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Over the last couple of weeks I have looked out for this. Boots and Watsons certainly persist in simply pulling down the shutters on the pharmacy counters when they don't have a pharmacist present. The rest of the shop continues as usual.

Start small and work your way up?

Top Charoen seem to be everywhere. I used them for both contact lenses and spectacles. They were a bit pricey ( I discovered later). When I gave up on contact lenses ( age won over vanity!) I went to an opticians in my local small town. I have a problem with my left eye from an injury, complicated by diabetes. This means that it varies from time to time. He patiently retested that eye at different times of the day over a week until he had established an average correction. He supplies both me and my daughter with glasses. I pop in every few months and they clean, straighten and adjust frames for free. All he asks is that I pass a glance over his children's English homework when I am there! The local opticians are fine. Of course you don't get served by a pretty girl in a tight white uniform, but it costs about half.

I questioned it, and they phoned their HQ and I spoke to someone who confirmed it was their bank policy. Mind you they couldn't understand why I don't have a work permit ( because I am retired), and because I mentioned that I had a dependent daughter they insisted on seeing her birth certificate, tabian ban page and a copy of her ID card! Frankly I suspect that they were making it up as they went along!

I don't think that they do in particular - the electoral results of "Future Forward" confirm that. But they are a group whose support the current regime would see as a central part of their support.

It was quite amusing, but what struck me was the audience. Young, educated middle class urban Thais. Exactly the group on whose support the current regime relies.

Mind you, Kasikorn are obsessed with passports. I opened an account there a few weeks ago. They wanted to see my passport - which was fair enough. I showed them the ID page, the current visa and the current extension stamp. They solemnly photocopied every single page, including the front and back covers, and then had me sign every page: entry and exit stamps and cancelled visas for Thailand, Laos and Myanmar going back for seven years!

In the bad old days you could have cleaned the spark plugs with some emery paper and a set of feeler gauges, checked the points and a squirt of WD 40 inside the distributor, blown through the carburettor with a tube and a good "puff", and Robert would be your father's brother! Things are so much easier now !

I rather suspect that it depends on "other activities" particularly on the streets of Bangkok. If things liven up then they may feel the need to reintroduce a state of emergency - due of course to the risk of a resurgence of Covid 19.

He is not the only one, especially in the realm of large public portraits. Shades of Dorian Grey!

YouTube and other "social media" should be irrelevant to the judicial process. The case should be decided on evidence, facts presented to the court. Then I read to the end - money, big donations, witness intimidation and buying off. It's not a new test of the judicial system, rather the same old problem, a test that is regularly failed. Such corruption should of course be investigated and prosecuted, but those whose jobs are to investigate are amongst the most corrupt of all.

The government either owns or is in cahoots with the banks. PayPal provides services which competes with the banks. It must be brought under control.

Presumably @pavlohposts this nonsense because he is safe from being lifted off the streets, taken to a mobilisation centre, given a few bits of uniform, a rusty old rifle, and delivered to a battlefield where he can mill around, hopelessly confused, unfed, untrained and unled until he ends up dead. All as part of the war which Putin so obliged the west by plotting, planning (spectacularly ineffectively), threatening for years and ultimately starting unilaterally. A war of "denazification", amongst whose first actions was to fire rockets at the site of and memorial to a major NAZI holocaust atrocity - Babi Yar. A war in which the Russian's ramshackle collection of semi trained conscripts, mercenaries and gangsters have distinguished themselves by shelling and rocketing civilians, murdering men women and children and leaving the bodies on the streets, and now that Ukraine is fighting back Putin is threatening nuclear attacks on the west. Yes, that will be it...

Nearer ten! Remember, we must try to have accurate information on this thread!????????????

I believe the couple who empty the bins at the new bus station in Chiang Rai are "straight". Mind you they do get to sell the aluminium cans to the recycler - and I expect the bus station manager demands a percentage!

Unless he sees it as a " get out of jail free card"? Foreign trip, coup d'etat whilst he is abroad? Opportunity to retire and enjoy the fortune he has squirreled away? Probably not, but oh the irony if Thailand ends up being the country visited when a foreign president is ousted!

Let's be charitable and assume that he is taking the Mickey!

I really don't understand currency fluctuations and what drives them. I fully admit, like Winnie the Pooh, to being a bear of very little brain when it comes to such matters. However, when your summary of the situation suggests that if you take away 10% and 3%, you are left with 97%...

And not a blind bit of notice will be taken...

Well, it took a few days, but somebody on here finally manufactured a causal connection between the awful nursery massacre and how and who Thais vote for, in fact let's not mince our words - Thaksin! Can't say I am surprised it is you though! Well done though, it must have required a remarkable stretch of the imagination! Given the prevailing political orientation of that part of the country a remarkably insensitive one as well.

"Guaranteed" - bold words!

He would win. By a "country mile". As for a "third party" I agree, but it would only be tolerated by the "powers that be" if it didn't significantly erode their vote base, but divided the opposition. If it looked like damaging their vote, or forming any sort of opposition alliance it would be "engineered" out of play, as rather happened last time.

They entered with the permission of the local authorities (Education Ministry officials). When they came to leave the gate had been sealed by the Police so they climbed a very low fence. Their appears to have been a dispute between brown uniforms (police) and khaki uniforms ( civil service) over who controlled access. Their actions have been seized upon as a heaven sent opportunity to create a deflection, to avoid answering awkward questions about why the ex policeman was still armed, and why it took so long for the police to react - apparently the police station is nearby.

A catchy slogan - "White Police". A crackdown announced. In a couple of weeks, maybe less, a couple of scapegoats will be stuffed in front of the cameras ( I should imagine that the "middle management" backsides in that neck of the woods are going sixpence/ half-a-crown, sixpence/ half-a-crown like nobody's business waiting to see at whom the finger is pointed)! Then back to normal...

I doubt that there is enough ammunition frankly!