JackGats

Oh yeah, I'm sure the "children" got abused (whatever that means) especially the 15-year old rugby player who filmed himself rogering the local hoodrat.

Sentenced for harming pixels. Pixels get harmed when human eyes look at them.

At least this time they don't blame cannabis.

Pathetic women? Yeah, but what about men? Men all over the world signing away their sexual rights in their own country, then converging on Pattaya and Angeles City to get laid.

Then what is the point of not losing money to the Thai government if you are going to lose it all to a wife or ex-wife? Men think they are clever doing things "in my wife's name" while all they're doing is jumping out of the frying pan into the fire.

At last a former beauty who does not disown her own past as soon as she gets older!

I don't trust my own ears that much since I'm sometimes using hearing aids, sometimes not, but I swear Google Translate has a new female voice reading out the Thai. It seems too that the pauses and intonations of the originally recorded speech get reproduced by the voice upon replay (rather than the whole recorded text getting rattled out in one sweep).

Here is a preview of a new smart visa which is in the pipeline for the next batch of new visas to be announced together with the next drawing of the Thai national lottery. Conditions of the new smart visa will be as follows: 1) Having bought 50k baht worth of Thai sandalwood scented candles over the four and a half month preceding the application. 2) Showing a long-term rental agreement of a condo with a swimming pool having at least 160 cm but no more than 180 cm maximal depth. L-shaped swimming pools are accepted. 3) Thai - or Thai accepted - health insurance showing 20k dollars refund against jelly-fish sting treatment (other than box jelly-fish). Visa holders will be allowed to stay in Thailand for 6 months and 23 days each year, with as many re-entries as they like, and their foreign assets* will be exempt of Thai tax. * insofar as they have already been taxed in their home countries.

Definitely worth it. Nasty disease. Some people never completely recover.

Depends on your age. When you reach a certain age your short-sightedness will cancel out with presbyopia. Not having had your short-sightedness corrected may enable you to still be able to read without glasses into old age.

I'm not sure the Thais can't use computers. I find their driving license system very streamlined. Within hours they issue you with a brand new driving license complete with a nice picture of yourself. When I went to apply for my Thai TIN they issued me with one within minutes. And there's the 90-reporting system, a bureaucratic waste of time from our standpoint, but it doesn't it give Thai bureaucrats plenty of computer practice?

Have you checked whether some update is due?

Imagine long-term visas being henceforth denied to those who stay less than 180 days per year because they can't by definition come up with a tax clearance. Some unexpected consequence that would be!

Methinks when the tax man or a bank asks if and where you're a tax resident, the question always refers to previous tax years. Otherwise the question cannot yet be answered.

Fake scare story. Psilocybin mushrooms are about as harmless as things can get.

Ketamine. A dirty, crappy high. And a dangerous drug to boot. Why is there in Thailand such production of crappy drugs (ketamine, meth, GHB, benzococktails ...) ? Are clandestine labs manned by high-school drop-outs?

I had the same problem. The Royal Orchid website had a button to upgrade a Star Alliance flight with miles, but no button for redeeming miles with respect to a Thai Airways flight. An absurdity.

An eye for an eye: the principle is sound. However what tends to happen is lynching crowds starting to demand the death penalty for victimless crimes (drugs) or tabu breaking involving no violence (pedophilia). Also, the death penalty would be reserved for males, female offenders being deemed born victims, however heinous and barbaric their crime. In countries such as France or the UK it's all that can be done for women who murder with premeditation to even spend a single day in jail! So on the whole, the death penalty, however sound in principle, ends up being a mess.

Negative income tax, another name for handing out money in exchange for no work. Economies work by paying people to work, period.

This Thai tax certificate requires you to be in TH for over 180 days during the tax year with respect to which the tax certificate gets issued. As I understand is issued for a particular year, typically "last year" or the years before that. That would mean getting a tax certificate each year for the preceding year. It is a hassle.

You mean dividends paid by German firms on German stock? Because if it's dividends on US stocks, the W-8BEN form doesn't require any tax certificate. It only requires a Thai TIN. Maybe the easiest way is to pay the full 30% tax on dividends other than US ones.

Kratom tea, for a good night's painless sleep.

One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, One ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them

Can't speak for this year but I was there last year in late August and it was eerily quiet.