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Immigration Biometric System Fails to Record Data for 17 Million Travelers
What you are talking about in the western world would be corruption, in Thailand the culture is behind corruption, Officials were traditionally not paid salaries but were entitled to retain a 10 to 30 percent portion of the money involved as a fee for their services. Even at these times wrong-doers were around and were called ging maung (“eating the state”). Further explain that in traditional Thai value system merit is derived from power and in this way forms a basis for patron- client relationship in the political society. There is also a tradition of presenting gifts to high officials. In this context you see that some things used to be legitimate under the traditional patronage system but are clearly to be considered problematic in modern legal system. A survey concerning people’s attitudes towards corruption. This study showed that many Thais still accept paying fees to officials as sin nam jai, the 'gifts of good will' and do not see that as a form of corruption. Much more they see taking things, even small ones like pencils, home from office corrupt. An other thing they found out was that there is a growing group of middle class people who oppose the corruption in its all forms. Still people expected the corruption even grow rather than disappear. One other culture based area concerning corruption is existence of influential provincial businessmen called Jao Pho (“godfather”). These men must be very similar to the heads of traditional Chinese business networks, and have often raised them selves above the law. There is still one important feature in Thai political history that needs to be discussed. Between years 1932 and 1997 there has been 15 constitutions in Thailand, mostly invoked by those near the military juntas that took over the country from time to time. Of course, in those eras a sufficient amount of open discussion could not take place and due to this it would be unfair to say these constitutions were democratically invoked. It was also considered honorable among those in power to protect any state information, so it has been mostly impossible to retrieve information and criticize any decisions that had been made by the government officials. -
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Being black in Thailand
That nonsense will be stopping, there are only Americans and one national anthem -
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Two Dead After Chinese Nationals’ Car Collides with Cement Truck in Chonburi
I think the truck (yellow line) was in the nearside or centre lane and the Chnises car attempted to cross the road but was picked up by the truck and crushed over to the wall on the RHS. -
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Trump Joins the Axis. NATO Dead. WW111 Imminent?
As a kid, I knew an old boy at the footie supporters club, Gregory. He was a Ukrainian. I suspect he joined the German forces. He was no Nazi though. Nice bloke. Hated the Communists though. In WW2, Ukrainian and Belarussians took the brunt of deaths, not the Russians. Yes, probably a fair few of those Partizans were just as opposed to Soviet rule as they were German rule. Its not really clear why Crimea was transferred to Ukraine in 1954. I suspect there was a tacit acknowledgement that Ukrainians were very justified to be hostile to Stalin, and there was genuine gratitude for how they ultimately in the end, sided with Stalin. -
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Being black in Thailand
Arabs unnerve me greatly too but I don't know them well, just bad vides. These guys however are very charming. I think they're from rural Pakistan. -
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Where to by shoes for walking with a toe injury?
Hello everyone, I hurt my right big toe. It's mostly healed, but I'm having problems finding stiff-soled sandals, a stiff/rigid shoe insert, or a walking boot for post-op recovery to walk without aggravating the injury. I must avoid flexion (bending) of the big toe for several weeks, and walking in normal shoes is causing the toe joint to flex and become swollen. My preferences in order would be... 1) a stiff sole hiking sandal (but nobody understands the question when I call to ask. And the requests to "just come to the store" are a problem because I have to avoid running all over Bangkok with my toe injury. 2) a hard (rigid) shoe insert meant for this purpose (like this one from Amazon USA) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0D4DRG6RQ/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?smid=A10U4HUD9UI9ND&th=1 **I've been calling around and nobody understands the idea that stiff soles must be used to protect a toe joint injury. You can't just put in a gel pad. Most sellers didn't even know what I meant when I explained the idea. 3) a post-op walking boot (not at massively inflated expat hospital prices) Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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