Curfew for migrant workers on islands in Surat Thani may be imposed

[JoeLing]

Next step, concentration camp!

The curfew on foreign workers has always been in place. Workers not to leave camp after 9 pm, not to be in possession of mobile phones & not allowed to ride motorbikes, nothing new here, just enforcing what has been in place for years.

For most Burmese people working on the mainland that was always the case,

just on the islands they could move around relatively free (although not for free).

I just been told by Burmese people that their "contacts" said, if the two suspects

in Koh Samui are being found guilty, then thousands of Burmese workers will leave

Thailand.

[SiggiCM]

it is realy funny how all th TV members jump on every stupid interview of a thai official, this curfew never can happend because for this must be a law and it would means everybody would have to be at home at 10 pm,

how they prove this peopel are not tourists? I just meet last week 4 women from myamar in Chiang Mai who spent a weekend there.

Youu cant make a curfew on nationality or work even Thailand cant do!

But you all believe it, if a Thai say something stupid and not workable, even after more than 100 stupids interviews in the last months, still people react like it is real. So all the dive intructors working on the islands now ou will time to sleep early because your day finish at 10 pm

[JoeLing]

I'll try again a question asked by a few, I see no response, is there anyone on Koh Tao or anyone been there recently that can report on the vibe there and the amount of tourists there?

According to a friend who visited a few days ago it was less crowded than this time last year but there are no bad vibes from the tourists. It's perhaps considered by them to be safer now the security has increased and the true culprits are arrested, right?

​Most tourists I had here over the last month, didn't have a clue about the murders in Koh Tao.

I believe the Military coup, incomprehensible and ever changing visa regulations and those

inappropriate comments of our MP and Tourist Minister had more of an impact than those

murders on Koh Tao

Sure, tourism is down but that started long before the murders on Koh Tao.

For me, only January and May was better than last year.

[JoeLing]

it is realy funny how all th TV members jump on every stupid interview of a thai official, this curfew never can happend because for this must be a law and it would means everybody would have to be at home at 10 pm,

how they prove this peopel are not tourists? I just meet last week 4 women from myamar in Chiang Mai who spent a weekend there.

Youu cant make a curfew on nationality or work even Thailand cant do!

But you all believe it, if a Thai say something stupid and not workable, even after more than 100 stupids interviews in the last months, still people react like it is real. So all the dive intructors working on the islands now ou will time to sleep early because your day finish at 10 pm

Waoo, Dive instructors from Myanmar?

[Local Drunk]

It's right up there with the 10,000 Baht bribery reward... taking old cars off the streets to solve traffic congestion... bracelets for tourists... Ebola tourism et cetera ad nauseam; and that's just in the last month or two.

[Tropicalevo]

I am not visiting the Koh Rupt Thai islands any more. Found some way nicer places in neighbouring Cambodia.

And you think that Hunsenodia is not currupt...... Classic. Great sense of humour Fred.

(He is best friends with 'our man in Dubai'!)

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-13006542

[kaobang]

this only makes sense if the governor is a racist idiot..

and one more racist statement from a newspaper which cant be link here..BP

[mrtoad]

What a moron. Surat Thani is now on my "never visit list".

Plenty of better places in a Thailand anyhow, without The Sea Trash that inhabit those islands.

[Samui Coconut]

it is realy funny how all th TV members jump on every stupid interview of a thai official, this curfew never can happend because for this must be a law and it would means everybody would have to be at home at 10 pm,

how they prove this peopel are not tourists? I just meet last week 4 women from myamar in Chiang Mai who spent a weekend there.

Youu cant make a curfew on nationality or work even Thailand cant do!

But you all believe it, if a Thai say something stupid and not workable, even after more than 100 stupids interviews in the last months, still people react like it is real. So all the dive intructors working on the islands now ou will time to sleep early because your day finish at 10 pm

Well, apparently it is the law already for a while. Obviously one can see in the passports whether its a tourist or resident (at least here in the south). I guess there is not much diving up there in CM; but let me advise you that dive instructors usually finish much earlier than 10pm as they attend English classes before going to bed.

[PaPiPuPePo]

I am not visiting the Koh Rupt Thai islands any more. Found some way nicer places in neighbouring Cambodia.

And you think that Hunsenodia is not currupt...... Classic. Great sense of humour Fred.

(He is best friends with 'our man in Dubai'!)

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-13006542

It doesn't mean that the VIOLENCE against tourists due to various distinctly Thai factors (not cultural per se but economic/political) is as bad, which is isn't, if you've actually been there.

If you've only been in Thailand, then you're likely to have the same very strong but uneducated and unfounded biases against, for example, Cambodia, that I see in the vast majority of long-time falang residents of Thailand--people who've never been there but "know" it's a cesspit. Go there instead and educate yourself.

[smokie36]

Is the Ark bar closing early then?

[Tropicalevo]

Is the Ark bar closing early then?

Not a chance!

[Tropicalevo]

I am not visiting the Koh Rupt Thai islands any more. Found some way nicer places in neighbouring Cambodia.

And you think that Hunsenodia is not currupt...... Classic. Great sense of humour Fred.

(He is best friends with 'our man in Dubai'!)

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-13006542

It doesn't mean that the VIOLENCE against tourists due to various distinctly Thai factors (not cultural per se but economic/political) is as bad, which is isn't, if you've actually been there.

If you've only been in Thailand, then you're likely to have the same very strong but uneducated and unfounded biases against, for example, Cambodia, that I see in the vast majority of long-time falang residents of Thailand--people who've never been there but "know" it's a cesspit. Go there instead and educate yourself.

Uneducated is when someone makes a post assuming facts that are incorrect mate. ASS U ME (makes an ASS out of U and ME)

I worked in Cambodia for a couple of years running an NGO - out in the sticks but based in Pnom Penh. We were bringing education/schools/water to remote villages. Very remote.

A couple of times the bus taking staff and supplies to the villages in Preah Vihear was robbed at gunpoint. Other times the driver would say - get out and walk for a while - we have been warned that there is an armed gang ahead.

Most of the guys working there were ex military/special forces and even they were robbed by Khmers with pistols near their hotel in PP. Mind you, one time the two robbers ended up in hospital. They tried to rob an Aussie ex SAS lad.

Corruption - some of the teachers that we used to train mothers in the villages were government paid teachers. They almost never received their salaries. It was kept by the guys higher up in the food chain. We had to feed the teachers and pay their rent!

I could probably tell you more facts than you want to hear but trust me - your grass isn't that green. Open your eyes and get out a bit.

[ParadiseLost]

I spent a few months in Cambodia a while back, really enjoyed it and found the locals really friendly. Their ability to speak English also helped make them more accessible. For the most part there is (was?) an innocence amongst the younger generation definitely missing here.

However, I was talking to some guys who were at a party when some local thugs turned up and handed down a beating to all present, locals and foreigners alike (except those who managed to bolt over some pretty high walls)...

There was then, and I imagine still is a problem with Cambodians being deported from the US, who were involved in gangland 'activities'. Extremely scary people, with nothing to lose.,, Even the local cops were shy_te scared of them.

But today, on reflection, I think I would have been happier if I had settled there and only visited here.

I hate hindsight - always makes me feel dumb.

Edit: Why is it I can say shit and crap but not shy_te (without _)?

Edited November 2, 2014 by ParadiseLost