Pepe, as much as the apartheid state of Israel bombed a sanctrosact bastion of international law. The precedent of a blatant breach of law was done by the Americans in Belgrade in the bombing of the Chinese Embassy. The Israelis were simply executing an American terrorist precedent.

Stop Concealing Soviet Crimes? How about you dont change the narrative and Stop concealing Gemocide in Israel! US Stooge!

If your idea of the world is simply America? wherein in your mind, the world, no less, is wherein, a singular county is where the world’s population wants to go!
I suggest you think again. Anyway, your comments are simply not true!
Many countries like Russia, Thailand, Chile etc have an enormous immigration problem. Let us not forget Europe, you think only America has a huge immigration problem?

Anything with Nicole Kidman can’t possibly be sexy! She is about as sexy as Spaghettini in a wet sock!

We had an unfortunate clash sometime back in relation to Thailand. Unfortunate, because 99% of your writing in accurate. I loved this article and the one about Japan. I was in Japan when I read it..it was spot on. Keep up the great work…!

Yes, you certainly are an interesting writer when you write about the USA and Vietnam…Bravo!

Betterness at being outed as a person with limited Knowledge about Thailand is understandable. Especially when fabrication are concerned. None the less I commend you on self reflection in response your anger problems. That could be a Future path in curbing your obvious intellectual, or lack of it, Dishonesty

Better a troll than a Dunce like you !

You guessed wrong!..Just like your uninformed comments about Thailand!

Yes, that is what I am been trying to say. Being covered up in the Sun is not about modesty. I also referred to the fact that being called someone from a Rural area is insulting middle class urban Thais.
Because as you wrote: ” (being dark) which is associated with lower class field workers, but an obsession with being white skinned since that’s associated with being a member of the pampered upper (ruling) classes. Sad but true, as for me I like them darker or lighter it just depends.

But I do know many many Thai’s and other Asians that will not ever have sexual relations with darker skinned girls. As far as I am concerned that is entirely their hang up.

If you are a travel writer? I suggest you give up!…. You’re hopeless!
Try working for Fox news or CNN where people can report on Fake news on a daily basis!

In your case IGNORANCE is bliss!

So all those Issan girls with limited funds that live the rural farms in Thailand go to Bangkok to do what exactly? Selling one body wither you are a Bangkok freelancer or a darker skinned girl from Issan does not have the same stigma as it does in the west. Freelance girls do the sex trade for all sorts of reasons. But yes to deny that many rural farms girls from Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines go to the big cities and not end up in the sex trade is deluding only yourself. Yes, I can speak some Thai and Filipino…Also I can refer to you in Veitname as Bui Doi & it would fit.
Tiga provincia kaba? Anong gagawin mo so Manila? Mag trataboho ako sa massage parlour po.
I don’t have to tell that to Thai Bangkok people, that rural girls work in the sex trade. Its pretty well common langauge..Doh!

Yes… Great comment!

I am not Thai, but live in Thailand some parts of the year from many many years and know Thailand well unlike yourself!
You wrote: Anti-democratic mobs wear yellow shirts to show their loyalty to the king.
Reply:
To some degree Yes…But the real reason is the demarkation and human frailty of Thai culture which has a deep racist element!

But I assume that is much much to complex for a simpleminded tourists like yourself who visits thailand…Know nothing about Thailan and pretends to know all about a country! LOL

AKAHorace@ what you say has a lot of truth. The whole concept in Thai society of Minio-second wife or Geek-casual but semi permanent sex partner is true in Thai society. And Yes Bangkok Thai (white skinned mostly) often if they are good enough do not go with foreigners/Farangs.

On the other side of the spectrum you get brown skinned farms girls from Issan and Loa that do for the most part have a foreigner client base…WHY?
Answer:
Because sadly Thai middle class and certainly upper class with not accept a marriage of a Thai middle class to a darker skinned farm girl from rural Issan. That’s not my thinking but it is reality.

What choice does the average Issan or Loa girl have?..Not much except to hook a farang and hope for a better life.

You wrote: Most Thais are conservative, rural people, and during my visit to Namtok Phlio National Park, all the female swimmers were well-covered, except one, a young blonde whose barely there bottom revealed most of her cheeks.

Reply: Thais girls (like Chinese) both rural and central have a phobia about getting “Sunburnt”, thus they are well covered to ensure that their skin does not burn. Modesty in public maybe?
However, farms girls conservative? Most of these rural farm girls like in (Vietnam, Philippines) go to Bangkok to join the sex scene. Is that being conservative? Hmm Thai farms are rough diamonds in real life.

Secondly, to suggest most Thais are rural people is extremely insulting to central Thai people.
If you are in Bangkok and want to die? Try telling Bangkok Thais are mostly rural people!
The biggest and I mean the biggest insult you can say to a Bangkok central Thai is that she a buffalo herder and a rural rice farmer. I guess you have never heard of the violent battles between Rural Thais called the red shirts and Central Bangkok Thais called the yellow shirts.

Although I agree with you, the Thai sex scene is no greater, than say Germany or the real home of worldwide prostitution the Philippines

I understand your embarrassment for being outed as fraudulent not only in erroneously writing no suspects were caught and changed in relation to the Erawan bombing. At least you were not trying to argue the point. You now say WRONGLY that Thailand surrendered to the Japanese, then now you are trying semantics con by saying:
“You are piling on details to skirt around the fact that my central contention is correct, that Thailand yielded to all of Japan’s demands after a few hours of fighting. If I club your head, and you yell, “Stop, boss, I’ll do whatever you say”, it’s a surrender. Originally, you wrote: Thailand surrendered to juggernaut Japan after only five hours of, uh, fighting.

Reply: Actually the operative word is Armistice which means “an agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time; a truce”. Surrender in the context of war means the action of surrendering to an opponent & laying down arms and occupation. That never happened Japan invaded Thailand in 8 Dec 1941. The Thai military had orders to stop fighting on the 8th. Because Thailand wanted to support Japan, as did Aung San in Burma. The Japanese were a little too aggressive & impatient when they did not get the OK from Phibun prior to the Jap offensive.

The Armistice was signed 21 December 1941. On 31 December 1941, an amended Armistice then became a mutual offensive-defensive alliance pact between the two countries and was signed. These facts do not sound like surrender but a partnership. Since Japan was using the country as a staging area for its invasions of both Malaya and Burma, Allied planes began bombing raids on the Thai capital city of Bangkok. With this added pressure, the Phibun Government decided to declare war on the Allies.

Secondly, the Thai’s fought bravely and the Japans in this short time lost many more men than the Thai armed forces. During the early hours of 8 December, A further clash occurred at Hat Yai. The Thais lost 15 dead (8 KIA from 41st Inf. Bat. and 7 from the 5th Inf. bat.) and 30-55 wounded. Fighting was everywhere until the the fighting ceased at noon when orders for an armistice to be arranged was received.

Robinsons Thailand is simply a building.
Every part of this center is subcontracted to traders for rent….No actual trading is done by Robinsons they are simply a landlord.

Not sure if this Thai Robinson is connected to the PH?
I do however suspect Robinsons Manila does trade products, unlike the Thai version.

Meanwhile the Thai government had split into two factions, the Phibun regime and a well-organised, pro-Allied resistance movement that eventually numbered around 90,000 Thai guerrillas,[5] supported by government officials allied to the regent Pridi Banomyong. The movement was active from 1942, resisting the Phibun regime and the Japanese. The partisans provided espionage services to the Allies, performed some sabotage activities, and helped engineer Phibun’s downfall in 1944. After the war, Thailand received little punishment for its wartime role under Phibun.

Thailand suffered about 5,569 military dead during the war, almost entirely due to disease. Deaths in combat included 150 in the Shan States, 180 on December 8 1941 (the day of both the brief Japanese invasion

Please post a link where it says the Thais surrendered to the Japanese. The Facts are they did not surrender the Thais agreed on a compromise solution.

The Thai government under Plaek Phibunsongkhram (known simply as Phibun) considered it preferable to co-operate with the Japanese rather than fight them. Axis-aligned Thailand declared war on the United States and Britain and annexed territories in neighbouring countries, expanding to the north, south, and east, gaining a border with China near Kengtung.[1]

Thailand retained control of its armed forces and internal affairs. The Japanese policy on Thailand differed from their relationship with the puppet state of Manchukuo. Japan intended bilateral relationships similar to those between Nazi Germany and Finland, Bulgaria, and Romania.[2] However Thailand at that time has been labelled by both the Japanese and the Allies as the “Italy of Asia”

……Did Italy also surrender to the Nazis or where they allies! Get your facts right Dunce@

I wish this Viet guy would get his facts right!…It is completely loopy. Example, he writes: Take Thailand. It has fought against China, Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and the Malay state of Kedah, all of its neighbors, in short. After swallowing up Laos in the 18th century, it lost it to France in the 19th, and in 1941, Thailand surrendered to juggernaut Japan after only five hours of, uh, fighting.

Reply: Thailand in World War II officially adopted a position of neutrality until it was invaded by Japan in December 1941. At the start of the Pacific War, the Japanese Empire pressured the Thai government to allow the passage of Japanese troops to invade British-held Malaya and Burma. The Thai government under (known simply as Phibun) considered it preferable to co-operate with the Japanese rather than fight them. Axis-aligned Thailand declared war on the United States and Britain and annexed territories in neighbouring countries Thailand retained control of its armed forces and internal affairs. THIS IS NOT A SURRENDER.

Secondly the misinformed writer wrote: there are almost no shrines to this deity, but they are all over Thailand, with the one outside Bangkok’s Grand Hyatt Erawan Hotel making world news when a bomb near it exploded in 2015, killing 20 and injuring 125. No one has been charged.
Reply: Yes suspects have been caught and charged. There are 3 suspect awaiting trail including one woman. On Nov 22, 2017 – Wanna Suansan, a suspect in the deadly 2015 Erawan Shrine bombing in Bangkok. Also Adem Karadag the main suspect was arrested in 2016 as well as one other person.
With more suspects on the way.

This whole article is just a piece of ill informed commentaries with have no real relation to Thailand.