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"The armoured vehicles will provide safety for the authorities and protesters as there are armed groups at the protests.

More absurdities! How exactly are armoured vehicles safer for the protesters? I've yet to see a light tank, or for that matter a main battle tank, that is safe heading for unarmed or lightly armed protesters. APC's are also dangerous in close quarters for the untrained.

If the attack does take place being in an armoured vehicle trying to smash through a burning tyre wall isn't such a great idea either! The rancid smoke and the heat can be intense.

Your comments are utter nonsense.

Armored carriers are used in conflicts around the world.

Do you really think the operators are untrained?

I guess you were not here during Vietnam were you?

The Thai military can take care of themselves the same as any other military.

Tires and Bamboo are no match for the modern armored carriers

As far as smoke and heat, that is a dead giveaway you have no clue about these vehicles

The amored vehicle would go right through these barricades and are well protected from heat and smoke.

The inside is equipped with smoke googles and other equipment designed for this mission.

What the vehicles can do is open up the barricades without subjecting soldiers to getting shot

Once the barricades are opened, chaos ensues as the reds won't hold any kind of military line and it will be easy to see who is running away and who is standing to shoot and fight.

This is 101 around the world.

It is the best way to eliminate loss of life on the soldiers part.

Very dangerous and not advisable to get close to

It is the best because you say so?

I will stick with the 99 baht all you can eat in Rangsit as the best

booked solid 7 nights a week

The official fine is about B 1000, he should be alright if thats the reason they pasted his mug shot on the www.

yeah the fine is nothing to worry about, it is the deportation that you have to worry about, and blacklist

Deportation and blacklist?

Is the sky falling too mate?

You have no clue commenting because in all reality, you do not know what, if anything will happen.

There is no sense crying the sky is falling (Blacklist and deportation) until it is actually know to fall

I bet you a US Grand he is not deported or blacklisted

So put up or pipe down with your the sky is falling scenerio.

This topic has been covered before in detail if you do a search

The major consensus was this business will fail and not generate any money at all

Listening to GF instead of having a business plan is a guaranteed recipe for failure

What they want to do and what will make money are two different things

Rail is allot cheaper.

They roll it right in for a safe trip and roll it out at destination

Cheaper than 600 baht?

Unbelievable

How can we advise with no info?

I hope squaretrade doesn't publish the sky is falling

PS the reference link does not work

Do not listen to some of the foolishness here

There is a US gal on one the islands with an underwater video school, teaching people how to film professionally underwater and doing quite well

You need to get all the info required to start and register and business and for work permits

There are many foreign owned language schools

follow the rules and there is no problem

The funny thing is...........it's no different than the rest of Thailand.

We have professional trash service pickup 3 times a week and it is different

Phuket has gotten worse and worse.

In 1984 it was a spectacular place

I have not visited Phuket in over 10 years or more

Trash in the water is pathetic

Plus there are many better places to go with no trash, no tuk tuk thugs and many less tourists

Is the 50 extra baht going to bankrupt you?

Instead of enjoy the family experience complain about the price

You should count your blessing you have a chance to eat at McDonalds at all

As you soon as you comment it's closed, the BTS has reopened

Take a taxi from Suvarnabhumi Airport to the Fashion Island mall in Minburi. Have the taxi use the motorway and it is about 20 minutes or less

Fashion Island is a large mall and you can buy the IPHONE unlocked 3G anywhere there and test it to see it works etc.

Stick with a reputatable store, not a kiosk!

Easy to get back to the Airport from the mall in Minburi.

Glad to hear a happy story George

It was not very long ago (2 months) that many were blinded in Khon Kaen hospital doing eye procedures

What sense does it make to comment on any news story when you dont have first hand facts?

No one of us were there and have no idea what happened.

So why bother speculating?

Well you will need 2,000,000 thb capital to set up a business

You will need a work permit and that will cost you

Will need 2 Thai employees for each work permit

You will have a huge investment on your hands just to get a VISA

Do the math on internet gaming cafes

Its not worth the investment to make 10 baht per hour per machine

Ecommerce has been beat to death as well

All the Thai's I know the buy and sell on line do it from Thai sites in Thai language

How about an education VISA? Can go to Thai school 1 day a week for a year and total cost with school and VISA I saw advertised for 33,000

At Safari World yesterday the only people there were 3 different tour groups from India, the rest was empty.

This post is totally uncalled for.

A month in Thailand is the exact same as a month anywhere in the world.

If you do not know that God help you

No handouts? I find it difficult to have sympathy for people who travel without money or other resources such as a credit card or someone at home who can wire them money. I flew in from Singapore on Thursday and most of the "tourists" I saw sleeping in the airport or walking aimlessly around looked like low class trashy types who spent all their money while on the other side of the World, the same type of alcoholic sex tourists who ruin Songkran in Pattaya with their drunken low life behavior. Running out of money far from home is not a very intelligent thing to do. The "danger" in Bangkok is also greatly exaggerated since the confrontation is happening in a very small part of a large city. When the EU comes up with silly laws requiring airlines to reimburse passengers for incidents which are not the airlines fault, such at this, it only drives up the cost of travel. Also the sad reality of business is that there is little reason for the airlines to show "loyalty" to these economy class passengers since most will fly any carrier that happens to have the cheapest price on the day they want to go.

I agree 100% with this.

I am not 100% sure, but my understanding is when a particular air carrier, in this case Thai Airways the story was alluding to, when they get permission to fly as a regular scheduled service into a country, part of the licensing rules will have thing s assoiated with those flights. Eg, to get permission to fly Bangkok to LA the Americans can say, all flights will have XYZ security checks and insurance for ABC when on this route. The EU says that when a person buys a ticket to a destination that the EU has given Thai Airways permission to operate, that in the even of a CXL over a certain number of hours a hotel room will be provided and food. These condition also cover this end for people on those flights. If Thai Airways says Mai Pen Rai, that's ok, the EU can fine them or simply not approve them to operate on those routes. These are the conditions Thai have to provide or stop flying to Europe. Just like they had to update their aging fleet to fly to Europe and other western countries that will ban of fine them so heavily in the coming years due to carbon controls. Again, simple, if Thai doesn't get new planes then they cant operate into EU.

I expect that the EU will fine Thai Airway Millions of Euros over this, and if they dont pay, they will ban them, like over 60 other airlines at the moment. Amazing Thailand. It's not like there is a shortage of hotel room in BKK at the moment like happened in Singapore.

(Edit) I don't know this news paper, sounds like tabloid trash though. Also, the BBC has been doing some pathetic bias reporting in the last year, (external to Thailand stories) that Fox, North Korea state TV and CNN would even be proud of !!!! I have actually found Al Jazeera English to be more reliable than the BBC now.

Please don't suspect and hypthosize over a field you no nothing about.

I expect that the EU will fine Thai Airway Millions of Euros over this, and if they dont pay, they will ban them

Do you research and find out how many passengers the EU is sending here to Thailand versus Thailand is sending to EU each year

Thailand is the cash cow destination for many EU airlines and will never be fined or banned

Airlines and economics. The airlines will never do anything to hurt the bottom line any more than it is already hurting

Do you honestly think the EU would risk Billions of Dollars in travel business to Thailand over 350 stranded tourists?

If you stranded yourself in any worldwide destination with no cash, ATM, credit card that tells me these are the kind of travelers the airlines could care less about.

Running out of money in a foreign country?

If you are that broke, why are you traveling in the first place?

Paypal is the biggest online paying service in the world, now owned by EBAY.

Cars are bought and sold site unseen every day of the year on EBAY

I use paypal for almost everything

It is as secure as secure gets

Need to outline all details in your paypal notes section just like a contract, ie buyer buying site unseen no refund etc as car is advertised 100% correct as is

Within 2 hours of payment, the money is in your paypal account

Stipulate that as soon as payment arrives, the car belongs to him, and there is no refund or return

Paypal is the best way for this

Selling a used car is not easy in Thailand, take the money and don't worry

PS

How much Sin Sot are you paying mom so she can save her face in her village and not suffer the embarassment of a farang son in law with no job?

Well who is coming for dinner?

Guess?

How about Mr. Bean the king of the ########

That is my guess