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If you mean Suvarnabhumi, then no, based on direct personal experience most recently 2 weeks ago. Can't speak for Don Muang but would assume it's the same.

Hmmm, my comment "That's a rather binary choice: if your child doesn't study online, someone you love will die?" was based exactly on what you said: "You're entitled to your opinion, but most people were OK with kids having a year of studying online if it meant their mother, father, husband, wife, etc., didn't die." That seems pretty binary to me. Nothing about reducing chances. But I do find it pleasantly refreshing that you argue your position in a reasoned and reasonable manner.

That's a rather binary choice: if your child doesn't study online, someone you love will die? I suspect the people who were okay with kids having a year of studying online were nice middle-class folk with the infrastructure to let their children study at home (dedicated space, a laptop/Ipad, high speed internet), likely with their children attending a private school. I can assure you that the home learning experience for many poorer pupils at state schools was not a good one [my sister being a teacher at an inner city primary]. If not studying online for a year = someone in your house will die, then of course that's a pretty clear cut choice. However the reality was study online for a year = potentially long-term and significant impacts to your child's educational progress, and a mildly enhanced risk that someone in your house might get sick.

I had to give both passports at LAX when checking in but I don't know what airline put on their system. I used ESTA to enter the USA so that was tied to my former passport (in the ESTA application I did state that I also had a Thai passport). I asked several IOs on my way back in: answer was still that the new 10-year passports (unless serial begins with AA - mine is AB) don't work but 5-year passports do. However a friend told me that his (Thai) wife got a new passport some weeks after me and it works fine. I think next trip out I will try it just to see ...

Curiously when I came back in a couple of weeks ago from the US the immigration officer asked me if I still had my foreign passport. Naturally I said no. Not sure why she asked, and my answer seemed to satisfy her. It was slightly odd only because I flew in from Taipei, rather than direct from a country that would have required a visa in a Thai passport. I've been in a couple of times before that on direct flights from Europe and never had the question. I wonder if the Immigration system now receives passenger information direct from the airlines showing where a passenger's journey first originated. If you flew Airline A from Europe all the way to Thailand but with a transit stop in say Singapore, the info would show the origin as Europe. Whereas Airline A to Singapore and Airline B SIN-BKK would show a Singapore origin.

That would be good. In the past the show has been criticised for having mostly repro art. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/seoul-banksy-show-complaint-fake-art-2002916? That said, I bought a Banksy T-Shirt in MBK a few years back: bloke selling it assured me it was an original ...

Since when?

People who mask toddlers deserve a good slap. As do people who wear masks on the beach.

Depends where you live. Bangkok is much easier for permits than upcountry. Regardless, if a gun is registered to someone else and you get caught with it (like going to a range to practise) and the registered owner is not present, big problem.

Airguns (.22 / .177) need a firearms permit here to own legally. The same permit / hassle as required for a small bore/fullbore rifle or pistol. BB guns don't need a permit.

Leaving the medical stuff to one side, there has been (unfortunately) a 'need' to be vaccinated, until very recently, in order to travel internationally with any degree of ease. I just went to the US and 'being vaccinated' was mandatory and checked rigorously by the airline here at check-in (but not, of course, on arrival in the US). Of course, the fact that my vaccination was a year ago and so unlikely to be of any use to anyone was irrelevant as far as the CDC criteria are concerned.

Like so many others. How about 'Fortress Australia'? Forbade entry AND exit to its own citizens for more than a year, and now ... From 9 September 2022, masks are no longer required on flights travelling to Australia. From July 6 2022, the way you travel to and from Australia has changed. All travellers should be aware that: - People entering Australia do not need to provide evidence of vaccination status https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/covid19/entering-and-leaving-australia Question is whether Thailand will also do away with the need to be vaccinated. I was asked to show proof of vaccination at Suvarnabhumi when returning last week.

The sharia concept of 'an-nushuz' may help you out. For a wife, it would include: She does not beautify herself for her husband when he desires that from her. She disobeys her husband with respect to coming to his bed and she refuses to respond to his calls. She leaves the house without his permission or without any legal right to do so. She does not perform her obligatory religious duties, such as failure to perform some prayers, fasting Ramadan, covering her 'awra, or any other obligatory act of Islam. Very progressive. (https://www.islamswomen.com/marriage/fiqh_of_marriage_9.php)

Out of interest, what does a bank account, whether in Thailand or UK, have to do with "capital gains protection"? If your friend is selling a UK property, unless it's his primary residence then CGT liability will arise regardless of tax status / residency.

Might be some clues here ... "CCTV however did capture the incident and was shared on social media." https://thepattayanews.com/2022/09/01/one-british-man-dead-second-seriously-injured-after-motorbike-collision-with-a-garbage-truck-on-samui-island/ If there were beers under the seat it sounds like a scooter, not something more sporty.

There are EV pick ups manufactured locally?? Who would ever buy a pick up priced at more than 2 million baht?? The main question of course is whether an EV one-tonne pick up truck is still capable of doing 140 kmh while loaded with three tonnes of pineapples / 27 migrant workers / a 20-foot high spirit house [select as appropriate].

I'm sure DPM Wissanu is right on it. After all, apparently he's the only person in Thailand qualified to fiddle with the constitution. Plenty of quality candidates: Prawit Anutin Thammanat My cat

I don't think you can say they're a Thai company. There are Thai entities incorporated here but the directors and shareholders are all Chinese (actually the shareholders are HK companies but I suspect they'll be ultimately owned by BVI or Cayman holdcos). GREAT WALL MOTOR SALES (THAILAND) COMPANY LIMITED (incorporated Jan 2020, Reg Cap THB 330 million) GREAT WALL MOTOR MANUFACTURING (THAILAND) COMPANY LIMITED (incorporated 1992 Reg Cap THB 8.8 billion) IMO Chinese companies are ahead of the curve with EV development, with exception of Tesla, because the Chinese motor industry has made EVs a core focus. Would I buy one in Thailand? Only if I lived in Bangkok, which is where the sales and service network is currently focused, and where an EV makes the most sense if cutting out short duration high emission journeys is a goal. Yet they're still niche brands. And since modern cars are usually stuffed full of tech, dealer servicing is mandatory unless you want to void warranty. More stuff to malfunction, too.

Indeed. It's a sorry tale. From the rambling Walter Mitty statement of 'facts' allegedly penned by the boyfriend: "It was intoxicating being around someone so inexperienced and green behind the gills ... Ashley had no street experience. Hardly any life experience either. She’d never attended university ..." Anyone who's a parent of a typical 'normal' 19-year old should empathise with this poor girl's situation. The boyfriend's statement has been redacted in places. However, whoever did the redacting didn't do a very good job and the underlying text is still there. It makes for very interesting reading. For legal reasons I shall neither provide a link to the statement, nor make any reference to its content other than the excerpt above.

"Dr. Taweesin said that he would like the public to continue to wear face masks while they are outdoors and among people ..." Yes, yes. Keep on with the doom and gloom. Project Fear has years to run.

"Dr. Taweesin said that he would like the public to continue to wear face masks while they are outdoors and among people ..." Yes, yes. Keep on with the doom and gloom. Project Fear has years to run. I'm surprised he didn't bang on about the risk of wearing the same one for days on end. "It is also recommended that people change their facemasks every 6-8 hours, especially when the mask becomes damp or when coming back from a high risk or crowded area, where there is a chance of the disease spreading." https://www.thaipbsworld.com/life-threatening-risk-of-repeatedly-wearing-same-face-mask-confirmed/

I think you'll find 95% plus of people who "get sick" - mask wearers or not - don't go to hospital anyway because, er, they don't need to. No need to pray to get better either, that seems to happen naturally ...

That's a 0.017132567% "higher risk' for Covid-19 spread. Apparently.

Corporal punishment isn't always a deterrent: I was beaten at school and all it did was make me even more anti-authority.

Is it just me, or does the Minister share a striking resemblance to Dr Who arch-villain Davros?