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Noisiest bird, newly arrived in CM: What is it?
Fun fact. Not only is it loud and annoying it is part of the cuckoo bird family a brood parasite. It lays its eggs in the nests of other birds and those other dumb birds raise their young for them. The Koel's young are generally much bigger than the young of the foster parents and will end up eating them or pushing them out of the nest. A truly disgusting species.
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Cheese - why so expensive?
'...cheese is highly taxed like other imported food...'?! We are not living in the 70s and 80s where something that is imported necessarily demands a higher price. The so called 'tax' is an artificial price hike introduced by the Thai government and local sellers. Thailand is a member of AANZFTA, a free trade zone. All cheese imports from Australia and New Zealand to Thailand has 0% tariffs. Glaxoklinesmith is one of the largest British pharmaceutical companies with factories in Thailand. It produces in Thailand and then imports back into the UK at low cost. Thailand produces and sells it in country but will charge similar to UK prices despite having no international shipping costs. Thailand artificially inflates the prices on foreign goods because most foreigners will blindly pay and for some reason do not seem to understand globalization? There is a reason people are going crazy about Trump's tariffs because the majority of the world has been enjoying free trade for decades. There are no import tariffs on Cheese in Thailand. It's BS!
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Fun drought: Songkran water festivities scaled back, says tourism minister
Kick rocks fool!
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China Takes Top Spot for Thailand’s Tourist Arrivals
Fun fact: More than 80 percent of the top 40 richest people in Thailand are of pure or partial Chinese ancestry. Of the five billionaires in Thailand in the late-20th century, all of them were of full or at least had partial Han Chinese ancestry. The Chinese have been doing this for generations. And they are smarter at it than Westerners. Where a Western man will marry a Thai woman and then put property etc. into her name...a Chinese will marry a Thai, have a child and then put the property etc. under the child's name!
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Fun drought: Songkran water festivities scaled back, says tourism minister
Yeah sure tough guy! How about taking a hike back home instead of coming to someone else's country and bitching about their customs and traditions?!
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More details on Thai taxation of overseas income
LoL! The right to vote comes with citizenship not because you pay tax!!
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Retirement visa VS tourist visa. Advantages?
The Elite Visa is a tourist visa and the Thai government has no problem with you living here on that visa. Been here coming on to 8 years straight and never had any bother with the Elite Visa.
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