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Baht too strong - urgently needs freedom to float

By oldexplorer, Created on: 12/03/2009, Last updated on: 04/11/2015

» As the massive Chinese economy begins a freefall descent in response to the Western financial collapse, the Abhisit government needs to assist Thai exports by allowing the Baht to float downwards. Keeping the Baht slavishly locked to the US Dollar is short-sighted, and will simply make Thai exports...

• villager commented : Hi Ian, where i used to live in the UK ( Manchester) crime was in epidemic proportions, anything what was not "nailed down" was quickly "lifted" , funny story ,there was a liberal club quite near to my home , a guy left his almost new Vauxhaul Astra van quite nearby and took a Taxi home cos he was over the limit , he returned the following morning to find his Sat Nav and disc player gone, his van was left on bricks and all the wheels missing , but the iceing on the cake was that they had removed the engine and gearbox too!!, i spoke to a guy who worked at a free fit clutch garage who informed me anyone with the right tools and knowledge could take the engine and box out in 45 minutes, evidently they must have had both!!, as far as my little village here i,ve never had any problems whatsoever since in came here in April 04, maybe i,m just lucky eh.

• Sean Moran commented : [quote="villager":zbjmkeme]Hi Ian, where i used to live in the UK ( Manchester) crime was in epidemic proportions, anything what was not "nailed down" was quickly "lifted" , funny story ,there was a liberal club quite near to my home , a guy left his almost new Vauxhaul Astra van quite nearby and took a Taxi home cos he was over the limit , he returned the following morning to find his Sat Nav and disc player gone, his van was left on bricks and all the wheels missing , but the iceing on the cake was that they had removed the engine and gearbox too!!, i spoke to a guy who worked at a free fit clutch garage who informed me anyone with the right tools and knowledge could take the engine and box out in 45 minutes, evidently they must have had both!!, as far as my little village here i,ve never had any problems whatsoever since in came here in April 04, maybe i,m just lucky eh.[/quote:zbjmkeme] [img:zbjmkeme]http://www.bangkokpost.com//media/content/20090314/c1_13331_090314041029.jpg[/img:zbjmkeme] Vauxhall no longer deals in Thailand. http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/1 ... yong-plant

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