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Regardless of whether they are maintaining a hunger strike or not, it is a shameful indictment on any nation when even the children and their education are subject to the relentless corruption in this country.

mattcodes, on 2010-03-12 01:59:31, said:

Certainly not when it comes to pricing. However what is the purpose of the shopping mall between check in and departures? If they had any sense the whole area would have been inside the departure area allowing passengers to wander about doing some shopping or having a drink etc. Just seems plain dumb to me!

ydraw, on 2012-05-08 20:25:29, said:

Wow, so it's delusional western hippies that want to eat healthier that are causing the many third world famines?

And here I was thinking the personal choice to ingest far more food than a human needs resulted in the world having less food, and as a result causing people to go hungrier than they need to be. In addition to morbid obesity putting one at greater risk of illness (including diabetes, high blood pressure, sleep apnea, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), gallstones, osteoarthritis, heart disease, and cancer) than eating regular amounts of food, it's just a waste of resources to satisfy the ignoble savage gluttony of wealthy western fatties.

Lite Beer, on 2012-05-06 06:22:02, said:

I would suggest that there would be a quite a few that are on the people's side and reject military coups but that do NOT support the red shirts.
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pattayaorganic, on 2012-04-24 08:50:49, said:

I am sure that the government understand all too well the imbalance between the farmers and millers.  The aim of their policies is not to change that.

"The process must be really fair"

It seems wrong to ask for special treatment.

samuijimmy, on 2012-04-22 09:41:39, said:

Yep, then add the fuel farms, the terminals and all the infrastructure which is already in short supply...water, electricity and waste disposal.
The list is endless and will mainly benefit those who presently own the development land.
No justification whatsoever can be made for siting another airport on this island.

hyperdimension, on 2012-04-20 09:12:03, said:

Plus g'kid, nobody has suggested that dem people watching porn during a debate is OK.  In fact it shows how immature and unprofessional Thai politicians are regardless of what party they come from. (And not only Thailand.)

You might like to remember g'kid that on numerous occasions discussions in parliament have had to stop because there wasn't a quorum, and, from my knowledge the absentees are about 50/50 across the ruling coalition and the oppositon group.

The session that the dem man was watching his XX phone pics, and the overall photo of parliament, same session,  shows that 90+% of the seats were empty during discussion / debate etc., about so called 'reconciliation'. Just shows how serious Thai politicians are about so called 'reconciliation'.

G'kid you wrote ..." You can get aboard the peace train or you can stay in the station, cap in hand."

Well you g'kid need to respect that some people don't want to get on your PTP / red sponsored 'peace train' because it's unsound, it's unsafe, it stinks of very serious ulterior motives, it does nothing to take Thailand forward in terms of building democracy or gaining respect for the law and equal application of the law, it stinks of special treatment for corrupt and incapable, politicians, and the tracks are twisted.

No thanks, I'd rather wait for / demand a better train.

The Thai farmer phrased to high heaven as the paragon of thai culure but the first to be screwed and thrown to the curb.

Lite Beer, on 2012-04-18 14:26:40, said:

The justice system will only ever be considered "fair" by Thaksin when they refuse to find him guilty of that that he is.

Lite Beer, on 2012-04-18 14:26:40, said:

This is the same "gentleman" who said he would respect the court's verdict... the same "gentleman" who attempted to bribe the courts.. the same "gentleman" who happily accepted tilting when it tilted in his favour. Pathetic "gentleman".

geriatrickid, on 2012-04-06 14:53:58, said:

On the opposite, I know and think many others know how large contracts are managed. And since I do I would never, as the government did, promise hard deadlines to people before the process has been initiated or the project is well on the way.

bangon04, on 2012-04-04 17:50:11, said:

yes, we should stay away from Religions.  Because bringing religions in this affair is exactly what want the insurgents in order to enlarge their base and ïnternationalise the conflict. We have to be more mature and not amalgaming a majority of peaceful moslims with those insurgents. The conflict has historical roots due to the lost autonomy. It is a political issue not a religious one and the solution has to be found through discussions and dialog.

People who want to help sex workers should focus on their protection and education, actually **listening** to the people they are supposed to be helping. Empower does a lot of good work along those lines, and tries to dispel the whole traditional male-dominated "damsel in distress/knight in shining armor" syndrome. Western NGOs tend to focus on the sex industry and "trafficking children for sex" because those be the buttons to push for western-targeted fund-raising. Unfortunately many of these groups are coming from a fundamentalist "Christian" POV that prostitution is bad, and are actually trying to "rescue" sex workers who are actually empowered by their work and have no desire to be prevented from doing their job. Often the police are a big part of what the sex workers need protection from.

In conjunction with the Thai BiB, they have done a good job both here and in Cambodia to prevent farang from patronizing under-age brothels. However the local-on-local problem isn't in their "jurisdiction", and rather than moving on to other problems in urgent need of attention keep banging the "child sex trafficking drum" because that's where the shock value and hence funding dollars come from.

The issue of human trafficking is much more serious in industries other than the sex industry, and their point is that people serious about trafficking should focus on where the problems actually are.

Ultimately the sex industry should be legalized and re-structured to let the workers keep a higher proportion of their earnings and not be exploited by the current mafia pimp networks. Empower's focus in the meantime is to try to help the workers in the sex industry with their very real problems through education.

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That implies 1 of 2 things:
1) There were reports of insurgency prior to the recent bombings and there were no warnings given to the public, or
2) There were no reports of insurgency prior to the recent bombings and the public should ignore the claims by the Interior minister.

First the root of the conflicts are coming from the 70's when Bangkok has decided to centralised the 3 sultanates, which until this time were beneficiary of certain autonomy. Bangkok has implemented its own administration, replacing the traditional local ones (and getting out of work local influent family).
To be noticed that those 3 sultanates have never been part of Malaysia
To be noticed (some are confusing that Malay is a race and Malaysian are citizens of Malaysia- Malaysia citizens are 60% of Malays, 30% of Chinese and 10% of others- particularly Indians)
The horrible massacre of Tak Bai has reshuffle a conflict which was on the extinction path.
Religions have nothing to do initially with the reasons of the conflict, but some separatists play with that in order to enlarge their support to all Muslims. We should not be trapped.
Religion issues should be kept aside, and westerners should make the difference between moderate sunni muslims, (the vast majority), chiites and extremists. We have known such antagonisms and bloody conflicts between Christians, and centuries have been necessary for cooling the fires and reaching a relative peaceful maturity (unfortunately still some resurgences from time to time). Because in our history, we have known analog periods to what is happening here, we should take some altitudes and work for cooling the minds on both sides. Enough blood and lost lifes, we have to work in order it ends.
The solution is through negotiations and discussions with good will people from both sides: the Malay community and the Thai Administration/ Government. As farangs, observers of what is happening, indirectly involved by our in law families, it is our duty to try to cool down the minds and pull everybody on a reasonable track and not to participate to the excitation.
My 3 cents