Etaoin Shrdlu

I tend to think if it as a modified personal accident cover. The trigger for coverage is a vehicle accident, which is narrower than a typical PA policy. The insured/beneficiary is the general public, not the owner of the vehicle, which is wider than a PA policy There is also no requirement to identify the vehicle causing injury or death, meaning that hit-and-run type accidents are covered, so it isn't always specific to a vehicle. It is basically a no-fault scheme intended to provide benefits to the general public injured or killed in vehicle accidents. It shifts some costs from hospitals and the public to vehicle owners, or at least to those who pay for the Por Ror Bor sticker.

The mandatory (Por Ror Bor) scheme provides limited medical expense, death and disability benefits to persons injured or killed in vehicle accidents. These benefits operate independent of fault and apply to drivers, passengers and pedestrians equally. Medical expenses are capped at 80,000 per person, death at 500,000 per person and daily compensation while hospitalized is 200 per day. This scheme provides no third-party liability coverage for either bodily injury or property damage, so it is not adequate to address major risks associated with ownership or use of vehicles. Acceptance of Por Ror Bor benefits does not extinguish a third party's right to claim damages against an at-fault motorist. The legislation mandating this scheme was enacted because hospitals were complaining about bearing the burden of treating accident victims who could not pay even for basic treatment.

Pesky Rahu, eating the sun again!

Insurance might not cover instances where it can be proved that the speaker knew that the defamatory statements were false, yet stated them with malice or disregard for the facts anyway. In other words, knowingly wrongful acts are often excluded. This may be one of the reasons why Fox was so careful with their non-apology apology and why they wanted to avoid a court case proving this.

The RTP just need to swap out their current cards for the new AI cards for their GT200s.

Just checked a law firm's website and indeed there is a category for supporting Thai spouse or family. I stand corrected.

I also had about a decade of work and tax records when I applied and I did not have a very formal interview, although it was in Thai. Only one officer sat with me for a few minutes and asked a couple of questions about my work and salary. Nothing difficult and all the questions were about my application and supporting documents. Nothing like "who is the prime minister" or anything like that. I'm not even sure that this was the formal interview. If it wasn't, then I did not have one. But that was back in the 1990s and times have changed and so has the application process.

I was married for less than one year when I applied (successfully) for PR back in the 1990s. My application did reference the marriage and that my wife was expecting. Since Immigration followed up and asked for a copy of the birth certificate during the course of the review period, clearly the marriage and child did count for something. Having said that, I don't believe that there is a category for PR that is based upon marriage to a Thai. The requirements are visa, tax and education for the most part. Being married to a Thai may help, but isn't the basis for PR.

Brings a new meaning to the term "Chinese takeaway".

Ecstasy isn't a narcotic. That designation is reserved for opioids and similar. Law enforcement seems to have hijacked the term and lazy journalism perpetuates the mistake.

The dirty tricks are baked into the constitution and the Senate.

When filing form 114 (FBAR), FinCen asks for your email address and then sends a confirming email to acknowledge receipt of the completed form. If you have access to the email account you used when filing, you may be able to find the acknowledgement email if it hasn't been deleted. No idea how to go back and review the form after submission without contacting FinCen other than looking at a copy saved when filing.

You need to report each of them individually on the FBAR form. Once the value of all accounts combined exceeds the equivalent of USD10,000, all accounts, regardless of individual balance, need to be reported.

I stand corrected. There is a semi-automatic version available which is legal in most states in the US.

Given the description of the incident, I would suspect rabies. Rats don't normally go around biting trees, or humans unless provoked. Even absent such behavior, this is one of those situations where even if the possibility of rabies is low, the severity of its consequences is so high that the cost and inconvenience of treatment is nothing.

AK-47 is an automatic rifle. For almost all Americans, not legal to possess. I suspect that if it were legal to own automatic rifles, those with mere AR-15s would upgrade to M-16s or perhaps AK-47s. I remember the days when the Saturday night special was the weapon that was vilified. Oh, for simpler times!

Yes, that's it!

Yes, close to where Wave Place is now or perhaps it was where Noble Ploenchit or Rosewood Hotel is. It's been a long time.

Our 18-year-old son went for a physical exam here in Bangkok as required by the US university he is now attending. The exam revealed he had PVCs of about 11%. We were told by local doctors that no limitation on physical activity was needed and no treatment necessary. In other words, "it's nothing". Nine months later son ends up in ER for two days in the US after feeling dizzy and faint following rugby. After extensive tests, the PVCs were identified as the likely cause. He's had the ablation procedure earlier this year and the PVCs are now less than half a percent. He's been given the green light to participate in sports and will follow up in a few months with his cardiologist to see how his cardiomyopathy has resolved. Given Thai hospitals' propensity to over-treat and recommend everything they can think of, I can't imagine why ablation was not recommended here. Perhaps they don't have anyone that can perform it.

When I do similar, I just blame it on Old Timer's Disease.

Do you mean Petchburi? Ploenchit isn't anywhere near Ekkamai.

There used to be a free-standing Foodland on Ploenchit that served the lower Sukhumvit area back in the last millennium. It had a carpark and I recall getting weekend groceries there. Long gone now.

Under Republicans, life begins at conception and ends in a mass shooting.

If one is driving a car and is stopped for a red light, it is common to say "sitting in the car waiting for the light to turn green". It seems that when the car is motionless, it turns the driver into a sitter.

Then there's the term "joyriding" which means driving fast or dangerously for enjoyment in a stolen car. I've never heard of it called "joydriving".