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It is to keep us in our place. Worked fine for me (when it was not down for weeks on end) other than one rejection. I am worried that it won't now that it has been "improved".

Yes, although it is not specifically delineated in the terms of an Ed visa that you are forbidden from gambling.

China securing it's oil supply routes is what it is really about.

OK what I meant was that you won't be able to make an extension or get any other service with a new passport without a new TM30 filed. I wasn't suggesting that if you didn't file a new TM30 within a few days you would end up in a photograph sitting on a plastic chair with 6 IO's pointing at you.

You could check if you/your company fits the criteria for the BOI remote worker visa. Some companies require that anyone working remotel here for them is not in breach of any law.

In the movies. Not even Peruvian pickpockets can pickpocket you on the move. In real life tactics to get you stationary, if only for a second, are necessary. That can be as simple as someone blocking your path or staging an elaborate sow like Leicester Square pickpockets used to do - someone would be on his knees clutching at his girlfriends legs wailing "don't leave me" and people who didn't know why the show was being staged would stop to gawk letting them select the likely best targets.

My favourite quote on Mining stocks is that if there was anything there they wouldn't be touting it on the exchange they would be negotiating terms in mahogany paneled board rooms.

You can get your own back when you move by getting somebody who writes good Thai to write a "Concerned Thai National" letter to the Revenue Department. The usual reason they won't do a TM30 is because they are not declaring the income from rental, pretending it sits empty.

That is the problem.

They'll probably do this without increasing Immigration desks.

Even with the genuine ones, where in principle many including myself are in principle supportive, how many of them can we realistically take - principle vs pragmatism. It seems the request for even genuine asylum is spread across only a handful of countries.

I sold Ganfeng Lithium as I decided that lithium use expansion is probably one of those things where despite the expansion profiting from is elusive (at least for outside shareholders in listed companies*) Successfully riding a Pink Sheet or Vancouver/AIM/ASX stock promotion the exception, but that is a trade not an investment, you must be gone before the clock strikes midnight/before the serial dilution starts.

Outside of Leftie luvvie circles there is considerable concern regarding legal Immigration numbers and beach assaults by illegal immigrants we know nothing about and who claim to be asylum seekers in order to entitle themselves to the support we give to genuine asylum seekers (which some, but unlikely all, may be). Also the prioritisation of these people for resources like housing ahead of our own citizens. Whether Rwanda is the solution is a separate issue.

Is It Really Cheaper In The Sticks? If you are living in a village with your wife's family, no.

Basically the process as described on Richard Barrows website amongst others but be advised you now have to have a new TM30 filed because of the change in passport number which it seemingly has to match.

Because if they go to a moneylender they can get the money they need to pay the electricity bill or whatever. He "helps" you in your time of financial need. Many people in the lower soceoeconomic strata can't get loans from banks, but from moneylenders they can. The moneylender acts like your best friend until things go wrong or he decides he can make more foreclosing than letting you pay off the loan as scheduled.

Ok fair enough if an Australian company holds rights to ALL the Lithium deposits in Thailand and China doesn't move the nine dash line to incorporate the deposits or pressurise for a breaking of the contracts. Fact is one of China's largest Lithium processors buys from countries where it has limited ability to influence e.g Australia and I am sure China would like to improve on that situation. As for prejudices I was commenting on China's observed modus operendi in every area where it can control or throw it's weight around. Failing that it resorts to key person bribery and that is why it has an aircraft carrier sized wharf in the Solomon Islands for example or why countries are defaulting on loans for projects that benefit china more than themselves. I assume form your comment that you are about the same age as Greta Thunberg and about as worldly so i will leave it there. The AN members can judge for themselves who is the "halfwit".

Everybody except Greta fans knows this.

In fairness, if they don't ruin it with lithium extraction it will be ruined by overtourism anyway.

So that they can't be accused of supporting illegal breaches of hotel/condo acts.

The complaints and miserable Thailand experience applies more to the condo owners who have to put up with AirBnB/other short term lets in their building. My building seems to be booked through a Hwala type network.

That wasn't really my point, the point I was making was that while Lithium is abundant it is thinly spread and it is really only lake like deposits such as in Chile and rock (spodulite? and others) such as found in Australia that are economic to mine. there are many places where they don't extract/mine lithium. It is mostly those.

Which China is the leading processor of, sp where are the upstream industries likely to be?

Not in concentratios that are economically viable for extraction. Those are actually scarce.