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No, neither, as she was 19 at the time, if I recall. I had taken a very short lease, only 3 years, on the land, to avoid transfer taxes, and the seller and I agreed a clause whereby he would sell to my daughter at a later date. But a word of caution. A clause such as this could well be struck down in a Thai court of law. The argument being, the agreement forms part of a lease, not a sale agreement.

I "own" a house standing on my Thai daughter's land. She has the chanote to the land, I have my name on the building permit. It seems the latter is in reality meaningless in terms of ownership, although it's not been tested, by for instance my trying to sell the house. I have a usufruct agreement with her, entered on the chanote. The local IO refuse to accept the house as my address, claiming my daughter is the owner. Welcome to the real world.

This is what I find annoying about this post. Here we have 3 pages of replies, and the OP has kept total stumm over his treatment, his current condition, and how come it's been going on for 12 months. We don't know where he was treated, how much it cost or what it was even. So the whole thread turns into a scrap about the NHS, NI contributions, GPs etc etc. Is he or are we, any the wiser?

The only post in this thread worth reading.

Was this in Thailand? If here, was it expensive? My point being, if your treatment was carried out here, at affordable rates, and was (eventually) successful, why fly back to the UK? Except he's already had 18 months' treatment apparently.

According to CDC, treatment for TB doesn't seem to require 12 months. https://www.cdc.gov/tb/topic/treatment/tbdisease.htm

Zzzzzzzzzzz ????????????

There's a warning that pops up with Line if you download it try and login from a new phone. Basically, it tells you to back up your old device first. All Line chats get deleted when you set up a new device.

The beaches were busy last night, and early hours. Maybe police turning a blind eye.

Looks just like another Ferrari afficionado that went missing some years ago. Hope it's not all going to be déjà vu.

Quite obviously self defence. The geezer attacked him with a plastic bag which inadvertently got wrapped around his head in the ensuing struggle. They were trying to pull his head out when the geezer conked.

Why don't you just post the links, if you have any?

See here for details of investment in BioNTech. Fosun was the first. After, Pfizer. Then the European Investment Bank. Then the German government. No one country can claim bragging rights on the "Pfizer" vaccine. It's only referred to as that because of the global reach of the brand. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer–BioNTech_COVID-19_vaccinePfizer "CEO Albert Bourla said he decided against taking funding from the US government's Operation Warp Speed for the development of the vaccine "because I wanted to liberate our scientists [from] any bureaucracy that comes with having to give reports and agree how we are going to spend the money in parallel or together, etc." Pfizer did enter into an agreement with the US for the eventual distribution of the vaccine, as with other countries.[158]"

Umm, in the English language, inferior is a comparison to something superior. Except on social media, where it just means Chinese. And of course you can compare them. How else do you arrive at the conclusion it's inferior? I've had 2 Sinovac and an astra booster. I'm confident I'm as well vaccinated as anyone. Go and get your 3rd Pfizer or your 3rd Moderna. You'll be needing them after 6 months. Yes, you're probably right about the anti vax brigade in Europe and the US. Just shows how stupid the dirty foreigners are, right? Got access to any Vax they want but no, it's all part of some vast conspiracy. It's all about the money the world over.

Whose efforts?

What's your point? Impossible to compare vaccines? But that was the basis of the OP. Sinovac is vastly inferior. That's a comparison. And he goes on to assign blame for all of Thailand's woes to that one decision. Rates are sky rocketing in Europe and the US. They have never used Sinovac. What does that tell you? And, they own the production facilities AND the patents on the big 4. Not hard to supply themselves, yet what's the result? A massive FAIL! 4th wave. And it was AstraZaneca that awarded the contract to SBS, not the Thai government. The OP tied all those elements, suicide, loss of jobs etc etc, into the decision of the Thai government to use Sinovac. I simply pointed out the result was the same, if not far worse, in countries using anything but Sinovac. Your 3rd point. Yes, I've read the article in the BP regarding CP's alleged connections with the Sinovac vaccine, if that's what you're referring to. I can't put a link here for BP content, but it's easily googled, under "Sinovac shareholders CP".

1. What has this got to do with my post? I'm not a fan of these guys, and I'm not making those claims on their behalf. In your original post, which is the one I was responding to, you said, inter alia: "Choosing Sinovac as the primary vaccine was a brain dead choice and has made Thailand alot more vulnerable than it needed to be. It has no doubt cost millions of jobs, raised the suicide rate, increased homelessness, and contributed to bringing unhappiness to the people." I think this claim is unjustifiable, and I said so in my reply. On the same basis, I could claim choosing AstraZaneca or Pfizer has had exactly the same effect in the UK, the USA, or Germany. Millions of jobs lost, serious mental illness, impoverishment, homelessness, and a huge amount of unhappiness in every country in the world. There is no miracle cure. 2. Perhaps you forget the particular circumstances of the decision surrounding the government's choice of Sinovac, that's if they had a choice. SBS? Does that ring a bell? Availability? Reliable supply? Volumes? It was an emergency. Sinovac was available in quantity, and with a reliable supply. Every country is now looking at a minimum 3rd jab program, for whatever vaccine was available to them.

Could you point to what specifically you consider to be "utter tripe"?

Never tried them but I was in Lasanya on Sukhumvit, before lotussss on the left. They had a freezer half full of Italian sausages (not salami), and a lot more besides.

Aren't you forgetting the X factor of SBS? And what a train wreck that turned into. Much of the Thai government's procurement policy was based around the assumption that Thailand would somehow be self sufficient, with 10 million doses a month. Of course, it all went embarrassingly wrong, and at that point, Anutin should have been fired. But no. They laid into Thanathorn instead for asking for details of the contract, threatening him with 112 etc etc. That's what is totally unforgivable. Not the Sinovac saga.

You mean subsequent shafting of foreign visitors!

Or the US gifting Pfizer and Moderna, or Australia, Japan and Korea gifting AstraZaneca. And Germany and Belgium if memory serves. ????

I think the UK will allow from 4am 22nd November. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/countries-with-approved-covid-19-vaccination-programmes-and-proof-of-vaccination

Thank god somebody takes the trouble to check their facts before posting. So much rubbish on this forum with unsubstantiated claims, wild allegations and just general bs. Every day, same old same old.

1. The link you post is to an article published over 6 months ago. 2. Without Sinovac Thailand wouldn't have had a vaccination program. It has served its purpose well. A booster is easily administered. Back in May it was pretty much all that was available. Side effects are minimal. 3. Your claims it has destroyed the Thai economy, caused a rise in suicides etc etc are completely outrageous. This is just muck spreading. Where's the link between Sinovac and any of the disastrous outcomes you allege? 4. Point to a country that hasn't suffered badly, no matter what vaccine they used. The UK? The US? Germany? Israel? None of these even recognised Sinovac until recently, and then only a couple, let alone use it. 5. It's been a seriously steep learning curve for EVERYBODY. Scientists, politicians, general populace, business owners, multicorps etc etc.