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Anti-Loan Sharks Campaign Means No Waiver Of Debt
John Drake replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News Headlines
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. -
Bt5.1 billion to promote “soft power” activities next year
John Drake replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News Headlines
5.1 billion baht boondoggle. -
Only six month to go until we begin to get the new form 7162 notification.
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GSB offers Bt50,000 low interest loans to informal debtors
John Drake replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News Headlines
If they had this, they probably wouldn't have gone to loan sharks in the first place. -
Korean Man Threatens Balcony Jump, Deceived by Thai Woman in Pattaya
John Drake replied to webfact's topic in Pattaya News
After an hour, I suppose the police and onlookers were assured he had run out of money to toss off the balcony. -
December horoscope: Astrologer reveals fortune in Thai baht
John Drake replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News Headlines
Rahu? If it's a shadow planet, how do you know where it is? -
Billionaire Anne’s slide to bankruptcy
John Drake replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News Headlines
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. -
Iran says it helped broker release of Thais held in Gaza
John Drake replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News Headlines
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. -
Iran says it helped broker release of Thais held in Gaza
John Drake replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News Headlines
Then why didn't they get all the Thai workers back? What's this game being played by holding some in captivity? -
Thai authors poised for breakthrough, Hollywood boost
John Drake replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News Headlines
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. -
Thai authors poised for breakthrough, Hollywood boost
John Drake replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News Headlines
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. -
What is so telling is to go and look at the income tax topic (now 140 pages and growing). People are talking about turning their lives upside down, moving out of Thailand, or relocating for half a year, all because their worldwide earnings they believe might now come under Thai taxation. Wouldn't have happened with Prayuth, because of no need to pay for the digital wallet boondoggle. Prayuth essentially was committed to preserving things as they are, which included immigration but for a couple of minor adjustments.
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Luxembourg family demands justice after fatal road accident
John Drake replied to snoop1130's topic in Phuket News
Because the US embassy is utterly indifferent to troubles its citizens encounter in Thailand. The ambassador is too busy taking photo ops at tourist sites.