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It would be a step in the right direction, if the present rules and laws would be strictly enforced. Take the past highway robbery by the local police clowns. Meanwhile there are cameras everywhere and fine collection works - all of a sudden - into the right direction now. Go and compare the fine income from the pre-covid area to the coming years - per year. Mind boggling, how much money was syphoned into clouds of steam 😉

a) wondering how delighted the online platforms will be as the collection would have to be done when ordering and hence the platform will have to do the accounting work. b) someone has to pay for those engineless submarines and all the other funny ideas the last few governments had. c) wondering if anyone has any common sense in one of the temples of inspirational governance.

While they try to make their ends meet, people like Phumtham comes along and moves .... the ends! Damage done, unless some African purchasing ministers can be "convinced" to ink a deal, the rice will end up with the Somchais from the poorest region in the land - basically back to base. You cannot make such stuff up, seriously!

The endless revolutions of Thailand's Politics-Merry-Go-Round; it is all a big joke, not to be taken serious and if the young kiddo - presently place holding as party leader should get anywhere near the prime minister's office, then our friends in uniform might bring all this to a screeching halt ....... again and again and again. Don't count your chickens before they hatch! You're welcome

Must have been a quiet day at the news desk - it seems. The kiddo has quite obviously too much loose change by the car and the time piece. In my next life I want to be an influencer too - although I have not the slightest clue, what an influencer does 😉

"121 investigation files, amounting to 33,681 pages" - you simply cannot make this stuff up. If a dirty farang steals an ice cream at a 7/11, then he has to bear the consequences. That includes photos, finger pointing, (usually wrong spelling of his) name, age, nationality and whatever else. 93+ million damages, to who and by whom. The fact, that the culprit is married to an actress is absolutely irrelevant, unless the lady of the house was a part of the deal. Welcome to Stone Age, some departments in the land are still run by Neaderthalers ...... it seems!

100,000 of 56 million - not quite representative. But it would still be interesting to find out, why 100,000+ signed a petition. What is their fear? I never touched the stuff and have no intention to do so but from whatever I've learnt, it is as "dangerous" as smoking or boozing and, unlike the afore-mentioned two addictions, neither life-threatening or addictive. I personally do not like the smell of a ganja-shop next door of an open air restaurant but that has to be sorted out between the restaurants and the cannabis shops. In closing, have you ever looked how many of those thousands of shops are having customers? From what I see, it cannot be thriving business. If they criminalize it again, the staff will wear nurse-uniforms, priced go up and extortion and blackmailing will be on the agenda again .........

A Man of the Cloth nicking a beer - unthinkable

Maybe ASEAN is getting sick of Thailand ........ like Myanmar just for other reasons ........

18 million for eight rooms? Back in the day during my university studies, we were told, that the costs of a hotel room must be in line with the revenue the room generates. This was mentioned as 0.1% of the costs. So the room costs in its present state reads 2,250,000 Baht, 0.1% of which reads 2,250 Baht. Looking at the building and it floor plan shape = good luck with that one!

Just in case the TAT bunch cannot read, maybe they can understand a drawing. The following cartoon is copyrighted by ©Stephh but wraps up the problematic perfectly fine

Eat pasta ...........

Well, there are - we've used "Guardforce" in the past. Pretty unmarked vehicles on a pick-up chassis can be seen downtown Bangkok; certainly some other companies shuttling all that cash into/from all those banks ......

It might be smoke-screening over the recent trip of the sitting PM to get Thai citizen visa-exempted into the Schengen-states ..... Future will tell

You should boot out all those governmental clowns inventing all this complicated mess; the immigration officers - more than once - told me that they hardly can keep up with all those continuous changes. Either enforce a mandatory visa for countries of Thailand's preference and the rest should go visa-exempted for 60 - 90 days. I am glad, that the business from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru justifies a visa exemption for 90 days. The South Koreans are the only other country with the same deal and all the others ........ are being confused; travellers as well as executing officers alike. Well done!

Excellent, keep up the good work. Unlike the airport tax on departure, which can be levied very simple by the number of passengers on an outgoing aircraft, it does not work the other way round by collecting this "landing tax" through the ticket sales. You'll have Thai citizen (who might go head over heels), PR and work permit expatriates, retirees and other long-term visa holders and an infant might also be questionable to be taxed. All this upon arrival, 137 different currencies, fantastic queues in getting baggage and immigration sorted - good luck with this stuff. I seriously wonder, what kind of excellent weed is smoked in certain offices in this countries ........

Wissanu Krea-ngarm is coming to the rescue whenever the proverbial "*ç%ç%"* hits the air movement device - how nice of him! He also got entrusted to teach the prime minister on how to do his job.

Now the "dirty farang" and "alien" crowd has to come to rescue Thailand’s economic resilience for future challenges, such as purchase of three subs without engines, the ever-so-profitable Thai Airways and the State Railway of Thailand. Keep up the good work. You can take it to the bank that thousands of retirees will pack and move elsewhere; there is a limit to pounding, squeezing and getting treated like garbage by the official Thailand and its endless bureaucratic systems of making a foreigner's life difficult.

Yoovidhya's reputation went out the window twelve years ago. He should have taken his little sweetheart by the neck and get him to face the music - like everybody else. The kiddo is accused of murdering a police officer on duty while apparently driving a Ferrari under the influence of some "booster stuff". But yes, if you spoil your kid with Ferraris to start with, then you've ruined the kid and - in many cases - the reputation and good name of a family and, in this case, of an absolutely unnecessary product. Good luck with the law case; let's see what's next - the saga seems to continue into the next decade.

Throw him out of the country and ban him for life - next please!

It's a total write-off for sure. The offering of a reward of 100,000 Baht is a step in the right direction but if the stuff got stolen and is not lost ........ look forward and invest in less insecure shuttling of valuables. A tote bag ...... the mind boggles!

"Dr Adinun Kittiratanapaibool explaining that staff acted with good intentions to protect patient welfare." Now this is quite an interesting wrapping around the "freedom of speech" subject in Thailand. Poor in communication to start with, Thailand added some interesting stepping stones preventing what is known elsewhere as ....... freedom of speech. Dr Adinun explanation confirms the incident; assume though that the silenced gentleman will be speaking his mind once he gets off the plane in Adelaide. Maybe Dr Adinun should have kept his mouth shut instead - just thinking out loud?

Stuck in the year 5,000 B.C. But as the saying goes, the oligarch elite is not interested to educate the underlings to a level which would allow the latter to think and ultimately get rid of the Phooyais. Simple as that. Any country charging for education is a banana republic - sorry. School should be absolutely free and paid for by taxes which allows any kid to learn and study as far as (s)he can/wants/is able without a financial sword swinging over its head. Such programmes have been running most successfully in the First World, i.e. some European countries. Here though it starts with taxes - the majority does not pay income tax due to the absence of a decent income. Fun and Games overruled the education system here ever since there is a Thai word for education. Education secures the future of a country but this needs to be understood and shared ......

Tax the stuff like booze and tobacco cigarettes and get on with it ........ next please!

Given the way the hosts are treating the visiting Burmese ....... it is no wonder. While these Burmese kids need to be taught a proper lesson it might also be noteworthy to see, what it takes to "legalize" a Burmese in Thailand. The hospitality industry in Thailand is in dire need of staff yet to get the paperwork for qualified Burmese (same of Lao or Cambodians) is an absolute nightmare. As "suggested" by the department of labour in Cholburi, we used agents later on, at THB 20K per person, to get the paperwork sorted. Guess what, after the "guarantee of six months working" the same agency took out the alien worker and placed them somewhere else. Modern slave trade indeed. We sold the restaurant luckily and would never ever touch a business in Thailand requiring manpower again. So those naughty kids might be just too tied down by the Thai bureaucracy, cannot join school, learn a profession or - heaven forbid - work!