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Yeah, and good luck getting any of these changed through parliament when it comes to voting 🤣 They all hate each other, I reckon the first vote will tear it all apart and the PM will be out on his arse.

If they allowed them all to open whenever they wanted then the same thing would likely happen as happened in other places where they introduced this. I was in the UK for a few years at the point where they opened it up to wide scale 24 hour licensing and I knew a few pub owners back there at the time. Licenses in the UK contain the hours which you're allowed to open (they used to anyway - not sure about now) but when they changed the rules anyone could opt in to the 24 hour license, at least where I was located and from what I heard most of them were supermarkets who remained open all night but many pubs got the 24 hour license option and never really used it, maybe they opened for an extra hour or two - but the option was there if they put it on the renewal forms. Previous to this the default closing time was 11pm unless they got some kind of special exemption which was not easy to obtain, especially for a pub in an area with houses. You see most people don't want to stay out all night, so what happens is they likely stay open a bit later but very few places end up being open all night simply because most of the customers go home long before 2 and 3am and a lot more go home by 4am, this leaves some who do want to stay out all night - but not many - and if I learned one thing about nightlife over the years it's that people will congregate in a few places which contain plenty of other people - the places that are empty will remain empty. Whether it's worth staying open after 3 or 4am was debatable for many due to increased staff costs, etc. If everywhere was allowed to open until 6am you would have nearly every bar sitting there with no customers so they would close anyway. I'll bet they didn't ask the tourists what they want - because these are the people who are on holiday trying to have fun and are much more likely to stay out later than usual and the following day is always very flexible for them.

I propose that we name it 'Covenza' 🤣

I still find it unbelievable that you are deemed to have a 'criminal record' if you're charged with a crime - regardless of the outcome of the trial. There is a solution to this. The courts should be the only ones allowed to ever update a criminal record database based on judgements handed down by the judges. If someone is convicted then the record is added, if not then nothing should be done. Police records (notes and such) should be regarded as pretty much irrelevant.

Lol, don't count on that, remember the mushroom pickers case - 30 years for that.

So why is he in the immigration detention center? What does this have to do with immigration?

That's the only reason I clicked on this topic - but I wonder if that's a stock photo from before.

The police may persuade her to return the passport, it's very inconvenient to lose a passport especially if he's got a bunch of active visas in there. If not then sure, have her arrested and get a new one or emergency travel document which of course requires a police report. I wonder if his wife is also from the UK and booked on the same flight back home?

I remember this ????

Well that's one way to crap all over the rest of the world who visit the country

It's a very different virus that's circulating now compared to late 2019 until Omicron emerged.

Interesting I guess. It would be more interesting if they broke it down by the most prevelant variant at the time of death. I know there was a mixture going around but I suspect that kind of date sepration would likely show that the Delta variant caused by far the most problems and the deaths dropped off a cliff since the 'new' Omicron variant emerged from nowhere even though it's most recent common ancestor was very old, it didn't evolve from Delta, there was no trace of Delta in it at all - quite odd.....

Ok, but did he not feel any other symptoms of heart attack? Like chest pain, arm pain, etc, etc.

Some of them do.

Indeed, and based on their level of language skills I think we might be able to establish if some of them are native Thais.

Don't worry, you have until well inside 2025 before you actually need to pay up

I really wonder how good their Thai was, was it perfect?

Of course not, they're not stupid. This gift thing is obviously related to money that's already been taxed inside the country. If you send 10 million to your girlfriend she will have to pay tax on it, the same as you would if you send it to your own bank account. Assuming the money is already untaxed elsewhere of course.

Striving to become as busy as 2019 is admirable but I can remember that there had been a steep decline in tourism around these parts each year BEFORE 2019. So 2019 was not very good

I just wondered if it's illegal because I genuinely didn't know, apparently it is. Which means he's in a world of trouble.

Well there you go - it protected his trees and he did it deliberately. Is this kind of behaviour illegal?

This kind of pressure is created by the huge online shopping behemoths like Shopee Suddenly there's a shift in business from one courier to another and they have double the business they had the week before - with the same number of staff. I've seen it here in Hua Hin, which is a smaller place and they do seem to be handling it at the moment However about a month ago franchises of J&T seemed to get at least partially ditched by Shopee, one of the alternatives is Flash. Growing a company too fast often ends badly.

I think pretty much everyone see it this way. But if the rule changes on Jan 1, 2024 and of course nobody submits a tax return before Jan 1, 2024 then this rule would supposedly be in force before the tax return is due - just something to think about as we remember that it's all about how they interpret it. So when they say Jan 1, 2024 - could they be talking about the tax return due between Jan 1 and the end of March 2024?

I'll bet that you can and they will be rewarded with a tax bill exactly the same as you would.

This is for the UK from here but widely known : https://www.bdo.co.uk/en-gb/insights/tax/private-client/leaving-the-uk To summarise - if you don't go to the UK then you're automatically non resident if you spend less than 15 days per year there or 45 in a 3 year period. For me, I've spend about 1 week there in the last 15 years and that was about 10 years ago. You still have to pay tax on UK earnings though even as a non resident - for example - if you're renting some houses out, etc. Edit: I don't think this is a new thing since the UK left the EU but I'm not sure.