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Didn't you say before that you have 1 mil in super? Why do you have to live only on 20k?

Indeed, I use Skype only to call banks or the government, it would be once per couple of months.

Your question was wrong, it should be "Do the AN forum members want Russians here?" How about the Thais not working in the tourist industry or any other visitors like the Chinese, Malaysians or Indians? Low class stuff as usual here

The Chinese manufacturers are beating the competition worldwide, and is only going to get worse: https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202411/21/WS673e9937a310f1265a1cecf3.html

The American puppet is seemingly not happy that he lost control of the parliament as a result of democratic elections and declared martial law. Expecting swift condemnations from the so called "democratic" world...silence so far.

One option is to pack it to look like sports equipment and purchase sports equipment baggage which is separate and also up to 40kg. I flew with real sports equipment with 60kg total baggage a few months ago.I doubt they would check if it is real sports equipment at the check-in counter. In the end it doesn't matter to them much.

"Selling into the wonderful US economy..." The Chinese market is far bigger. Xi is going to whip him like a rented mule. The Chinese supply chains are currently strengthening, not weakening.

The water at the Mae Nam beach is definitely not crystal clear, actually there is no beach in Samui with crystal clear water like some Indonesian islands or the Pacific.

At least there is no GoFundMe begging this time.

Upper Volta with rockets v2.0 in the making...

Plenty of keyboard warriors on government benefits here taking stance against the government. There are nearly 2 billion Muslims in various countries, to which Australia exports goods. The earnings from these exports help to pay your OAP. We can't afford to piss off Indonesia, the biggest Muslim country and our closest neighbour. Australia has no stake in the middle east conflicts, we only get refugees from there.

Bangkok looks pretty busy to me right now, Iconsiam was packed with foreigners. Lots of Chinese too, didn't see too many Indians.

Not really...just the money tree will be shaken a little bit, not too much to scare the birds. There is one missing number from the article, how many handed over brown envelopes. In the end all 27000 companies would miraculously comply with the law.

Another AI article....Bob is more entertaining.

You are correct... Ukraine would be hit and the rest would be just watching. At most in Western Europe they would eat a bit of radioactive lettuce. However Putin would need big enough casualties or damage on the Russian side to justify it. Not likely at this stage IMO.