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Have recently been searching for cataract surgery options in Thailand. The Aseannow thread came up but information was out of date, but it was a start. I can now vouch for and would like to update that a quality option at Hospital Sirivej Lamphun aka Princ Lamphun Hospital, at the small town of Lamphun (not far from Chiang Mai), is available. In the past they ran a promotion targeted at foreigners for 18,000 thb. As of this month - May 2024 that price is now 26,700 thb. Cataract Surgery with Standard Lens: 27,600 THB (*best price found in Thailand - May 2024) Cataract Surgery with Specialized Lens: 40,800 THB Hospital is available on Line for consulting and working out appointments. I have just completed the surgery - can recommend the caring staff, the nurses and aides, the hospital - Princ Lamphun Hospital, the facility, the surgeon. Hospital is in a rustic setting. The hospital is modern, clean, well maintained They do have a few English speakers. I had the fortune of a Thai friend, English speaker, who accompanied me. Highly recommend doing the same to ease all aspects of travel, lodging and dealing with hospital and staff.

Have recently been searching for cataract surgery options in Thailand. This thread came up but information was out of date. But was a start. I can now vouch for and would like to update that a quality option at Hospital Sirivej Lamphun aka Princ Lamphun Hospital, at the small town of Lamphun (not far from Chiang Mai), is available. In the past they ran a promotion targeted at foreigners for 18,000 thb. As of this month - May 2024 that price is now 26,700 thb. Cataract Surgery with Standard Lens: 27,600 THB (*best price found in Thailand - May 2024) Cataract Surgery with Specialized Lens: 40,800 THB Hospital is available on Line for consulting and working out appointments. I have just completed the surgery - can recommend the caring staff, the nurses and aides, the hospital - Princ Lamphun Hospital, the facility, the surgeon. Hospital is in a rustic setting. The hospital is modern, clean, well maintained They do have a few English speakers. I had the fortune of a Thai friend, English speaker, who accompanied me. Highly recommend doing the same to ease all aspects of travel, lodging and dealing with hospital and staff.

Ahhh well, another Faux informed inhabitant of the MAGA cult. Dream on

What's happening today is Trump headed for jail in a Federal prison. Really, really matters.

Zero truth here, just the usual Cult spam

BS and the only qualified candidate for president

I saw reported today I think it was The Guardian

What a great stroke of luck for America, they're leaving and making it clear they embrace fascist dictators and Russian followers of same. Un-American to the core. Good riddance and may others follow them in great numbers. Never thought we'd see the back side, and as it turned out, although we were hoping the 'Rapture' would take them from our midst, but of course 'no cigar' there. So now they're turning themselves into expat members of a fascist state and bargaining chips when at some future incarceration by Putin regime in Russia they'll be looking to America to rescue them. Rofl, may they rot in Siberia or wherever forever.

Count us all in - cause you earned it Big Time.

I pay mine at 7-11. Hand them the bill, they work it and I give them the money for the bill amount. So far no problems. And a short line to pay.

More like underwater I'd say and well deserved. Who does this anywhere?! Throw the book at them.

I was thinking about this prior to this news/article. The possibility existed that wholesalers and especially retailers could benefit from the taxation declines and just continue to sell at the old pricing. The government now will be cutting into that possibility as they'll be setting the pricing based on new taxation levels. A win for the retail customers (restaurant or wine shop). Seems like a brilliant move to simplify and cut to the chase of getting lower priced wines on the shelves.

I share your point of view. Just walking Sukhumvit these days plenty of unseemly falang types. Enough to make you shudder yourself and also wonder how Thais put up with dealing with them.

Ahhh click bait du jour. Yes, Yingluck is the last visible straw wronged in a coup and overthrow of democracy. But just the right moment for Whiners from hither and yon to grab a, shortlived, moment in the media. Another 'pass the popcorn' day in Land of Smiles.

Pass the popcorn...

Chinese proverb... “If you open a window for fresh air, you have to expect some flies to blow in.” Hardly a surprise, the mafia's here. Another sign of the, imho, irresponsible government selling off Thailand to hordes of tourists to rake in the money whilst corrupting the soul of a peoples, a heart of a nation with opportunistic and corrupt foreigners.

From the office of dumb and offensive ideas! What is their problem? Outrageously overpriced due to duties and taxes, taxes, taxes and now let's cover them up with preposterous tags and warnings.

My 2 cents... If the government was really interested in relieving the consumer the burden of the taxes and putting it into immediate effect, they should / could rebate the duties and taxes of the wines (my topic) to the wine companies that are holding, and able to prove, stock that entered Thailand under the 'old' system of taxies and duties. That would / should allow the drop in prices to show immediately versus wine merchants needing to sell off their current, taxed and levied, wines. Until the merchandise on hand sells through the new pricing won' / can't show up on the retail shelves and restaurant wine lists. To a couple of other points - 'fruit wine' - this is a category and device that allowed lower taxation. My contention is that no fruit was ever added to imported wines - it was just a device latched onto by savvy marketers and exporters by adding the words or suggesting fruit or fruit aroma / flavors on the label. Further I think the Thai government latched onto this idea, way back when wines started gaining a market here, by looking to China which was importing a lot of wine and also had domestic wines from Chinese vineyards that the Chinese like to "juice up" with fruit juices and aromatics. And last, wines from Chile or other origins that are cheaper, due to a tax agreement or entering as 'fruit wine' taxation scheme are not plonk wines. Very good, unadulterated, good value table wines. Praying they eliminate the no buying hours in stores and restaurants. Seems like I always want to buy wine during those hours and a bloody nuisance cannot.

An update to this topic after the dialogue petered out a month ago - for good reason. The noise problem was finally resolved and now living in the apartment next door to the pump room because: I never gave up pressing management, technicians and the landlord. And the landlord joined me in pushing the building's 'committee' and the daily manager - the landlord in Thai, as a Thai tipped the scales in our favor imho. The management never joined me directly in discussing my remedies (get a new quiet pump) - hubris or shame who knows, but I could tell they were taking action with the decline in noise and the end to crazy night hours running their pumps. As time has passed it has gotten better and better, and by now no longer an issue. Persistence paid off, staying in the fight worked, and well pleased no need to move out.

Maybe I've missed someone qualifying this, but under this government insurance scheme is there a defining difference between someone here on a simple tourist visa (in and out in 30 or 45 days) versus a foreigner here on say a one year renewable 'retirement' non O type visa?

Very much reminds me of the recent sliming of Joe Biden by that special prosecutor Hur. Ugly and unnecessary. Get off Thaksin's back, freed and pardoned, and let's get on with making life better Thailand.

Looking forward to things being put right again after the long tail of all the wretched corruption of the coup and it's makers. Thaksin free and Yingluck free, making their talents available once again for a better tomorrow in Thailand

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Good! keep the scum on the run and out of Thailand

Does noise annoy me ? Is the Pope Catholic? Noise in Bangkok is off the charts! Add to that long lines of traffic jams coming or leaving or just on Sukhumvit. And it's not just the audible noise. Everywhere are big walls, any walls screaming with glaring advertisements done in lurid colors and pictures to grab attention. Night joint bars and some restaurants with volume control of 1 to 10, turned up to 12! WTF is wrong with these creatures?! So thanks for asking, under my skin for some time now.