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The article appears to be suggesting that non-resident Thais can now repatriate money to Thailand without paying the tax if sent in that year etc. This seems baffling, because I assumed that non-resident Thais would not pay anyway. Can somebody clear this up?

It's important to turn your finger back at yourself and reflect on your own thoughts. Stop pointing it at the bar girls. Why the Western obsession with the Holocaust and the Nazis? Why your demand that the Thailand have the same level of obsession? The Holocaust is a special learning moment for Westerners because the most seemingly civilised and cultured Western country on the earth committed a mass genocide. There have been plenty of genocides. Just look at Thailand's neighbour or Rwanda. But these are primitive backwaters that don't require any struggle session for the White man. So the Western obsession is a parochial obsession. It is simply not a learning moment for Thailand. It doesn't matter. The Cambodian genocide would be much more useful for them to learn about and care about and obsess about and moralize about. Compare with Mao's evil cultural revolution. Far more died than in the Holocaust. Yet any westerner can quite calmly wander the streets of any Western capital wearing a Mao T-shirt. Nobody cares. Despite millions of deaths nobody gives a s***. Stop mast***ating about the behaviour of bar girls, even if you are disappointed with them because you had such high expectations of their moral fabric after sitting on your bar stool for weeks discussing Plato's Symposium with them, and start pointing the fingers at yourselves.

The British police have officers permanently stationed in Pattaya and Bangkok. They are actively looking.

If you are going to offer up a Latin legal expression, please make sure that you spell it correctly. "Habeus corpus"

Google Translate also has this function.

Hopefully this will dissuade Chinese from visiting.

Ttb's absolute bog standard card ("All Free") operates as a good travel card. See below:

Very unlikely that the airline will let you fly. They are not flexible because any breach of the rule results in a heavy fine on them.

Firstly, why? Secondly, macro-diversity necessarily means micro-homogeneity. If you insist on everywhere being diverse then everywhere becomes the same slop. Thirdly, you lack a sense of tragedy. A well-functioning civilised successful society is very rare in this world. What exactly produces the success is difficult to ascertain but radical experiments to change it are not such a great idea. Chesterton's Gate tells us to be very cautious about changes that upend the very way mankind has lived for thousands of years. Fourthly, the premise that diversity is a morally good thing only exists in societies with a high openness and high trust. These societies, like Sweden or the UK are vanishingly rare, and through the diversity importation they will cease to be open and high trust. The groups arriving will suffer from "third worldism": clannish inwardness and low trust. Fifthly, wanting to move to live near White people is not a human right. It does seem like the whole world wants to move to White dominant countries but there is literally not enough room for 4 billion desperate people. Can you imagine how boring the world will become if everywhere and anywhere has exactly the same population makeup.

Hot news! Miraa now supports Thai. It has the astonishing capability of AI learning: it will analyse and interpret any sentence's deep meaning. For example, let's pick a random Thai drama off YouTube: I can click for an explanation of the vocabulary, and the grammar: And then you can ask for instant deep analysis: This is like having a teacher in the room with you. I have never seen anything like this before. It gives you 30 minutes free a day.

The situation is even better now because there are Apps utilising the auto-generated subtitles allowing us to even do quick re-listens to segments of dialogues. They space out the subtitles so you can see them in full paragraphs. They even allow you to dub over the voice with a clean autogenerated Thai voice (if absolutely necessary). I strongly recommend both LingoTube and LingVotube as examples of these apps (the former is slightly superior). I'm also hoping that the remarkable Miraa App will become available for Thai readers and listeners. In their free versions they are all excellent and I have never felt a need to pay for the extra functions.

I did this for many years, albeit for the work extension. But recently I've found arriving very last minute minimises the wait the best. I think the queue tickets are stopped from 3:30pm, so 3:20pm would be safe. I did have a photo of the queue counter close times but I can't find it now so hopefully somebody on the ground can confirm. If you do this, owing to large numbers of dropouts and staff desperate to get home, you should be seen and done within 2 or possibly 3 hours.

Does your phone still receive regular security updates? It could be that it is so old that Samsung is no longer providing enough security for the bank to be comfortable.

Some very major updates by the son: "As things move forward following Friday's earthquake in Bangkok, things have also continued to be delayed in acquiring an answer from the UK embassy with regard to whether my dad would receive the care needed on arrival back in the UK on time and there is a concern over NHS waiting lists. The last thing I would want for him is to be repatriated back there, only to find he would be waiting for a year for treatment. It seems the best option will be to keep my dad here in Thailand and look to proceed with an amputation, investigation into his internal health issues and to put him on a feeding tube until his weight is brought up. I will also need to look to find other suitable, "honest" carers where things do not get stolen in my absence to support me with him so I can go back to working as I have lost a lot during the last few months. I have therefore updated the GFM target to reflect addressing the medical needs here and caring for him over the next 6 months." Obviously you don't give up a (lucrative?) job in finance in order to do care work for your father far away from home, when clearly the medical costs are going to hit you. The hospitals in Thailand are Grade A level and there is no reason to go to the UK to get better care. In fact, the care would probably be worse because of the long waiting lists and the decrepit structure.

Have you switched off phone WiFi?