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Inside and burnt to death was 46 year old Daenchai Jampakertsap who was on his way home to Onkharak district. There was no passenger.

Bad way to go.

2 hours ago, QPRFC said:

Much prefer a plastic note than another coin to jangle around in my pocket! 

It was tried. A polymer plastic 50 baht note was issued in 1997 (along with an otherwise identical paper one) and finally withdrawn some seven years ago. While obviously exceedingly more durable than the paper one, I don't think it felt quite right. I never saved any and was glad to see it go. 

'Wonderful' is a word I would never think to use when talking about fake breasts. I can understand a woman wanting larger breasts so much that she'd consider surgery, but I can't understand a man that would ever find attractive the unnatural result. 

"fly tipping" Another Briticism I've never heard of. 

First the top twenty, then a LARGE gap, and then the Thai universities remaining about where they've been:

1    Harvard University
2    Stanford University
3    University of Cambridge
4    Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
5    University of California, Berkeley
6    Princeton University
7    University of Oxford
8    Columbia University
9    California Institute of Technology
10    University of Chicago
11    University of California, Los Angeles
12    Cornell University
12    Yale University
14    University of Washington
15    University of California, San Diego
16    University of Pennsylvania
17    University College London
18    Johns Hopkins University
19    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
20    Washington University in St. Louis

...

501-600    Chulalongkorn University
501-600    Mahidol University
701-800    Prince of Songkla University
801-900    Chiang Mai University

http://www.shanghairanking.com/ARWU2018.html

Better graphic of how the boys were taken out (via NY Times):

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/world/asia/thailand-cave-rescue-seals.html

WTF does "banged to rights" mean? I've seen it here before and know it's a Briticism but not that's about it.

"If your last entry to the country was prior to 2013"

Yep.

"you have gotten a new passport since your last entry"

And yep.

OK, great. Thanks for the quick reply.

What are the options in Bangkok for a service doing the 90 day reporting for you? I've heard Bumrungrad is 650 baht now.

Filled in the first form (passport #, name, etc.) completely including captcha, clicked submit, got the "For further information..." box, and then went back to the same form. Cannot go beyond. I'm using Windows 7 and this is happening in both the latest Chrome and IE 11. Anyone else getting this?

14 hours ago, asiaexpat said:

Income is the biggest difference it would seem. But why is it that a Brit that has been in Thailand so long is not able to pronounce Pattaya correctly? 555555

The only one 'correctly' pronouncing it (i.e. closest to the way the Thais do) is the guy at 2:15 

Original table.

Global-Wealth-Shares-2017.xlsx

This is from the Credit Suisse Global Wealth Databook 2017 (p. 156, first and last columns) and is the percent of a country's wealth owned by the top one percent of the population.

Country        Wealth Shares (Top 1%)
Thailand    56.2
Russia        56.0
China        47.0
Indonesia    45.4
India        45.1
Brazil        43.5
Sweden        41.9
South Africa    41.2
Chile        39.8
Poland        39.2
United States    38.3
Israel        36.0
Singapore    34.0
Denmark        33.2
Ireland        33.1
Germany        32.3
Finland        31.3
Austria        31.1
Czech Republic    30.6
Norway        30.6
Taiwan        29.6
Switzerland    28.9
Mexico        28.4
Portugal    28.2
Colombia    27.4
Korea        26.8
Romania        26.7
Canada        26.1
Greece        26.1
Spain        25.1
United Kingdom    24.3
New Zealand    23.8
Australia    22.9
Netherlands    22.3
France        21.6
Italy        21.5
Belgium        17.5
Japan        14.6
Hungary        10.6
 

Year, make, model.

I've tried various Nissan Sentras, Volvo S60s, Toyotas, and Hondas but can't seem to get a perfect passenger door frame/window shape match, e.g. window smooth teardrop shape, frame painted in car color (not black), lower rear door edge sweeps forward rather than traces the rear wheel. 

2 hours ago, JHolmesJr said:

 

not really....fareed zakaria got caught lifting some stuff in one of his books....he's a liberal clinton lapdog so he got off without a major stink....still stinks up the airwaves on cnn though.

Please read the original linked article. The context is an academic career as a research scientist rather than someone you just see on TV.

7 hours ago, manarak said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schön_scandal

Lost his job, PhD revoked, career ruined. What happens in the West when academic fraudsters are caught.

“But in China, the cost of cheating is very low. They won’t fire you. You might not get promoted immediately, but once people forget, then you might have a chance to move up.”

On 10/25/2017 at 12:50 AM, manarak said:

probably the fraudster from Bell labs was their role model ?

Not sure who you mean, and to quote the article:

Quote

Compounding the problem, they say, is the fact that Chinese universities and research institutes suffer from a lack of oversight, and mete out weak punishments for those who are caught cheating.

Put these together and the result is an academic system that is willing to wink at ethical lapses, they say.

 

“In America, if you purposely falsify data, then your career in academia is over,” Professor Zhang said. “But in China, the cost of cheating is very low. They won’t fire you. You might not get promoted immediately, but once people forget, then you might have a chance to move up.”

 

Where it leads to:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/13/world/asia/china-science-fraud-scandals.html

5 hours ago, Naam said:

Sig Sauer is a joint Swiss-German company. the U.S. company SIGARMS is an importer and distributor of Sig Sauer firearms.

From the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIG_Sauer#SIG_Sauer_Inc.

SIG Sauer Inc.

In January 1985 SIGARMS was established in Tyson's Corner, Virginia where the handgun models P220 and P230 were imported into the US from SIG Sauer in Germany. Two years later the firm moved to a larger facility in Herndon, Virginia and introduced models P225, P226, and P228.

SIGARMS moved to Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1990 where production facilities had been established and production began on the P229 in 1992.

The parent company, SIG Sauer GmbH, is a subsidiary of manufacturing firm L&O Holding, which also owns Swiss Arms AG which was formerly a division of Sig Holding AG. Since 2000 SIG Sauer Inc has been organizationally separate from manufacturer SIG Sauer GmbH. SIGARMS, and its European sister companies, J.P. Sauer & Sohn, Blaser US, Mauser Jagdwaffen GmbH, and Swiss Arms were bought by Michael Lüke and Thomas Ortmeier in October 2000. In 2007 SIGARMS changed its name to SIG Sauer.