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Bob, best stay sober and have a w##k instead. It sounds as though it might be the only orgasm you will remember from your time in Thailand given your past lifestyle.

Ah, a cunning plan. Let's form a committee. An appearance of doing something while doing nothing at all.

Seems to me the interest rate difference generates a paltry amount of extra income which does not overcome the hassle of maintaining an overseas bank account and trying arrange expensive transfers. Plus when you keep you money in a different currency that what you plan to spend it, then you open yourself to currency risk. Sterling is not a strong currency with the massive budget and trade deficits, with a recession appearing to be imminent and considerable inflation. I don't trust sterling long term to hold its value.....you might put the equivalent of 800,000 baht into a UK account and find that it winds uo being worth 600,000 baht a year later. Not for me.

I am US citizen and have a US pension paid over here. There is a tax treaty to avoid double taxation. Having Thailand as my tax home does not have any advantages because the US only allows you to write of taxes paid here in the US to the extent that tax rates are lower.....ie over the two filings you would pay exactly the same. So to make things easier and to avoid double filings, I have the US as my tax home. Things are starting to look ugly perhaps, when we talk about transferring private pensions paid in the US or savings from eg 401K plans. I have used the strategy of filing in the US and paying US rates as they are higher (marginal rate ~ 50% including state taxes) than in the 35% on incomes over 4 million baht per year here in Thailand. If this is a trick to double tax foreigners, I will leave and go to somewhere that doesn't hate white people so much.

Some clear, concise and accurate communications from the government would be appreciated. Unfortunately the communications they send out (in explicably poor language) begs so many questions that the initial report is not worth reading.

I support this initiative whole heartedly having been through the trauma and expense of obtaining a Schengen visa for my wife. 3 trips to Bangkok, petty bureaucracy (our invitation from the relatives hosting us with the same last name was sent on email, which means it might be forged, and a hand written letter, that slo could have been forged, was needed and needed to be send by courier....it might have been nice if they told that in the first visit). Then they gave us a visa with the wrong travel date, despite giving them the e-tickets, meaning I had to change the flights at the airport at the cost over over $1000.

Does this include the high speed, 50 mph train from Bangkok to Korat? Which at the rate it is being built looks like it will be ready for use around 2100. And was about the motorway M6, that was supposed to be open in Dec 2020 and looks like it might be ready by 2040? One could be forgiven for thinking (erroneously, of course :)) that these infrastructure projects serve only one purpose, and that being to funnel money to lucky ministers in charge of the projects. Incompetence on this scale is a crime.

I must admit I've used AI a few times. I can't say I have found it revolutionary or compelling. I can't see me using it much in the future in its current form. I think Amazon's interest is to use out to better target the ads it sends to you, and to be honest, they need to improve, they are so bad that I have them all go to spam and they self delete after one month. The place I would really like to see AI used in in targeting Kindle. Their suggestions for 'books I might like' are way, way off. I also made the mistake of signing up for "Goodreads" which is another vehicle for selling books. Goodreads is somehow incapable of knowing which book I am reading now, incapable of seeing whether it is a new read of a re-read, and incapable of inferring whether I like the endless "suggested reading" ads they send me. Poor, awful, inane don't even begin to describe the awfulness of Kindle's as targeting.

I disagree. I am not one to shed false tears or make false platitudes over horrible people.

How will they make out with the 20 baht anywhere fare?

Well it's their money, they can choose where they spend it. Time to clean up Thailand and its scammy tourism with bent taxes and shady deals.

Well these cutting edge tests conducted by the FDA will make me feel a lot safer.

I wonder if he was. a good boss and decent to his workers?

Use earplugs.

I don't know any US or UK banks that allow accounts to be opened with foreign addresses, although you can open accounts with Citibank using a Thai address. I opened my NatWest account when I was a student about 55 years ago, and used my parent's address as I was moving around all the time. I changed it to my son's address when my parents passed away.

Ach! who cares? I have a woman who loves me so I don't care what she thinks about other Asians. I prefer other Asians to white people myself and I'm white.

I've used Kasikorn for the past 15 years and never had a problem. It cost 150 baht last time and takes only a few minutes of you have priority (a Wisdom card)

Personally, I love it. I couldn't eat rice without it.

You have zero sense. It doesn't matter what laws he has violated in your opinion, if he has laws protecting his human rights. They need to be observed and one of them is the right to privacy of anyone's medical condition whether they are in prison or out of prison.

I see so Thaksin in your opinion is not entitled to basic human rights like privacy?

A 33% increase, that's sure to draw in lots of foreign company investment in Thailand. NOT.

How did you manage to stop paying US taxes? I have not lived in the US since 2005 and always have had to pay up....and no I don't agree with spending my money on endless warmongering.

Yeah, Srettha did a brilliant job in NYC at the UNGA. (sarc) Let's see what his brilliant performance does to FDI (foreign direct investment) when he hikes the minimum wage.

Seems fitting. But in a real country how do you go about setting up an illegal cell tower. It's not as if they are invisible/

Nothing good will come of this, in my opinion. The Thai fishermen have proved themselves to be ruthless to the environment and to their crews as well. I'm all in favour of them having hardship now.