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For anyone who wishes / intends to live AND work legally in Thailand for an extended period, citizenship makes that vastly easier than any of the other options currently available to foreigners. That said, if PR did away with the WP requirement, it would be a very attractive option. I had PR for quite a while before i decided to apply for citizenship. However, your first point is the potential elephant in the room: "No need to give up your other citizenship unless you are citizen of a relatively small number of countries who require that." Your country of birth may not require it, but it IS required by Thailand in the case of naturalised citizens. Just not enforced. The received wisdom is that it's all a cosy "nudge nudge, wink wink" set up where the Thai side know Person A will keep their original nationality but it is ignored. That has been the case for decades and may continue to be the case for decades. But any potential applicant for citizenship should be prepared to give up their birth nationality.

+1 for OfficeMate. But need to try before buy. Definitely worth getting one that's mesh fabric not cushion or fake leather. Not sweaty. https://www.ofm.co.th/en/category/เฟอร์นิเจอร์/เก้าอี้/เก้าอี้เพื่อสุขภาพ

Just say you aren't ready to give up your current nationality. Not really. Basic Thai is fine. Tax is an important point. Salary can be much less than 100K but you have to have 3 years of tax returns in your name in same employment. Losing job/WP while applying is a big problem. PR - also no TM30. But still need a WP to work legally. Need to get a visa to get a re-entry permit if you want to leave Thailand. But PR never expires as long as you visit Thailand annually (so not like US Green Card, Singapore PR etc, which you lose after a couple of years being out of country). PR of course much more expensive than citizenship in terms of initial fees.

Not sure my wife would agree with that. But never reject undeserved credit.

Eggsactly.

As another poster has explained, that message just says you're not allowed to fiddle with that menu item while driving. Which is irritating. Which is also what my VW tells me if I try to change certain settings while driving. Perhaps the Chinese learned this safety obsession 'from ze Germans'? I suspect it's an EU / Western market 'safety requirement' to have this 'feature'.

It's fairer to say that all mainstream car companies have little real interest in individual consumers once you've bought their product. Remember Ford and the Focus gearbox issue, which upset a lot of owners globally, including Thailand? I've owned several Honda Jazz in the past. Excellent car. Recommended to one of our extended family ... who then had nothing but mechanical trouble from the moment they drove it brand new out of the dealer. Just unlucky and got a lemon. My BYD experience so far (18 months) has been pretty good. It does however seem odd how Thai consumers seem happy to spend a lot of money on a car from some unheard of manufacturer with little obvious track record, simply because it's an EV. BYD at least has a reasonable track record with EVs.

Thai Raids Intercept Huge Number of Simboxes and Starlink Satellite Dishes Intended for Scam Call Centers https://commsrisk.com/thai-raids-intercept-huge-number-of-simboxes-and-starlink-satellite-dishes-intended-for-scam-call-centers/ Thai police have followed recent announcements about inspecting cell sites near the border and closing those which serve scam call centers with yet more news about raids on fraudsters. Both police and customs officials shared information over the weekend that described a series of operations which targeted separate locations spread throughout Thailand, leading to multiple arrests of both Thais and foreigners. Some of these locations had simboxes that appeared to have already been used to make scam calls. Other locations appeared to be way stations for the onward transportation of imported equipment. This equipment included Starlink satellite dishes, with the assumption that these would provide internet connectivity to scam compounds in bordering countries. The police noted how the use of Starlink would permit gangsters to keep changing the location of scam compounds, further complicating the task of law enforcement. Obtaining internet access from low earth orbit satellites not only means gangsters can guarantee reliable internet connections for scam compounds in remote regions, but also negates the enhanced anti-scam controls that have been implemented by traditional internet service providers. The Thai authorities have been working for several years to disconnect internet cables that cross the border to service scam compounds in neighboring countries.

Hang on - Putin rounded up the people who had illegally enriched themselves to an unbelievable extent and then said: "You have been naughty. But you can keep half of what you have stolen"? "Слава СССР"! You can tell Dawn Sturgess's family that novichok "never seems to kill anyone".

Looks like it.

So, what, have a shot of vaccine every time there's a new variant, understanding that it may, however, not protect against the next variant to become dominant, which will be even more transmissible (hence how it becomes dominant).

"My knowledge does not allow any further interpretation of this data, and not clear if this is a normal approach. If anyone is better qualified, please give an overview." That's a normal instrument approach to RWY18 joining at PIWAT.

EVs are everywhere! This one made by Foton (in a JV with CP Group).

Yes, the controllers at VTBU aren't overworked although there is actually a bit more traffic than that - you've also got the skydiving operators, various GA flights, police/military (mostly rotary), US mil from time to time. A lot of these a/c don't have ADS-B so they won't show on the tracking sites (which rely on ADS-B data).

Actually UTP (VTBU) is 24H operational.

Many aircraft systems and mechanical components are timed life: change out at X hours of use regardless of apparent condition. Also (commercial a/c like this) have multiple redundancy of hydraulic and electrical systems.

Which is what makes this massive over-response odd. One of your earlier posts had a FlightRadar image of the a/c in red, indicating it had formally declared an emergency and transponder was squawking 7700. If it declared an emergency, ATC would have asked for souls on board + fuel remaining + any hazardous cargo. So they would have known in good time that there were only a handful of people on board, and that the nature of the emergency wasn't a flight control issue. Mind you, the ATC guys at UTP don't have much to do ...

Ah. That rarest of minerals, quartz! Quartz is one of the most abundant minerals in the Earth's crust and is found on all continents. https://naturalhistory.si.edu/education/teaching-resources/featured-collections/all-sorts-quartz#:~:text=Quartz is one of the,colors%2C and has many uses. Quartz is so common in crustal rocks that it's more notable when quartz is missing than when it's present. https://www.thoughtco.com/all-about-quartz-1440958 (That's enough Quartz for a Saturday morning - Ed.)

I think I've been pretty consistent and common sense about such things, which isn't hard: 1. We don't eat out nearly as much now as we used to pre-COVID. 2. When we do eat out now, I always keep my N95 mask on at all times, except when actually eating, including while waiting for the food and after eating. 3. When we do eat out now, we typically try to do so at times when customer traffic isn't busy and sit as far away as possible from other seated tables. 4. And I'm up-to-date with the latest XBB-variant COVID vaccine, unlike most people in Thailand. I'm in my 60s, so I'm in the age range where I'd be at increased risk for bad COVID outcomes, were I to come down with an infection. So I behave accordingly, as I always have. That's all well and good but you haven't answered my question: do you really think that continuing to wear a mask while you also eat a meal is either rational or sensible?

Come on - you really think that continuing to wear a mask while you also eat a meal is either rational or sensible? If you're that worried about catching Covid outside, then don't take the mask off at all.

A few days ago I was amazed to watch a foreign bloke, masked up (N95, of course), eating a meal at a mid-Sukhumvit pub. Sitting outside. Did not remove mask, simply lifted the bottom enough to insert grub into gob and then back down again. Repeated until meal finished. Performance art? Mental illness? It appears some people are prisoners of an irrational fear.

Ah, but I've actually been posting on this thread for years. As an EV owner though, rather like my ride, I'm so quiet and understated you don't even notice me. I'm disappointed your 'EV fire' clip didn't include someone valiantly tackling the blaze with a water fire extinguisher. Maybe the Burmese guy from the petrol station round the corner given that he's likely under-employed now that there are ever more EVs on the roads.

"If you want a caramel macchiato with vanilla sweet cream cold foam you have to leave the beloved EV and go to Amazon" - it appears you can get all the stimulation needed by hugging a wet metal cabinet containing DC high voltage gubbins, so coffee is redundant. Also, Amazon coffee is 5hite.

Yes - as I've previously commented (back on page 3,604 of this thread) one of the biggest negatives to an EV in Thailand is that public chargers always seem to be in the open. If they can't be ar5ed to provide a roof for customers, they should at least provide a Burmese pump attendant to do all the work for you, as when you fill up with petrol/diesel.

Ah, but was the car driveable after this? Don't forget that the Atto has V2L so you can just plug in the wife's hairdryer and you're home and dry in no time!