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I'm sure the Aseannow forum members will join together and pay for the health and repatriation costs.

I always check to see if they have received international standards accreditation. There are two particular standards to look for: the JCI and the ISO 9001. ChiangMai International Dental Clinic (CIDC) follows ISO 9001 quality management controls. It is also compliant with Joint Commission International (JCI) standards. This place is part of the BIDC group. I've used one of their clinics in Bangkok. The Chiangmai Ram Hospital has JCI accreditation. I couldn't find any others with these standards from a quick internet search.

Robbery requires the use or threat of violence. There is no ambiguity on this. Simply because you're ignorant does not make it otherwise. Here is the Thai law:

Words have meanings. Don't call it a robbery if it is just a theft. To be a robbery there has to be a threat or use of force before or during the theft in order to obtain the objects.

No. But you are supposed to be able to readily access it if needed (so keep a printout at home or work etc). Or keep as a PDF on your phone etc. Since you should always be able to access the online system then even that should be enough. This is my (lazy) choice. Hotels and police on patrol will not ask for it. I doubt they even know about it.

Interesting. I also asked AI and it suggested no clear answer. Some of its references were this board but from 10 to 15 years ago. Some said 60 days and they said this depended on the Immigration Office. I wish there was a definite answer.

Notoriously, for the work permit, there is a syphilis test (VDRL). Putting aside that this makes no sense at all*, I'm interested to know how long before submitting the documents the test may be taken. To get it out the way I decided to do it 3 months prior, but that might or might not be acceptable. Does anyone have a number? Thanks. If not, I guess I will go and get the test done again within 30 days of the submission of documents. (*For curious readers who want to know why it makes no sense to demand a syphilis test and no other disease test, you need to ask yourself what is the function of the test. Syphilis is almost impossible to spread except by sexual contact, making it exactly the kind of disease that they do not need to worry about for somebody in a work environment. It would obviously make more sense for them to test for tuberculosis or any other disease spread by air)

I still don't get it. Even the province is 8 hours drive from Mae Sot police station.

Why on earth is the Mae Sot police station in Chiang Rai?

I spent A LOT of time looking on Lazada. And these were the brands you can buy very good quality chairs from at Lazada: Tozient Ergotrend Ergomax Newtral Xpanse Sihoo Doro Nubwo Dreamdesk Bewell Moderna Musso The genuinely good options begin at 5,000, but if you make design compromises then 3,000 baht is possible. For example, if it doesn't offer decent control on neck support or back support then 3,000 is possible. Consider these factors and ask yourself what you will compromise on: •height capability •lumbar support •spring on lumbar support •neck rest with control •backrest height control •cushion support •seat control

This is much clearer than yesterday's summaries that led to confusion on another thread. This is clearly good news for expats with earnings abroad who have been avoiding repatriating the funds to Thailand. A good public policy decision to encourage earnings dispersal within Thailand.

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"