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Oxx

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  1. Not true. Krung Thai transferred my maturing account to my savings account a few years ago. As a result Immigration decided to cancel my Investment Visa.
  2. Turned off ad blocker, selected "Retirement", then selected various dates in the next 3 weeks. No available appointment shown for any of them. No error messages in browser console.
  3. Very much depends upon the country. UK state pensions are not covered by the Thai-UK DTA. (Government pensions - those paid to former civil servants - however, are.)
  4. https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ask-cfpb/what-is-a-money-mule-en-2108/
  5. โหล (in this sense) is a classifier. It is used after a noun. So, for example, แอปเปิ้ลโหล is "a dozen apples". In a phrase such as "dozen times", "dozen" is acting as a noun, so can not be translated as โหล. (In Thai terms, "times" is the classifier here.)
  6. In one of the newspapers today there's a picture with a subtitle "No test, no entry" and following text "A visitor to the Government Complex on Chaeng Wattana Road gets her nose swabbed for a Covid-10 test". Do all visitors to Immigration there now need to get their nose violated? Or is it just for workers there? And if the former, is it free?
  7. But then I guess they don't want to be the next countries annexed by Russia. If only Ukraine's military had a bit more oomph.
  8. And wild dogs will happily eat the grassy stomach contents of any dead herbivore they come across.
  9. Or China would bring forward its plans to invade Taiwan before pilots could be trained to fly the 'planes.
  10. No mention of Bocelli, how much he cost, how many people saw him perform, how many tourists he attracted into Thailand, and the effective cost per individual of bringing him to Thailand.
  11. How about posting the links here? I'll happily follow them and report back. (I use Linux, not Microsoft Windows, so really am not at risk.)
  12. Most unlikely. I suspect if you click on the link they'll ask you to transfer the supposed duty to their account. And the amount is so small than when you realise you've been scammed you'll do nothing about it. Multiply by thousands and you've got a nice little earner.
  13. And I hate these posts because they show how many people are willing to condemn someone who is accused of being a paedophile before the evidence has been examined and had their day in court. It would be far too easy for someone with a grudge to say Mr. or Mrs. X is a paedophile, and for police to provide fake evidence or testament, so unjustly ruining X's life. In the case of the original alleged paedophile, he's already been blacklisted from Thailand, even though he and the evidence have been nowhere near a judge.
  14. In Afghanistan and Pakistan buggering young boys is normal. (I presume this passes as "child abuse" in your eyes.) They call it "bacha bazi" which translates as "boy play". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacha_bazi
  15. ...sure, he will have the chance to give evidence. However, he's already has already had his visa revoked and been blacklisted. The kangaroo court has decided he's guilty before there's even been a trial.
  16. I don't know, but I suspect it goes back at least several decades when the terms accurately described the pitch contours in standard (i.e. central region, well educated) Thai. The problem is that Thai pronunciation has moved on since then, but the terms haven't changed.
  17. Now that countries are starting to roll out a 4th jab, anyone know what the recommended period between the first booster and second one is? (Google hasn't helped me.)
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