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Instead of keeping a close eye on what is going on in his homeland, be it the formation of a (new?) government or the exploding Covid figures - as per the news ........... he sits in Hong Kong with his sweetheart on something resembling high tea (with a terrible cup of coffee when looking at the picture). There is more to the story, he could have high tea of colonial proportions at the author's lounge at the Oriental - the real thing ???? me thinks :-)

Well, THB 10'000 is helluva lot of money to find a loved one. Given the assumption, that he might be in Pattaya .... you have three guesses, what he might be doing instead of calling back home ???? I hope he's OK and gets properly "grown up"; he will return as a different character 8-)

What's there to "asset" in a company, which went out of business in 2007? Obviously you cannot get out of shareholding, as long as the closing proceedings are not finished and whoever closed a company legally (I did) knows what hurdles and avalanched bureaucracy that brings along. The "asset" value of those shares ...... you guessed it! It is a politically motivated issue again; yet this time the dinosaurs would nullify not only 6+ million votes like four years ago; this time is is more than double and that would certainly not triggering off parties in the roads of Bangkok to welcome the "new" government which would manage to slip in only because of some worthless shares - unless I am wrong again ????

Wisanu Krea-ngam might want to retire, he is 72 years old by age and much older by the dinometer; if married with kids - maybe play with grand kids for quality time of whatever is left for him ????

Getting there is one thing, not clogging yet another road with limo and driver another. The fellow has the right attitude - hope to see more of him ????

I assume that he passed all those stringent re-testing funnies at the department of land transport with flying colors.

Interesting; Thai Airways (TG) has accrued 300 billion (not million) THB in losses carried forward, Thai Smile (WE) reported a loss of 20 billion or so less than two months ago. So, what exactly is getting merged, considering the fact, that both airlines are completely off the radar as far as customer satisfaction and pricing is concerned ????

Contrary to what I wrote yesterday, the media had a change of heart and now reports, that she has been handed down a jail sentence of two months - suspended for two years. I - for one - did not know, that the Thai courts have an overdrive but then, what does an alien know in the first place!

Need some help here - how can you ban something which does not exist in the first place?

Well, presently they run on the 20th constitution over the last 91 years ........ rewritten ever 4 ½ years by average ????

An actual picture of how open baskets and open bags were moved from Paragon on the 1st election weekend 7 May 2023 ;-)

We shall never know, if he is honest or if it is yet another display of crocodile tears ........ ????

Well, unlike quite some of his fellow MPs ........ he is the lucky guy as he made his millions before even starting - and it is all LEGAL money. Congratulations are in order!

Honest mistake, they must have used American vote counting machines ......... 8-)

The argument by those dinosaurs is, that MFP wants to rewrite article 112. The MFP proposal, as far as I understood it, would only allow the Palace and its Royal members to file a "lèse-majesté" cases. That (yet to be formulated) revision would have to pass parliament, then presented to HM for His signature and then published in the Royal Gazette. So all those hand-picked dinosaurs could no longer hide behind this "lèse-majesté" law, which has been grossly misused in the past by too many people to get rid of political or business opponents. A revision would result in the initial reason this law was created in the first place. So it is quite obvious, why all those misusers - outside the Palace - are against touching this delicate issue.

The Thai language media reported this incident slightly different. She got stopped, like anybody else, in a general road check and was slightly above the level of 0.5%. The police let her go without fine but her conscience and responsibility towards party and voters made her going public with this while resigning at the same time. A very laudable while regrettable move - she removed the risk of some dirty mind who might undig this incident in the future for a smearing campaign (for which Thailand is more than known for). Without being able to prove it; you can take it to the bank that many more existing, past and future MPs have exceeded the 0.5% limit on alcohol and some past dinosaurs like i.e. Chalerm were certainly no strangers to the bottle ........

Remember the days when they were 36kgs and chandeliering nicely - with a "way" on the way out next morning ????

It ain't over till the fat lady sings ............ An interesting summer is lying ahead of us. Some of the possible scenarios would include MFP to lobby a minimum of 69 (Prayut-appointed) senators. Potential Kingmaker is out of the question due to conflicting policies. Latter could be watered down Thai-style to please the Kingmaker. A re-explaination by MFP on a controversial law; for decades misused by various politicians and business moguls. The suggestions there, I understand, are that only the directly affected can invoke a complaint filing. PT has a change of heart, groups with everybody else and runs the show - the dinosaur senate might favour a lesser evil. Banning of Pita due to its leader's worth- and voiceless media shares in a company, which went bankrupt 16 years ago. Public "disturbances" in town and bonfires all over the land; lasting disadvantage to economy, currency and tourism. As I said, "faites vos jeux" - an interesting summer ahead of Thailand indeed.

A nice remuneration package for those who are in charge of stupidifying the next generation over 15 years of "education".

Amazing: no alien can get an overdraft on any account here in the Land of Boanking. no alien can open account without a one year visa So, why on Earth, do all those agents manage to open bank accounts for all those alien infidels who - by whatever decree - are not allowed to enrich Thai banks? Back in the day, a tourist was more than happy to open a bank account, exchange his £$ into THB and withdraw THB all over the country. A passport was sufficient, no resident certificate, blood and stool sample nor letter of recommendation of the passport holder's country's president. Today, some come with credit cards to withdraw (at exorbitant fees) cash, others travel with wads of banknotes or traveller cheques but only the semi-divine qualify for handing over money to the bank for the latter to make money.

Unless, of course, Prayut and Wissanu as well as their fan clubs are sent packing; after all it cannot take more than two months to form a government ......... or am I wrong on that as well?

Narongpan Jitkaewtae must be new on the block, otherwise he would know, that many of his predecessors on the yearly rotating musical chair have said the very same over and over and over already. Interesting enough it was the very same army, which got involved in what Narongpan Jitkaewtae does not like to hear. A Coup d'état is quite clearly an internal power play and, let's face it, Thailand has had its more than fair share. A total of 18 coups and 18 constitutions over the last 91 years, so there is a justification on the questioning by the Thai electorate.

"it ceased operations in 2007". The Ministry of Commerce might come in handy in clarified this point, the Ministry of Finance could also report on eventual tax returns, the Department of Labour could report of Social Security contributions by the company, which apparently "ceased operations in 2007". If Ruangkrai is wrong, then I would sue his backside for defamation, spreading of false news and make it crystal clear, that Ruangkrai's statement were timed in such a way, that it would smear the name of Pita without him being able to get external proof prior to the whole Sunday ......... On that note, maybe it is time to scrap that old dinosaur law as well?

It is, of course, not an issue of democrats or republicans; Biden happens to be the sitting president. And no, Biden might have issues in finding Thailand on the world map and does, what he is told ...... so much to the cronies. Glad having been able to help!

And then tenants are surprised, if the landlord asks for references of previous landlords; some landlords clearly do not rent out to Asians while others do not want English tenants .......... Given the fact that millions of rental agreements are in force, the few and far between exceptions confirm the rule .......