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The law is, in fact, the same law that prohibits smoking tobacco or anything else in a public place, if it is causing a nuisance to anyone. You have to make the complaint that it caused a nuisance to you for police to take action. There is no specific law that prohibits smoking cannabis in a public place, despite assertions by police and government officials to the contrary. They say that just to scare people but cannot cite a cannabis specific law.

Also hard to imagine Yingluck in a cell and having her knuckles broken by a dyke warder's billy club.

Suspicion grew when Ian did not visit for two years...

Ceaușescu-style means opening fire on full auto while your colleague is still positioning them against the wall and thus shooting your colleague in the arm. Lucky he wasn't executed. But some in the firing squad felt remorseful and committed suicide. Indonesia executes by firing squad but not very efficiently according to a foreign priest who was permitted to minister to some foreign condemned men a few years ago. He said a Nigerian prisoner was groaning in pain after the volley and needed a coup de grace in the head from the firing squad commander. It stands to reason that is quite common with firing squads using single shots. The shooters don't want to be there and are going to be shaky and are standing up and firing fire hand using iron sights from maybe 20 metres, Most soldiers are not good shots and many people could miss a heart sized target even under normal circumstances. Some soldiers may deliberately aim wide to let their colleagues be the killers. The Ceascescus looked like they were dead before they hit the ground in the video. I think it is the botched Indonesian style that you want for these pedos.

Fly to a country where you can legally buy as much weed as you can handle. Why bring in this stuff?

Seems like the problem is not targeting of foreigners but regulations that effect everyone opening a bank account due to the call centre scam problem where people are paid to open bank accounts to be used by scamsters. In addition the masterminds behind most of the call centres and many of the workers are foreigners, mainly Chinese. So it makes sense to be more strict about the type of visas foreigners have. I have been harassed by a call centre which was set up to sound exactly like a Thai police station. They had all my personal details - full name, phone number, address, ID number, obviously sold to them by a Thai government department, mobile phone operator or other business. Call centres are scary stuff that scam people out of billions of dollars and abduct people to work in them involuntarily. Tough measures are required to deal with them.

The longer he stays intubated in a hospital in HH with doctors who have no idea what is wrong, the greater the chance he will be a vegetable, if he survives at all. First step is to get him to a more sophisticated hospital in Bkk. I have been to that hospital in HH. It is very small and they obviously don't have specialists in rare infectious diseases. Obviously taking out inexpensive medical insurance for a short holiday before leaving the UK would have put him and his family in a much better position.

Time to come and confiscate all these villas illegally owned by foreigners and auction off cheap to Thais to rent them out to the original owners. I remember the 2006 coup government said they would confiscate all the foreign owned resort land but they didn't stay in office long enough. Maybe one day it will happen.

Unlikely. They would need to make an announcement expeditiously cancelling or modifying the announcements made in 2023. Seeing as some people have already filed their 2024 taxes and paid the tax on remitted investments, I can't see them doing that at this late stage.

Don't think they can introduce the type of changes he suggested without an amendment to Section 40 of the Revenue Code. The 2023 reinterpretation of part of Section 40 via a Revenue Dept order only binding on RD staff is flimsy anyway and might not stand up to a challenge in the Tax Court. So they really need to amend it through the statutory three readings in parliament to safeguard the principle of taxation of remitted income and introduce some exemptions for investment. My concern is that the RD has already drafted an amendment to Section 40 in order to introduce global taxation for Thai residents. So they might introduce global taxation at the same at the same time as making some exemptions for investment, again spinning the lie that this is required by the OECD which couldn't car less about domestic PIT structures.

Regulations like this are usually introduced in a very vague way without clear guidelines to the banks which causes them to overreact for fear of getting into trouble. When they first introduced money laundering regulations I was a PR but was not working at the time. I went into Bangkok Bank to get a new savings book and a horrible old crone ordered me to close my account due to the new regulations. I asked her to show me the part in the money laundry regs that required banks to close accounts for permanent residents and, of course, she couldn't but said head office had instructed them to do this. So I asked her to get someone from head office on the phone to confirm that they were really closing accounts of all permanent residents and force them to remain unbanked for the rest of their days. With considerable ill grace she eventually got someone from HO on the phone and he told her to pass the phone to me. The guy apologised profusely for the woman's ignorance and incompetence and ordered her to issue a new savings book, as requested. Me 1 old crone 0.

That's right but minimum deposits are quite high for most types of account.

Try opening an account in the UK as a non-permanent resident or even a UK citizen without a permanent address in the UK you can verify.

One thing that was completely dumb in the reinterpretion was not to carve out an exemption for remitted income being reinvested in Thai assets, say, property, stocks bonds, private companies. It would have been easy to specify investments held for 3 or years or whatever. But they just wanted to do it in an incredibly lazy and stupid way by letting the Revenue Department reinterpret the existing law in a way that was clearly never intended without any amendment or even thinking it through. Now they obvious has dawned on the dumbos that it cut investment inflows and will raise a minimal amount of increment tax which may not even cover the cost of attempting to collect it.

He still pretends that the reinterpretation was done under pressure from OECD which has never shown any interest in personal income tax. This was just an excuse. The whole thrust of OECD on tax is limited to corporate income taxes and getting members to impose minimum 15% corporate taxes, while ensuring that multinationals don't avoid this by using multiple tax domiciles through subsidiaries. Thailand is not even a member of OECD and is unlikely to quality for the foreseeable future. Since he is presumably an intelligent person, he must know that personal income tax is nothing to do with OECD. How can Thais trust someone whose argument is predicated on an obvious lie? And what about the pronouncements by the Revenue Department that Thailand will introduce global tax this year and has already drafted the simple amendment to the Revenue Code? Should we put 2 and 2 together and accept that the way to encourage more investment capital remitted to Thailand will be to introduce global taxation, so it is doesn't matter, if you remit your income to Thailand or not because they will tax the b'jezus out of it before you even remit it to Thailand.

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This article popped up next to one about Thaksin's plans for casinos which he hopes will make him billions in graft. How appropriate.

USAID to Thailand was only $104,000 in 2023. Admittedly that is increased by NGOs that provide more funding by coat tailing USAID projects but the total to Thailand is still small. The Thai government could easily take over these projects and should because it having untreated sick people, some of whom have infectious diseases within its borders is a threat to its own population.

The fraud is in fact successive UK governments defrauding pensioners of their contributory pension rights because they live in one country rather than another.

Now that PP has been weakened by successive court rulings that have deprived it of a credible leadership team, Thai politics is a battle between two arch crooks with little to choose between their nefarious pasts and evil designs on the country.

Tensions are simmering in Pai, Mae Hong Son, as anti-Semitic sentiments have surfaced No. There is no sign of anti-Semitic sentiment here. Semitic peoples are in fact mainly Arabs with a very small percentage of Jews who are also, of course, Semitic people. There is also no sign of anti-Jewish sentiment - just anti-Israeli sentiment brought on decent, law abiding Israeli tourists by a small minority of their countrymen who behave in an obnoxious and criminal manner in Pai. If a certain nationality group behaves it that way, even though it is discriminatory and wrong, it is understandable that Thai business owners don't want them in their premises. Hopefully Thai police can root out some of the Israeli law breakers and have them deported and blacklisted for life to reduce the problem. But that's a faint hope. So businesses will continue to exclude Israelis.

Clearly they have circumstantial evidence but not enough after many years of investigation to charge him. He didn't confess. So they have to give him bail. They didn't apply for extradition from Thailand. Thailand just used the Interior Minister's discretion to revoke his visa which doesn't require evidence or a specific reason. Danger to public safety or morality is enough. He was hiding in plain sight in Thailand under his own name.

The pot calling the kettle black. Two obnoxious characters in Thai politics who are both interested only in power and self enrichment.

Order the KN95 masks from China on AliExpress at a reasonable price. The N95 masks are very expensive and too uncomfortable to wear for more than a few minutes at a time. The KN95 masks are a good compromise - comfortable for long periods and fit round the mouth and nose quite well. Much better than the Thai masks that are also made in China which are useless because there is such big gap around the mouth and nose. Those are only designed to protect you from being splashed with blood or other undesirable liquids, not to prevent pollution or viruses from entering your respiratory system.

Will the government also advise tourists to work from home, i.e. stay in their hotel rooms which have no air purification systems and avoid going outside to visit temples, buy handicrafts and fake brand name goods and provide income for bars and hookers?