Cadbury Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 11 minutes ago, Yme said: Commerce and Tourism have been the two successes of the junta. Getting rid of these two ministers while keeping several others (who just happen to be military) makes it look more like clearing out the civilians. Perhaps the chairman of the board of investment should be axed. Oh, but wait, that's under the PMs office. He would have to seppuku <snip>However, total FDI in 2016, in addition to the current two quarters of 2017, has dropped to levels last seen in the wake of the Asian financial crisis.Record high figures in 2013 of Bt513 billion ($15.1 billion) dropped to Bt374 billion ($112 billion) as of the second quarter of 2017, largely due to a pulling back of investment by Japan.From Bt310 billion ($9.1 billion) in 2013, Japanese investment in Thailand fell to Bt125 billion ($3.8 billion) in 2017.<snip> Source: Junta Reforms Fail to Stem Japanese Foreign Investment Flight https://aecnewstoday.com/2017/junta-reforms-fail-to-stem-japanese-foreign-investment-flight/#ixzz4zh43xVEh Thank you for the link. Excellent article which explains a lot as to why the country is going down the economic gurgler under the control of the junta. Junta Reforms Fail to Stem Japanese Foreign Investment Flight https://aecnewstoday.com/2017/junta-reforms-fail-to-stem-japanese-foreign-investment-flight/#ixzz4zh43xVEh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taipan1949 Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 20 hours ago, Nigeone said: Will we get some honest arrival figures now I wonder ? Those are "no more free money tears" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tominbkk Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 Poor girl. Better she just ends it all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky mike Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 Truth always a victim ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotchilli Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 20 hours ago, JoePai said: Can anyone say how she actually got the job in the first place ? Probably the large brown envelope containing her CV & gratitude for hiring her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimP Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 Hard to put lipstick on a pig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keesters Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 I hope the replacement does a better job. You do not get sacked if you've been doing a good job unless there's a friend/relative that wants it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sydebolle Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 Hi Five - for a change. Indeed very, very, very good riddance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winky Wilson Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 Sports Authority in Bangkok not welcome to tourist. This department was run by her organization. I say good job Prayutt. The closest thing I found that mingles tourist with Thais in sports is the outdoor gym in Lumphini Park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CantSpell Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 She would have cracked me up until the end ... I will never forgot her uber sense of humor... - Let's end prostitution. - Let's tag them foreigners with writhbands. - Pokemon Go will save Thailand tourism. - Let' tag them foreigner with trackable Simcards. - Let's make Pattaya a family tourist destination - Let's lure them quality tourists. - The list goes on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natway09 Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 The problem here is that the "Boss" does not know what he wants. Maybe she suggested the Government spent some money on road safety or building decent sewerage treatment plants on Phi Phi, Pattaya or Phuket ? Sure way to get fired as the money is for the military, subs, & chuffa trains not to waste on infrastructure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulic Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 Good Riddance, she will not be missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonewolf99 Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 14 hours ago, amvet said: It is a true wonder anyone comes here and in increasing numbers every year. Strange, I came here in 2005 and the place was mobbed, you had to hunt for an empty deckchair on Jomtien beach. Now we have 3 times the number and you could get 200 chairs each .......if it is not a Wednesday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sawadeeken Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 Is she the same tourism Minister that coined the phrase....... "No Sex Please...... WE are Thai" ............. and started the government crack down on massage shops, bars, and any others offering sexual services............... BS....... Thais aren't like that,,,,,,,,, Thais like sex..... Just ask any Thai boy (and the baby he fathered).....LOL...... If SHE is the one who said..... "NO SEX Please........ WE ARE THAI"........ Then.............. good riddance and bye bye............ are Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happyman58 Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 28 minutes ago, lonewolf99 said: Strange, I came here in 2005 and the place was mobbed, you had to hunt for an empty deckchair on Jomtien beach. Now we have 3 times the number and you could get 200 chairs each .......if it is not a Wednesday. They are not prob not using the deck chairs because they are to busy picking up the rubbish on the beach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
realenglish1 Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 American Educated Thats interesting Speaks English Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gecko123 Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 I think most would agree that she had an unexpectedly dour visage for a minister of tourism for a country which bills itself as 'the land of smiles.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ossy Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 Ah, a Harvard guy in there, now . . . one of the Three Degrees, I hear. "Thailand . . . always amazes you!" He'll be glad of that slogan, that's for sure, when he's out on his ass at the Christmas reshuffle. "Wait a minute, Chan . . . I've got a degree in Finance, too . . . I could improve the Police corruption money streams . . . OK . . . is that a 'yes'?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orac Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 American Educated Thats interesting Speaks English And to be fair it appears to be a proper education as opposed to one of the B list US universities. She went to Wellesley College whose alumni include Hillary Clinton and her mother, Thanpuying Niramol. https://www.wellesley.edu/alumnae/awards/achievementawards/allrecipients/niramol-bulakul-suriyasat-54Sent from my iPad using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kcpattaya Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 Her personal saving account is now suddenly closed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comeondoit Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 Mrs Popkarn is no big loss, but I doubt if somebody better is coming up?? Why? Because Thai tourism and the governement do not seem to see the whole picture?. There is that wonderful slogan "Amazing Thailand", but nobody seems to think about why is it so amazing? Amazing because every kind of tourist can see and find his own Amazingness and that can be anything and it is incluiding, to give you some examples: "the streetfood and colorfulness of unorganised markets, or the nightlife with its many facets, massage parlors and go go bars" are and have a right and must be part of the picture of "Amazing Thailand". Obviously Mrs Kobkarn never understood that truth. Now some stupid activistics laws like no drinking and smoking on beaches just divert from the serious waste problems on many tourist islands and the waste problems in the sea. Things like that do not get better by denouncing and punishing...instead start a serouis education of Thais, who are the most waste producers....how many times have you seen Thais throwing cigarettes buts and waste everywhere where they go and drive? How many times did you see tourists doing it? Give it an honest thought!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metisdead Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 Some off topic posts have been removed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keesters Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 Sports hub> What a big pile of you know what. Taken today a Pattaya Youth Sports Center Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sambum Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 On 11/27/2017 at 2:36 PM, Nigeone said: Will we get some honest arrival figures now I wonder ? I suspect "Here comes the new boss - just like the old boss" (Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrahamzvi Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 A super choice of the new Minister! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sambum Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 3 hours ago, lonewolf99 said: Strange, I came here in 2005 and the place was mobbed, you had to hunt for an empty deckchair on Jomtien beach. Now we have 3 times the number and you could get 200 chairs each .......if it is not a Wednesday. According to one report I read, she said that the increase was in "Quality Tourists" who only stay in 5* accommodation and consequently wouldn't mix with the riff raff on the beach! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Weird Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 18 hours ago, Sid Celery said: 1. Because the numbers claimed did not gel at all with what was seen on the ground. 2. Because the numbers claimed would require motre flights than could be accommodated at all the international airports of Thailand. 3. Because all passengers landing in transit to other places (usually other countries) were counted as Thailand tourists. 4. Because people leaving and then returning (eg foreigners travelling home then back) were counted as tourists. Allegedly. Probably lots more rorts as well, but chiefly, the tourists and revenues claimed were not reflected in actual revenue terms and the continual contradictory reports of tourist-based business in the major resort towns were not explained. 1. What were the numbers seen "on the ground"? Who collated your imaginary on-the-ground numbers? 2. Says who? What is the maximum number of arrivals that can be accommodated at every airport in Thailand by every incoming flight? There are also more ways to enter Thailand than by air. 3. Who said that they are counted as "tourists" as opposed to "arrivals" in the country? 4. If someone enters the country after leaving are they not arrivals? Why should they be excluded? If you want to exclude those arrivals then you also have to exclude every other person who has left the country, for whatever reason, and then come back. That would be every person who has visited Thailand more than once. '...but chiefly, the tourists and revenues claimed were not reflected in actual revenue terms..." Again, says who? Hearsay doesn't count. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wvavin Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 Everyone in this team must have their fair share. Once you have helped yourself enough, its time to go and the next....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricardo Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 1 hour ago, Keesters said: Sports hub> What a big pile of you know what. Taken today a Pattaya Youth Sports Center Good material for a caption-competition ? "It's good to see, that preparations are well-advanced, for the upcoming Pattaya Olympics !" "OK, own up, who just pulled the plug out, on the swimming-pool ?" "Well those koi, in the flooded basement of a half-built Bangkok-condo, made a popular tourist-attraction, so I just thought Why Not Pattaya Too ?" "Today Pattaya, tomorrow Wimbledon !" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaibeachlovers Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 40 minutes ago, Just Weird said: 1. What were the numbers seen "on the ground"? Who collated your imaginary on-the-ground numbers? 2. Says who? What is the maximum number of arrivals that can be accommodated at every airport in Thailand by every incoming flight? There are also more ways to enter Thailand than by air. 3. Who said that they are counted as "tourists" as opposed to "arrivals" in the country? 4. If someone enters the country after leaving are they not arrivals? Why should they be excluded? If you want to exclude those arrivals then you also have to exclude every other person who has left the country, for whatever reason, and then come back. That would be every person who has visited Thailand more than once. '...but chiefly, the tourists and revenues claimed were not reflected in actual revenue terms..." Again, says who? Hearsay doesn't count. Feel free to believe whomever you choose to. Those of us been here more than a few years know whom we don't believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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