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because the safety here is amazingly high.

Complete myth.

Thailand is the most dangerous tourism destination for Brits and Aussies by quite some margin according to the UK FCO.

Thought you were talking nonsense.

Boon Rawd Brewery is a privately held company that produces and markets alcoholic and non alcoholic beverages. The company offers products such as: soda, beer, drinking water, energy drinks and fruit juices. Boon Rawd Brewery owns Singha, Leo, Thai Beer, and B-Ing brand names. The company primarily operates in Thailand, where it is headquartered in Bangkok.

what you don't know Inbev ows 50% of Singa, so thats Belgium and thai beer is good, but i am sure you like Heineken

The regional best lager beer is by far and away Angkor from Cambodia.

I don't have a favourite Thai beer as all those available in Thailand are pretty poor but of those I drink Heineken isn't among them given the choice.

Inbev own 50% of Boon Rawd? That's news to me.

The NACC suspected that Supoj was unusually wealthy and he might have abused his position or falsified his asset declaration.

Probably both.

A total of 18.1 million baht has been frozen.

An astonishing amount of money.

They will have another coup to stop the truth coming out.

Unfortunately this one will not be pretty.

Your posts just get more and more rediculous!!!.

You mean ridiculous?

I warned of a coup about 6/7 years ago, wasn't taken seriously back then and look what happened.

"It will never happen again", "Thailand is past that sort of thing", etc, etc, etc.

Heard it all before but the leopard still hasn't changed its spots.

you think Thailand is expensive think again even with the flood it is still 70% more cheap then Belgium

You get what you pay for in many cases. For example the beer in Belgium is exquisite, Thai beer is terrible in comparison.

Thais will still pay 6 to 12 times more for a German car than a Belgian would, even for one assembled in Thailand.

He went on to say that Thai authorities, including soldiers, will strongly adhere to the national religion

What if they are not Buddhist (I assume he is referring to Buddhism although it has never been recognised as the official national religion as far as I am aware)?

Why prolong the inevitable?

Yeah, who cares about the corruption that the Thai People have to put up withand him and his friends get rich on the back of Thailand Democracy.

Other hand will be ok for Frang with him in power again

No worse than the governments before him, including the Democrats under Chuan, just that Thaksin was already massively wealthy when he entered into politics. We must remember the country enjoyed prosperity under him while they endured hardships under Chuan's Dems in the 90's. That's ultimately what Thai people will remember.

Good post Hammered.

They will have another coup to stop the truth coming out.

Unfortunately this one will not be pretty.

Don't know how you think Malaysia , Kuala Lumpur is less expensive than Thailand, Bangkok, Malaysia is three times more expensive than Thailand, the taxi don't have metters they quote whatever they like, don't think you can compare Malaysia people to Thais, Thais leave them for dead, the only thing Malaysia has going for it is they all speak english, been there four time, Melaka once, it is borring not as expensive as KL or Panang, Panang is a wast of time and money, the worst beach I have ever been to, and it is the beach in front of all the good hotels, dirty, it washes up mud with every wave, has lot of debris from the pasing ships and it stinks, the restaurant there are really expensive, stayed in KL twice, it is expensive. I think your post is just another sour grape one against Thais again because you sure as hell don't know about Malaysia.

All taxis in KL except those from the airport have meters. It's up to you to get them to use them though.

Prices in KL are comparable to those in Bangkok. Many things are in fact cheaper in Malaysia.

I find the Malays far friendlier than the Thais too, even to the extent of a complete stranger offering me a free lift back to my hotel in Johor last month when I couldn't find a taxi. That sort of hospitality has never happened to me in Thailand in 27 years.

As long as our domestic justice system is still working

It has never worked.

Taking this kind of case to the international arena is exactly what Thailand needs.

Thailand has gotten more expensive for the tourist not least of all because of high inflation and a commodities crisis that has raised prices to near Western levels.

The Thais are the ones complaining down the local markets about these price increases, not the tourists. They affect Thais more than they will affect Westerners whether we are living here or tourists.

Of course, for luxury goods and imported items, Thailand remains incredibly expensive and is becoming even more so.

Thaksin apparently pretended to believe in it, as a marketing tactic to gain superstitions voters.

He's South East Asian, I guarantee he believes in it. Not yet met one that doesn't; Thai, Malay, Khmer, etc.

Even Abhisit believes in it and he was Eton/Oxford educated.

Their rice bowl might be broken, that's the only concern they have.

tourist arrivals may reach between 18 million and 19 million this year (compared to 15 million last year)

They will be nothing like that number. Apparently last years figures (of 14m previously, now 15m according to this article) were a record, despite no-one being here for three months of the year during the red shirt protests.

Wishful thinking, they will be lucky to get 10-12m this year.

They call these people 'gangsters' or 'mafia' but in truth they are just typical Thai bullies. Kamnan Poh is no exception nor are his spawn. Allowed to rise up to these positions because of a flawed culture and a cultural acceptance of corruption, greed and criminality.

It is as Buchholz alludes to a very tight network; where else would you see a convicted political criminal (escaped and not served sentence like oh so many) have his family so prominently involved in politics?

Do remember this is not a communist country like Cambodia.

Cambodia ain't communist.

Thailand should allow foreigners to operate its dams. Thais are obviously too incompetent to do so.

Who cares? The Japanese government, the journalists colleagues, friends and family for starters.

Amazing how insensitive and mindless some posters can be in order to score a political point, or whitewash Thailand of any wrongdoing.

pattaya is fast becoming a sespit of angry thais......

The whole country is. Back from Singapore/Malaysia/Cambo at the weekend and first taxi I get in the driver was "farang e-sad" etc under his breath thinking I was fresh off the boat.

If you believe in Karma...

Why prolong the inevitable?

I blame Thaksin for the mosquitos.

The real reason that Thailand is at this point in its history is Thaksin and his absolute disrespect for the law, right back to when he first came to power and he and his wife choose to ride rough shod over it over the assetts case. No wonder the country is so bloody corrupt and nobody respects the law when the PM of that day is the shinning example set for the last 10 years.

The reason we are at this impasse is more to do with a subject we are not allowed to discuss, and precisely the reason why we are not allowed to discuss it. It's a critical time.

The reason Thais don't respect the law and are corrupt is a cultural one.

If you were familiar with Thai history, Thaksin is by no means the first, the worst or the last.

You obviously don't remember the previous governments before Thaksin came to power, especially the Chuan Leekpai administrations of the 90's, plagued and eventually toppled by corruption scandals.

Thaksin is merely the man of the moment.

Seals and/or CIA are usually quite intelligent and discreet and low probability to be working in a thailand go-go. Perhaps the op is a novelist?

I have met hundreds of special forces guys while drinking in go-gos.

The bitterness is strong with this one.

I hope P.M. Yingluck Sinawatra will increase the income tax for all foreign people that work in Thailand. Foreign people pay so small amount of tax and have lifestyle that is far more easy than majority of Thai people. Between 25-30% tax for foreigner on "low income" 500,000 baht p.a. and 35-40% for foreigner on "good income" 2,000,000 baht p.a.

Increase tax for foreign worker will help Thai people to deal with many problem including recovery from flood disaster.

Foreign people that "love" Thailand will have no problem with this and foreign people that dont like it can go and complain in another place.

Straight from the muddled brain of a Thai. Seems you are suggesting a dual tax system for Thais and foreigners so foreigners can pay more for you inept and poor handling of yet another national disaster.

You'd be far better off getting the much needed funds from your super-rich elite who rarely pay tax themselves (many are exempt from paying tax).

Good luck in the recovery effort, you are really gonna need it with ideas like that.