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But I have seen court cases in which the drivers who caused deaths in similar situations were acquitted. May be the judges sympathized with the drivers, or they didn't like the victims. In one case, the driver was acquitted (in an appeal) only after staying in jail for sometime though. That is, the driver was initially convicted.

This is just about 500 m from the site of the accident. I doubt the authority would set the speed limit to 60 kph on this kind of road. Not just bends, there are many junctions with no road marking at all, and shops or housing area entrances just by the roadside. Common sense tells me, even a 50 kph speed limit is already high. There was someone who said 80 kph....... https://maps.app.goo.gl/W87EHVkQJdQne7g48 Since the car was probably going down a slope from the overhead bridge, and the road in front is a little wider, I assume he/she increased the speed. So, at the site of the accident (probably the + junction), the car was most likely quite fast, very likely exceeding the limit (speed limit won't increase just because there is a slope). As a result, it took about 45-50 meters to stop. This is the distance between the + junction and the entrance of housing area where the CCTV is. Since speed limits are there to reduce harm, the driver caused serious harm because of failure to drive at or below the limit, he/she cannot claim 0 fault.

As a foreigner, I also believe the car driver was at fault. Driving at more than 30-40 kph on this kind of road is illegal. This car apparently was being driven at may be 60-100 kph.

From Youtube videos, many foreigners are doing this. Pay the full price of the (house + land). Legally, it is a 30-year rent, automatically renewable up to 90 years. Then sign a usufruct. This is basically the same as owning the house and the land. Just that they probably cannot be sold. Many are prepared to die in Thailand. Or let their offsprings continue living there after they are gone. So they don't really care what happens after 90 years. Because even their offsprings have no chance to outlive the 90 years.

Thailand needs to fix its land lease rule. You cannot lease out a piece of land, eg the land this house is on, for 30 years or longer, and collect all the rent up front. It simply means you are giving up control of the land. The is the same as selling it. And the buyer does consider himself/herself owning the land. Then your attempt to prevent foreign ownership of that piece of land is meaningless. How to fix? * You can only collect maximum 1 year of rent up front. * The rent cannot be the same forever. * You must have the right to adjust the rent every year. * If the tenant does not want to pay, he/she has to leave the land, and transfer anything built on it, to you, free of charge.

This journalist probably knows neither Thai nor Mandarin. The video says 2m CNY, which is 9.5m THB.

A 27-year-old working adult who has money to travel that far for a holiday, needs to raise 1k GBP from strangers? All her cards are intact, not lost, money not stolen. If it is 100k GBP, then I can understand. 1k? Come on.....

Companies like Google and Amazon etc are already paying local taxes for services consumed locally. For example, if there is sales tax in your country, you are already seeing this in your invoice. It is currently not a norm to tax retirees for money remitted from overseas. But a few years later, it may become a norm. But before that, it should be a norm to tax NON-RETIREES for money they remit from outside. They are getting income. This income HAS TO BE TAXED. Who are these non-retirees? * Youtubers * digital "nomads" * those doing streaming to sell goods (especially Chinese who do streaming in Thai hypermarkets and night markets illegally to sell goods in China) * those who buy goods from outside and sell in Thailand and vice versa through chat services Retirees generally have no income. To tax them for their savings should be something done later, if it is ever done. Any taxation decision made by Thailand will not depart from this principle.

Basically, only if a person pays rent every month, or every year, then it is a lease. This is legal. If the person pays 30 years of rent in one go, this is called a purchase, and it is illegal. You can sign a 30 year lease, but if you pay for it upfront, you are a criminal.