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Pattaya Prepares for Silent Night: Alcohol Ban Hits Tourists
I agree that you should respect the laws and cultures of the country. I am surprised that the shops that sell alcohol in your village are closed. I am in Bangkok and alcohol has been sold nearly all day near me. Do they care about Budhism ? Thai people that want alcohol know where to go to get it. It is the tourists that are hit by the ban. -
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U.S. Resumes Food Donations to World Food Programme After Suspension
Of course. USAID has always been an indirect way to discreetly subsidize the U.S. agricultural sector. https://www.phantomecology.com/post/usaid-purchases-billions-from-american-farmers-how-subsidies-shape-agriculture-and-leave-appalachia#:~:text=The U.S. Agency for International,economies and shaping agricultural markets. Here are the main recipients. I doubt food deliveries will be really stopped. Minnesota Key Crops: Peas, wheat, sorghum. 2024 Sales: $70 million via contracts with Cargill, CHS Inc., and Sinamco 4. Impact: Minnesota’s pea industry—critical for protein processing—relies on USAID for 10–20% of its export market. Iowa Key Crops: Corn, soybeans. Role: While not a top direct recipient, Iowa’s corn and soybeans feed into USDA-USAID joint initiatives like the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust (4). Texas Key Crops: Sorghum, cotton. 2024 Sales: $1.1 billion in sorghum exports to Africa, partially funded by USAID’s Food for Peace program. Kansas Key Crops: Wheat, sorghum. 2024 Sales: Kansas sorghum farmers supply over 20% of USAID’s African food aid shipments. Nebraska Key Crops: Corn, soybeans. Role: A hub for USDA-USAID ethanol-linked corn purchases, bolstered by biofuel incentives. -
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What are your experiences with the new tax laws?????
suggest yu read the DTA for your country before making decision on what they are for. All are different, some give exclusive taxing rights for the original country while some give taxing right to the tax resident country. -
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Am I expecting to much..
What I've seen in my local Amazon's (Chiang Mai province), is that what used to be called Americano is now called Black Coffee on the menu. Black Coffee is 40 THB, but Americano much more expensive, 65 THB IIRC. I think Amazon made this change like half a year ago or so. -
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Why China will prevail over the US in this crazy world of Trump 2.0
China has the advantage of a mostly homogenous population. They've also had the US and the West give them the keys to the cookie jar for the past 30 to 35 years. And the Chinese population enjoys a high IQ, is disciplined, and geared towards being competitive. I dislike their government. But do not sell them short. Except for the tip top elite they don't suffer from a sense of entitlement--and they will not be charitable and kind when victorious. But it's not Trump that has put the US at a disadvantage. That started a long time ago. Trump didn't create a public school system that resembles a mental asylum. He didn't incentivize shipping American businesses to China and flooding them with American FDI. He didn't push China into the WTO naively thinking that they would become just another game piece in the New World Order. And most of all, while China was building up its infrastructure, military, technical capability, and educational competitiveness, the US allowed trillions and trillions of dollars to be drained into Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere in the Middle East and Central Asia. That wasn't Trump. That was primarily the Bushes and the Clintons, with Obama and Biden along for the ride. -
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Thailand Tops LGBTQ Tourism; Spending Soars by 38%
I'll certainly vouch for that. My wife' daughter is a (now open) lesbian and we have had some great times amongst the LGBTQ community in Udon Thani where she has most of her friends.
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