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Just because you haven't experienced it, doesn't mean that dual pricing at hospitals doesn't exist. I was diagnosed with Leukemia in Sept 2023, and my first batch of meds cost me $25 per month for 90 days at the local government hospital. The next batch cost me $200 for the same meds, so I found my own supplier in Bangkok and got it for $20. I contested the charges and was told that farangs pay double if not more. An exotic blood test cost me 11,990 Baht and the sample was sent to a lab in Bangkok. When the same test was due after 6 months, I went to The Army Hospital and paid only 4,900 Baht for the same exact test using the same lab in Bangkok. Not only are the government hospitals ripping off farangs, but the private hospitals are much worse.

Yes, but only if the asset remains in your name after marriage and has never been shared jointly during your marriage. For example, even a bank account that was in your name remains your property after marriage so long as your wife never has access to those funds after marriage.

Frankly, I have never understood the "bring two photos" thing. In Udon Thani when one goes for an extension of stay, the officer takes all of the info on one's application form and transfers it to a form on their computer, then they take a photo of you and superimpose that on their computer-generated form. In my case, they took my photos off of my application form and threw them in the garbage. My theory is that they want to make sure that the person in the photo is the same as the one sitting in front of them, and since the photo in their passport may be as old as 10 years, the newer photo helps them to confirm that you are who you say you are in order to cut down on fraud. After all, some races say that members of other races all look the same anyway!

"The incident occurred near MBK Centre, where the traffic police allegedly did not establish a formal checkpoint. Instead, they acted upon spotting the passenger without a helmet, leading to a chase and subsequent fall"......... So, the real root of this problem is that the public actually believes that the only time that police can act on crime is when they are standing in the street at an established formal checkpoint. The fact that a policeman would give chase to an alleged lawbreaker outside of a formal checkpoint is totally foreign to them, so they just naturally assume that the policeman is at fault because he didn't follow the long-established norm for the way police do their job. It's time the boys in brown got off their lazy entitled butts and did their jobs wherever they see wrongdoing being committed and take a more aggressive approach to policing.

SM007, you stole my post. I was going to write the same word for word. When I grew up it was "finders keepers, losers weepers". If there were CCTV cameras nearby, then it would be obvious that the owners could be found, but if not, then nothing wrong with taking the money into your own apartment to safeguard it, and if nobody came forth to claim it, then leave town and have a happy life on a beach in the Med.

As a former near daily patron of the red-light district in Manila, Philippines, my only comment is.....what the heck do Thai people expect to happen when you drop a tourist from any social background into a cesspool of alcohol and drunkenness, drugs, prostitution and greedy flirty women? Hiso and Lowso tourists alike are predisposed to turning into complete sloppy uncontrollable drunks who otherwise might be perfect gentlemen when they are not exposed to such a lascivious lifestyle. Under no circumstances is it ever justified for an unruly tourist to be the victim of a beatdown by a group of men who are hell bent on kicking their brains out on the pavement. Drunken patrons should be expected and anticipated, and security should be well trained to deal with these types of circumstances without using gestapo tactics.

You can never go wrong by wearing a nice suit to the red-light district. When I lived in Manila back in the 80's, I was the only guy on the strip that wore a nice suit and tie. Only the smartest and most beautiful girls would approach me because the others were intimidated by me. I never had trouble walking out with the prize gal, and those were the best years of my life. If you dress like garbage, then that's what you attract!

Dear Sir, the evidence of God is all around you, and you are without excuse.

Sir, the Word of God identifies people who think as you do: 1 Corinthians 1:18 says....For the message of the cross is foolishness [absurd and illogical] to those who are perishing and spiritually dead [because they reject it], but to us who are being saved [by God’s grace] it is [the manifestation of] the power of God. The fact is, there are very few death bed confessions and events of true repentance. The Bible says that NO ONE can be "saved" from the Lake of Fire and come to God on their own unless they be drawn by The Holy Spirit. You don't choose God....God chooses you based upon your genuine faith in the atoning work of Jesus Christ on the Cross. It is a continuous process of being wooed by The Holy Spirit. God knows the past, present and future, and He sees the intent of your heart. Deathbed cries to God are generally based on nothing but emotion and feeling sorry for the wretched life that one has lived. It's one's last and final attempt to "buy fire insurance" to keep them out of Hell's fire. I'm sorry my friend, but it just doesn't work that way. Those kinds of cries never even make it past the ceiling. No one fools God! Most people spend their entire lives creating out of a sinful heart and a corrupt mind their own image of God, His attributes and the way that He operates within the Kingdom of God. If you really want to know how He thinks and why He does what He does, then you have to read The Word of God and ask Him to reveal His Truths to you. If you continue to reject Him, then the very millisecond that your physical body ceases to function, you will find yourself awake in the presence of Jesus Christ at The Great White Throne Judgement to be condemned to The Lake of Fire. There will be no second chances. Be afraid my friend, be very afraid!

Read the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Old Testament, and all of your questions will be answered! That hour, or less, of reading will change your life forever. You've wasted your entire life searching for your ultimate purpose, and it can all be revealed to you in one hour. I challenge you to give God a chance to speak to you through His Word. You've got nothing to lose, and eternity to gain! Come on....I double dog dare you to take a step in God's direction. You will not be sorry! If you don't have a Bible, then click on this link and start reading: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes 1&version=NKJV

Just last month I transferred USD out of my USD Foreign Currency Account by SWIFT. Not a problem!

It is all in God's Word, The Holy Bible! I can't read it for you. You have to read it for yourself and ask The Holy Spirit to give you revelation knowledge to understand what you are reading. The Word of God is not intellectually discerned; It is spiritually discerned, and without the guidance of the Holy Spirit, you will never figure it out. When you read and receive God's Word as Truth, then He will open your eyes and heart to receive more and more Truth day by day. The minute your heart begins to reject what you are reading, the revelation from God stops dead in it's tracks, and He will even take back the knowledge that He has already revealed to you and allow you to be spiritually blind once again. That's the very reason that so many people can begin reading the Word of God and throw is away so quickly claiming that It is all nonsense. When you reject God and His teachings, He turns you over to a reprobate mind to continue in your sinful ways.

Well, I read through the first page and couldn't take any more. It is absolutely amazing to me that so many people are in such denial that there is a real Creator God and a Heaven and a Hell....fully grown men and women who have lived an entire lifetime during which time they could have discovered the answer to the question of the afterlife by simply taking an hour a day for a few weeks to read the New Testament, find the answers for themselves and settle the matter in their own mind once and for all. But instead, they have taken that time to devise every sort of unfounded excuse possible to keep from having to believe the TRUTH. It just goes to show you the deep-seated power of sin in one's life and the sway that Satan has over those who have rejected the Good News of Jesus Christ. God has given to every human the measure of faith that is required to believe in the death, burial and resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and you can either believe in His atonement for our sins and spend eternity in Heaven, or reject the only true message of salvation and spend eternity in the Lake of Fire which is called Hell. God doesn't send anyone to Hell. He had given us the way forward to an afterlife in His presence, but most will make a willful decision to reject the straight and narrow path and choose the broader path which leads to Hell. Where you spend eternity is every man's free will choice, and for those of you who have received Christ, I will look forward to seeing you in Heaven one day! To the rest, I pray that you will come to your senses before it is too late. If you die in your sins without Christ, you will not get another chance.

A 22 year old Thai gal who is that low on the social totem pole selling bubble tea would never be bold enough to ask and older farang for that kind of money unless they are being coached. These gals have learned to surround themselves with wiser and more mature people who are pros at getting in the pockets of farangs. They have told her exactly how to go after you and milk you for all she can get. Been there....done that! Right now, she is dealing from a position of strength with that little carrot between her legs, and you need to learn to play the game. Offer her half of what she is asking, then YOU use your money as a carrot and tell her that later on you will consider increasing her salary based on how the relationship goes. This will give you more time to size her up and see how she handles the money you give her. If she starts with the constant sob stories to get more money out of you, then you will know exactly what kind of game she is playing. It is important that you understand that she doesn't really love you like you may love her, and you are entering into a financial arrangement/business transaction. See it for what it is and don't kid yourself.

What do they expect! Scams galore are going on all over the Kingdom. Every time one's phone rings, you immediately expect it to be some con artist trying to scam you out of money. Crime is all over the place, and nobody feels safe. Every news article that reports on a crime blames it on those dirty foreigners and calls us out by nationality. It just shows the Thais' disdain for us. Everyone knows what is behind those fake Thai smiles. Foreigners are charged any random price for goods and services depending on how gullible we look, while Thais pay a set less expensive price. The beaches are crap with litter all over the place. I've lived here 15 years and nothing has changed. Thailand is still one of the greatest armpits in the world!