Tourists Flock To The Beaches

A lot of foreign tourists have flocked to the beaches in Pattaya and Jomtien even though it was a lot colder than usual.

PATTAYA – January 26,2016 [PattayDailyNews]; journalists went to inspect Jomtien beach. At the beach the journalists found that there were many foreign tourists there enjoying themselves even though the temperature had dropped to record lows.

The cold weather had spread across Thailand which had come in from China and had caused the temperature to plunge. Upon questioning some beach operators on Jomtien beach they told reporters that even though is was very cold that had been busier than expected.

Myanmar National Found Dead Suspiciously

PATTAYA – October 1,2016 [PattayaDailyNews]; at 11.00am Po Capt Weerayuth Kangkala, deputy inspector of Pattaya police station, was notified that a man hung himself dead in deserted land. The police officers and rescue team were dispatched to inspect the scene.

At the location, the officers found a dead body of Mr Kisana Bahardu 23-year-old Myanmar national. The decomposed body hung on coconut branch with nylon rope. Upon inspection there was no trace of foul play on the body. The officers estimated that he might be dead for around 4 days.


Mr Dukar Bahardu 35-year-old brother of dead told the officers that his brother didn’t work for a while because he had to take care wife and baby. Later his brother disappeared since September 28, he tried too search him but he failed. He got bad smell as he was in front of his room so he started searching again and found the body at the coconut tree. However, Mr Dukar doesn’t believe that his brother commit suicide because he had no problem and his leg was disable. He used to steal a cellphone from a guy but he can end the problem.

Later Mr Ropar 29-year-old Myanmar national went to meet Pol Capt Weerayuth that he is innocent about the case even though he used to have problem with the dead before.

However, the police officers will not comment on whether it is suicide or murder case until results of autopsy are released.

Chinese National Has Gold Snatched

PATTAYA – October 1,2016 [PattayaDailyNews]; at 21.30pm Pol Col Apichai Krobpetch, chief of Pattaya police, wa notified that a Chinese tourist was snatched gold necklace in front of Grand Sole hotel. After that he dispatched the officers to inspect the crime scene.

At the scene the officers found Mr Yang jinsheng aged 20 who old the officers that a ladyboy snatched his gold necklace costs about 20,000 Yuan before the thief fled away with another ladyboy by a motorcycle.

Mr Yang added that he traveled to Thailand for the first time and he was really disappointed.

However, the police officers would collect CCTV footage in the crime scene to identify the thief and hunt them further.

Is there any offence on human trading here?

Yes there is. Taking a person away or seducing her(him) to gratify other person’s sexual desire, though with consent of person so taken, is an offence, punishable with imprisonment from one year to 10 years and fine from two thousand to twenty thousand baht. The punishment is set so high because the offence is regarded as part of human trading. 
If the person so taken or seduced is under 15 years old, the imprisonment is as high as twenty years. 
Any person receiving the person so taken or seduced for the said purpose is punishable with the same imprisonment and same fine. 
Any person taking another person over 15 years of age but not older than 18 years old for his/her own sexual desire or other means of sexual indecent practices, though with consent of the person, is punishable with imprisonment not more than five years and fine not more than ten thousand baht or both. 

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Thai electoral reform and gerrymandering

BP doesn’t normally quote e-mails, but as not attributing the e-mail to the person and the person wants BP to write a post about the issues they raise in the e-mail,* will do so in this post.

Email:

In your analysis of whether or not reform will go ‘far enough’ to shut out Thaksin and if that will be acceptable, could you please write about the composition of the two houses. As far as I can tell there are two very obvious flaws that are at the heart of Peau Thai’s dilemma:

1. Weighted gerrymander that benefits the rural North/east
2. A partisan senate resulting from a non-preportional representation.

In the 2007 election (the last time there was no boycotts) the national vote (party list) was more or less equal (14 million votes to two main parties), yet Peua Thai somehow got 248 seats in parliament and the Democrats 160, clearly something is amiss here, likely because the remote areas have fewer people per constituency resulting from geographical size.

I’ve yet to come across any academic or journalist pointing out that the current ‘senate by province’ setup isn’t fair either since it results in 8 million in Bangkok voting in 1 Senator and 8 million in the North voting in about 20 Senators.Knowing, as we do, that they are partisan, this too tips the weight into the Peua Thai camp. Thus their solution for a truly representative, fully elected Senate, is devious.

Now, based on a ‘landslide’ victory in the parliament, even though their popularity by ‘person’ isn’t that much greater than the Democrats, Peua Thai falsely claim (and no doubt believe their own hype) that they are overwhelmingly the ‘people’s choice’ when in fact they are merely the winners (first among equals) with less than 50% of the electoral support. A lot of their arrogant activity has been based on this, leading them to act way beyond their remit with the result being another coup. No one seems to understand this critical aspect of the perpetual failure of Peua Thai to retain respect and stability as a government.

I’m surprised how many Thais I’m meeting who fully support the coup, and I can only surmise it’s because they were truly appalled at the ousted government’s abuse of power and feel that strong medicine is needed.

I’d appreciate your views on this next time you discuss the ‘numbers’.

We could, for example, have a US federal system whereby the next Prime Minister could well be Korn, while the parliament is Peua Thai and the Senate Democrat, similar to other respectable ‘democracies’, of course there will be a side who consider that ‘undemocratic’.

BP: First, the last election that there were no boycotts was the 2011 election (the PAD campaigned for a ‘vote no’ in 2011 so don’t see how that could be considered a boycott). Second, in the 2011 election, the party vote was not equal. It was 15.7 million for Puea Thai vs 11.4 million for the Democrats. The constituency vote which determines the breakdown for 375 of the 500 constituency seats was also not equal. It was 14.2 million for Puea Thai vs 10.1 million for the Democrats (the party vote in 2007 was fairly equal with PPP winning only 200 votes more than the Democrats although they also won 4 million more constituency votes). Third,  in neither 2007 nor 2011 did Puea Thai win 248 seats (in 2007, they won 233 seats and in 2011, they wont 265 seats.)

On gerrymandering, this is wrong again. From 2011 election,

Source for most is EC (otherwise you can find via links from here).

BP: There is no gerrymandering to give the North and the Northeast an unfair advantage. If anything, it is the Democrat-strong South which has the slight advantage although it is very minor and such anomalies often happen as impossible to get a purely equal system when constituencies are per province.

On Senate, it was the 2007 Constitution (as drafted by the coup-installed CDA) that had the 1 Senator per province idea. This was to be changed in the charter amendment by the government last year (which was ruled unconstitutional by the Senate). The Nation:

The amendment bill seeks to cancel appointment of senators, who are viewed by many as representing the “old power regime”, and have 200 senators elected from throughout the country, with the number from each province based on the size of the population.

BP: So it was not some devious plan to gerrymander to the disadvantage of Bangkok. It would be back to a percentage based on population.

BP is not opposed to a federal system.

*The main reason for doing this post is BP viewed the e-mailer was factually wrong on most points and was tempted to not answer as didn’t want to type up a long reply, but thought that would just look up the data to confirm the person was wrong  (which took at least 30 minutes once put the information into Excel). So sent an e-mail back to point out the factual errors. Unfortunately, upon replying, got an automated response by spam software back saying that in order to e-mail the person, BP had to go to a Web site and fill in a form to identify that BP was a genuine sender as was not in the person’s address book….. Argh, not doing that….. So this post as didn’t want to waste the time spent.

Thank : asiancorrespondent.com

HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM SCAM AND FRAUD

HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM SCAM AND FRAUD

1.         Always keep the land deed safe. In case of document lost, immediate informing to the police is recommended.

2.         Avoid making the loan agreement and take the land deed as collateral without a lawyer because such land deed maybe a counterfeit or illegally obtained. Even the land deed is real and legal, the owner may inform the police that it is lost and issue a new one.

3.         If not keep it with yourself, only entrust the land deed with someone you can trust.

4.         Avoid signing any blank document especially a power of attorney.

5.         Before purchasing, accepting a mortgage or a sell with the right to redemption, self-check the location of the land and check the ownership of the land at the local land office. If possible, a prior survey of the land by the expert is recommended.

6.         Recheck your own land at the land office at least once a year whether you have any transaction concerning such land or not.

7.         Every transaction concerning the land must be registered at the land office. In case of purchasing, the land must be immediately transferred if the cost of the land is fully paid.

8.         Avoid making the contract with installment payment more than 2 times. In case you are unable to avoid such, please contact us. We have methods that can protect you but we cannot publicize such methods.

9.         Avoid purchasing the land that has its registration changed frequently. In case you are unable to avoid such, checking the status of the land and its owner more thoroughly by the expert is recommended. (Purchasing the land from the owner who has held the title of such land continuously for more than 5 years does not need to pay for the special business tax at a rate of 3.3% except that such owner is the juristic person.)

IS THERE ANY EXCEPTION?

Yes,  there  is  because  the  above  jobs  do  not  include  aliens  of  the  following  categories:

(1)  A  person  in  the  diplomatic  corps.

(2)  A  person  in  a  consular  mission.

(3)  A  representaive  of  the  United  Nations  and  special  agency.

(4)  Servants  of  the  persons  mentioned in  (1),  (2),  (3).

(5)  An  alien  doing  the  duty  under  an  agreement  between  Thailand   and  another  country  or  an international  organization.

(6)  An  alien  who  carries  out  the  duty  of  education,  culture,  art,  sports  and  other  activities,  as mentioned  in  a  related  by – law.

(7)  An  alien  who  is  allowed  by  the  Thai  government  to  come  in  to  do  a  certain  activity  in Thailand.

Suppose  an  English  immigrant  in  Thailand  wants  to  teach  English  at  a  school.

By  huahin   Business   lawyer

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