Thailand under MARTIAL LAW

**tidus1203** · April 22nd, 2010 11:47 PM

CIVIL WAR!!!

Five explosions hit the area packed with heavily armed troops and studded with banks, office towers and hotels, seriously wounding at least four people, including two foreigners, according to witnesses, hospital officials and an army spokesman.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63H06E20100422

**CVT** · April 23rd, 2010 10:28 AM

Just goes to demonstrate the instability and volatility of the region. Again, I just hope that the Philippines comes out a viable alternative for foreign investment.....

9707:electricf:

**Monseratto** · April 23rd, 2010 11:14 AM

Listening to Mike Enriquez's program in DZBB. He was discussing why the Philippines is not benefitting from Thailand's woes. The corruption excuse doesn't stand since Thailand has the same problem. Also even when offered with the Philippine option to a imperilled Thai Holiday, many tourist would rather cancel the trip than go here. He guess the percieved negative local character and poor infrastructure are a problem. Just compare NAIA Terminal 1 where all international carriers still land and Thailand's Suvarnabhumi Airport. Also the "tourist" destinations in Manila, pati ako mahihiya...

**niky** · April 23rd, 2010 03:26 PM

Originally Posted by Monseratto

Listening to Mike Enriquez's program in DZBB. He was discussing why the Philippines is not benefitting from Thailand's woes. The corruption excuse doesn't stand since Thailand has the same problem. Also even when offered with the Philippine option to a imperilled Thai Holiday, many tourist would rather cancel the trip than go here. He guess the percieved negative local character and poor infrastructure are a problem. Just compare NAIA Terminal 1 where all international carriers still land and Thailand's Suvarnabhumi Airport. Also the "tourist" destinations in Manila, pati ako mahihiya...

*sigh*... it's an injustice. Only PAL (and not even the other local carriers... WTF) gets to use the nicer terminal. Everyone else is packed into the sh*tty old building... which is a big disincentive to come here...

As is the poor condition of the Metro... traffic... corruption... etcetera...

**Monseratto** · April 23rd, 2010 03:42 PM

But there is hope for the Philippines...

Tourist arrivals in Thailand continued to decline in 2009, leaving the industry on track for an extremely poor performance on a full-year basis. Figures released by the Office of Tourism Development (OTD) show that tourist arrivals fell by 11.8% year-on-year (y-o-y) in the first three quarters of the year to 9.89million, down from 11.2million in the same period in 2008.

If you build it, they will come.

Almost four million tourists, lured by better infrastructure, a liberalized airline industry and improved facilities, flocked to the Philippines in 2009. Only half of that number came in the whole 2001.

**chua_riwap** · May 19th, 2010 12:29 PM

Nasa CNN Breaking news. May crackdown na sa Bangkok....kagulo na.

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/global-fi...k-protest-site

**tidus1203** · May 19th, 2010 12:34 PM

Unfortunately maskin magsialisan mga business dyan RP is probably still last in the list of places to transfer!

**badkuk** · May 20th, 2014 10:36 AM

Originally Posted by niky

*sigh*... it's an injustice. Only PAL (and not even the other local carriers... WTF) gets to use the nicer terminal. Everyone else is packed into the sh*tty old building... which is a big disincentive to come here...

...and yet they still manage to lose money, while the other carrier stuck in the dubiously constructed NAIA-3 is making money.

Our airports definitely need upgrades, but to say that Thailand's airport is better...most probably yes, but it also has a tendency to be hijacked and squatted upon by protesters. Dito sa atin madedelay or macancel flight mo, doon, baka di ka na makauwi :D

afaik, several Thai companies have already put up companies here: cement, agriculture, etc. Business just can't go on as usual with political instability. In Thailand's recent history, there'd been longer times of strife than peace. Dito sa atin, people don't care so corruption just goes on. So...yay for us?

Re martial law: hmm, di ata nagkakalayo yung appearance natin with Thais. If you wear the wrong colored shirt on the wrong day...

And, the very fact that the police/military can just pick anyone off the streets, no habeas corpus, no trial, that would make me nervous. The PH doesn't have a monopoly of bad cops/soldiers.