Thaksin in Chiang Mai again

[webfact]

Former PM Thaksin Shinawatra visits Chiang Mai province yesterday for the second time after being freed on parole in February.

Convicted former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra will provide an opportunity for those who wish to meet him and offer him Songkran blessings tomorrow in Chiang Mai.

 

Thaksin, who was freed on parole from a prison sentence he was serving for corruption, travelled by private jet to his hometown of Chiang Mai yesterday.

 

Tomorrow’s event will take place at the residence of Yaowaret Shinawatra, his younger sister.

 

This visit to the province is his second since being granted parole on February 19. The Corrections Department approved his release, finding that he met the parole criteria, specifically relating to old age and serious illnesses.

 

Full story: Thai PBS 2024-04-15

 

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[thesetat]

God... why doesn't the news services leave this poor man alone. Clearly he is deathly ill and injured and unable to stop them himself. 

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Former PM Thaksin Shinawatra visits Chiang Mai province yesterday for the second time after being freed on parole in February.

From having dire medical issues to complete recovery.. miraculous.

[TheFishman1]

Convicted guy leaves the country comes back 15 years later in his private golf stream jet worth over 65 million and it treated like a hero. I must be missing something here. I guess it pays to be corrupt here in the land of smiles TIT.

[ChaiyaTH]

I thought they just returned and had fallen sick due to covid / pollution, the pollution is like just as bad now as the last time he was here too. Populism at its best.

[ChaiyaTH]

1 hour ago, TheFishman1 said:

Convicted guy leaves the country comes back 15 years later in his private golf stream jet worth over 65 million and it treated like a hero. I must be missing something here. I guess it pays to be corrupt here in the land of smiles TIT.

You are missing something if you didn't understand this before Thaksin already hehe.

 

Thais are all the same, if you would tell you stole 20 people their retirement funds and destroyed their entire family, a few years back in the west, but you now changed and went to a temple for 2 weeks, they will love you, and you being rich. 

 

Some would deny to like this or be the same, upon asking them, until it actually happens in their real life + they also benefit from it.

 

This is the real Thai culture: you simply don't mention it and take the money. Don't think too much, sabzi sabzi.

[brianthainess]

Saint Tony, the Redeemer,  will he bless everyone too, or is he only taking blessings.

[arithai12]

1 hour ago, TheFishman1 said:

Convicted guy leaves the country comes back 15 years later in his private golf stream jet worth over 65 million and it treated like a hero. I must be missing something here. I guess it pays to be corrupt here in the land of smiles TIT.

I see your TIT and I raise TIUK, TIUS, TID, TIF, TIB, TIRU, ... and a hundred more.

[newbee2022]

I wonder which doctor got the power to treat an almost of being on his edge of life criminal in this amazing way. 

It's a miracle, isn't it?🙏

[MisterTee]

1 hour ago, brianthainess said:

Saint Tony, the Redeemer,  will he bless everyone too, or is he only taking blessings.

That reminds me...

   On a road trip to Chiang Khong years ago when Thaksin was in power, not far past Thoeng we passed one of those larger-than-life roadside portraits with flowers and insense before it.

In full royal regalia with big hat and gold embroidered vestments was Thaksin himself.

The ambition of this Dragonhead and his corrupt clan knows no bounds.

[matta01]

Christians have Lazarus, Buddhists have Thaksin

[scorecard]

1 hour ago, brianthainess said:

Saint Tony, the Redeemer,  will he bless everyone too, or is he only taking blessings.

And his arrogance is beyond belief.

[Bundooman]

1 hour ago, arithai12 said:

I see your TIT and I raise TIUK, TIUS, TID, TIF, TIB, TIRU, ... and a hundred more.

What about I see your 'TI's and I raise TIBS...

Pointless, eh?

[Maybole]

Is this really important news?

[cowellandrew]

That brass neck seams ok

[borderhopper2005]

I recognize this neighborhood (from the shop sign and the shapes of the buildings behind these people).

Must be in the Intrawarorrot Road that leads to the T-Junction by the park with 3 Kings Monument.

 

 

[georgegeorgia]

On 4/15/2024 at 1:22 PM, Bundooman said:

What about I see your 'TI's and I raise TIBS...

Pointless, eh?

Yep ..pointless post ,glad your seeing the light Bundy 

[bristolgeoff]

He off on his travels in his plane it needed a run  of a hour.Don,t think he is that liked as people in chiang mai voted orange last election.But he has his supporters up there