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1.2 million of which are Thais and 860,000 are mostly Russian, Chinese, Taiwanese, Koreans, and Vietnamese. So the dirty farang are no longer a momentum and, despite all the endeavors of the goons at the tourism promotion board in the dunes of the Middle East and papadam parties in South Asia, those target groups did not make it onto the top of the list. It was a price game with quality tourists helping the local providers to upgrade their product which resulted in earning X with, for argument's sake, 100 guests. The volume game did not require any upgrade (possibly even downgrading the product/offering) and today it takes 1'000 guests to earn X. A matter of philosophy; I still believe it is easier on the price game - less staff, smaller infrastructure, less capital tied up but I am not in the local tourism industry.

Of course you can satisfy a lady 28 years your junior. The secret key to happiness is called ATM. Thank me later ????

Well, well, what do I know? When the house is on fire and I douse it with water I worry about the water damage? The death penalty serves to avoid the culprit of doing ever anything wrong again. And I would assume, that most rapists are more into raping than into worrying about the aftermath, otherwise the aftermath would be the hinderance of the rape in the first place. Needless to say that you cannot let loose cannons like rapists get away with lukewarm sentences of a few years in the slammer rather than getting rid of them once and for all - for the potential fear that the rapist might kill the victim. I cannot put myself into the position of a rapist .........

Ok, the script is always the same: - inactive posting, and should the story not dwindle down on its on, then - everything a big misunderstanding End of script; get ready for the next little fairy tale chapter of BIBs

What has this to do with Chuan Leepai, except that he happens to be the father of the fellow. Too many fathers are regretfully aware of the misbehaving of their offsprings; how many "clean" kids had less than clean parents? The link to the father is politically motivated - nothing else!

A nice problem to have ..........

Look at the pricing and all questions are answered. For a hop from one to the next beach you pay anything between 600 - 1'000 Baht to the cabbie. 400 Baht take you from downtown Bangkok to the airport and there are taxi operators getting you from Bangkok to Pattaya (130kms) for 1'200 Baht. And that is only taxi, the same applies to many restaurant, bars and some hotels. Your call ????

Look at the childish and ridiculous conditions of the venue operator and you want to stay back home; all the while the same conditions must be excellent material for Cleese for a future "evening" for the public. Most likely though nobody would believe him back in Europe ????

Well, in a land which has been milking zillions off tourism it is scary to see, that the local mafia is still full steam at work. If you cannot get the taxi service sorted to be a "service" rather than a rip-off then something went wrong. Since 1987 (Amazing Thailand - remember) it is the next generation of crooks, thieves and gangsters at work; previously more in Bangkok, Phuket and Pattaya but now apparently spreading their wings into the sticks of the hinterland of Isan. Keep up the good work and, yes, withhold names as it would result in a possible loss of the ever-so-important-face or getting thrown into the slammer for "defamation"!

Gone unnoticed for years ...... really? There is a reason, why I personally still advocate for the death penalty for all those paedophiles, rapists and drug dealers. It will not make unhappen all those damages which they created but you protect the society from future "incidents" by the culprit and save the taxpayer a fortune. A X years stay in a penitentiary very, very rarely corrects a culprit and certainly does not undo the damages to the victims - me thinks! In this case, rid planet Earth from the culprit - unsure though what to do with the parents of the 8-years old but, for good measure, it is simply not possible that such issues go "unnoticed"!

Somchai made a well-deserved break at the local pub and had to say hello to his Mianoi in his favourite house of ill repute ....... why are you asking?

Get the popcorn, an interesting summer awaits ahead

At least they have no excuse to be NOT on time any longer ????

While the BIB (the immigration is a sub-division) were, are and most likely stay unable to get the Red Bull sweetheart on the run for meanwhile 10+ years, despite TV crews could find him without a problem ........ they hunt all over Thailand to look after those dirty farang and alien. Look into your computers, EVERYthing is recorded there and just run a list of overstayers. You know where those culprits are (unlike a substantial number of semi-divine Thais who do NOT live at their registered address) and go after them without all this rannygazoo of "hunting", "coming out in force" etc. As the police is, like all other government agencies, completely overstaffed, it would be an easy task to just include this duty in their regular day-to-day scores.

Maybe the Thais need to be told, that no foreigner so far could roll up his property, pack it into a suitcase and take it along back to his homeland. Look at all the property and assets owned by the oligarch elite overseas, accounting for billions of dollars, and not one of them arrived at Bangkok airport with a plot of land in their luggage. Maybe time to throw out this medieval paragraph and let inferior dirty farang and alien own some land for own private use? The Thai law stipulates, that everybody is equal. Well, explain that to the non-Thai husband, when his Thai wife makes a runner with Somchai and takes land title deeds, usually paid in full and exclusively by the non-Thai husband, along. I was told, that non-Thai spouses have to legally sign a document at the land office to forfeit their right in a land, where everybody is equal. Go figure ........ pathetic farçe!

Ah, the North Korean version of percentage expression - the country which achieves 118% of all voters voting for ........... you know the script ????

Thank Chavalit Yongchaiyuth and his cronies; he was the one running around proclaiming "Green Isan" or "อีสานเขียว" some 35 years ago - the result of his endeavours of irrigation management are finally evident.

They will know for sure on 13 July latest. It might be later though as you could also see the inability to figure out eight years of sitting on the prime ministers sedan chair which got slightly extended to 9+. Lets wait and see, an interesting summer ahead ????

3,000 baht for the school lunch per semester? Given the Thai love for public, religious and royal holidays you can assume, that a semester 90 school days, i.e. 3'000 for 90 meals or 34 Baht/meal. As it is most likely outsourced servicing the operator wants to make some money. Go figure! You get what you pay for and in this case the kiddos are the definite losers and explains the present state of affairs as far as health in children in Thailand (as well as most other countries) is concerned. Apart from missing basic needs of minerals, vitamins and salts the nutritional values of the pictured kitchen disaster is self-explanatory.

While any pornograpic issue whatsoever (life shows, movies, pictures etc.) are forbidden by law. Has ever anyone told these people, that the calendar refers to 2566 - or in Western terms - 2023? Just wondering if and when they will come out from under their hiding stone .......

Well, I call it neo-slavery. Most Cambodians (like Burmese and Laotians) work here illegally, some of the Burmese even paperless as they fled from the genocide across the border. Too many Thai businesses benefit of the status-quo by running their businesses with neo-slaves, latter without legal protection, insurance or minimum salaries - exploitable to the very end. The reference to MFP would have to verified by MFP directly; what the media carried/carries at the moment is a subjective wrong position and does not reflect MFP's views on the subject. Is it dinosaur Hun Sen doing his brethren in the West a verbal favour?

Given the fact, that eggs are a local product by local chicken fed with locally milled feed mill food ...... but maybe the chicken kings of CP-group can answer that. Egg prices are like the stock exchange, they can change daily - to the benefit of the chicken? Another interesting discovery is, that eggs sold in wholesale markets are usually cheaper than the mom and pop shop around the corner selling eggs laid by their own "in-house" hen ...... your call!

So it is either excellent weed smoked by the goons or just the regular recurrence of day dreaming. Does anyone in his/her right mind think, that the present political Hickhack would help in any way to boost confidence of buyers or investors? Where does the Thai Baht stand in 2024 and later? Some 10+ years ago the red and yellow shirts celebrated their multi week stand-off with warlike cordons in downtown Bangkok and closed airports - during in peace time. Is Thailand the right destination for their next holidays which they start planning now for winter 23/24? Hundred thousands of tourists got stucked at Swampi, Don Meauioing and U-tapao; some lot their jobs because they were 2 weeks late back to work, others had financial impacts of "extra unpaid leave" as Western companies certainly would not cover "late return to work due to political unrest in Thailand" ..... International news services (BBC, CNN, DW, TV5 and France24, just to name a few) ensured proper coverage of the "fight of the Titans" in Thailand back then. The fight of the dinosaurs against elected MFP will affect foreign exchange rates for sure so, whatever those governmental agencies of DBD, TAT and other official fan clubs come up with - take it with the possible bigger-than-usual grain of salt!

To all landlords, put it in writing. I saw contracts clearly stipulating, that a delay of more than 30 calendar (note, not week- but calendar) days in rent payment would allow the landlord to extradite the tenant. The property would be emptied, the belongings kept for another 30 days after which the left behinds would be considered forfeited. The legal reason behind this is that the security deposit alone is not sufficient to cover eventual costs left behind by a tenant being in arrear.

Nobody might buy these books. I had a big collection of English, French and German books and gave them away free of charge to a second-hand book store in the end!