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I bought a top loader Samsung just over a year ago. It stopped working 2 days after the year's warranty finished. Been trying to get a replacement control panel for 5 weeks - no sign of any Samsung service - wouldn't consider another Samsung. The Samsung engineer recommended LG!!

'Politician'? Sounds like he's just a nasty piece of work.

And what about the criminal Navy officers who have been involved in this crime? Soon forgotten in so called Buddhist country.

They'll do the usual Thai thing - ignore it and it'll go away.

Because someone with common sense and authority, putting Thailand first, has banged some heads together.

Yet another law they won't enforce!

How about ending this stupid law about no alcohol sales between 2 and 5 pm? If you go food shopping for dinner you then need to make another trip to get a bottle of wine for your meal. Utterly stupid.

Seems like it's the only law they can enforce!

Quantitive Easing - put all the proceeds into the Thai economy - get it moving.

To give the Thai economy a boost the government should instigate a huge cash injection - easy, just raid the houses of the police top brass.

Never mind, we're getting a Formula 1 race in Pattaya soon!!

I had problems finding replacement HP cartridges, but found a place in Fortune Mall (4th or 5th floor), next to Param 9 MRT station.

No problem - get some help from the Thai Skiing Federation (Cheaters)!

Thais should keep checking the definition of 'politics' and 'democracy' before claiming to understand them.

All this playground-style tittle-tattle while Thailand has an archaic infrastructure and pathetic education system, and is hoping to compete in the ASEAN community. The Thai people deserve better politicians than these, but there is a saying ..........................

It's good to see Abhisit acting like a politician. Is he the leader of the Opposition or is it Suthep? I thought an Opposition should make capital out of a government's mistakes, but I guess this is the Thai version of politics.

I don't understand how posters can get serious with replies with this farce going on.

It should be used as case study in how not to run a country.

They'll think it's a joke - laugh their heads off.

More, more political upheaval!!! Great for the pound/baht exchange rate!!

When we talk about the "culture" of corruption in Thailand, the one thing that is often overlooked - as this editorial does - is the violence aspect. Violence seems to be a quick and easy solution to problems here. So if a govt official refuses to turn a blind eye to an obvious flaw in a building contract, he might wake up in the middle of the night to find his car ablaze, a hand grenade in his driveway, or a pix of his kid at school in his letterbox. The editorial talks of courage, but how does a lesser light - the lowly-paid, low-grade public servant, or whoever - stand up to powerful business interests who may have no hesitation in bringing in thugs to solve his "problems". What mechanisms are there to protect the lesser lights and their families? There is a witness relocation programme, but I snort with derision when anyone refers to it as a witness protection programme. With this police force and Thai inability to do things right? It is often said in these forums that Thailand needs an "Elliot Ness", and at one time many thought Seri Temiyaves was that man. But politics sidelined him, and no one else has emerged since. There is no easy solution. In fact there is no solution. At best all we can hope for is the high-level, rather than the institutionalised, corruption can be reined in.

A valid point about violence. We know enforcement of rules and laws in Thailand is weak - I believe, in many cases, for fear of punishment-free revenge/retribution - sometimes like the Wild West.

Very supportive Sirchai!!

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So the MPB want the protesters to leave, while the BMA are supplying them with water, electricity, toilets etc!!! Unbelievable!!!

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