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Israel invited them to Tel Aviv, and the Thais agreed. After intervention of the Russian embassy the deal was canceled. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/30/members-of-russian-anti-war-rock-band-bi-2-face-deportation-from-thailand

Same here

1624 can speak English (for several years already)

Distributing iron pills to school kids started in 2000. The studies "proving" wide-spread iron deficiency anemia were often done with hill tribes, kids on welfare, people from the border areas., etc. The studies sometimes read a bit funny, e.g. on the same page we read "In the northeast Thai school children population, the prevalence of anemia is 31%" and "among 265 hill-tribe school children, 8-14 years of age, from Omkoi District, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand. Anemia was observed in 20 school children, of whom 3 had iron deficiency anemia." https://www.tm.mahidol.ac.th/seameo/2014-45-4/18-625422.pdf How much iron deficiency exists in the overfed Thai middle class children of 2024 I don't dare to guess. OTOH these pills are cheap and won't do much harm.

About one per cent of the Thai population are affected with thalassemic diseases. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1298980/ 30% carry some kind of thalassemia gene, but only 1% have the disease. Hemoglobin carries oxygen in the blood. Thalassemia patients produce a pathologic hemoglobin (because their genes encode the wrong blueprint for hemoglobin). It wouldn't help them to have more iron (one of the building blocks of hemoglobin), on the contrary, they have too much iron already because their body cannot put it to good use. Talking about thalassemia: Individuals experiencing anemia or hepatosplenomegaly may require regular blood transfusions and chelating drugs aimed at removing excess iron from the body. they will not need iron supplements as their iron levels are already high. https://www.samitivejhospitals.com/center/detail/Thalassemia-and-Hematology-Center

Not too bad for Bangkok.

I don't understand. What R&D programs?

Thais? Philippinos? Japanese? No, it's Korea

About 1000 baht for a pack of 30

Yes, possibe, I know some Germans do this

Bangkok Post has articles today about wheels falling off the yellow line. One hit a taxi. Yellow line and pink line are from the same (ex-German-Canadian, now French)/Chinese joint venture, see above.

Correct. Ok, it may be a couple of years. Surgery is necessary if you have a motor deficit. Even then, you can (and should) try conservative treatment for 6-8 weeks (some say 3 months). Immediate surgery is necessary only if urinating or defecating are affected. Pain is not a reason for surgery. The long-term results of surgery (if only pain was the reason for surgery) after 6 months or after a year or two, are not any better than conservative treatment. Conservative treatment requires a lot more work from the patient.

The last sentence of the study you quoted reads: "clinical studies are required to obtain conclusive evidence of anti-dengue properties of doxycycline." This from April 2023 (note the last sentence): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40506-023-00263-w "Doxycycline, a broad-spectrum tetracycline-class antibiotic and antimalarial, has shown some efficacy as an antiviral against DENV1-4 in vitro by inhibiting NS2B-NS3 protease activity, resulting in reduced viral entry and replication [64]. A randomized clinical trial (with no placebo control arm) in Brazil, testing doxycycline for its efficacy as an anti-inflammatory drug in dengue infection showed reduction in pro-inflammatory cytokines IL-6 and TNF in the treatment group compared to patients receiving standard symptomatic and supportive care [65]. A case–control study in India showed that doxycycline-treated dengue patients showed faster recovery of platelet and leukocyte counts and reduced hospital stay [66]. However, these studies so far have not been robust double-blind randomized placebo-controlled clinical trials with defined end point measurements. One such clinical trial (CTRI/2018/01/011548) is currently registered in India to study the efficacy of doxycycline as a dengue antiviral in a pediatric population and could clarify whether doxycycline has use as dengue therapeutic." So, I must admit what you are doing is not as absurd as it sounds. It may (may!) be a good idea, but that's not sure at all. Doxycycline does have side effects, though. One tablet of doxycycline after being bitten won't have much of a side effect - but, as another poster noted, are you going to take it after every single mosquito bite? Otherwise, how do you figure out which bite is a high risk bite?

Neither doxycycline nor mupirocin (both antibiotics) have any effect on the dengue virus. Doxy tabs are not a prophylactic against Dengue.

Yes, you can use ONLY this phone for receiving calls. It works, quite straightforward if you use only 1 SIMcard in this phone. Better call DTAC first and ask them to enable WiFi calls for your SIM, then do the *444... thing. There seems to be no way to figure out in advance whether a phone is "wifi-calling-able". The information I got about my phones, from DTAC, from Samsung and from the internet, were wrong. You have to try. The response you get is, your phone will show the WiFi calling symbol (without the "1"): You will see this symbol even when you are in Thailand, and you should try whether Wifi calling works as long as you are in Thailand. If you don't see this symbol, you are not using Wifi calling. Wifi calling sometimes switches itself off, if you do other things with this phone. Don't panic, I have always managed to get it back.

Oh. For the yellow line, too? I haven't ridden the pink line yet, but I wasn't impressed by the yellow line

I don't see how this is a recommendation. But I see that you and maybe others interpret it as as recommendation. I am not a tax expert, and I wouldn't dare to give recommendations in tax matters. So, please, mods, delete my post. It's not MY theory. It has been said by others, quite often.

5km power lines falling down - a teething problem

They are much cheaper. IIRC yellow line monorail cost one sixth of what a real train would have cost. BTW Workers are Cambodian Supervisors are Thai Technology is Chinese Payer is Thai Take your pick whom to blame

You mean to say CGM isn't always paid for by Europe's (tax-funded or social security) health systems.

I was answering to another post. My point was, clarifying how CRS works. No recommendations. Recommendations would depend on the individual case. This view would support the theory that they are targeting Thais with investment income from abroad. They are not going to leave.

Not difficult. It's exactly what CRS is for. The RD will learn from CRS that you have a bank account in a foreign country, which bank and which account number, also the balance at year's end (if less than 25 satang, maybe they don't care - if more than 1m USD, they may be very interested) They can ask you for the statements of this bank account, preferably of the last 10 years (why should they bother to ask the bank - they just let you do the work). They can ask you to explain all transactions, with documentation. If a transaction says "CC payment to Elephant Shop, CM", its easy for them. If you bought and payed the elephant through Amazon, things are getting difficult - difficult for you, not for them. They can ask you for proof of what you bought until they are satisfied. Whether this would be considered tax evasion (in the UK it would be), we don't know. Probably yes, according to the last AmCham webinar It's not "scan all CC > find transactions > find suspect" It's "scan all bank accounts (in the whole world), done automatically by CRS > find suspect > find transactions"

There is an article by Gwynne Dyer, a military historian from Canada, in the opinion section of today's Bangkok Post about the bombing of Gaza and the bombing of Germany in WW II. I found his views on both subjects very interesting.

Yes, this is how CRS is supposed to work. But there have been reports of Thai banks planning to report all resident accounts of foreigners. Presumably, they would report to the country of the nationality of the account holder. The CRS rules maybe clear and simple. What reporting banks actually do, is much less clear and simple. I have personally seen some very messy "reporting", not only by Thai banks.

Farang, especially the kind of farang you find in Pattaya. And Thais who are interested in these farang