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2 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

Casinos offer the poor a chance to become filthy rich.

They are only a problem if you lose.

And remember, the more you bet, the more you win.

Or the more you lose.

2 hours ago, Zack61 said:

Casinos are yet another tool to enrich the filthy rich whilst they only offer the poor a life of further misery and destitution.
Casinos are a cancer and I wish the protesters well in their endeavours to put a stop to them. 

How many poor Thais will be allowed into the casino?

Rich Thais, yes

So if only rich Thais and tourists will will be affected and lose money, why does if matter to you?

BTW rich Thais rarely spend time gambling and losing, that is one reason that they are rich.

1 hour ago, jvs said:

No, the betrayal is all on Trump.

Refusing to call Putin the aggressor and saying The Ukraine started this war is a knife in the back of

Zelensky.

The US lost the respect of the rest of the free world.

Of all the weapons send to the Ukraine only 25% came from the US.

How could Zelensky ever go to the White house knowing he was betrayed before he got there.

Shame on the US and Trump.

Slava Ukraine!

 

 

Snip from your post.

Shame on the US and Trump.

IMHO, the shame is on Trump and Vance alone, and not the majority of the US people as they have little choice in what is happening in their name.

Slava Ukraine!

2 hours ago, watchcat said:

 

Who looks at 10-12 year old girls?

Anybody who delivers and collects their children from school, especially when the children are crossing the road to get to buses on the other side. They don't only look at girls, but at ALL the children, so they don't run the children over.

33 minutes ago, watchcat said:

 

Sounds like nice parent's  Not

Not really.

You have NO idea who the parents are, their ages or even if they were married.

It might have been a teenage schoolgirl whose boyfriend abandoned her and her unborn baby and ran off before the baby was born.

Why could you not wait to comment when further information becomes available, instead of jumping to a conclusion?

Perhaps the mother is in urgent need of help and has nobody to turn to. She probably needs hospital attention which she cannot get.

1 hour ago, proton said:

 

Are they as bad as in the UK now?

They are much worse off than the UK, even now.

At the same time Thailand will be wasting billions of litres of irreplaceable water. 

snip from the OP

 "the initiative highlights Thailand’s rich culture and New Year traditions, reinforcing its position as a top travel destination during the festive season".

Songkran in its current manner actually bears little or no commonality  with the real culture and tradition of the original Songkran.

It is simply a way of making money.

5 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

How many of the US wars around the world since 1948 has that country provided troops for? Korea, nope, Vietnam, nope, Iraq- nope, Afghanistan- nope. Not much of a friend then.

Try researching before you post.

Europe is NOT just one country, but 50 different countries including Russia.

Here is a link for you.

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

Europe covers approx. 10,186,000 square kilometres (3,933,000 sq mi), or 2% of Earth's surface (6.8% of Earth's land area), making it the second-smallest continent (using the seven-continent model). Politically, Europe is divided into about fifty sovereign states, of which Russia is the largest and most populous, spanning 39% of the continent and comprising 15% of its population. Europe had a total population of about 745 million (about 10% of the world population) in 2021; the third-largest after Asia and Africa.

She reminds me of an old BBC radio show broadcast from 1946 to 1960 called

"Take it from here"

That is what she is doing. Take it from Here and put it there, then take it from there and put it somewhere else.

It is not new or extra money, just reshuffled money.

54 minutes ago, ikke1959 said:

Move Farward was the winner of the elections, but as they were a threat for the current leaders and army they were made impossible to make a coalition. You forgot that Pita was unable to be PM? All kind of tricks were used to prevent that he would be PM  and nd the managed to ban him . PHeu Thai was the first party that saw their chance and formed a formed a government with their friends to keep the power, so not an elected Government  in fact but a Government that was formed to keep the people in power who already were there. Everybody wrote enough about it.. The same parties in another Government. But with the return of Thaksin it seems that there would be changes,,, but untill now they are only working to get Yingluck back and nothing is achieved yet, as we all know  that it is the same as in the last decade. This is not the US nor a democracy.. 

How would you know whether or not I forgot Pita? Was he standing for election? If you have read and understood the constitution, you would know that the PP were given the option of forming the government.

That they could not and the reason behind it are nothing to do with the legality or not of the current government. As they could not form a workable government, the party with the next highest elected was given the option, in line with the constitution and the law. If that party could not form a government, then the next party in line would have been given the option. I am not sure how many times that can happen before a new election would have to be called.

Strangely enough I had noticed that Thailand is not the USA.

However I was responding to another poster @spidermike007 who may not be aware of the rules.

4 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

First of all this is not a democratically elected government and Thailand is not a democracy. Secondarily this Administration has done absolutely nothing for the people and all they're doing is representing the interests of the army, the autocrats, and the billionaires. The young pm has always been completely out of her element, and her level of ineffectiveness is only match by the Goomba overseas. 

Actually it is a legally elected government.

PPP which had more elected MPs, was given the first choice of electing a majority coalition government. Unfortunately together with their partners they still could not form a majority government. After a period of time (30 days I think) the option to form a coalition government went to the party with the next highest number of elected MPs, (as laid down in the current and previous constitutions). In this case it was the PTP who could, and did form a majority coalition government.

In Thailand, and in many other countries it is not necessarily the first past the post party which forms the government, nor is it, as in the USA that the electoral college decides who is the winner.

3 hours ago, Tug said:

Do not trust trump I repeat do not trust trump .he and putin are birds of a feather they will do whatever suits them and will promise the moon then break their word.

TBH I don't trust either of them as far as I can throw the Royal Albert hall left handed. However that is just my opinion, and I am sure that other posters will agree or disagree with me.

18 minutes ago, OJAS said:

 

Whilst this is, indeed, the case provided that the amounts involved do not total more than the UK personal allowance (currently £12,570) as already said, it would appear that her widow's pensions might, however, be deemed assessable income for Thailand taxation purposes, because of Article 19(2) of the UK/Thailand Double Taxation Agreement, which states:

 

(2) (a) Any pension paid by the Contracting State or a political subdivision or a local

authority thereof to any individual in respect of services of a governmental nature

rendered to that State or subdivision or local authority thereof shall be taxable

only in that State.

(b) However, such pension shall be taxable only in the other contracting State if

the recipient is a national of and a resident of that State.

 

But, given your subsequent statement that the amounts involved won't exceed the current UK personal allowance, she might not, in practice, have to pay any tax in Thailand either because of the various allowances and exemptions currently in force.

 

That all said, things could, of course, change at both UK and Thailand ends between now and when your wife claims her widow's pensions!

 

 

However as a Thai national (she will be 60 in October) she will also be entitled to the standard 150,000 baht exempted income, and probably the age allowance of 190,000 baht.