LoudHailer

What a movie plot! 23 year old Ukrainian who appears to have over US$500,000 in crypto currency residing in Thailand perhaps avoiding being called-up to fight in the war with Russia. Enter the Armenian gangsters. All this leads me to urge readers to see the American 2024 movie currently screening in Thailand called, 'Anora.' It's got "everything" to keep you intensely entertained from beginning to end, including Russian billionaires and Armenian thugs. And girls!

My Immigration Lawyer is emphatic that 1. Relevant changes in this regard to the Tax Code require a law to be passed by parliament and it doesn't appear on "the to do list." 2. The current conversation DOES NOT apply to expat retirees on Non-Res Type-O Annual Renewal Visas. Not once have these fear-mongering articles in ASEAN NOW specified this. Without the facts relating specifically to expat retirees and without the act of parliament, this is Fake News.

Given the Manager's 'tone and manner' in his response, it is reasonable to suspect that he was already teetering on the cusp of dismissal. It is reasonable to suspect that this was "the last straw." None of us knows the history of encounters between the Manager and other former clients and hotel owner.

Crosswalks in Thailand are used for target practice by Thai drivers. Stopping appears "optional." Foreigners on home soil are used to vehicles stopping when pedestrians approach a crosswalk. Failure to do so, in New Jersey, for example, may subject the driver to $200 fine plus court costs. Violations in Australia and Europe can be more severe. Striking a person with a vehicle on a crosswalk could mean jail time.

- Asian and other currencies, like the Australian dollar, are strengthening against the dollar across the board as market watchers see a potential rate cut by the U.S. Federal Reserve paving the way for Asian central banks to do the same. A rising tide lifts all boats. It's not confined to the Thai baht.

The New York Times reported in February 2021 that: "Since 1933, the economy has grown at an annual average rate of 4.6 percent under Democratic presidents and 2.4 percent under Republicans...The average income of Americans would be more than double its current level if the economy had somehow grown at the Democratic rate for all of the past nine decades.

Thousands of New Zealanders are pouring into Australia for many of the same reasons. They’re in for a big surprise. Out of the frying pan into the 🔥 fire. 😮

Double, double, toil and trouble: fire burn and cauldron bubble. By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes. With the sound of gong, pollution gone!

High end tourism is booming globally. The world’s travelling population is very much “on the move.” Thailand is simply too hard and too expensive to get to and from with a limited number of seats at scalper’s prices. TG too is wallowing in incompetence and is only flying the long haul, more profitable, international routes. Short haul routes would fill hotels and resorts fast.

CHUBB THAILAND Travel Insurance online is an excellent option. Just type it into Google and away you go. Easy.

Chang is Carlsberg by a different name. Delicious. In their former joint venture, Carlsberg took the venture while the partner took the joint. Goodbye Carlsberg, hello Chang. 🥹

“Context” is important. Thaksin is a convicted criminal and is meant to be in prison. It is “in the public interest” to know exactly why and on whose authority he is spending this extraordinary amount of time in hospital.

Charles Sobhraj has already befitted once from his crimes with a book published in 1979. It seems another publication of the years in incarceration should finance him through to his eventual death.