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The thing with public hospitals is to have a private doctor who also works at the public hospital (which is the norm). My experience here in Prasat Surin, with a large & VERY popular public hospital just 2 kms from home: You see your doctor at his clinic in town (10-minute wait) and make a time & date for an op next day requiring hospital facilities (in & out on the dot). 4000฿.

The only security guarantee that would be effective for Ukraine at this point would be the presence on its territory - just a bit behind the lines - of 50,000 well-armed & trained NATO troops ready to fight (preferably British, French & Polish, with the Germans back further in logistical support).

Well, I don't suppose the poor people whose houses were destroyed by Cambodian shells are objecting, or wondering where the shekels came from. What about all the other baht trillionaires? What are they donating for the peasants along the border and for the soldiers including the families of dead soldiers?

Well, 12 months in advance for the new p/p does seem a bit of an overkill. Given the cost of an Oz p/p, you don't want to lose too much of it voluntarily ... 6 months in advance is already stretching it. Given that the process takes up to 4 weeks, I should think initiating it 2 months in advance should suffice. Motto: Be prepared but don't die in a ditch.

Thanks. Noted in detail & understood.

Wow, that is good news. I couldn't remember exactly how it went last time except that I did it all at the embassy in BKK and paid extra (on top of the already astonishing fee) to get it done within (from memory) 1 week, and I picked it up at the Embassy. I'll certainly do it online & by post etc next time (Dec26). Cheers

All good. Thanks.

OK, thanks for that. I think that on that basis I'm in the clear for this round and won't need to worry about getting a new p/p till Aug/Sep next year.

Just a last-minute worry as I start to gear up for the annual renewal: (1) My annual O/A renewal is due by 30 October 2025 & my 90-days is due 26 October so that's fine; (2) My Oz passport expires on 10 January 2027. Which means I will have over 1 year of passport to go when I renew my O/A in late October. But I saw somewhere a day ago a suggestion that you had to have 18 months up on your passport for O/A renewal (in which case I will have to head to BKK to fix this in September). It wasn't clear however and maybe it was only for your first application for an O/A (which in my case was a decade ago). Could someone clarify this for me, please. Thanks in advance.

Easiest - but it takes a bit of effort of adjustment over time - is to have the 2 dates (90-days & visa renewal) to more or less coincide. This year my next 90-day report is due on 26 Oct and my retirement O/A annual renewal is due by 30 Oct. So I'll schedule my visit to the Surin Immigration people in between those 2 dates.

Not if you look at the map above. But that could depend on the precise geography and the steep terrain ...

A very unpleasant human being, unwanted anywhere. Just ask any senior Brit civil servant who's had to deal with him..

Key point here (that often gets forgotten/deliberately confused): Thailand does NOT claim possession of the Preah Vihear temple and has repeatedly said so. It does claim possession of the lands to the north, east & west of the temple related to the local geography. Thailand's argument on this point seems to me weak, as they accepted the French ruling on the matter early in the last century and have lost out in the international legal rulings ever since.

No.

What is surprising is that nowhere in the OP is there expressed the slightest surprise that 'influence & resources' could be used to change a Constitutional Court verdict. The 'article' merely takes such behaviour for granted & unexceptionable. How low has Thailand sunk ... or perhaps it was always there.