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Eat beans often. Incorporate vegetables into breakfast meals. Chew your food thoroughly. Focus on gut health. Early to bed, early to rise. No fire water, no devil weed, no cigarettes. Spend time outdoors every day. Amuse yourself.

Even though some may try to ridicule you for giving money to a woman living with another man, from a strictly financial standpoint you have to weigh how much you are giving her per month versus how much you stand to lose if you are forced to liquidate or abandon your interest in any real property or marital property you have. What I'm suggesting is if you: (1) don't necessarily have a reason to get a divorce (i.e., remarriage), (2) would incur a financial loss greater than the value of the stipend you are giving her, and (3) are highly confident that your wife and her paramour would never do you bodily harm for financial gain, then you might want to consider leaving the status quo in place. In answer to your question about whether you would have to give her money as a result of the divorce, it all depends on what is considered "marital property." "Marital property" does NOT mean everything purchased during the marriage. If, for example, you are an older guy who retired to Thailand, and used personal savings you accumulated prior to marriage to purchase things like land, a home, and a car, those items, even though they may have been purchased during the marriage, are considered your "personal property" NOT marital property. The burden of proof that the property was owned by you prior to the divorce, however, rests with you. The caveat to all of the above - and it is a big caveat - is that unless you have somehow managed to set up a long term lease on the land or set up some shell corporation to put the land title into, chances are that the land is registered in a Thai person's name, most likely your wife's, and this makes it very cumbersome to liquidate the real estate assets in the event of a divorce. The vast majority of foreign men in this situation end up either being forced to walk away from the property or doing so voluntarily, with a total loss. This is because either the wife refuses to cooperate with efforts to sell the land and/or house, or the market value is so low that it's not worth the hassle to go through a multi-year court battle to force her hand. To illustrate the point I was making earlier, let's say you're giving her 10K a month, but if you were forced off the property and ended up paying 35K in rent. Then there's the legal costs, both financial and in terms of time and stress. See what I'm saying? But setting aside the financial angle for a moment, I have to say, if the wife is romantically involved with another man and has any type of financial incentive to get you out of the picture, that's not a situation I personally would feel comfortable with, and it's entirely possible that getting a divorce is advisable. Most lawyers practice locally, not countrywide. English speakers are going to cost an arm and a leg, but small town lawyers can be incompetent or worse. My advice would be to try to avoid going to court at almost any cost.

Surprised the recreational cannabis roll back didn't make the news summary.

To the best of my knowledge, the enforcement of construction and fire safety codes and verifying adherence to business licensing requirements are not police functions. Those are generally speaking governmental administrative functions.

Below Thai language news clip provides: details on breast implant serial numbers and microchips unpixilated facial images of victims

Retribution for a romance scam is a plausible theory. Nigerians have been known to engage in this activity and maybe the woman served as the "bait." If a romance scam victim was somehow able to identify who the scammers were in advance, that could have given them the time needed to plan everything out the way they did. Only thing is, if you were a romance scam victim, wouldn't your goal be to get your money back? If you got your money back, then why not then take them down to the police and have them arrested? If you couldn't get your money back, you could still take them to the police? A double homicide is pretty risky just to get revenge for a romance scam. I still suspect financial gain was the motive, not retribution for a financial loss.

Absolutely no evidence whatsoever that there was a large amount of cash or that the motive was robbery. I was just speculating that if the motive was robbery, a substantial amount of cash or other valuables would likely have been needed to provide motivation for a double homicide which likely required multiple participants. The number of people who were actually involved is, of course, unknown, but based on the grave digging, cement mixing, refilling the grave, need for a lookout, and the need for a criminally sophisticated "brain" to supervise during the commission of the crime, I believe there had to have been at least 3-4 individuals, possibly 4-6 people involved at the scene.

I transliterated "fatso" for the amusement of those able to read Thai. I'm a little overweight, but not fat.

The identification of the victims has also allowed the police to obtain real life photos of them. This will help with getting people to come forward who may not know them personally but who have seen them, or interacted with them.

Since when is a double homicide of foreigners in Thailand a "trivial" and "simple" thing, especially when the motive is a total mystery and a high degree of criminal sophistication has been manifested? There's an element of "could this happen to me", and another reason there's interest is because when stuff like this happens and it hits the news, sometimes people start getting "big ideas" if you know what I mean. Yeah, I have a desire to see the perpetrators caught, and I'm putting my thinking cap on in the meantime while the crime's still under investigation. So what? I don't get why that seems to bother some people so much.

You don't understand. Identifying the victims is a huge breakthrough in the case. The identification process was slowed consIderably because decomposition made taking fingerprints challenging, and the bodies were stripped of all personal items before being buried. A special forensics team with experience from the tsunami had to be called in. Imagine if they were unable to identify the victims, how difficult this case would be to solve. With their identities now known, the police are now no doubt going to be able to determine a huge amount of information about them including where they lived, their recent whereabouts, how long they have been in Thailand, criminal histories (if any), phone, bank, employment, and immigration records, who they associated with, etc. They will also be able to determine what the relationship between the two victims was. Everyone is assuming they were a couple, but that hasn't been established yet. I'm pretty sure the people who committed this crime are sweating bullets right now because of the discovery and identification of the victims.

I'm impressed by the way RTP have handled this case so far. They have definitely treated it as a high priority, and if anything, the fact that the victims were foreigners have provided an added element of urgency to their handling. I think the level of criminal sophistication of the killing and burying of the bodies has also probably alarmed the police. I'm not sure what you meant by your last sentence, but I can assure you that in some countries race, creed or color do negatively affect police investigations. There are countless examples of victims going missing or being murdered where communities of color have felt inadequate resources were devoted to solving the crime. Fortunately, I have seen little evidence of this pattern in Thailand. In regards to your earlier post about letting the police do their job, I fail to see how anything I've written has impeded their work. I have been consistently supportive of their efforts and appreciative of the progress they are making.

You could have PM'd me, bro'. ????

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The kids in the neighborhood call me "ฝาตโส". They giggle a lot, but refuse to tell me what it means. ????

Speculating about unsolved crimes is part of human nature. If you're playing the "it's disrespectful to the victims" card, I view showing interest in what happened as a form of respect for the victims. What I find curious is that as soon as the male victim was identified as a Nigerian, interest in this story seems to have fallen off a cliff.

Immigration status of victims will provide a lot of insight. Both may have had economic incentive to be in Thailand, whether here legally or illegally. Leaning away from love triangle towards robbery as potential motive. Too much planning and too many people involved in the murder and concealment of corpses for love triangle to be the motive. If robbery was motive, yes, criminal activity (drugs, love scam) could explain large amount of cash or valuables, but Nigerian guy could also have been a legitimate gem trader with large amount of cash on person. Vietnamese woman may have just been collateral damage in robbery.

Male shot three times; female once. News report shows grave location in relation to nearby roads. The guy interviewed is the Moo 8 Puu Yai. Also has blurred out videos of bodies while still in grave and after being removed. You can see the male's skin color had turned quite light in decomposition. The female reporter walking through the woods in the dark is like something out of the Blair Witch Project.

Skin can sometimes turn pale during decomposition. Very impressed with the police work done so far.

Big Development!!! Both bodies have been identified!!! Brief summary: Microchip in breast implant traced back to Vietnam. Also successfully took fingerprints from both deceased. Female's identity traced through Vietnamese Embassy to NGUYEN THI VAN, 33 years old, who has Vietnamese citizenship. Male's identity matched through fingerprints to: Anaebom Chika Henry, 38, a Nigerian national. https://www.ejan.co/crime/r8ed2q2vsh

I'm not sure if the subjunctive mood is properly thought of as a means to express a general state of mind or philosophical perspective on life. It's called a mood because its usage is not restricted to a single tense, but it's generally used to express uncertainty or feelings about specific situations, not to convey a day-in day-out ongoing mood, state of mind, or philosophical outlook. But I agree that the subjunctive mood is a delightful linguistic contrivance, and you are to be commended for considering it as a means to express a philosophical perspective.

Pakistan...not so far away from Thailand. Check out the glacier melt part of documentary. Look at what's going on in California and Lake Mead, the heat waves in England, drought and wild fires across Europe. River Po drying up in northern Italy. Yeah, climate change is a big joke, big hoax. Educate yourselves, people. Water from the Mekong River comes from the Himalayas too.

I misspoke. 490/kg doesn't sound too cheap for genuine butter, but 195 baht/kg doesn't sound right. Based on what you wrote, maybe worgeordie meant 195 for one pound (454 g). By the way, got a feeling that 195 baht/half kg price you quoted might be going up in the near future, as that price is in line with old quarter kilo price (103-118 baht for 227 grams).

What brand? At 195 baht/kg sounds too cheap to be 100% genuine butter. I've been paying in the range of 103 - 118 for Anchor 227 grams. Saw it recently at local Lotus's for something like 165 baht, but didn't buy it. @Denim Familiar with the brand, never tried it, but the word "Product" in the product name is sure fire tip off not pure butter.

As the global warming crisis continues to worsen people are going to be forced to come to grips with the reality that air travel is a significant contributor to carbon emissions, and that mass tourism is environmentally unsustainable.