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Hermanolobo
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Thai MPs protest mistress ban
The party wants to stop MPs visiting massage parlours
MPs from Thailand's ruling Thai Rak Thai Party are getting hot under the collar over plans by the party leadership to ban them from having mistresses or visiting brothels.
Later this month, the party, led by the prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, will consider plans to screen candidates so that only faithful and monogamous husbands can stand in elections.
One MP told The Nation newspaper that if the rules were enforced, the party would only be able to field around 30 candidates, compared to its more than 200 sitting MPs.
Another said it would lead to mass defections.
But Thai Rak Thai spokesman, Suranand Vejjajiva, told the BBC's World Today programme that social values were "getting stronger" in Thailand, and people had higher expectations of their politicians.
" If your background is not as, quote unquote, clean, or quote unquote, up to social standard, as the other guy, I think you have to pick the other guy, " he said.
And he said that all MPs were "now under evaluation".
Many of them have expressed outrage that the party hierarchy is trying to interfere with the practice of keeping a mistress, or "mia noi" as they are known.
"To have a mia noi is an individual's right. There should be no problem as long as the politician causes no trouble to his family or society, " one MP, Thirachai Sirikhan, told The Nation.
The party's action appears to have been prompted by a series of scandals, with wronged wives and mistresses publicising their stories.
Mr Thaksin himself cultivates an image as a family man, and frequently appears with his wife and children by his side.
BBC World
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3255350.stm
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 7:30 am on Dec. 2, 2003
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mokewen
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Later this month, the party, led by the prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, will consider plans to screen candidates so that only faithful and monogamous husbands can stand in elections.
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A very thin ballot and an even thinner ruling party!!!!
moke
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Bangkok Women : Meet Sensual Bangkok Women
Posted on: 7:39 am on Dec. 2, 2003
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Hermanolobo
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Probably makes a change to 'standing' in massage parlours.
MP's standing for MP's ?
The mind boggles.
They'll be vetting tourists next !
You must come with your wife ! in more ways than one?
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 7:49 am on Dec. 2, 2003
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Vancouver Jay
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I'd like to see the MPs defect to Chuwit and the Soapy Party, or whatever he's calling it. It would be a reallife case of "politics makes strange bedfellows".
A chicken in every pot, a girl in every bathtub.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 7:49 am on Dec. 2, 2003
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power24
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Seems like Mr Thaksin protests a little too much, almost vendetta like against the industry. I dont usually comment on other countries politics but this is certainly a step to far and one which is detrimental to his own party I would think.
He who protests....
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 1:26 pm on Dec. 2, 2003
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khun jou yai
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Banning politicos from mia nois and massage parlors? Seems to work here in the US... 
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Bangkok Women : Meet Beautiful Thai Girls
Posted on: 4:30 pm on Dec. 2, 2003
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Hermanolobo
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Any event or incident watch what happens afterwards (I'm in my sage mode now).
APEC conference then Tax-the-Sin comes out with the whiter than white holier than thou hypocrisy. As a politician it is unlikely he thought this one up but was asked nay instructed to follow this line. If Thailand becomes another Singapore (you don't ban the sex industry you let it or make it go broke) it will not be at the behest of Tax-the-Sin but the clique of International Financiers who attended APEC. If anybody bangs on about alleged 'Conspiracy' this is fact not fiction.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 3:13 am on Dec. 9, 2003
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hzink
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Quote: from Hermanolobo on 4:13 pm on Dec. 9, 2003
If anybody bangs on about alleged 'Conspiracy' this is fact not fiction.
Sorry, buddy, it ain't 'fact' unless you can dish up, you know, supporting evidence. You saying so won't make it fact, alone.
Also, IMO, this is just more 'new world order' conspiracy crap.
Harry
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Thai Girls : Meet Active Thai Girls
Posted on: 9:52 am on Dec. 9, 2003
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Deleted Member
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Ego, the problem is EGO. Thaksin is clearly trying to carve out his name in history as being some sort of great "moral" statesman.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 10:00 am on Dec. 9, 2003
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