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I just love the article rooted on a prediction of Siam Commercial Bank while publishing a picture of "Superrich". Is this the proverbial crystal ball owned and operated by the SCB leadership now?

Well, as long as I see Somchai and his friends directing traffic under a functioning traffic light .......... How entertaining when the traffic light goes green, Somchai stops the traffic and waits for the traffic light to go red - to do his world-famous traffic light dance. Leave such things to the experts; traffic and crowd management was never a Thai forte ...

Maybe the same medical team which assessed Dr T?

All the while the real professionals managed to get through Covid with a black Zero and Air Asia as well as (my favourite) Thai Vietjet Air have recently announced mega orders for new planes. The problem with WE was the company's leadership - a carbon-copy of Thai Airway International which, apparently, clocked up a loss of exceeding 300 billion Baht (that is B and not M). TG nevertheless is ordering new planes and then scratches whatever they scratch to find out, if any where to they could fly next. Possibly like a 7/11 for the staff with the difference that there is no cashier on the way out? To visualize the organization of such airlines, I love to revert to the pecking order within Thai Airways as published by themselves 😉 Reading is believing 😉

Well, it seems that things have changed. In the past, Cambodia got power from Laos which was delivered through the Thai power grid. The same applied to the South of Laos which was supplied also through the Thai power grid. This optimization of Thai infrastructure compensated for the non- and later poor abilities of Laos to supply their South and/or export power to the Cambodian Northeast.

Julie Bishop, the latest prophet on an UN ticket meddling in a subject she as well as most of her predecessors have no understanding. "Bishop said the country remains trapped in both natural and man-made disaster." Well, Madam, the trap is only man-made; the natural inconveniences have been around forever and the people are used to handle them and the hardship which comes with it. The "man-made" disaster; why do you not address that particular issue with the Chinese ambassador to the UN and go public - for once? The Chinese ensure enough gun power and -powder as long as the Tadmadaw can supply "rare earths". The same kissing of backsides is going on with Zelenzky and his brethren in Ukraine after having cooked up a nice Ukrainian Red Borscht Soup with the blonde mad man in the White House. What a farçe all this is 😞

We're getting closer to the point. Read what happened in 2008; same scenario. The whole ranigazoo is to justify a military coup, yet the real reason might be the disintegration of the coalition government = thug of war. Imagine, military coup will dethrone the present "democratically elected" government professionally puppet mastered which is not at all to the military's liking. Once the government has been forcefully replaced, a Thai big wig in arms will settle the conflict in Phnom Penh and it will be business as usual - until the next incident. Nobody in uniform along the border shoots anywhere without being instructed from above; cross-border requires even higher ups to bless the activity. Your call .......

Most interesting aspect from a corner unknown to me. Could you elaborate on that theory; why would the red brethren in the North squeeze the puppet state ?

All a misunderstanding, the money was prepared for the plumber who is to fix the water leak in the lawyer's bathroom ........

You can read it up in the Bible already "Lord, forgive them for they don't know what they are doing" The shot which killed the Cambodian soldier came from a Thai weapon. Question is, how this this (as well as most likely all other weapons) get fired in the first place. Somchai the soldier would not dare to do anything without explicit order from higher up at the border. That higher up gets the orders from bigger wig in the province's capital. Latter consults with the army headquarters. In short, shooting is instructed/ordered and you have to dig around there first. For me this is a repetition of the smoke screen the government pulled up in 2008, slightly to the West in Khao Phra Viharn (Sisaket province) compared to this year's incident. Just be careful, you're playing with fire. Diplomatically the ice is pretty thin as both countries have BIG faces to lose and you might stir the racist pot on both sides of the border which would be the perfect start of a war. Just saying ........

A student's hoax to "surprise" his fellow students? An extremely smart kiddo showing off his skills yet the shot backfired? A sicko who needs professional help or get isolated? Let those experts find out; taking the boy's parents into the equation might help?

The air is getting thinner by the day. &nbsp Medical doctors are considered semi-divine here in the land and Thaksin's aura is yet another ball game. The authorities digging around in this mess are serving the country which is run - presently at least - by Thaksins daughter. Knives out - the army is ready and the defense minister announced a possibility of him not excluding another military coup (the 20th since 1932). Lets see, will be an interesting summer

Based on your information, you leave the country latest 11 June (in four days) OR file for an extension. In both cases you need the original police report and the new passport.

But then: a) no money can be made as just reopening a door leaves little money-trail to line pockets b) it would not serve as smokescreen for the PM, who apparently is in charge of such things. This despite a dangerous border conflict with Cambodia, the purchase of Air Force toys, seeking alternatives to submarine engines (as the Germans refuse to sell them).

Get the fellow back and let him strip the old paint and the give the (relatively new and not 600 years old) wall a coat or two of new paint. Supervised by some authority with an electronic bracelet - just in case he wants to do a runner again. Present nightly the progress on the work on Facebook on a special page and inform the US officials in Chiang Mai and Bangkok accordingly. Would work wonders but if the pr1ck is not a complete tart he will never return to Thailand while the Americans will not extradite him. What would help though is publish his personal details with photo (see immigration at arrival/departure) as well so to embarrass the cutie while eventually be a warning to potential brothers-in-arms!

If this is true - there is light at the end of the tunnel. Question is only, if it is not the head lamps of the engine racing against us 😉

At the brinks of a border war with Cambodia, state's coffers short of trillions of funds while still pleasing the Air Force with new fighters and the navy with submarines, all the indicators gone on red and the prima-inter-pares has nothing else to do but to standardize smoking areas? Really, seriously? I rest my case!

A) this cannot be as Thailand has no prostitution as we are all told. B) Customers can conveniently access condoms through digital channels, including the Krungthai Bank mobile app. So much to diversification of a bank 😉

I thought it is 21st century and kindergarten is out at 3.30pm. This rattling the cage - we had all this back in 2008 when the doctrine was to unite Thailand from all this domestic throwing manure at random. Nothing better than to cook up a foreign enemy. For sure it was not the small soldiers along the border (which I visited extensively); they are brothers-in-arms, eat together, help each other and even speak the same language. An order to shoot comes from higher up and that order; cross border, comes from even higher up. But the bucket stops with the defense minister who said that a military coup is not impossible. Well, if he does not have his ministry under control, who has then? Apart from domestic politics with Dr T fiddling around everywhere, Anutin dethroned from his interior ministry sedan chair and Dr T's daughter running around without concept due to lack of experience, it could give the gentlemen in green good reasons to instigate the 20th coup d'état since 1932. The only thing which changed since 1932 is the amount politicians pay for buying votes and at the end everybody is surprised, that it did not work again. But that applies only to Lala Land; Thailand is a modern democracy with polarized coalition government run by professionals in the trade 😉

Once some culprits are led to the gallows, dust will settle and all go back to "business as usual".

The Foreign Exchange Form - for the Bank of Thailand - is nothing new. I remember 30+ years ago you had to sign such a form, then called EC51, to get the funds credited. Likewise you needed to fill in/sign such a form if you bought more than a few hundred dollars or went on an overseas trip with a Thai credit card. I forgot that once and the issuing bank did not approve the debits from hotels in Europe as the limit then was 80,000 Baht. Lesson learnt and moved my credit card bank to an international much more professional bank. A phone call was all it took and the bank cleared spending limits and the EC51 form electronically for me to sign upon return.

Ring your embassy, you are certainly not the first one to do so .........

Does Emirates enjoy 5th freedom rights, i.e. revenue traffic between Bangkok and Siem Reap? If yes, it will ring in a whole new chapter in bilateral aviation between the two countries 😉

My theory is, that the entire rattling of the cage, i.e. the incident along the Thai-Cambodian border, is due to Thaksin's stirring up the mud nicely. You unite domestically by presenting a foreign enemy. As we know, the present government is losing trust and power very fast lately and the opposition keeps driving in nail after nail into the government's coffin. So to deviate the attention, present a foreign enemy. It was successfully applied back in 2008 already once around Khao Phra Viharn and it will work again this time around. I've been physically at the Thai-Cambodian border, at ancient border marks and met both Thai and Cambodian soldiers serving the protection of the border. They were more than brotherly, ate meals together etc. as the area is rather lonely and boring. From those encounters I can assure you, that someone gave the order to shoot; those boys along the border had the least reason to shoot anywhere. The fact that a Cambodian soldier (in other media I read about two) got killed would implicate, that it was Thai fire. Let's see what else is coming up; the Thai defense minister said earlier on, that he could not guarantee "no military coup" against the "democratically voted" government. Guess what, if the army does not listen to the government (it serves) and its top boss, the defense minister, then you might review their understanding of democracy, government and its divisions as well as what power the defense ministry, i.e. the army actually has. Just saying .........

Not according to the immigration officer who insisted, that the minimum balance had to be on one account. As you cannot seek mediation or arbitration further up the power ladder ..... Through another account and credit card payments (which he had the proof for) he had spent monthly +/- 120,000 Baht - now he is doing that in Vietnam.