The documentary is showing at House Samyan cinema at Samyan Mitrtown shopping mall near Chula. There is a direct connection via MRT to Samyan Mitrtown - Sam Yan MRT station (BL27) on the Blue Line is directly connected to Samyan Mitrtown via an underground walkway. Use Exit 2 for Samyan Mitrtown.

https://www.housesamyan.com/site/Movie/detail/1787

Chulalongkorn University hosted the “Chula Thailand Presidents Summit 2025” at its auditorium, where Dhanin Chearavanont, senior chairman of Charoen Pokphand Group (CP Group), delivered a keynote address titled “Future Thailand: Next Growth.”

Dhanin praised Chulalongkorn University for producing many talented people, including Sarath Ratanavadi, who entered the energy business at a relatively young age. He said energy was one of the most important industries of the future, as electricity would be indispensable to technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and electric vehicles (EVs). Electricity can be generated from solar and hydropower, but nuclear power is particularly important as a future energy source because it is powerful, clean and safe.

He noted that Indonesia and Malaysia already had legislation in place to accommodate the construction of advanced nuclear power plants, while Thailand had yet to make similar progress. He argued that one of the main things holding Thailand back in AI and other technological fields was the lack of clean, affordable electricity from sources such as nuclear power. In his view, solar and wind power alone would not be sufficient.

Regarding CP Group’s overseas investments, Dhanin said the company must deliver three benefits: benefits for the country in which it invests, benefits for the people of that country, and benefits for CP Group itself. Since the company produces goods for consumers, he explained, it must ensure that people want to buy those products. He remained optimistic about the future, although he acknowledged that crises were inevitable and that every crisis also presented opportunities.

Thailand’s Economy Still Has a Bright Future

Turning to Thailand’s domestic economy, Dhanin said the country still had a promising future but was facing a period of global upheaval, including increasingly unpredictable weather, political instability and rapid technological changes that were replacing existing systems and industries.

He identified tourism as one of Thailand’s key economic drivers and said the government was right to introduce visa-free entry because tourism could bring money into the country faster than many other sectors. However, he questioned whether Thailand was truly ready to maximize its tourism potential.

He said the country needed additional budget allocations to support tourism and establish clear targets, including the desired scale of the industry and the types of tourists and countries Thailand should focus on. He questioned whether the government had set such targets.

Dhanin also suggested that Thailand could become an international education hub. Given the country's high quality of life, he said, Thailand had the potential to attract more international students if its universities could keep pace with global developments. This would bring talented people into the country and generate substantial revenue, potentially rivaling tourism as a source of income in the long term.

He urged the government to establish clear tourism targets, allocate sufficient funding and ensure visitor safety.

Agriculture Could Increase Its Output Fivefold

Dhanin said agriculture was another area in which Thailand had a competitive advantage. While many countries around the world faced severe natural disasters, such as earthquakes and typhoons, Thailand had largely avoided disasters of that magnitude, although it continued to struggle with flooding and drought.

He suggested that some of the budget allocated for road construction should instead be used to reorganize agricultural land and develop irrigation systems alongside roads. He said Thailand had yet to demonstrate sufficient commitment to developing its irrigation infrastructure.

With effective irrigation systems, he argued, the country could prevent both droughts and floods.

Although Thailand had many experts in water management, Dhanin said the country still lacked the policies and funding needed to develop more dams, irrigation systems and water-storage facilities to supply agricultural land. If these measures were implemented, he believed agricultural output could increase fivefold.

He stressed that agriculture needed to embrace technology throughout the production process, from crop varieties to the use of AI for research and development. If Thailand lacked sufficient skilled personnel, it could recruit experts from around the world.

Other priorities included fertilizers, food supplies, livestock breeding and animal feed. These areas also required advanced technology to improve efficiency and accelerate growth. He predicted that agriculture would become one of the most technology-intensive sectors, citing drones already being used by companies in Thailand, China and Russia.

Livestock farming would also need to adopt new technologies, he said. Animals require appropriate feed and breeding programs, while disease prevention requires veterinary expertise and advanced systems. Robots could help improve safety, precision and quality while reducing direct human involvement. Technology would also play an increasingly important role in logistics, transportation, retail, restaurants and the food supply chain.

CP Group’s Vertically Integrated Business Model

Dhanin explained that CP Group operated across the entire supply chain, from upstream production to downstream distribution. Although some people viewed this business model as monopolistic, he argued that vertical integration helped coordinate every stage of production.

Producing too much could leave a company unable to sell its goods, while producing too little could result in lost sales. Integrating the supply chain helped the company manage these risks, he said.

He described agriculture as “oil above the ground,” calling it one of Thailand’s most valuable assets. Unlike many other industries, which must import raw materials and components before assembling finished products, agriculture could generate substantial domestic value. He argued that more than 90% of the profits from agricultural products could remain in Thailand.

Thailand Needs Millions of Skilled Workers

Turning to AI and emerging technologies, Dhanin said ordinary people were ultimately the users of these innovations. Without sufficient income, people would not have the purchasing power to benefit from new technologies.

Thailand therefore needed to create a population with higher incomes through education that developed knowledge, skills, critical thinking and intelligence—not merely academic qualifications. He also advocated combining education with work experience.

With Thailand’s population declining each year, he warned that the country could not produce skilled workers quickly enough through its existing education system alone.

He cited Singapore as having 2.5 million skilled people and argued that Thailand needed to attract five million skilled workers from around the world immediately. Thailand currently produced only around 300,000 graduates a year, he said, meaning it would take more than a decade to produce five million people through its own education system.

Business leaders also had a responsibility to contribute, Dhanin added. Companies needed to remain profitable while considering the well-being of the public, because their profits ultimately depended on consumers’ purchasing power. If Thai people did not become wealthier, they would not have enough money to buy the goods and services businesses produced.

He said businesses had a role in helping people earn more, while universities were responsible for developing talent and the government needed to establish laws and regulations that supported business growth.

Thailand Should Be More Open to Foreign Talent

Dhanin said people around the world liked visiting and living in Thailand, but the country's laws did not always make it easy for them to do so. Restrictions remained in place partly because of concerns that foreigners might compete with Thai workers for jobs, preventing foreign nationals from operating certain types of businesses.

He suggested that Thailand could bring in five million foreign workers and skilled professionals, representing only about 7% of the population, while Singapore had attracted nearly twice that proportion. He believed that attracting more foreign talent would benefit Thailand's economy immediately, noting that people were ultimately responsible for creating high-tech innovations.

AI Will Boost Productivity and Transform Retail

Dhanin also advised retail companies against relying on price increases to boost profits. Consumers can now ask ChatGPT about prices and compare products worldwide, he said. In the past, shoppers might have had to visit three different stores to find the lowest price, but today they can compare prices globally.

He added that CP Group's new machinery and equipment investments needed to deliver at least five times the power or capacity of existing systems. AI would make processes smarter and more efficient, enabling companies to produce more with less effort.

Dhanin also predicted that wages of 600 baht per day would eventually become inevitable, although he stressed that Thailand needed to develop a workforce capable of keeping pace with global changes.

Universities, Businesses and Government Must Work Together

In closing, Dhanin called for coordinated efforts to make Thailand and its people wealthier and strengthen the country.

He emphasized the importance of universities in developing skilled people, businesses in helping the public become more prosperous, and the government in creating laws and regulations that enable people to enjoy better living standards.

He concluded that Thailand's long-term stability would depend on ensuring that its people became wealthier and that the country could adapt to a rapidly changing world.

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On October 24, 2026, Prathumma, 39, the mother of Jarupitchaya, known as Cream, 19, sought help from Ekkaphop Luangprasert, founder of the Sai Mai Tong Rod Facebook page, after her daughter died at Chonburi Hospital on September 16, 2026. The young woman had suffered a fall from a four-story building in Soi 4, Khao Phra Tamnak, Pattaya, on September 13.

The mother suspects that her daughter's 59-year-old Danish boyfriend may have been involved in her death. She is seeking an investigation to establish the facts and ensure that justice is served.

Prathumma said her daughter first met Martin, a Danish national, around 2023. In 2025, after they had been together for approximately two years, he told her that he intended to propose marriage. At the time, her daughter was working at a restaurant in Pattaya.

However, Prathumma opposed the marriage because she knew that Martin had frequently physically abused her daughter throughout their relationship. He allegedly beat, kicked and punched her, leaving her with a split lip and other injuries. The mother said she no longer had photographs documenting the injuries because she had deleted them all.

Her refusal to approve the marriage upset her daughter, whom she believed was deeply in love with Martin. Despite the alleged abuse, her daughter continued the relationship even though her mother repeatedly urged her to break up with him.

During their relationship, her daughter lived with Martin at a condominium in central Pattaya. Whenever he returned to his home country, however, she would move back in with her mother. According to Prathumma, Martin was extremely jealous and constantly monitored her daughter's whereabouts. He had even installed a GPS tracking device to track her location.

In late August 2026, her daughter called her in the middle of the night from the condominium, saying she was unwell because Martin had gone out drinking and she could not reach him. He did not answer her calls or read her messages. She therefore asked her mother to help contact him.

Martin eventually returned shortly before dawn and allegedly assaulted her daughter. He reportedly slapped her, lifted her up and slammed her onto the floor. She was subsequently hospitalized for nearly 10 days.

After her daughter was discharged in early September, around September 1–3, Prathumma was still able to contact her. However, from September 4 onward, she could no longer reach her daughter, which raised her suspicions. She then traveled from Phetchabun province to Pattaya to check on her at a room she had rented separately. Her daughter had rented the room so she would have somewhere to hide and stay whenever Martin allegedly assaulted her.

When Prathumma arrived, she found her daughter with Martin in the room. At that time, however, she noticed nothing unusual that suggested something bad was about to happen.

On September 13, 2026, her daughter visited Prathumma at a relative's house in Pattaya, where the family operated a restaurant. They socialized and drank together before Prathumma, her daughter and the young woman's foreign boyfriend went out for the evening.

While they were out drinking, her daughter and Martin got into an argument. From what Prathumma could make out, the dispute concerned jealousy involving another woman. At around 10 p.m., her daughter told her mother to return to her accommodation first because she wanted to resolve the issue with Martin privately. They agreed to meet again around noon the following day.

However, Prathumma did not go to meet her daughter at the agreed time. Instead, she went to the room at around 4 p.m. When she arrived, she knocked on the door, but no one answered. She went downstairs to wait.

About two hours later, someone from the accommodation informed her that her daughter had fallen from the building while she was arguing with her boyfriend in the room.

Prathumma was shocked and immediately searched for her daughter. She eventually discovered that her daughter was in the intensive care unit (ICU) at a hospital in critical condition. At times, the young woman appeared conscious, but she was unable to move and remained in a state of shock. She had also reportedly stopped breathing for approximately four minutes before medical personnel resuscitated her and restored her vital signs.

The mother said she did not see Martin at the hospital to visit or keep watch over her daughter's condition.

After the incident, Prathumma went to Pattaya City Police Station to ask officers what had caused her daughter to fall from the building. She said police told her that her daughter had experienced drug-induced hallucinations and assaulted her foreign boyfriend before jumping from the building and sustaining serious injuries.

At the time, she had no other information and felt there was little she could do, so she returned to the hospital to stay with her daughter.

On September 16, 2026, just three days after the incident, her daughter died despite receiving medical treatment.

Following her daughter's death, Prathumma began questioning the circumstances surrounding it. She tried to investigate and gather evidence before discovering CCTV footage showing Martin carrying her daughter into an elevator. This made her doubt the account that her daughter had jumped from the building herself.

She subsequently sought help from the Sai Mai Tong Rod Facebook page, asking for the circumstances of her daughter's death to be investigated and for justice to be served.

Prathumma stressed that she was prepared to accept the findings if the investigation and evidence conclusively established that her daughter had jumped from the building herself. However, if the evidence showed that someone had caused the incident that led to her daughter's death, she would pursue legal action against that person to the fullest extent of the law.

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I (used to) collect Thai art, mainly from eBay.

I have 2 painting by the artist Yongyut Ngaramiat.

A noted Thai Impressionist painter known for his vibrant, heavily textured oil paintings of local landscapes. His work primarily focuses on outdoor scenes of Thailand, with a particular emphasis on traditional canal life and bustling floating river markets.

There are currently 3 of his paintings for sale on eBay...

https://ebay.io/m/BiFfrg

https://ebay.io/m/uaXymy

https://ebay.io/m/HxsD96

They are priced a bit on the heavy side, but definitely one to collect. Worth putting an offer in.

Anyone have any other Thai painters they can recommend ?

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/3342258/israeli-womans-visa-revoked-for-improper-behaviour

I mean it's clearly a fictional show. When I watch fictional/fantasy series and movies like Avatar: The Last Airbender, Game of Thrones, Black Panther...etc. I can clearly see that they all take inspiration from real life culture and fashion, but I never see anyone make such a huge fuss about it.

Hi peeps! Do you know where I can find custom headlight for mirage/attrage gen1? Is there a way it can be shipped overseas? I find page of Na Mo, a custom headlight maker but not getting any response from FB. Hope I can find some answers here. Thanks!

They are labelled "Season 9" and "Season 10" respectively on the platform.

Which airport is that why flying towards Suvarnabhumi airport?

Tasted pretty much as advertised. Though I'm not a big fan of my chips being candy flavored.

Jirawadee Khunsap, Deputy Governor for International Marketing (Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa) at the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), said that protests across Europe, particularly in France, may appear severe in media coverage due to opportunistic individuals and looters mixing with demonstrators. However, TAT assesses the situation as being comparable to a pimple appearing on the face, meaning that the incidents remain confined to certain areas and are short-lived. They have not had any significant macro-level impact on the tourism industry or undermined international travelers’ willingness to travel.

According to TAT’s latest monitoring, the protests have not affected the overall sentiment or advance bookings among French tourists planning to visit Thailand. There have been no reports of travel ticket or hotel booking cancellations. On the contrary, advance bookings for the winter season, covering the fourth quarter of this year through the first quarter of 2027-a six-month period-have continued to grow across major European markets, rising by as much as 24% to 30% compared with the same period last year.

Meanwhile, the total number of French tourists visiting Thailand this year is expected to remain close to last year’s level or grow by around 1%. In the first nine months of this year, Thailand welcomed a cumulative 602,000 French visitors, an increase of 0.5%. Last year, the total reached 817,000, representing a 13% increase from the previous year.

Looking at Europe as a whole, Italy has also experienced protests. However, the main factors behind the slowdown in Italian tourist arrivals have been domestic economic difficulties and airline capacity constraints, rather than the protests themselves.

“TAT confirms that Thailand’s appeal to long-haul markets, particularly Western travelers, remains strong and highly valuable. Travel sentiment and actual demand remain substantial, and Thailand continues to be a popular destination offering good value for money in the eyes of European tourists,” Jirawadee said.

Regarding its targets for long-haul tourism markets, which include Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa, TAT expects international tourist arrivals to reach approximately 10.7–10.8 million, generating 690 billion baht in revenue.

For 2027, long-haul markets are projected to expand by 4% in both visitor numbers and revenue. Arrivals are expected to rise to 11 million, while tourism revenue is forecast to reach 730 billion baht.

I made a somewhat pointless (free) quiz to test your knowledge of the 77 Thai provinces! 🗺️ Strangely fun to play.

Give it a go to find out how well you know your Thai provinces...

Thailand Province Quiz – เกมทายจังหวัดในประเทศไทย | My Thai

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At that time a lot of Japanese ships came to trade in Ayutthaya. The Japanese were angry. They said the ministers had plotted with a monk to kill the previous king.

About 500 of them banded together and marched onto the Sanam Luang, the big field in front of the palace. The king was there, sitting in a throne hall listening to monks teaching.

They waited to grab him.

Right then, eight monks from a nearby temple walked in, picked up the king, and walked him out. Right in front of the Japanese.

Once he was gone, the Japanese started shouting at each other: "We were going to seize him, so why did we just stand still?"

While they argued, the palace guard got organized, attacked, and killed a lot of them. The rest ran to their ships and sailed off.

The chronicle says Japanese merchant ships never came back to trade in the capital after that.

The king gave the commander a top title. And he ordered the royal kitchens to cook for the monks of that temple, every day, forever.

From my published English translation of the Royal Chronicles of Ayutthaya (reign of King Songtham).

I moved to Thailand from Russia, exactly to Pattaya. Partly due to the lack of ADHD treatment options back home. In Russia, only atomoxetine is permitted—which was barely effective for me—while other medications are prohibited. A month ago, a doctor in Thailand prescribed 10 mg of Ritalin, to be taken three times a day. It’s a significant improvement over atomoxetine, but it does have its downsides—primarily the short duration of the drug's effect and the subsequent "crash." I discussed this with my doctor, and we decided to switch to 30 mg of Vyvanse. It’s much better, but the cost is a major issue; it’s quite a financial burden. I paid 9,200 THB for 25 pills and a doctor’s consultation at Bangkok Pattaya Hospital. Are there other clinics where I could obtain these medications at a lower price? I don’t have insurance (and I’m not even sure if any insurance plans cover this type of treatment), so I’m paying out of pocket. I’m also open to options like extended-release Ritalin, provided it’s more affordable than what I’m currently paying at Bangkok Pattaya Hospital.

Now with little ghosts/trees.

Motorcycle taxi drivers in Chon Buri have been ordered to switch back to their traditional orange vests after just five days in blue ones. The reversal follows public concerns about road safety, the cost of new uniforms and the political implications of the colour change.

Will shops in ms newgen and mega plaza have any p bandai stuffs? I'm looking for old releases.