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#5288066 German Stabs Udon Thani Girlfriend 17 Times To Death
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wintermute
on 2012-05-10 12:36:57
#5287919 German Stabs Udon Thani Girlfriend 17 Times To Death
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Bok63
on 2012-05-10 11:54:49
#5259147 What If Requirements Are Set Higher For Retirement, Ed Visa Etc....
Posted
cloudhopper
on 2012-04-29 11:51:28
That's what keeps me up nights...
#5254438 Parents Worry About Cost Of School Uniforms: Thai Poll
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Pseudolus
on 2012-04-27 16:16:22
Extortion, Graft and Corruption Plunge Poor into Debt over Unofficial Schooling Fees
The Truth

Head teachers conference shows the stark difference between those that have, and those that have to pay.
BANGKOK: -- An ABAC Poll released yesterday suggested that school mandarins are extorting as much as 400,000 baht per child for entrance to a new school.
In a poll where 1,214 parents were surveyed on their concerns about their children's first semester this academic year, one of the most alarming points raised is that the shameless profiteering by school administrators is still continuing, and not just for the more prestigious schools. This rot has trickled down from the elite to the non performing schools. The poll, conducted from April 17 through Wednesday, found that 69.4 per cent admitted to being worried about their kids' schooling expenses this term and that increasing use of black mail tactics has meant that poor families are falling further into poverty just to safeguard the future of their children.
Aside from the concerns held by parents of school children worldwide relating to who their kids were friends, drug abuse and legitimate school expenses such as books, uniforms, meals, following on the devastating floods in many parts of the country where reparations have still not been forthcoming, the tipping point this year is that the remorseless controllers of education are continuing to profit from the education of children in all schools.
Parents on average prepared about Bt40,000 to cover tuition fees, tutoring course fees and tea money. Those with kids in private schools prepared about Bt50,000, while those with kids at state-run schools prepared about Bt35,000, Puntaree said.
Research showed that some parents who needed to put their kids into a new school had to pay graft money, almost ironically presented as the very inoffensive phrase "tea money", of up to Bt400,000. The irony being that whilst the grasping Faginesque school administrators fill their tea pots full to the brim, the parents being extorted in this manner are often having to go without. As do the children.
Meanwhile, Bamnej Thip-aksorn, deputy secretary-general of the Office of the Welfare Promotion Commission for Teachers and Education Personnel, said his office's business organisation had not raised the price of textbooks and school uniforms and would certainly not raise the bribery and corruption charges,
"We are aware of parents' financial concerns," he said.
He encouraged schools to buy textbooks directly from the organisation, because these items were of good quality and endorsed by the Office of the Basic Education Commission, as well as the Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology. It is not clear at this time if the price on the cover of each book is a true representation of the actual cost.
As an aside, any newspaper continuing to dumb down graft, bribery and corruption with the cute little phrase "tea money" are not fit to be journalists.
#5180281 Bomb Rocks Hat Yai Hotel, Over 200 People Trapped
Posted
FangFerang
on 2012-03-31 17:43:37
#5174416 Why Don'T Thai Hotels Offer Free Wi Fi?
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pmarlin
on 2012-03-29 14:13:39
#5116242 International community to resume nuclear talks with Iran
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philw
on 2012-03-07 21:16:01
Ulysses G., on 2012-03-07 18:38:25, said:
Pakboong, on 2012-03-07 17:04:35, said:
They are already failing. Iran has no intent to give up developing nukes. He does not have to do anything other than let history take its course.
As a counterpoint to some of the war mongers on here, why not let Iran have her nukes ???
They could not be used without her total devastation, could they ??
And again, Israel has, so why not the rest ??
#5116298 International community to resume nuclear talks with Iran
Posted
myfriendu
on 2012-03-07 21:43:44
#4968635 Iran sentences alleged U.S. spy to death
Posted
GentlemanJim
on 2012-01-10 12:02:33
All that aside lets just not go there with comments concerning Iran being a nation that tortures prisoners, extracts false confessions and executes them. The USA tortures prisoners, it executes prisoners and extracts false confessions, and just as wickedly as Iran it does it to its own people. I doubt anyone can not feel some kind of sympathy to that poor misguided very young man called Bradley Manning who has languished in total solitary confinement in a room with nothing other than a Bed and blanket in it for how long now??? a year? It is torture, like it or not to place a human in those conditions, and importantly WITHOUT charge. Lets see the false confession that poor guy comes out with to slide all the blame onto Assange. When are folks on here going to realise that generally the citizens of the world are ok, both the ordinary US folk and Iranian folk are nice people, but both sets of Governments are plagued with self serving traitors who can all be described as evil bar stewards in their own right. I am sick to death of politicians and even more sick to death that we elect them and allow them to do these things to us. It is folly on our part and they (the politicians) do these evil deeds in our name.
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