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Those 250 seats are actually in the senate, not the house of representatives, so they are not part of the 500 elected MPs. Their significance will/might show when it comes time to vote for the prime minster. They get a vote in that.

People get two votes: one vote for a constituency MP and the other vote for the party list. They can vote for the same party with both votes or for different parties. Up to them. But, the main thing about the party list is that there are only 100 seats available so for a party to get a party list MP elected, they have to achieve a certain number of votes - 1% of the total votes cast in the whole country for a single party list MP elected. So if 45 million people vote, a party has to get 450,000 votes just to get one party list candidate elected. If Bhumjaithai are getting 1/7 - 1/8 of the votes that both Move Forward and Pheu Thai are getting on the party list voting, they will not get as many party list MPs elected as the other two parties. I suppose the party list system favours the major parties. However, for the constituency votes, a candidate just has to beat the other parties’ candidates in a constituency. Constituency votes reflect the will of the locals whereas the party list votes reflects more the will of the nation as a whole.

Some coffee isn't meant to be really hot. Instant black coffee you can have as hot as you like. Make an espresso based latte and it's best if it is not boiling hot. That's my opinion anyway but that's also the opinion of a lot of baristas. (Look it up on YouTube or Google). That aside, I hate poor service wherever it is. I do the same as you, Steven, I just don't return. If the first time is poor, I'll likely go back another time to give them a chance (everyone has a bad day) but if the service (or coffee) is poor again, I won't go back. .

My wife, a long-time Democrat voter, will be voting for MFP this time.

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"I just want some advice as to how I can thin this mucus so I can cough it up more easily." My Thai doctor gave me Ambroxan/Ambroxol, which I believe was to thin mucus.

I take back some of that post. I was wrong about the location. The school is a small rural school about 36 km north-east of Nakhonsawan city. โรงเรียนวัดท่าแรต

She will have started her job at the same salary as she had before getting the job. Her salary is not really related to being a director (there is no 'Director's Salary' as such) but her working in the government educational system (teachers and educational personnel). She will not have been offered a higher salary to tempt her to take the job. Also, the school is located in NakonSawan 'city', the main town in the province, and it has a population of about 82,000. I'm sure there were plenty of candidates for the position. .

The first picture in the article in the OP (in Thai) calls her a ผอ (por or), which is short for ผู้อำนวยการ (poo amnuay-gaan). That is usually translated into English as school director, although principal is also heard.

There is quite a range in the salaries of Thai government teachers and directors. This particular director's salary is not that high because she is still fairly young. The longer she stays in the job, the more base salary she will get. Most teachers get some sort of pay rise each year, I believe in the range of 2.5-3-% of their base salary. The two extra amounts in her salary (2 x 5,600) are due to her grade. That's the payment for Grade 3 teachers. Grade 2 teachers get less, grade 1 even less and new teachers even less. New teachers start off as Assistant teachers. When they pass their evaluations after about 2 years, they will progress to grade 1. Grade 1 teachers are called practitioner level. Grade 2 teachers are called professional level teachers. Grade 3 teachers are called senior professional teachers. But, I hear you say, she is a school director, not a teacher anymore. The following might be news to you, but they are paid no extra for being school directors. They get paid the same base salary as other teachers and the same professional grade payments as other teachers of the same grade. So why do they become directors? A higher status maybe? Or perhaps that they don't have to teach anymore!

It's clear to me. *Sorry, I don't seem to be able to nest quotes.

an equivalent rate for the year. Over the 158 days, you would earn the equivalent of 1.515% of your deposit. . It's clear to me.

You haven't read my posts then. You are just here to argue for the sake of it.

Read my earlier posts. It's there.

I haven't been confused by anything. We both agree on the figures but you are just confused by what you think I think. My earlier posts made it clear (to me at least) that when I was talking about the interest for a year I was talking about equivalent rate for the year. Obviously the promotion is only for 158 days.

You are correct that it is a promotion for only 158 days but the three different interest rates given by the bank are actually annual interest rates, and therefore the 3.5% rate is the average return for a year. Over the 158 days, you would earn the equivalent of 1.515% of your deposit. .

You are doing it the wrong way around. Work out the interest for a year at an interest rate then divide the number of days by 365. That will give you the interest on that rate for that number of days. Do that for each rate. That will give you the total interest for 158 days. Then you multiply it by 2,31 to get an equivalent rate for the year.

For the 158 days, you would earn 1,515 baht interest on 100,000 baht. However, 158 days is only 43.28% of a year, you need to multiply 1515 by 2.31, which gives you 3500 baht, which is 3.5%

Yes. I've done the maths. On a deposit of 100,000 baht you would get interest of 3501 baht.

Thanks. So a very high headline making interest rate for 16 days, a decent return for 38 days and an average return for 104 days - giving a return of 3.50% for a year. Still, 3.5% for a year is OK, but I'd much prefer the 17%!

The bank has a press release on its website that mentions a 16.99% interest rate but when you look through the accounts they offer, there is nothing like that for interest rates. https://www.gsb.or.th/news/gsbpr19-66/

Are you sure it is not 1.7% instead of 17%? Edit: They are offering 1.75% for a fixed deposit account of 36 months. https://www.gsb.or.th/personals/เงินฝากประจำ-36-เดือน-2/ .

Can you choose to get notifications by email instead? That's what I get and I don't get charged anything by the bank. If you have access to your email on your mobile phone, an email is as good as an SMS.

Thanks for your detailed post, CrunchWrapSupreme. The last time I did it, I went to the Labour Office in the morning and waited there (in the office where they could see me) until they had finished. I then went to Immigration in the afternoon.

"The besieged eastern city is a crumpled, skeletal wreck. But Ukraine knows losing it could be costly" In manpower terms, I'm sure the battle for Bakhmut will be costly for both sides.