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The pension payments might not be taxable, but they're already taxing the interest earned on the accounts it is deposited in even if the interest earned is below the tax threshold.

This is a long-running story and as is typical of the Reuters Foundation incredibly long winded. The residents of Boeng Tumpun lake were offered up to four times as much land as the land they are currently squatting on. They refused and wanted more and cash. After many years of negotiating the government presented a final offer which they again rejected.

Someone urgently waiting for the cannabis law to be passed and Grab-a-joint to start operation.

AUD6 would be about Bt125

4 hours ago, Wiggy said:

It seems only Thais are affected by this as there's no need to warn other nationalities ????

Actually you are correct in your sarcasm. Foreigners are unable to register for domestic eWallets currently. Eg. Rabbit, 7-Eleven, Lazada, True, etc.

You'll need to make a currency declaration departing Australia and arriving in Thailand (or any other country you pass through) if bringing cash. Failure to declare risks total loss and criminal prosecution if caught. Be aware, they may insist on counting it. There's much better ways to send money from Australia without the ridiculous bank fees and at much better than bank rates.
You might also have trouble changing and attempting to deposit such an amount in cash.

want good quality,  affordable medical treatment go to India.  I'm there now. Awesome doctors who can all speak English, have done residencies  and specialized training in England hospitals and facilities and prices about 1/3 of Thailand. MRI $55.65 CT scan $55.65, angioplasty and stents (US product) starting at $3,000 - 6 for $8,000, private room $100 per night. Hundreds of beating heart valve replacements done every week -- no open ches. I don't even consider Thai hospitals/  doctors any more, especially that rip-off palace Bumrungrad. My friend had 2 coronary stents at Bumrungrad  -- $16,500! Ouch!
And only 3 hours flying time from Bangkok.

At least some trees will soon be saved.
 

Will rely on the beat-up headlines and mailing list from TV to generate any traffic when it goes online only.

I get stuff shipped to a US drop shipping address and they send it EMS. Never, ever DHL. Check out planet express

14 hours ago, donnacha said:

My sympathies on that situation, it must have been incredibly upsetting for you and your wife.

You are, however, missing what I'm saying about the couple in this particular story. I am not suggesting they plead their case with the authorities - which might be part of what they are trying to do in drumming up this publicity - because, I agree with you, in this in this situation the only solution is to deposit $25K in a bank and let it sit there until their mother dies.

Given their backstory, $25K should not be a problem.

They say that they are American. They are in their 50's. They say they ran a Web design company which was so successful that they managed to sell it - you have to attain a certain size for it to be worth anyone's while to buy your company.

Now, for some reason, they are no longer able to use their valuable tech and business skills to drum up a relatively small amount of money. Even a coder without a history of business success would be able to earn that amount of money in about a month of working hard on freelance projects. There are two of them, it should be even easier.

Neither are they able to turn to family, friends, business colleagues, people they have helped in the past, members of their church or other groups they have been involved in.

Sadly for their mother, the reality is probably that the claimed business success never happened and they long ago burned all their bridges with friends and family.

 

I don't know what it is you've been smoking, but I'd like the name of your dealer. Even by Thaivisa standards your first two replies to this topic are full of nothing but fancy speculation based on nothing except the excrement passing through your cranial cavity. Seriously, some of the most brainless stuff I've read here in the last 10 years.

23 minutes ago, berrec said:

Ok I have incurred an overnight BKK private hospital bill for 20,000 for food poisoning I acquired from a well known American restaurant chain in Terminal 21 Bangkok. 

 

I used all my previous medications that normally kills this sort of issue off but after 4 days of suffering I went to a recommended private hospital. 

 

Two bowel tests and one drip bag of saline and 7 packets of tablets on discharge......bugger

 

My question is re public hospitals in BKK, any members recommendations on good public hospitals based on personal experience that provide what one could consider appropriate quality services for reasonable charges.  

 

Thanks in advance

None. I go to Chennai in India. Half the price of Thailand. Uk-trained doctors, latest equipment, JCI accredited. I've had two procedures there and very happy. Especially seeing as going there stopped getting an open cut as was diagnosed as being needed here.

 

5 hours ago, AtoZ said:

Let's bet what the final number will be for 2019

 

I'll start:

GDP growth under 2%

Export growth negative

GDP 2.8-3.2%
Exports 1.2%

On 5/18/2019 at 3:28 PM, PerkinsCuthbert said:

5000, in Buriram alone? Jeez, there's going to be an awful lot of dopeheads disappointed they don't feel high after taking their medicine.

Yep, because none of them would be cooking with it and only brilliant foreigners such as you know about the drops.  It's not like it's been used here for a few hundred years or anything by the "dopeheads" (sic).

AFAIK the first batch of doctors to be trained on cannabis prescription haven't started their course yet. I thinkit was announced last week.

17 hours ago, daboyz1 said:

What he probably doesn't realize is he's racking up overstay fines while being locked up.

Rubbish. He's already been fined for the overstay. Every day he is locked up reduces the amount outstanding on the fine.

4 hours ago, whaleboneman said:

Perhaps I could offer you one of my green chocolate chip cookies. One would certainly change your mind.

Is that delivered or do I need to come and collect it? Available in take-home packs?

What should we drink with such a delicate rarity? My shout ????

Could be a vascular problem. Are you/ were you a smoker?

Do you have/ have you been tested for diabetes?
 

A doppler test will be indicative of the different pressures in your different arteries and is fairly cheap. If treatment is required PM me and I'll hook you up with a good hospital in Chennai.

When in pain get on a plane.  I've just done a second trip  to India for some more procedures and couldn't be happier. Affordable, first class diagnosis and treatment. Ultra modern equipment.  Outstanding service. Bit hard to  find some meat though ???? 

Don't feed the troll

1 hour ago, connda said:

I stand corrected.

Don't be too corrected. That story was 2010.

4 hours ago, MaxYakov said:

Yeah, right! Did they not want to say: "untrained pilot proof"? I have this gut feeling that both crashes were because the pilots did not quickly (or have time) to follow the "runaway stabilizer" actions, but instead tried to take action with the stabilizer trim motor still powered-up rather than going to manual stabilizer trimming quickly enough (or at all). If they had gone to manual operation of the trim wheels, is it possible that they rotated the wheels in the wrong direction, potentially exacerbating the situation? What, if anything, prevents this? How much experience do pilots get in manually trimming the stabilizer (i.e. doing so without using the electric jackscrew motor)?

 

 

"Citing two people involved in the testing, the NYT said that: ‘Under conditions similar to the Lion Air flight, three engagements over just 40 seconds, including pauses, would send the plane into an unrecoverable dive’."

"While the few pilots who have so far tried the simulation have all managed to recover the flight, they had all been told about the MCAS function and the method for disabling it prior to attempting the simulation."

https://aecnewstoday.com/2019/garuda-pulls-737-max-order-as-cockpit-recording-reveals-lion-air-pilots-battle/




 

Nothing nusual here. Neighbouring countries have the same rules for Asean citizens entering, reentering, extending, and staying.