this part of the world. I remember getting my first glasses from her when she was running "Lao Optic" or so on Settathirat Road in Vientiane.
The shop folded up as the whole idea was too new for Vientiane then and she moved on (with clients like me). Pricing is not everything and customer, resp. after-sales service is something I - for one - appreciate and am also willing to pay for.
The others better go for the two-for-one options at Top Charoen or other shops with arguably hardly any clue except 20% discount - Nuff said!

The TAT (Tourism Authority of Thailand) sees it differently and forecasts a three digit increase on tourists winging in from not-so-cold Siberia; we will see ;-)

The next 7 days will be the same mayhem as every other year. Thai people love to drink, and are normally too drunk to realize that they are totally unfit to drive. Some never realize that fact because they die.

Don't get me wrong but most are unfit to drive when sober ...........

Wait for AEC2015 to kick in and then Tagalog will be the lingua franca

To visit the temple sanctuary you must access it from the Cambodian side which requires a 4WD up the hill; don't leave the path as the area remains mined with UXOs

Well, I think it is a step in the right direction - let's give 'em that. In the past they only ran statistics comparing fatality figures to earlier years just to find out if they had hit a new record (same on Songkran).

To give you a comparison, the total number of deadly fatalities on Swiss roads in entire 2014 was 243 - which is still 243 too many!

It took Nils Lumholdt, Lennart Holmgren and some other professional Scandinavians from SAS to put a bright star called Thai Airways International (TG) onto the aviation map of Asia.

The "mother company" Thai Airways (TH) was merged with the big daughter, Thai experts like Chatchai Bunya-Ananta, Capt. Yothin and other dedicated, honest professionals led TG to become a leading carrier on the planet.

1992 Chatchai was "invited" to take his mandatory retirement on turning 60 and from then onwards TG was gliding into the mess it is now. Successive incompetence, nepotism and rampant corruption on all fronts, marred with absolute aviation and airline ignorance let to today's ruins.

if you cannot compete them, join them - Thai (TG) went into Nok Air (DD) and Thai Smile (WE) competing their own product rather than streamlining the TG product, keeping it up to date, see what others do and listen to customers. While you cannot be everybody Darling you also should avoid being everybody's enemy.

Get the spirit back into this airline, all business is people. Move the old toads into retirement, clear out one to two floors on head office, rid the system of those chunking-styled owls hick hacking on the younger ones and forget about Thai and Farang. Some things Farangs are better, likewise some things are better left in Thai hands. Operating a professional intercontinental airline takes professionalism which, regretfully, is in total shortage with TG for the last years.

Look for the Chatchais, the Yothins and think-alikes to re-introduce a professional airline with an impossible to beat product bearing a Thai touch; it was possible before and, given the right staff force, will be possible again !

Pol Colonel Prachum Ruangthong, superintendent of Koh Pha Ngan Police Station, said "We have handled the case very carefully."

No doubt, the handling was PERFECT; question which shall never be answered is, if the handling was in the interest of serving justice or not!

Well, there is hope irrespective of guilt and/or fair trial.

Remember the Blue Diamond Affair in 1989.

In 1989 Kriangkrai, a Thai janitor at a palace of a Saudi prince stole (according to his "confession") a huge heist of jewellery and gems and managed to smuggle it out of the palace, through airport security up to his home town of Lampang.
Lt Gen Chalor headed the Royal Thai Police investigation and got Kriangkrai arrested and secured most of the heist.
Kriangkrai got a seven-years sentence but walked free after three years as he confessed to the crime and for good behaviour.
The very same Chalor flew to Saudi Arabia to return the jewellery; latter though was mostly replaced with fakes and the Blue Diamond was missing (and never surfaced again).
Saudi businessman Al-Ruwaili, close to the Saudi Court, travelled to Bangkok to investigate into the faking and missing stuff; got abducted and murdered; days before three Saudi diplomats got shot dead as well. The murders remain unsolved and no connection to the jewellery theft could be established.
Chalor lateron was convicted having ordered the murder of the wife and son of a gem dealer involved in the affair and sentenced to death in 1995. 2009 the death sentence got commuted to 50 years life, four years later in 2013 Chalor walked free.
Thailand must have lost hundreds of billions of Baht in transfers over the last 25 years as nobody wanted to be able to clear the matter and nobody will touch this still very hot potato!

Take the story of the Red Bulls founder's grandson who overran a police man with his fancy car; I - for one - never ever heard anything on that case again.

So keeping the pressure up might reason the responsible authorities to review and convert the death sentence - as said earlier on, irrespective of guilt and/or fair trial. If it would not have involved to British citizens the story would have disappeared long time under the big carpet.

Look at the bright side; all those sober can race with 175 miles/hour through Pattaya now as literally hardly anybody will be on the road. Most intoxicated Somsaks will be roaming the Northeast (no controls there - guaranteed), the night-service-providers are never that drunk/intoxicated as they have to be on top of their customers (no pun intended) while the normal crowd might opt celebrating the festive season around the barbie with iced beers from the coolers.
Win win for everybody except the BiB who will go again empty

In the diplomatic world it would be called "being recalled for consultations" ;-)

Rattling the PR-cage again on the US business with underlings like Myanmar.

From 1987 to 1989, a logistic company in Bangkok I managed orchestrated the tremendous logistic challenge of garment exports from Textile Factory Number 3 north of Rangoon (Yangon) to the United States. The client was a Korean multinational who brought the raw materials into Burma, had them finished and re-exported the garments via two transit points to Sears Roebuck in Chicago.

Reason was to "circumvent" the yearly garment quotas at that time; Thailand and other countries were restricted with export ceilings (which some of it hit already in March of every running year), Vietnam was on the enemy list, Cambodia was not there yet while India and Bangladesh were not up to standard either. It was not for humanity reasons, they simply could not get the stuff from any other (more or less reliable) source; latter being the team of Koreans who must have lost all their hair over those business transactions

Everybody was happy, the underpaid workers (who would have had no work at all otherwise), the seller, the buyer and the service providers in between - that is the reality!