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If this article is about private-run Baht-Buses (Songteauws, ie. Pick-Ups with passenger-seats on the plattform) then it is NOT about the big (Bangkok-)state-run buses.
As for the Baht-Buses in KhonKaen, Sukhothai, HatYai, Pattaya or the Bangkok-outskirts, it is a decent and cheap means of travel (5-15 Baht, the fare IS according to distance, see the scheme/sticker on the back-window of the cab). I don't think that they loose customers to Motorsaai-Taxis, simpy because you would pay for the same distance 50-80Baht and therefore quite expensive for average thais (houswifes, students, factory-workers...).
>In return, it has caused baht buses to lose 70 percent of their customers and their income to decrease by 700-800 baht per day.
That would mean they previously had an income of 1100-1400 Baht per day, wich is far above the thai wages of 250-400 Baht per day. I think you could reach that only by scamming tourists (the well-known always honking, aggressive and ennoying Songteaws in KohChang, KohSamui who would charge 500 Baht/person for a 7km ride - 10 times higher than a bangkok-Taxi!!
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>Nearly 2,000 hotels in Bangkok and its outskirts are running without licences or are understood to be illegal. Only 469 hotels in the areas have a licence.
Rubbish...
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I really wonder wether they discuss these criminal incidents. How is the first period on monday morning at the Pathumwan Institute of Technology after a weekend like this? "Good morning boys and girls, please open up your books page 64 and continue work on excercise Nr. 3b."...?
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Why don't they just ban these bl...y TucTucs. After all, they are no use, always aggressive, all drivers touts. In Bangkok mostly found in tourist-areas, wich means they are there to cheat and to ripp-off. In some provinces TucTucs are a "normal" means of transport, but even upcountry it's difficult to find a decent driver - ripp-off samey to Bangkok. Better try to call the local taxi-cooperative, they'll send you a brandnew airconditioned Corolla and driver hopefully use the meter.
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Did they get lost on their map, or what else is the reason for announcing the amount of investment in Malay Ringgit?
Did you get lost reading the report? It was published by a The Malaysian Insider.
At first read I thought ist was "Reichsmark"....
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Those killings sound more like middle-east than SEA! Netanjahu, take over!
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The number of shops selling ivory products in Bangkok also rose from 61 to 105 between January and December last year9*+/0
If you can count them, wHY the <deleted> can't you just close these shops down?
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What do you think - would it be (technically) possible to rig a motorcycle with an official (i.e. calibrated and plumbed) meter?
BTW this is what german police uses for test if you have (illegaly) engine-tuned your scooter - should work on the front-wheel for speedometer too...
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I liked the part where Thailand is compared to Lichtenstein.
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Pleeaaaase, NCPO, come to KohChang and KohSamui, loads of Mafia here, much work to do (KohChang: 4km Songthaeuw-ride with 5 pax.: 2500 (!) Baht - (500 Baht p. person)). Please help us tourists out here!
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>....and confiscated five kilograms of ketamine valued at 15 million baht.
That would be a "street-price" of 3000 Baht per gram? Is it really sold that expensive?
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>A Bt4-billion module of the Bt350-billion water management project - a data centre for weather forecasting and disaster warnings - is high likely to be given first priority
4 Billion Baht for a data center? Could they not "buy" (license) the information from international meteorological satellite-operators? As for Disaster-warning - shouldn't be a big issue in times of 4G-GSM.
>here is still some confusion as to whether the country has sufficient oil and gas sources to reduce the need for huge imports or to consume at cheap prices
Nope. Not enough gas (in the long term) and even less oil.
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Build more guide boards! They could safe lots of lifes. Not for Motorcyclists, but for Bus, Van- and PickUp-Passengers....
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It's a shame! A city full of brandnew Toyotas, Mazdas and Isuzus, on top, hundreds of thousands of BMWs, Benz, Minis and Lexus, all worth millions and millions of baht. But a public mass transport system that consists (apart from MRT and BTS) of 30 or 40 year old dangerous, uncomfortable, lousy, energy-wasting and air-polluting buses. The look of the vehicles, the rotten bus stops, the confusing line-denotation, the missing maps and the nonexistent time-tables says it all. Thailand has gone a wrong way for many years in focusing on individual transportation, and abandonding public bus transport.
BTW in the 60ties Thais used to cycle a lot and there was a tramway in Bangkok - all gone....
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There will always be homicide. Everywhere in the world people kill- because of anger, because of rage, because of greed, because of morbid jealousy, because of revenge. They will always do. You can not prevent that completely. But a society shouldn't kill. A state shouldn't take revenge. A judiciary system shouldn't be driven by and designed by hate or revenge or anger, but by resocialisation, prevention and satisfaction. Cambodia (!) has abolished death penalty many years ago!
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840 000, 190 000, 440 000...this rise in figures is frightening. Like someone opened a gate. How many Thais consume YaBa on a regular basis? Must be millions...
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Thailand should really buy some of these - and using them on both sides. Works somewhat well in germany...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/Wawe-10000-halbe-dusche.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Polizei_Wasserwerfer.jpg
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You could blame the italians too. Alitalia for example did the same after an ATR 72-crash in Rome earlier this year.
Alitalia is not a member of Star-Alliance, but of the second big group "Sky-Team". So who knows?!
Sorry, found only a german link so far...
http://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article113352332/Alitalia-uebermalt-eigenes-Absturz-Flugzeug.html
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>....as well as learn about the direct current (DC) and alternating current (AC) motors.
Isn't that something you learn in Matajom 4 or Matajom 5?!
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>Vans: To avoid frequent stops at gas stations, many passenger vans have
added extra gas cylinders. When fully loaded with passengers and gas,
these vans can weigh about 3,500 kilograms, which is 1.75 times more
than the allowed weight limit of 2,000 kilograms. The extra weight makes
the vans highly unstable and unsafe, which increases the chance of an
accident.There must be a mistake. The Toyota Commuter has already 15 seats (driver + 14 Passengers), so the allowed weight limit for this car can not be of 2,000 kilograms. The tare mass seems to be about 2000kg, so the gross vehicle weight is 3500 kilograms.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HF2-kpOwj_A/TvP1oIKWqVI/AAAAAAAAA-I/gNX7q-BAtVw/s1600/kursi1.jpg
http://nangfa-resort.com/media/1880248fbe4252d3ffff8120ac14422f.jpgNevertheless they often drive too fast....
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In Germany, after the reunification, in the early 90ies, there was the plan of building a high-speed track between Berlin an Munich (Nurnberg and Erfurt). Deutsche Bahn AG started in 1996 - and it's still not finished. And this, after they had expirience with ICE-tracks for years already (Stuttgart-Frankfurt, Kassel-Hannover opened in 1991 already.)
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schnellfahrstrecke_N%C3%BCrnberg%E2%80%93Erfurt
Scroll down to see pictures of unfinished tunnels and bridges.....
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Does anyone know how old this red 8-Baht Buses (Modell HINO) are? The Diesel-engine dates from the reign of Rama V. maybe?!
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In brief: PTT imported eight tonnes of biofuel at a cost of Bt 2.5 million (about 250 Baht per Litre...!)
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At 7am?! Would say that you are too tired to fight, wouldn't you?!
China and Thailand seek cooperation on High Speed Rail project
in Thailand News
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A high-speed train for Thailand is complete rubbish. Why do they want to jump from 1905 to 2015? If they aim so high (ie. 300kph bullet train with enormous expenisve tracks, bridges and tunnels), they will NEVER achieve it. This will only lead to another Hopewell-desaster.
Better modernize your run-down "Bimmelbahn" to an electrified, double-track, standard-gauge train system of european (provincial) level (ie. TER, IC, EC, Rapide) with a max. speed of 150kph so that you could reach an average travel-speed of 110kph. Bangkok-NongKhai or Bangkok-UbonRatchathani in 5-6 hours (instead of 10-11. nowadays) - fast enough. AND your could mix with little effort freight an passenger trains - what is normally not possible on a high-speed railway-system.