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On 7/27/2019 at 10:15 PM, frankholland said:

Maybe we can make an estimation ourselves. I live in Korat, and do my retirement extention begin september. The extention has a number. The average number for the last 4 years is 4500. So that means in a year the korat immigration issues about 6750 retitement extentions a year. The most expats live in Bangkok, Pattaya, changmai, pucket and udon thani. If people from those regions make the same estimations for their province, we can see if we come close to the 72000.

There are only about 700-800 in Kalasin.  That's why they make us drive to Sakon Nakhon :((

glad to hear this is open ... really hate that drive to SN.

13 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

I wouldn't worry. The government issues proclamations on a weekly basis and then does absolutely nothing. No alcohol to be sold near schools, strictly enforcing the law about riding in the back of pickups etc. Last week it was supposed to be fining motorcyclists who ride the wrong way/on the sidewalk/without helmets. Next week it will be something else. Pissing off nearly everyone in Thailand, as well as businesses that use FB as customer contact, would cause a revolution.

Hey, at least they don't sell alcohol between 11 and 5 or on public holidays.

.... except I know that one place .... oh yea, and that one .... oh yea and that one too ... oh, never mind ...

32 minutes ago, duanebigsby said:

Funny how a city of 8 million can have 30 million  FB users  though. 

Why I don't always put much faith in statistics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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My wife has 4 accounts ... why, I have no idea ...

18 hours ago, varun said:

This represents an opportunity - for VPN providers

Problem solved.

That worked in China for about 4 or 5 years before they figured out how to hack the VPNs ... I suspect it wouldn't take Thailand long to "borrow" that knowledge from their good friends.

50th out of 65 isn't good.

I can just imagine where it would be if Abhist hadn't started to improve it.

It would be nice to have a one year report on how the Thai education has performed with there free tablet's.

I am still amazed at their ability to work with electronic thingamajigs and inability to tell you how many apples they would have if farmer Zack gave them 3 and farmer John gave them 2 and farmer Jill gave them 4 with out a calculator.

I read an article a while back in one of the Thai papers saying the tablet scheme was basically a failure because they gave them to first graders who had no clue what to do with them other than play games and they didn't properly train teachers, etc. on how to utilize them.

Seems there is a correlation between English ability and math and science. Vietnam clearly teaches English.... And they fared well.

Malaysia in recent years changed from teaching math and science in English, to mandating it be taught in Bahasa. Now they are reportedly lamenting that graduates are not competing for jobs in the global market (and for international univeristies).

Phuket is going in the same direction as Pattaya.

Not quite, as you cannot easily get to Phuket from Bangkok for weekends. Lots of Bangkok Thais in Pattaya on weekends and holidays.

I saw her on a British network the other day.... What I took away was how poorly she answered questions. Shocking how incoherant she is for a PM.