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It's OK. In another post, the Chinese are taking up the slack. Apparently a late surge in numbers, so all is well. https://aseannow.com/topic/1375293-thailand-sees-surging-tourist-arrivals-amidst-2025-recovery/#comment-20139046

I thought that all UK banknotes are now new polymer notes with all the latest anti-counterfeit protections printed into them, including holographic images. I wonder how the counterfeiters are managing to overcome them. What with showing ID and the tools the exchanges have nowadays such as CCTV, UV lights and special pens to verify notes, it's a brave man who tries converting fake notes in them nowadays.

You are talking about hard faced women who could likely talk an ATM into spitting out money. It was likely a slow night or there was an ulterior motive. I think you need to do more extensive testing.

Might be safer to put it in a boxing glove.

Is there much appetite to visit the US at the moment? Seems a funny time to start a route to and from Asia.

That's why they are all covering their faces. They know a lot of what they are doing is illegal. Exposed faces enables identification. Leaves them open to both legal, and illegal comeback.

They do seem to flip and flop with their numbers and outlook. Next week: Thailand the hub of world tourism.

i thought hotels and restaurants were always allowed to serve alcohol on Thai holidays, just not bars, pubs etc.. Shows how much I know, BTW what Thai holiday is it today? I looked up a list and it didn't show today. Only one next week 13th for the old King.

And this is the only reason why they are saying they will do it. Both they and Labour were never interested before. In fact labour went in totally the opposite direction and allowed virtual unlimited immigration. Now it's looking like they will all be out of power for a while, they start making promises again. What with Starmer is trying to push his ID scheme. What is the UK coming to? Using the excuse of controlling illegal immigration by preventing illegals working. But it will also be for children. The State will have eyes on everything you do from birth to death. Tony Blair has wanted this for years. That alone is a dire warning. I hope that for doing this alone, Labour are pushed into the political wilderness and never elected again.

Looks like a tree snake. Imagine if it had dropped down in front of his vision while driving. That would likely have really panicked him.

400 times seems a very specific figure.

i suppose it depends on which degree one has. AI might be able to design better chips and circuits, and using robotics even build them, but it wil be a long time before they will be able to do the actual installation of systems. I doubt people will have too much confidence in autonomous robots carrying out surgery on them. A medical or dental degree will likely be OK. Doctors can use AI to help diagnose, and even use robotic arms operated by them to carry out some surgeries, But letting a fully autonomous robot free in my mouth while sedated? No thank you.

i must admit that I haven't used Shopee for a while. The biggest drawback for me was the lack of a decent English version of the website. i found it difficult to set up payment by bank, so always ended up printing QR codes to pay at 7-11. Lazada is a much smoother experience via mobile banking But I have had a lot of unsatisfactory purchases on Lazada lately. Often sending the wrong items. Last one was yesterday. I ordered a 15L bin and received an 8 litre one, for the second time. Also many sellers are either drop shippers, or seem to be based in China, so orders can take over two weeks to arrive from there.. It might be time to give Shopee another go. Or at least compare items between there and Lazada before buying.

You have decided to marry a bargirl. So what do you tell mum? Mum. Please don't leave her alone with dad. 😀

and her sister Betty Swallocks.

Sounds good until it's a forced sterilisation or euthanasia shot.

I'm not sure, perhaps others can correct me if wrong, but I thought that for foreigners to have a credit card here, they need to keep sufficient funds in an account to cover the card limit.

Only a one dollar coin? Trump's ego won't like that. Likely only something like a special 1000 dollar 'big beautiful' gold coin with his image on both sides, so you can always see him would be good enough.

Looking at some of the presidents around the world, the alternative isn't much better.

Pretty sure I did the face thing a few months ago at SCB when I updated my passport details, because I remember the woman using an iPad to do it. But I still got the message last week to go in and do it again.

They sell e-bikes on Aliexpress and Lazada.

He treated everyone in the club to a drink. Ten beers and a whole lot of straws. 😀

Trump keeps telling everyone it's the 'hottest' country. Must be due to climate change.

Trump Wants US Cities as Military Training Grounds Weren't Iraq and Afghanistan enough?

China has massive solar farms, wind, cheap Russian oil, and the Three Gorges Dam to provide cheap energy for both their industries and AI Data Centres. So it can be done.