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And in most other countries in the world, the generals would have been executed for treason against the legally elected government. In Thailand not 1 general has ever been punished, and they steal the whole country, including the police and the justice system. and after the last coup by Prayuth the democrat party supported them.

It must be great to decide who should live and who should die, especially when the majority are innocent men, women, children and babies, and they are NOT your people anyway. I suppose that you would be OK if your house was bombed, and your wife and children slaughtered whilst someone was looking for you. You seem to be a pull up the ladder Jack, I'm OK, to me.

How about the fact that she was born in Bangkok, Thailand on 12 March 1968? Her Father was a US citizen and her Mother was Thai, so she probably has dual nationality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammy_Duckworth She was raised in Honolulu, Hawaii and served with the US Army and after a medical waiver, she served in the Illinois National Guard. In 2004 she lost both legs and partial use of her right arm when her Blackhawk helicopter was hit during the Iraq war. She is NOT just a Senator but a retired lieutenant colonel military war hero with the decorations to prove it. She served voluntarily, even as a double amputee, and didn't seek deferment because of bone spurs.

And how would you know that?

And YOU know that this is correct. Do you have anything to back up your words?

A lot depends on which Immigration office you use. Although in theory all offices are the same, some offices may ask for extra of different information. The local office at Kamphaeng Phet Immigration requires 2 copies of each document, 1 for themselves and 1 for the regional office in Chiang Mai. Some larger offices may only require 1 copy, hence my query on the first line. I have a copy (in English) of the one that I use at Kamphaeng Phet Immigration office. It is a Thai copy translated into English by a Thai/English law firm, BUT I am having a problem with MS office, so I opened it in MS, closed it again and reopened it again in Libre Office Calc. My best advice for you is to visit your local office, ask them if they have a list of requirements for the marriage extension in English or Thai. You should be able to get a Thai version and then find an Thai/English law firm near you (on the internet) and ask if they can translate it for you. I think that mine cost me about 500 baht but that was a while ago. If you still want a copy of mine I will post it. I do my extension on monthly income, but Bangkok Bank can do 6 months on the spot or 12 months though you have to allow 3 working days, 200 baht for each set of statements and the letter. I normally order 3 copies, 1 for KPP, 1 for CM and 1 for me, KPP prefer the statement and the bankbook updated on the day of the extension application, but other offices may be different. I normally start my paper work about a month before I apply for the extension. Good luck

You may not have noticed but the Labour party of today, actually IS the Labour Party in its latest transformation. Cloth caps, whippets and clogs are out of fashion now. Tea and sandwiches are no longer in favour at 10 Downing Street. more like fine wines and haute cuisine nowadays.

And if the tourists can afford to pay, the make the fines more expensive and include jail time as well.

Neither is particularly cheap, but the Gripen is more expensive to buy. New aircraft today cost around $70 million Having been in production for so long, F-16 prices have, of course, changed a lot over the years. According to analysis from Executive Flyers, the early F-16A and F-16B variants (single and dual seat, respectively) sold in the early 1980s for around $13 million. The later improved F-16C and F-16D variants sold for just under $20 million. Coming to more recent variants, the F-16E and F-16F have a starting price of around $25 to $30 million, but improvements and equipment can take this up to $60 to $70 million. The Saab JAS 39 Gripen fighter jet costs around $85 million. Explanation The Gripen E is the latest variant of the Gripen fighter jet. The Gripen E is more expensive than previous variants. The Gripen is a non-stealth fourth-generation fighter jet. The Gripen is popular with smaller countries like Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Thailand. The Gripen was originally designed to protect Sweden from Russia during the Cold War. Where the Gripen gains over the F16 is the flying costs per hour. The Gripen fighter jet costs around $4,500–$9,922 per flight hour, depending on the model and inflation. This is cheaper than other Western jets, such as the F-16 and F-35. The cost of flying an F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jet per hour is around $22,000 to $26,927. This cost includes more than just fuel.

I agree with you 100%. Finance has never been interesting to me and certainly not at that level. I have enough problems just balancing my bank accounts, let alone trying to balance the national accounts. What I can understand is that it is not truly possible to fund any nation on external borrowing as at sometime it has to be paid back with interest, and if you borrow more to repay the loan then the loan costs more each time. Eventually nobody will lend the country ANY more money unless they are allowed to take over the country's finances, THEN the country is in real trouble and become heavily taxed all around, and sometimes the government will collapse. The last time that happened in the UK was in 1976 under a Tory government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_and_the_International_Monetary_Fund "The 1976 Debt Crisis Anthony Barber, a member of the conservative party in Britain, created a budget in 1972 in an attempt to have his party seize power in the 1974 election. This budget lead to a period of growth followed by a time that would result in high levels of inflation, almost 25%, for the pound. In 1976 investors later became wary of the value of sterling causing the value of the pound to become very low against the US dollar." IMHO I can see this happening again. perhaps in 2025 or 2026, but this time I feel that the current Labour government will collapse.

Inow read the topic title and who started it before I open a topic. If I am not interested in either, I simply move on to the next topic.

Agreed. However as I am responding to your post, you brought it up and not me. So what are your alternative plans and options?

Yes

I do, every day.

And your qualifications are what? If YOU are so smart. so clever, knows everything in the world that there is to know about national and international finance, why are YOU not the Chancellor? You seem to have no idea about spelling or punctuation but knock both men and women who have spent many years working in finance. IMHO the Labour party and Rachel Reeves have dome more damage to the UK economy in 6 months, than the Tories with all their PM's and Chancellors did in 14 years. You have not even come up with any alternative plans or options.

What a pity that you failed to mention the respect got for meddling in Thai politics once again. I really hope for Thailand's sake that there will be no more illegal military coups led by generals who truly believe that they know better than the voters. I have another (but forlorn hope) that in the event of yet another military coup that all the officers involved in the coup are punished and that the generals leading the coup are publicly executed for treason against the state and the freely elected government. Now that would be a first.

Who in turn should keep his nose out of others countries business and concern himself with his adopted countries business. AFAICS he, nor his business, is welcomed in the UK or the EU. Being rich does NOT automatically allow you the right to interfere. As my Mum used to tell me, some people have more money than sense.

IIRC when a farang (or in this case a Brit dies), the death should be reported to the police. The widow has to return the UK passport to the UK Embassy. From this I think that the UK Embassy reports it to the FCO in the UK who most probably in turn inform the DWP, who should in turn cancel the pension payments. The UK Embassy should know more and if you contact them, please could you post their answer, presuming that they bother to respond to your request.

What a pity that they don't use it in cases like this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Thailand#:~:text=The most recent execution occurred,by means of lethal injection. The most recent execution occurred on 18 June 2018, when the death sentence of a 26-year-old man guilty of robbery resulting in death was carried out. This was the first execution in nine years and the man was the country's seventh person to be executed by means of lethal injection. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/06/thailand-countrys-first-execution-since-2009-a-deplorable-move/ Responding to the news that Thailand executed a 26-year-old man for aggravated murder on 18 June, in the country’s first execution since August 2009, Katherine Gerson, Amnesty International’s Thailand Campaigner, said: “This is a deplorable violation of the right to life. Thailand is reneging on its own commitment to move towards the abolition of the death penalty, and is putting itself out of step with the current global shift away from capital punishment. “There is no evidence that the death penalty has any unique deterrent effect, so the Thai authorities’ hope that this move will reduce crime is deeply misguided. The death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment and provides no quick-fixes to problems the authorities want to confront. It seems odd to me that Amnesty is on the side of the criminal yet does not seem to be interested in the victim. Also in the main photo the protestors are all wearing masks, presumably to hide their identity.

You are one person. What will you do, if you ever find out? How will it affect your life? Most of the rest of the world doesn't know, and cares even less.

Who cares what QAnon says anyway?

Perhaps in @mdr224's world there are men and women who are like that. However, the real world is not the same as that.

What a brilliant idea. Blaming the victim. Who would ever have thought of that?

better still. jail the boyfriend for a minimum of 10 years and see how many of his "influential politician friends" support him.

Perhaps if the snare poachers were ever caught, they should be put in their own snares and left in the area where tigers roam. A sort of poetic justice.