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Yes, I ended up ordering 3 printed shirts from T-Shirt Express. I chose the size (L), paid my money and he then went and printed 3 shirts on size M!! Oops.... He did reprint them again at his own expense and I paid him 50% of the original price for his effort and apologies

Can I interest you in my new e-book entitled "How to use punctuation effectively"? 🙂

No, there would be no impediment. But all the MiFi units that I've tried in Tukcom did not support USB tethering 🙂 So my mind would be reassured if I just buy a cheap Android phone that I can see (from its menu) does support USB tethering. One comment about the mobile networks in Myanmar. I've stated that Thailand and Myanmar use the same system - GSM, UMTS, LTE. But that doesn't mean that those systems are available nationwide in Myanmar. 5G is only available at certain locations in Yangon and Mandalay. No problem for me - 4G is enough for video connections 🙂 I don't want to order online - I leave for Yangon in a day or two from now

Ah yes of course. I do check the supported frequency bands before I buy a unit 🙂

Because connection speed over wi-fi is slower than via a USB cable tether. Also, if I use 2 pocket wi-fis, then I have to use a 'dongle' to provide second channel wi-fi capability on my laptop. When I have done this previously, Speedify seems to get confused over the 2 connections! So I prefer to use only 1 wi-fi connection (maybe from my hotel), and then USB and ethernet cabled connections. I previously used hotel wi-fi connections in Mandalay, but I'll be renting a condo in Yangon this time, so probably there won't be a nearby hotel wi-fi connection, so I'll use my pocket wi-fi with one of the mobile networks.

Thanks. Because my Redmi works ok via ethernet tethering, I now don't need my pocket wi-fi to support USB tethering. I'll use it in wi-fi mode 🙂

Let's express it another way. Mobile phones that are designed for use on mobile networks in Thailand will operate in Myanmar because Myanmar also uses GSM, UMTS, LTE. Modern mobile phones support the various different operating bands used by the mobile networks.

In fact, (see my other post), I will use my pocket wi-fi unit via wi-fi. Now I just need to buy 1 additional phone :

Thanks! I was just stating a fact about that phone. I see them in Tukcom but they don't have internet capability (unfortunately). I found out that one of my existing phones (a Redmi 5G) supports tethering for internet via its ethernet port. So I bought a suitable interface cable and indeed - it works great. So that that means that I only need to buy 1 additional phone (I can use my Redmi via the ethernet port, my oppo via USB tether, my pocket wi-fi via ..er ... wi-fi! and I need 1 more phone to USB tether 🙂

Any phone that is usable in Thailand is also usable in Myanmar - they use the same frequency bands. All the mobile devices that I use in Myanmar were bought in Thailand.

That is a 'pocket wifi' unit (which I already have). I need a phone that supports USB tethering, which pocket wifi units don't (I know - I've tried!)

That phone has no internet capability 🙂

^^^ Thanks, but I'm very unlikely to find an iPhone for 1,000 baht! Myanmar mobile networks are identical to Thailand - I've used several of my phones in Myanmar a few weeks ago - I just need to buy a couple of extra phones at a cheap price. My local pawn shop had phones but the owners hadn't yet defaulted on their pawnshop payments, so they were not available for sale yet 🙂

I'm returning to Myanmar next week. In order to obtain reliable internet connection over there, I use 4 mobile phones, each with a data SIM from Ooredoo, ATOM, MPT and Myantel mobile networks, (because the military often switch off mobile networks). I use Speedify software to bind all 4 internet connections together. 1 mobile phone is configured as a wi-fi hotspot, and I tether the other 3 phones using USB cables. I'm 2 phones short! (One broke and t'other is not available). So I need to buy 2 more mobile phones that support USB tethering (most do). The cheapest phones at Tukcom are about 2,800 baht, which I don't consider to be cheap! I don't have time to buy online... (delivery time will be after I've flown to Yangon). Is there a mobile phone shop in Pattaya that sells cheap, used phones? All the shops that I've visited either only sell new phones or sell used iphones at inflated prices 🙂 I'm looking to pay around 1,000 baht per phone, looks not important, so long as it can operate as an internet connection via USB tether. Thanks!

T3a, but the Thai doctor wasn't sure if the lumps that the MRI found were absolutely likely to be cancerous and therefore advised a biopsy. My UK doctor who performed the biopsy said - on first looking at the MRI scans provided by Bumrungrad, that he thought that they were not cancerous, and he was correct.

On behalf of the Peru chapter of the Andes Llama Cooperative, (which includes the pan-American chapter of LGBQABC2+2=5 llamas), I would like to register our total rejection of these claims by some mentally-ill humans that they are llamas. This is nothing less than cultural appropriation... and we demand reparations for the hurty words from these humans that have caused us extreme mental stress.

I had the biopsy because the MRI that was performed at Bumrungrad showed 2 'lumps' still contained within my prostate. The doctor suspected that these were cancerous growths and a biopsy was advised. However, the biopsy found no cancer cells but 2 benign calcium stones, (which are not cancerous, but still do affect my PSA values, BPH, UTIs etc)

I'm in Thailand right now, but going back to Myanmar in a week or so. Therefore, I decided to have a PSA and urine culture test. I post these results to demonstrate that a high PSA number doesn't always mean that you have prostate cancer, although any increasing value or value above the norm needs to be investigated. Here are my PSA numbers tested in the same lab since 2022. October 2022 = 11.234 H ng/mL September 2023 = 11.313 June 2024 = 8.927 February 2025 = 10.702 The October 2022 number prompted me to have a prostate MRI and then a 24-sample biopsy, to identify the cause of this high value. 2 benign prostate stones and a lot of ESBL (resistant to antibiotics) E.Coli bacteria were found, but no cancer cells. Since 2022, the E.Coli UTI has been present throughout, and this, plus my mild BPH, plus the calcium stones, all result in what could be an alarmingly high PSA number. However, you can see that the PSA number does not have an increasing trend, but fluctuates around a value of 11. The UTI doesn't cause me too much discomfort. I have previously discussed on this forum about getting the UTI treated with suitable (expensive) drugs, but unless there is a serious medical reason to do this, I guess I'll 'hang fire' on that 🙂

Thanks Sheryl. My contacts in Burma tell me that oxygen concentrators would be extremely welcome in the small, rural hospitals, but obviously they also need a reliable electricity supply. However, the latter can be provided through a combination of solar panels>solar controller>car/truck battery>12/220v inverter, with a car battery charger also being used to recharge the battery when there is mains electricity. I'm onto this with a design of a cheap and mobile power unit. I'll post in the Myanmar forum if I pursue this idea 🙂

Thank-you for your compassion....

I'm asking this question because I'm a scientist, (and therefore have some understanding of the subject). But I'm not a doctor or medical expert, so I don't have enough knowledge to know the answer. I read that an elderly Burmese woman died on the Thai-Burmese border because the refugee hospital where she was a patient had no more oxygen for her serious lung illness, and this was due to USAid cuts, (that last point is debatable...) I know that oxygen for hospitals is typically supplied in tanks from oxygen factories. I want to understand if Oxygen Concentrators, - the type that can be bought on Lazada for 4,000 baht, would be of any help for hospital patients with lung conditions which require additional oxygen. Can anyone comment from a medical viewpoint? Sheryl? My contacts in Burma tell me that the government hospitals usually are extremely short of equipment anyway, as one can expect from the very difficult situation in the country. But now the oxygen factories can no longer deliver oxygen tanks to these hospitals, and that because of the lack of electricity, they can't even make the oxygen at their factories. So it's a very bad situation. I suspect that an O.C. would not be able to replace oxygen tanks, but I'd like a medical opinion, because it would be easy for me to bring O.Cs into the country during my regular trips there (I can always claim at customs that the unit is for my personal use - I have a lung condition!). Thanks for any information about this.

Absolutely top bloke!!...... er maybe 🙂

Whatever is posted online, stays online! 🙂

^^^ Yes indeed! Right now there is fighting also south-west of Mandalay, as well as west, north and east. So the city is slowly being surrounded.. Because of this, I won't be returning to Mandalay for the moment. I will teaching KG and primary Homeroom at an international school in central Yangon, (the school is newly-opened as a branch of a very-respected school in Bangkok). So I'm just gathering up a few things to take back with me 🙂

I misunderstood the headline. I thought the woman was trying to defecate WHILE the man was trying to rape her, not that she was simply hiding in the bathroom. Some men would pay for such an event (I'm not one of them...)