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If you had worked there longer. you could have claimed severance pay based on Thai Labour Law. As you do not qualify for that, it is better to sign the resignation letter and keep a copy so that new employers can see that you resigned and were not sacked.

12 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

The US found itself way, way behind the technological curve, when it comes to 5G. The technology in the US sucks. It is spectacularly inferior. So, they needed to try to slow down the world leader in 5G. This is all about politics and industrial might, and has nothing to do with espionage, would be my guess. That sounds like something the US would make up, and my guess is that most Americans are buying into the stink. 

I agree with you about some american technology being inferior, my company in the UK had to deisgn and build all the electrical hardware and controls for some of the largest American Water Treatment companies because their electrical equipment was 50 years behind the EU and B.S. standards. I could not believe it when i saw their first rejected containerised plant which had knife  switches!

Bozo's new wife wants to keep Boris in check.

Been in the water and waste treatment business for 50 years. Worked hands on with sewage plants let alone swimming pools. The only problem I have had working on 1,000s of palnts including swimming pools is Pseudomonas Aeruginosa which causes swimmer's ear (an ear infection). Had it twice in Thailand, so now I wear ear plugs, and no problem. There is no problem with swimming pools and COVID-19, only air borne transmission.

I remember visiting the Survivor supposedly, remote Island of Pulau Tiga, Sabah, Malaysia (Borneo), shown in the first series. I was amazed to see that if you walked through the trees from the Survivor Tribal House you came to a holiday resort with chalets. I can't believe that these people have a problem. Looks like another con like the Survivor TV series.

1 hour ago, phkauf said:

Huawei is a very convenient pressure point for the US to use to press China. It is one of the most prestigious Chinese companies (basically the Chinese Apple), but they have blatantly stolen and copied from Apple and other Western companies. While Huawei is so-called private and ownership details are murky, it's generally accepted that the government and government officials (Xi and friends) have a significant stake in the company. This is one way for Trump to get Xi's attention without being completely in his face about it. Every time the US puts some pressure on Huawei the Chinese scream like a dentist poking a raw nerve - it's quite obvious what's going on here.

Trump has re-written the playbook for dealing with China from the previous three administrations which hoped bringing China into the WTO would reform their behavior - didn't work at all. Business interests were too afraid to confront China when they stole technology, ignored trademarks and blatantly copied products. The legal system in China is useless and the threat of lost business (and imprisonment) are all too real for companies to complain. I think many US and Western business are secretly rooting for this new approach and Trump is proven correct every single day as China continues to abuse its power (see Australia recently).

 

 

The United States industrial revolution was also founded on copying and stealing mainly British and European inventions that were also subject to Patent and/or copyright. Now the U.S. are complaining about China. The latest is the N95 facemask which was copied from the facemack invented by the Chinese Manchurian Army. U.S. companies have copied inventions of my own and other European Companies and even managed to get U.S. Patents on the copied products.

The U.S. intelligence Agencies are frightened that if the U.K., the Europeans and Asean Countries are using HuaWei equipment and 5G, they will no longer be able to hack confidential messages and phone calls with the UK and European Prime Ministers as they have been caught doing in the past!

In the begining it was Lotus owned by CP which got into financial difficulties in the 1997 financial crisis and CP sold most, but not all of its' shares to Tesco. The new company was called Tesco-Lotus with CP retaining a small share. Later stores were mainly branded as Tesco and Tesco Express. All that has happened is that CP has bought back its shares from its' partner.

6 hours ago, Curt1591 said:

The United States has numerous food, cosmetic, herbicidal and other dangerous products that are banned in the EU and many other countries. For instance, chlorinated chicken, asbestos in baby powder (Johnson & Johnson). Monsanto: Agent Orange, Dioxin, Polychlorinated bibhenyls(PCBs), Alachor, Roundup, Penncap-M and Dicamba. Across a span of cosmetics, including makeup, toothpaste and shampoo, to items ranging from household cleaners to fruit juice to cheese, hundreds of potentially harmful ingredients banned in the EU are legally allowed in the US.

Good decision by Anutin not to bow down to Trump over his threat to end the Generalised System of Preferences for Thai Seafood if Thailand did not Kow Tow (bow down) to President Trump and accept these harmful chemicals already banned in 20 Countries. The U.K. is currently being blackmailed in to accepting chlorine washed chickens and other banned chemicals used in U.S. food processing.