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We can all sympathize with the HKers. But all they're going to get from the rest of the world is sympathy.

Expecting anything from the Brits currently is particularly laughable.

Basically they're on their own. If they handle themselves right, they may just win this round. But there are an indefinite number of further rounds to follow ...

2 hours ago, allane said:

I would appreciate a reply then if you can, we will be returning from an international trip in late Oct.

I will certainly post a report. Planned for 8 October: retirement xtn using 65K monthly + 90-day.

My last 90-day was in July, after a trip to VN in April. TM30 wasn't mentioned.

I've never done one yet, either for internal or international travel, and never been asked at Kap Choeng.

Guess I'll find out the latest when I do my annual renewal + 90-day in mid-October ...

I take it this means the COMBO method is no longer doable at CM, but not the 65K per month income method?

I plan to use the latter at Kap Choeng (Surin) in mid-October for retirement extension. If I can't do that, I'm f/d. Can do the 800K in the bank for next year but too late for this year.

3 hours ago, Moonlover said:

Had you taken the trouble to read up on issues pertaining to the silting up of reservoirs, which is an international problem, you might just have resisted the urge to type this cheap and unnecessary Thai bash.

 

https://www.internationalrivers.org/sedimentation-problems-with-dams

It makes a pretty gloomy read! And no suggestion of anything anyone can do about it other than plant trees to stop soil erosion.

What about dredging? Is that not a possibility in many cases? Obviously would need to be a permanent activity in cases where silting up is rapid ...

I still find it hard to believe that, across all of Thailand's dams, a ratio of 40 capacity to 17 usable is normal.

I always wonder what the statistics about water in the dams really mean - 40 billion cu/m vs 16 billion cu/m usable?

Does that mean that, actually, the dams have 40 billion capacity but over half of that is taken up with mud & rubbish? Which, if true, would suggest that maintenance is not a strength (surprise! surprise!).

Lovely lovely. Lots of puddles but no poodles from Podul, here in south Surin.

48 hours of drizzle, rain, drizzle, stop, drizzle, rain, drizzle. No wind as yet. Hope it stays that way.

 South Surin has had excellent non-flooding rains for the last week - short downpours followed by steady rain or drizzle, on & off, on & off.

18 minutes ago, Longcut said:

Depart Roi et (ROI) by air @ 1100.

Arrive Don Muang  (DMK) @ 1155.

Check into hotel @ 1300

Hotel does TM-30

Depart Hotel next Day @ 0630

Depart Don Muang (DMK) @0830

Arrive Roi et (ROI) @0925

 

Am I required to fill out TM-30? Only been gone 22 ½ hours.  Will I need to keep my travel Itinerary to show to Immigration my next trip there? Just a point to show how ridiculous this is.

Certainly the IO will be impressed when you show him the details.

Trump's hair not showing orange. Clearly a fault there.

Dr MacBook/ProMobile at Fico Bldg, 5th floor, Sukhumvit 21. Have your p/p ready to surrender to Security on the grd floor when you enter.

As the ice melts across the whole of the Arctic and competition for newly-accessible resources hots up, I don't suppose the Russians - or indeed the Chinese - will be particularly sensitive to Greenlander or Danish wishes. The Norwegians are already in competition with the Russians over fishing round Svalbard. Some time over the next few years, choices will have to be made when the Usofans ask for extra territory & territorial rights for their big base in the north of Greenland. And it won't be just for listening & watching purposes.

I imagine the Canadians are watching all of this with interest too. They already have formerly-Russian Alaska on their north-west frontier. And now their north-east frontier is looking fragile, as well as their deep deep north ...

And in the deep deep south (Antarctica), Oz is also worried about non-agreed Chinese activity in nominally Australian territory.

51 minutes ago, MRToMRT said:

While the age of consent is relevant to the crimes, if you really want to be SHOCKED look at this (age of consent by country):

 

http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/age-of-consent-by-country/

The age of consent in Australia at Federation in 1901 was 12. It still was in Spain into the 1990s ... Standards vary from one culture to another & over time, and what people are allowed to do is not the same as what people approve of.

As for the particular individual the subject of this thread, he's not a particularly nice guy or noted for his IQ (just ask any senior civil servant who's had dealings with him).

Meantime, we all wait breathlessly for the baht to fall ... No sign yet.

Oh, wait on! was that a movement I just detected? ...

9 minutes ago, pookondee said:

Australia and other nations have a lot more to worry about without meddling in others affairs. 

Australia is complicit (and following the US) in the task of totally eliminating the middle class and making everyone working debt slaves.

Poppycock. Oz is the country where EVERYONE thinks of themselves as 'middle class'. It is the ultimate in bourgeois egalitarianism - a one-class society.

Can't win.

And the little island countries have realized that they're looking just dandy, in a competition between rich ol' Oz and rich polite Middle Kingdom. Can't lose.

2 hours ago, gk10002000 said:

Company security office foreign travel reporting trip policies and sw applications and email approvals and notifications I have to follow.  Other DOD Government foreign travel systems I have to use and report in  etc.  These are not state department hoops people have to jump through.  These are DOD Government travel things

And you cheerfully talk about that on this website? Obviously your security clearances are pretty high quality.

50 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

You are by no means the first person to come to that conclusion.

Well that's reassuring, at least as to my judgment. ????

I must say, as a conservative elderly homosexual Antipodean, that if I didn't know he's English, I would think him as gay as a cartload of monkeys.