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I am fully aware of those football fields - hence the reference to the "tiny" plot for his 55 (some 20 years ago) luxury vehicles. Is it not nice to know, that the government has remuneration packages of eight and nine digit amounts for the truly dedicated?

Cancel in writing (i.e. email) with a scanned copy of the last bill/receipt and that's it. Stop paying, keep the termination and Bob's your uncle!

True friendship, social life, mutual respect ..... just to start with.

Absolutely horrific and not acceptable - but possibly poverty has something to do with it. Millions of Thais do not live, they barely exists. Latter keeps the ice extremely thin and it takes very little to loose nerves. However it does not justify the action in any matter and should be dealt with the full force of the law.

Aaaahhhhhhh, Roi Et again - creeping on its way out of Stonehenge days, inch by inch, somewhere towards the second millennium - but yet far away from anything like the 20th, lest forget the 21st century. Hilarious - explains Thailand in a (pun intended) nut shell ????

As far as the inheritance is concerned, yes - this is not covered and remains at the sole discretion of the heir. So inheritances do not fall under the category of "earned during marriage". As far as gifts are concerned, you would have to ask a lawyer. Common sense would dictate that if this gift goes to either party then it remains at the sole discretion of that particular person; a gift to the couple most likely not, i.e. latter would be a part of the common property/wealth. But, as said, check that with a legal professional.

....... and I always thought that this can happen only to male species of those alien and dirty farang .......

Tell all those ministers, directors, governor, superintendents, generals and lieutenants to put up a loud speaker at head office of Thailand's Royal police (a mere 400 metres away from Siam Paragon) as well as at police hospital being 650 metres away. This would have - possibly, but not sure - resulted in a faster response time than the apparent 90 - 120 minutes which it took for anyone to show up. Everything else is utter nonsense, waste of money and nothing but stale warm air from where the sun never shines ????

Well, 21st century in Thailand - explained. Kill them outside but not in the kitchen; just made my day.

Those tight links got severed many years ago but Chalerm Yubamrung (that's how he wrote his name in the past) should enjoy his fleet of luxury vehicles (a pink Bentley among others) on his tiny plot of land in Thonburi (he was called the "governor" of Thonburi) as well as the company of his three sons, apparently all with interesting criminal traces. Is he off the booze meanwhile? I'm not a friend of either gentlemen but this hick hack must have been anticipated in an eleven party coalition to achieve "majority" - me thinks. Eleven parties in Thailand - mission impossible to agree on the colour of the chairs in the meeting room, trust me!

Yet another pristine example of today's Generation Z - the label should terminate her contracts and send her back to work as a cashier at 7/11 or weigh bananas at the fresh fruit scale of Big C ???? Despicable

You have to be more precise in the headline which could read "majority of online shopping fraud were 100,694 complaints with a loss of 1.9 billion Baht". a) if a deal is too good to be true, then it is usually too good to be true b) use existing platforms which process the payments like Shopee, Lazada, Ebay etc. I had two issues and was refunded without a big fuss. If you buy the ever-so-rare-and-antique amulet for a fortune from a private seller who operates his Facebook page for the last week only ........ well, you might have been asking for it. But explain that to the semi-divines ????

Well, the prime minister and foreign minister of Thailand made condolences public regarding the Chinese victim of this terrible incident - nothing of the kind was in the media regarding this sad loss of a Burmese citizen .....

"officers from the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) embarked on a mission" I am hopefully not the only one who considers this tag line hilariously funny ???? ...... embarked on a mission!

a) yes, the license is valid all over ASEAN countries b) no, welcome to go through the full nine yards

Hub of all committees, working groups and countless meetings with sharped pencils, little sweets in bowls and the subsequent Somtam lunch to declare the congregation a success. What it needs is response time and if it takes anything between 90 - 120 minutes to arrive at a scene, where the police headquarters is a mere 500 meters away and a governmental medical institute, the Chulalongkorn hospital less than 1'000 meters away ........ any more questions?

Well, he is tall enough to manage to get through the floods and the puddles ???? Apart from that, every predecessor did the same populistic visit at the underlings misery, flew back and the entire visual media followed the holy path of the semi-divine ????

Never forget who put Srettha into the driver's seat in the first place. Absolutely nothing happens in the Land of Smiles without the blessing of the boys in uniform - since 1932 that is ???? So he will be walking a tight rope if he wants to interfere with his ideas on their shopping list 8-)

Actually this is very much Thai. Thais are known to spend money they do not have. If you would move all unpaid cars and bikes off Thai roads, traffic would be no issue. Remember 1997; Thais returned unpaid vehicles back to the finance companies, moved out of unpaid houses and had to get on with life. This governmental idea of spending money they do not have is - AFAIK - based on a loan to be granted by GSB, a government-owned bank. If the proverbial manure hits the air-moving device, they will send GSB down the toilet - been there, done than in 1998 when commercial banks put all their rotten apples into a total of 57 finance companies. All except one then went bust and billions of Baht disappeared into thin air. Stay tuned, the government is handing out tax payers money, which is not in the bank - yet! Let's see, how the financial markets and the FOREX will react, if they really go ahead with this idea. The taxation of the dirty farang will not really have a compensatory effect - me thinks!

Surprise, surprise ......... and how does Somchai now get a permit for his rifle to hunt for rats an squirrels in the sticks of Isan?

No, not required. It is, however, possibly noteworthy that, in case of a divorce, the investment goes 50% to your wife, if the source of the money was earned during the marriage.

Unlike the VERY old picture by the original poster we all know that Thaksin likes a glass of wine. Chalerm though is, what the British would call, definitely no stranger to the bottle. I - for one - am surprised, that this dinosaur is still alive after all that alcohol excess over which the media had not a field day but a field holiday 15+ years back. Chalerm and his lovely family of three sons were, are and always be "interesting" assets to the "Haute Volée" of the Thai society.

The Tourism and Sports Ministry declared that it would compensate resorting to government funds. In simpler terms, the Thai taxpayer foots a bill, which cannot compensate for a loss of life. It is not the government's fault and hence reaching out in assistance of any kind in the bureaucratic maze of Thailand is more than welcome - but that's where matters should end.

Thammanat came up with a similarly populistic "gift" by announcing that he might turn all those funny non-title deeds into real title deeds held by all those farmers for generations. It is - however - of possible interest to know, that both, Thammanat and Sutin, are giving away stuff which they never owned. They give away land to people who own in the first place; all this public land, irrespective of what srecwed-up land title deeds they are documented with, belongs to ....... the electorate, the citizen of Thailand, the tax payer. But yeah, go and explain THAT to the uncles and aunties upcountry ........ your call

I don't know anything about the vehicle in discussion but there must be more than one dealership. As said, I never prepay anything in this country anymore as I have been shortchanged so many times. Enough is enough; I certainly would be willing to forfeit a down payment if it is my fault but in case of prepayment I have nothing to argue with if they fail in delivery date, colour, specification etc. etc. Your call though .........