Bangkok Barry

Nice poster, but the OP didn't actually say he wanted here to be like there. He asked why there is so much rubbish tossed by the road.

Don't worry. It isn't you. It's Thai reporting.

6 billion baht Ashton Asoke condo in Bangkok to may be demolished There. Corrected the false headline Wisanu Subsompon, Deputy Governor of Bangkok, is confident that a resolution can be achieved

Did you actually read the report? If you did you clearly didn't understand it. Try again.

Can anyone explain this? Headline page and report page. Okay, don't even try.

He rents the house, he doesn't own it. Reported that he pays a million a month for it. Or maybe that should be past-tense now...

Tell us more. Facebook is simply the messenger that reveals how much hate and idiocy there is around us. Same as any social media platform. Whatever man invents there'll be those who corrupt and mis-use it. I suppose drones are the latest, invented for fun and then converted to war use. It's what people do,

It isn't his wife. He attacked a total stranger. His EX-wife offered to post bail for him.

An earlier report said there are 30 houses there and the authorities are checking the land deeds for each. Of the first 10 checked, 'irregularities' were found with every one. It seems there are going to be a lot of very angry house owners or renters who stand to lose their homes, all as a result of a Swiss kick - and the corrupt official(s) who issued permission to build there, of course. We would expect nothing else, would we.

Try rebooting when it happens.

I use FreeFileSynch to copy to a 250GB usb, but of course you can synch to any 'secondary' drive. Very easy to use and very reliable. You might need to pay a small fee for automatic backup, I'm not sure, but I just use it around weekly or so.

There was a case recently in my native UK where an asylum seeker attacked his former partner and her daughter with a corrosive substance before fleeing - and then doing everyone a favour by jumping off a bridge into the Thames and drowning. He had been granted permission to stay in the UK despite being charged with sexual assault while waiting for that permission. Too many naive do-gooders around. Similar has happened trying to re-educate Islamic terrorists, one of whom while attending a class attacked his 'teacher' and then fled outside and attacked total strangers in the street. These people do not want to be re-educated. They pretend they've changed but they haven't, and then after fooling the authorities they kill again.

That's wishful thinking. Nation states are, unfortunately, a reality. John Lennon addressed it in 'Imagine'. The only entity on Earth that recognises borders is humans, who then might kill anyone who steps over the imaginary line. There is no positive in nationalism in my book, only a cause for conflict. I don't even like it in the Olympics. People originally competed for themselves, not for a flag. Having travelled for work for some 40 years within an international community, the one thing I learned was that everyone is basically the same with the same desires - to have a family, a home. a job. Doesn't matter where they're from. Of course there are cultural differences and extremists, but the vast majority are like you and I with the same overall goals in life.

Don't worry. Applies to every nation's leaders anywhere

I am not supporting the Swiss in any way and don't say it did/would happen in this case, but it is not unusual for Thais who didn't witness anything to come forward and testify against a foreigner, a bit like those who join in a fight against a farang although they were not involved in the reason for the confrontation. It certainly doesn't involve most Thais, but there is a deep resentment against foreigners here and some jump at any chance to 'bash the farang'. How many of us believe that a mob of 500 would have turned up to protest against Urs Fehr if it had been a Thai who kicked the doctor and not a farang? Again, I'm not supporting that Swiss either in any way. Of course, Thailand is very far from being the only country where foreigners are resented. My native UK is a hotbed of prejudice, and probably far more so than Thailand. Always has been since I was a kid in the 1950s.

The amount of money held by foreigners in Thai banks isn't even a piss in the ocean in the economy. It's because there is far less work for them to do before issuing a retirement visa. But whose fault is that? They make the rules and and have to check all the paperwork needed, same stuff year after year after year until you die. Then they don't like doing the work they themselves invent.

Nice to know that AN members know more than IOs, isn't it. Nice to know we can rely on IOs for accurate information, isn't it. Not. I guess he lied to try to get me to change from my marriage extension.

Who do you suggest I ask about retirement extensions if not the IO who issues it? So that I wouldn't be gullible when told something by a government official who tells me what the rules are?

If you are working anywhere doing anything then you are working. You are not retired. You appear to have a different definition. That's okay.

Maybe that's what the IO meant, but didn't say.

If you retire and still work somewhere else then you are not retired. You are working. I'd have thought that was obvious.

Or maybe you are. I'd guess he knows the rules better than you. Unless you have a solid reason reason for believing you know the better. I'm open to your reasons for saying he's wrong. There might be a different interpretation regarding not being allowed to work in Thailand but being allowed to work elsewhere.

This is incorrect. I was talking my local IO, questioning exactly this, and he told me that you are allowed to work with a retirement extension. The conversation happened when he was trying to persuade me to have a retirement instead of a marriage extension. Whether you work or not has absolutely no relevance as to whether you qualify for a retirement extension. All they care about is seeing 800,000 in the bank.

It might be a good idea that to get a retirement visa you have to be retired. I mean, that's the way the real world works. In Thailand you don't need to be retired to have a retirement visa. Makes no sense. I think they need another category, or another title.

So you think the ambulance driver made it up and because he's in the spotlight the Swiss went along with it, apologised and gave him a gift for lying? Okay.