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If you gave a map position in your opening post, it would be easier for others to help you...

Thaksin seems convinced that he is untouchable...

Status today 28th October 2024...

An airline CEO that can't grant himself cockpit permit, where there normally is an extra seat – sometimes even two...

An friend of mine – Thai lady with farang husband – cleared the matter with her son's little difficult father by some cash compensation.

Imported products are subject to customs duty, if any duty applies, and from recently always Thai v.a.t...

It might be individual what works well or best, according to science. Many suggest 16 hours fasting, and 8 hours where you can eat. Others suggest a day's fasting a week. I'm in level with @CharlieH that it's about input vs output; i.e. what energy you need and burn. However, according to science it might not be that simple for all; i.e., science don't know enough yet about obesity (with reference to my friend that is one the World's leading professors in obesity). My body-builder friends – I'm not one of those myself – says that slimming is a combination of diet and exercise; the latter in some reasonable level is also good for one's general health. What might be important is that after a hard cure/diet your body will ofter recorver to former state; in other words, you might need some life-style changes to keep a new body level. So. in my experience the change in life-style is the first move, and might be just smaller steps in the right direction – here some obesity scientists says you need a harder step, bur my experience is different; so, we are individuals and not all the same – regular excersise and little change in intake. Just some daily walks can be it; according to the latest science I've read 4,000 steps are important, the difference up to the "famous" 10,000 steps is minor. Skipping some meals – or intake of stuff (calories) between meals – is a habbit. As you said yourself about dasting that in the beginning you had a strong feeling of hunger, and after a while it wanes. So, if ine can resist the hunger feeling and fast for three days, there will be some weight reduction; however, don't forget to drink water, preferably mineral water. Skippin a meal, for example breakfast, is not that difficult, it's a habit. The popular saying that "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" has no scientific background, it was invented by a major breakfast-stuff manufacturer for advertsing. Me, for keeping my weight at reasonable level: I skip breakfast (take a cup of coffee with little milk, no swetener, coffee is healthy up to about 4 cups a day); no lunch but a clas of juice or some fruit; and then a delicious good dinner, where I concentrate about enjoying my meal and preferable with a glass of wine or two...😋👍 I walk a bit during the day, which can be walking the few hundred meters to 7-Eleven or other stores instead of driving. A couple of times, or three, a week I exercise intensive; I have typically lost about half a kilo the next morning. My BMI is between 19 and 20; however it raise during the Covid-lockdown, and took a while to get back into my former shape. By my experience: Try some methods in a shorter wjile and notice your feelings and result. In mhy view it's important that you feel confident and happy, and live a relaxed easy life-style, rather than always being on some cure and diet to strictly follow...😉

And I just read in the news that Thaksin not at all interferes in Thai politics...

Both, and I have both...

However, if and when there are held a temple-market – they lasts about 9-10 days where I live, twice a years – you might have a bit of free noisy entertainment until midnight or 2 am...

You might hear nice monk's mass at Sunrise – if I'm awake that early I can hear it from the temple about a kilometre away from my house – it can actually be a relaxing experience...😊

"...why?" Could be depending of which movies you pick to watch. The ones I've selected have mainly been good movies worth watching – and I prefer to watch big screen in a dark cinema with Dolby Atmos-sound – but there are also numerous films I don't pick to watch...

How does he know that..?

Zero...

And in another news article today, the resorts are making a rate hike up to the high season, so probably won't change much...

Different answers is because it's "same-same but different" in different provinces. At the place you stay, check with the local tessa ban-office, what they wish of documentation and witnesses for being registered in a yellow house book for aliens, which is first step. Normally you'll need a certified translation of the name-page of you passport to Thai language and two witnesses, of which one must ne a neighbour and one must be a governmental employee. You will also need acceptance from the house master or host where you stay; i.e. the person that can accept people to be registered in the house book. If you own an apartment or a house – you can own a house, but not the land under it – you will have a blue house book and ought be registered as host by tesssa ban. Some places you'll also need to pass an interview to be registered in a yellow house book for aliens; however, you don't need to be able to speak Thai, a translator is allowed. When having a yellow house book for aliens you can apply for a pink ID-card at the local amphor-office. You might need a letter from the tessa ban-office to apply.

Your are assuming. You cannot change the name of the insurance holder, which was my question to my insurance company and the answer I originally quoted. I wish to give my car to my girlfriend and transfer it to her name, as I'm soon buying a new car. What might happen in case of accident without a new insurance, I cannot speak about; but I started with a new first class insurance in my name, when I once bought a second hand car in Thailand.

That is not, what I said. I said that I was informed that the insurance follows the car, but cannot change owner of the insurance. And initially I also said: "The new owner needs to start a fresh insurance in own name."

I have "any driver" insurance. As I said, the insurance follows the car, but not in the new owner's name.

Exactly, this is Thailand, not EU... You might also see signs that specific nationals are not welcome and dual pricing, where foreigners pay double or (much) more. If you wish EU-rules to be enforced, remain staying in EU...

It's depending of airplane type and the airline's request for inventory and seats. I've tried KLM's B747 from AMS to BKK, it was my first and last long distance flight with KLM, only Aeroflot was worse...

I've just checked the question with my own first-class insurance issuer, as I'm planning to transfer my car to another owner. Insurance follows car and owner's name. If you sell the car, the insurance will still be in your name. The new owner needs to start a fresh insurance in own name.

The easy and best solution, if it's not an expensive dinner in a many star restaurant. However, you can always politely complain and see, what the reaction is, before deciding to just pay and walk out.

You'll need a power of attorney; use the standard Thai-form that you can buy in paper-shops. And yes, signed photo copies of ID-card and house book. Always check what the local Land Transport-office wish of paperwork for transferring it to a new owner, before buying any vehicle second hand.

Legally there is not such thing as 30+30+30 years land lease. 30-years is the maximum limit. Renegotiating for another lease period is always with a risk of changes rent-price, and if owner continuring wants to rent out the land; the land can have been sold or transferred to a new owner during the initial lease period. Any agreement with with additional terms beyond the initial 30-years lease are not easily to legally enforceable, as the agreement is not registered and in principle illegal. The value of a house – and yes, a foreigner can own a house, but not the land under it – is what a rent for the same house would be during the remaining period of a lease agreement, minus some discount and loss of interest for prepayment. So if you bought a 4 million baht house including prepaid lease agreement, the rent would be somewhere between 8% and 12% per year. If using the lower end, it's 320,000 baht per year; perhaps only 300,000 with annual prepayment, which equals 25,000 baht per month. 15 years left – if the house is in a maintenance condition for 25,000 baht per month, the remaining value would be 15 x 300,000 = 4.5 million baht, minus prepayment discount and loss of interest, so likely somewhere below 4 million baht. But it depends on market-prices, location and demand, so can be both more and less; if it's in a remote Isaan-village, you might not be able to sell anything at all. If using someone else's land for building a house you'll need a superficies or like permission, and the building permission issued in only your name together with construction agreements and all bills and payments, to be a house owner. Usufruct is in principle for farming – harvesting the fruits of the land – so in a few places the land office will not register an usufruct to a foreigner for a small village land-plot. You can instead use right of habitation, which gives you similar rights and free habitation. Don't forget that both usufruct- and habitation-right run for maximum 30 years or for life. In Thailand it's often best to be worth more alive than dead...