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And will there be 'officers' on site / on duty to monitor this? Will they have the authority to confiscate keys? How many fights will happen? Easy answer 'a lot'. Then weapons will take front and centre. What a totally crazy idea!

My guess is that it's to save 50Baht for the next lady drink.

Sure, my post was just to emphasize, with examples, that some SSF officers are quite lacking in knowledge of many aspects of their processes.

Call the SSF Hotline number on 1506 for expert advice. They have an English language option and the officers who take these calls are experts and the discussion is always pleasant. Sometimes the English language option doesn't work and your call falls back to a Thai language officer. If this happens it means there no advanced level English language officer available for such calls at that time. Call back later or the next working day and get an English speaking officer. You will get expert advice and suggestions of what next step to take. Worth the wait. From my experience it's true that many of the SSF officers don't have full knowledge of how to process foreigner applications etc. The SSF officers here in Chiang Mai initially insisted that a yellow Tabien Baan was compulsory, and nobody in the office had ever heard of PR - in fact they insisted I had a visa and they insisted on knowing the expiry date. They were adamant there's no such thing as PR and I must be thinking about another country. I called 1506 and spoke to a very pleasant SSF officer (I think she's an SSF lawyer). She called the CM office and explained to them that the dark blue Tabien Baan book is acceptable for PR holders and explained that PR is real and it's issued for lifetime - there's no expiry date.

"I successfully acquired my reentry permit but did not receive an endorsement before leaving the country. " So the actual Exit / Re-entry stamp is it in your passport or in your PR book? Which one? And what is the expiry date? (expiry date of the Exit / Re-entry stamp). Normally the original Exit / Re-entry stamp is completed in one of the books and the officer then immediately repeats it into the other book (endorsement) then gives both books back to the PR holder. So what transpired?

So as you have done multiple times before you divert from the case at hand back to " how many generals have EVER been punished for making illegal coups and stealing the whole country?" As mentioned multiple times before 'it's true that the generals should be tried and punished' but that's a different case to the thaksin/ jail / hospital etc., case.

He wasn't tried in a Military appointed court, he was tried in the normal court / juristic processes.

Just reinforcement that he has no respect for anybody except his family and no respect for the laws of Thailand. Bottom line: - he broke several serious laws, - he was convicted in a proper court clear evidence he was guilty - he was sentenced to several jail terms, - he received big reductions on those sentences before he served 1 day, - he should now be in a regular jail serving out those long sentences.

What about Dukes home branch on the river, great christmas buffet. Well worth checking.

Wow, a new book every 2 to 3 years, the world won't survive.

I wonder it it's possible to transfer funds to someone via internet banking but the receiver gets no digital or other traceable details of the sender?

Not just Thailand.

NO, American, red truck...

When I click on AN in my favorites bar nothing happens. If I click three times fairly quickly then the site opens. Annoying.

And he should be aware that previous attempts to make serious changes (e.g. stop the rote learning pedagogy and install student centered learning as the main pedagogy), failed totally because the old / very old teachers put up brick walls and totally refused to make any changes. Why? Because it reduces respect for teachers! If the new PM really wants to make serious fruitful changes to education he must demand change and if needed remove those who refuse to change.

And include in the teacher education the ability to use and the compulsory use of student centered learning, a compulsory requirement for teachers to prompt kids to ask questions, etc. And reduce class size to a maximum of 30 students. And cancel the 'everybody passes' policy and ensure teachers know how to give grades and exam papers all have a student exam number ID and not the student's name.

With your demands and additude why would the board retards bother to try to help with some information, and why would you expect that board members are experts on this subject?

"...The Thais just don't get it..." be fair, many farang also don't get it. A different example; I owned a big condo on Petchaburi Road. For several years no issues whatever with neighbors. Then a farang bought the condo next to me. He moved in with his farang GF, and: - His old well used big moving boxes (10 old supermarket product boxes) left in the hallway. Thai neighbor moved them into the garbage room on our floor, but farang quickly found them and moved them back to the hallway near his front door. I had asked him several time to move them out of the hallway as a respect to all neighbors on our floor. He refused. - His front door wide open all the time he/gf at home, TV blaring until early hours of the morning. - Old plastic bags of food scraps put in the hallway against the wall opposite his door. Plus a row of empty beer bottles. Farang had told the maid who cleans our hallway 'don't touch'. This remained until end of each month when juristic person warned the farang he would have the electricity turned off is the food scrap bags/bottles not removed to a central rubbish storage on first floor at back of the building. - After 4 years of this farang suddenly moved out. New owner moved in, very pleasant farang with pleasant Thai wife (an engineer). Very thoughtful/pleasant neighbors.

Give the whole details: elected by the Thai electorate, with massive vote buying.

And is Ukraine really finished? Seems to me they still need a lot of support but will eventually prevail. Is the US about to abandon them? I very much doubt it, and wouldn't surprise me if Biden pulls a rabbit out of the hat to give more support. Re the US public, I wonder whether the general public would really be happy to just stop supporting Ukraine? Or would they see an emboldened Putin as a very serious threat to be pushed back at any cost?

What about having pensions income (only pension income) from a country where the pension income is below the basic personal tax threshold (originating country and Thailand) and the country has a double tax agreement with Thailand?

"Thank god that after filing a tax return, you mugs will have access to permanent residency and free healthcare!" Can you please expand the details of this. Thanks.

So I guess that means that Oz folks living abroad who have no other income will still be under the threshold and regardless of location/ resident / non-resident.

Really... seems to me there many many cases of African American folks suffering police discrimination all over the US all the time and nothing happens. And it's not new.

So perhaps possible that 'the OAP is tax exempt' may not be true in the future, in regard to OAP recipients living abroad. As said... we wait and see.