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Looked like the reporter was having a good time. She kept taunting him with questions even after he threw a few slaps her way. This will be good for her career probably.

No experience, none. No foreign relations experience, no economic experience, no parliamentary experience...Well qualified obviously to be Thailand's PM!

Are they really going to start auditing foreign retirees bringing a few hundred thousand baht into the country each year? Considering the fact that only about 25 percent of Thais file income tax.

"Ethics" of lack thereof is a term that applies only to people the Constitutional Court wants to get rid of

I'm on volume 2 of the Slow Horses series. The TV series follows the books quite closely (which is why it' so good) but in my opinion the book are still worth reading if you enjoy spending time with these people. I also just finished Rachel Cusk's Aftermath in which she discusses the repercussions of her divorce. I'm a big ambivalent about her because her books really aren't novels or memoirs but more like a series of short essays but this is the third book of hers I've read, so I guess I'd have to say I like her.

He wasn't running the country anyway. The question now is whether we'll get another Thaksin puppet or a military puppet.

How much the country was going to change over the next 15 to 20 years

Get a halogen oven. I used to cook pizza all the time in mine (from scratch). Top temp is 250C but that was enough for me

You people enjoy arguing semantics. Citibank Thailand was not a "branch" of Citibank New York except in the most narrow sense -- in the way that the BOT defines a branch, i.e., a foreign entity allowed only one office in Thailand. Otherwise, it was an independent from Citibank NA under the juridisction of the Bank of Thailand and did not offer joint services with Citibank NA. It was for the purposes of regulation considered an internationla bank, not a Thai bank. Mega banks are essentially holding companies so the results of their various international branches (whether called branches or subsidiaries or anything else) are consolidated into their financial statements but the kind of relationship a foreign banking branch or subsidiary has with its parent bank is complex and subject to the rules and definitions of the host country. Simply saying a name, branch, subsidiary, affiliate, correspondent, whatever will not give a clear idea of how the bank is actually allowed to operate. To sum up, Citibank NA was designated a branch by the BOT, it was allowed only one office in Thailand, and it operated independently from Citibank NA in terms of its banking operations but was included in its consolidated financial results and was subject to supervision from the head office. If Citibank Thailand had gone bankrupt, depositers would only have been entitled to the compensation stipulated for Thai domestic banks unless the parent bank decided otherwise.

Accident. My mother was still breastfeeding my brother and thought she couldn't get pregnant. Boy, did she resent me, like it was my fault

I also do all the things I'm supposed to be doing; I watch my diet, exercise religiously, I do breathing exercises daily, avoid stress as much as possible, I did Tai Chi for years...Even so, my blood presssure bounces between 140 and 150. I took Losartan, made my blood pressure go up, and now take a low dose of Amlodipine. It helps but not enough. For some people, lifestyle changes aren't going to work. My father had high blood pressure, my mother, my grandmother. My mother and grandmother still lived to their ninties.

James Nestor wrote the book "Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art," which became an international best seller. It discusses the history of breathing techniques and the importance of correct breathing (especially breathing through the nose and not the mouth). Coherent breathing is the basic technique for synchronizing the various organs of the body. The Wim Hof technique is popular for boosting the immune system and improving general health. The 4-7-8 technique was developed by Andrew Weil, an old buddy of Timothy Leary's back in the day and now quite famous as the founder of integrative medicine, a hoistic approach to wellness. He proposed as a method of relaxing and, in particular, a sleep aid.

Thailand ratified the International Covenant for Human Rights. The United States is simply pointing out its obligations under that treaty. You can't sign and international treaty and then turn around and say, "Oh, it doesn't really apply, because we're a sovreign nation." Huh?

I didn't take this post seriously. So how about that?

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Are you sure? That was the quote they gave me for handling everything including the financial requirements. That's expensive but most agents don't deal with Chaeng Wattana. Maybe they don't do just the walk through though.

In that case, it's hard to justify the 22,000 baht charge. That's more than the fee most agents charge for covering the financial requirements.

It means obviously that both Republicans and Democrats are to blame. Total borrowing under the Trump administration was 8.1 trillion. Under Biden, it's been 4.3 trillion. Minus the Covid spending, Trump still increased the debt by 4.8 trillion, 2 trillion of that was for tax cuts that he didn't pay for (and which he's promising more of). (All figures from Fox news) More importantly, it was Reagan who started the paradigm of ignoring the debt problem as he increased spending while cutting taxes. The debt was only 780 billion when he took office. It rose to 1.6 trillion by the time he left. If you're counting on Trump to the cut the deficit, you're delusional. If you're expecting fiscal responsibility from either party or the FED, you're also delusional.

Thai Visa Centre deals with visas from provincial immigration offices. If you want a visa from Chaeng Wattana, try Thai Visa Expert

Natsu is the Japanese word for summer. Aki is the word for fall or autumn. Both are used in names (Natsuko, Akiko).

Location is of primary importance, though Thai Visa Centre will will handle retirement extension requests from anywhere in the country via EMS.

Donald Trump increased the debt by 7 trillion, George W Bush by 4 trillion. But the grandaddy of them all was Ronald Reagan, who increased the national debt by 160 percent. Now, I wonder what those 3 have in common.

The rhytym method is approved. It's actually quite effective if you follow the guidelines: chart temperature monthly, avoid sex while ovulating as well as a week before and a week after. That gives you about a two week window for binge sex and since anything but straight intercourse is forbidden, each session shouldn't take that long.

In the book "Eat, Love, Pray," Elizabeth Gilbert becomes acquainted with a local woman who specialized in fertility issues in Bali. The woman said that invariably Indonesian men would refuse to accept any responsibility for the inability to conceive even when it was clearly their fault. To solve the problem, she would turn to the local motorcycle taxi drivers and usually the woman was happy to oblige so long as she could conceive a baby.

Wow, a lot of men seem to have gotten vasectomies. I didn't realize how popular they are. Apparently, 25 percent of men in New Zealand, 20 percent in the US, UK, and Canada rely on vasectomies for birth control. In Bhutan, a Buddhist country, it's 40 percent. They seem less popular in Asian countries, though, including Thailand. In Japan, the pill was banned until 1999 and diaphragms aren't widely used, so the main type of birth control, even in marriage, was condoms The result was that by the time they were in their 40's, most women had had 2-3 abortions. Although abortions are legally a gray area, they are widely available, with small abortion clinics around most major stations. In Thailand, it seems condoms are also the birth control of choice, which probably accounts for the high rate of teenage pregnancies. Boys refusing to use them or using them incorrectly. It's hard to believe, though, that most people in long-term relationships rely consistently on condoms for protection.