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The benefit to me is that I never have to reapply for renewal of a so called retirement visa or any other visa. For many visas there's some chance renewal will not be approved. Plus the work involved to prepare all the documents every year, plus the costs of renewals. However also note that PR is not cheap. There's a fee to submit the application and a substantial fee to be paid (once only) if PR is approved. There's also the 800,000Baht in the bank factor for some visas, funds that are tied up for many years. Not required at all for PR holders. For PR holders theres no 90 day or any other reporting. PR (Certificate or Residency is the correct term) is issued for life, it expires on the death of the holder. Once issued the holder never has to go to an immigration office again except: - To get an exit/re-entry stamp (very mechanical) - To get the personal PR book replaced if the pages are full. For both these items there's no interview, no reconsideration whether the PR status should continue. For me the main benefit is that I have a 99.9% guarantee I will never be separated from my wonderful and very loving/caring Thai family because of a visa enewal issue.

Should also be a secret ballot.

The 3 years item is stated in the regulations. When I applied (27 years ago) I went to Soi Suan Plu with my agent, we lodge the full documents, an officer appears sudenly and siad in perfect English 'Do you hav one hour or a bit more right now, I'll do your interview now. We went to another room and the interview proceeded ... He started by looking at the work permit copies/current WP book. and said: - The regulations say 3 years but in reality we don't accept PR applications unless the foreginer can prove WPs for 7 years or more. I was lucky I had proof of about 10 years.

"...I don't think it's technically achievable without working (or at least earning) here. .." And the person would need to have proof of holding a Thai work permit continuously for at least 3 years and still holding that work permit when they apply for PR. Also the applicant needs documented proof their personal Thai Tax returns have been lodged and fully paid/cleared for the same period of time.

My guess (repeat guess) is that their business model is to ensure nothing reduces total revenues / total margin. If you/I use Kplus or a similar app then there are fees, perhaps small but over a day, a month, a year the total loss because of bank fees is quite large. On the other hand I've heard before 7/11 do accept some cards, and that would mean paying merchant fee or similar. So ?

Keep in mind that: - The failure rate of applications for PR is very high. - There's a maximum number of approvals each year for each country (last I heard it was 50 per country, for the countries on the list) - I got PR 26 years ago, the total number of actual approvals for my originl country for that year was 5 (as per point just above max. allowed was 50.)

And it means that Kasikorn have good understand and policies in regard to default risk. CCs are a nightmare for banks globally, most risk, most resources needed to follow up/ gain payments (for both thais and foreigners). Thais are domiciled in Thailand and can be sued forpayment. In 99% of cases Foreigners can easily/quickly disappear and way too difficult for the Thai bank to sue them for payment of their CC debt. Unless of course the card was issued on the basis that the bank holds a deposit, probably same amount as the credit limit on the card. It's all about risk management.

And he needs to be more realistic, there's a couple of items that the military could roll out, have him charged and banned from any policical activty for 10 years or similar. Already been said, his well qulaified legal eagle colleagues should have done more work a couple of years ago to put the share item to bed forever.

Blindsided, totally ignored ...

or toxin?

I recall early days in nationla service. One new recruit decided to mr.smart guy and refuse orders on everything. He soon got the resy of the platoon very annoyed and got a couple of severe beatings. He kept it up. One of the training sergeants suggested - Buy some toothpaste with aa strong anti everything additive, hold him down in he shower, pull his u'wear down and rub all the toothpaste into his hangers. They did, he was in sever pain for a few hours. From next day he complied without comment to every order. Also heard of old fashione show polish being used same way, that also apparently brings severe pain.

I know in Australia medical institutes linked to sports organizations push sports people and their coaches, trainers etc., to never use sports clothes and underwear made from polyester type fabrics, pure 100% cotton only.

DERAHEU is a multi purpose cream, effective for fungal infections, works for me.

A toxic campaign of total lies, total twists and untruths ...

If you mean is the 7/11 operations in Japan also subject to secret shopper monitoring/checking, then the answer would be yes. Many companies/business operators, pretty much all industries, all countries have some form of checking of what's happening inside their stores/premises/factories/offices... Why would this NOT happen in Japan? The reasons are obvious.

There's a number of points re the operations of 7/11 in Thailand. CP holds the master franchise for Thailand, from the actual global brand owner in Japan. It's been mentionedbefore there's a quite small number of Thai 7/11 operators who hold a ffranchise agreement direct with the master brand owner in Japan. However perhaps 99+% of the Thailand located stores are under the CP franchise. But that doesn't mean CP can change the operating regulations etc. They can't. The brand owner makes the overriding rules and regulations. The brand owner in Japan directly employs a team of 'secret shoppers' who go into all stores globally (no uniform, no badges etc) do inspections, buy things, ask obvious/stupid questions, check cleanliness etc., and this is all recorded. The secret shoppers complete online surveys etc., all goes directly back to 7/11 master owner in Japan, not through CP. It is possible some 7/11's are deliberately located to pull customers away from family mart, Lotus s etc. But also possibly true that the master brand owner insists/demands that every store must produce a certain level of revenue / margin / turnover etc. Because the master owner gets a %. It's been posted here before that nobody would be game enough to challenge CP. That's not true, the brand owner in Japan can/does cancel franchises regularly. Re Thailand there's several very large corporations who would love to get the 7/11 country franchise if it was available. Central Pattana might be an example, and Central Pattana has vast, successful, long-term retail operations in Thailand.

and/or is not an obvious lie.

'Trumped up convictions' ? He broke the law, serious laws, and the ensuing trials were fair and balanced and went through the enacted processes. In several cases the specific evidence has been made public; he was obviously guilty, and he was convicted and sentenced to jial. Your version is way less than correct and way less than truthful. And don't ask for specific examples, it's all been on these threads several times before.

And who will change tony's diapers?

... ohhh 9 posts.

Boring and way off topic, the subject is the votes for Pita to become PM.

I tend to agree, perhaps it would have been more productive to keep their mouths closed and wait until Khun Pita and MF were locked into place.

It's also their demand for the glorification of the military, they must be seen / continue to be seen as the leaders of the country regardless of any other processes. That's how they see it. Seems to me, unfortunately, there's a good chance nothing is going to change until somehow the senate is NOT a play room / a glorification facility for the military. Will it need another new constitution? And how would the new constitution be approved other than with violence - military vs the public? So sad and so disrespectful to the good citizens of Thailand.

3 hours in Rome, or 5 hours in Venice. With such limited ime I guess it would be a planned bus tour to a couple of tourist 'highlights' but nothing more, except perhaps herded into a suvenir etc., shop and quickly back on the bus and back to the ship. In reality no individual 'exploring' at all. Brain numbing.

Why do you say that? Any evidence?