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Sounds interesting, a place called big small poop. I'm sure the Chinese mass-market tourists will fit right in! lol

Yes, I should think many local residents will be quite happy that they're not going to have 12 million people flying around them every year, lol.

Not just a short-term rental problem, many long-term condo renters and even owners are just as bad when it comes to thinking they're the only people living in the building so they can make as much noise as they want.

Dang! They'd better kidnap a dozen Chinese next time, not just one... lol

Lol, and there was me thinking they'd be getting around in one of these...

Was the sea level a lot higher 29,000 years ago, because today it's quite a hike to get up to that cave?

Will he also apologise for the 2000+ extrajudicial killings he sanctioned in his war on drugs when he was PM?

That's correct, except for the poor ones living off a meagre taxed pension who didn't plan their retirement very well and have no tax-free offshore income, so they've all rushed to the tax office to file a return saying they don't owe any taxes because they don't have any money. lol

Are they still planning on introducing the biometric boarding passes in the next few months? If so, I suspect there may be a drastic reduction in the numbers flying out of the country as they'll all be stuck at the departure gates where "Computer Says No!" lol

This is where it pays to have a samlor rather than a tuk tuk. A samlor is classed as an illegally modified vehicle, so there's no question of having a valid licence to drive it. lol

My Buddha! There's prostitution in Thailand, who would have believed it? lol

and yet... Oh well, that's what an addiction to Thai lakorn on the idiot box does to you, too busy watching nonsense to notice her granddaughter coughing up blood a few feet away, lol.

I'd have thought that, as long as your funds are obtained honestly, then who reports what to whom is secondary to where you are resident to pay tax on your income. I've been non-resident for tax in the UK for over 20 years and HMRC shows not the slightest interest in my money offshore. They do, however, want their slice of my UK pensions, and that's fair enough since they gave me a decent tax break when I invested in them (except the state pension, but that's just a Ponzi scheme). The banks in the UK and offshore know that i live in Thailand and have my TIN, so the information is available to the TRD if they ask for it and, as I'm currently tax-resident here they can assess it for their share. If, however, I was to stay here for less than 180 days in a year like the OP then I'd be non-resident for Thai tax and whatever data was reported to the TRD via CRS wouldn't matter, as I would not be liable for Thai tax.

Yep, it looks like Thai Airways might be getting some swish new aircraft, but that same old Thai disregard for the paying passengers is still deeply entrenched.

Is that the acting PM or the actual PM?

In case anyone else is interested, I decided to try Tee Shirt Express on Thepprasit Soi 3 to get some custom shirts printed, it's not far from my house. I took my designs on a USB and the guy let me try on an unprinted shirt to check the size is right (3XL as it happens), and then said to come back in three days. I ordered three shirts with different designs and I'm pleased with the results, it's almost impossible to find tee shirts with nice, original designs in Thailand, it's all beer makes, or Same Same but, or Good Guys Go to Heaven, or similar nonsense. I just picked them up and I'm well pleased, I think they were 410 Baht each. Here's one example:

Incorrect. Savings held abroad prior to 1/1/24 are not assessable when remitted into Thailand.

I think it's Pattaya's version of Darwinism. If you can survive, say, five years of strolling along the city's many streets with no pavements/sidewalks, as well as the more up-market tourist areas with pavements/sidewalks that are often atrociously maintained, then you'll find that you fit right in here, bulletproof. Alas, many do not make the grade and end up going the way of the dodo. lol

Well, that puts me off ever flying into Phuket again! lol

There's a water filter shop halfway along Thepprasit on the north side, between Soi Kopai (Soi 6) and the PTT station. You can take the photos and whatever else you have along there and they should be able to tell you what you need.

Well if they do this then I hope they'll also rescind the stupid ban on beer on SRT trains.

RIP, but this has happened many times over the years. They put horrible pictures of illness and cancer on cigarette packets, and are talking about doing the same for booze. Maybe they should do something similar for big bikes, plaster them with photos of the horrendous physical results of a high-speed crash.

The motorbikes will just park on the pavements instead (that's sidewalks to our friends from the Gulf of America, lol).

Yet another news report involving a Frenchman with a decidedly non-French name. The eldest daughter of the Catholic Church must be in dire straits, no Pierre's or Marcel's or Jean-Paul's left anymore, lol.

I haven't seen this one posted in either the Pattaya or Thailand News sections, and I thought it was worth sharing it. From this morning's Daily Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14346445/thailand-holiday-hell-road-sign-leaned.html As is often the case, I suspect we're only getting one side of the story here, though the Foreign Office seems to have accepted his tale. It started with him bumping into a sign and damaging it. Maybe he'd had a few Changs too many and, when in that condition, some people become aggressive, and maybe that's why the cops arrested him in the first instance? I won't speculate any further, anyway. Many of the photos in that article are the same as those used in this one: ...about a 29-year-old former British soldier who got banged up for overstay. Do the Soi 9 cops now have a standard set of press photos they release showing their desirable cells, lol? Or did the Mail lift the pictures from the AN article? Anyway, if what the guy in the Mail story says is true, then it's an appalling way to be treated. But I think there's a lot more to it than just that. Anyone?