Re: “NCPO tells govt to speed up reforms”, (BP, Dec 17).
I have this absurd image of the NCPO sitting on one side of a long table, passing its instructions, and then rushing round to the other side of the table to hear what it has just said.
Wikipedia has an excellent article on the composition of the NCPO, and the areas of responsibility of its various members, but I can find no corresponding article on the current composition of the government. So, who was the NCPO instructing?
Roger Haslock
Go after rogue cops
Re: "Police probe claims of tourist searches", (BP, Dec 16).
News of a group of Thai police preying on foreign tourists in Bangkok’s Sukhumvit Road area has been going on for several months in several countries.
It is a big surprise to hear Pol Maj Gen Apichai Thi-amart, chief of the Tourist Police Division, claim he has “not been made aware” of such allegations.
Why do we have the tourist police anyway?
The Prayut Chan-o-cha government should pay special attention to this issue.
Vint Chavala
Air rage cowardice
Re: “Chinese fliers punished after air rage attack”, (BP, Dec 17).
I’m wondering why the Chinese tourists who threw hot water on a Thai AirAsia flight attendant and caused the plane to have to return to Don Mueang airport were allowed to leave Thailand without charges being filed against them. Surely, throwing scalding water on another individual constitutes criminal assault, not to mention the economic losses incurred by Thai AirAsia as a result of having to turn the flight around. Is Thailand so cowed by the giant to the north that it can no longer protect its citizens and businesses against such crimes?
Samanea Saman
All-year Xmas
Re: “Christmas grouch”, (PostBag, Dec 17).
Brian Furlonge is whistling Dixie if he believes that supermarkets will stop playing endless rounds of Christmas carols and songs on Dec 26. If past years are anything to go by it will be mid-January before they realise Christmas is over and at least another two or three months before they complete taking down their Christmas decorations.
In fact, one of my local shops has had the same Christmas decorations, a Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer cut-out and a plastic Christmas tree up for two years running now. I guess it saves them putting them up and taking them down each year, although they are now very much in need of a clean.
David Brown
Pollute at will
Dear Bangkok Governor,
I wonder if you let vendors on the skywalk from the BRT terminal to BTS Chong Nonsi station which I use almost every day do their trading. This morning I saw a fruit vendor throwing a styrofoam box into the khlong down there.
I stopped and asked him, “What did you throw?” The man was laughing at me and said, “Don’t worry, someone will collect it later.” As I walked away he was still laughing.
I tried to report through 1555 and was told to press 9 for English. Unfortunately the gentleman on the other end didn’t understand English so I hung up.
I am writing my letter of complaint to you through this forum instead.
Jan Abdul Wahab
Tourists shunned
It seems that the good burghers on the Pattaya council have decided that tourists are not welcome in Pattaya. From next Wednesday, Christmas Eve, and every Wednesday thereafter, the beaches are to be closed.
No chairs, no umbrellas no concessions, nothing.
On the days in between the concessions are to be shunted further together so any tourists visiting the beach will be crammed together like sardines in a tin!
Has this madness spread to any other parts of Thailand, or is Pattaya City the only place where tourists are not welcome?
I have spent many years holidaying in Thailand, but if we are not welcome, then maybe Laos or Cambodia will be interested in accommodating us?
James Horne
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