[Thailand faces lockdown if outbreak cannot be contained - PM]

We have an outbreak of tests, not of the virusl. If the sample taken consists of 5 million influenza viruses and 3 single SARS-Cov2 viruses, you are a Covid-case. 
Those tests DO NOT say if anyone is infected or transmits the virus. It also doesnt say if the majority of the virus types in the sample is SARS-Cov2.
Rhino, Influenza, Corona, Noro-viruses are in whole or as DNA particles in most people, esp in the winter season. As long as you dont test anyone, it most probably will go unnoticed. 
If you would test every single person in Thailand, you will get 1 million +  "cases". 
The only reason why Thailand was "lucky" is, that no tests were done in large scale on healthy individuals. That is very easily statistical provable since every single country that did not do mass tests on healthy individuals did fare pretty well during this "pandemic" (Japan, Taiwan, Laos, Vietnam, most African countries) and also did not have an out-of-the-norm excess mortality.

[Yellow lemons; where in thailand ?]

Hi,

we are an organic farm that grows lemons organically (IFOAM certfied).

Kindly contact us via our website dinnaganorganic.com 

We have lemons for about 9 months in the year.

Prices are also very competitive ;)

[Pheu Thai's Wage Hike Doesn't Add Up For Thailand]

I realize that this is not the USA. I'm normally pretty conservative but 300 hundred baht per day is barely a livable wage. The minimum wage in the USA varies from state to state with the lowest being $7.20 per hour and the highest being $12.50 per hour. Note that this is per HOUR and not a day. Some food prices in the USA are cheaper than here and some are more expensive. Many US made products are cheaper than similar Thai made products. Many Thai companies make obscene profits at the expense of poorly paid workers. It is past time for Thailand to raise the standard of living for the workers.

The farmers have been cheated for many years by the wealthy middlemen. You may or may not know that the middlemen rarely or never pay the support price for farm products. They usually use the excuse that their quota is filled and that they don't need any more product unless the farmers accept a lower price.

The gap between the haves and have nots definitely needs to be narrowed. This is a first step to narrowing the HUGE gap.

History will show you that the way you narrow the gap is by bringing the wealthy down to the level of the poor. Too often people think this works the other way.

That is not to say I don't agree we should do it. There are many social benefits, including a much more stable society, less envy and animosity between the citizens, etc. The way I would recommend to fix the wealth gap is by abandoning capitalism and embracing distributism. Heavily tax every industry above the minimum size necessary to function. All department stores, grocery stores, 7-11 etc. will go away. The country can get by on mom and pop shops and local community supported establishments. We don't need the labor efficiencies of large corporations. We need full employment more egalitarian options.

The purpose of this is not to make everyone rich and wealthy. Human nature doesn't allow for that, especially not now with soaring energy prices. But a nation built on distributist philosophies would allow resiliency in the face of the coming energy decline and industrial collapse. It would reduce the discontent in the population and be more peaceful in general. And by outlawing corporations and multinationals associated with terminal stages of capitalism, there would be little concentration of wealth in the hands of extremely rich merchants.

No, its not ideal, but it is possible. The existing proposals that I see, the ones with an idea of forcing structures that are designed to concentrate wealth to distribute wealth instead, are doomed to failure. Any effect will be transient if it can be seen at all.

It would work, if first priority of the people would not be consumer goods, but strive for happiness not through consuming. Do you see that anywhere in Thailand? Do you see that anwhere in the world? Well, that is why it is not happening.

[How To Profit From Spiraling Inflation In Thailand]

Large high tech cooperations producing for export might not suffer immediate death from the hikes but prices for local produced goods of companies will go up for sure. And those tile makers, cement factories, chemical companies will add it to the prices, so you can expect that your cement sack, color tin and floor tile will go up in price at least 50%.

It is always like that in any country, look at VIetnam, the inflation is choking them to death.

So at the end, the workers will practically have the same buyin power as before (well, not really, since rice prices will be subsidized, at least until the gov runs out of money).

What can you do? Buy gold (real, not certificates), get a stable income (good job or pension).

I would not advise to buy stocks (and if, only big corporations of basic necessities (food), as Nestle or Coke).

Do not herd foreign cash, you migh tbe suprised what will happen on the global finance market within the next two years. Being from Europe, I know whats brewin...

[Putting Populist Pledges Into Action May Bankrupt Us All; Thai Opinion]

I read an interview in the Bangkok Post with the ecomonic advisor from Pueh Thai a couple of days before the election. The tablet PC was his idea and he spoke of costs of 2000Baht per piece. Now basically, a "Tablet PC" for 2000Baht will more or less be a gaming device without any real functionality. But this is what the kids want. Gaming obsession is an immense and absolutely untackled problem in Thai society (similar in European ones, I admit).

The result will just be that you will see half of the Thai children in the streets gazing and diddling on tablet PCs in busses, malls and the streets. A device for that price cannot have enough functionality AND quality for an educational instrument.

Everyone gets what he asks for...

[Thaksin Allies In Thai Election Landslide: Exit Polls]

There are many facts people dont know. For examply that around 2 months before Thaksin got kicked out of Thailand, the Thai Treasury Bank told Thaksin that with his policy of distributing money to the poor the country would be bankrupt in less than 6 months. There were other issues and this was one of the real reason why this guy had to be kicked out. The country was shortly before collapsing.

I do agree that people should get what they want. And this has to be like that, people have to suffer in order to learn, this is a law of nature. So they will have to experience and reap the results, hopefully, in many years they will know better (sittin at home with a 2000Baht tablet PC fabricated from a joint vernture of Thaksins family). Money does have to come from somewhere and the economy will collaps again (esp. with the global finance collaps ahead). The only thing is that there will be one guy who will get much richer for sure.