Jirapa

Boring self indulgent rubbish. Some of the cinematography is nice but I can get that on national geographic without the appalling dialogue. You two and your dog don't have a clue!

Momma always said, "If you don't have anything nice to say, then keep your thoughts to yourself."

Oh yeah! Well my mum always taught me to speak my mind, to be honest and true to myself. So it's okay for so many in this forum to slag off Thais for just about anything but I have a go at a sugar coated bit of ferrang film making and I'm the bad guy? At one point in that film he mentions a place being a bit "touristy". So what after a couple of weeks staying in a nice yard in Chiang Mai they class themselves as locals?

The most senseless comment yet - unless you are joking of course.

Can you please explain to me why a Thai can buy land in the UK, but UK citizens can't buy land here?

This should not be illegal in the first place. Allow foreigners to buy land in Thailand, but put a limit on how muuch they can buy. Then everybody's happy.

This is the one instance that I wish I had some kind of influence over David Cameron. I would love to see the look on Hi-so Thais' faces if the a UK law came in to stop Thais buying ouur land, unless they change their laws. Som-num-naa!!

"Will there be any land left for our Thai children?"

Definitely not if the foreigners are allowed to take the land back to their countries. More laws are badly needed and rewards should be as big as half of the land being taken away!

There'd be an outcry and huge long winded court battles in the UK if we suddenly forced all foreign land owners to sell up or be deported.

Boring self indulgent rubbish. Some of the cinematography is nice but I can get that on national geographic without the appalling dialogue. You two and your dog don't have a clue!

They need to be fairly judged but they're guilty of a premeditated attack and they've admitted to it as self defence, which it wasn't as self defence would have been the first return to the bar unarmed. Premeditated so they're buggered and good riddance. All you who promote waving knives about get out of your bar life and go to the beach or watch UBC!

It was a premeditated attack so they get what's coming to them. They went away and came back with knives and that's illegal in any of your countries so live with it!

I pointed out an unattended bag sitting next to me to security at the south bound bus station and they paid absolutely no attention so I just moved away from it. Be vigilant but if your going to get blown up by a bomb that's just bad luck. What next? Don't cross the roads?

This is horrible! A largely Buddhist country, suffering from religious intolerance under the name of politics, or the other way round.

Maybe the guy they were targeting just happened to be outside a mosque?

There's some fools on this thread basically saying "well Taksin's done a runner so why should Abhisit be questioned?" Errrr hello 90 people are dead under what was Abhisit's watch and he's here now so he should be questioned and if there's evidence against him he should be held to account. I think it's called "the Law" or something?

So, Thai men have sex 7.7 times per month, but later in the article it says Thai women have sex 5.7 times per month.

So are Thai men doing it 2 times per month with other men or pets or the furniture or what?

This survey is so scientific it blows my mind. Where was the survey taken? Red light districts or outside the pharmacy selling Viagra? Believe me this is not my case but which Asian man is gonna loose face by saying "I've only had sex once in the past 8 months" while being interviewed by some sexy Asian chick?

Abhisit shouldn't slam anyone. The floods were going on when he was PM and he didn't do anything either except ride around in a boat and have his picture taken. He's a slime ball. He's still crying because he was thrown out of the PM position and can't stand it that the people do not want him. Except the Bangkok elite of course.

I am not a Red shirt, but I salute your statement. He would'nt have done better for sure...

I live down south and during the floods in April our house was under 3 metres of water and all we got from the great Abhisit was B5000 and 5 kilos of rice. Peoples houses that were washed away received the same so please, PUT A SOCK IN IT ABHISIT!

At least you get B5000 and 5 kg rice.

My house was flooded for 5 days, and according to YS rule, sorry no can pay (< 7 days)

Yea that paid for the TV, computer, aircon, new doors, paint job, furniture, etc.... It didn't even cover the clean up but mustn't grumble, we had boiled rice for 4 days. Oh and forgot the rice arrived 2 weeks after the flooding had subsided!

Abhisit shouldn't slam anyone. The floods were going on when he was PM and he didn't do anything either except ride around in a boat and have his picture taken. He's a slime ball. He's still crying because he was thrown out of the PM position and can't stand it that the people do not want him. Except the Bangkok elite of course.

I am not a Red shirt, but I salute your statement. He would'nt have done better for sure...

I live down south and during the floods in April our house was under 3 metres of water and all we got from the great Abhisit was B5000 and 5 kilos of rice. Peoples houses that were washed away received the same so please, PUT A SOCK IN IT ABHISIT!

Spot on. I have friends who teach and the salaries are awful and one hasn't had a raise since he started, 7 years ago.

Yeah and everything's gone up about 50% since 7 years ago and that's without equating the strong Baht into the equation. Sure teachers get paid in Baht but if like me your income comes from abroad you'll have noticed how much it stings us also.

Right now at the Ramkhamhaeng Stadium there are around 1000+ people relocated from Don Muang/Thamasat area. There are so many cases of infections etc that people are being transported to hospitals hourly by volunteer rescue workers but the rescue workers say its not working out since some government hospitals are becoming "difficult" about accepting patients since there is no government policy on this right now.

The workers are already tired and are having to pay for the transport costs themselves. Consequently the amount of volunteers is diminishing daily (This was also reported from Don Muang).

Also some hospitals have said they would send staff and vehicles to help but they have not turned up as yet. (Director of the Sports Stadium told me this).

Under the SOE, the Red Cross would take over and could better manage the situation as they have done in the past. It's a pity they can't bypass the SOE rule and let the Red Cross do the good job they normally do in coordinating all government and NGO services.

As mentioned in the article, I think the true emergency of these floods will be post floods. After only one day in the water I had skin rashes. People are spending hours daily in the water traveling or helping. In many areas after dark mosquitoes are in there billions, I stayed in the water to avoid getting bitten only my face was uncovered and I spent the whole time swatting them just to be able to breathe without inhaling some, and then in the back of my mind were thoughts of snakes (and to a lesser extent crocodiles) in the waters around me.

Terrible conditions for people. I can't imagine people in Ayutthya have been living in these conditions for a month now. My heart really goes out to them.

Send money or supplies not your empty heart. My very very very very very very HI SO pure Chinese wife and I have given nearly one million but that is nothing compared to her very very very very very very very rich rich pure Chinese family. So please give

Don't be so self-righteous! Not all on this forum are rich. I'm lucky if I can get through the month without having to borrow a few thousand Baht from neighbours. When my house was under 3m of water in April all we got was a 5000B government handout for repairs and to replace all my ruined possessions and a 5 kilo bag of rice. What's the point of sending money when the people who need it don't even see it. Send something more useful like baby milk and clothes

This has happend everywhere over Thailand and it will happen in BKK too. By building dykes you flood other parts more. So i understand people breaking them down. Same here we have more water because BKK refused to open its floodgates more. So if one of those breaks down it could help me.

Once the water hits your house you think a lot differently about dykes that make the water enter your home.

Either you are as dense as a sandbag or English is not be your first language. The tone of what you keep posting sounds vindictive and childish. And just what does your comment:

"Once the water hits your house you (will) think a lot differently about dykes that make the water enter your home." mean????

How does any of that not make sense? Put simply they've flooded the provinces to save Bangkok. It would piss me off if I lived up there

Thailand is top of the list when it comes to 'Most Dangerous Tourism Destination' for Britons.

Yeah but did you see what the number one cause of death is? Riding motorcycles. While pissed

The problem is you Brits drive on the wrong side of the road and keep hitting oncoming traffic!

There are good historical reasons for driving on the left hand side of the road. I can well understand why peoples in all those countries that used to be coloured pink in atlases years ago drive on the correct side of the road, but why Japan?

Left hand side of the road in the UK like Thailand and 30% of the world.

Thailand is top of the list when it comes to 'Most Dangerous Tourism Destination' for Britons.

That's cos they get drunk, crash motorbikes, go swimming at night, wake up in an empty bed sure that they came back with some blrd or a chick with a dick and then can't find their iPad nor wallet, insult the locals, decide to take the short cut down a rocky road in the pitch dark, take tuk tuks and jet skis without first negotiating a price.......the list goes on! It's actually very safe here

So all those of different nationalities spend all their time walking round wats and heaps of bricks dressed up as sites of historical interest? Or climb in and out of buses at malls and the other tourist traps?

That you think that the majority of Brits behave so badly is a sure indication of where you spend most of your time - and money.

I'm British and I'm taking the piss and I live in a small village in the southern Thai countryside. I spend my money on my family and 2 mortgages, what do you spend yours on Mr or Mrs who 'supposes' to know me?

Thailand is top of the list when it comes to 'Most Dangerous Tourism Destination' for Britons.

That's cos they get drunk, crash motorbikes, go swimming at night, wake up in an empty bed sure that they came back with some blrd or a chick with a dick and then can't find their iPad nor wallet, insult the locals, decide to take the short cut down a rocky road in the pitch dark, take tuk tuks and jet skis without first negotiating a price.......the list goes on! It's actually very safe here

Middle Class and Upper Class Thais should be careful when contemplating making donations to upcountry flood victims, since most of them voted for the red-shirt government , let the red shirt thaksin govt help them, do not donate to any of these funds.

You fascist! They voted in a fair election and who ever they voted for they're still Thais in trouble. You should be ashamed of yourself!

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I do not recall any government anywhere in the world reducing a tax on gasoline in the whole of human (gasoline) history.

This is insane at a time when all Thai towns and cities have polluted air from clogged roadways. Any responsible government should be increasing taxes to reduce dependence on vehicles, whether two- or four-wheeled. (Or three with some tuk-tuks.) With extra taxes you can begin the much-needed modernisation of the rail system.

Reduced use of vehicles might also lead to better health. Btw, how often do you see a Thai person walking in the city. I am in Chiang Mai, and the only people I see walking are farangs like myself (breathing in the diesel fumes as I wait for traffic lights to change....)

Are you serious? Or was that comment a joke? The reduction in fuel prices will stimulate the economy and benefit all Thais. Do you use a bicycle? Do you recycle all of your waste? Do you use the same plastic bags for years, and forbid all of the stores that you shop in to give you plastic containers of any sort? If not, just keep quiet, and enjoy the benefit to the country. You have some very bad perspective on things. At this time of celebration, you are raining on the parade. Get a life please.

Are you serious? Or was that comment a joke? Have you ever heard of peak oil? Have you been paying attention the last few years regarding the volatility in the oil price? This is a disastrous move that will have serious ramifications the next time a real spike hits. The ethanol industry needs to be protected right now so it will be there later when we need it. What good is stimulating an economy today when it means destroying it tomorrow? You have some very bad perspective on things. At this time of disaster, you are being ridiculous. Get a life please.

Are you serious? Or was that comment a joke? Ethanol will never be the future of transportation fuel as to produce enough of it to power all our cars globally it would take up too much agricultural space. Efficient electric fuel cells are what the cars of the future will have with the power supply coming from wind and solar or god help us nuclear. Ethanol....are you having a laugh?

Fuel products have always been considered a tax tit for governments; good to see at least one government weaning themselves and allowing the money to stay in the peoples' pockets.

Any government can basically only take in (through taxes) and give out (running the country) money on a break-even basis. If they reduce the tax on fuel they will either have to reign in spending, or take it back in a different way. Same goes for the increase in basic wage (which is a great idea). But there's no free lunches (despite what the government will promise in an election). It's all a money-go-round, and if they reduce the fuel tax they will find another way to increase taxes elsewhere.

Or Thailand's economy is booming at the moment and some of that wealth is being filtered down to the man on the street. Well done Yingluck this is why you won the election!

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I do not recall any government anywhere in the world reducing a tax on gasoline in the whole of human (gasoline) history.

This is insane at a time when all Thai towns and cities have polluted air from clogged roadways. Any responsible government should be increasing taxes to reduce dependence on vehicles, whether two- or four-wheeled. (Or three with some tuk-tuks.) With extra taxes you can begin the much-needed modernisation of the rail system.

Reduced use of vehicles might also lead to better health. Btw, how often do you see a Thai person walking in the city. I am in Chiang Mai, and the only people I see walking are farangs like myself (breathing in the diesel fumes as I wait for traffic lights to change....)

Are you serious? Or was that comment a joke? The reduction in fuel prices will stimulate the economy and benefit all Thais. Do you use a bicycle? Do you recycle all of your waste? Do you use the same plastic bags for years, and forbid all of the stores that you shop in to give you plastic containers of any sort? If not, just keep quiet, and enjoy the benefit to the country. You have some very bad perspective on things. At this time of celebration, you are raining on the parade. Get a life please.

Also in Thailand there's three types of weather, very hot, even hotter and raining so who can blame people for not wanting to walk anywhere? In the UK when it reaches 30oC people drop dead from heat exhaustion so I think the Thais are holding up pretty well with their mopeds and cars!

it seems they want to bankrupt Thailand so they can buy it a bargain price!

Put that pipe down and stay off the wacky backy!

This is insane at a time when all Thai towns and cities have polluted air from clogged roadways. Any responsible government should be increasing taxes to reduce dependence on vehicles, whether two- or four-wheeled. (Or three with some tuk-tuks.) With extra taxes you can begin the much-needed modernisation of the rail system.

Reduced use of vehicles might also lead to better health. Btw, how often do you see a Thai person walking in the city. I am in Chiang Mai, and the only people I see walking are farangs like myself (breathing in the diesel fumes as I wait for traffic lights to change....)

So it's you making all that traffic stop and putting more pollution in the air so that you may traipse about the city.

To be fair, I hardly think this will encourage those who don't have/can't afford wheels to go out and buy some, or indeed drive more; it'll simply leave more money in people's pockets. On the pollution front, if you want to help, try and convince Thais to lobby government to clean up tuk-tuks and songthaews. Certainly in the case of CM, it is these junk vehicles that are coughing out the majority of pollution in the city, not your average Vios/scooter driving joe!

Precisely!

I agree...

One thing that's silly though is they're "compensating" the people with reserves. These people gain HUGE when the price goes up, but when they go down they don't lose? Ugh.

It's not worth thinking about that. The good thing is the consumer is getting a better deal for a change so I applaud it. When everyone in the UK was going nuts about a litre being 1 pound 29 pence I was laughing at them as they earn so much more than people here who are paying not that much less.

This is insane at a time when all Thai towns and cities have polluted air from clogged roadways. Any responsible government should be increasing taxes to reduce dependence on vehicles, whether two- or four-wheeled. (Or three with some tuk-tuks.) With extra taxes you can begin the much-needed modernisation of the rail system.

Reduced use of vehicles might also lead to better health. Btw, how often do you see a Thai person walking in the city. I am in Chiang Mai, and the only people I see walking are farangs like myself (breathing in the diesel fumes as I wait for traffic lights to change....)

So it's you making all that traffic stop and putting more pollution in the air so that you may traipse about the city.

To be fair, I hardly think this will encourage those who don't have/can't afford wheels to go out and buy some, or indeed drive more; it'll simply leave more money in people's pockets. On the pollution front, if you want to help, try and convince Thais to lobby government to clean up tuk-tuks and songthaews. Certainly in the case of CM, it is these junk vehicles that are coughing out the majority of pollution in the city, not your average Vios/scooter driving joe!

Precisely!

the commission has approved Bt7 million for Energy Ministry officials and provincial energy departments to inspect the inventory of 17,000 filling stations across the country from midnight last night to 6am today.

LOL ...can just see all the white uniformed "officials" running around closed gas stations with flash lights and dipsticks earning their 7m..

Don't be so cynical. We're get back to the good old days of Taksin when gasoline was cheap. I say "right on!"

I remember it being 10 baht per liter, but that was before Taksin.

Yes but it wasn't $108 dollars a barrel then