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There is no requirement to resign to renew the work permit and extend the permission to stay. Perhaps your school has either made an error (and resigning would be the way to fix it) or has come up with some idea (and needs you to resign to put it into effect). You will need to ask them. If you do resign, do you trust them to re-employ you? Also it may effect any redundancy pay you may be due.

I enjoyed your post. May I ask 1. How come your wife has a foreign godfather? 2. What exactly did he do to be told never to return? (I assume this was the old-style Jomtien) Or you can tell me to mind my own business!

It was the cleverest move for the trans lot to hitch their (band)wagon to other worthy causes. It has taken them a ridiculously long way deep into the realms of power. It truly is a latter day "The Emperor New Clothes".

Including housing benefit and council tax reduction with PIP and Universal Credit, the total benefit to the scrounger claimant is in excess of £25,000. If you got a job you would need to earn in excess of £30,000 p.a. to just remain in the same situation. And I haven't even factored in commuting costs!. A lot of claimants cannot command £30,000 p.a. You would need to have skills to earn this in the UK. Even if they could get a job for £30,000, why would they bother? That is why millions of people in the UK are long-term unemployed. The system has funneled them to this place. No government is bold enough to make the decisions to make work financially appealing nor make claiming benefits unappealing. Not the conservatives, not labour.

Indeed, Indian ice. You nailed it.

More Chinese night clubs on Third Road.

Hi Bob It is not as straightforward as that. A public sector position can be worth much more than just a salary figure.

At each full moon party, there are gangs there with specific aims. Some aim to steal as many phones, money and bags as possible and they do. Some aim to rape women, irrespective of whether they are very drunk or drugged or spiked. Every backpacker I have met here turns to the topic of conversation to full moon parties within five minutes so they are going to go. It is a rite of passage, it seems. Warn them of the dangers. But they will have their phone stolen.

To be honest @kwilco, I know you are both knowledgeable and passionate about road safety, but have you ever considered that the Thai police are incompetent, untrained and uninterested. The only reason they would draw up a map of the paths of both vehicles would be if there was an obvious financial incentive to do that and even then they would not have a clue what they were doing. What they would do is rather than having an evidence-led investigation they would predetermine the outcome that they wished to see and then fit the evidence to lead to this outcome. They always do this. They pay to join, pay for their promotions and need to pay their superiors each month. Ensuring a steady income stream is paramount. They are not interested in road safety. Where is the money in that?

What a selfish pri**.

I think the underlying story that is not being told here is that these scam centres, and entire towns, are linked to highly organised crime which could not exist without at the very least, and probably a lot more, the Thai authorities turning a blind eye. Obviously the Taiwanese government is not going to public state that but that is what they are concerned about.

It is completely mind-blowing that after decades, yes decades, of awareness of this solid link, that the situation remains this bad. All you need to do is cook the fish. It is not hard. The alternative is liver (bile duct) cancer.

Thai ex-actress? Since no change of citizenship.

Trump has been Putin's puppet for a long time. I keep saying it. The evidence just keeps stacking up and up. His diehard supporters simply refuse to acknowledge it.

Classic "reductio ad absurdum". Officials take a ridiculous claim which is easily refuted and use it to create both a false premise and a distraction that there is no problem. As others have stated here, the real problem is overtourism and badly-behaving tourists and the dismal lack of processes and competent people to deal with that overtourism and badly-behaving tourists, first and foremost the police but also zoning and planning by the local amphoe. This then emboldens developers, business people and badly-behaved tourists to take their illegal development, illegal behaviour up a notch over and over until the local people who are not directly plugged in to the tourist dollar are up in arms.