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The dinosaurs woke up in between and referred to "no booze on Songkran". Good luck with that one! I'm going to get popcorn to truly enjoy Thailand's latest law enforcement attempt - possibly some limited lining of pockets might take place - stay tuned ????

Tell the air chief marshal to have a look at the royal air force fleet's movement on www.flightradar24.com - absolutely scary, what these clowns are doing with their toys. Among others you can see flights from Bangkok to Kamphaengsaen (that is in Nakorn Pathom), 11 minutes flight time, other movements from Don Meuang to Swampy and the pictured airbus A320 is an absolute luxurious plane, fitted by the best in Hamburg and in service for a very short time. Should the protectors of the sky need civilian services, then the three brand new B777 (HS-TTA, HS-TTB and HS-TTC) are absolute long-range birds in a three class concept so to accomodate the tired bottoms of all these goons in blue. In closing, Airbus is an European plane (with US components) and home based in the French city of Toulouse. Needless to say, how scary this is how they splurge unbelievable amounts of money for all the wrong causes yet the electorate says Zilch even if they know. The air force boys learnt fast from the navy with their little stint on the Chinese submarines without engines. Good luck it is not my money being spent on various "beneficiaries" (remember the Rolls Royce scandal on the "much more open" Thai Airways purchase - nothing ever happened thereafter).

Blame on the hill tribes, like every year - as long as you do not <deleted> into the soup of the industrial agricultural big wigs. Driving from Bangkok to Chiang Mai a few weeks ago was proof enough, that along the entire stretch of +/- 500kms the fields were burning/burnt ...... yet I could not see a single hill tribe person. Either hill tribes are excellent in hiding, have ghosty abilities or the real culprits are sitting on the back seat of an air-conditioned chauffeur-driven limousine. Just wait and see what happens, if a Royal Thai Airforce is unable to land anywhere North outside Bangkok due to haze ...

She had only known him for five days after meeting him on a dating app. There are also suggestions that money changed hands. Nothing to do with being half/half; it is - to my limited knowledge - called a soured up deal with a Hckooer.

Proud to be Thai .......

"Of the 444.3 billion baht spent in the past three years addressing COVID outbreaks, 260.2 billion baht (59%) was spent on medical services, which include screening, treatment and vaccinations." Thoughts: what happened with the tiny difference between 444.3 billion and 260.2 billion, or 184.1 billion Baht if each and every person in this country got treated free of charge on the expense of the tax payer, it results in THB 6,347, irrespective of gender, age, race or shoesize and, before I forget, does Anutin's private airport on his ranch in Khao Yai have a working instrument landing system in place Last question is, of course, not related to the coronaphobian merry-go-round 8-)

Thais are the nicest people money can buy! Even understood so by the red brethren from the North; guess what will happen once the Lao-China Highspeed railway extension is operational into Bangkok ????

Good luck with that one. Many property owners renting out their property to alien flatly refuse this bureaucratic-merry-go-round with ID card, house registration, shoe size and blood type. Those who entered Thailand by air do not even have a TM6 departure card portion anymore. What a farçe; some pass on the phone number of the property owner so the immigration can talk to them directly. Most important (provided the landlord provides all these copies) is, they have to sign with BLUE ink only. The TM6 arrival/departure card can be completed in either blue or black, praise the Lord for this allowance. A bloody joke all this is when knowing, that 60% (at least) of Thais do NOT reside at their registered address but rather somewhere upcountry ........... go figure what all this is about then!

Now he is selling the retirees the fast monorail to the suburbs, so they can keep their hard earned savings .......... I must have read this wrong ????. Well, at least the headline is spot on with Anutin sucks

Cannot be, Saksayan has been living off social welfare hand outs on a daily allowance of 284 Baht ....... and (many digit) change ????

Does not really take much more than a lip service. But, given his happiness on the subject, he might focus to attend to the next irrelevant nuisance, the fantastic air quality in the Land. The Thailand map is accurate, 4 March 2023, whereas the Nong Khai reading was taken Wednesday earlierst morning, i.e. three days ago.

Here we go with a visualization some ten minutes ago (Saturday, 4 March 2023 at 09h20 Thai time). So, for once they cannot blame it on the Khmer, Lao or Burmese ..........

Given the presently lower temperatures it can be assumed, that the "90%" is more than just a conservative estimate. As long as the law is not enforced ...... In the past (and I am talking 30 - 40 years back), farmers would plough their fields, keep microorganism of the soil intact and the air breathable. Unless seriously stiff fines (six digits) on land owners are imposed and executed, nothing will happen. If the culprits (in their thousands) cannot cough up the fines, then confiscate the title deed and auction it off for social welfare and slap a juicy jail sentence of at least six months to get the message across. Go seriously public and within weeks you will have eliminated the Thai side of the burning and have set an example of how to keep your people out of the smoke. The money for 500 ridiculously less than those submarines without engines, so what on Earth are you waiting for? Ah, I forgot, the semi-divine Thais rather die a slow coughing death than possibly stepping onto the toes of the "phuyays". It might take a Royal Thai Airforce toy to crash-land in Chiang Mai or anywhere else due to the haze to re-inforce my point!

How times have changed; anyone in the realm, say, 40 years ago, remembers when tourists were "invited" by a tout to a sleazy upstairs establishment. "No cover charge" for the Thai couple performing "obscene sexual acts" on a brightly lit stage back then. Difference to today is that the show as filmed recently was free of charge, no touts (except possibly some gold hunting katoeys) and no overpriced drinks were served. So the only point I can see is to arrest them as they possibly had no work permits for jobs, which are restricted to the semi-divines performing in Patpong, Nana Entertainment Plaza and those rip-off dungeons in Pattaya ........ But, to be sure, check with the Department of Labour as well as the Department of Immigration on the type of visa as well - just to be sure ???? Once that is cleared, check with the Ministry of Neaderthal headed by Gen.Sup.Com.Lt. Vishavartranam Kanotbeleaveitappans, also known by his nickname "Stoneage" - hurry up as he might be promoted to the country's biggest ministry, the Ministry of Inactive Posts and Unbelievable Jokes.

Honet to God; do these people look across the border to see, what other countries are doing? Malaysia has (had?) a programme on five-years visa, first car tax-free, second car 50% tax, non-Malays can (could?) own ONE property, irrespective of room, condominium or house. The reason why that programme never really took of were those five-times-a-day "prayers" all over the land and, as there are plenty of such towers, people voted with their feet. Clean up your tremendously complicated immigration with all sorts of TM-forms from 1 - eternity. Grant one-year visas against presentation of a local health insurance and proof of means where a bank book updated on the day of application suffices. Charge THB 10'000/yearly for the visa which includes an automatic multiple re-entry, no TM30, no 90 days and no other funny ideas. Facilitate and streamline all those ridiculous forms. You can send at least 50% of the officers packing, do more online applications and you're getting there. Do not forget, the customer has the choice and Thailand is, the longer the more, in direct competition with other SEA nations, apart from African and Latin/South American alternatives ????

So schizophrenics at the immigration results in "red cards" now? You could take the straight short cut and deport them at the first moment already. Here you take finger prints and the works - not as complicated as overly-correct Europe or the even worse USA with data protection - and Bob's your uncle.

The taxpayer will be, once more again, delighted over the fact, that they finance pre-election vote-buying for the present set of circus directors. Wondering how long that can go on ......... you see, what kind of commercial havoc such subsidies can trigger off ........ If you cannot produce competitive rubber, then grow something else or study, how to become more efficient

OK, and once the whining is over, let the Swiss go over the moon on chocolate, the Babylonians over beer and the Tamils over Kari (Curry). What a hopeless kindergarten; the Thais have been faking and cheating for decades on literally anything from garments, watches or entertainment (CDs) etc. and now they go apes"*ç%t over desserts? Most non-Southeast Asians will not touch the stuff anyhow for being too sweet and "interesting" taste. Or, possibly, it is a slow day at the news desk and the journalists just had to pull out a (boring) story!

Throwing a tantrum - explained! Anutin moves on rather thin ice - me thinks. Chuvit must hold some trump cards (he ran massage parlours in the past and who knows what, who and how often recordings by the "security CCTV" - if any - took place?). Quite clearly Chuvit maneuvers around freely, keeps on standing on various toes and still has not seen anything on fire, blown tires or worse ........ Possibly a fight of the Titans?

Thanks for your input; interesting enough is that on Monday WE (Thai Smile) announced seizing operations due to a THB 20 billion loss .......... TG +10, WE-20 = who pays the difference and, if it is such a money pit then why fly until end of 2024? Just wondering .........

Grant Wilson, 61, the Australian living in Vietnam for six years, during which he travelled to Thailand more than 30 times. a) nice to know that he's the ultimate reference of the travel business in SEA b) why is he travelling back and forth all the time? I would make up my mind and move to Thailand if I would be him. Fact is, that I would travel much more often to Vietnam, if they would allow being 30 days in the country without a visa; similar to Laos. But these decisions have to be made by the goons of their tourism ministry .....

Some points spring to mind - as an aide memoire for TG's present big banana, Mr. Piyasvasti Amranand: a) try to imagine, how many more billions, trillions or even zillions could have been made if all those indefinitely parked aircraft in i.e. Bangkok Suvannaphoum airport would be flying rather than just stand around to the disgrace of Thai aviation b) before you want to shop for new equipment, work out something for the present large fleet sitting idle - see above point. Either way some crooks in the past shopped till they dropped for aircraft without a plan nor an idea of necessity. Possibly those suggesting new equipment now are equally brain damaged or focussing too much on "personal" interests". c) it is proved beyond reasonable doubt, that TG (like many other dinosaurs, i.e. State Railways of Thailand) have been managed by thieves and, if not thieves then they must be ignorant and blind. Maybe you want to outsource that to professionals, irrespective of nationality, gender and/or age. Japanese and Middle Eastern companies of same/bigger proportions put the best candidate into the driver's seat with great success; something which cannot be said by i.e. TG.

Ford is an excellent car; the problem is, that their network of agents in Thailand suck big time .... so experienced in Rayong, Pattaya, Chonburi, Udon Thani and Nong Khai. Exception to the rule was Khon Kaen. This explains why Ford had serious issues to put their foot into the Thai door. An executive of the assembly plan of Ford told me, that it is easier to find a third agency for any known Japanese brand (i.e. Toyota, Honda, Nissan etc.) than anyone picking up the sole agency for Ford .... back in the day. I - for one - had more than ten Ford trucks; all good vehicles. I ultmately switched as their agency network had too many unreliable loose cannons. I could write a book about it ....... what a pity for an excellent brand. The first time you buy a product it is the promotion, catalogue, sales staff, the price tc. Any further purchase of the same product depends on the experience with the first purchase. Or - to wrap it up - customer service is not a department but an attitude ???? Latter not understood by most Ford dealers across the land - how sad ????

How lucky Thailand must be having a health minister putting his nose into literally any case standing around; this time it's the interior ministry's turf. I - for one - sleep at midnight already but the closing hours have nothing to do with health but it allows the boys in brown to skim off bribes from every watering hole having switched off the light boxes, turned down the music so the interior minister (under which you'll find the police and the immigration) will be happy to hear. Wondering, when this country will wake up and consider voting for people working in the interest of the electorate rather than their own bank accounts.

The answers could include: populistic action by the ruling few in sight of the upcoming elections. Take as much money from tourists; after all, they can go on faraway holidays while Khon Thai has to stay home lining of pockets like all those other slush funds (nobody every accounted for the "wild boar" or the various "Tsunami" crowd funding) this week's story of a British lady being hit and left to (almost) die on the road who ultimately clocked UKP 40'000 in hospital expenses. I am pretty sure that the health insurance, so wisely being a 11% part of the tourism fee, would pay within the framework of a tiny fraction of it. why should Khon Thai (making money on tourism) cover health costs for tourists, if fellow tourists (not responsible and not making any money on visiting Thailand) can be creamed? We are not far away from the scenario shown in "No Escape 2015" ........ Thailand, quo vadis?