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She's viking lovely

Agree - although class 2's are the real bargain if you can qualify, class 3 are still worth multiples more than the annuity rates you'd get on a private pension fund.

The Utah Mormon missionary Thai language school must be world class - that guy Ajarn Adam was trained there too. Btw, Is Look Mee Wannabe Mee (or Mee) any relation to Mee Mee Mee Sexy Mee (only Mee)?

The increase to 3 million kicks in next September for O-A extensions. For your May 2022 extension insurance is still 400000 / 40000, but when you extend in May 2023 it will be the higher amount.

Judging by this similar news report from four months ago it's likely due to the boredom of lockdown. https://www.todayonline.com/world/bored-thai-man-places-manhood-padlock-leaving-it-permanently-disfigured#:~:text=Twitter Email LinkedIn-,KUALA LUMPUR — A Thai man's private part has been left,into the lock%2C Ladbible reported.

Not sure when you're intending to travel, but could you get a short term loan from parents? With the London embassy money only needs to be showing in your account 30 days prior to application, I'd guess Germany is the same.

Steady on!

I've got a date with Cony organised at the weekend...

Guess we should feel sorry for his predecessor, who presided over a pandemic.

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thailand-purchases-another-30-million-doses-of-pfizer-vaccine-as-booster-doses/

McCartney's greatness is really showcased in the new documentary just out. Check out this clip of him creating "Get Back" out of thin air while waiting for Lennon to show up....

I think there's two reasons the non O-A was singled out for mandatory insurance back in 2019, irrespective of the muddled official reasoning as to why non O-A applications and extensions need insurance while the virtually identical non O extensions (affecting a much larger group of people) don't. Firstly, the government had been cracking down for some years already on the easiest and sometimes most abused visa options for several years, rendering earlier long stay routes such as repeat tourist and education visas no longer possible. Probably the best choice if over 50 was the excellent non O-A visa, which required money to be shown in an overseas bank only, and if properly used allowed up to 24 months stay, after which you could just rinse and repeat. In comparison with the other visa options available this was no doubt seen as unduly favourable, and increasing the cost of it by adding insurance was one way of taking the shine off this visa class and reducing the number of people choosing to use it. Since the Non O-A allowed someone to stay here long term without depositing a single baht it was an obvious target for compulsory insurance, as it didn't really require much in the way of proof of funds or income. Second, the insurance lobbyists in the government and the private sector both would surely like to see these requirements applied to all long stayers, but this wouldn't be so easy to achieve. In this sense non O-A holders serve as a relatively small test group for the new insurance, and whether it gets imposed on non O's at some point in the future is anyone's guess. It brings to mind the scrapping of embassy income letters for four countries, also in 2019. At the time we were told that the new rules would affect all countries but it soon became clear it was a targetted crackdown that was dropped as soon as it achieved the initial goal of stopping these countries using the income letters and have them switch to monthly transfer or bank deposit instead. In this case the underlying plan might be nothing more than to disincentivize people from applying for non O-A's and instead to switch them across to non O's and extensions.

Good to see they've thrown some extract of farang in there.

To be fair, his diligence in the mask wearing department was exemplary. He didn't let it slip below his nose once, whether clinging to the bonnet or being chased around the vehicle by the unmasked and bloodthirsty ladyboy...

Regarding the Emirates cover discussed earlier in the thread, it appears they are discontinuing this from the end of the month. https://thepointsguy.com/news/emirates-covid-travel-insurance/

"National Office of Buddhism to probe conduct..." A NOB probe should sort it out.

They just need the insurance certificate. Last year I gave the original, this year a copy was fine.

According to the Krungthep Mail it was three clinics and one Korean chiropractor. Adjustment fees looked excessive.

I got part of the initial US Pfizer batch in August / September, I guess we'll see booster doses rolled out on a larger scale from around February or March.

A copy of it is still required for every 90 day report.

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I should have read the whole thread before I commented ????

They could walk 500 miles, and they could roll 500 more, and they'd still only be in Lyon ????????

According to reports a few patrons caught fraternising on Soi Cowboy have just spent the whole weekend there.