JimHuaHin

Never.

Looks like a Kaffir lime, I used to have a plant back in Australia.

There are three dominant ideologies in Thailand - maintain the status quo, move Thailand slowly back to the golden age of "Love Destiny" or move Thailand forward to an advanced developed democracy. While the former groups have the power, the latter group are in the majority.

No problems - the way Trump is going the USA will soon have a handful of friends - Israel, North Korean, Russia, and a few others. China will be by itself (largely), and most other countries and the global population will be anti-USA.

Thailand is full of criminals, unfortunately most of them are not in prison, most are either in government employment or work for wealthy families.

So, this is the current government's main priority? Increased poverty, corruption, pollution, criminality, private debt, suicides, etc., as well as declining public health are not as important as having a Great Prick race in Bangkok?

Taksin's plan - more power and wealth for me (and my family), the rest of you are irrelevant.

Totally agree with the last paragraph. But CP seems untouchable.

Daughter like father.

Unethical behaviour. Terminate her appointment.

When will Trump realise that that the majority of countries and the majority of the global population hate him?

Maybe the time has come for the USA's senior professional intelligence, military and security leaders hold a meeting on planning and staging a coup to rid save the USA from these politically elected and appointed super idiots.

When Trump "attacks" the world, does the moron expect the world to sit back and take it?

Trump - drill baby drill. Planet - die humans die.

Another day, and yet more arrests of Chinese criminals in Thailand.

A great suggestion, which I enacted about 15 years ago. I looked at a lot of economic data from back home and in Thailand, including currency exchange rates, dating back 40-50 years. All looked promising, but .... since coming here bank interest rates in Australia reached near record lows as did currency exchange rates - ok, not so good on the money front. Then Thai immigration changed visa requirements ... which was somewhat unexpected, but was worked around. Now we have the Thai tax changes ... I knew the then Thai personal tax requirements before I came for a long visit to Thailand. Confirmed what I had learnt from chatting with a few Thai tax professionals here. Set up a couple of accounts back home and here to help minimise my Thai tax burden. But, tax policies change over time in most countries, and Thailand is no exception. Do your research, plan ahead, and have Plan/Option B, C, D, .... in case the original plan become untenable.

I agree with most of what has been posted earlier. My retirement visa expires in June this year, and I shall extend it again at that time (until June 2026). My passport expires in early 2027, and I shall start the new passport process (again) in December this year or January 2026 (it usually takes about a month or so). Once the new passport arrives (hopefully by February 2026), I shall take my current passport and my previous passport (which has the original retirement visa) to immigration to transfer the retirement extension visa to the new passport. All painless, hopefully.

5 5 5 Massive interest rate cuts will not save the Thai economy. Substantial economic restructuring, worker upskilling and the death of most monopolies/duopolies are needed.

I cannot remember any of my Thai friends saying anything positive about Prayut, even friends who are government officials and those in the military.

Considering Trump's recent actions - and he has only been in power (this time) for about 10 weeks - if I was an American on SS I would be very worried.

Bye bye USA. Next target, USA military, to aid Russia's invasion?

What power does a Thai Deputy PM have in China? SFA!!

See what happens when businesses own governments.

40 billion before mid year? One can only hope.

The right wing American terrorists (but in their eyes "freedom fighters") have been active for a long time. Just ask any nation which has been subjected to CIA control and coup.