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Absolutely. A complete rip by the UK govt from pensioners who have paid the same contributions as others who get increments. Now inflation is rearing its ugly head again, UK state pensions will be wiped out in a few short years.

The aritcle is nonsense from people who make a living out of providing financial services, often of questionable quality, to financially illiterate expats. I have never heard of the 5 year retirement visa mentioned. Investment in your own business through the BoI is only open to approved projects in the sectors BoI wants to promote and the process and reporting and inspection requirements for BoI companies are onerous. If you BoI privileges expire or are cancelled you lose the right to 100% foreign ownership. For expat couples and others who have no Thai family and no interest in acquiring one or playing the girly scene, I would not advise retirement in Thailand. I came here to work and was able to get PR and then citizenship but neither are possible to those who don't work in Thailand. I would hate to be treated like a third class citizen with no right to own land or my own business and always at the whim of surly and corrupt immigration officers to renew visas. Even as a PR I was fed up with the fact that PRs are not treated as they are in developed countries where they usually have all right except te right to vote and other political rights. In many ways Thai PRs are treated no differently from other foreigners without the right to work, own businesses and land. Not having to renew visas is good but they have to go through a costly annual endorsement rigmarole at Immigration, if they want to travel, and have no other rights, even though gettting it is a hugely onerous and costly process. I think there are many places where expats can be treated with more respect. I would also look for places with reciprocal healthcare benefites. Many expats end up having to relocate urgently when they hit an unexpected health crisis.

While I disagree with suppression of freedom of expression, going out to brave, COVID, permanent lung damage from tear gas, brain damage from police night sticks and general police and rubber bullets is not for me. We went through this in 2014 when foreigners were arrested rallying with both reds and yellows. An English bloke living in Pattaya with Thai family who had advocated violence with the reds got deported and blacklisted after spending a few weeks in jail I seem to remember. In 1992 the army deliberately shot people with cameras which included two foreigners and one farang.

Mrs Dog bought an inexpensive TV for MIL to watch garbage in her room when she is staying with us. Problem solved without irate calls from my BIL.

After buying land in Mrs Dog's name for a few years, I got Thai citizenship. Since then she has grumbled that I stopped putting land in her name and bought it in my own name instead. So I said, if you buy land with your own money, I will be very happy for you to put it in your own name. Grumpy silence.

From Samui for Sale Since the letter of the Ministry of Interior (most urgent No. Mo 0710/vor 792 dated 23 March 1999), a Thai national married to a foreigner may acquire land, however; the land (and some cases condominium unit) must become a personal property of the Thai spouse and must be excluded from the couple's marriage community property regime. The foreigner is not allowed to have co-ownership in land together with his or her Thai spouse. Regulation: The procedure for the acquisition of land by Thais having spouses being aliens, either by lawful marriage (with proper registration of marriage) or unlawful marriage (without proper registration of marriage) and children of aliens have been changed to be as follows: Any Thai having an alien spouse may purchase or accept land as a gift with no consideration and register the ownership of such land during marriage under the condition that the spouse must jointly provide a written legal confirmation stating that the entire source of funds for such purchase or gift is solely from the Personal Property (such as defined by Thai laws) of such Thai. Without written confirmation from an alien spouse, the request for such registration must be referred to the Land Department in order to obtain an approval from the Minister. Any alien's minor having Thai nationality may purchase or accept land as a gift with no consideration and register the ownership of such land if it does not appear after investigation that he/she has done so to avoid the law. For registration of land to a Thai national married to a foreigner proof is required that the money used to purchase the land is legally the Thai spouse's. In case of acquisition of land or in some cases condominium at the Land Department; 1. the Thai spouse has to show evidence that all money paid is a personal property (Sin Suan Tua) according to section 1471 and section 1472 of the Civil and Commercial Code, or; 2. that the Thai and his/her spouse must present themselves at the Land Office (*) to confirm in a standard Land Office letter of confirmation that all money paid for the property is personal property (Sin Suan Tua) not a common property (Sin Som Ros). Translation Regulation * If his/her spouse does not live in Thailand it can be recorded by ambassador / consular or notary public in such country. As the land or in some cases condominium (depending on the foreign ownership ratio within the condominium) must become a personal property of the Thai spouse the foreign spouse may protect his/ her interest in the property by registering a lifetime usufruct for life or a lease. However, under Thai law agreements between spouses concluded during marriage could be avoided by either spouses at any time during marriage or within one year from the date of dissolution of the marriage, therefore do not offer the expected straight forward protection.

Thai women buying land with foreign hubby's money in Ubon is a common occurence and I believe generally regarded as a good boost to the economy. I doubt that the land office would have any issues. It has been a while since I bought land in Mrs Dog's name in Ubon but I don't remember any problems. According to regulations they are supposed to interview buyer and seller but it is usually aimed at making sure the seller, if a private individual, has received the cash and is not being ripped off by a shark. Anyway there is nothing to stop a Thai woman with foreign husband from buying land since 1999. Prior to that there was gender bias which allowed Thai men with foreign wives to buy land but not the reverse. So it was advisable for women to avoid taking foreign hubby's surname by marrying abroad and maintain single status in Thailand. But today all is changed. The status of Thai men and women with foreign spouses is now identical when it comes to buying land and changing surname on marriage is now optional too. In 1999 a letter was sent to all land offices by the interior ministry which is still in force. The letter said that in order to save land officials the trouble of checking sources of funds of Thais with foreign spouses applying to transfer land, officials should merly get both spouses to sign a declaration that the funds were the Thai spoouse's lone and the land would be owned solely the Thai and would not become conjugal property. There are a number of issues with the Land Dept's legal band aid. One is that under the Civil and Commercial Code all property acquired after marriage is conjugal property. Thus it is hard to argue that it is possible for the funds to be the Thai spouse's sole property as she acquired them after marriage. Another is that there is a Supreme Court ruling that on divorce a house purchased with a foreign husband's funds remitted from overseas with evidence shown had to be considered as part of the conjugal property to be divided 50:50 on divorce. It is not clear that being forced to sign a scrap of paper in the land office containing a false declaration would forfeit the foreign spouse's right to a half share of the asset on divorce.

These are the kits that don't work. So no need to distribute them. Just pocket the commission.

Forgot his compass and boy scout training. Silly boy.

4 Thais but they will normally allow you to have just 1 or 2 in the first year of a new company. Some Labour offices may allow this for longer, particularly upcountry, but Bkk is usually quite strict. The Thai staff must be in the social security system which means your wife can’t be one, if she is a shareholder or director because they are not eligible for social security.

A very cruel guy. I used to know a young Thai Chinese guy who ran a gold shop in Samut Prakarn with his sister. The reason why he ran the gold shop at a young age was because his father had been murdered by a robber in the shop in this way. The family just continued because the gold shop was a good living and and they didn't know what other business to do. But you never know when you or a family member or staff will get murdered or maimed by a <deleted> like this bent cop. I guess he will get a light sentence due to his stellar police service.

The Nationality Act only provides for naturalisation of children adopted by Thai citizens who were born in Thailand. They have to have been adopted for at least 5 years before eligible and must be still minors (under 20) at the time of application. I thnk this requires the full application for naturalisation which currently takes 3-5 years. AFAIK there is no route to Thai citizenship for adopted children born abroad and I don't think it is possible to adopt children over the age of 20 anyway. A Thai friend of mine did it for her son born to a foreigner in the days before Thai citizenship passed through the mother which only started in 1992. The boy had to be adopted by her new Thai husband and it took several years before he got his Thai citizenship. Before that he was stateless because the British father disappeared before he was born, so he had no way to get British citizenship and she was too proud to put 'father unknown' on the birth certificate which would have given him Thai citizenship in those days on the assumption that the father was most likely Thai. If she could have waited just a couple of years later till the law changed, she could also have got it for him automatically but who was to know they would change the law.

REmember that they had to stop free quarantine for Thais returning from abroad because people were crossing the border to Laos and Cambodia to get two weeks free in a hotel.

My appointment for the second shot popped up in the Mor Phrom app a few hours after my first AZ shot. Later it was revised from 16 weeks later to 12 weeks later automatically. It is coming up on Monday . The hospital has send a LINE message confirming all the appointments and will send an SMS the day before.

I don't think it makes any difference, if you are a shareholder or not. It might help to be a director but probably not much. They are more interested in your salary and the status of the company and its presumed ability to survive and pay for an expat. So they look at profitability in most recent accounts. They give you some slack if it is the first year of a new company and in that case may be more inclined to give a WP to the director. I once asked in the Bkk main office what would influence them into allowing a WP without Thai staff or less than the 4 minimum for an existing company, It used to be possible to have no Thai staff for PR but they said that no longer makes any difference and having a Thai wife only allows you to reduce paid up capital from 2m to 1m baht. They told me the thing that would make a huge difference to the basses would be paying tax on a large salary. When I asked how much the officer said 1m a month would make a difference. Also being an investor in a BOI promoted company makes a difference. In sum I think you should assume that if you make the 50k salary and Thai staff requirements, you will be OK. Other factors will make little or no difference.

If he got back to the UK for treatment, the NHS would send him a bill, if they knew he had just returned from a more than 6 month stay abroad. You have to re-establish residence for 6 months before regaining the right to free treatment on the NHS. But illegal refugeess, asylum seekers etc are entitled to it immediately.

PT deliberately did a feeble job in the accusation of graft in the vaccine procurement which everybody knows was the case. Their only point seemed to be that the purchases were B2 billion less than the budget which the government said was padded in case of price hikes, forex changes or increased shipping costs. There was no hard or even soft evidence - pathetic. If they were worried about the budget for vaccines why did their MPs support the government and vote for Prayut to get a B16 billion special budget to use at his personal discretion without parliamentary scrutiny? It is all BS with Thaksin, PT and the red shirts actually cosying up to the government for personal gains while pretending to do their job as the opposition for show.

Is Moderna including the black specks of rubber that have been found in batches of Moderna in Japan and could make the needle break off in your arm?

The credibility of the revised autopsy report may be challenged but it will be hard for the defence to do the usual thing and pay another pathologist to do another autopsy with a completely dfferent result without a corpse. The pathologist could be persuaded to resort to his original opinion but that is difficult without changing the results of drug tests.

Can't wait for them to arrive!

Prosecutors will no doubt readily accept the narrative of the honest crime buster ardently protecting the nation's youth once they get their brown envelopes. After the verdict and acquittal or suspended sentence any criticism will be silenced with the contempt of court and defamation laws.

This is clearly first degree murder, a mandatory death sentence, under the Penal Code. It is first degree murder due to the use of torture to kill the victim. Without the torture and without premeditation it could be second degree murder with a penalty of 15 to 20 years or perhaps even manslaughter with a 3 to 20 year penalty. There is a recent precedent in the Supreme Court which upheld a conviction of a policeman for attempted murder by asphyxiation with a plastic bag on the grounds the cop clearly knew that the plastic bag torture could result in death. But perhaps that cop didn't have the huge financial clout and big shot cop connections of Ferrari Jo.

No. Only suspended. The media have erroneously used the English word "fired".

Thaksin has instructed PT to pull its punches against PPRP by excluding Pravit from the no confidence debate and voted for the huge central budget fund for Prayut in the hope of getting a slice of it as a reward. He has also paid Nattawut and Sombat to jump on protest band waggon to increase his leverage to join the government in case coalition parties defect. It looks like he will be disappointed again, although it is always wise to be prepared for sudden changes of allegiance in Thai politics. The coalition ministers are making great money in this anything goes corruption environment and no one feels the need to hand their punch bowl to someone else on principle. If they had principles, they would be in the government.

The points system allows for minorities (ชนกลุ่มน้อย) to qualify with a minimum salary of 20,000 a month. My understanding is that ชนกลุ่มน้อย have to be born in Thailand. If not, all foreign born foreigners could be regarded as ชนกลุ่มน้อย. I guess it would be unusual for a Burmese born roti seller coming through the SB naturalisation window. I would think it would be hard to get a WP as retail is reserved for Thai citizens and the special exemptions given to migrants to do labouring jobs under the MOUs doesn't apply to retail jobs. I think restaurants that hire migrants apply for them to be labourers or domestic servants. Are you sure he applied via SB and didn't somehow apply as local born minority through a distict office with a bit of baksheesh?