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But guv, it was an accident. Alright son, case dismissed.

The loan sharks are no doubt well connected to the local mafia who probably take a cut. So of course Dr Death says he will do nothing against them, but will negotiate! Yet they are criminals, and what they're doing IS ILLEGAL! GEDDIT? Cancel the stupid 500 billion THB steal - what's the point when you have a 50,000 THB @ 10% pm illegal loan, and in stead sort out people's debts. Cancel any illegal loans, obviously, force them to repay all payments to date, and bang up the shark in his shark cage for all to jeer and throw rotten tomatoes at. Public shaming. What Thais fear more than anything. And guarantee immunity from defamation. Proper crack down!

I met a Russian lady here in Pattaya, married with 3 kids. It costs them 1.5m pa to educate their kids here. ASEAN Now gives a very warped idea of expats. But I certainly agree that renting a house here for 70k pm for a single man seems surplus to requirements. A decent condo might cost half that. And what would a live-in girl cost? Or a regular girl friend?

No mention of the number of organizations surveyed. 4,009 decision makers across SE Asia? What rubbish. All their %s are meaningless. It could be 5 or 10 organizarions. And wasn't it Cloudflare getting hacked in the US that caused ASEAN Now's last big down time?

I haven't been for a while as I moved out of the area. It was still there a few months ago when I last visited.

Just to question a government policy is cause enough for a charge of destroying a reputation. Since childhood, Thais are brought up to believe you never ever question your elders. It causes disharmony and likely will result in civil war, famine, floods and complete collapse of Thailand's "democracy". Unless of course you're a paid lackey attacking the opposition.

Still worth a try. Doesn't have to follow through on it. Surely the same applies to a Thai quack?

Scary. Always live on the ground floor.

Get off the internet! Go to a spa, sauna, massage, whatever. Lie on a beach. Look at the girls/boys. Maybe even chat to a few. Go for a coffee. Chat to your neighbour. That's it. I've used up my ¢2.

Yes, I used to but got vertigo! They're really steep. But great exercise. Can go up or down those ones then up or down the ones that go past the view point and come out further down the Bali Hai harbour road. Love it round there. Always new things to see. And Royal Cliff! I can but dream!

The thing is with Chinese medicine, in my experience, every patient is treated differently. The doctor examined my daughter's arms where it was worst affected. Paused and then continued her diagnosis. She wrote down the prescription, different for every case I imagine, and said no seafood, no beef, and a few other things. We went upstairs with the prescription, and the assistant collected an array of dried plants, bark, leaves, mushrooms and so on. Made up 7 packets, one per day. I had to boil the contents of each packet daily. It produced a fantastically bitter, black liquor. My daughter absolutely refused to drink it and I had to become an abusive parent for 10 minutes every day forcing it down her throat. But, it worked, and I consider, and I think she would agree now she's in her 30s, it was worth it. Tough love. The western steroid creams do not work in my experience .The itching is intolerable and the scratching produces bleeding and more broken skin. It's heart breaking for a parent. But, YMMV as ever. Best of luck. The doctor was Dr Luo in Soho. She wore down the BMA's resistance to her practice and she eventually became a consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. World renowned children's hospital.

Sue's coffee in Treetown used to be good. Could sit upstairs in the tree tops.

Well worth parking and walking up there, maybe down by Bali Hai harbour. Lovely surrounds and views, and a rather cranky outdoor gym.

Shouldn't be anywhere near that amount IMHO. Maybe 750. One ac which you only use occasionally? No bitcoin mining, no heavy appliances? As suggested, try turning everything off and check the meter wheels. My best advice, YMMV.

Maneerat did mine 6 weeks prior to renewal date. But if you ask around, you never know.

My daughter was treated in London. You'll have to do your own research. Maybe start in China town. Yaowarat. Or try googling it. You should find recommendations and patient testimonies.

Try Chinese medicine practitioner. My daughter's eczema was cleared up in weeks after all the usual western rubbish failed over and over again.

I recently got POA from my Thai daughter who lives in the UK to buy a condo unit as the foreign quota was full. The guy doing the conveyancing was an English speaking smart Thai with an office in Jomtien, but not an attorney. He charged me 6,000 THB all in. Once I got the signed documents back from her, which he had previously prepared, with accompanying Thai ID photocopy, I just sat downstairs in the land office in Pattaya whilst he and the seller went upstairs. 30 minutes later he handed me the chanote with my daughter's name on it, all lip loy, receipts, payments and everything. Can pm you his details if you wish.

Makro

Yes. I got it at the same time as an overseas deposit was due. Just answered the questions and was ok.

And you'd have needed to have subtracted your age from your year of birth, not added it. So if you were 70 in 2023 BC your birth year would have been 2093 BC.

You mean that ad I saw on Facebook offering fake id cards was fake? Is nothing sacred?

Like so many of PK's pronouncements, promises and press releases, they all turn out to be meaningless PR. Headline grabbing, but useless hotair. Thaweesin's trademark. BTW, Narasak's workplace in Nakhon Ratchasima was bombed? By whom?

Gentlemen, I give you Section 29 of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act BE 2551 (2008). Paragraph 2 should be framed and put on display in every bar in Thailand. This is the Section referred to by Cholnan. He quotes Section 40, but that Section simply refers back to this Section. Section 29. No person shall sell any alcoholic beverage to the following persons: (1) a person under twenty years of age; (2) a person who has lost consciousness due to being drunk So, as long as you're still conscious, bottoms up and here's lookin at you kid. What'll it be? https://www.google.com/search?q=section+40+of+the+alcohol+control+act+thailand&oq=section+40+of+the+alcohol+control+act+thailand&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigAdIBCTIxNTAwajBqN6gCALACAA&client=ms-android-xiaomi-rvo3&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

Have you never been told you've had enough? And if you haven't, they have!