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Report Staggering 80% of Thai Army Conscripts Battling Drug Addiction
It will be harder stuff like Diazapam etc -
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Crime Russian Tour Guides in Hot Water Amid Phuket Police Sting
The protection labour laws of Thailand. I am wondering if the same stupid law was enforced in the Western countries.. How many Thais would go on holiday with only a foreign guide as Thai guides were forbidden. Guiding is only for the people who are persons of the country itself.. Impossible for a Thai to get permission or workpermit to guide Thais around... They would complain and they would not travel anymore.. When gets Thailand the brains that guides are needed for tourists and if you don't get good guides tourism will go down... But the conservatism in Thailand is gigantic... -
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What is the purpose of life?
No, the purpose is to stop you from posting your endless verbal drivel on AN. Nobody wants it or needs it. If only you could just go get ....... -
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Report Substandard Rebar Found in Collapsed Bangkok Building's Construction
Well, in that case it could simply be argued that an earth-quake made the building collapse... While it's technically true that buildings collapse due to structural failure, it's a fallacy to separate technical causes from the corrupt systems that allow them to exist. Corruption isn't just about misappropriated funds - it directly shapes the conditions under which technical failures occur. If inferior materials are used because someone took a bribe to overlook quality standards, or if inspections are signed off without being conducted, then corruption is no longer an abstract background issue - it becomes a root cause. Numerous real-world cases prove this. For example, the 1995 collapse of the Sampoong Department Store in South Korea involved both technical failings and clear corruption: bribed inspectors allowed illegal modifications to the building's structure. In Thailand and other countries with similar systemic issues, building codes are often robust on paper but routinely ignored in practice due to bribes and kickbacks. So while the rebar might snap or the concrete might crumble, the reason those materials were allowed to be used in the first place is corruption. Saying “corruption doesn’t make buildings collapse” is like saying “cutting corners doesn’t cause accidents” - technically inaccurate and deeply misleading. Corruption is the invisible hand behind many visible tragedies. Also, to address your question of why other buildings didn't fall: Just because corruption is widespread, it doesn’t mean every building is equally vulnerable. Some "corrupt" projects might involve only minor skimming - say, slightly cheaper materials that still meet minimum requirements. Others involve outright fraud, like omitting rebar altogether or ignoring design standards. So, it’s a spectrum and this building was at the 'extreme' end of that spectrum - there were plenty of other building under construction that did not collapse, and this building (that did collapse) was clearly at the 'extreme' end of that spectrum, 'beyond the tipping point' so to speak - it might highlight how much poorer the structural standards were in that building compared to every other building in Bangkok.
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