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I have the strange feeling that I've read all this over and over and over again ...... Do not hold your breath, as usual, nothing is about to happen nor will happen. To the best of my limited knowledge, the entire seaside of the walking street is illegal, no building permits, no nothing .... keeps pockets lined for decades. Hence question is, why change a winning horse and just take the (third party) risk of a (bon-)fire once in a while. Go figure!

???? joking again ........ Could anyone come up with something new as the "no driving on pavement" is sooooooooooo old and worn already?

One can only guess, how many millions have had to change hands while others are booked into the slammer for stealing mushrooms off a national park. This explains explicitly the implementation of law and order and no wonder nobody takes the legal system of Thailand seriously. What a hopeless farçe .......

Kettle, pot and black spring to mind ...........

I've travelled many times between Pattaya and Bangkok airport. While the blue Roongruen had its fair share of Thai customers at 113 Baht, the Bell Travel Service showed 90% or more non-Thai passengers at 200 Baht. For an extra 150 Baht they now crawl through Bangkok's notorious traffic jams ...... time will tell, if it works or not. For all the others, get off the Roongruen services at 131 Baht, take the skytrain to Morchit (Chatujak market) for 42 Baht and catch the A1 or A5 bus to Don Meuang for another 30 Baht. Add the costs, throw in the various vehicle changes (think of luggage) and you'll end up with Bell's service for 350 Baht.

I am really surprised, that they get absolutely everything wrong here in the Land of the Semi-Divine. For crying out loud, why not having a look, how others - more professional countries which arrived in the 21st century quite some time already - handle the issue. My family name includes an "umlaut" being an Ö which is shown as an Ö in my passport. Internationally the Ö becomes an OE and at every second screening (and there are more than enough of those at Swampy) the screening officer calls the supervisor to get the approval to let me pass. My wife's Thai passport omitted the OE in lieu of the Ö. After having created even more confusion if checked just one after the other, we let a few passenger pass through those safety nets of aviation between both of us. As I have a middle name, not used by me and hence not shown on boarding passes, confuses those security "experts" even more. Having two "dirty farang" and eight counters for the semi-divines explains it all. I am sure that those scanners come at a price per unit for which you could erect half an airport somewhere else on the planet.

"now-suspended Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha" 1) you forgot to add "General" and "Defence Minister" in his ever-growing title 2) the government's fooling around with the 50.0000000000001% or more in any juristic entity kept i.e. Volkswagen from not investing hunderts of millions of Euros in Thailand; countless previous PMs travelled to Wolfsburg, were welcome and ........ sent home without anything 3) the same set of governments has not realized yet, that neither the Chinaman nor the dirty Farang can roll up and pack a piece of land into a suitcase and disappear to foreign lands with it. So, why would a government prefer the Red Brethren in the North compared to any other nation elsewhere? 4) be warned over the latter as China meanwhile legally bought themselves into agriculture, infrastructure and/or logistic domestics of survival importance; Australia, Lao PDR, Pakistan, Sri Lanka as well as countless African and South American "deals" shortchanged the respective governments in favour of China ......... without China forcing them to do/sell/rent/lease out anything. Take your time and get your homework done before the pens are readied ????

I'm not at risk, I get Italian tomatoes called "Pelati" in cans and the nasty virus cannot penetrate cans while the container ship carrying my tomatoes is in transit through Indian waters ...... Wonder what happens when the Thai media goes to town with the "Durian" or the "Somtam" flu. Darker days are ahead soon, lets wait and see what the fellas come up with next!

"Police are investigating the cause of the accident." Education springs to mind as well as the possible fact, that a 14-year old might be able to reach her 15th year WITHOUT looking at the phone while driving ....... I see this each and every day but then, what to expect in a country, where motorbike drivers where the perpetual coronaphobia mask but no helmets? Go figure!

And what good is this pink ID card, if at all? I am a PR and managed easy with my driving license and nobody sofar could explain the purpose nor the importance of a pink card ........ All the rest (red police book, blue house register, white residence booklet etc. is clear.

Ah, the yearly showtime again - this year though in late summer/early autumn. 20, 30 years ago this stage show took place in March. They invited diplomats and the media and after steamrollering the staged "destruction" they all went for lunch.

You're aware that the increase from 200 Baht to 354 Baht happened in a mere eight years. I just wonder, if the individual worker's output increased that much as well as, if not, the labour today would be less efficient. Take 354 Baht and multiply by 30 (if the worker clocks each and every day of the month) and you'll get 10,620 Baht while the government acclaimed minimum is apparently 12,000 Baht. The result is, that nobody wants to work anymore; rather enjoy Somtam back home, do a little house work and carpe diem. With a salary of 12K I would say, that Thais exists but cannot live. Get the government's little fingers out of all those tills; the free market will decide if, when, how much and where to do what. Thai workers earn manyfold on Singaporean construction sites, in all sorts of jobs in Scandinavia, Middle East and Northern Africa hence replace the vacuum with the AEC2015 stipulated treaty of free movement of people within the ASEAN area ........ and Bob's your uncle!

Well, other sources referred to Prawatch as the actual power man and puppet master behind the scene. He certainly has as much power and influence as his ability to nap in any thinkable location, position and discussion. He'll have his 15 minutes of fame before the younger apes are trying to climb the eternal tree of money, corruption and neo-slavery. Meanwhile others might have a look at Thailand's household debt which is toggling at +/- 90% of the country's GDP - now THAT's much more it. Tip to Prawatch and his friends, fans and underlings in all those government uniforms; take while the taking is good, ensure more submarines without docking port nor engines, funny bridge studies from the mainland to Samui island and a rail system not even the British managed to finish 80 years ago. Thailand - quo vadis?

Please ensure that his young boys are aware of the following:

Anywhere else you would let the free market decide. Too expensive = buy competitor's product, all products too expensive = resort to alternative food. Simple, fair and would free up capacity of this gifted government to tackle the real issues among their own ranks. For all those who have problems in calculation; the increase is "only" 16% ........ go figure.

Rarely read something more stupid than this article. a) hunt your own criminals with 10% of the planned endeavors you put into "hunting" the dirty farang first b) does anyone else, except those gifted semi-divine superstars in all those government buildings and police stations believe, that criminals wait for "high" season - seriously? The bashing on alien and dirty Farang continues and I, for one, just hope, that coming high season is a total flop for all the other Thai-self-made reasons like cheating up and down the land, immigration jokes and visa maze, Baht kept artificially high, dual pricing while the level of service nosedives further.

I stand corrected, you are absolutely right; thanks for the input!

Payment for education with loans is creating new-slaves who, in many cases, never leave the debt trap. Education should be free for all, accessible for all provided they bring the necessary abilities along. A smart fellow from a poor Northeastern family has hardly any choice while some average if not under average student might crawl his/her way through university; in many cases depending on their parents "donations" to the "school fund".

Just wonder where all this money comes from?

Not only Internet protocol numbers but during my days on Fiji, my overseas calls required the country code +697. Just for all those selected few who might get a genuine call from the South Sea ........

Well, quite a free fall from 120% of all the votes in March 2019 - North Korean conditions soon?

Tyrannosaurus Wissanu again ....... also on the list of those to be reeled into the archive for good ????

Nothing as crooked as such brotherhoods .........

I suggest the introduction of a new law with immediate effect, possibly a special edition of the Royal Gazette to announce, that three fingers in the air calls for 3 life sentences of not less than 50 years of slammer - each that is. For those in the dark, three (middle) fingers straight into the air while the thumb covers the pinky is the official salute of Boy Scouts - so it is a matter of interpretation. But if the sitting lame ducks of this government panic over kids doing the boy scout thing and interpret this as an anti-government sign ............. self-explanatory as far as as self-confidence of the governmental clowns is concerned. Given the source of this greeting might lead other ministers of this divine team of self-elected leadership to yet another confirmation, that Farang, incl. their kids, are dirty and they said that all the way along ????

And when is the bonfire to burn the witch taking place? How medieval can you go? Everyone with some basic internet skills can download those raunchy clips of her getting "serviced" by a couple of men in chronological order and this performance in the South of Thailand is certainly a less than saucy stage show ........ Self-profiling and certainly still in her juice for the 37 years of age; others in the land are already grannies with the same age. Your call ..........