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49 minutes ago, webfact said:
Chiang Mai Provincial Police officers imposed a 10pm curfew on locals under 18 years old following a deadly rampage by a criminal gang armed with samurai swords.
The commander of the Provincial Police Region 5, Krittapon Yi-sakhon, revealed to the MumKhao news platform that a group of men, mostly teenage Burmese nationals, repeatedly caused chaos, committed theft, fatally attacked, and harassed both locals and tourists in Chiang Mai since January.
Krittapon announced that officers had planned a crackdown, intending to visit each residence of the teenage members for questioning and to arrest those found guilty. In addition to these proactive operations, officers would also implement a 10pm curfew starting from May 3 onwards.
Individuals under 18 years old are prohibited from leaving their residences without a parent or guardian after 10pm, both for their safety and to deter them from gathering to commit crimes.
Locals in the area praised the police operation, expressing relief as repeated crimes had instilled fear. The gang’s random attacks, even targeting innocent people without provocation, had caused considerable concern among residents.One major incident occurred on May 1 when the samurai sword gang attacked and killed an innocent Thai man. The deceased’s friends recounted that the gang followed them while they were riding a motorcycle home in the early hours of that day.
The gang then threw a ping pong bomb at their motorcycle, causing a friend to lose control of the vehicle. After the crash, the gang rushed to attack his friend with their samurai swords before fleeing the scene.
The man’s friends insisted that they had never experienced any conflict with the gang or anyone else. The deceased’s mother affirmed that her son was a good person who had relocated to work in Chiang Mai’s city centre to support his siblings’ education.
by Petch Petpailin
Photo via Facebook/ เชียงใหม่ CM108 ข่าวเชียงใหม่ จังหวัดเชียงใหม่
Source: The Thaiger 2024-05-17
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Maybe can also close all these open air "music" and karaoke places for a while that make normal people want o go on a rampage with/ without swords.....................last plague the curfew was soothing for the soul.....................
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4 hours ago, JoePai said:
Everyone agrees the taking of cannabis can cause health problems but so do other “drugs” like tobacco and alcohol so why are they not being classified as a scheduled narcotics ?
Very simple : the Chinese approve of both and make loads of money on those, especially save old age pensions promoting chain smoking the cheapest of mattress weed in paper rolls. Cannabis however can create free thinking and the will to dress, behave, think freely, be artistic, in one word be a free, mellow individual. We can't have that there and the local emotionally challenged spooks agree fully, people should work, have kids , get pissed on monopoly drink, pay taxes , work, pay taxes, buy condo, pay more taxes, splash water and noise, work more , be happy with 600 Baht pensions......a smoke of dreams can only be in the way. I hate to admit it but I almost miss general P. and the cucumber troop.
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5 hours ago, webfact said:
The Finance Ministry is set to present a proposal this week to revise the Revenue Code, imposing a 7% value added tax (VAT) on all imported goods valued under 1,500 baht.
This move aims to level the playing field between local suppliers, who are already subject to VAT, and online overseas sellers who have been exempt from this tax.
Deputy Finance Minister Julapun Amornvivat explained that once the cabinet approves the draft, it will undergo review by the Council of State before being officially announced in the Royal Gazette for implementation.
Many countries have already begun to tax online purchases of foreign goods, and this adjustment in Thailand will help local businesses compete more fairly.
Initially, the Customs Department will be responsible for collecting the 7% VAT and passing it on to the Revenue Department.
Future discussions will explore the possibility of involving online platform operators in the collection process.
File photo for reference only courtesy: Thai Rath
-- 2024-05-13
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What about books that are internationally exempt? Do the customs bureaucrats know this? Or rather pretend they are waiting for the PM's orders, after all the poor man is everywhere and all the time and is expert on everything. The incredible admin costs may or may not be added too? Do they fill out a formsheet for every 100 Baht? Do we all have to plan in 1 hour daily pick up of parcels at the post or maybe the airfreight department (farang please bring passports) ? Again the planning and implementation of new ideas is meticulous.
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20 hours ago, NickyLouie said:
Good Lord !
Yes, you called for me?
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2 hours ago, Drumbuie said:
What provincial narrow-minded nonsense.
In the UK more than half of all taxpayers earn less than £20k a year ( and thanks to the skyrocketing cost of living have no savings at all) and the *average* salary is less than this threshold.
So the majority of British citizens are now unable to marry anyone without a British passport and bring them home to live.
Not just Thais. *Anyone*. Including former Commonwealth citizens. It's a needlessly cruel, vindictive policy, a further diminution of citizens' rights, and we should all sign that petition now.
.....damn! Should go out and get the old Raj back........anything better than getting back in to the EU and do your fair share of club work and be part of....ooops, the EU is also tending towards inhumane crap now, there are badmirers of the Ruanda Principle all over Europe, ......sorry guys. The good news : hemp rope is now affordable at Ali Express for all whitebreads and no worries about the Asian spouse, Ali Express will catalogue them for free in Shanghai................
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2 hours ago, webfact said:
File photo for reference only
Thailand's Customs Department will start charging Value-Added Tax (VAT) on all imported postal goods next month. The move comes in response to the influx of cheap imports from China, which have an unfair advantage over domestically taxed goods.
At present, imports sent via post aren't subject to VAT or import duties if each item's cost, insurance, and freight (CIF) value is less than 1,500 baht. However, plans from the Finance Ministry intend to enforce VAT collection on all imported goods, regardless of their value, but continue to exempt import duties.
According to Lavaron Sangsnit, the finance permanent secretary, this new tax policy will be established quickly by the Customs Department, which is a swifter approach than revising the Revenue Code. Nevertheless, the VAT-exempt rule will not apply to prohibited items, Sangsnit added.
The source from the Finance Ministry revealed that each country sets its VAT threshold based on its economy. In Thailand, the limit was raised from 1,000 to 1,500 baht per item in 2018.
Figures indicate that Thailand records more than 30 million parcel imports every year, with over half of these parcels claiming CIF values of less than 1,500 baht. Significant amounts of cheap goods are driven by online platforms retailing Chinese goods.
However, assessing the tax on each individually boxed item is a daunting task for customs officers, opening the need to devise effective methods of tax collection on low-cost goods.
-- 2024-04-29
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If they flatrate parcels independant of what is inside, VAT will in future also have to be paid for books? Books are duty- and VAT free internationally.
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1 hour ago, dinsdale said:Read the article. I pretty sure it's not saying that magic mushie pizza shops are going to be popping up everywhere.
when there wasn't so much fuss about the subject (or so many dicks around........the 70s/80s) you could buy a Thai stick all over BGK, buy Bhang on a market in Calcutta, get Nepalese Spaghetti-<deleted> in Srinagar and Kathmandu, harvest your own O near the still existant Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan (while the locals were simply looking and shaking their heads at bare bosomed Hippy girls.....imagine) have a mushroom omelette on Bali for breakfast or buy ready made J's on the markets in Cambodia or outside of , say, the Heart of Darkness. If I remember correctly the problem had never, ever been those pick-me-ups but the junk that came with a completely different type of dicks and dickenses with attitude arriving in hordes. Phuket and ChiangMai Disneyland and some worse things comes to mind here....strange association. The planet is simply overcrowded with the wrong aliens.
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13 hours ago, Dan747 said:
"WOW"-What No Accountability??
probably the "foreigner " was Chinese ...........or she would have called Anutin with some soap......and a purely medical joint...........
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1 hour ago, MartinL said:
So now even "resembling foreigners' is a potential offence, is it? There seems to be no end of ways they're trying to finger foreigners for Thai crime. Surely, if the thieves definitely were foreigners, it would have been one of the first things used to describe them by the shop staff.
foreigners , if from Europe or the west, are defined by their probable country of origin, if chinese or likely chinese they are resembling foreigners or simply foreigners. By order of his excellency the embassador of the evil empire.
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32 minutes ago, Cabradelmar said:
What is deliciously hypocritical is that one of the five Buddhist precepts is "Abstain from the use of intoxicating substances that cause inattention." But if you sell it to someone else who is not a Buddhist I guess it's okay 😂
....and being a very polite Thai he/she will share said liquids so as not to be offensive................
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2 hours ago, AAArdvark said:
How do you know that?
Experience.............
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2 hours ago, thesetat said:
Perhaps you should google and read more about vaping. Your comment about Not smoking and not harmful is debatable.
does it have any PM 2.5 ?????
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18 hours ago, george said:
Photo by Crew via Unsplash
The World Population Review website released its ranking for the Average Number of Sexual Partners by Country in 2024, revealing that Thai people are Asia’s top shaggers.
The World Population Review website published its 2024 ranking for the Average Number of Sexual Partners by Country, unveiling that Thai individuals have the highest number of sexual partners in Asia.
The World Population Review is a website providing insightful information related to global demographics across various aspects. The website recently published its annual ranking on the average number of sexual partners for residents in each country.
The ranking was compiled based on surveys conducted in 46 countries on how many sexual partners a person has in their lifetimes. The World Population Review stated that the numbers are related to the cultural norms.
The top ten countries in the ranking are Turkey, Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, South Africa, Finland, Norway, Italy, Sweden, and Switzerland. The average number of sexual partners in Turkey is reported to be 14.5.
India is reported to have the lowest number of sexual partners. The website cited the importance of marriage in Indian culture as the reason for India ranking at the bottom, with residents encouraged to refrain from premarital sex or to marry before engaging in sexual activity.
Some countries in Asia like Vietnam and China are also at the bottom of the ranking as well. The website reported that people in China, Hong Kong, and Vietnam have fewer than four sexual partners throughout their lives.
Although Thailand did not make the top ten, it is ranked 12th in the world and highest in Asia. The average number of sexual partners in Thailand is 10.6, compared with 10.2 in Japan, 7.2 in Singapore, 5.1 in Indonesia, 3.2 in Vietnam, 3.1 in China and 3.0 in India.
This report corresponds to the Global Promiscuity Index ranking launched by the mattress review platform NapLab in 2023. In this ranking, Thailand was placed as the 9th country with the highest promiscuity index in the world.
NapLab’s report is in line with the findings of the World Population Review, which indicates that Thailand has a high average number of sexual partners. The report also highlights a high rate of sexually transmitted diseases in the country.
-- The Thaiger 2024-04-09
Start looking out for curtain hotels and the number in any town or city is staggering and they don't really ALL function as tax write-offs, do they? In my direct residential middle class area I know of , say, 6-8, and when driving past cars actually do enter and exit, probably just to make a U-turn. Taking the secretary along for the ride. Hey, guys, nothing wrong with these figures , as far as any statistics that I did not fake myself may be believed, good on them. Think of the smut places you need to go to (after convincing your "partner" of fresh bed sheets) for example in Hamburg or London or A'dam.......in the US in some places you'd likely get arrested for sex per se not used to multiply under the gods' eyes. And here you always have an additional service bloke filming or fotographing you in the act, even with a zoom or night goggles......where else do you get this?! And the author is wrong : since Modi sex in India has quadrupled, just not voluntarily, at least for the women being participated.
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9 hours ago, connda said:
What is it with foreigners thinking it's OK to have public sex in Thailand. I'm sure it would probably be prison time in their home country.
....oh, they were chinese ?.......and here I am thinking the eejit tried to film to see if someone else's dick is large than his teeny one, can be no other reason to film something that one despises.............or he is Christian? Or Taliban? They have that habit too, the devil lurks in any type of fun....that others have. The land of the curtain hotels strikes again!
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3 hours ago, Gottfrid said:And still there are stupid foreigners want to live there. Welcome to Cancer City!
There are "stupid" farang who have lived and worked there for decades and have no choice unless they give up all they have invested here and go back to the street in Europe.....all for the greed and incompetence of an unelected government and a handful of unusually rich .....
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2 hours ago, BritManToo said:What's your rush?
I'm retired, plenty of time, standing in line in air-con isn't the worst thing in the world.
right, and apart from CCTV following you around, face recognition, fingerprinting at immigration, reporting when you go play golf in another province, it is now that the banks and the government knows every chewing gum you buy and how many bottles of wine , etc etc etc. Next they will "ask" you to wear4 the bracelet "for your health of course and personal safety" that reports where you have been and to your insurance wether you exercise or need a higher premium. Aaaah yes, cars also have a reporting system already and newer ones even record if you are tired by checking your eye movements. Who needs an evil emperor when we are already doiung this ourselves..............ooops, and I was not only talking about China's latest satelite Thailand but most of Europe.
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6 hours ago, webfact said:
Chalong, Phuket-In a dramatic turn of events, Chalong Police apprehended a male German national who had overstayed his visa by more than 500 days. The incident unfolded in the quiet neighborhood of Soi Naya in Rawai.
According to Chalong Police Chief Colonel Eakkarat Plaiduang, officers responded swiftly after receiving reports of a disturbance. Upon arrival, they encountered the foreigner, who was shouting and behaving erratically. Fleeing from the authorities, he sought refuge inside a nearby house, barricading himself behind a locked door.Despite their attempts to engage in dialogue, the man remained uncooperative. In a startling escalation, he brandished an axe, threatening both the police and anyone who dared to enter. Objects were hurled from the house, creating a tense standoff.
By Goongnang Suksawat
Full story: THE PHUKET EXPRESS 2024-04-06
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Sell Phuket to China, they can then let the triads and the russian mafia fight it out, the evil emperor can take over from the winner and send in some gunships with water cannon to swart renitent tourists. After all, China is always in need of islands that belong to other people thousands of miles from China(incl. occupied lands) and Russia loves to go to war about the same thing......... and maybe Thailand will get some 2nd hand unmotorised submarines for it from China or oil from russia....ooops, already. Israel comes to mind, they also love other peoples' country, but they leave so few buildings standing, although the people problem is definately gone afterwards...... OK, not an option. That's what can happen when your major part of income is focusing on mass tourism , come what (pollution, garbage, corruption, greed, violence....) may, figures and statistics are all that counts. Oh, nostalgia, I spent a honeymoon on Phuket almost 40 years ago and shared Patong beach with 4 or 5 normal people .............enough said.
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6 hours ago, webfact said:
Foreign buyers from China and Russia dominated the Thai condominium market in 2023, as per data from the Real Estate Information Center (REIC). The report disclosed a total of 14,449 units, valued at 73.2 billion baht, were purchased by international buyers, marking a 25% increase from 2022.
Chinese investors led the way, acquiring 6,614 units, approximately 46% of the total sales, amounting to 34.1 billion baht. Russian buyers followed, purchasing 1,260 units. Myanmar and the United States buyers trailed in the third and fourth positions, respectively.
Interestingly, the highest average price per unit, at 6.6 million baht, was paid by buyers from Myanmar. The majority of these sales, about 41%, were recorded in Chon Buri, known for the resort city of Pattaya and numerous industrial estates.
Bangkok’s condominium sales to foreigners accounted for 38% of the total, with units priced below 3 billion baht making up nearly half of these purchases. It is noteworthy that in 2023, condominiums bought by foreign investors constituted approximately 13.4% of all transferred condos. The law stipulates that foreigners can own up to 49% of a condominium development’s usable space.
The surge in sales was attributed to temporary visa waivers granted to tourists from China and other countries last year, along with a permanent bilateral waiver with Beijing from March 1, the REIC reported. Geopolitical conflicts such as Russia’s war with Ukraine and political instability in Myanmar were also factors.REIC acting director Wichai Wiratkaphan believes the foreign condominium purchases are improving and returning to normal.
Foreign condominium sales in 2023 were 13% higher than the 12,798 units sold for a total of 50.6 billion baht in 2019, as per REIC data.
Tourism, a sector directly responsible for about 12% of the country’s gross domestic product and nearly a fifth of jobs, is viewed by Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin as a key driver to boost the country’s sluggish economic growth. Along this line, last year, the government waived visas for travellers from China, Russia, Kazakhstan, India and Taiwan. Additionally, airlines were instructed to add more routes and streamline airport operations to reduce waiting times.
The Tourism Authority of Thailand anticipates a further recovery to between 35 million and 40 million visitors this year, including 8.2 million from China. This projection brings the country closer to the record of almost 40 million visitors set in 2019, before the pandemic, reported Bangkok Post.
Picture courtesy of Stay in Thailandby Alex Morgan
Picture courtesy of Bangkok Expats
Source: The Thaiger 2024-04-05
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The problem for many expat apartment owners or interested parties who actually intend to live in one will be that most of at least the chinese owners buy these as investment using them as Air BnB apartments with constant in and out and party and noise and and and. This in Thailand completely unregulated market is already fact in almost all apartment buildings in the low and medium priced section in Chiang Mai and even Thai owners being not so touchy about their peace and quiet are completely unnerved meanwhile. And the question is here : making money in this way in Thailand, then Air BnB transfering it out to a Bank, probably in Hongkong or Cyprus or Malta: no tax, ey? Not like the petty pensions of the unshowered farang, right ? Those Must be taxed 1 way or another.
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2 hours ago, Jonathan Swift said:
According to what I’ve read thus far, no. But you may have to file a rax return here. But what if you don’t? How would they find out and track you down? That’s what I wonder. Are they motivated to become the FBI/IRS of Thailand? Do they have the resources to wage tax war against non complying low income expats? Or will it be a matter of so long as you don’t attract attention you stay under the radar?
You apply for your yearly Non-B ? Then just wait. It will be additional documents s.a. tax declaration, declarations from your bank here and (as the international ones eventually get reported ) the one abroad, then the ID has a list of (crooked, almost impossible to understand ) boxes to tick off. Ticked: fine, 1 left out: bring more documents. I predict the expat community and the amount of pensioners will slowly disappear to Vietnam, the Phillip Peenes and be replaced by Chinese and Privilege Card holders. Hey guys, maybe Europe is more expensive but fair and the pollution....... Wasn't it Thaksin 20 years ago who came up with this Privileged card in the 1st place? Hmmmmm............
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2 hours ago, Card said:
The answer is a clear YES. Any money brought into Thailand from abroad, no matter how it is brought in, is assessable. That doesn't mean it will be taxed but has to be added to the mix and is declarable.
....and every ATM withdrawal gets reported?...................
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10 minutes ago, NorthernRyland said:Do you Thai people really want the kind of tourists that come to Thailand because it's a cheap place to smoke weed? I don't think so. That's the point he was trying to make. It's probably helped to increase the tourist numbers but what are the character of those people? Personally I don't care for the backpacker hippy pot smokers and I know many Thai people agree with me.
what do you dream at night after the 11th beer chang? The Chinese are pressing the point and our dear self-elected leader will stand to attention, apart from .......berttter cancel that. Have you not heard that at times returnees to china get tested wether they have consumed? Probably running out of space at the "reeducation camps"................the only religion is the stalinist party, the only drug is the e vil emperor. By the way, do more tourists come to parts of the US of A , Canada or soon Germany because they don't have to queue up at the corner for a hit? Legalise all drugs , public health education and let everyone be responsible for him/herself. Down with nanny states.
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8 hours ago, ezzra said:This wishy-washy PM should take a leaf from Germany who just legalised the weed big time...
...........yes, german style : exact regulations meaning everything is sooo bureaucratic that it makes more sense to get pissed or keep buying the dope in the dark corners................
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2 hours ago, brianthainess said:
Russian ?
Chinese as the observers mentioned. Can we please differentiate between farangs and maoists/ putinistas ..................
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6 hours ago, daveAustin said:
He and his ilk are the biggest threat to Thailand, not some harmless plant. A total idiot and a bogus pm at that, put in place by cheating.
He isn't in charge, his puppet master and the chinese ambassador tell him what to think. He is there to grin and wave.
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Trans-tussle: Video captures fight between Pattaya and Phuket transwomen (video)
in Phuket News
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....hit me with your rhythm stick, hit me slowly , hit me quick , hit me................