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American Man Arrested for Robbing Donation Box Outside Pattaya Police Station
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Pool idea 10m x 4m is 1.2-1.5m deep enough
On laptop ... saved, opened with 'window photo viewer', click on 90° arrow 2X, then copied & pasted. Deleted photo afterwards. -
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Wall Street plummets ,trillions lost
‘He Was Lying!’: ‘Daily Show’ Nails Trump With His Own Damning Words On Prices https://au.news.yahoo.com/lying-daily-show-nails-trump-055341337.html Trump campaigned vigorously on tariffs, calling it “the most beautiful word” and insisting Americans wouldn’t pay for them. That changed after he became president. In February, he admitted tariffs may cause “a little pain” for consumers. Last month, he said he “couldn’t care less” if tariffs raised the price of foreign cars. And his administration and allies have been saying for weeks that consumers should brace for higher prices. -
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Thailand Urged to Form ‘War Room’ in Response to US Tariffs
You seem to be focusing on one small area but we can take cars as an example of what this is all about. I am not disagreeing that Thailands taxes on imported cars is prohibitively high but it worked for Thailand, with many major car manufacturers having large car plants in Thailand for both the local market and for export. If you have a look around the roads at any time do you think there's a lack of those Ford Rangers on the road? There isn't as they are manufactured here because they need to be (as Patong pointed out) right-hand drive, which of course most American cars aren't and would require a big change in production to become right-hand drives. So even if this tax was dropped tomorrow, do you think there will be a mad rush to buy other American cars? And even if there was, do you think it will make up for the $45B trade deficit? Car manufacturers are not dumb. If they thought they would have a large market in Thailand then they would have already built a plant here hence why Toyota, Honda, Mitsubushi, Isuzu, Mazda, Ford, BMW, Mercedes, Tata and Diahatsu all have manufacturing plants in Thailand. Those that aren't here do not see the demand. Trump is focusing these tariffs on trade deficits NOT who tariffs who and on which items. Even if Thailand dropped ALL tariffs on all American products tomorrow, there still wouldn't be enough demand to close the trade deficit and therefore it's unlikely to have him change his mind. So for all those going on about the tariffs - it's not JUST about tarriffs, it's about trade deficits which are 100 times harder to close. Trump thinks he will force manufacturers to start manufacturing in the USA but that simply isn't going to happen so all that is going to happen is higher prices for American consumers and more misery for countries that he's set tariffs on. -
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Australian Teen Dies in Koh Samui Motorbike Collision
Samui has huge number of bike accidents because of illegal unqualified tourists bikers. Maybe samui authority can learn from vietnam Danang bike rental shop that also rent electric bikes for those unlicensed bikers as it is slower (maximum speed is only 50 Kms) . -
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