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I would have said the same thing, fuel pump been opened out. But I have seen a lot of old vehicles belching black smoke, due to lack maintenance probably no money for servicing, ie worn injectors, blocked air cleaner, even pump timing out. As has been said if the test centers and police do they job that would help the problem.

You have just got to wait for them to ripen, nothing to do with verity, Holland or Kek-Dum ,the two most popular verity's, they are others , they will ripen quicker in the hot season, than during the rainy/cool season.

Try ppfence.co, they use to sell them. Or a new company I found a few weeks ago, jsfence.co.th Looking at them it would not take a lot to make some, give a Thai welder a picture, I am certain he could make some.

Thy do they are two steel mills near me one in Lopburi province the other in Singburi province, and they are others. around the country Our Lopburi mill uses old scrap steel, to make new steel using ark fusion, not coal/coke powered furnaces. Have noticed lately that our plant is now making more channel iron steel, when then they first opened 1997, thay only make steel wire, and have done up to the past 2-3 eras, as the OP said it is China making cheap steel.

They back in 1997, they had no choice but to go cap-in -hand to the World Bank and the IMF, that was due to 2 Thai PM's who thought they could just spend all the money, then it economy was growing at 7% plus a year. Now, this new guy thinks he can just spend, the 500 billon D-Wallet, plus other spending, as said in 97 the economy was growing well, now with a forecast of 1.8% GDP growth, a slow action train crash in the making.

Are they, you have a drive around and see all the rows empty lock ups, near me on a very main road must be 80% empty, some have been built 10 years now, a few get rented out for a business, but within a year or so, they give up, some near me are asking 2 million baht plus for a selling price. No such thing as a free lunch, most are built on borrowed money someone has to pay it back. And they are still building more, not as many as before, it is not all roses around the porches in the province's.

Problem is most of the ships being attacked have nothing to do with Israel, most are sailing on flags of convince ie sip on Saturday attacked was flagged in the Marshall Islands, how do the Houthi's. actuary know where a ship is going. As has been said Iran is behind it all, it seems if the attack on the Houthi's is not having a lot of effete.

Last time Aus and India lost a test on the same day was back in 1977. Well played England, I said yesterday morning they will lose this test by 8 wickets ..............famous last words, well played Ollie Pope on his 196 and well played Tom Hartley with a match figure of 9-193, best on debut since John Lever, 10-70 also against India, in Dec 1976. But do not count your chickens yet, still another 4 tests to go.

Bang Saphans, also has a dairy co-op, where the cows will eat all the pineapples that cannot be sold, they do well on them, the under sized, miss shaped etc., and it is on the coast, last time I was they we had a very pleasant evening at a restaurant on the coast, food is now like the southern diet, hot and spicy with turmeric and cumin, made a change from my normal central Thai diet ,Pac-Grabow ,Pac- Prik- On.

Having been involved with Thai farming for a lot of years, and as Thailand is still a agriculture based economy, the cuts in farm production costs not easy farmers are still reliant on buying seed ,fertilizer ect on credit and paying it back when they sell they crops ,with interest of course which goes hand in hand with debt ,mainly with the BAAC the farmers bank ,government owned, they say that with compound interest it will take 40 years plus for all the agriculture debt to be paid off. Increased use of machinery that is happening now, but it would help if import tax was reduced of imported machinery, new and second hand that would help development. Water resources, with climate change and bad management, that will take some doing, land reform, the way Thai bureaucracy works that will not happen very quickly. That should keep his in-tray full for a while.

For tea try Barrys tea look at their web site, they are in Dublin, they do a very good postal service, the tea is not bad. That is about the only thing I miss from the UK. Back to Tesco's they own tea was not bad, but like all Thai supermarkets they stock control is not good they run out of something and that is it for a long time, looking for a Pesto sauce at Big C today..............run out.

Get your machinic to put a voltmeter on the battery with the engine running, it should show 12 volts plus, meaning that it is charging, should not be a dead cell, he should be able to check the battery, to see if it is working. It is an old bike check the wiring harness, almost sounds if they is a dead short in the system, bear wire touching something metal, then it moves away and power is restored?or something like that, corroded wiring, or the rapping around wiring going. Not an easy job with all that plastic on the bike, but it is in they somewhere.

Like other posters I have had no problem using a 5- year Thai license, done it twice now . One thing, I found a 60 GBP deduction to Eurocar on my bank statement last time ,the only thing I can think of that it was for speeding ,probable doing say 40 in a 30- limit zone? but at least they cannot put 3 points on my license. The other thing they used the most expensive insurance cover ,again not being a UK license.

Do it the Thai way, put your bike at the front of the house with ขาย wrote on it, sell in Thai, sign on it no need for the phone number, I see this all the time, friend of mine sold his pickup and motorbike like this, did not take long.

Talking to a friend of mine in the know he said next year quotas and tax on imported milk power will be lifted, making it cheaper for milk companies to use milk powder than whole milk, the Thai dairy industry being so inefficient, could lead to big problems, but he did say it could be a mix say 60-40, milk powder, whole milk, watch this space.

That is because it is made from imported, from Australia and NZ. milk powder.

sawiwal They are "real cattle "Red Brahman beef bulls, breeding originally come from the USA, they will probably be used by the locals in Vietnam to improve they local stock. Yes, Thailand did import a lot of dairy cattle 30-40 years ago some from Australia dairy, not beef breeds, and a lot from New Zealand, the cattle where Sahiwal x Frisian, idea was the Sahiwal are a tropical breed, cross them with a dairy breed will give you cattle with some resistance to the heat and a big problem tic fever, had a lot in my area known in Australia, as Australian Sahiwal locally as ASKB, Australian Sahiwal kicking Bar Stewards ,and could they kick. This is not new exporting cattle from Thailand to Vietnam,10 years ago a lot of Thai dairy heifers were exported to Vietnam, to increase the dairy herds in Vietnam.

Good point, mine is in a fixed deposit, trying to do something to make the money work, no ATM card, no internet access. Looks if will have go to probate, with what I have read, Thai solicitor costs are not cheap.

I left Thailand last October, and come back in November, and they never took my old TM6, for the first time, it is still in my passport ,1-year exertion is due up in April, I will as per past 10 years, photocopy it, see what IMO has to say.

As far as I know, they will be a lot of forms to fill out, first thing they will need will be the death certificate your passport,bank passbook, marriage certificate if you have one, that will make life a lot easier, and anything else .ie yellow registration book ID card, your wife /partner should be able to sort it all out. When I asked at our locale bank, they said it will take 6 months, but that was some cashier at the bank, how reliably that information is I could not say. Note: I have a will in the UK. they will need a death certificate as well, as far as I know only one is issued, no photocopies allowed, you can see the scenario who gets the death certificate.

You are right remembering last year they as a 30 % drop in raw milk due to dairy farmers giving up, they cannot make it pay, feed cost going up and they debt to the banks going up. Ok they management could be a lot better, the average cows yield in Thailand is 12-13 kg/day per cow not a lot you need ( when I last milked cows in the UK we got an average of 23 kg/day/cow that was 25 years ago), 10-11 kg/cow/day to break even ,very few farmers produce they own feed it is all brought in ,it does not take a lot, to make a loss ,with poor quality rice straw the main sauce of forage ,that is the main cause of low yields ,and as some members have said in the past about Thai milk not having any flavor ,that is the reason why.

Check, but I think you cannot ride in China without an escort, and I would say that would not be free. How about Yamaha SR400, simple bike been around a long time, they are available new.

The traditional way in Thailand was to plant หญ้าแฝก Yar Fark known for holding soil in place, but now not easy to find, you need to ask around, have seen it growing wild. Or easier use Yar Con in Thai, or Para Grass, you will know this grass, it grows in wet diches next to roads etc., can be grown from stems, but be wear it can take off and may need regular cutting. As FJ said, seed from Ubon Forage seed would do the job, pick one of the hardier verities, unlike Para Grass most verities are shorter growing, easier to control, but be wear not all verities like waterlogging, that if the land lies wet.

Not ignorant, just do not understand Thai customs, the tour guide, if they were one, most tours are at sights just long enough to see the sight ,not to sun bath , should have said something............that is if her English was good enough to explain about Thai customs.

Yes, someone always seems to win, remember you can buy a set of the same number you regularly hear of people wining 10 million baht plus with multiple tickets. The underground lottery is based on the last 3 numbers of the main winning ticket, the 6 million one, no betting allowed on the last 2 numbers, and they are a few different ways of playing the underground lottery as well. Wife's son in law won 60 000 baht last year on a 100-baht stake known in Thai as 100 X 100 When Covid was here they were no street sellers, it turns out the lottery is the biggest money earner for the government, they were down a good few hundred million baht.