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Those rare earths are also used by hundreds of electric vehicle manufacturers like BYD, mostly Chinese manufacturers. The old Chinese slogan applies "get the money and get out".

Sad to hear you are still following the "standard of care" model of health care where the medical practitioner/doctor prescribes treatment for the symptom, not the root cause of your condition. Look on the internet, youtube, there are ways to avoid rosacea and perhaps eliminate its re-occurance forever. Try searching youtube with Dr. Berg, or Dr. Ekberg or Dr. William Davis, and rosacea. I am not a medical doctor nor am I dispensing medical advice.

This happens often. The Police just want to close the case quickly and avoid difficult, long, extensive expensive investigations. It's just another Indian, and there are more than a billion more. Earlier this month, in Pattaya, an old foreigner is found dead on his bed, in a rented condo, no signs of violence or trauma. They automatically assume heart attack. Body is sent to Bang Lamung hospital for storage, then 10 days later to the police hospital in Bangkok for autopsy. Autopsy confirms heart attack but no toxic substance testing. Autopsy should be performed within 24 hours of death to avoid tissue decay and to get accurate test results, especially toxicological tests. Lots of foreigners get drugged, and perhaps over-drugged, by short time visitors. I have had 3 friends drugged and robbed in Pattaya, all survived to tell the tale. One friend got drugged in Las Vegas, but didn't survive.

Absolutely ridiculous treatment by the Police saying the death is "suspicious". It is an outright murder or homicide.

The city and the PEA need to be held responsible for these electrocutions. Whoever owns the power pole is 100% responsible for maintaining it. Who pays the power bill needs to pay for the death, minimum 5,000,000 baht plus medical plus funeral expenses.

I recommend 22c for the most frequently used rooms and 28C for the other rooms.

Hungry hippo 239b roast beef, Soi Buakhow near tree town

Immigration certainly know the names, passport details, photos and finger prints of the over stayers. Run one query against their database and have the answer back in an hour ( depending on the computer system ). They probably have the query already programmed, with detailed breakdowns by country passport, number in Thailand, number authorized for 60 days, number over stayed based on 60 days, etc. etc. As for foreigners owning businesses in Thailand, just go to the Ministry that registers the companies and directors, run a query against their database, and identify all directors without Thai Id numbers. Then go and visit the non-Thai directors, based on last location from immigration database. Of course a lot of data may not be up to date, and many small businesses may not be registered. But the database probably does contain the big fish, so fry the big ones first. Also fry the lawyers or consultants who assisted in establishing the nominee companies for foreigners. When one of these consultants is found, go through their files and bank accounts, to find other foreigners running companies. Nothing complicated here. I am just wondering who is benefiting from not doing the work or who has been blocking the work?

It takes a few months, maybe even a year for THB to start responding to US tariffs. For example: The U.S. plans tariffs of up to 3,521% on solar panels from Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Vietnam. Nearly $12B in imports could be impacted. Timing hasn't been announced. Also, Chinese built ships and Chinese owned ships will experience significantly higher US port fees starting in Oct. 2025, but continuing to increase in the months and years thereafter. So this will also increase the landed costs of Thai imports into US, if the exporters are using Chinese ships. Non-Chinese ships will be increasing their rates. Maybe the Chinese will get sneaky- take the cargo close to US and then transfer it to a non-chinese ship at sea which brings the cargo into a USA port. Something like what the Russians do with their oil, transfer at sea, to a ship that has never been in a Russian port. Anyways, the transfer at sea will cost $$, and USA may take other action to make transfer-at-sea less desirable.

He lost the house and got booted out of Thailand. Now in Cambodia.

One way you can lose property, like a house, is if you don't pay taxes. A friend bought land and a house, put it in company name. Four years later the tax department show up at his door and said we haven't received any tax returns from you and we don't think you are running a company/business. We are confiscating your house.

I understand that the directors hire/determine/appoint the Managing Director of the company, and this person is responsible for managing the company overall, same as a Chief Executive Officer or President. Who is the managing director?

They will sign off even if there are irregularities, else the audit won't be complete. They might add a sentence or two deviating from the standard compliance statement if they find irregularities. Also, the audit depth and verification process will have a significant impact on the final statement. Whoever was the auditor in the old TG, didn't reveal irregularities such as free flights authorized by management. Once I tried to buy a business class ticket on TG from CNX to BKK and they were sold out, so I bought economy class. Once I got on the flight, most of business class was filled with children. Talked to one kid and he said someone's dad worked for the airline and they all got a free flight.

The good EVOO will have a specification of PDO (protected designation of origin) or PGI (protected geographical indication). Make sure the harvest date is within 1 year of consumption.

I have reduced use of EVOO, just use a little on salads. I mostly use virgin coconut oil and butter now for frying.