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And what is the definition of 'income' and 'platform'? The Australian Dept., of Veterans Affairs pays a permanent 4 weekly compensation payment to Aussie war veterans who have disabilities officially recognised as resulting from war service. The DVA used to call this a disability pension but about 3 years back they dropped the word pension and renamed this payment a permanent disabilities compensation payment. Change in name was rumoured at that time to be because the DVA (Oz gov't) didn't want this money seen as income - it's a compensation payment. (Not sure how true this is.) Where will this payment sit in the new Thai Revenue Department rules?

Please don't play games with PTSD. I'm a Vietnam war veteran, I saw horrible brutality in engagement with the enemy and lack of empathy and concern/support from my own officers. I still have flashbacks, nightmares panic and anxiety attacks. I quickly start to shake and run around the supermarket (or wherever) searching for my 4 Thai grand kids and my Thai adult son and his wife. If I can't quickly see them I go into serious panis. About 20 / 30 evenings a year my Thai son sits with me all night to calm me down if needed. I've tried severe medications, they didn't help and I stopped them quickly. A respected psychiatric PTSD doctor from the OZ DVA has said that he doesn't believe there will ever be a cure and he suggests relaxing with a loved one as the best relief. I'll add, I lived in a war veterans village near Sydney for 2 years, many quite young War Veterans from the Afghanistan conflict lived there, many married with little kids. I was asked if I would sit and chat with some of them for a few hours (always with their wifes present) and I did*. Their horrific stories of conflict, bodies being blown up, death events really upset me and I realized their levels of PTSD were even greater than my own. These sessions seemed to give them some relief and I also got some relief from these discussions / chats. *Most refused to sit with / discuss with psychiatrists and similar because these guys just didn't understand what the veterans were trying to explain.

Wow, we now have an expert in the gang; what's you're personal experience with PTSD?

Correction; last para above ... should read My Thai son went to school in Singapore ...

OK but best for the students to have some introduction to each subject. I always: - Do a verbal perhaps 15 minute introduction to the subject and ask for questions. - Then read the quick intro to the subject (or get a student to read it) then tell the students there's a whole lot more to read and understand in the same textbook. - Then revert to more verbal explanation including pushing the students to ask questions. - Then perhaps small team exercise and students present their findings. - I would agree some texts are better than others. Many universities insist there must be a textbook for each course, usually nominated by the professor teaching the course. - I'm aware of one uni (satellite of a small American Uni) in LOS which has strict rules: - Professor must use only the materials / content / text in the textbook. - Professor cannot add further comments. - Professor cannot share personal experiences on this subject. - Mid-term / final exams must be based on the text in the textbook, student expected to repeat words / phrases / sentences verbatim. Student repeats verbatim gets an A. I have never taught at this uni and I never will. I QUOTE: " Tutors at least better than the teachers. Usually Masters degrees smart enough not to teach. But how does that work in your 'world'. Every student has a Tutor? All tutors employed directly by the university? Are there standard mid-term and end of term exams? How do the students know how they should prepare for the exams? Who writes the exams? Unfortunately that's the best that Thailand has to offer. It's criminal what most EFL teachers get away with in Thai classrooms. I would agree, however fortunately that's changing in many schools. My two oldest Thai grandkids went to better bi-lingual schools, these schools did the hard work to find properly trained / qualified teachers. Mostly from England and fairly young but nicely experienced. My Thais went to school in SIngapore and was lucky to experience very good teachers and teaching methods and this gave him a basis on which to judge the teachers employed in Thai schools and be more focused on selecting schools for his kids.

But how good / how knowledgeable is the tutor? E.g. When I was lecturing MBA classes I had a 40 year old American man approach me (never seen before) and ask 'can you explain 'sustainability'. He shared the student he was tutoring has asked him to explain this subject. I asked for more information and he insisted 'there is no further information'. I shared 'sustainability' can mean several things but in a typical MBA course it would probably mean 'what should a business owner do to ensure good revenues and margins, growth and innovation continue for many years?' (Actually an important subject.) I shared this with the tutor'. He shared 'that's not possible'. I responded 'then how come hundreds of big corporations, world wide, continue with good revenues / margins, growth,innovations etc., for many decades? The tutor responded 'that's just good luck!' I asked the tutor 'does your student have a text book?'. Answer 'Yes but text books are a waste of money'. I declined to continue the conversation.

for years 1 and 2 of uni bachelor courses best to have some variety in teaching methods / student actions in the learning process. I always toto bring their smartphone or tablet to class but must be turned off (devise rings and student punished). I also mentioned 'If you don't have a smartphone or tablet tell me privately in the break and you can borrow one from me.' I would do and introduction to a new subject then split the class into small teams 2 or 3 (never more than 3) and tell them to research the subject on line and write down any further points you find (this is called 'project based learning') and later i would ask each team to share what they has discovered and I kept records (get a mention in my notes several times and you can get one heal higher grade ( (B+ instead of B etc.). this is time consuming but It works.

Give it a try, no, demand PR be issued to you on the spot, for lifetime. Don't forget to share the result.

Already holding a Certificate of Residency (also known as Permanent Residency - PR) helds to accumulate the points score to achieve Thai citizenship. However PR first (above) is not mandatory. But having a Thai work permit on the date of applying for citizenship is mandatory (except in the very rare cases of humanitarian applications) and the work permit (WP) must continue for several years and must be still valid when the citizenship is approved, plus proof that Thai personal tax returns for the years of the WP have been submitted, processed and all taxes paid. Also note foreigners holding PR must still have a valid WP. However after citizenship is fully approved the ball game changes totally, WPs are no longer needed. What does change of course is that when the foreigner is issued with their Certificate of Residency (PR0 then there is no longer any need for no any form of visa. As most would know when PR is approved/issued it's for lifetime (cheewit)* and never needs any review or annual check or reissue (I asked questions about this on the day I was issued with my PR book, the officer was very clear, we don't have any reason to ever see you again, except: - If you need an exit / re-entry stamp which is issued by immigration offices. When you do this your PR is NOT reviewed. - If your PR book is full (full of passport stamps; when you leave / return the standard passport stamp is inserted into your passport and your PR book). In this situation you need to go to an immigration office and get a replacement PR book. Again, your actual PR status is not reviewed. I got PR 27 years ago. It's never been reviewed or reissued etc., because it's for life. PR does of course automatically cancel when the foreigner dies. *I had difficulties with this when I retired and applied for my Thai Social Security Injury and Sickness benefits to continue under the self insurance scheme. The Social security staff had never heard of PR. They kept asking for details of my visa, and I kept repeating 'I don't have a visa because I have PR', Then 'What is the expiry date of your PR Visa?' It took some time to convince them PR is issued for life and there is no expiry date. This got fixed when I finally got a lawyer from the Social Security head office at Nonthaburi to explain to the Chiang Mai Social Security staff how PR works.

The 'principal' of the company must submit to various gov't agencies: - Annual company report - Accounting and audit reports and prove such reports were prepared by qualified people. These will state what type of business the company is engaged in. Wouldn't be difficult for a gov't agency to do an inspection to confirm the activity stated is actually happening.

Re dual citizenship - I recall a senior Australian embassy consular official commenting on this. His remark was 'just don't worry about it, most/all countries have no official way / no official access to citizenship records to check if anybody has dual citizenship. Yes that was Australia and I suspect his remark would be copied by all other countries.

There's been multiple crack downs on such companies over many years and still Thai / farang law firms set up these companies. These law firms don't care, they just want some revenue.

Bottom line - this thread is fake, a wind up, a joke, ignore it.

Perhaps you're referring to the response when a Thai person (and same in some other societies including most / all western cultures) feels they have lost face (broken face).

You think you can buy your way around the 3 to 5 years of continuous Thai work permits and evidence of paying the personal taxes? Interesting.

Wow, there's an award for total number of assumptions.

And the time to fulfill the requirements to hold continuous work permits for about three to five years and prove that you have submitted, and paid, your Thai personal taxes for the same time period.

Final grade will be calculated using published criteria then actual grade reduced by: - one full grade - 1.5 grades - two grades.

re your last paragraph I'll share the following: - University Bachelor class - "Bachelor of Arts in English in Business' (accepted by the Thai Ministry of Ed.) - Students Thai and international students - Gender: approx 50% male and female. - Lecturer: American, male, had all personal qualifications in English language teaching cancelled some years ago by a recognized US authority, barred from re-sitting the exams for such qualifications. Officially banned from lecturing in many US states. Bottom line: Actual course results for many courses over many years: - All Female students Grade is A - No male students get an A About 20% of all male students get a B+ About 20% of all male students get a B About 50% of all male students get C+, C, D+ About 10% of all male students get Fail grade - Scoring: announced in detail at first class by the above teacher. Including: In class exercises, 1 hr hand in quiz, half day small team (max 2 students) case studies, Mid and final term exams.

Also, the few times, over many many years I or my Thai family have attempted to use a roht daeng the fare offered by the driver was much more than (as a comparison) the fares I've paid to 2 taxi operators based at the CM airport. On one occasion the driver told my Thai adult son (about 35 years old at the time) he only transports red shirt supporters. Son walked away. On one occasion Son's wife asked if the driver would take her from Big C Don Extra to Promenada with 2 kids. Driver Response: there no such place as Promenada and he drove away.

But step by step the whole shin clan reappearing - there's a master plan without doubt. But what's the real objective? Suspect it's power and access to big business and money. Is he still the lapog for thaksins loud big sister?

Where do straight people retire? Covered in hundreds / thousands of posts, global. So why no 'Where do gay people retire / where do blonde haired men retire'. etc., etc.

When there's an election I'm hoping that Khun Pita's Move Forward party again wins a very number of seats. Let'' wait and see and more interesting what will the powers that be do this time to push Move Forward away? Seems to me that the powers that be can't continue to do this forever. Also in the picture is the end result of forming a new senate membership.

I just tested that: - Using my BBL internet banking I transferred funds from my K Bank savings account to my BBL savings account, it appeared instantly in my K Bank savings account showing on my K Bank internet banking, as normal. - A minute later using my K Bank internet banking I transferred the funds back, from BBL to my K Bank savings account, it worked instantly as normal. Suggest you call the BBL call centre and discuss, rather than visit a local branch. I've spoken to the BBL call centre several times before, always advanced English, always good listeners, always understood the point I was making, always resolved.

Agreed.