Americans! Bangkok! Corruption! No fashion sense!

Who would've believed it - a couple of Yanks have been arrested for paying bribes to run the Bangkok Film Festival - and so badly dressed too - http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php ... pic=159387 (http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=159387)

[TrongpaiExpat]

Invested (bribed) 1.7m to make 10 m, decent return.

Must have been sloppy work on the part of the bribers for the US justice dept to notice. They can find anything criminal on GE for the airport scanners and that was a 410m bribe.

www.iht.com/articles/2005/05/06/business/ge.php (http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/05/06/business/ge.php)

[Lunchtime O'Booze]

the real problem with paying bribes in Thailand is getting it just right...just piss off one person and exclude them and it can come tumbling down.

This puts a new light on the new Dubai Film Festival where $$millions are being spent to get it off the ground..paying stars to attend and in the wonderful Arab way , distributing largess everywhere and anywhere. Make bribing legal I say.

[TrongpaiExpat]

Former TAT Governor Juthamas Siriwan resigned yesterday with the statement she did not take any money from anyone and this is a matter for the US not the Thais. She also resigned from the Puea Pandin Party and was taken off current election. Seems like she will be in deep shit as she was not a military appointee.