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  1. John Drake
    Exactly what do they mean by "termination?"
  2. John Drake
    The "Big Fish" the article says Thai IRS is after would probably be people on Thai Elite and the Long Term Visa?
  3. John Drake
    Why not?
  4. John Drake
    He's going to eat up the small individually owned shops, and if any owners refuse to play ball, then what?
  5. John Drake
    If that didn't make you sick, nothing will.
  6. John Drake
    I predict that in one year the air pollution will be the same, the debt will be worse, and we will have had either a flood or drought or both.
  7. John Drake
    Had a cable like this slip down in front of my house in the village. Called my housekeeper and she actually got somebody to come out and fix it within 15 minutes.
  8. John Drake
    PTP just makes things up as they go along. Need money for the dodgy digital wallet? Shazam! Create an income tax on foreigners out of thin air. Instead of going in and cleaning up the organized crime surrounding loan sharks, just go poof! and make everybody magically negotiate. Ought to tell loan sharks to clear all debts and get out of the business or face 30 years on a chain gang.
  9. John Drake
    Looks like he's in his mid to late 70s. Probably will look worse after this accident.
  10. John Drake
    Francisco Franco didn't take this long to die.
  11. John Drake
    5.1 billion baht boondoggle.
  12. John Drake
    Only six month to go until we begin to get the new form 7162 notification.
  13. John Drake
    Another deadbeat short term tourist. Sure would be nice if Thai officials would stop blaming people on retirement visas for cheating the hospitals, when it overwhelmingly seems to be younger short stay tourists.
  14. John Drake
    He's dead. And that's a good thing, because even at age 100 he was actively involved in making mischief by representing the PRC.
  15. John Drake
    If they had this, they probably wouldn't have gone to loan sharks in the first place.
  16. John Drake
    Maybe if Thai officials stopped talking about and seeking meetings over this movie, then people might begin to forget about it.
  17. John Drake
    And then turn around and charge the victim. Unbelievable.
  18. John Drake
    After an hour, I suppose the police and onlookers were assured he had run out of money to toss off the balcony.
  19. John Drake
    Rahu? If it's a shadow planet, how do you know where it is?
  20. John Drake
    JKN worked well because it inhabited a profitable niche, importing Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Indian television. It also tried to export Thai series. But then someone dangled the bright shining jewel of Miss Universe in front of Anne's eyes. There was no one in the company to say, "no." It's an entirely family run business.
  21. John Drake
    I thought everyone agreed that the Thais (and Filipinos and other SE Asian farmworkers) were innocent bystanders. What's there to negotiate. Just hand them over. They're not part of this war. Why is "negotiation" even a factor, here? They know where they are and how to get them out. But Hamas is simply extending the agony and terror for as long as they can get some psychopathic satisfaction out of it. Let the Thais and third party nationals all go.
  22. John Drake
    Then why didn't they get all the Thai workers back? What's this game being played by holding some in captivity?
  23. John Drake
    Prayuth handled this sort of thing better than Srettha.
  24. John Drake
    There are at least three Kinokuniya stores that I know of, all within walking distance of each other in central Bangkok. I don't know how they stay in business.
  25. John Drake
    Thailand doesn't have a culture of reading (and increasingly neither does a lot of the rest of the world). And it happens at both ends. Teachers and Thai university faculty don't read (or write articles) and the general population doesn't read or buy books. If you ever want some empty space to relax and breathe at the mall, go to Kinokuniya.

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