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All the while, the entire world is "concerned" about the US in general, its tattering president and the USD 886 billion defense budget approval for 2024. So, what exactly is the US' point? Thailand will fix its own problems in its own way by its own people. I strongly suggest that the American people and their government is doing EXACTLY the very same - clean up your own mess first, pay up all your debts in zillions of USD and then wait for someone knocking on your door, if and when help, advice and/or assistance is needed.

Regretfully you are absolutely right, Sir!

Many years ago I attended a wild party and, well, had it with a parrot. Seeing the picture of Thammanat I was wondering, if he is the result of that wild party ............ One billion Baht - nice going for a doctorate from a laundry shop in California who spent four years in an Aussie slammer for a miracle of leaving Thailand with flour just to arrive down under with illegal powdery stuff ........ As long as you have such creatures around (I also saw that Chalerm was popping up again) ....... good luck Thailand!

Another little land mine in the military-drafted constitution. Maybe have a look at countries withOUT a constitution but a proper set of laws which is also enforced without exception, bribes or endings ..........

Wanted to buy a Mac Mini M2 in Nong Khai. Authorized dealers told me everything from fairy tale to pure nonsense, down payment of X, waiting between two weeks and two months and, the best is yet to come. In one shop they told me to go online and that is exactly what I did. But I ordered it from the manufacturer directly and got the machine in 48 hours, accompanied by a few phone calls of thank you for your order, shipment getting ready, shipped, delivery under way and arrival tomorrow between 2 - 3 pm. Question now is, how often do I ever go and visit any of those dealers again in the future. Same is with basics like shaving cream. Lotus carried Barbasol and then, all of a sudden, out of stock. Called in every few days - same answer. Googled the product, found the importer, ordered (37% cheaper) directly from them. How often will I go back to buy many, many things which I got at shops prior to the pandemic?

It could not be more Thai than this. If they have to take a position or decide on something else but food or fun, then they love to be ........ absent. Unless in an ICU on life support, all those absentees should be fired immediately without any possibility of ever taking a political position ever again. How can you be absent during such an important meeting, really!

I was always treated very nicely and correct with the officers at Chong Mek; same can be said about their Laotian colleagues in Vang Tao ????

Maybe that is the price the Thais have to pay as an installment to move their country into the 21st century. They went through Covid with zero compensation so, one more season down the Chao Phraya might be a one-time pain compared to what the dinosaur congregation of the oligarch elite will do to this country and its people for the foreseeable time ........ time will tell!

Well, well, what do you know! Peaceful election, clear results, chairs being moved around and the police has to prepare for protests? Do not tell me, that something went wrong to the extent, that some voters are seriously cross now? Because that would be absolutely undemocratic ????

What a ridiculous farçe - let's see, what those 14+ million voters have to say who got nicely shafted once more again. But yes, it is an US-pleasing democratic movement trail, according to Washington DC

The bottom of the ladder; below the semi-divine Thai you have all the non-Thais legally in the country, then the non-Thais with paper illegally in the country and then the crowd of stateless neo-slaves who can be exploited and scared to death. Note to self: happens in the 21st century apparently in a non-third world country

Once upon a time in a massage parlour in Chiang Mai ....... yet another lovely Thai story!

The answer is partly in the tremendous complicated and incompetent bureaucracy. Identify yourself upon arrival at the hospital and get a barcoded wristband which creates/accesses medical history as well as what is needed this time round. At the end, see the cashier, get the (overpriced) medicine if applicable and on departure your wristband is cut off and destroyed. If you see all those endless photocopies (don't forget to use blue ink for verification signature) and tons of files being driven around from A to D, back to C and onto F just to end with B (where it actually should have ended two hours ago) .........

Honestly, how can anyone legally earn that much money? But maybe it's like the saying goes "if someone earns money without work then someone else is working for less than his worth". No wonder the "status quo" on all fronts are of survival importance to the oligarch elite, the dinosaurs and all the crooks in various coloured crisp uniforms. Not my circus, not my monkey but - as a Thai citizen - I would start wondering ...........

The sluggish revival of business tourism, coupled with Thailand’s failure to establish itself as a global connection hub, has resulted in Thai Airways’ brand value lagging behind its rivals. Not quite so, Thai Airways (TG) dropped from a top star airline in the 80s to a flying play- and fun ground to the pleasure of staff, friends of staff, assorted crooks (like suppliers) and politicians. The difference a 7/11 down the street is, that TG is a 7/11 without a cashier desk, staff or till on the way out. So everybody helped themselves while there was anything available. Corruption marred with incompetent arrogance - the results are here. Sadly, this pristine piece of aviation under the baton of aviation experts like Capt. Yothin, Chatichai Bunya-ananta etc. took a turn after the forced retirement of the latter in 1992, when the air force boys not having the slightest clue moved in while the goons at the Ministry of Finance started breathing down TG's neck. How sad, from riches to rags ....... welcome aboard ????

Thai democracy explained, the script is given and no surprises expected by the old goats in the dirty farang stable ????

In Rainbow, 19 were foreigners and 66 were employees, while in Spice Girl, 10 foreigners and 28 employees Together, 29 alien and 94 Thais. Could it be, that those zillions of tourists are no longer interested in the bar scenes of the Land or .... if those zillions have shrunk to a few millions only? Maybe the chicken are coming home to roost?

The show is well under way ........ get the pop corn out for next week, it will be as interesting as May 1992 8-)

Simple, force the van owner (that tour company) to reveal the full details of the driver, otherwise the license is revoked, together with the assigned van, until the matter is cleared. You would be surprised, how quickly Somchai is being torn on his hair into the police station by the tour company ........ But yeah, as the slogan goes "Amazing Thailand" or "Welcome to Thailand", the land of the semi-divine where absof"*=(=)?tely everything goes overboard in their racist thinking against alien, dirty farang, kaek (dark skinned) or check (Chinese).

Wonders never seize: 300+ billion (not million) carried-forward losses 10 billion profit end of March while 20 billion losses were accrued by their 100% daughter enterprise Thai Smile; latter to be integrated 100% into Thai Airways Can anyone tell me, where my mistake in Thai mathematics is?

C'est le ton qui fait la musique! The senator is absolutely right in saying "..... other names could ........ be put forward ..... and the Move Forward leader doesn’t have to be the sole candidate". The statement is correct so best we leave it to the MFP people who got elected to sort out that problem as they will have to chose the leader under whom they want to work. But, as said, the rhetoric has changed in the right direction!

So nothing changed since 1962 then ........ ????

When hunting a rabbit; missing it by left and next shot missing it by right = by statistical value the rabbit is ready for your pan. On a more serious note I wonder, where the 49'500 Baht/Chinese come from. Even if this amount is correct, i.e. that is what Mr and Mrs China spend on an average Thailand trip, they do that with their agency in China. They fly on Chinese carriers, use Chinese travel agents for ground arrangements (buses etc.), stay in Chinese owned/run hotels and get hushed-hushed through Thailand by Chinese operators. The net value staying behind for Thailand and its people is a fraction of this. That is, why they call them the zero-dollar tourists. The customer base from the Middle East is less than welcome; Thais have a thing with "dark skinned" people and call them "Khaek" which also covers Southasians and our friends in Africa.

Let's get the popcorn; it will be an interesting summer - me thinks!

Most likely sick, vomitted over the balcony and followed "the content of his stomach". An actual description of a suicide quite a few years ago in the Pattaya Mail. "followed the content of his stomach" - you have to think of that first!