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Having a biopsy if PSA is over 4 or even under 4 if PSA rises more than 0.75 in a year was the standard 20 years ago. Now an MRI or PET scan can be done to look for cancer with followup biopsy if needed. An advantge of this approach is that this avoids the risk of a biospy missing a cancerous area of the prostate. If anyone has exprience with a Gallium 68 PET scan in Thailand, I would like to know, as it's very useful for detecting abdominal cancer as well as prostate cancer and possible metastaces (in cases of high PSA).

Yes. I had an intermediate SSD format (pre NVMe) in my Sony Vaio. By the time I replaced it, this format was no longer available in bigger capacity, so I had to downgrade to SATA which is slower. To use the old SSD as an external drive, I had to order an enclosure from Hong Kong.

If caught early, brachytherapy is good to maintain functionality. Today there was a BBC report about radiation done in 5 sessions being as effective as an extended course, and no hormone therapy needed. No recurrence after 5 years in 95% of 700 cases. No mention of complications, though.

Isn't there a shop where you can buy an SSD and a separate enclosure to put it? I took my old SSD out of the laptop and bought an enclosure online. You have to be careful to get an enclosure that works with the SSD in question.

It's not so simple. I used to live in France, and in 1979 the France-US tax treaty was revised and non-working American residents were subject to French tax on worldwide income. The treaty had a new provision to allow Americans extra credit on their US tax returns to compensate for the new situation. It was very complicated, so I and another 20000 Americans moved.

You have to have sufficient foreign income on Form 1116, unless the treaty allows an amount of US income to be classed as foreign income equal to the gross income reported on the Thai tax declaration. To me it's not clear whether this exception is allowed in the Thai-Us treaty. It is allowed in other US tax treaties.

You might lose on the exchange rate compared to an ATM withdrawal (if the ATM charge is sent to your country in Baht). This is significant for big withdrawals - THB 30K for example.

You can get a SGD 55 hamburger (with foie gras) at DB Bistro in Singapore. The original one in NY was definitely worth a try.

The solution for those who can is to send the condo money before becoming a resident. For clarity, then opening a new bank account to use as resident might help.

It's not so easy as before to get money out of China.

Maybe it will be many young Taiwanese escaping Xi's grasp.

I gave up on Barclays around 50 years ago after they lost incoming transfers in several countries. Last straw was in London where after several weeks they found some evidence of the payment so decided to be nice and give me the money.

DId you consider the time to unload the ship and to load a ship on the other side, not to mention downtime if other ships are occupying available berths?

Could this save any cost or time compared to sailing through the Straits of Malacca? Is the issue piracy or collision danger?

Not sensible at all. The same kind of thinking ended up with the border moved to accommodate Cambodia, to possess a temple located on the top of an escarpment which is otherwise Thai territory. But that was 1962 - the Cold War, and Cambodia's lawyer was a former American foreign minister. Greece is not asking Italy back for art discovered in Greek sites in Sicily (a part of Italy). The Elgin Marbles at the British Museum is another kind of problem.

A usufruct isn't for a fixed number of years but rather for the life of the holder.

In Chiang Mai utilities put my name in Western script but the address in Thai, so I asked the French consul to make a letter (in French) to explain that it was a phone bill and to give the address in Western script. That was for a French bank. As for my HSBC account, I changed from former US address to Thai address by going to the branch in London.

Interesting. So Article VI (3) reads: "3. Companies of either Party shall not be subject within the territories of the other Party, to the payment of taxes upon income not attributable to sources within such territories, or upon transactions or capital not attributable to the operations and investments thereof within such territories." But Article VI (1) reads, in part: "1. Nationals and companies of either Party shall not be subject to the payment of taxes, fees or charges within the territories of the other Party, or to requirements with respect to the levy and collection thereof, more burdensome than those borne by nationals of all third countries." So as an individual, this treaty does not help. You should read the Thai-US treaty on double taxation. You can probably get a credit on your US taxes for income taxes paid to Thailand.

That's confusing. The treaty with the US doesn't say that. It allows a credit for tax paid to Thailand. In some US treaties with other countries it's possible to consider US-sourced income as foreign income to the extent that one doesn't have income in the other country but tax is imposed anyway. In that way the credit calculation will probably allow full credit for tax imposed by that other country. Assuming that the Thai-US treaty in its murky language allows this, tax imposed on funds brought into Thailand would not be a problem (except for finding help to fill out the extra IRS form involved).

It sounds as though some people claiming that they were transferring savings earned in a previous year will be out of luck if they have income in the current year.

I've been there. It's a beautiful and interesting structure.

The vector in both cases is mosquitoes - different species, but the diseases are caused by a virus for Dengue and a parasite for Malaria.

Qdenga is discussed in this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengue_vaccine

It used to be that the first 90-day report after returning needed to be filed in person or by mail. Has that changed, or does it depend on the changwat where one lives?

Hollywood has a jaundiced view of Muslims & Arabs, and it sounds as though various commenters got their take on Islam from Hollywood. Muslims respect Christians & Jews as People of the Book, so they were not required to convert to Islam during the age of conquest, rather unlike the time when Catholics took over from Muslims in Spain. That's when Jews left for North Africa, etc, and are known as Sefardis.