bradiston

Disagree totally. Thai is simplicity itself. Learn the alphabet (there's only one) using the kindergarten chart, which any Thai of any age will probably be able to rattle off. Memorize the consonant classes (they're colour coded on the chart). Learn the tones and tone rules - surprisingly simple. The syntax and grammar are easy. No verb conjugations, no gender forms, no declensions, no plurals, phonetic pronunciation, bearing in mind tones. English: 2 alphabets. Innumerable tenses. Unbelievably weird spelling, frequently non phonetic. Plurals, apostrophes, genders (not as bad as EU languages), impossibly inconsistent pronunciation. The hardest thing is writing. But reading and speaking Thai is really not that hard.

Hmmm. Slightly skewed stats. China has had 13 winners since 1957. India, 11 in all, including Rudyard Kipling! Most laureates listed belong to countries who were in from the start, ie 1901. The PRC only came into being in 1949. It's obvious looking at China's achievements in the last 50 years they have, and have had, amongst the best scientists/engineers in the world. India has had a whole group of astounding mathematicians who never got recognised, but then there's no Nobel prize for mathematics. Just for instance. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_country#

The Kodak print shop on Soi Buakhao near the corner of Soi Lengkee will make you a credit card sized laminated copy of your passport details page and your visa page on the reverse, for 150 THB.

If it's percentage

it's immaterial

There is no end of kids

Aren't there

They did. But they didn't take Clark with them! It was buried in volcanic ash. The ash is still evident to this day in the area. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_eruption_of_Mount_Pinatubo

Nonsense

So why don't they take on just Russia even, in Ukraine? With all their NATO allies. BTW USSR died the death in 1991.

Yes, it's vast, and totally underused as a civilian airport, just like U-Tapao. Both B-52 launch pads. You used to be able to fly there from Bangkok, but now it's just Korean and Japanese flights I think, and maybe Singapore. If it had a high speed rail link to Manila, it would have alleviated a lot of Nino Aquino congestion. Like U-Tapao.

They have one, at Clark, in Pampanga. Never been to Angeles City? Their very own red light district.

No, and very condescending too. But I don't have the energy to carry on this discussion. There's enough debatable info in the original article to last at least a week of arguing to and fro. BS baffles brains, as I'm sure you've heard. Let's save ourselves the trouble.

Just a note: Some private hospitals here are definitely charging top $. 17,500 THB for my annual checkup at BPH. But down the road at Bangkok Jomtien Hospital, 5,100 THB, plus 1,200 THB or so for a couple of extras I requested. Almost identical sets of tests, sent up the road to BPH for analysis. Had the results back same day. Very nice doctor gave me sensible advice, never tried to sell me a single pill/treatment, just exercise and diet. I'm 72 with Afib.

If, if, if. Nothing would have got done. They'd still be arguing over it right now. Passed from ministry to ministry, to the RTP, to the doctors, to the growers, to whoever, and back again. What he did was to pull off a spectacular coup, and got weed pretty much available, growable and sellable. Ok, he screwed up big time in the early days of COVID, but there were many powerful factions involved. I think this makes up for all that.

Hmmm. Seems Mr Bigstar has exploded.

Read the full article. "She cited a report that sees 24 SET-listed private hospital service providers enjoying revenue and profit growth in the first quarter of 2022 when compared to the same period of the previous year. According to her, the hospitals’ total revenues increased 48.9% year-over-year (YoY) to over 125 billion baht in the first quarter of 2022 and their net profits grew by 173.8% YoY to over 24 billion baht. The growth was mainly attributed torevenues from Thai patients who sought medical treatment for Covid-19 infections." Last sentence. You done? And what's wrong with the premise that people might come here as cannabis is legal for medicinal purposes, amongst others?

Is this article sponsored? Seems the rise is attributable to Thais seeking COVID treatment. And soon medical tourism will no doubt include ganja lovers from all over the world. Yes! Ganja saves the day!

What's with the pregnant women ban? Are they not capable of deciding for themselves to puff or not to puff? Or breast feeding? How will the vendors check that out? Heads in the clouds, as per. And what man has EVER experienced the pain of child birth? Why are they being allowed to rule on this?

Here's the OP: "Pattaya — A foreign man allegedly brutally beat his young, 20-year-old Thai girlfriend while drunk early Tuesday morning, November 22nd, claiming police “got his back”. The incident took place at a residence in the Eakmongkol 8 Village in Banglamung’s Nongprue subdistrict, Chonburi. Sawang Boriboon rescuers received a call from an unidentified Good Samaritan to help a domestic violence victim and rushed to the scene at 4:30 AM. The victim, Ms. J (name withheld to protect her privacy), 20, was found lying on the ground crying in pain on the front porch of her house. Rescuers administered first aid to the bruises around her body and rushed her to a hospital. Sawang Boriboon rescuers encountered an unidentified Caucasian male foreigner believed to be in his thirties in an intoxicated state at the house. The man was suspected to have beaten the young woman. He was reportedly aggressive as he kept shouting, broke his own property, and proclaimed nonchalantly in English that he was backed up by police, according to rescuers." So how do we get from that account of an out of control man, to your experiences at the hands of an out of control woman? Moral: Women lose control. Men lose control.

I don't see any references to "Thai-Sino High-Speed Train Project". Your graphic is labelled "Thailand HSR plans 2022". The op referenced China-Laos-Thailand. Pointless intervention. It's not happening in Thailand.

They all seem to!

Save you waiting, I can give it to you now, gratis. It ain't gonna happen without China.

Easy. Give the bank book to the actress. Job done.

You mean it isn't?