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Sure... But this one is strange as the whole back wings are black, yet the main wing is occupied. And I do not believr in coincidences... I doubt because of foreign quota, rather a regulatory or legal reason of some kind would explain. Just curious.

Okay... You remember if the price vs the main wing were off in value? Anyway something strange must be behind of the empty wings as for a developer hard to understand why not sell at market price. Also, wonder how they count or not count towards maintenance fees.

Sometimes wondering why the back wings are still empty - do you have any idea? Must be some regulatory/legal reason as otherwise does not make sense to keep empty for years. Effectively about half of the units in the building not in use, not sure if sold but no lights ever in side wings.

Talking about milk, some subejectively scientific observations: I've had the habit of only buying the Meiji milk until couple of weeks ago, purely out of curiosity, thought I would try if any difference between different brands and started to buy different can every time until can not find new ones. Bought a can of the red-labeled stuff, packed in cylindrical 2L can from BigC -> down to drain after taste. Too 'milky' odd taste to my mouth Then tried the Foremost rectangular can -> same result, too much of the odd taste. Next in line the Party Dairy from BigC (indeed 10 bath cheaper for some reason) -> taste identical to Meiji Then the black-capped stuff in similar shape can with Meiji -> again, no difference to Meiji in my mouth. Next Thai-Danmark in similar shape blue capped can as Meiji -> same taste with Meiji again. Still to test at least the Chockchai brand I only use milk for coffee - but drink A LOT of coffee. Surprised the two odd tasting brands actually make even coffee taste not good to my mouth.

You forgot the other export market Russia.

Follow goverment news and announcements, it's like April 1st every day!

Just to follow up on this one - did my extension the other day, and indeed the IO carefully checked my balance during past 12mo, and after checking said 'you need to be careful not to let the balance to go below the required levels'. Thus, at least in Pattaya immigration they indeed seem to be serious with this requirement.

Sure there are places for the less fortunate, however I doubt their numbers will make much of a dent to the broader statistics here, simply due to the Industry volumes.

Conference billboard on Pratamnak hillside... For once there is a conference placed in the right place in Pattaya. I would guess not many cities on the planet where percentage of inseminations out of total completed heterosexual intercourses is lower than here, thus a good reference case for the academics and other specialists in the field Participants esp from countries with high population growth most likely will try to familiarize themselves with the miraculous environment!

Used to be drunk farang and thai security guards fighting. Who could have imagined future where young somchais fighting with security guards to get into an Indian club after closing hours! Times indeed are changing

... Different type of surprise when lights on then...

I don't understand why he just not add his prices then as he has full right to do so. No need to involve government. Amazing to see even American businessmen to start thinking like thai politician if long enough in Thailand.

Early closing no need, can just drink warm beer and grope your companion in the dark of night. Higher risk for surprise in the room later though...

What is so special about owning land in Thailand? So many countries to choose to own piece land if that's your thing, why bother with it in Thailand. But yes, land ownership right for non nationals should be reciprocal between counties, just like relative ticket prices for national parks.

Interested to see pictures of those temples, clean beaches and nature of pattaya....? Plentyful here though nature is fairly rare.

For RGP at least in Pattaya best to keep closing time jusft before the business peaks hours start. That way police can extort more to keep the clubs open. If official closing is 4am, less gratuity needed.

I would guess would be big challenge as the threshold to get started is so high. Very difficult for any small brand to get much volume, especially as the big boys control big volume distribution. For anyone to be able to grow, would need free open market and a lot of time to grow business gradually.

Would be very interesting to know what was the cost to the dominant players to get the voting result right...

TRUE is throttling, even with VPN on especially on evenings, daytime I have not noticed. I also wondering if should change provider due to that, but have not done anything. Wonder if AIS or 3BB are better with that?

Can not disagree with his statement. Monitor for sure not to miss any revenue opportunities. And prosecute those who miss their payments.

Hilarious, that's all I can say. Can only wonder what they thinking and what they discussed in the decision making meeting as well as other preparatory meetings and reviews. Had someone been in position to record, would have a lot of subscribers in YouTube.

The whole concept of having separate tourist police sounds xenophobic...Wonder what the history of such is, created to spy and police dirty farang I guess.

In a country like Thailand (or most of developing Asian countries for that matter) average does not really tell much at all about real income levels - actually the 'average' part of population is likely very small, as very high incomes on top (for small % of population) and very low income on bottom (for large %) arithmetically just averages out somewhere, probably to a number that does not tell much about income distribution at all. Average persons with that measure are few and far in between. Top that off with substantial percentage of informal income in both ends, let it be corruption income (which is substantial indeed, many times official salary income for quite a few people), prostitution income (which also is substantial for many) etc which is likely not included in official statistics. Still many official positions that people fight to get to in some way or another (nepotism often the method) where salary is meaning less - actually people might pay big lumpsum to someone higher up to get the small salary job as the corruption income opportunity that comes with the job is substantial. This was very common also in China when lived there.

...maybe about time to check amulets of everyone in the household, must have something to do with them...

Shopee app in my phone seems to work OK, as does we www site on computer. Have not ordered anything since May though, but all seems to work like before.