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They need access in order to sell your data. This is how they make money.

Either this or Taxi (50 B)/Motorcycle (60B) from Morchit Bus Station to BTS Morchit (BTS Ratchayothin may be better, depends on traffic and the route the driver chooses). If you want to arrive somewhere near Asok, you can take the taxi just to MRT Kamphaeng Phet, saves you 5 B and 5 minutes. Cave: red line runs only every 20 minutes, except during rush hour. It takes only 15min from DMK to Bang Sue. A lot of walking in DMK and at Bang Sue.

Jerry has a point here. In this business, it is not unusual at all to have different underwriters for different parts of your business, to switch underwriters often, to sell your business, and to not be too open about it. Because you customers won't like it. Remember Nordic Health (from Denmark, but really from Germany, and now from Hong Kong)? BDAE switched underwriters and service providers several times in the last 10 years, from different countries and jurisdictions. April Thailand is underwritten by LMG. But it is very unusual to be so opaque as WrLife.

That's my feeling, too. Thais insist it's 2 different things but they have a hard time to explain it. เห็นแก่ตัว seems to mean selfish. เอาแต่ใจตัวเอง, i don't understand very well.

15 years ago i used Asia Plus. They are probably a very different company now. Tisco has a good reputation.

Can someone explain the difference between เอาแต่ใจตัวเอง and เห็นแก่ตัว? I have some vague feeling for the difference, but it is not very clear to me.

Talking about cultures and sensitivity testing is all very well. In practice, hardly anywhere in the world do doctors do this for simple infections. They are too lazy. Its too expensive. Sensitivity tests are often not very good. Good sensitivity tests take about 5 days, you want treatment now. So you treat blindly, it's called "empirically". We don't know what kind of infection OP was talking about, in his case cultures may be appropiate.

Udon was a main American base to bomb Laos. The natural look of Udon girls used to appeal to farang (nowadays, you don't see these often anymore, by age 20 they have been surgically modified). The main product of Udon in the 90s and 2000s were prostitutes. A very high percentage of the bargirls in Bangkok and Pattaya were from rural Udon, especially Kumpawapi. This history explains why it's the town in Isaan with most resident farang. Udon then got rich under Taksin. No more need to export women. What did you expect?

He was commenting on the sentence "Thais ridiculous propensity to keep building the same shops next to each" I do think that's a racist comment. Building the same shops next to each other is very common all over Asia, and I gave already examples of the same thing in the US and in Europe. It has nothing to do with Thais, nor is it ridiculous. Disclaimer: I am not Hammer. I am not English. I am not Thai. I am not woke (don't even know, what exactly that is)

It depends, the decision is made by lowly clerical admin staff and nurses. There is little consistency. Several years back, a rich Canadian was brought to Bangkok Pattaya Hospital unconscious. They didn't know he could pay. Nevertheless, they stabilized him and did quite a lot (as far as I remember, even a CT scan). Then they sent him to his death, to the government hospital. Shortly afterwards, a "Pattaya expat" (you know the type) arrived. He showed his European Social Security Card and insisted that he was entitled to treatment (of course he wasn't). Staff couldn't stomach sending away a 2nd patient and he got actually treated. No idea, if and how the hospital later got any money. Mostly it works the way Sheryl described.

Care to elaborate?

If it's a superficial infection of the skin or the underlying tissue near the skin, get Augmentin (generic name: Amoxicillin+Clavulanic acid, many brands, AMK is one of the cheaper ones, 10 tablets of 1g about 150 baht). Preferably buy it from a pharmacy with a real pharmacist (not just a salesperson) and show him/her your infection. Otherwise, see a doctor.

Pete is coming Nov 4, together with Ian and 2 other friends. Ulla is coming Nov 3, with her bf. K. is not yet sure, October or January. Chris maybe in December. But that's not sure. Klas was here in May with his wife. Oli's parents were here last month. Jog is here right now, in Krabi. These are just friends of mine. My former company is tourism-related. Their numbers for July 2022 for Europeans are 20% lower than 2019. Chinese and Taiwanese are still missing, Hong Kongers are starting to come.

The title of your thread is old news, and, unfortunately, true. Your sentence about seniors is your invention and a lie. Few people have a relapse.

In many towns in Western Europe, you find an area where their supermarkets are clustered together. A parking lot surrounded by 5 supermarkets all selling similar stuff. In the strips outside US towns, there is McDonalds followed by a Burger King followed by a Wendys, a Harveys, whatever. Western European cities have whole streets where there is one restaurant after the other, often serving similar food. BTW I am not Hammer, we aren't even from the same continent.

Bernhard Trink said: the tourists always come. They came back after Sars, after every putsch, after the Bangkok floods, after the financial crises of 1997 and 2008, they always come. They happily pay every price. Farang find a room for 2000 cheap. You charge them 400 for a waterless waterfall called "national park" - they pay. There is a thread about the LTR visa - many people find it a good deal. There is no limit for the price foreigners are willing to pay to come to Thailand. Thais know that. You kill them, like in Koh Tao. Their brothers and sisters will still come.

There are markets in "Western practices", whatever that may mean (Australia is in the East, or in the West?). In the US I have been to something they called "farmers market". All foodstuff. In Germany I have been to the Viktualienmarkt in Munich, all fruits and vegetables. In Italy, there are many mercati. They even have fish markets, all they sell is fish, would you believe it! No place for Hammer's carburator.

Surprised. You often sound very reasonable.

Today the Bangkok Post reports of a Hong Konger kidnapped in Thailand and forced to work in Myanmar. It's getting dangerous for young people of Chinese ethnicity to travel to SEA, including to Thailand.

So did they flush the toilets in the meantime? Last time i checked they hadn't.

Which unit? If it's mg/l that's hardly "positive" at all. Anyway, isolated elevated d-dimeres don't mean anything. It depends on the context: clinical symptoms, other lab values are much more important. You really have to discuss the whole picture with the doctor.

I thought so, but I hear a lot of Mandarin lately. One thriving business here are Chinese (and Taiwanese) gangs trafficking young, naive job-seeking Taiwanese (and Hong Kongers) to Cambodia and Thailand. They are forced to work in call centers for scam calls to China/HK/Taiwan. Thousands of them. Now, why are these call centers in Cambodia and Thailand?

I thought so, but I hear a lot of Mandarin lately. One thriving business here are Chinese (and Taiwanese) gangs trafficking young, naive job-seeking Taiwanese (and Hong Kongers) to Cambodia and Thailand. They are forced to work in call centers for scam calls to China/HK/Taiwan. Thousands of them. Now, why are these call centers in Cambodia and Thailand?

There is a very helpful website which will analyse your phone number. For example, a friends number had the digits 70 which obviously would make her prone to get cancer of the uterus. Other digits were dangerous, too. Fortunately, the website was able to sell her a much better number for only 6600 baht. She feels safe now.

Tiktok has some much better and realistic videos about them, not like the "eco-tourism" exploitative kitsch you find about them on you tube