19 hours ago, coulson said:

Thaksin has family and friends in Singapore, he just left last week. He and Yingluck likely departed Thailand through Singapore when times got tough.

 

It's the safe house of the Asian elite.

 

Providing your're in with the "right" people it is. Little Red Bull Boy did his runner through there too. Amazing for a country that prides itself on excellent security services. But billionaires welcome!

 

A carefully presented squeaky clean image, but with the usual rotten underbelly found in most Chinese dominated cultures.

5 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:

 

Providing your're in with the "right" people it is. Little Red Bull Boy did his runner through there too. Amazing for a country that prides itself on excellent security services. But billionaires welcome!

 

A carefully presented squeaky clean image, but with the usual rotten underbelly found in most Chinese dominated cultures.

What a racist comment. So you conveniently omit the fact that Singapore and Thailand do not have an extradiction treaty to serve your racist agenda. 

10 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

What a racist comment. So you conveniently omit the fact that Singapore and Thailand do not have an extradiction treaty to serve your racist agenda. 

 

What a typical silly response.

 

Show me a country, anyone, that has a predominant Chinese culture where corruption isn't part of the culture. Just because you happen to be ethnic Chinese, and that the PC left don't like inconvenient facts, doesn't make it less true. 

 

So rather than whine "racism" show it's not true. But you can't because most if not all have endemic corruption.

 

That's not to say other countries are corruption free. Just that they don't have corruption permeating every aspect of life and society as you find in Asia. 

 

So it's because of a lack of extradition treaty. Nothing to do with the Thais being very slow to actually request anything, and nothing to do with them supporting any of those fugitives. Simply no treaty. Which is fair enough.

28 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:

 

What a typical silly response.

 

Show me a country, anyone, that has a predominant Chinese culture where corruption isn't part of the culture. Just because you happen to be ethnic Chinese, and that the PC left don't like inconvenient facts, doesn't make it less true. 

 

So rather than whine "racism" show it's not true. But you can't because most if not all have endemic corruption.

 

That's not to say other countries are corruption free. Just that they don't have corruption permeating every aspect of life and society as you find in Asia. 

 

So it's because of a lack of extradition treaty. Nothing to do with the Thais being very slow to actually request anything, and nothing to do with them supporting any of those fugitives. Simply no treaty. Which is fair enough.

It is not silly to call out a racist. When you said that Chinese are “usual rotten underbelly”, it is racist. Now you are backpedaling and offer a reply of generalization. Not at all convincing and shocked that you stoop so low. 

Just now, Eric Loh said:

It is not silly to call out a racist. When you said that Chinese are “usual rotten underbelly”, it is racist. Now you are backpedaling and offer a reply of generalization. Not at all convincing and shocked that you stoop so low. 

 Stop shouting "racist' when you don't understand the meaning.

 

Read what I said again, carefully. And then address the point. Stop trying to hide behind 'racism" which like sexism has become a convenient excuse for something someone doesn't like.

 

Or are you another who thinks comments that offend one single person must be removed regardless of their voracity?

 

I have nothing against any race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or group. But I will comment as I find, and I will use figures of speech that I choose. If you want to pretend it's racist because it's unpalatable then that's your choice.

 

But from my experience, corruption is regarded differently by different cultures. 

For those of us that were around back in the good old days, here's some archive footage of the October 21st Apec meeting in Bangkok. Thaksin was then of course Prime Minister of Thailand and Mahathir was Prime Minister of Malaysia, 10 days before he retired. Now out of retirement and the new PM.

 

 

Lee Kwan Yew - a man to whom democracy clearly wasn't important. A man who used the law to intimidate and punish journalists, critics and opponents. And whose family certainly achieved remarkable success!
 
So you only support democracy when it suits you? And support oppressors of democracy when it suits?
 
All in the name of the people, of course.

Oh do grow up.You have consistently shown your contempt for democracy in Thailand.Now suddenly you are a champion for democracy in Singapore.

Lee Kwan Yew naturally was an authoritarian but he delivered first world prosperity to what had been a colonial backwater.By any criteria he was a very great man.



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