HannahD

Wow! You mean Thai women do that too? I thought that was a foible restricted to Western women.

Advanced member and you really think you have been forgiven??!!

Learned to speak Thai. Almost 5 years in Thailand and to my shame, cant say much more than hello and thank you.

Not messed around with one of my former Thai female work colleagues because it has taken wifey about 4 years to properly forgive me!!

And looking back the work colleague wasn't worth it anyway - the grass is hardly ever greener.

I also wished I had traveled more.

Now very settled with job, wife, kid we don't get much chance to travel around Thailand.

And finally, fresh off the plane, wish I hadn't let the farang real estate agent rip me off on a house rental, but I was a newbie and didn't know any better!

Generally speaking though there aint too much I would change.

Perhaps your wife should try a very old traditional European remedy-Evening Primrose Oil. It is avail;able from Giffarine, Amway and some pharmacies. It works for many women and certainly would be worthwhile to try. Many doctors like to prescribe tranquilizers or HRT. This traditional remedy is very mild and very effective for many women

For a little "nostalgia." Sometime well over 100 years ago the Kingdom of Thailand engaged British foresters to devise a plan to manage the teak forests of Thailand. The plan devised was quite simple. One mature teak tree per hectare could be harvested every 30 months and the forests would last forever.

Some people are never happy. We read countless posts about discrimination against foreigners then we get some (apparently) foreign resident suggesting special laws to discriminate against foreigners.If profanity were not prohibited... There are very specific laws in Thailand regarding age of consent and a quite sensible variation on age of consent when money is involved. Thailand has been run successfully for a long, long time by Thai people.

Gee, I guess the US doesn't have any of those silly restrictions on non-citizens owning property.

No because no matter how much land a non-citizen owns the land is firmly attached and can't be carried off.

"It’s said that about US$16 million from Vietnam War foreign soldiers’ pockets went towards the Thai sex industry, the catalyst of what gave Thailand its seedy image. But the industry, apropos tourism, is hardly even the tip of the iceberg."

Thailand can thank the good old American GIs and vets for kick-starting its tourist industry. Thais were always busy copulating with "working" ladies long before the guys in khaki showed up.

What would Pattaya be without their help?

What would Thailand have had to attract tourists apart from a lot of sandy beaches, a few nice mountain areas in the north and a lot of crumbling ancient temples. Oh, and the elephants too.

Even the $16 million was just a minor, though highly visible, part of the purchases of Thai goods and services during the Vietnam War. It might be that the influx of money to Thailand during this war was the seed money for the huge modern Thai economy in much the way that the booty brought to England by Sir Francis Drake ( El Corsario Drake to Spanish speakers) was the seed money for the British Empire.

Nice of Thailand to let the US use the airport that the US built, along with the fuel farm, etc. Come to think of it, how many Thai cities would not have the nice big airports they have if the US hadn't built the airports??

These Thai airports were built by the US, for the benefit of the US during the Vietnam War. That was very nice of the Thais then, and now. Get your facts straight, please.

Actually there are stories that several airfields built in Thailand by the US in the 1950s were intended as emergency recovery runways for B-47s which would fly over the pole to strike the Soviet Union then because of range limitation would land in Thailand. What the crews would do in the radioactive world they had just created was of course uncertain. Later some of these airfields were upgraded for use in the Vietnam War.

It's time the UN stepped in and placed serious sanctions on Myanmar, Thailand, Bangladesh and Malaysia.

Mass murder should not and cannot be tolerated. It is simply impossible to even comprehend how the Thai authorities managed to miss all these people which can only lead to one conclusion ... they are in on it.

Still amazes me how many expats here find this atrocious and yet remain living in a country that allows such to go on and profit from it. Remember your money fuels the system and if the expat community pulled out it would make news and maybe Thailand would begin to realize that this type of profiteering is unacceptable.

How comfortable is your bar stool?

And where pray tell would one find a country with a government that neither condones nor actually participates in brutal treatment of our fellow human beings.

Racism, sexism, classism, pigmentism, ageism and a host of other ills abound in this world. It would be nice to learn that there is someplace in the world these abominations do not exist.

Another spewing of drivel. These people just don't get it. You have democracy or non democracy, Not controlled democracy, not selective democracy. It democracy or not at all. It seems a daily occurrence that the media (Nation) from the government are telling people what is to come. This article is laughable.

Perhaps a better adjective would be pseudo rather than controlled.

Political parties in Thailand can be bought? No different from the good ol' US of A where the political parties can be and presently are bought by a fiction called the 'campaign contribution.' Anyone with two brain cells to rub together can clearly see that all major political decisions in the US are dictated by the 0.01%.

Even some college professors can see it.

I hope that the autopsy will show that this was a stillborn baby and she didn't kill it.

But it shows the complete lack of responsibility between a lot of Thai males.

Everything for their own satisfaction and complete disregard for other people.

I hear every day of husbands/bfs, leaving their partners with kids and never give a damn how they survive.

Even the courts are unable to force these people to contribute to their obligations.

We hear about family bond in Thailand.

This is all face.

In reality they only care about themselves.

That is why, I'm saying and believe that these people and their so called culture is nothing else but superficial with no depth or understanding of any responsibilities.

Just face.

Unfortunately disregard for the welfare and economic well being of abandoned wife and children is not the fault of only one group of men. Farang men also do this even when legally married to the Thai woman and some Thai-Chinese men have also abandoned families particularly when the mother is ethnic Thai. While one group of men may be somewhat more callous than others, all can be quite selfish and unfeeling. They have spread their seed upon fertile fields and now it is time to find new fields to sow. Perhaps DNA evidence coupled with some changes to the legal code to permit the aggressive pursuit of absconding fathers can end this disgraceful practice. (Of course DNA evidence may also absolve some of the accused miscreants.)

Although this case had a tragic result for the auditor and his family it is breathtakingly hypocritical for US and UK citizens to criticize the Thai justice system. Recall that an unprovoked attack on Iraq was initiated by both the US and UK-a war crime-and there was wanton destruction of the Iraqi civilian infrastructure-another war crime. There was industrial scale torture and murder facilitated by a worldwide network of black sites and equally black worldwide aerial delivery system of victims. The death toll probably exceeds a million people both from direct results of bombing and the indirect result of disease and untreated injuries.

Have the authors of THIS barbarism been hanged? While it is perfectly proper to be outraged at a blatant miscarriage of justice it would be better to look homeward at the grotesque and massive miscarriages of justice perpetrated by the leaders of Western society. Recall "the mote in thy neighbor's eye while ignoring the beam in thine own?"

The sinh is a marvelous garment. It is flattering to the youthful figure and forgiving for the mature figure.

Why are the US and Canada so much more prosperous than all of Latin America combined? Spanish (and Portuguese) societies went straight from feudalism to the modern capitalist world with no Renaissance. They never adopted the concept of economic egalitarianism but retained the feudal ideal of a handful of extremely wealthy families with all others having nearly nothing. Because there is almost no discretionary capital among the great mass of people the economy is stunted. There is no local market so very little is produced other than absolute necessities. Historically Latin America exported agricultural and mineral commodities and imported manufactured goods. The Philippines followed this Spanish model with the same result. Thailand, by great good fortune, had leadership that adopted the philosophy that everyone does well when everyone does well. Not perfectly of course but far, far better than the Philippines.

1966 Nakorn Petch Hotel on Petchburi Road and a few weeks later Morakot Hotel much further out on Petchburi Road and so new that the elevators (lifts) were not yet installed. There were still a few open fields left in the area.

This is one of those times when the truth (if any) of the story matters not one bit. The threat of execution discourages casual desertion but the harsh treatment accorded would be deserters discourages enlistments. In the future would be deserters know they must carry out their plans very carefully perhaps even to the point of shooting their way out. A pox on the lot of you!

Perhaps these unfortunate incidents of bad Chinese behavior is a result of the one child policy-a nation of spoiled brats!

Where is the overhaul facility and who are the maintenance technicians?

How odd that the returned items, reportedly originally from Ban Chiang archaeological site in Udon Thani, are now being kept in Pathum Thani rather than being returned to Ban Chiang. Let us hope this is only a temporary arrangement.

Now Dr. Frankenstein is trying to exert control over the monster he created.

All those surplus males in China, who outnumber Thai women at least 2 to 1, will come to Thailand and marry all the marriageable Thai women. If you think sin sod is steep now, just wait a few years.