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What about information we receive from foreign TV stations and radio stations? Are these going to be censored?

Maybe no problem on a daily basis but if there is some kind of "threat to national security" (major terrorist attack or whatever) then the TV stations could be blocked again (as we saw under the coup).

The public needed to understand that the single gateway would save Internet businesses money, he said, because they would not have to invest in their own gateway.

How many businesses invest in a gateway? I can imagine it is only the big international companies.

Hey let's make one airport in Thailand. It will save money. To hell with the long queues.

While we are at it, let's make only one road leading to Bangkok. It will make it easier for people to find their way around. No more confusion as to which road to take. We can also check all cars coming into Bangkok.

Italian Hacking team was leaked, so many conversation between the team and thai officers.. just check wikileaks and you will se by yourself. bytheway wikileaks is blocked by the great firewall of thailand , but if you use a vpn then you good to go. Do not ever think to connect your emails, banks accounts, etc etc etc without using a vpn, specially in thailand.

Wikileaks isn't blocked

would anyone have a link to the story but in the Thai Language?

thanks

Just spoke to a group of Thais. They know nothing of this, ....... but then, isn't the whole idea? Only being informed of what the government want them to know.

I wonder if we'll know when the Great Firewall is... err... fired up. Will we start seeing more green screens of "No!" or will the entire network just grind to a halt? Maybe a nice, custom 404 Not Found error message?

Been getting that on Thai Immigration 90 day report page recently.

Visa reporting, registering of mobile phones and now monitoring on internet traffic.

Talk about xenophobia gone mad. Thai people will wise up sooner or later for sure and no amount of government imposed restrictions can stop that,,, unless of course you abandon democracy all together (yikes).

Thailand want all the benefits of International trade and cross boarder relationships but also want to keep their boarders as closed as they dare and now restrict what you can realistically do online here.

A recent post said what company is going to be comfortable knowing that the Government has installed a single gateway,, well none of course.

Vietnam looks more and more to be the country to watch out for in the Asean, if not then perhaps indonesia,, Thailand is going to fall behind for sure.

Very sad, I have grown to like it here but there's only so much dictatorship I will stomach.

You forgot to mention that if you have overseas guests stay with you for a couple of days, you have to report that to immigration.

Likewise, if you fancy a few days off and go to visit and stay with a friend somewhere in Thailand, he/she is supposed to report that to immigration.

Give us the bloody wristbands with GPS chips. At least we will be free of all the paperwork.

Don't worry, the public backlash will be overwhelming.

Even if they push ahead with the laws, the next civilian government can always repeal the laws.

I doubt it.

Most Thais only use Internet for Line, Facebook and plagerism.

Most are only interested in what goes on in Thailand and couldn't care less about ISIS or migrants in Europe.

So, if the Thai government only allows their own "happy news" through, then Thailand will be full of "happy people".

Let's be honest - if someone really wanted to plant another bomb like the last time, it wouldn't be difficult.

What is the purpose of your post? Certainly nothing to do with honest.

In my homecountry we have reporters who like to test things. For example our airport security was tightened and they they went to test it with hidden camera's to show it in their tv-program.

They could go wherever they liked on the airport and showed it all on tv.

That works very well to show the managers that they don't do their work properly. They will also show it when they can't get access into the airport.

I also bet i still can plant a bomb in Paragon if i wanted so. I 've never been there by car but do they also have the security at the doors of the carpark to name something? And do they still check the boot of the car without looking what's inside? I bet they still use that mirror on a stick only. Of course it's very hard to check a car totally for bombs but do they have dogs for that? I guess not.

I agree with you Thian.

I drove into Central Festival Pattaya yesterday and watched the security staff using the mirror and opening car boots. The checks were a waste of time because only the near side of cars were mirror checked. The security guy opened the boot of the car immediately in front of me and and I could see a big white foam box in there. Did the security guy ask the driver to open the foam box? No prizes for guessing the correct answer! In LOS 'security' is only a word to be published now and again in a promotional sense to re-assure the tourist (baht) market BTW, no-one bothered to check the inside of my pick-up.

It seems the security at BTS Bang Wa has been heightened the past 2 weeks. There are often 3 or 4 police sitting up on the platform.

I have been searched every day now for the past 2 weeks and today she even moved things around in my bag to see what I had.

That is fine by me, but why only Bang Wa? Are terrorists (who are not terrorists) only get on at the end stations?

It is about time he laid down dead

My wife's friends (supposedly educated people) thought that it meant that Thaksin was dead!

I blame the native English teachers for Thailands lack of progress, too much emphasis on grammar and rules, too little on actually using the language in real life

i was bored s**tless with English grammar when i was in school, so can well understand Thai students not being interested

You are obviously not a teacher. Most of the foreign teachers I know try to avoid grammar and concentrate on conversation skills.

In my experience Thai students feel that if they are not studying grammar they aren't learning anything.

I haven't read all the posts yet but I have seen a lot of blame put on the quality of the Thai teachers.

I would like to put just as much blame on the students themselves.

Some simply don't have the right attitude for learning . They turn up without books, play around with their mobiles, iPads or whatever.

They know they can't fail at university level.

The students that want to speak English well make an effort to learn. They are active in listening outside class. They read, they speak and can learn to speak English well even if the teachers aren't up to scratch.

The whole education system needs a shake up. You can employ the world's best English teachers but if the students' attitudes aren't changed it won't make any difference.

I think u might find that teachers set the atmosphere for the class. If they let students do that, then that is the teachers fault.

Or the system. I was taken off a MA course for repremanding students. Actually I told them to go outside and talk.

Result: I was told that students are paying customers and we have to service them.

I am not saying all students are like that. Usually, I don't have problems and get along well with the students, but there are one or two even at Master's level who don't want to study.

I haven't read all the posts yet but I have seen a lot of blame put on the quality of the Thai teachers.

I would like to put just as much blame on the students themselves.

Some simply don't have the right attitude for learning . They turn up without books, play around with their mobiles, iPads or whatever.

They know they can't fail at university level.

The students that want to speak English well make an effort to learn. They are active in listening outside class. They read, they speak and can learn to speak English well even if the teachers aren't up to scratch.

The whole education system needs a shake up. You can employ the world's best English teachers but if the students' attitudes aren't changed it won't make any difference.

That matches my experience too. They don't have the discipline to study subjects that they have no real interest in.

Attendance is not the same as learning.

Completion is not the same as passing.

But they haven't understood that yet.

People get the governments they deserve, students get the teachers they deserve, and that's exactly what's happened.

Hard to have any sympathy for them really.

If the teacher teaches 1+1 =3 the students are not going to be very good at arithmetic. If a teacher can't pronounce English words her students will not be able to pronounce English words. This is not "dis." Italian is not, "I tal ian" Espresso is not "Expresso."

I disagree with you.

Most students are taught listening and a lot of the listening is taken from English text books. The scripts are read by native speakers (depending on the level) so they should have opportunity to learn the correct pronunciation.

I met a factory girl sometime last year and her English was excellent. Good grammar and very good pronunciation. I asked her if she had an English boyfriend, to which she replied "no.".

Studied in England? ... No

English father? No.

So I asked how she learnt English. She replied by listening to songs, watching clips on youtube and reading books. She showed me her notes and there were so many words that she had looked up the dictionary.

My English majors hardly ever use dictionaries. Most of what they write is copied and pasted from the Internet. Some of them are very reluctant to even speak English.

The ones that want to learn can and do use Internet and other methods.

Someone wrote that it isn't the attitude of the students that needs to be changed but the attitude of the "no fail" system. That is true.

I haven't read all the posts yet but I have seen a lot of blame put on the quality of the Thai teachers.

I would like to put just as much blame on the students themselves.

Some simply don't have the right attitude for learning . They turn up without books, play around with their mobiles, iPads or whatever.

They know they can't fail at university level.

The students that want to speak English well make an effort to learn. They are active in listening outside class. They read, they speak and can learn to speak English well even if the teachers aren't up to scratch.

The whole education system needs a shake up. You can employ the world's best English teachers but if the students' attitudes aren't changed it won't make any difference.

I got it as well in Firefox.

Thinking it was a virus I simply closed Thai Visa.

Searched on my mobile and found this thread.

Stiil no answer from the forum support desk. So until then it is goodbye Thai Visa from me

I assume they mean Thai channels. There's not much they can do about foreign channels, except show the "intermission" sign.

I wonder how True will manage as they often advertise for themselves on True Series. These "adverts run for up to 15 minutes.

She had a few beers and was a bit drunk. That's not normal for a single Thai girl, living alone. (assuming that is the case)

Do you believe that you are the only one she was chatting to? Most girls on these sites have several guys lined up. It is quite possible some other guy turned up before you.

I suggest you do the same. Don't stick to the first one than you chat with.

Braces are considered fashionable by some and have been for a while now. They look "cute".

Yes it has been like this for years now, with braces of very bright colours.

I was surprised the other day when one of my corporate students said she had problems pronouncing certain words because of her brace. I couldn't see that she was wearing one and she told me that it was "invisible". It was made of some, almost clear substance and really was quite difficult to see.

I can't imagine that catching on.

I refer to my first post about the arrest...

I said: Scapegoat !

I wrote in a previous topic "

o he was interrogated by the police in the absence of a lawyer?

I guess as soon as he gets a lawyer he will retract the confession. Sounds familiar to me.

I don't know if he is a scapegoat or it is just standard practice of lawyers. I am inclined to believe the latter.

If it turns out he is a scapegoat then the RTP will really be a laughing stock of the world.

AIS just called back and I have now changed my promotion to this plan.

Thanks to

This is all a big show. The scam will never end as long as the police are involved.

I wrote a reply on TV 5 or 6 years ago where I witnessed the same policeman come 3 times in the space of an hour or so to "arrest" foreign tourists who refused to pay. If he wasn't "involved" why did he bother to take the second and third tourist away.

Just tried to call AIS and they knew nothing of this promotion. They will call back within 3 hours.

Why do some users laugh at the 5GB? Maybe they do all their Internet activity on their phones. I seldom use more than 3 GB per month. Oh I have also unlimited wifi (Superwifi) with download speeds of around 140 Mbps, so I connect with my laptop at these hotspots.

At the moment I am paying 799 per month. I forget how many minutes I have but I never go over.

and the day before they said he had escaped to >>>>>>>>Bangaladesh !!!!...these people are truly muppets

You beat me to it.

In other words they have no idea where he is, despite the 3 milliuon baht reward they gave themselves.

I don't mind giving my name and address to hotels as I have nothing to hide, but as I said in a previous posting I would have thought that with the registering we do that it shouldn't be necessary.

On a little side note: Recently I was talking to an auditor at one of the 5 companies and she told me that recently she went to a meeting in an office building and as usual handed in her ID card in exchange for a visitor's entrance ID. After the meeting she handed in the visitors card and received her ID card, but it wasn't hers, it was someone elses. She spent 45 minutes arguing with security and eventually the manager came. She demanded that they went to the police station and made a police report.

At first I thought that that was too much but when she told me that it was company policy because of all the fraud that could be committed with her ID card I realised she was right. She also said that EVERYTIME I make a copy of my passport I should put a couple of lines through it and write what the copy was to be used for. I must admit I have never done that.

I guess I trust the hotels, but I know of 5 or 6 people that have had their credit card copied, mobiles stolen, money stolen and all at expensive hotles.

Do you get to write on the photocopies that hotels take of your passports?

Counting sheep in known to work for some people...perhaps you could count the birds....Oh sorry....I see you've done that already. (555).

I have not seen any sheep in Thailand either.

Then you haven't been to Ratchaburi. Plenty of sheep there.

Apart from that, is the OP sure they are birds? I mean usually birds are quiet at night.

He needs to google https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_meteor_showers

No he should google Thailand News, because all the events he mentioned were already happening before yesterday.

Are you accusing this guy of plagiarism wow

Be careful. You could be arrested as a matter of national security.