Scouse123

I don't get a state pension fore another six years. I've always been self-employed, even when I had property and businesses in Thailand. Other cash and monies, except for a decent sized lump in a Cambodia bank, are wrapped up in building projects in the UK at the moment. I can show the properties and projects in my sole name, but they are in the UK. So, I don't think that would satisfy them, would it?

We are all in different positions. If the situation suits you, good for you. Without getting into it, I am still developing and reinvesting cash and capital in properties as well as building them with my sons in the UK, I am only just back here to Thailand, February 6th. These LTR arrangements don't suit me, and definitely not anything that involves investing in Thai bonds and securities. The 800K method suits me, and once a year for a new extension to an immigration office 1 hour away is fine. Private health insurance, I have as a matter of common sense.

I won't be signing up for any LTR or any other poor value for money scheme, nor offers from the Thai government, including their poor return bonds. The income tax, I will just do the wait and see approach, I am in no rush as it appears nor is the Thai government, as they have failed to expand on anything since the announcement. Whatever, It's the beginning of 2024, so anything possibly due, won't be until 2025, and I see no reason for a stampede to accountants, who will try to scare us to death to use their services, nor will I join the chorus of ' I'm leaving, that is the final straw ' brigade, who are, like me, are not in possession of the facts nor implications at this stage. A question for the ' experts ' though, if these rules come to pass, what about all those importing large amounts of funds to purchase condominiums and businesses? Surely, one would think that the government will be shooting themselves in the foot? A friend of mine, who is a long term resident and former UK tax inspector, seems to be of the opinion that this was initially aimed at people who are wealthy, such as Thais, avoiding tax and also aimed at those in the cryptocurrency industries, those working remotely in the Far East with online businesses and those involved in large stocks and share transfers. It's possible retirees are at the moment, until clarification, getting swept up with the sandstorm. I moved monies a long time ago, but I still do such things as new cars and trucks etc, however, I will closely monitor expenditure in this country until I know the full implications.

Was that comment necessary?

Why do posters say things like this with no knowledge of the Thai prison system. The Thais won't give a damn. It is not vilified like it is in the West. That's just how it is.

Cull the feral dogs and the original irresponsible owners who wanted them as puppies but not as grown dogs.

A previous blurred out photo of them sunning themselves showed them covered in female areas, of concern to some. No, they were not topless.

Four officials, a photo opportunity and three days in ASEAN now news. A monk masturbating on public transport managed one, and no photo op or officials. Ha! That's right, it was foreigners!

They weren't in a temple. And they weren't in somebody else's home. They weren't topless or naked. They were two young girls sunning themselves on a grassed out area. Not even worthy of three days in the news on ASEAN Now, but it managed it. Some people need to get out more often.

Why is there this massive security apparatus installed is the question, but you know the reasons why it is there already. Mass murder, and what was committed by Hamas last October? They weren't playing hopscotch

It's never going to be proportionate, it's not scores on the doors, nor is it tit-for-tat mentality. They are now trying to dismantle a vast network that has been built from the vast network of tunnels to weapons stockpiles and bombs over the last 18 years. Schools, residential areas and hospitals are known areas where Hamas keeps its weapons supplies to cause maximum civilian casualties, in the event of an Israeli response, so they can go to the UN playing the victim and trying to widen it into a wider conflict to involve other Arab nations in the region.

Agreed, And also there is this:- In June 2007, Hamas fighters took control of the Gaza Strip and removed all Fatah officials. President Abbas, on 14 June, declared a state of emergency, dismissed Haniyeh's national unity government and appointed an emergency government, and suspended articles of the Basic Law to circumvent the needed PNC approval. You have now militants controlling the country through force, not the ballot box. There have been no elections since 2006. You therefore have a terrorist unelected de facto government. Amazing, Israel gets attacked without any warning and 1300 plus civilians murdered and 248 plus taken hostages as shields, and the world says little. Israel responds to them and they are the bad guys.

No, Thailand is looking after itself as usual. Friends with everybody, but only when it suits them. It was during the last release of Thai hostages that Muslim militants in the South of Thailand were taking credit for their close contacts with Hamas.

That's exactly what I was thinking. He has obtained the relevant visa and that is the whole point of METV visas

So it looks like these kids have been terrorising the neighbourhood for a while and were also involved in the rape of a 19-year-old girl only to have it swept under the carpet, due to two of them having policemen as fathers. Then driving and having access to a pickup between the ages of 13 and 16 years old, to remove and dump the body. They were regularly out causing trouble, drinking alcohol and using Kratom, (and probably other substances too) no doubt well aware they were protected due to their fathers' being police. Their parents must be proud of what they are bringing up. One thing these kids know, and they aren't as stupid as they give the impression, is that they will be treated with kid gloves. I have said before, they need to take a leaf out of the USA system and when they wilfully commit such crimes, knowing the likely outcome will be death to the victim, charge them as adults in the courts. Only then will the message sink through their sub normal heads. The word will soon get around, especially if it can't be swept away. Like all thugs, they are cowards when they are on their own.

Lovely kid, I hope that the owner was fair and rewarded her substantially for her honesty.

I think the Japanese came for a bit of light, comedy relief from the Keystone cops! There is really nothing Japan can learn from these bunch of misfits in uniform.

So a sad end to a 31-year-old man with a young child, who was working, going about his life and doing his job. He was providing for his family only to have that taken away from him by a 23-year-old idiot who booked a taxi knowing he didn't have the money to pay for it. A show of bravado in front of his 16-year-old girlfriend?? To then try to use the depression excuse doesn't cut it in any way. The mother then, in her great wisdom, decides to desecrate a corpse, by setting the body on fire and stealing his car. I don't suppose calling the police was a factor in this reasoning? What a great parent. RIP to the poor victim, who set off home that day just to earn a few baht and didn't know it would be his last day on earth.

I recall bikini clad Thai women (looking like Coyote dancers) dancing at a cultural event attended by HM The King's mother. It stopped and many red faces and people scurrying for cover when the King's mother said she felt it' inappropriate' for the said event. Realistically, a few signs around and about cultural awareness would stop this behaviour in its tracks, it's through ignorance not intent to offend. Storm in a very small teacup.

Yeah, A well-organised powerful mafia, but that doesn't sum up Japanese culture

It's called backing up your phone.

Yeah, Smart enough to get a youngster to sell his backside, not his own! Maybe an entrepreneur.

Maybe, or on the other hand, maybe an opportunist.

He's 19, maybe still learning the ropes. Surprisingly or not, though, obviously the pimp didn't bat an eyelid when he thought he was supplying Thai kids to Thai adults. Hence, the ability of the cops to snare him.

Why?