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IsaanUSA, on 2012-04-02 23:04:57, said:

But then, neither is history, civics, math, or whatever other classes are left over.  The idea of compulsary education is not just to teach what most will use once they finish school, but to give them a well rounded education which will allow them to jump off and persue their interests or career path that they choose, as well as make them more rounded people in general.

Even ignoring the international business aspects of learning English, you would think with a country that has such a large segment of industry revolving around international tourism would focus on getting as much of the population speaking English as possible.  Tourism is an industry that touches everyone from all social and economic tiers in Thailand, and with English being the defacto "international" language it just makes sense that you would want as much of your population as possible being at least somewhat competant in it.

NewlyMintedThai, on 2012-02-28 23:10:43, said:

If you walk across the border into Tijuana there's no immigration check at all.  Just stroll through a one-way revolving gate and you're in Mexico.  There's several small buildings there, I'm sure you're supposed to stop at one of them, but there were no obvious signs, ques, gates, or official looking people standing outside any of them.  I was on the streets of TJ before I knew it, and didn't feel like going back to see if there was some place I was supposed to check in first.

My bad.  The URL in the Nation post is correct, the hotlink on the official google blog post has a typo.
http://google-latlon...s-comes-to.html

Kinda funny after 12 hours no one at Google has corrected the link.  (It wasn't working this morning either)

Anyone else finding the "http://www.tourismthailand.org/mymicrale" URL given in the official Google blog post and in the National article above doesn't actually work?  I get a 404 error page with the message "We're sorry! This page is not available.
Please visit the TourismThailand homepage or
use the links below."

The article says in the video you can see him getting clubbed, however it appears he already has blood on his face when it starts and I don't see him taking any blows to the head before going through the turnstiles.