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"accuse event organiser of robbery" I really wish journalists would learn that words have meanings. Many people in this chat will know that what the ladies experienced was not a "robbery". Was there a threat of force before or during the time that the money was stolen? If there wasn't, there was no robbery.

No. They can top up to a limited extent, depending how long they worked in the UK and how long ago that was, but they cannot actually create a pension whilst working in Thailand.

A lot of the problems faced by expats were the result of right-wing media viewing expats as an easy target for their readers' envy to deflect them from their immiseration. The expat is seen as having an easy life, as having escaped to paradise. Consequently many reforms were done by the conservative party to appease this feeling. Measures, such as the blocking off of NHS access, the blocking of contributing to a state pension, the limits of any rises to the pension, and the disenfranchisement, were natural consequences of this mindset. It annoys me that I cannot create a state pension, in contrast to French or German expats. It is the deepest irony that many of the expats in Thailand are the Daily Mail's core fanbase.

There used to be one with the exact same ranking system for Japanese speakers learning Thai. I actually took and passed the Thai N3 grade (and yes, I was the only non-Japanese taking the test). The organisation was headquartered in Silom but have since shut down. Since then, a points test was set up by Chula Uni. Other members here have taken it. It provides something similar to the N1 to N5 grading. You can find by hunting around their website. There's an interview, listening, writing and reading in it.

The new MaMa noodles franchise, MaMa Station, opening in Bang Khae, has got to be worth a look, with prices from 45 baht. If you've got the money...

The starting point to minimise the tax burden on you is, as always, to follow the ABC rule. You or your accountant then have to investigate which place is best for you as C country. Putting aside the issues of how secure it is, what investment opportunities there are etc, the key question and concern of this OP's topic is what will be the tax burden in country C and how does it operate. If it has a tax treaty with Thailand then this will no doubt help. In any event, you'll be linking the way their system works with the way the Thai system works.

Anywhere in southeast Asia with a temperate climate is tempting as an alternative. But most temperate climates in southeast Asia are in remote locations or on mountain tops. This makes North Vietnam really stand out.

What you are describing is the difference between the middle class way of bringing up children and the working class way of bringing up children. The middle class way leads to highly productive, high earning children but often at the cost of the happiness of their childhood. This is where you get the ideas of "helicopter parenting" and "tiger moms" in Asia. The peasant life in Thailand has a similar value system as the working class life in England. They give the children unstructured lives which can be very contentful but obviously they are not going to become the next CEOs of Google.

You are confusing his willingness to take his time to help others with the desire to steal your enjoyment of the little things in life. This thread is all about suggestions for not taking the rather radical route of a new drug which in clinical trials has already proven in the long term a failure unless the patient adopts new life strategies, and instead suggests a more balanced way of life which removes such needs for such measures. Getting to the ideal weight gives you far more energy and makes you feel good every day. He is not stealing your enjoyment, is trying to give you the enjoyment of life.

The levels of psychological denial against your simple yet true claim you make here are remarkable. Just being overweight (a BMI of over 25) considerably increases the risk of the following: High LDL cholesterol, low HDL cholesterol, or high levels of triglycerides (dyslipidemia); Type 2 diabetes; Coronary heart disease; Stroke; Gallbladder disease; Osteoarthritis; Sleep apnea and breathing problems; Many types of cancer; Mental illness such as clinical depression, anxiety, and other mental disorders; Body pain and difficulty with physical functioning. ... and increased risk of death from Covid. In fact, almost all the risk factors with Covid depended on being overweight.

I have met plenty of extremely obese expats who were deeply in love with themselves, so having the perfect weight, or observing that you have the perfect weight, is not a prerequisite for loving yourself nor a sign of loving the self.

LINE merged with Yahoo Japan, an entity totally separate from Yahoo. Yahoo Japan was always far more valuable than Yahoo. I have had an email address with Yahoo Japan for around 20 years. They have been superb. Their website and their app are top of the game. I have no fears about the changes to LINE.

As a person with perfect weight, the trick that has always worked for me is to eat much later in the day. Ideally around midday. For drinking, stick to water or black coffee or ginger tea (with added cinnamon or nutmeg as required), making sure to avoid sugar, sugar substitutes, and dairy products. You'll find that you simply won't get hungry. It is the sugar that initiates the hunger pangs, not the empty stomach. Once you break the fast (aka having breakfast), gobble up anything you want in a 6-hour time frame).

I suppose with something so cutting edge it is inevitable that the price will be almost the same as the price in the United States. The price is around 6,000 baht per dose at Walmart in the USA on the goodRX drug price comparison site.

This bribe has all the hallmarks of the tablet debacle, when every school kid was supposed to get a fantastic electronic tablet. As this inevitably goes wrong, the military-industrial complex will swing into action, and use this as evidence of corruption and malfeasance by the redshirts. Then when the time is right they will create astroturfed protest movements, which will lead to the 14th military coup. And return Thailand to its former 'glory'.

They have a nice long list of prohibited items on the invite letter. Does it, in practice, include a mobile phone? Clearly a phone normally has a camera and recording devices and many other things which they expressly prohibit. My assumption is yes, and if so, any good lockers nearby to store it in? I am pretty sure the last time I got a new passport there, they allowed us to store the phones in some draw on the premises. But they expressly rule that out in this letter.

What troubles me is the guy said he couldn't get through to the Thai Embassy. Do they have an answerphone on or did they decide not to bother answering calls... 'we can't come to the phone right now. I hope you're having a lovely time in Israel. Please get back in touch after the weekend.' Beep.

At the same time could you ask the Israeli energy minister to do the same thing...? Otherwise, could you please leave this conversation to the adults.

1. Israel has cut off the water supply to Gaza ensuring that 2.3 million people will have no access to drinking water. Humans can survive around 3 days without drinking water. 2. Israel is an apartheid State. It is a Jewish State (that's a bad thing) rather than a State for the Jewish people (that's a good thing). 3. The Hamas action was the result of extraordinary provocations by Israel's extreme far-rightwing government. The fanatical Jews who wish the Al-Aqsa mosque to be knocked it down and replaced by a third temple are quietly supported by the crazy government. You don't know this because you are kept away from reality. Learn from this. 4. All countries outside of Western civilisation have a enormous in- group bias which makes this state of affairs almost inevitable. The only solution is the importation of millions of non-Jews from sub-Saharan Africa to Israel. Israel must become diverse, and be enriched. 5. Jews regard Christian Zionist Americans as simple useful idiots. The West is regarded as Edom from the Bible, the great enemy of Israelites, that must be destroyed. 6. Israel's national defence policy has always regarded the only existential threat as a loss of support of the American public. Americans are subjected to astonishing levels of very effective propaganda from Israel. If you, like a nodding lap dog, support Israel but don't know why that is because of very effective, constant propaganda.

"...the foreigner not only had HIV but also many other illnesses that left the man barely able to walk." Yet he was able to commit a murder?

"he does not care after she robbed him. Initially a billionaire, he now has less than 10 million baht left" It's not robbery if you gift someone your money whilst wearing your love goggles. There isn't much sign of fraud here except she said she was living with her parents. And that's about it. I don't think his case has a chance unless there's some strange quirk in the Thai law. Interesting to see how this one progresses... But she certainly has enough money to defend her case....

Something that has stuck in my mind over a couple of decades is that the British Army had an unofficial policy of never having the platoon commander possess more than 30 IQ points above the squadies in the platoon. The reasoning behind this is the commanders thinking would be so beyond the capacity of the squadies to comprehend that they would not trust in his commands.

I fear across the world in all countries of mid-income and above we're going to see quite a rapid deterioration in IQ levels. Put simply, the middle class are not having enough children, and lower classes are having children. IQ tends to congregate among the middle class. If you have 10 children, and this continues through each generation, you end up with 1,000 great grandchildren. If you have 0.7 children, the average in South Korea, then in each generation the population shrinks by 35%. The religious are also more likely to have children than the secular/atheist. The religious are likely to have a lower IQ. Eventually, people will look back on General Prayuth as a veritable genius.

This is concerning because the reputed average IQ of Thailand is 85.

The suspect looks like a sweet lad. He looks pretty nervous and confused.