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News Forum - Thailand’s Tourism Authority reminds visitors of current anti-smoking laws
Or go in almost any bar and sit next to the sign saying “No Smoking. fine 2,000 Baht” and have a smoke. You can even use the ashtray on the bar table. The no smoking ban in restaurants and bars happened around 2014. Since then, the Thais seem to have got bored with it and more and more places simply ignore the law. Like most things in Thailand. They have the laws, the don’t have law enforcement. -
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News Forum - Thai police admit extorting money from Taiwanese actress
Agree with all of your post. However, point 2 of your post simply explains how corruption works. I think we all know how and why it takes place and at a superficial level it can be helpful to get you out of a sticky patch. That doesn’t make it right and if you want to change a society, ALL corruption must be seen as wrong. There are no thresholds where corruption is OK. Once you signal that, then killing someone and paying a few million to get away with it will happen. Corruption is just wrong. It destroys life’s and holds back the development of a country. -
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News Forum - Thai police admit extorting money from Taiwanese actress
I think we never said that corruption is a Thai thingy. If you read what I wrote, I said that corruption is endemic in ASEAN, except Brunei and Singapore. Singapore has the toughest legislation, in the world, and they don't offer any reconciliations because corruption destroys the fabric of a nation, especially one without natural resources. Brunei, don't, because corruption makes you stupid, immoral (under Islam), and the per capita income of people in relation to it's population is rather high. So, in Singapore, the government paid their top civil servants in enforcement, policing agencies, and all government departments top dollar, and good retirement. As a result, many of these civil servants are upright and they are to maintain uncorrupted agencies. As a matter of fact, Singapore civil service is one of the best paid organisations in the world. -
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News Forum - Phuket looks to entice more low-cost Saudi flights
Which has nothing to do with flights from the KSA. This isn’t a morality issue on where and how I spend or you spend money. If you take it to that level then you couldn’t spend money anywhere. This is about a national government encouraging the behaviour of another government. You keep deliberately avoiding my central point, which is that by encouraging more travel you are saying to the dictators in the KSA that we (Thailand) have no issue with how you behave. This is not even about individual Saudi people. I have worked with Saudis and they are just like anywhere else. Some good some bad. This debate is about how international affairs take place. -
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News Forum - Thai police admit extorting money from Taiwanese actress
I don’t think corruption is something which is purely a Thai problem and never said that. Of course other countries have corruption. I’d say ALL countries have corruption. The value in terms of dollars is not the point. You can’t equate a single multi-million dollar back hander in the US with the daily corruption which blights the life’s of every citizen in Thailand. It’s where the corruption takes place in society that impacts it so much. If you stop and think about the impact this has on Thai people, it impacts everything in their life. From a fair proportion of their tax going in to private bank accounts all the way to holding back the education of their children. I don’t understand why when people discuss a topic such as Thai police corruption, the defence is well look over there. It’s also happening there.
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