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Thanks Kerry - looks like I was searching in the wrong place.

Mods - delete this thread if you so wish...

I'm a little bit lost here.  Hasn't the Thai government been proclaiming the eastern seaboard to already be the Detroit of Asia for many years now...? 

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No this one's completely different. The previous catch phrase was "Detroit of the East".

[However, after a thorough inspection, Mr BANHARN commented that, even though the new Bangkok airport has encountered several problems, such as cracks on runway, the terminal's roof, and the purchase of CTX bomb detectors and the attached baggage transporters, he said the overall performance is still considered fine.

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I suppose then it must be too late to consider moving the airport to Suphanburi!

"It is understandable that some travellers, particularly from Chinese cultures, may have some concerns about travelling to destinations where many lives have been lost," he said. "But we cannot help these communities get back on their feet by staying away."

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I don't know where Mr. de Jong gets his information, but I was in Phuket last week and the majority of tourists I could see appeared to be of Chinese culture.

I have looked in the news clippings forum, but couldn't find this story....

http://www.bangkokpost.com/280805_News/28Aug2005_news12.php

I would love to read the TNA version if George could find it somewhere.

BANGKOK: -- A Swedish diplomatic official, allegedly driving while drunk, tried to jump a police checkpoint and later threatened officers, police said yesterday.

Adam Grimla, who works for the Royal Swedish Embassy in Bangkok, ....

Absolut madness! And imagine being caught anywhere near the Siam Hotel, as well. I wonder why he has not yet made the front page of Aftonbladet.

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Isn't that impolite to use when you're not driving?

I hope it wasn't between 2.00 - 5.00pm. That would be sacrilegious!

.... so that I could speak only once a week," Thaksin said.

Is that a promise?

I feel very safe when I know that every car entering a building is given the mirror-under-the-car-check, while there's a sh!t-load of cemtex in the trunk or under the hood.

"Who did it?"

In this tropical heat, it's obviously the guy sitting right next to the aircon with an ice-pack in his lap...

Thaksin can't stop the violence in the south. Why do they think he can do anything about teen sex? 

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I think now he can teach teenagers how to fold paper phallus's and then air-drop them over all the universities and schools in Thailand. The lucky person to find the one with his signature would get a free condom

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awww... c'mon... surely Thaksin's Phallus is worth a million baht per millimeter???

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Yes, and that one could only be initialled...

Thaksin can't stop the violence in the south. Why do they think he can do anything about teen sex? 

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I think now he can teach teenagers how to fold paper phallus's and then air-drop them over all the universities and schools in Thailand. The lucky person to find the one with his signature would get a free condom

"The massage parlor business was [legal]under Thai law, and Thai law gave the license for the massage parlors," Chuwit said he told the embassy.

Yes, then why....?

"I am not saying it is 'bribes'. I always say it is a 'convenience', to make my business convenient, to make my business smooth," he said at the time.

I will now carry my original passport...issued 1969 and now out of date but assume should be OK  

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Yeah, those pages should be okay to roll a few joints over the weekend at the immigration detention centre when they arrest you this Friday evening.

Would it help if I provided an artist's sketch of her hairdo?

PM says he will 'cure social ills'

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The greatest social ill here seems to be the tendency to make promises that one can't keep.

Dr. Toxin is on the job - please be Patient!

Does anyone really believe that just one man can bankrupt a big bank like the Bangkok Bank of Commerce?

How many people have actually gone to jail after the much more recent defence of the baht (1997)? Wasn't it only a couple of months ago that they were asking one official to pay back a gazillion bahts to the government?

This just looks like another case of the ONE syndrome...

ONE scandal - ONE scapegoat!

No charges have been filed against Thongkhao and an investigation was continuing, police said. The name of the monk, who was staying temporarily at a temple near the house, was not available.

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Not to excuse the monk's alleged actions, but since when is peeping a death penalty offence? Laying a deadly trap instead of say, window shutters, should at least warrant a manslaughter charge.

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A friend of mine is having a house built (in the UK) and is fed up with people coming on the site stealing things. So he set up aload of traps (not quite as severe as this) and against my advise. One night a thief got pretty cut up on the barbed wire and nails used in one of the traps. My friend has now been charged and is being sued by the thief. he now awaits the court date

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I bet the thief wasn't Cambodian and yes, you already said it wasn't in Thailand.

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Yeah, sorry Sphere. I should have made my point more clearly. I was agreeing with cdnvic post and just showing the comparison between UK law and Thai. In the UK (and i would imagine most western countries) you are not allowed to set traps that would intentionally harm anyone, wether it be Cambodian or even the French

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No need to say sorry BoJ. I suppose no one here is going to lose sleep wondering why the offending trap-layer is not prosecuted. Especially so, because the victim is not an important person - not even Thai. I am surprised that they are not calling it a suicide yet! Guess they don't need to in this case.

No charges have been filed against Thongkhao and an investigation was continuing, police said. The name of the monk, who was staying temporarily at a temple near the house, was not available.

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Not to excuse the monk's alleged actions, but since when is peeping a death penalty offence? Laying a deadly trap instead of say, window shutters, should at least warrant a manslaughter charge.

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A friend of mine is having a house built (in the UK) and is fed up with people coming on the site stealing things. So he set up aload of traps (not quite as severe as this) and against my advise. One night a thief got pretty cut up on the barbed wire and nails used in one of the traps. My friend has now been charged and is being sued by the thief. he now awaits the court date

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I bet the thief wasn't Cambodian and yes, you already said it wasn't in Thailand.

......I am going to bring them back in Sept. when I return

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Well, prepare yourself to give-up all of them at customs, a complete body cavity search, and a long stay in Klong Prem for breaking the law of the land.

A couple of months ago, the three y.o. daughter of a friend bumped into a table at a big bank's branch in a shopping mall in Bangkok. The glass top of the table crashed down and nearly severed the child's foot - but guess what? The bank staff insisted (and succeeded) on having the 7,500 Baht table top paid for and replaced by the lady!!!

TIT.....

What could be the reason for this brainwave? Someones cousin has a whole stock-lot of plastic books from a cancelled export order, not!

Moral of the story - Look before you peep!

They could have saved some money by not changing their livery, but that wouldn't benefit anyone except the passengers I suppose.