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Signs in English giving "rental details" for chairs and tables would be helpful. For years now I've been witnessing unnecessary discussions and bad mouthing as the foreigner did either not understand what Khun Sisaket said in Tinglish - or got nicely ripped off. The highest fee proposal I ever got was 250 Baht per chair and 300 Baht for the centre table. As there were eight chairs (of which my family and I would have used only four) they wanted 2'300 Baht for eight chairs - used or unused around the table. Since I am a burnt child I asked when arriving and opted for slightly cheaper options of 20 Baht/chair. The rest was invested in food and drinks provided/sold by the chair operator ;-)

Former PM Prayut went bananas over AirBnB, declared it "prohibited by law" and now his successor is promoting the forbidden tourism alternative? Well, have we not seen the very same with Grab Taxi; some years back "legal" cabbies in i.e. Pattaya stopped Grab drivers, pulled passengers out of their cars and gave the Grab drivers a nice shake down - not to be forgotten by the latter.

Well, how interesting, that the Chairman of the Airport Authority of Thailand is a Police General - what a career. His uncle happens to be Dr Prasert Prasarttong-Osoth, who owns Bangkok Airways, Bangkok Air Catering, the airport of Koh Samui and the Bangkok hospital chains throughout Thailand. Maybe the Chairman, as a Police General, might have a word with the immigration to rid the system of the tremendous bureaucracy which seriously slows down the handling of travelers, results in long unnecessary queues and might be guided by immigration systems already in use in Malaysia or Singapore (latter for 20+ years already). Otherwise he will not go into history of propelling Swampy airport into the Global 50s league - for sure!

I am certainly not a fan of TG and have not flown with them in 20+ years for the main reason of unreliable, narrow seats and arrogant crew on ground and in the air. Having said that, TG met the expectations one might have when irregularity hits. They had a technical issue on HS-TKV (TG971) and needed a spare part from Bangkok to be flown in on their next service - 24 hours later on HS-TKU (TG970). Meanwhile all passengers were provided with meal vouchers, transport to/from hotels and boarded TG971D (HS-TKV) the next day. This can happen to any airline at any airport; so while the technical irregularity was not explained (yeah, I know, everyone is an airline mechanic and engineer) they lived up to expectations, kept the airframe on the ground and provided food and accommodation. And yes, this exercise has cost them a truckload of cash in Switzerland which is even much more in Thai Baht. Today's service from Bangkok to Zurich left 4+ hours late ........ TG = tomorrow go!

How lucky Dr T must be - the 30 Baht health insurance covered the 13? days stay so far as he has no access to an ATM machine and credit cards are possibly not ideal in a prison hospital run by the police ...........

TG flew to Brussels in the past - nothing new then ........

This has been in place for years already ...... seriously news from yesteryear

Never read bigger manure. If the semi-divine Thais in their semi-divine country with the above-the-lord hovering monks are sooo touchy and get insulted over sun bathing on a loan around the temple, then - for heaven's sake - put up sign boards in Polish, Mongolian and Rwandan about their sensitivity. Do you, honestly, think anyone would care if the same incident would have taken place on a piece of grass near a Christian church? All this under the assumption, that the dirty farang women were wearing some clothes as nude sun bathing would be exceeding a cultural borderline.

If I am not completely wrong, these Indian artists are copycats of what I've heard decades ago in the (officially non-existing) houses of ill repute called Gogo bars and open air bars with freelance staff in the very same country.

Thailand is soooooo blessed; having more Generals creeping around and playing so overly important that any other Asian country. The last time they counted they had more than one thousand of those clowns in uniform. The kids though can look forward to even more excitement for the next kiddies day; by then the submarines from China might have been rowed to the shallow shores of Thailand - at least now we know, why the admiralty of the Thai navy "preferred" submarines over any other seafaring vessel. What a hopeless joke this all is, at the tremendous expense of the ignorant tax payer who sheepishly is kept believing, that the armed forces of the Kingdom are doing anything useful - apart from wasting money by the billions, every year anew again ...... :-( So, please, do not ever mention "education" and Thai army in the same newspaper or book - thank you 8-)

Maybe Yingluck is not as sick as her brother and would have to share the cell with 80 other inmates over 40m2 of space with a hole in the middle of the cell. No Burberry boots allowed either :-(

Director-General of the Corrections Department, Sahakarn Petchnarin said that he has not met or visited Thaksin since he was sent from the Corrections Department’s hospital to the Police General Hospital on his first day back in Thailand. Makes me wonder, where Dr T really is - on medical leave of course ;-) Nobody ever saw, heard or met him over the last 4 ½ months ..... wishing him the quickest and best recovery so his followers can be reassured again 8-)

Here again, law enforcement would solve the problem. But, as long as Thailand's biggest processors of agricultural goods like sugar cane, corn and other crop for animal breeding can (and do) call the shots, the farmers have to follow suit to survive and be able to pay off the loan sharks. So, next time you eat cheap(er) meat, think of it; your lunch got fed on animal feed which left harvested fields behind. Subsequently those fields got burnt to get the new crop out to grow faster than just plowing and letting the crop hay there to rod.

It is called L A W E N F O R C E M E N T If someone comes up the wrong side of the road, confiscate the driving license, put a juicy official fine against receipt and that should teach them a lesson. In more "civilized" motor vehicle environments, this is not an issue ........ but Thailand has always done everything different to the rest of the world and, in most cases, got away with it !

Not kiddies shampoo in pink bottles, I clue ya!

Wondering if the sweetheart now gets skinned alive over the accusations against Aeroflot! And, as far as Chanel is concerned - provided it was genuine to start with - I cannot see anything sentimental as every HipHopVipHiSo girlie is swinging LVMH, Chanel and DC stuff around..... If I would have such bags (which I can afford but never felt inclined to buy) I certainly would not need to take them on a vacation to heavy wintered Russia. Show off gone wrong?

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10+ years too late - this "idea" happened on Yingluck's watch and must have cost Thailand billions of Baht. Have you seen, what is being hauled across from Laos into Nakorn Phanom, Mukdahan and Chong Mek?

A bank account with THB 800'000 needs to be having this balance. Had a friend (who subsequently moved away due to the complete absence of logical thinking) who had, for years, such a retirement visa. One year, he had exactly the THB 800K on the bank; then the bank debited THB 200 for the yearly ATM-card fee which resulted in THB 799'800. He noticed this and covered with four days later. Upon application for extension there was the "Njiet" and, despite explaining with papers of the bank and the booking confirmation by the bank that the THB 200 were ATM-card fee, the officer said no. My friend lost the plot, left, sold condo and car and moved to Sri Lanka. From what he tells me, the common sense seems to exist there; here they lost someone, who spent more than a million - brought in from overseas - per year. Go figure .........

This sweetheart could file a police report which would be considerably more effective - due to the "influencing" activities - than whine over spilt milk a month later.

The chauvinist has not understood, that in such a case the possibly not-too-busy mother-in-law, who is a part of the problem and not the solution, could lend a hand. Or he could spend more money for "wash and wear" garments. Or, worst case scenario, he could iron himself without being considered a pussy ........ Another quiet day at the news desk it seems ..........

McDonalds - the meter of CPI in 2024 ;-)

Interesting indeed. I always wondered, what special kind of species the local mailmen must be. I know of the following two existing addresses reading: 237/182 Soi 13, Ramkamhaeng 27/4 - and - 702/2 Moo 7, Soi 13 ½ Phinit Charoen Road, Nai Meuang, Meuang Given the countless unemployed racing through town now as "delivery boys" it is no wonder, that they have not the slightest clue, where all this could be. In the States they number roads, in Europe roads have unique names and the numbering is logical. House numbers here are being assigned by the local honcho on a chronological basis of application. While I live in house 232, my neighbour on the left is in 78, the one on the right is in 412 and the guy across the road is in 1078. I use, in each and every case, the GPS coordinates as literally all of these delivery people have a smart phone. Copy/paste the GPS data into the browser will open Google Map, then a blue button refers to "directions", then "start" and it would talk them to the destination. But yes, those smart phones are 21st century, the users usually not ..........

Is this really newsworthy in a land like Thailand? Men get "accompanied" here against financial tokens of appreciation, irrespective of race, religion or ethnicity. Plenty of Thai women seek the same kind of services by younger Thai males and countless karaoke lounges, "resort hotels", Turkish baths, Spas etc. are more than proof enough, that it is - after all - quite apparently the oldest profession on this planet. Must have been a quiet day at the news desk of Thai Visa, if you ask me .........

Well, it does not help to float silly ideas like a "landing tax" as discussed nine months ago but luckily never implemented - so far! Likewise I wonder. how many hundreds of thousands of non-Thais have left or are in the process of leaving. Thailand's idea on taxing revenues from overseas - like retiree pensions as of this year without offering anything in return like health care - was not the brightest idea either. All those non-Thai retirees are spending money which they either earned/inherited overseas, live here the whole year, buy condominiums, vehicles and have to proof of six times the minimum wage of a Thai citizen. Maybe food for thought? It might help to get press speakers and a united voice; all those farts from all those various bureaucratic branches of brainlessness does, quite obviously, not trigger off the desired effect.