Dr B

One of the infrastructure issues that the mayor can boast about, the snow clearing machines do a fantastic job.

We have a very nice Airbnb if you don't mind not being in the city. It is called Thai Teak House.

And slightly worse, the incredible Minister for Culture went on a photo op to some Thai shelters, and proceeded to hand out the location on social media. Ideal for some loopy Cambodian soldiers to do some target practice.

And in 1997 there was Glasnost, and un der Gorbachev and Yeltsin Russia was moving toward trade wars rather than military wars. The came Putin who reversed all of that, so the countries bordering Russia felt rightly threatened and sought defensive support.

It is Latin, and means it was agreed.

Very good summary, but I think the Treaty was 1907, and it included the 11 map set which defined the border. There is little doubt in my mind that Captain Bertrand was deliberately tricky in diverting the border around Prah Vihear, but there was no-one watching him. Not only did the Siamese not send surveyors they didn't even send observers, and they accepted the 11 maps drawn up by the French and issued them to foreign governments and local officials (all from ICJ Court documents). Then before the ICJ in 1962 they tried to claim that (i) they hadn't agreed to the maps, even though they were attached to the Treaty they had signed, or (ii) they didn't understand that the line had been drawn in the wrong place by Captain Bertrand. Since it was 55 years later it is hardly surprising that the ICJ basically said, you have left it a bit late to claim the maps are wrong. Now we are left with the incredible difficulty of defining an inernational border. To do so on paper is quite easy, by darwing a line such as the 49th parallel, but then it is quite hard to define that line on the ground. Today we can do it instantly with GPS, but back in 1907 when they only had theodolites it was very much more difficult. That was why the Joint Border Commission opted to change it from a line on a map to follow geographical features such as a river or a mountain ridge. That is much easier to identify on the ground, but very difficult to draw on a map, and also rivers do move with time. Throw into the mix a tricky French surveyor being left to his own devices by the Siamese surveyors, and you have the current mess. When there are two parties, and one says "the border is here", while the other says "No it isn't, it's here", there is unlikely to be any agreement, which is why someone like the ICJ is necessary. I am quite sure Thailand would have accepted the ICJ decision if it had been in their favour, but it wasn't, so they didn't. Just bad losers. In the end, an agreed shared zone for the land which has changed hands over rmany centuries may be the best solution, but the nationalists probably won't allow it.

When did Thailand contest it? 1907?

Maps printed by the French, based on surveys by the French which the Siamese asked them to do. The Siamese then received at least 150 copies of the set of 11 maps, and cikrculated them tto foreign countries such as the USA and UK, and also within the country to provincial governors. All of that happened in 1907.

I checked the link to Lazada, but that unit, which looked the same, said 200mW rather than 2 or 3 W. Is 200 mW enough? Cheers

I think the problem here is the sentence after the green tick. I believe that you will find that foreign earnings does not simply relate to where you reside, it also realtes to your employer. If your employer is a UK buisness then that is not foreign earnings. If you earn money in Thailand from a Thai employer, or an Australian or US employer for example, that would be foreign earnings.

Nothing to do with EV, but my KBank app stopped last week. Turned out my ID for my sim card and my bank account were different. Managed to clear it up, which involved opening anew account, Friday but they said a week for my app to be unlocked. Worked yesterday so 3 working days.

NOTE A Thai soldier shot and killed a Cambodiam soldier. Cambodia did NOT!!!!! Cambodia did formally ask for an investigation and report by the Thai authorities, but nothing appears to have been done.

Can you even point to Krabi, Phangnga or Trang on a map, becasue you certainly haven't been there?

Exactly. If it hadn't been for the "crackdown", which will last for 7 days, and the tip-off, nothing would have happened. Isn't that something that the "media" ought to be highlighting?

I have had recent experience of sending a parcel to Austria. The tracking worked all the way, and showed that it went from Bangkok on Finnair via Helsinki, then into the EU in Ireland. The codes like GBDOH and GBCVTA are called ITMATT codes, but it is very hard to find what they mean. From Ireland our parcel was returned to Thailand without any reason. We are still trying to get the IPC to explain, two months after the event. We then sent the parcel again, and it was again tracked to Helsinki, and then to Vienna. It then sat in customs in Vienna for over a week. The parcel contained a quilted body warmer and liner left behind by a visitor. She has finally received the parcel but been charged storage by Austrian Customs. The Customs Label, CN22, was quite clear on the contents. We have since sent a parcel to Australia, and it has been tracked as far as "Departure from Suvarnabhumi to Sydney" since Friday 6 June, so is presumably waiting for a flight. I used the Thailand Post Tracking Number on the Australia Post website and it worked fine, but gave exactly the same message. So tracking works all the way to destination, and can be followed from home PO or destination PO. There are many opportunities fior delay in transit.