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What's the likelihood that imported oils like Olive Oil (which are already sold at a vastly inflated price) also go up!

Oh, and how come it "costs" Tesco Lotus 50 baht a bottle (over £1) to provide it here when it is only £1.30 in the UK?

Good grief.

Why would anyone complain. It's easy to get to. 20 minutes from BKK. And eminently better then Suan Plu. I send a rep. anyway.

There are far more important things to get worked up about.

"It should be a couple of years before banks can recoup the loss with other kinds of revenue."

Translation : We'll still get the same amount of cash from each customer, and probably more. We just haven't figured out the scam yet.

The rest is pretty much untranslatable. But basically when a goose sits on a log under a full moon and you are doing an ATM transfer standing on one leg then you might get it for free.... or not.

Hmmm.. This is the same hospital that charged my wife around 1000 baht for a 150 baht bottle of pills that had a Bangkok Hospital sticker placed over the original products label to make it look like it was something other than generic stock from superdrug.

This is also the hospital that asks you to sign a waver when you undergo any medical treatment which indemnifies the hospital, staff and doctors from any legal action in future, even if their actions are criminal.

I know who I believe in this story.

As far as I am concerned I am in the camp that if I pay for a connection of speed X, I expect to get that speed all day long, every day - regardless of what type of bandwidth I am using.

Of course we all know the reality is different.... in Thailand particularly. But also in most other countries to some degree. Because all ISPs manipulate their sales pitch to sell apparently all singing all dancing "unlimited" packages - which aren't.

When you pay for a connection speed in Thailand you supposedly get that speed on the local network (in country) and your international bandwidth is shared between all users. So YMMV.

I reported here about a year ago that True have been experimenting (in my area at least) with blocking torrents, and killing connections that use a large percentage of torrent traffic. People here called me on it.

Since then in Nonthaburi I have found workarounds. But rest assured that the current censorship of sites like justin.tv and the like is not simply because of the political situation. It is because the ISPs here, particularly True, want to control the TV we watch as well.

Expect this situation to get slowly get worse.