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Should be both: - taken into a room at a jail where no beds and not enough floor space for everybody to lie down. And no bathing privacy. - look at 10 dead bodies, each one for 5 minutes, all killed in traffic accident and perhaps 6 or 7 marked to indicate killed by a drunk driver now in jail for 10 years.

But there's ongoing discussion whether gov't based pensions from abroad are 'income'.

From just above "...Thai has the worst business..." Example: Evening flight business class from Bkk to Jakarta, after dinner all finished my 18 yr old Thai son (flying on a fully paid most expensive category of ticket) politely asked the flying waitress for a glass of Coca Cola. Her response without stopping to take his request, she just kept walking "Go and ask in Economy." I and my son had flown several times before in business class on TG and SG and Lufthansa, I can't imagine such a comment from an SG hostess or from any other airline.

I don't disagree.

Agree with that, as always SG shines.

And keep the realities of life of older folks in perspective. Some folks are lucky enough to have a much bigger income at 70 / 80 years old, and some not. Many survive nicely on 40,000Baht every 4 weeks because they plan and don't spend beyond their means - that's the realities of life.

Thanks, I'm well aware of that, but I didn't want to go into all that details Ultimately, in most of these countries the charges paid by the citizen are very small.

Many such instances have been detailed in the media over many years.

Healthcare policies / subsidy levels / quality is country by country, EU is not a country. However it is true that many / most EU countries and GB have national healthcare systems which provide quality comprehensive health care at no charge / close to no charge. Same in China, Taiwan, Singapore, *Australia and New Zealand. (*the Australian National Health care system is 5 star)

Using Fanytel can I call any landline number in Australia without prior set up with that landline number?

Don't make statements on behalf of other people. I have no beef and no dislike of EU.

Yes, many people in Australians use it for free domestic audio calls / video calls. I used it many times or calls . video calls from / to Thailand but have to check in advance that the other party has Viber. Same comment for LINE. I was back in Oz a few years back for a while, I frequently used LINE for calls / video calls to / from Thailand.

So post something with real logic and real meaning.

The university I'm associated with in Australia has a number of Chinese students who have withdrawn from US uni's and transferred to an Australia uni to study. In all cases the standard process of transfer of grades already earned has happened (meaning transfer uni to uni, but this is not automatic, all uni's who are approached to accept grades from other uni's do a check first on the credibility of the initial uni).

I agree, China is amused by trump but not frightened of trump.

What a strange comment, doesn't connect to thread.

OK but don't assume an IT position would be accepted as suitable. There's hundreds of thousands of trained / experienced Thai IT workers. However 'IT' could mean a lot of things. I wonder if you're assuming that married with kids satisfies a primary requirement. It's not that simple.

There's a multi level (4 or 5 levels) Pizza restaurant in Ho Chi MInh city, every floor (circular tables, about 100 chairs per level), is devoted to a fruit: apple, watermelon, mango or to a vegetable. No meat. Very popular, need a booking to get in.

What a laugh, burgers have been made in dozens of countries for decades. Yep McDonalds started in the US, so what, many folks rate McD hamburgers very low. My personal preference is Burger King, but that's just my personal preference. I've eaten wonderful burgers at a restaurant behind Ram Uni in Bkk, the owner is Thai, never been outside Thailand.

Agree and I would add 'with mushy peas' if available. I recall the old pie carts in Aussie cities when I was a kid (in my case in Adelaide). Same meat pies sold today but with a big spoon of tasty mushy peas on the side. In those days people spoke of 'pie and peas' as an item. Personal choice of course.

What a sad meaningless comment.

And often forgotten nowadays are his earlier statements (just after he was elected first time, which involved massive vote buying and threats to up country folks they would be punished if they didn't vote for the paymaster); Thaksin: 'Democracy is not my goal'.

And the job / position stated on the WP cannot be a work classification reserved for Thai citizens. The list of work classifications reserved for Thai nationals is clearly / specifically stated in the WP regulations and is well known to all law firms.

I suspect that not all immigration officers (regardless of airport) are fully aware of these items. And I suspect that's mostly because they are not actual regulations, just convenience. Many years ago at DM airport (Suv. not yet built) I was asked to change from the foreigners line to the Thai line the very first time I re-entered Thailand after gaining PR. Coincidence I'm sure. At that time the immigration officer mentioned that the officers manning the Thai arrival were more knowledgeable about such things and processing would be quicker. Also, at that time the Thai line had just a few arrivals waiting to get stamped in, whereas several very long foreigners lines waiting to be stamped in. I had just joined the end of a foreigners line when the immigration officer approached me and spoke quietly and told me 'much quicker if you change to the Thai line' and he took me arm and escorted me to the Thai line. Then some confusion, instantly many foreigners changed to the Thai line and the Immigration officer had to tell them 'cannot, you must use the foreign passports line'. Passport officer also said 'every time you enter Thailand show your PR book and passport and join the Thai arrivals line. That's nearly 3 decades ago.

Wow, so observant. You claim you haven't had an "The 001 number gets through to C'link but I haven't had any luck getting anyone to answer - yet." from my experience over many years calling the toll free number it's always been answered quickly. (I'm not going to discuss 'quickly' any further.) You're now claiming nobody has ever answered. I don't believe you.