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It's a historic test, not a historical test. Big difference.

The form: 90 day form extra.pdf 493.08KB

If you've been wondering about the extra information that Immigration is now asking us to provide along with the 90 day report, here it is:

90 day form extra.pdf

Enjoy!

1) In Spain the cultural fare is far more interesting: art, music, theatre, architecture, etc, etc are some of the best in the world, and far superior to the dummy arts that you find in Thailand.

2) You can have damn good conversations and fruitful discussions with Spaniards, things which are extremely rare in Thailand.

3) In Spain, many kinds of alcohol and especially wine are far cheaper and far easier to find than in Thailand.

Those are the three things that come immediately to mind. I'd move to Spain if I could afford it, but I can't.

I didnt think you could get the pension outside australia.

Sounds disgraceful. So if you have worked in Australia and paid taxes all your life you can not choose to retire abroad. Even the scamming politicians in the UK aren't that bad.

Yes you can get a Australian pension abroad, but first up is getting the pension, you cannot apply over here, you have to go back and live there for 2 years before you can get the pension, if you get the pension at 67 you must return at 65 and stay for 2 years.

After you are free to live overseas.

You can retire abroad but you have to be over 65 or 67 an like the above post, have been in Australia for 2 years before you go and cannot apply offshore. You lose some of your supplement money and after 25 weeks out of the country, if you have not lived in Australia for 35 years, you lose another supplement. It is pretty harsh in some ways and if you are under 65, you can only leave Australia now for 4 weeks of the year with a paid pension. After 4 weeks, you lose the pension and if out of the Country for 12 weeks and 1 day, you will have to reapply for the pension and be totally cut off.

I am 45 and on a Disability Pension and live in Thailand permanently. I had to apply for unlimited portability of my pension which is very hard to do as but my disability will never improve and I will never be able to work again. It took me 9 months to jump through all the hops but I was approved and in the end, moved to Thailand. My pension will never be able to be taken off me.

Australia is one of the toughest countries around on these rules for pensions.

Good god almighty! This makes the restriction on the British state pension -- you don't get any annual increase if you live outside the EU and a few other countries -- seem like paradise. What bare-faced Scrooges run the Aussie system!

Permanent residency in Thailand: maximum new residents permitted per annum, 100 per country.

China population 1.4 billion, 100 allowed.

India population 1.3 billion, 100 allowed.

San Marino pop. 33,000, 100 allowed.

Nauru pop. 10,000, 100 allowed.

Canada, U.S., Singapore, UK and Thailand IDPs are valid for only one year. Anyone with a multiple-year IDP is fortunate, indeed. For all they're worth, being just a translation service booklet, they should be valid for as long as the license.

I think the reasoning is that you may have your main licence endorsed or cancelled for bad driving at anytime after the IDP is issued to you, but the IDP would carry on showing you to be OK, so the 1-year limit is a way for the authorities to play safe.

Still, it's annoying.

Why do reports on such incidents so often say the plane "skidded" off the runway? What evidence is there for skidding? Indeed, how can a plane skid? Only in the way that a car can skid, i.e. after trying to brake the wheels or because of a slick/icy surface. But planes don't brake with the wheels, they brake by using reverse thrust or deploying the flaps.

Failing any evidence of skidding, these reports ought to say something like "veered" off the runway.

You can put a lot of blame on the Thai non-education system. People who have never learnt how to use their brains to the full are prone to simple amusements like gambling. Of course, there are educated gamblers too in every society, but gambling is much more prevalent amongst those with a poor education.

We're not elderly, we're seniors!

NGO bigshots are some of the worst scum in SE Asia.

Besides making a ridiculous comment about NGOs, you don't even know what they are. WHO is not an NGO, it is an agency of the United Nations; in other words, far from being a non-governmental organisation (NGO), it is an organisation that represents all the governments in the world. And as a UN body, it is filled with often unworthy people chosen for political reasons, which again makes it absolutely the opposite of an NGO, which are staffed by sincere people chosen for their competence. So get hold of all that before abusing NGOs.

Can somebody explain this Thai practice of forcing suspects to re-enact the crime? This is both a gross violation of human rights and a completely useless investigative procedure. Is the reason as bad as it looks: the police simply think that this grotesque charade shows them doing their job properly? I'm far from new to Thailand, by the way, but this practice is one of the Thai things I hate most and it just keeps on shocking me with its incredible mixture of stupidity and barbarity.

"Boat operators"? Gross exaggeration. This is simply a cross-river ferry at one point..

Anyone got any actual photos of the inside?

Just think of white, bright white, sterile bright white, and you've got it. No need for pictures.

Went there on Saturday. This is supposed to be upmarket? I've never been in such terrible noise in any Thai mall in my decades here, and that's saying something. A nasty sterile bunch of designer stores with cacophonous sound, which I only braved in order to visit the new Kinokinuya bookstore - and even this is a downer, more like a book supermarket than the beautiful haven in Emporium that it has replaced.

Go on - who will be first to mention the not-so-smart taxi drivers

You win, dammit.

Perhaps the Japanese will round up all the British and Australian expats in Thailand to work on the railway.

This is totally wrong on many levels. Seems that Thailand doesn't care much for history.

Isn't integrity and honour a big thing in Japan? Surely they have the education to remember what happened.

Not really a surprise with the distorted history lessons they get.

Ask a Thai what the Victory Monument commemorates and very few will know. Why it is still there after the land was given back is a mystery.

Move on mate.

Yes mate, be a moron, forget the past, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, forget it all. Doesn't mean anything, forget it. Just like the Thais, in fact.

BTS always needs to be forced to do what it is supposed to.

As far as I remember, the London Underground has no toilets, and they're not common in most subway systems, so why should the BTS have them?

So if the royal were not having a big birthday, they wouldn't do anything?