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Which is not our fault. After 10, 15, or 20 years of marriage, they could, streamline the process as it's not like you are faking the marriage. Have we ever heard of a foreign woman having this kind of problem with their Thai husband? I never have. So it doesn't have to be this way. Anyway, it's a money thing. I'm not tying up 800K THB to make it easier for the IO. If they don't like the marriage extensions, they should lobby parliament to change the xenophobic laws. Again - if you've been married for 10, 15, 20+ years, the only reason for making the process complicated is racial hatred.

Of course not. You'll own nothing and you'll be happy. Yeah, master will let you have a vegetable garden to tend after working 16 hours a day on his Corporate Farm.

PTTEP will simply work with China in a win-win scenario. Really - I don't buy the "Humanitarian" angle cited by Chevron and Total. They're leaving for economic reasons. The interesting part will be when it becomes clear exactly what economic reasons are.

Anyone who believes that corporations have a conscience that supersedes their bottom line and shareholder dividends are kidding themselves. Now they may leave due to political, geo-political, and social instability if they perceive there is a chance that their operations will be impacted in the long-term or if they fear the government nationalizing their regional interests. But as long as the money is flowing corporations don't care who is genociding whom. But it is something to watch, say, if Western interests decide to turn Myanmar into an Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yeman, Cambodia, Laos, or Vietnam. In an of itself it not much of a resource rich country unless the deep-state types want another heroin hub now that Afghanistan is down the tubes. But it is a strategic chess piece in the terms of A2/AD (anti-access/areas-denial) in order to eye-gouge China. So from a Geo-political standpoint, perhaps France's Total is foreshadowing something that is about to come? It wouldn't be the first time the West used R2P in order to devastate a "crappy little country that the US throws up against the wall every few years to show that they still mean business" to paraphrase Michael Ledeen. This move on the part of France's Total and Chevron probably has a lot more to do with China's influence on Myanmar as well as China's pipelines and BRI trade routes though Myanmar to bypass the Straights of Malacca. Yeah, they are leaving for a reason - a conscience has nothing to do with it. Personally I wouldn't be surprised if a "Western Coalition of the Willing" doesn't bomb Myanmar back into the stone age while spewing their Responsibility To Protect doctrine and claiming that destroying the country's infrastructure is to save the Myanmar people from the terrible Myanmar dictatorial regime - even though every time the West does that they end up genociding a few hundred thousand civilians in the process. Trust me though - If Myanmar blow up one way or another? The Blow-Back will hit Thailand for sure. Which by the way make me wonder way Thailand is sucking up to Saudi Arabia? ????

I was almost hit the first week in Thailand. From that point onward when crossing I keep my eyes turned in the direction of traffic the entire trip across.

Thanks for that link. 200%

If it's not Kindle or a digital application - I've otherwise have given up on Amazon.

That's how it's done people!!! If someone get's killed in a crosswalk - REMOVE the crosswalk!!! ????????????

Only 25,000? None of them will pay the fine and every farang on AN brag that they don't pay traffic fines. The enforcement division is a Paper Tiger.

Here's the problem with Thailand. At the end of the day when they create a "Driver Education Course" nobody will learn skill-sets needed for defensive driving - they'll learn not to have extra-martial sex before obtaining a licenses and to make sure to honk the horn three times as you pass a Buddhist status. And love Thailand and all it's leaders like they are fathers and mothers and respect your parents and older people. "Good job. You learn quick-quick. Now we give you license. Happy happy."

Opinion: Better road safety in Thailand begins and ends with better education Most cops I see on the road don't have a clue as to basic driving skills. Basic skills like merging, looking before pulling out, using acceleration and deceleration lanes, yielding right of way, and the list goes on. Bottom line. Thais don't have the driving skills that Westerners have. Plus they are aggressive beyond belief. Nobody has any sense of courtesy. "Get Out Of My Way - I Number One - Must Get To Where I Go Quick-Quick" Oh - and there is no enforcement of traffic laws they might actually have on the books. Tickets are issued after someone been killed, not proactively. So the carnage will continue forever. And Hi-So pretty much have a license to kill. Education? That implies that there is a Thai in Thailand who has driving skills to teach others. I don't think those people exist.

Good choice as at 330 THB 'tourists' are being ripped off.

Dr Prasit Expects Pandemic to End I'm sure Dr. Yong will set him straight. If the pandemic ends, so does the 'vaccine' revenue and testing revenue as well as the total power government bureaucrats have to order the citizens to jump and how high to jump. The pandemic can't be allowed to end any time soon.

This says it all:

Unenforceable.

Blame the consumer like usual. But - it's not the consumer's fault. Consumers are not responsible for what a manufacturer wraps they products in. They just buy the products. The products are wrapped in whatever they are wrapped in. If you bought from a retailer, the retailer would have unwrapped the product before putting on display. Blame the source - it's those companies who use plastic for product wrapping. They are other choices. Blaming consumers is a fool's game.

Then how healthy will the lawyer remain in the future? How does he benefit?

I just let the wife do the talking as I work the cramps out of my hand from signing and printing my full name on a stack of forms.

Isn't Pai already a "Cannabis Sandbox?"

Plausible deniability. "Anutin say we can grow 6 plants." Which he did.

If they open CBD shops, GPO could cut their prices and quadruple their revenue on volume. Using hospitals as gatekeeper simply constrains their revenues and profits. Come-on man! Greed is good! <laughs> Open up the flood gates!

So someone is creating artificial scarcity to push prices sky-high. I wonder who gets paid off to allow that to happen?

Close it all down. In 2023 Pattaya can market itself as a Thai cultural ghost-town. Don't bother fixing the streets as broken streets and sidewalks are third-world norms. Just build more malls and ferry the Private Jet class from the airport to the malls in limos with blacked out windows escorted by Highway Patrol VIP escorts. If it's not a business run by a billionaire - board it up. The billionaires will save Thai tourism - promise!

"Thai style" beaches in Phuket? You mean garbage littered, black sewage discharges, and tarball?

"Justice for both sides." So if I machete murder my neighbors then Thailand will seek just for me - the murderer? I'll send this on to folks back home considering a trip here. "Yeah, so if you get murdered in Thailand, then Thailand will 'seek justice' for the person(s) to take your life."