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Last I heard, in America it's dentists.

In Thailand it's expats.

Expats do seem to have a rather high suicide rate in Thailand... It's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop at the bottom...

There is a bit more to this story than has been revealed...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2015/03/31/andrew-rork-getty-found-dead-in-potential-homicide-as-the-getty-family-tragedy-continues/

Details revealed by TMZ, and simply attributed to “sources,” indicated Getty had “suffered a traumatic injury to the rectal area,” adding that “paramedics found significant bleeding.”

Just stick a short piece of rubber hose over the shift lever to make it larger and easier to get to... A trick I learned from the Thais, but they do it so they can wear flip flops and still shift gears without tearing up their toes...

BKK to a village - quite a leap ... Why you need to live in a village where security might be on the low side and neighbors could keep you awake most hours of the night ? You could get a very nice house or condo incl. internet, Gym etc. for 20k in Chiang Mai

20,000 baht a month!!! ???

in the villages just outside of Chiang Mai you can rent a beautiful Thai Mansion for 10,000 baht a month!!!

I would say that anybody paying 20,000 baht a month in rent in this " Third world Country " is being completely ripped off !!!

F.J ( kisses to you all viewers... x )

Please, tell us the names of some of these villages around CM where you can rent a "Thai mansion" for 10,000 baht per month...

As I waited, I noticed that there were quite a few people who were able to see officers without queue numbers. Some of them appeared to be agents accompanying single foreigners or families of foreigners. (Do agents have special arrangements to see immigration officers outside of the queue system?)

I was at CW three weeks ago to get a non-imm O visa and was using an agent... There are two immigration officers assigned to do nothing but agent requests... I had to make an appearance to have my photo taken, but that was it and I was in and out in 15 minutes...

The soaring debt is one of the major economic woes and the government has to rule out consumption-led stimulus measures, Sommai said.

Well, they blew the bubble in the first place... Let's hope they are not as stupid as their western counterparts and follow the above plan...

Where's horner with his whining. Or will he just accept the engine is crap? I mean out classed by their 2nd team.

He's having a beer with Fernando, who is most likely questioning his leaving Ferrari for McLaren...

Nothing new here, Burger King prices are the same across the Kingdom... Same 300+ baht for a whopper "value meal" whether at Swampy or any other BK in the country... If you want your western grease fix you gotta ante up...

Hmm, I wonder who the BBC is going to replace Jeremy with on Top Gear, Piers Morgan?

Nothing like firing the top character on the BBC's top show worldwide...

Ludwig van Beethoven...

Western controlled hegemony is being shown the door... The AIIB is a direct threat to western central banks, the World Bank and the IMF...

http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21646740-development-finance-helps-china-win-friends-and-influence-american-allies-infrastructure-gap

Early members of the AIIB include:

Thailand

New Zealand

UK

France

Germany

Italy

BRICS nations

Those considering joining:

Australia

Japan

S Korea

Luxembourg

Switzerland

That was the social contract.

Work for a certain value, leave a certain percentage for social security, and get back a certain value as pension - wherever you are.

I deny ECB the right to break that contract.

Already being done...

European nations begin seizing private pensions

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/The-Adam-Smith-Institute-Blog/2011/0102/European-nations-begin-seizing-private-pensions

Poland Nationalizes 1/2 of the nations private Pensions

http://nomadcapitalist.com/2014/05/02/retirement-account-confiscation-avoid-myra/

I would rather a government looked after my private pension than a dodgy IFA and offshore company (Friends Provident (IoM)).

Government taking control of many private pension providers would be a good thing IMHO.

You have missed the point, which is that these countries have nationalized their pension plans to STEAL the contributions by citizens, to PAY their outstanding debt obligations...

That was the social contract.

Work for a certain value, leave a certain percentage for social security, and get back a certain value as pension - wherever you are.

I deny ECB the right to break that contract.

Already being done...

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/The-Adam-Smith-Institute-Blog/2011/0102/European-nations-begin-seizing-private-pensions

Poland Nationalizes 1/2 of the nations private Pensions

http://nomadcapitalist.com/2014/05/02/retirement-account-confiscation-avoid-myra/

http://rt.com/usa/241517-white-house-administration-foia/

White House exempts itself from FOIA requests

Notwithstanding claims of being the most transparent administration ever, the White House now says that an executive branch office is exempt from United States Freedom of Information Act requests effective immediately.

As of Tuesday, the Office of Administration will no longer have to heed FOIA requests — the likes of which had for decades helped explain the inner workings of White House functions — according to a notice published in the Federal Register this week.

Although the White House is largely exempt from having to answer FOIA requests, the Office of Administration has until now been among the few exceptions concerning the commander-in-chief. In the final rule published on Tuesday morning, however, the deputy assistant to President Barack Obama writes that the office’s parent agency, the Executive Office of the President, “is removing regulations from the Code of Federal Regulations related to the status of records created and maintained by the Executive Office.”

Has a formal complaint been lodged with the Police about this alleged KIDNAPPING, ASSAULT & ROBBERY ?

What help are you expecting to receive from a forum?

Koh Chang is small island. I can`t report ot too the police.....they were part of the gang that kidnapped us!

There`s no "alleged" about it. It happened, it was terrifyingly real. I have proof and witnesses.

I have reached out in desperation to lots of people. I have never been in this situation. I have no idea what to do. The Army seem powerless. The British Embassy can do nothing. I reached out to this forum to see if any members had any advise on what the hell I should do. I am scared for my family.

What`s your advice for me and my family?

Err, get off the island, move, vamos, get the hell out of Dodge...

Besides that, I'm not sure what you think anyone on TVF can do for you...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-13/why-dollar-rising-global-monetary-bubble-craters

Why The Dollar Is Rising As The Global Monetary Bubble Craters

Yet I am constantly braced with questions about the US dollar and its impending demise. The reasoning seems to be that if America is a debt addicted dystopia—-and it surely is—- won’t the US dollar sooner or later go down in flames as the day of reckoning materializes? Won’t you make money shorting the doomed dollar?

Heavens no! At least not any time soon. The reason is simply that the other three big economies of the world—Japan, China and Europe—are in even more disastrous condition. Worse still, their governments and central banks are actually more clueless than Washington, and are conducting policies that are flat out lunatic—–meaning that their faltering economies will be facing even more destructive punishment from policy makers in the days ahead.

I have 3bb in CM and can confirm that the circuits have been up / down like a yoyo for the last few days... Usually during the day with slow throughput to the US and some intermittent 100% down-time... I'm on the 3bb 30/3 plan with fiber to the house... There have been other similar threads in the past few days over the same issue in CM...

I guess it would be contingent on which jurisdiction you pay taxes to... For the US, it's Jan - Dec...

Who would agree to work 24/7/365?

Ask any Filipina working in the Middle East or Hong Kong...

This is a threat to Kiev to turn the gas back on to eastern Ukraine and Crimea...

http://www.euronews.com/2015/02/25/kyiv-s-suspension-of-gas-flow-to-eastern-ukraine-smells-of-genocide-says-putin/

Name and shame? Post their picture on their local newspaper back home? In USA, fine about $10,000 USD....I will email Thai official now and let them know. Good luck getting mad for getting caught drinking and driving. Nobody will feel bad for you, unless you really do need help. Speaking of which, if you were in Spicy earlier, I think the fine should be doubled and pictures sent to facebook immediately!!!! lol.

I simply flash them my elite card, speak my fluent thai, show them my thai gf who loves me very much, and then i am escorted to the moo baan!!!!

Are you serious or simply demented? Serious question...