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A lot of nonsense about "NE". Of course it is about Isan (Isaan, ... countless transcripts). And like it or not it is often referred as the North East. Not a geography lesson. Isan is the Korat plateau. Culturally closer to Laos than to the Siamese masters/conquerors. Of course Korat is Isan, what else. An PM P is about the most hated person up here.

I just let it run on the mobile for a minute and it was fine. But as usual with such grey stuff you have nowhere to complain if it isn't good. As far as I know BBC world news is on some Thai satellite payTV package. In the past there were few occasions of blocking certain content about Thai royalty.

Found some recent articles in German news sources about the risk of mutation so transmission from human to human might become possible. Make of it what you like. Hopefully not "COVID nextGen". A problem for animal farming is it anyway. Mass culling etc. Rising prices.

This morning I receive an email from WISE with an excuse for the last delayed transfer. So that's about 1130 EUR free transfer worth about 8 EUR. Now waiting for the EUR to break the iron wall at 37 Baht. A big player must sit and hit the button at 36.9x to bring it down

Election preparations gain momentum.

Much confusing. "tax man" seems to refer to a test station for the annual inspection (yellow cogwheel). "local tax man" would mean DLT office which does not inspect a car for annual tax payment. Sounds to me like the test station (private workshop, yellow cogwheel)? Color change (respray) not allowed?? You urgently need a translator. You can change the color but then have the car inspected at the DLT(!) for the color change (only) and have it changed in the blue book (car registration). That does not cost xxxxx Baht. As others suggest: look for another test station (many around/close by every DLT. A person with basic knowledge of English(?)/Thai would be helpful.

Can you provide the link for the stream that you watch? I could be wrong but is BBC officially providing a live stream?

Stunning that some posters have no idea that 1500 a day is good money for the common people here. Looking from the condo seems to blur the view.

Very true. It makes me nervous to see a huge pitbull being out in the fields where others dogs have their territory. This pitbull is generally a calm dog but when the fight for the bitches is on heaven help! He enjoys some dry food from me for a change:

So bye to Thaismile. Now expect either real low cost service (everything cost extra from starting price) or prices rising sharply. After COVID the experience was getting worse. Short notice reschedule, hour long delays plus the slow bag handling at Suvarnabhumi. Next month will go by car although I don't love it.

When I watched this eLearning, there were subtitles for the parts spoken in Thai. Did you enter the website through the "Foreigner" option and register with your passport number? I don't remember the exact steps.

Mostly yes. That's me the crazy farang One of the three walking/cycling with or without a leash and otherwise keeping all three on the property. Never ever saw a villager walk his dog. Just some take them on their sidecar/truck bed out to the fields when working.

Mae Sot might have been in the news as opened but as mentioned the OP is about Mae Sai in the far north.

Nice little mixups here. Mae Sai, northern most part of Thailand north of Chiang Rai (province). Mae Sot is in central/upper western Thailand (Tak province). More than 400 km apart. Both border Myanmar. The thread is about Mae Sai.

You will find people who had a flight in time and others unlucky. A mate wanted to fly from Phuket to Bangkok with VietJet. That was before Covid. Flight was cancelled/delayed for multiple hours. Not taking care in anyway not even dreaming of booking to another airline. He spent many hours on Phuket airport with his family. A lost day. Warned by the CAAT December 2022: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thai-vietjet-air-warned-by-caat-after-three-flight-cancellations-on-thursday/ The age of their leased fleet varies wildly from 5 to 17 years. (another low cost Thailand airline is worse :>)

Now with the new moon.

Great! Just wanted to correct myself. Not stationary but "sinking". The lower one is below the roof of the opposite house now. Yesterday my wife made me aware. Will tell her about your finding.

Laugh as much as you want. Yesterday and today after sundown (right now). Two exceptionally bright stationary objects to the western sky. Much brighter than any of the stars which are quite weak now due to light pollution. They are no stars. I will check again later in the evening. If they vanished it means there IS something high up lightened by the sun that sunk behind the horizon. That also means it is visible over a limited distance only. I guess there will be an explanation for the phenomenon.

That's about customs. If things haven't changed there is no security check on exit.

Do you have checked baggage? Priority baggage? That's the main uncertainty. Continue domestic from DMK? No more relaxed schedule available?

It's not simply inflation. It's extremely bad for imported products. At BigC they have some French Casino products for which some prices have simply exploded. Cheese is particularly bad. Some Brie cost 179 until recently, now 304. Same for cheese spread. Was about 119 before Covid, last prices were about 140 now 322. 125 gr:

Ask how many naturally grown trees have been cut over the years and substituted with boring stereotype palm trees (a pest plant in some way). Greedy ignorants.

Well then I revoke And then it makes some sense that they have a "GoGo" license which would allow open till midnight? Other such clubs close earlier.

Club 4 is a GoGo? Never noticed someone call these Soi Bongkot joints GoGos (a couple of them in a row). "Gentlemen Club" as such brothels are nicely labelled.

Sometimes hard to read and then well readable. Just did some cycling.