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and absolutely NO WAY to arrest the 2 offending officers because they have been transferred out of the jurisdiction. Well MAYBE we can find out where they were transferred to Barney Fife.

Well why run and tell it to the media, you must have a mobile, everyone else has , so give the area RTP commander and the top brass in BKK a call and a 4 star in Phitsanulok (protect your back) doing what you have done has now alerted the henchmen, amateurs messing in this field could prove dangerous.

Really? What is with these idiots? Do we have to run keystone kops again? Maybe we could try to surprise a criminal just once and how that goes. Just sayin'. Could work......wow.

total waste of money. I'm from Alaska. We have parks larger than this country and Lao put together and we don't need drones to mind what's going on in them.

China Air based in Taipei. I fly with them a couple times a year.

I had a guy looked at me funny and sort of hurt my feelings. Can I have to army go to talk with him? This could turn into a real can of worms if it were true.

For instance: it's likely that people with minor problems, like diabetes, will have a difficult time getting a drivers license.

I can tell you first hand that diabetes is not a "minor problem" I have been a type 1 for 35 years. I that time I have been pulled over 3 times as the cops thought I was drunk. I have wrecked 2 vehicles. Thank GOD I never killed anyone but each time, after the cops found out that I was having a diabetic "incident" and not drunk......the cops let me go. This was in America no less. Yes type 1 diabetes can be a real big danger if the blood sugar suddenly drops.

I give a ratz azz if this place is over run with Chinese. Serves these greedy souls perfectly.

Residents affected by huge waves in the seaside Ko Libong subdistrict in this southern province have been evacuated to safer areas.

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Thais don't surf.

love that smell in the morning

"The campaign was organised after it was found that there are about 80 per cent of smokers in the total population in Thailand"

If the above statement is true, their anti-smoking campaigns don't seem to working that well. Why don't they canvas the government (?) and make it illegal outright, as it should be, if all the facts about it being the cause of all the diseases it is claimed to be responsible for are true?

Or would the tax generated with the sales be stronger than the welfare and health of the population?

Anyway, we know this isn't going to happen.

At least the anti smoking people are sticking with the right ratios for a democratic country, the minority making decisions for the majority.

People die in cars. Should the govt outlaw them as well. My God the socialists in this country are the ones killing me.

maybe not in the best favor of China either. I mean when the west does something they don't like, they turn to China. Soon China may turn it's back as well. It's not like Thailand holds any great strategic importance to anyone.

Does anyone know the difference between the TAT and the TCT?

no, it's just another example of people doing what one can do. The other day we got an inspection of our newly open computer rental shop. A van showed up with another vehicle. In all, 10 people to ask if we had a dedicated breaker for the computers,did we have a toilet availabe, did we have a sign posting the hours of operation,did we sell smokes or alcohol? In this case 10 guys doing what 1 could do.

Still only accounts for 6% of GDP....but so much press about tourism lately.........something just doesn't gel!

Image weighs heavily here maybe? See what your saying though. Then again, what EVER makes sense here?

Your post has a lot of merit and food for thought. Sound perspective I think

My wife, from rural Chiang Rai, and her family too, always took money for voting from as many politicians as possible.

The result? "I'm not going to vote for anyone who has to buy their way in to power!"

Thai pragmatism in practice!

And you believed that cock and bull story? Stupidity

All vote buyers have electoral rolls and record who gets money and ticks that off against id's. Do you really think these "politicians" are that thick to arbitrarily hand out money willy nilly?

Last year our local body elections were held. The incumbent gave 500 baht per vote. The newcomer a ridiculous (by the norm) 1000 baht. The newcomer won and the incumbent team shrugged and muttered that they could never keep up with that. They also resigned themselves to the fact that they now were last on the list of getting anything done from the elected.

People in the teams of both sides canvassed "votes" and ticked off the names.

There are 30,000 voters in this area. The problem isn't so much the vote buying (btw in 10 years I have never seen an election sans vote buying) but the fact that the winner is 1 million dollars in the hole.

Where does that 1 million dollars come from? And after that another million on normal graft - that's the tragedy in buying votes for 1000 baht a pop. Not the ethical issue.

The community just lost at least a million bucks on roads, lights, footpaths, ration packs, community entertainment, flood help etc.

The previous representative was (despite being legally and ethically corrupt) very very good for the community. Got roads and public amenities done, ration packs and mosquito spraying, listened to grievances and cleaned up the floods in about a week - impressive.

The electorate is 30 kms from silom road.

Now all you keyboard Thai experts who know everything shoot down this scenario, while all the locals won't pass judgement on you but will remember the times when their elected official actually helped the community, despite your protestations over "bad form". They know no other way (they've never seen it work properly - has anyone?) and your chuntering is worthless - worth less than the 500 baht they got to ensure accountability from a hamstrung democracy.

dark skin? right got it. dark eyes and black hair? got it. Ya say he had an Indian accent? yes m'am. just the facts m'am Well it seems our man is at it again.

Of course there are no cases of ''human trafficking and illegals in working as cheap slave labour in the U.S or elsewhere for that matter are there?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Morecambe_Bay_cockling_disaster

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback

Over the years so many leading Americans have said " the US isn't the world's policeman " yet the country keeps on acting as if it is.

I don't know that this really constitutes a police action. It's more of "If you want this money, jump through this hoop" sort of thing. I like it

I didn't even read the story but transfer them to jail is my standard answer. No more wrist slapping. OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!

the next and maybe one of the last things the general needs to do is REALLY hurt the ones that hurt this country. IE: no more transfers to inactive posts, these people need to be jailed to set an example

Self protection.

The pilot tried to run him down.

I would have ran him over. I tend to not yeild to a man with a gun if I have aternative means of self defense. (police being an exception) Not that it's ever happened to me though.

Police here are actually pretty efficient when they have the army commanding them. Hope this continues.

I agree but really, should you announce that you know who they are? Giving them a chance to flee knowing that they are suspects. I'm not in law enforcement but I think I would try another ploy.

Draws to a close. Dandy.

Now where is that 20 million tons of rice, and who's going to pay back the approximately 1 trillion baht which is owed to the banks so far?

I wish I could draw my business to a close in that manner.

I need more Thainess.

Lessee. 3% interest on 1 tril baht is 30 billion baht per year. If you've drawn it to a close, could I have that part?

Hope this will become THE model for why govt's should refrain from market manipulation attempts as well as from giving things to buy votes.

so who was the genius that figured out that tablets do NOT make smart children, probably not the same clown that was promoting whiter skin equals intelligence

before tranferring them out??!! you gotta be kidding me. so they can collect money and benefits still? throw their asses in jail DAMN!