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I think it only fair to raise the point that 500 Baht is not a great deal of money, especially if you are from a country such as the UK (as I am) where that ammount of cash would not get to to the next junction.
I stopover in Bangkok very often and have never been overcharged for the taxi to my regular hotel. Instead I feel bad about that fact that the driver has waited in line for hours at the airport, only to get me who is going 5 minutes down the road for a fair of Baht 90. I always pay Baht 200 to resolve my concience.
I don't mind going off-meter, as long as you agree to the fee beforehand and the driver sticks to it.
The cost of living is not the same as the UK, here 500 Baht IS a great deal of money almost 2 full days work on minimum wages. Would you pay 2 days wages for a single taxi ride back home?
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The only time I took a taxi who did this was also at Suvarnabhumi Airport. He had a foam cut out that perfectly covered his meter. I noticed as we set off, told him to stop but he carried on driving hoping that if far enough I couldn't make it back and had no choice. Told him again to stop the car immediately and he did half pleading not to be reported..
Always check if they start the meter as you set off, walk out if they don't.
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When a guy has already been convicted for a bombing that killed 18 I don't think "quotes" are still needed around the word terrorist.
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Yes, shocked - and yet you wondered why people found your in-flight magazine distasteful back in april after MH had lost 2 planes.
"Southeast Asia's top budget carrier AirAsia on Saturday withdrew its latest inflight magazine and apologised for an offending article boasting that its well-trained pilots would never lose a plane.
To be fair I don't think Fernandes reads all articles for "travel 3Sixty" and he didn't wonder why people found it offensive, it was pulled out immediately.
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Nothing more than a witch hunt for any high profile supporters of the previously democratically elected government. The Junta will do anything to snuff out democracy and freedom.
Not at all. There was no democracy under Thaksin. End of story.
Much more to the story. Unfortunately see post #8.
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We can't criticize moderation but there is no rule against discussing editorial lines.
And I just wonder if a new thread with the title below will make it to my breaking news newsletter or if TV will keep it nicely buried.
Thai election pushed back to 2016 - deputy PM
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Make some noise with an anti-corruption case then slide this HUGE news just behind it hoping no one will notice
The Junta asks people to be Thai but is getting fluent at western style PR and political spin
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So what if the Yingluck government is gone? That doesn't change the fact that these changes have been discussed for over 12 months well before this government, well before the coup, well before the protests and well before the amnesty mess started.
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Where is your proof??
You are making the claim it is "fact" so the onus of proof rests squarely on your shoulders.
The mere rumor of these restrictions is enough for the Japanese envoy to speak out, the British ambassador to write a blog post, BP to write front page articles for the past 2 weeks ago... surely if Yingluck had been discussing these changes The Nation and others would have been all over it. So find one person, one link other than "whybother" who can confirm your 'facts'. I'll be waiting....
It's getting even beyond red or yellow with you. fanaticism.
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It was announced during Yingluck's tenure.
Huh?!???
Proof please?
Last week the Japanese envoy warned of an exodus after I quote being 'shocked at the revelation', British ambassador Mark Kent took the time to write a blog post. In 2007 United States ambassador to Thailand Ralph Boyce spoke out : http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2007/04/01/national/national_30030797.php So if this was "announced" during Yingluck's tenure, or discussed seriously, surely you have news articles, or is this one of the secret secret evil plans only yellows know about?
UNBELIEVABLE. get your head out of the sand.
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yeah yeah....
Let's turn a blind eye at how all these massive new condos keep getting building permissions, let's turn a blind eye at the lack of planning, big envelopes changing hands.....
But let's hit on the little guy who has no choice but to live in the mess left behind.
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I don't know how this is a surprise to anybody....
The last time Thailand had a coup, the junta imposed strict capital controls and the stock market crashed, they also wanted to impose stricter restriction on foreign business but back tracked at the time.
Clean a couple of beaches, few food vendors and bikes on sidewalks and watch all the apologists clap hand at the stellar job the government is doing.
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What an excellent upbringing this guy had - his father must have been grooming him for life as a Pheu-Thai politician where this is what you do if you don't get your own way.
Still second rate compared to Chalerm's son though. He really is a chip off the old block.
Awwww that's cute EnglishJohn but where were your comments when not the son but an actual Democrat MP killed a rival by shooting him at a petrol station?
http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/776067-samut-sakhon-ex-democrat-mp-sentenced-to-death/
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The Nation hasn't published a single article I know of about the Government's proposal on TIGHTENING the foreign ownership laws.
Oh no wouldn't want the pay masters to look bad but this hand-picked piece makes it straight to paper and my TV newsletter?!?
Unbelievable. If confirmation was ever needed The Nation really is nothing more than a mouthpiece. masquerading as news.
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I've never met the guy and have no desire to,. I have no idea whether what he asserts is true or not nor do I care. But EIGHT PAGES of posting in a single morning sure indicates that the bloke is controversial.
Stabbing someone, like Tim Ward was in the news accused of doing not so long ago, and posting non-stop pictures of your "Pattaya bitches" on facebook will do that.....
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Tim Ward boasts non-stop about his "bitches", his Pattaya lifestyle .....then cries about police corruption....
Here is a news flash for you Sharky, Your "bitches" wouldn't be there in the first place if it wasn't for police corruption, no Pattaya as you know it without police corruption, if they were incorruptible it'd be like a seaside town in your home country only more polluted.
You are quite happy to take advantage of the system but cry like a little victim when you get bit?!? This isn't about about fighting corruption it's about a man with serious mommy issues having his ego bruised.-
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really necessary for the title 'farang con man caught in thailand' in the thaivisa newsletter?
Click bait. 'farang' will get more page views than French, Spanish, German..... TV are experts at it, which is why we get all these 'crack down' and 'farang' titles even when the original article is worded differently.
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Spanish Con Man Caught In Thailand
... 2 million Thai con men still on the lose.
yeah.... I am wondering how Thaksin made it out and has been flying around meeting his buddies in Hongkong, Laos, Cambodia....by the way these buddies are high official police men....Cannot catch this wanted man....
Perhaps he has had plastic surgery or the the police officers need new spectacles......
Anyway well done for catching a farang.... does cover up for all the others let through and out by the back door.
Hmmm... He made it out because he wasn't convicted ..... "cannot catch" because not their jurisdiction it's up to HK, Laos, etc police.... they won't either because, despite the democrat led government trumpeting an arrest warrant turned out Interpol never issued one. explaining that Thaksin’s case did not meet the requirements for it.
If you are going to make anti-Thaksin quips at every opportunity to make yourself look clever at least try to get informed.
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Clickety click, click bait alert.
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Zero? Do you think every division uses different guns? It's a fact that the red shirts were using similar weapons.
It's not me, it's not an opinion, THE Bangkok Criminal Court ruled that Italian journalist Fabio Polenghi was killed by a bullet fired by the security forces during the May 19, 2010 dispersal of the red-shirt protestors.
You want to keep arguing when even the bangkok court inquest found he was shot by the military??. Unbelievable.
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You do realise that the black shirts were using military grade weapons too, don't you?
"Any follow up articles in The Nation? nope.
" You're kidding, aren't you?
You do realise that the odds of them using exactly the same weapon and bullets as the Second Cavalry Division stationed at that intersection is zero.don't you? the judge himself added there was no evidence that anyone but the army had such weapons in the area on that day incidently
You also realise that when I say there is no follow up I mean front page news not a small web only article on the day.
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Here is more form Paul's testimony on the BBC :
"I just saw a red-shirt protester shot three feet from me. Through the chest. It happened at around 2030 local time. He was doing nothing but sitting on a pick-up truck across the road from the Khao San Road intersection and about 100m from Democracy Monument.
There were noises of shots, but I thought it was rubber bullets, so I stayed there.
The man was around 50 years old, and waving a flag from a pick up truck. His head was five feet above from the highest point of the truck."
Given there were armed protesters, he could have been shot by one of them.
yeah that's convenient, like Italian journalist Fabio Polenghi, who was shot and killed in the BACK while running away from Ratchadamri road, his colleague also shot in the back of the leg, it was blamed on the red shirts, the black shirts, a third hand, etc.
Except it has since been proven by the court that Polenghi was killed by a .223 calibre high velocity bullet of the kind used by the army, and that the only army unit present at the time was the Second Cavalry Division of the King’s Guard, which was tasked with dispersing demonstrators.
Every time it is a foreigner whose family has the means to investigate this seems to be the outcome, funny we never hear about it, anybody know the name Polenghi? nope. Any follow up articles in The Nation? nope.
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Here is more form Paul's testimony on the BBC :
"I just saw a red-shirt protester shot three feet from me. Through the chest. It happened at around 2030 local time. He was doing nothing but sitting on a pick-up truck across the road from the Khao San Road intersection and about 100m from Democracy Monument.
There were noises of shots, but I thought it was rubber bullets, so I stayed there.
The man was around 50 years old, and waving a flag from a pick up truck. His head was five feet above from the highest point of the truck."
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He declines to show up to a court summons? Arrest his ass and make him attend.
Attend what? and for what reason?
Just to repeat the same BS thrown at him over the years?
Just to explain once more the reasons behind the order, he and Adhisit issued to supress the clashes?
They had every right to order these actions.
And I hope this case is thrown out of the court.
Not because I'm not against the killings although nobody still knows where the bullets came from, but for the reasons politicians still pursue these court hearings to gain political benefits.
Supress the clashes?!?
Until the soldiers after nightfall moved on one of the red-shirt camps, near Phan Fah bridge there had been no serious injuries or deaths.
Then this happened :
The army were firing live rounds on civilians. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it myself " Paul, British teacherWhile on TV "There were no live bullets fired at protesters," Panitan Wattanayagorn said on national TV, AFP agency reported.
"Soldiers, Abhisit insisted, would only have fired live rounds "into the air and in self-defence".
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except they are back in hua hin and as bad as ever
300 baht fried rice anyone?
yeah but the money goes to a different set of corrupt officials and headlines where made so it's all ok
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The army were firing live rounds on civilians. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it myself 
" Paul, British teacher
Looks like pattaya beach crackdown in affect now
in Pattaya
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Winter, coolest days of the year right now, let's see how it does in the middle of July when you can't even walk on the sand without burning your feet