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Are you seriously incapable of checking the news you read? It's credited on the Reuters website. Try iannetnl on Twitter. She posted a few videos.

The one's in bright yellow and yellow and blue.

Try finding the Reuters video and there's a link to the owner on it.

Try a bit more research and you might find where Reuters got it from. It's always worth checking things out.

That is not the account of the video's owner. The video owner has clarified that these are Maccabi fans. You can see the team colours on some of them. Not a Palestinian flag to be seen. I'm sure it's true that there are organized attacks going on and anyone who's part of that should be dealt with. But so far I'm reading 5 people hospitalized in this orgy of violence. That doesn't seem to be a particularly high number. And it also seems clear some Maccabi fans are hooligans whose behaviour probably got the reaction they wanted.

Your video shows Maccabi fans not Muslims attacking Israelis. Check the account of the video owner not the account you posted. You can even see the team colours on some of them. No Palestinian flags in hand either.

These ones? Maccabi fans heading out of the station. Look something like your regular football thugs.

It doesn't look like they were under attack at this point. Rather enjoying their trip and making videos of it: https://metro.co.uk/video/maccabi-tel-aviv-fans-tear-palestine-flag-amsterdam-building-3308723/

I inadvertently submitted the online form without my first name a few years back. As you say it's not starred as required information. I actually received a phone call from someone at CW to tell me that it was missing. She told me she'd cancel it so that I could resubmit, which I did and it was approved almost immediately. That was service!

As we're excusing pedantry. Most uses of 'bread' are uncountable. However, in the example used above "specialty breads" is correct. The meaning there is different types of breads. And is also the exact example given here: The bakery is known for its specialty breads (= types of bread). https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/american_english/bread If you're not convinced, try a Google search for "specialty breads" or other "adjective breads" e.g. "savoury breads", "European breads" etc. "Loaves of breads" is pushing it though, I would agree (though not impossible).

15k is the maximum income that the calculations are based on, not how much can be received for the pension. If you retire with full contributions over 15 years, you'd get 3,000 baht. I can't remember the formula exactly but then you can add on something like 1.5% of 15,000 for each additional year. You'll get nowhere near 12,000 baht.

Seems way too high. How are you doing the calculation?

It will be between 4-5,000 baht per month. I get around 4,500 baht based on 23+ years. It only takes about 5 years to get back what I put in. There's a fair chance I could live another 20 years so I guess this is one of the problems for the current system where the falling birthrate will continue to affect the size of the workforce. One of the reasons why they want to bring the MOU workers from neighbouring countries into the system.

Under the current system, anyone earning over 15,000 baht per month, so a lot of bank and office workers in your examples, with 20+ years of payments will receive an SSO pension of 4-5,000 baht. Lower salaries with lower contributions will receive less. And most farm workers, construction workers and people on the street are probably not paying into the SSO system. Employees are also entitled to receive a retirement severance payment from the employer based on their years of service and final salary. So if they've been with a company for 20 years or more, they get a payment equivalent to 400 days' salary, 10 years is 300 days etc. It maybe of interest to some here that working continuously for an employer on two-year contracts, for example, your years still add up for the final severance payment.

Actually, for clarity, I think in the private sector any employee can retire at 55 and receive the SSO payments. The retirement age mandated by the company comes into play with the lump sum retirement payment that companies are obligated to pay based on the number of years service. I can't remember the exact levels but it's the same as other types of severance pay. In my case, once I hit 20 years with my employer, it meant I was entitled to a payment equivalent to 14 months' salary upon retirement. So if the company mandated a retirement age of 60, you could still retire and receive your SSO pension at 55. But wouldn't be entitled to the company's final retirement payout. For that, you'd have to stay to 60.