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Man Dies After Falling from Mango Tree into Canal in Ayutthaya
He should have just gone to the local market and purchased them. He tried to save a little coin and paid for it with his life 🙏.... -
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How much do you pay your Thai woman per month?
I like topics like this from Bob or the other usual suspects because, if I can read them and not feel compelled to reply, I know my anti-psychotic medicine is working. -
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Deputy PM Orders Investigation into Chinese-Owned Factory Over Environmental Concerns
Picture courtesy of Khaosod. Deputy Prime Minister Pirapan Salirathavibhaga has ordered an investigation into a large Chinese-funded factory under construction in Bo Thong district, Chonburi, following public outcry over the lack of environmental consultations. Over 400 local residents from Moo 4, Bo Kwang Thong subdistrict, have signed a petition demanding scrutiny of the 100-rai industrial project, which they fear could pose serious environmental and health risks. Despite previous orders from local authorities to halt construction pending public hearings, the project has continued without proper consultation. Some villagers claim the factory was previously located in Ban Bueng district, where it processed lead-based materials and was associated with significant pollution problems. They worry the relocation to Bo Thong will bring similar issues, particularly as the site is close to a school, temple, and the Phabua Khao watershed, the crucial water sources for agriculture and household use. Further concerns have emerged from residents of Moo 5, where activist Wilaiwan Niramayakul has reported illegal chemical waste dumping by a now-defunct factory that was shut down in 2018. She alleges that Chinese operators have been secretly burying hazardous waste, causing severe water contamination and foul odours, raising alarms about long-term environmental damage. In response to these complaints, Pirapan has assigned Dr Himalai Phiwphan, his adviser, along with Rattaruj Piyaphongphat, an adviser to the House Consumer Protection Committee, and Veerachai Changsarn, from the Anti-Global Warming Network, to visit the affected areas. More than 100 residents from Moo 4 and Moo 5 attended the meeting to provide evidence. Dr Himalai assured villagers that authorities would thoroughly investigate legal compliance and ensure public hearings are conducted. While there has been no official complaint regarding the illegal waste disposal in Moo 5, his team has committed to inspecting the site for potential violations. “Our party will closely monitor this case and push for real solutions. We will fight for every issue and stand by the people in protecting their rights and communities,” Dr Himalai stated. -- 2025-03-10 -
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US Halts Military Aid to Ukraine Amid Push for Peace Talks
Russia doesn't regard Ukraine as a country. Its not about seizing land. Its about a nonsense idea; Novorossiya. Its not even about recreating the Soviet Union, but emulating Tsar Nicholas I. Putin wants Ukraine to be eliminated as a state, and expects whats left to to become Hungarian (mostly) and Polish. He wants bits of Poland. Its all nonsense, because Kalingrad wasn't Russian, but German, and he overlooks that. Europe has had basically 80 years of settled borders, but Russia wants to turn the clock back 175 years. Its in no ones interest for Europe to revert to that time. There is no such thing as Ethnic Russians. Russians and Ukrainians are the same; one group wants to speak Ukrainian. Russians regard Ukrainians as "Little Slavs". Americans know full well about the power of language in forging national identity. In the young United States, it was Samuel Webster who can claim part of then credit for creating the American character. He was well known for his dictionary, which standardised American English at a time when English used customary spelling. Johnson on the other side of the Atlantic was doing the same with British English. But Webster went further, in introducing a standardised school education that wasn't just there to educate, but also to re-educate. To get all these English, Scottish, Irish, Italian, French, German, Swedish kids to stop thinking of the lands of their parents, but only the lands of America. The relationship between Russia and Ukraine might be analogous to that between England and Ireland. 7 out of 10 English have some Irish heritage, so naturally, some people think "we're all the same", and might even delegitimise the idea of an Irish State (these are the people calling for things like a Council of the British Isles, to bring Ireland into the Commonwealth). Many Irish, understandably, take affront at this. Most English people are fairly ignorant of Ireland, and sometimes can't understand why some Londoners, Scouse support Ireland in the football. The Russian Federation is built upon a lie. Its all but whats left of the Russian Empire, the final Empire that needs to go as a result of World War One. Its consists of Russian people ruling vassel minorities. You will never see a Chechen as Russian President for instance. Russia hasn't developed like Western societies; Tsar Nicholas II still ran a feudal state which went to communism, without any development of ideas of individual rights and liberties. In the West, such things didn't come easily; we had to fight for them, starting with Magna Carta. The American history is part of that history of people winning freedom. And along the way, there were ugly things as the system pushed back. Putin knows none of that; he grew up in post war St Petersburg, hanging out with the street gangs, seething at the West. Ultimately, he wants to see an end to the West; not to take over us, but destroy our societies, as some sort of revenge for the fall of the USSR. He;s an adherant of Alexander Dugin, who during Soviet times was a dissident. Dugin believes in the Eurasian idea; that for too long the world has been ruled by the "Atlanticists"; those trading nations with access to the seas, which includes the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Dugin believes a lot of the troubles of the world would go if the Anglo-Saxons were liquidated. Its complete nonsense of course, and just yet another global conspiracy fruitcake idea. If it wasn't the Anglo-Saxons, it would be the Jews. These days, Putin uses the term "Collective West"; he believes the European peoples can be disengaged from the Anglo Saxons, but for now, we are all the enemy. With such ideas, there can be no rapprochement, no peace, just new continuous tension. I don't think such ideas will survive the man; no one is going to be erecting statues to Putin the Great. Obviously there is much conjecture about his health, likely inaccurate. But even so, he's Russian, and based on just demographics, he's on borrowed time. Its important for Russia's venture with Ukraine to fail, to ensure all of this nonsense dies with Putin. That includes not recognising the legalities of Russia's claims to the Donbass oblasts, because that's not how we now settle territorial disputes. In an ideal situation, the territories would be placed under a UN-like mandate, funded by Russia and Ukraine and allowed the Right of Self Determination under a genuinely free and open process, not the fakery propagated by Russia's referenda. And as a last act of WW1, the Russian Federation needs to go, allowing a modern Russian Republic to emerge, much smaller, but I think with a more view of itself among nations and its neighbours. The failure of Putin's escapade will hasten that. Its minorities of the Federation who have disproportionally suffered in the war, due to how recruitment has been carried out. Who knows, with a reduced Slavic Russia, maybe there is scope for a Slavic Union similar to the Nordic Council. The Scandanavians seem fairly comfortable with each other, with relationships that the nations of the British Isles can only hope to emulate. -
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Debt Dispute Turns Deadly as Lender Hacked to Death with Machete
What ever happened to the land of smiles? -
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