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Thanks puchooay. Yes, that is where we are, about 20km west of Putthaisong. A good idea and will try it out if I don't find a charity depot where I can just drop off some boxes/bags of stuff. In our village, Ban Nong Waeng, there is only a primary school but there seems to be a plethora of schools in the area generally (and hospitals too-thank you number 9) so there will be plenty of places to try if that is the solution.

Thank you KhunLa. I'll give them a call.

We have too many clothes (and other things too) and would like to give them to some sort of charity. Is there a Goodwill, Oxfam or other sort of charity in Thailand? Sometimes it seems that a local Wat organizes this sort of thing but it seems not to be the case in our small village about 90km north of Buriram city. I don't mind delivering them to a depot not in our area. Any ideas please? Thanks very much.

OOPs.

Sorry about this-small thing. Immigrants and immigration are about entering a different country or area. Leaving are migrants who are migrating away from same. Kind of like 'throw' and 'catch': similar but different. It is very confusing to think of China as 'exporting immigrants'. Are they doing as in the UK? Arresting 'immigrants' (refugees) and 'exporting' (deporting) them to Uganda?

Dear ezzra: Show me one capitalist country that is doing well. The whole world is floating to yet another recession. It is corporate GREED that brings this on. The kind of Govt. means little. The money market and short selling commodities are key players in those seeking profit above all else. Inflation? It is the energy sector driving up costs and they have trillions of $ investment to protect. Big Oil owns virtually every Govt. in the world. B.O. will not stop until every drop of fossil fuel is pumped and burned. We are headed towards Autocracies worldwide, never mind the tired arguments about Communism vs Capitalism. It is Fascism that is on our doorstep.

Ongoing plans to switch my retirement visa in UK passport to retirement by marriage in new Canadian passport. I went to the Buriram immigration and asked about this and the person I spoke to said just get an entry stamp in my Canadian passport and he would start to process to get me a non 'O'. Then I would apply for a new retirement visa in ? days (I forget what it was). He said I could come in by land at Chong Chom, just south of Surin. Is this true? Now that there are, I think, no more TM6 entry-exit forms issued to air travelers does that make entry by land OK? Before it was only by air. So, what I was thinking is to get a single exit-entry stamp in my UK passport that has my current ret. visa in it. Then leave the country with it then turn around and re-enter on my Canadian passport getting a stamp in it and then go directly to immigration, the same day, to start the application for the 'O'. My thinking is that if there is a problem I would still have my valid retirement visa in my UK passport. Any comments please?