TigerandDog

there were 2 quakes in Myanmar in 2023. 31/05/23 in Mohnyin 5.9 & on 07/06/23 at Ayeyarnwady 4.8. I received text alerts on my Samsung phone for both of these quakes whilst our house in the NW of CM Province was shaking from the tremors.

With all previous tremors I've received an SMS alert (no app required) on my Samsung phone while the shaking was still happening. Not this time.

Once again for the aussies in this forum "Some online tax accountants are advising the Australian/Thailand DTA does not protect an Australian account based superannuation pension from taxation when the payments are brought into Thailand, however the aged pension is exempt from Thailand tax." I have had this confirmed by my District Revenue Office, CM Revenue Office and CM have sought confirmation from BKK and the response was that as the aussie aged pension is actually a social security payment it is NOT assessable income under Thai Tax law.

why would you want to travel to the US with all the crap going on at the moment with ICE. legit visas being cancelled in the Immigration systems and people trying to enter the USA LEGALLY being arrested, placed in a detention center for up to 14 days AND put in chains before being deported. At the very least wait until the convicted orange felon is no longer dictator/emperor of the US.

they may not know who started the fires, so prosecute the owners of the land the fires are on. If it's govt land, prosecute the govt dept. The land owners will know who's starting the fires, so they can dob them in for a reduced penalty.

only a deluded, brainwashed MAGA moron would make such a comment.

we were for the Korean war but we were the right age for Vietnam.

Bob, are you running out of imaginary stories to post. This one is almost identical to a previous post you've made under the same title.

Bob is the one wearing the red cap, and Peter is tucked under his arm.

IMHO I believe there's an ongoing competition between the OP, Bob & Glamma to see who can post the most brain numbing, idiotic topics on ASEAN NOW. Time for the mods to put an end to their never ending stupidity.

My question is, as the 4 arrested are not minors, and they're obviously guilty, why are their faces not being shown.?

it was a PADI course and part of the course rules were that you had to be able to swim 100 metres. At Koh Tao that was done by swimming out from the shore 50 metres and then back 50 metres. It could be freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, even dog paddle, as long as it could be done non stop, and it was not an extra rule, the same rule of being able to swim 100 metres also applied at the PADI dive schools in Sydney too. It may not be a rule now based on your comment, but back then it was definitely the case. I wasn't a strong freestyle swimmer, so I did it breastroke, they even gave me the option of being able to wear fins but it had to be 200 metres.

You can't assume that divers, especially learner divers, are good swimmers. I did my open water course at Koh Tao back in 2010 and there was a group of Chinese in one of the other classes. They all got through the in pool training and struggled to pass the swimming test, but when it came time for their first real dive, the moment they stepped off the boat into the water they all panicked. Turns out they couldn't swim at all, and when they did the swim test it was low tide, so their feet were always able to touch bottom. Needless to say, they were hailed out of the water, taken back to shore and kicked out of the dive school, and lost their dive school fees to boot.

and so it starts. Just tell her NO.

CM Revenue Office do not send out cheques anymore. They'll either send you a letter or a text message which you then MUST take to Krungthai Bank, and if you don't have an account with Krungthai you will need to open one. They will then credit your account with the tax refund amount stated in the letter/text message.

this just looks like Bob the BS artist posting under an alias.

the non resident rule you refer isn't a new provision it has actually been in place for at least the last 20 years, maybe longer, and their systems have been deducting the 30% tax for that entire period, and I have a couple of acquaintances that can testify to that as their pensions were impacted because they didn't notify the ATO they were permanently leaving Oz. When I left Oz for Thailand in 2014 my Oz tax accountant made me aware of this provision and he submitted an advice to the ATO that I was permanently leaving the country and never returning, not even for a holiday or to visit friends, and that I would be a tax resident of another country. Centrelink has never deducted any tax from my age pension and my Oz accountant has never received any notification from the ATO that I need to submit a tax return or owe any tax.

I'd ignore both Thai and expat tax agencies, they are just scaremongering and trying to drum up business. The reason I said that the Oz/Thai DTA has no impact on whether the age pension is taxable in Thailand is due to the fact that the DTA makes a generalised statement with regards to pensions, it makes no specific mention of the age pension. What aussies should be taking notice of is Thai tax law, wherein it is clearly stated that social security payments are NOT assessable income, and the Oz age pension IS actually a social security payment, and the TRD recognise that as being the case, hence their position of the age pension not being taxable income.

if the payment is from Centrelink then the OP is receiivng the Oz aged pension.

Your THEORY is incorrect, and the reality does in fact match the true theory as explained hereunder and in a previous post. In early January I posted my experience about lodging my Thai tax return, and made it quite clear for ALL aussies who have the Australian Aged Pension remitted to their Thai bank accounts that it was NOT taxable in Thailand, and it has NOTHING to do with the Oz/Thai DTA. The Thai Revenue Dept deems the Oz aged pension to be a social security payment, which technically it is, and under THAI tax law social security payments are NOT assessable and therefore NOT taxable. This has subsequently also been verified in several posts since, where the OP's have also been advised by their local TRD that the Oz aged pension is a social security payment and therefore not subject to Thai tax.

and you believe that BS do you? The ONLY reason an election hasn't been called is because of the war with Russia. The Ukraine parliament, not Zelenski, declared martial law until the war with Russia was over. So please cease and desist with your MAGA BS propaganda.

"There’s also an ongoing initiative to ensure that Thai mobile banking accounts are registered under the actual SIM card owner's name, which has caused complications for some, including foreigners using bank accounts in their spouse’s name or linked to corporate accounts, writes Barry Kenyon for Pattaya Mail." The above is only part of what is happening. They are NOT just ensuring that telephone account names match bank account names exactly. They are accessing telephone account number profiles (without permission from the account holder), and they are also data matching passport numbers. So bad luck if you've opened a mobile phone account with a passport that has now expired, and your bank account has been updated to the new passport number. They haven't got the intelligence to check their paperwork and see that the bank account was opened with the same passport number as the mobile phone account was registered with. This is the issue I'm having with Krungthai bank, and they expect me to prove to them that the expired passport was used to open the bank account.

I pretty much do the same, and have done so for the last 50+ years both here and in my home country. Recommended pressure of 32psi, I always run at 34. Current set of tyres are 3 years old and only 37k kms on them. Still plenty of tread. For me, I think the reason for them still being in pretty good shape is twofold: #1. I only average around 12.5k kms per year & #2. I rotate the tyres every 6 months. First rotation is rear to front and vice versa. & 2nd rotation is cross rotate. Driver front to passenger rear and passenger front to driver rear. The rotation spreads the wear and tear on the tyres rather than having the wear in the one spot on each tyre which would be the result of not rotating them.

you do realise that when it comes to heart rates smart watches are only 80-85% accurate. To get accurate heart rates you should be wearing either a chest HRM or a forearm HRM, with the forearm HRM being the most accurate.