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So you're saying that I should be able to claim back, in my case 6 years of contributions as well as carrying on paying monthly for my healthcare under section 39? they didn't tell me that lol

I found out the section 39 info from here, ThaiVisa, then got on to the local SSO at the time while I was still Teaching. I went around the office on the same week that I finished and applied for it. Mine was further complicated by my home province being different from where I was working. As far as I understand it, if you go to section 39, you don't claim your SS payments back, you continue them at the rate of 430 something bahts every month, which gives you free meds and hospitals if you've paid in for, 3 years, I think. Up to a pension if you've paid in for 15 years or so...

Having just gone through this process myself, I'd say that the SSO's are very unhelpful to foreigners trying to get on to section 39 SS, to the point where I wonder if it's actual policy to put us off getting on it. I seem to have finally got on it, but to get to the point of direct debits from my bank, took 5 months of me having to go to the office 50 kms away in person to pay the monthly payments before they got the DD together. I had to open a new acc with SCB because they'd only do DD's from certain banks (not Kasikorn), It took them 3 months to tell me this after I got quite angry about it in their office in the end. So you need to persevere, as I really don't think the various office staff like the idea of farangs being able to get it at all...

Dunno about Grab but I expect so, Kerry and Flash do...

About 50/50, So Cameroonians have told me...

Crocodile maybe? But surely someone would have noticed. Can't think of much else animalwise that would kill you in Koh Sok lake. Which leaves... another of those "unexplained" deaths which we're having so many of worldwide...

IMO the one thing that they've done good with is legalising weed. Probably their last, desperate attempt to get re-elected, an appeal to the masses lol

I don't think immigration will want to go chasing down visa agents when you consider what they get from them...

"and another one gone, another one gone, another one bites the dust" is how it goes, I think...

Unfortunately, what you've describe happens at virtually every state school in the country, The students being taught well comes a distant second to money making, and this is encouraged from the top down, as is cheating as far as I can see...

It's simple really, the other countries want their kids to learn English, Thailands Gov. doesn't want them to, an educated populace are far more likely to rise up, as they see how they're being treated by their rulers...

Ha, that was very good...

I thought Terry Pratchett solved this one years ago... "The world is a disc, sitting on the backs of four Elephants who stand on the back of great At'uin the mighty star turtle"...

People have been calling weed Ganja for hundreds of years in many parts of India and Asia in general...

Golden Cup balm is what I and all the Isaan Thais use as a cheap local alternative to Tiger balm, works just as well for all the same stuff...

You sit in the International detention Center in Bangkok until someone pays. If no one pays, you're in there for life...

I don't know what happens to the broke and homeless in Finland, hopefully he has some friends or family somewhere there. I'm sure that you wouldn't survive a night on the streets in a Finnish winter...

Exactly, all about control...

This is where the world banks, WEF etc. want to take it, which will complete the process of making wage slaves of the remaining population by 2030. Time to wake up to it folks...

Also do we want no more car boot sales or classified ads for 2nd hand goods? to name but two things that you need cash for, there are many others...

Which charity is that then? The Thong Lor Police benevolent fund maybe?

All Thai gov. workers have to wear their uniform on Mondays, Teachers, Tax officers etc. ALL of them, very bizarre to me as well...

A great trip and pics, well done...

Most of the UK calls em JCB's too...

No it doesn't...