Tropicalevo

Agreed - vile stuff

They do all of the basic stuff here but Samui is a bit famous for expensive private medical care. For major ops - I guess overseas treatment must be cheaper. I do not know the prices, but they have done it more then once. Even some not so major ops here are expensive. I was asked to pay almost 400,000 baht to have my prostate removed. (TURP - I negotiated a discount.) Another friend, married to a Vietnamese girl, says that private medical care is much cheaper there. He goes to Vietnam for most non minor things.

Back to the old saying - Give a man a fish and he eats for a day.......... It was vote buying in the simplest terms.

Wrong. I lived in Sydney for a few years and rented great house with the living accommodation upstairs, bedrooms downstairs - for the views of the opera house. Washing machine in the kitchen upstairs. Mouse ate through the hose. The whole friggin house was flooded. Water flowing like a river out of the front door. (I was at work all day!)

I know a couple of people who have brought their elderly parents out to live here. With money, it is easy. Retirement visas (1.6 mil baht in the bank for two) and then self insure. For any major surgery, they fly to Turkey or Vietnam. Last op was hip replacement in Turkey. The old folk love it here and have no desire to go back to their own country. Good advice from cmjl - come for a holiday. If they like it - stay. The only problem the old folk had - Thai driving test. They are in their late seventies/early eighties.

It probably depends on location. My wife had always worked with children but did not have a degree. Back when Noah was a lad and English speaking schools started to open here on Samui, she was asked to teach young kids because of her experience with children. She enrolled on a 'distance learning' teaching course based in the UK. Sorry, no idea which one. That qualification enabled her to obtain a 'teaching licence' and to be able to teach in any school in Thailand. Just before she died, she was promoted to head teacher. Still no degree but she had been teaching for 15 years by then.

Automatic if they plead guilty. If they gave him five years, it would be reduced to 2.5.

Oh great. Let's make it cheaper for all of those diesel engines to pollute the air. A bit of advice - switch the engines off when you pop into the shop or are sitting waiting for your loved one to come. How many times do we see trucks, cars etc sitting there stationary with the bloomin engine running.

I hate those matchstick things that are similar to McDonalds. I go for sunny day Spicy Wedges - 18 minutes in the air fryer (turn after 9 minutes) Pretty good. I buy mine in Tops.

Great photos in the main article. Thank you and well done.

I finally received my credit today - 16 days after it was 'processed' via the debit card. For those interested in Lazada - three days after it was 'processed' via the credit card.

Nah. He's just your average AN troll trying to be funny to get likes.

Finally, someone in the phone business has realised that it is easier to scam people with phone apps. I have had ad blockers, anti virus and anti spam ware on my laptops since the last century!!! I also do not get random calls from fraudsters on my laptops etc etc. An ad blocker on the phone is not the final solution but it is a start. And the governments all over the world want you all to put apps on your phones. Do people not wonder why?

Then please stop sending the Burmese, that are being trafficked, back to Burma.

Please catch the culprits and burn them alive.

I worked in the software industry since the 'card' age (1960's.) Apps and online sites these days only have micky mouse security and have no 'destruction' testing carried out on them. These days it is easier (and cheaper) to 'chuck it out there and let the users test it. We will fix it as we go along.' I do not use wifi on my phone, have zero apps loaded (apart from the manufacturer's ones that cannot be deleted) and live a stress free life concerning scams and security. My laptop has so much security around it that sometimes even friends cannot contact me Bliss

Mrs T had a similar experience with Air Lanka. She used her credit card to book a ticket to the UK, via the online booking portal, to visit family and within hours it was used to buy stuff in the USA. Credit card company re-reimbursed her.

Not all phones are password/fingerprint/face protected. None of mine are, nor have those in the past been protected. I just put a stop on the SIM card. These 'security features' are a waste of time. Real crooks know how to get past them.

On line purchasing is simple if you have the physical card. That is why I have a low credit limit on my card.

Nicely put. I mentioned a similar view but yours is much better said. Thank you

The rule is typical of a dinosaur government not wanting anything to change. Fear of change syndrome. (it is also the reason why education here will never change.) Thailand wants and needs tourists. Tourists on holiday tend to drink at different times. Being told that they can only buy alcohol between 11.00 and 14.00 and then 17.00 and 24.00 is in opposition to encouraging tourists. Yes, we all know that we can get a beer no matter the time, but tourists do not.

Yes. They need permission from the embassy to release the body for the funeral as I found out when my wife died here 7 years ago.

That may be true but I am not so sure. Embassies usually contact the names that you propose in the back of your passport. If there are no names there, they will usually ask the police to see if there are living relatives.

Not only fine them, but take what little assets they may have. Thailand's treatment of the Burmese people is setting a new low standard. These folk are trying to get away from a war zone and an illegal, repressive Junta. Thailand makes that almost impossible to do legally, so they have no other option than to be trafficked.

This story is just very, very sad. RIP little angel. You were just trying to help mum. Hope that the sisters recover OK. The parents will probably never get over this one.