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Probably needs them all together so they can finally sort things out. Would be funny if they d sent out a task force and pick up the 'puppetmaster'.

I think they will charge her with something then arrest her in hopes it will force Thasken back to Thailand.

My guess is they will arrest her and her kronies to force Thaskin back to Thailand.

Makes you wonder what they are tying to cover up with so many dumps catching on fire. I am still coughing from the one in Samut Prakan

I think it really messed with my lungs. The smell was so bad an toxic , I had to leave.

Comment removed , because there was to much truth to it.

Next week the monk will be driving a brand new Mercedes and living in a new home.

I had to leave the area we were in because I got up out of my chair and I was so disoriented that I had to use the wall to catch my balance.

I had a headache and stomach ache, my child also had a stomach. I didn't know who to call so I called my embassy asking them who to call and if they were evacuating area's around Samut Prakon.

This is just totally ridiculous. They again fail to go after the company that knew better then to take their waste there but they did anyway. They most likely set fire to the dump to hide evidence of what was being dumped there.

These idiots at the dump don't have any brains that's why they are there. The owners of all these Thai company's need to bare the burden of responsibilities or we will end up like China..

Yes I know, my complaint lands on deaf ears.....as usual.

And again tonight gasping for air, head feeling dizzy and stomach aches.

Called the embassy to find out if there was any word on evacuating Samut Prakan and Bangna areas.

This is disgusting how can they let this happen. Told my Thai wife and she said grab a mask? Can they really be that stupid. It's chemicals not dust, You need a proper gas mask not a paper cup.

Anyone hear anything else about this..? Now they are trying to choke us out or kill us.

The judge says from his perspective, there can be no other sentence.

He's obviously never been to Thailand.

This is just another dog and pony show. Road side shows to make us think they are doing something and most of you are falling for it.

Until they go after the owners of the company's and make them police their own employee's none of this will go away and they will keep hiring people who aren't suited for the work or that are illegal and why not, they are not being blamed for anything.

It's absurd that they are going only after the bus drivers without first raiding and charging the owners of the company's who force them to work long hours or loose their jobs.

They are putting pressure on the wrong people, it's like talking to the dogs ass.

I am very sorry to hear this. RIP. I feel for the families.

This happens for many reasons starting with the fact that when they have a police escorts they drive in the fast lane sometimes weaving in and out of traffic as fast as they can, on the highways,flyovers, and even through town bumper to bumper with the police allowing them to do it. The police have set the precedence for these accidents by allowing them to drive like they are in the international Ferrari bonanza. .

They are not set up to be proactive to a problem but a contributing factor in a massacre just like this.

The second thing is not having qualified drivers that are held accountable for their actions. They are only held accountable if they don't run, then they are freed with in 24hrs with a free ticket to what ever country the run to.

The third thing is not holding the owners of the company responsible for these accidents which is the major contributing factor to all the accidents. Allowing the companies to place blame on the drivers is morally wrong. All transport companies should have recorded record of accidents. The owners with to many accidents should be shut down and not allowed to operate as well as be held on criminal charges. The owners are more than just a contributing factor, they actually exacerbate the problem by not being held accountable. In this case the owner of the busing company should be arrested for not hiring qualified drivers, giving them proper rest and not have a back up driver. .

The police should be held accountable for not having antiquate records of transport companies. Any company who tries to alter the report should be held on serious criminal charges or be sent to the mountainside in dead winter to ride on buses passing through the mountains of Afghanistan or some Latin country tied to the bonnet

You need to go look at bangsaray and most likely any little fishing town around. The fisherman dump their empty or at least what they believe to be empty cartons or bottles of water into the ocean all the time. If they don't then they through it on the floor of the boat and it stays there until the waters from the ocean have cleaned them dry.

Ever walk along the docks or the inlets where they dock their boats. Just look at them, leaking oil at a continuous flow.

I am glade your offering money....it's a start but would be better if they started checking boats and tagging them. Making them pull their boats from the beaches if they are leaking or dumping oil cans on the floor of the boats so that it leaks into the oceans

My eyes wide open hair standing up on my back, not touching my coffee, something is seriously wrong so I kept reading and reading and reading

hoping that at one point I would understand what he was saying.

It' wasn't until I started reading everyone's posts that helped me calm down after thinking I suffered a stroke last night in my

sleep that left in a vegetable state unable to make sense of normal rhetoric. Thank god for the comments I can now go back to drinking my coffee

Same stupidity. They want to improve the English because of ASEAN and they are afraid to be last in the ten Countries at English. So they blame the poor English ability on poor teachers.

Don't they realise it takes two to tango. The teacher's duty is to teach...the student's duty is to learn.

The reason Thais are so poor at English is because the education system is bad....but of course they will never blame themselves, its far easier to blame someone else.

The Thai students in many schools get English once a week..... in Burma they get it every day.

The only Thai people I know with good English...taught themselves. They wanted to learn, so sought the information and spent their own time studying and took every opportunity to practice what they were learning...without being afraid to make mistakes.

Once a student wants to learn, half the battle is over.

A good teacher has the ability to make a subject interesting to the students and so encourage them that they want to learn...otherwise its all a waste of time and effort.

Even illegal, young, part-time, backpackers, who have no teaching experience can be useful...because a few of them might have had good teachers, and they remember how they were taught, and are able to make learning fun...that is why teaching is a vocation....not a profession ....this ability to create the desire to learn in students is not something which can be learned out of a book.

Correct, you don't need a teaching degree to be a good instructor and basically they children are learning the grammar and vocabulary from the Thai teachers so they only need people in which the children can interact with. The other thing I agree with is the fact that they like to blame the English teachers for the children not learning English, yet they treat them with disrespect and exclude them from creating a curriculum that would be conducive to a good learning environment.

Good, we need to get rid of the trash teachers who come here for a few months or want to stay to take care of their bar girl friend. I am happy to see this. But they also need to raise the salary of those who met the qualifications maybe even double it.

I think once they figure out that putting more regulations on teachers will only have an adverse effect to an already defunct system. Most importantly and a fact, they will pay more for teachers eventually. Any teacher with a proper ED degree or even a degree with a Tesol can go to work at a private school and make more then at a public school and be treated almost like a human or at least have a proper desk to sit at and a proper bathroom to release their anxiety for the day.

In fact right now they are hiring tons of Nigerians, Cameroonians as well as other people from 3rd world countries, like the Filipinos who speak English albeit very poorly, some even extremely poor. While they can speak, read, and write English, it is the way they assemble their sentences that makes me feel like I have a PHD in linguistics.

Most teachers work without permits now because of the cost as well as the Tesol requirements, and the stupid Thai cultural class requirements that burden the schools and teachers. A large portion of public schools won't even pay you for your trip to renew your visa or the day or days your gone to attain one, nor will the pay for the Tesol, or Thai cultural class. Now as another poster said, any more rules and regulations will only make them hire more Africans and Filipinos at a discounted salary.

While I am not a teacher, I work around hundreds of them and the schools. The people that broker the Africans are Pakistanis also don't speak good English some advertise on Craigs list under education. All the public schools seem to be using Africans and Filipinos over westerners because they can pay them less and they will follow the rhetoric and idiocy that some of these public schools produce. So before you get rid of the trash teachers, you must get rid of the trash that hires them to save a few baht.

What authority does this man have from a legal standpoint on this situation?

Could this article (if taken from statements directly from her and also possibly from the brawler himself) be an admission of associating with and acting on behalf for the benefit of a known fugitive?

If Thai law does not cover this kind of activity then perhaps it is time Thai law was modernised into the digital era to reflect this type of crime. This goes not only for dialogue between PTP and Thaksin but all other fugitives of the Kingdom - he is not the first and will not be the last unless the law is changed.

I am far from an authoritarian on political powers, but I get tired of hearing foreigners call Thaskin a “Fugitive “. They talk like if they have all the facts and we know we none of us do. In fact it's a given that you only hear what they want you to hear. So listening to either side is only 25% of the truth which means "his side" “their side" and then the otherside holding 50% that equals the truth.

I do remember listening to some of his policy changes and thinking that this will be the end of his career as a politician, that they will event something to make him an outlaw so they can remove him from office. Now I don't know for a fact that this is what happened but my best guess would be to just stay out of any discussion surrounding it. ( I know! I know! I should of listened to my own advice and not commented )

But I really get tired of self proclaimed political "anal -est" taking either side. If Thailand wants to call him a fugitive then let them, but for us to do it is purely speculating with regards to the actual facts and the procedure in which it was executed and does nothing for the truth which will eventually come out or be forgiven. None of what I said means he is not guilty either, it just means that most of us come from a country where we are or do believe that people are not guilty until they’ve had their day in court or " due process" if there is such a thing.

We know from past experience with high profile people here that one day they are convicted of something and the next day they become a government official so why join in on the band wagon. Let the Thai’s publish their opinion while we watch without prejudice. Ok, Ok, you can have all the prejudice you want, but just don't publish until you have the facts from both sides.

The Indian response has a lot to do with the fact that this isnt the first time an official representative has been treated this way, there are many incidents such as these which have occurred including one where the former president of India APJ Abdul Kalam Azad was frisked at the airport in New York . Another incident involved the Indian ambassador to US Meera Shankar, who was pulled out of line and given the full monty by security. Clearly they have had enough and think that the US is ignoring their requests to treat their diplomats with a little more respect. Of course the question is if all this is exclusively being done to Indian diplomats only, or have reps of other European countries which are US allies (or any other country for that matter) also been dished out such treatment in the past?

The biggest problem is, like most countries, they feel ok with cheating us out of our money and making laws which don't allow us to prosper in the their countries which I might add have been doing this for centuries,. With lobbyist who lobby for aid and forgiveness of debt, for special privileges in America that wouldn't allow you to do the same in their country . They do many things in our coutry and get away with it. They run companies both small and big that we are not allowed to do in their country. Just like here in Thailand we have to have something like 4 employees for every foreign worker, pay income tax on what they think we would make in our own country. The rules are different for anyone from outside their country but once they step into America, they want not only equal rights but special rights.

Wow! I didn't expect to get such a response. Thanks everyone some very good information and ideas.

Thank again

I have teenager that is coming to Thailand to stay for several months so I want to make sure

he always has plenty of cash on hand or at least a Credit Card or Cash Card.

Does anyone know where I can get a prepaid card for him to carry around with him?

Nice photo-shop!!

Chalerm has survived politically 40 years in turbulent years. You don't do that by being careless or stupid. He may be a flamboyant drunk clown at times, but do not mistake him for an amateur!!

If those photos really existed, why wait 36 hours before publishing them??

Suthep getting desparate?

Maybe they graduated in Thailand because where I went to school we understood if the objects or buildings around you had shadows then so should the people in the photo. I mean look at the wall behind them and then look at the shadow from the building. That shadow from the building is really, really strong. yet not even a trace of a shadow

Why do the Yanks not keep their noses out of other peoples business - they have caused enough damage and suffering in this part of the world already

Interesting? You want the yanks to stay out of others business but you feel obliged to put your nose in the yanks business...brilliant F'n brilliant.

Just and FYI, us yanks aren't interested in what you or anyone else are doing, that includes the past and the present. It's just unfortunate for us we have a government like most governments that choose not to listen to the masses.

We would of preferred that our soldiers that most likely died for you dumb arse somewhere would of left you guys to fight your own battles and die like the pussy want-a- be's that your are.. We stand by that and in the future like Syria whom are screaming for our help now will hopefully find the door shut.

We the people don't want our sons, fathers, brothers, and friends to die on your account be it directly or indirectly. We don't want to be in Korea with the selfish people there that allow their innocent children to play on busy streets so our tanks can run over them just so they can receive millions of dollars of hard earned money from the American tax payers.

My guess is the welfare state that you come from has sucked off American yanks hard earned money at some point which you may have benefited from directly or indirectly or that saw you through some crises. The same way we are sending our ships and crews to help out in the Philippines.

The truth of the matter is we the yanks don't want to be in your business nor do we want to help you financially indirectly or directly. Just be happy our government doesn't listen to us.

We don't want to be Afghanistan where civilization is comedy show not a reality. We simply don't want to do anything for you. We are tired of busting our asses yet our bone headed government fills the need to give it to you and idiots like you instead of giving it back to the people that actually worked for it.

So the next time you say yanks make sure you say the " Yanks Government " . because the masses don't care about you or your families we have our own to worry about.

That should end the accusations,that this present protest has been paid for by the Bangkok Elite. I guess the man from Dubai,had better get his wallet out,nobody in their right mind,is going to give him the price of a cup of coffee!

Yes if you are a Thai, this would surely prove it for them. But then, I would find it hard to believe that this is where Thai's go to get their information and to fool even the dumbest foreigner it would take more than this to prove it. Then when you make comments like this as if we are so naïve. you give your true identity away.

We always believe in three sides to every story and if we don't believe it we at least know it. In Thailand the belief comes from the one that comes up with the story first.....nothing else matters.......not even the truth.

Many police officers of Baan Chang police station tried to stop the fighting and assisted by sending the injured victims to Queen Sirikit hospital, Chonburi province.

​I would prefer another beating...

Bangkok taxis

I would have to say for the most part the taxi drivers in Bangkok have been pretty good over the years. I have noticed the later you stay out the worse they get. Then when you get around the tourist location, even worse, at night time in a tourist destination under the police noses they intolerable. However, during the day and away for those location things used to be ok.

Now...they are getting really bad about trying to keep your money. You almost have to hold on to your money until you get your change. I don't get these people.....actually I am smiling right now because I don't get the people including myself who keep coming back to this 2343 hole.