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for the monthly at least 65K baht, you must have 12 consecutive months of that amount or more and then you can change from marriage or 800K whatever you are doing - I am American and did the 65K for years as the embassy dropped that income letter also. No problems .

this is why thoseof us with an LTR already suggest you yourself contact the BOI either email or phone - they speak English well, and are very helpful when it comes to what YOU acutally need to qualify for that visa. They are well aware what the senior officials that approve one for the LTR need as they have been going through this process for a while. Just about everyone has a different financial and health insurance situation and agents are not ALWAYS the final answer IMHO.

and your source is what? a faulty memory or lack of reading/listening to world news? Yes, and what is making the oceans that much warmer - arctic melting faster each year, less and less sea ice to reflect the sunlight too.

while I didn't link you, I checked myself and saw that there are many scientific surveys done on the temperature changes especially the last two years - since there are so many reports, just google "temperature changes in the world" and then you can see the different reports from varied agencies. If any doubt about temperature change and the effects, just google "worldwide temperature change" too many different reports to link just one.

suggest you do some reading other than on this forum. Worldwide temperatures are being reported daily/weekly monthly and yearly at record highs recently. In addition, check the numbers of people buying Miami beachfront property - few and far between.l Even here in Bangkok, recently the resovoirs for drinking water have now been inundated by seawater as the rise has reached here. It is not necessary for all to realize that this is happening, if you are old no problem as you will be gone before the deluge but if you are young I hope you remember your coments against these facts of life. Normally I would say IMHO I believe this but I have been reading the temperatures increasing around the world, seeing the weather patterns change more drastically than normal. It would be great for my kids and friennds if this were something that is not happening but unfortunately it is.

totally agree with Mr. Blair on this issue. To totally replace oil-based fuels for vehicles with electric vehicles when many places are already having rolling blackouts due to high use of the currrent electrity available. I saw one report that said if one is building an electric vehicle manuracturing plant, first they needed to build an electricity generating plant in that area. with global temperatures reportedly rising at an alarming rate, a/c will be required by many folks making the situation even worse. IMHO anyway.

since this crash, DOD and FAA have halted those flights in that area as everyone has noted, too frigging crowded for checkout flights.

in addition the army said the altimeter in the helicopter was faulty from the altitude that the control tower was measuring

I haven't seen anyone beat up on the fact it was a female pilot- the only thing I said about her is that she failed to follow the instruction of the radar operator within the control tower.

yeah, cost continues up up up....now they are talking of a voucher program for the health benefits - govt has decided that their 72% is too much so you can probably look forward to higher cost.

from subsequent reports, the Defense Department and FAA have now cut out those helicopter flights in that location as yeah, too congested an area and obviously too dangerous too. These plus other issues brought about this horrible tragedy for these 67 and their families.

There was a bit in passing the other day, probably about the tariffs and just said that the government was still talking about the worldwide income taxation but that was the only thing mentioned at all.

MONEY! comes from a rich family - father left him a ton of money which he managed to lose. Has been babied his whole life. Father's doctor signed a paper saying he had heel spurs so he wouldn't be drafted for VN but he played all the big sports in college so no heel spurs for sure. He literally thinks that his S*^t don't stink, that he can do anything he wants at any time as he has gotten away with that life for 78+ years. IMHO a sick individual and wonder why the Democrats were so stupid to put Harris up against him but then again they put Hillary up against him before so they obviously wanted him in that hot seat. Unless folks wake up, he will never leave the White House unless he croaks I do believe. I hope his antics work for my kids and family and rest of the world this time. I am too OLD to even want to participate in his world of the future.

yeah and based on this latest report, I even wonder why checkout flights were ever allowed in such areas. The pilot obviuosly didn't pay attention to the "turn" and yeah the altitude problem with the helicopter sure didn't help either.

Oh you mean being treated by another though Thai driver of sports car that actually hit and killed a Thai police officer yet still remains free and in two year's time could have the charges dismissed due to the statute of limitartions? Yes IMHO too many people really do escape just punishment for their crimes today, not only in this country but in many courtries around the world all because of their wealth and power!

Yeah, just like the USA. Congress in working up the new govt budget is cutting the benefits and govt share of the health insurance costs by increasing 3.3% of the monthly input for retirement, plus will not pay the 72% of health insurance, plus some other changes too - on the contract that these civil servents signed onto 40 years ago - then they gave the civil servents the choice of joining the new system as opposed to the old system (of which I luckily did not agree to the changes - as a manager when asked if folks should change over to the new system my response was "why is the government doing these changes? answer - to save money - from where? - your pockets) thus not so many of us did change but some did. There were some positives to the new system but I liked the security of the old system and it worked out well for me. But there are even some more minor adjustments possibly going to be recommended to so I am absolutely positivie that the current civil servents are not going to be happy and also it will mean that getting a lot of folks to join the civil service will change - But, then if the economy tanks, folks will be looking for a job just about anywhere! Have a great (HOT) day!

I do believe that is all part of the "ZERO-DOLLAR" business of the Chinese. If you haven't been paying attention to local complaints from the Chinese-owned stores or rented by Chinese folks then since they negotiated their trade deal with the Chinese, the shops have been inundated with super cheap qualtiy on Chinese merchandise, in many cases copies of Thai-made items. Same with Chinese tourists, they got vouchers to shop but only at the Chinese controlled shops and therefore weren't spending so much here.. After Thai complants, I guess the Chinese are now going to VN instead so the Thais afe compaining now that Chinese tourists have dropped drastically. IMHO of course.

well, This is not something new - if you bought things in decades past, you might recall that the US had restrictions on Japanese products and to get around that problem at first or for a while I don't remember all about it except Japan just changed the name of the manufacutring plants to "USA" so the products were stamped "made in USA." but then, the quality of the Japanese products improved until they became more popular and didn't need the fake location.

any questions you might have concerning meeting any of the qualifications, timing of pensions etc, I an LTR holder suggest in order that you get correct information for your own situation, you contact the BOI office either by phone or by email and explain your situation and ask what you need to do to meet the qualifications. On this forum you could get 100 answers and none could be right or all could be right but then you would not be sure until the BOI looks at your papers and decides whether or not you qualify for the LTR and EXACTLY what you must do to qualify.

Strange, I have been in Thailand over 30 years with some years in the 70's 90's and almost all of the years of this century and I have yet to experience anything like that. Whenever I go into any store and need something that i do not immediately see, I just talk to anyone that looks like they work there. When I went to check in for the 1st year of my LTR, after check in at the information desk, they said the 90-day window. I looked but didn't see it but saw a Thai with a badge hanging around his neck walking through the area. So I asked him (in Thai) if he worked there and he smiled and said what window do you want (in Thai) and I said the 90-day window but for the LTR and he smiled and said follow me and he led me around the hallways to the 90-day window with a smile - I thanked him and then I was out of there in less than 5 minutes as there were no others in front of me. In stores, the same thing but usually there are a lot of local employees and they always seem happy and ready to help if I ask. maybe my smile and speaking Thai has helped but I sure have never had the type of experience as Aurelien related. Wear a bigger smile whenever going to buy something a see if that helps.

I agree totally, IMHO since his birthing and early life, he was treated as a GOD and thinks that is how everyone should be treating him today. I don't think he feels any remorse whatsoever for those he shafts for not catering to his every whim.

Yeah, He and other doctors when chatting indicate that in medical school they had less than a month on nutrition and therefore, when it comes to treated people with poor food practices, most doctors have no idea of what to do other than prescribe pharma help when a basic diet change could probably fix whatever is needed. Dr. Li said that very question when patients asked what foods might help, led him to begin research in foods to more or less replace pharmas though he will not openly state ignore your doctor but says to take both, the pharma and the diet and they are finding too that many times a diet change increases the effects of the pharma. And yeah on this forum folks are set in their ways and that is why they came to Thailand in the first place. Luckily though with the warm weather, there are an abundance of good foods readily available all yhear round.

But, you all seem to fail to realize that he wants to be KING of the roost and that is why he admires the autocrats, that he so much wants to have their power over the US and the western countries. But in doing "his thing" since he is basically STUPID he fails to understand why things are not going as he dreams they will. MO anyway.

Yeah, At 78 years of age, I get up early and as I see another sunrise, I smile to still be here. I also got into that habit, not so much early to bed but early to rise so now early to bed and early to rise means I am getitng better sleep habits.

yes inhis researches mentioned in his books, he takes a lot from Chinese and from Greek/Italian but yeah, many medicines today got their start from the old Chinese methods and materials. From what I have read he is also quite an accomplished Heart specialist. Man of many talents and glad he shares so much with us.