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How Has Thailand’s New Income Tax Law Affected Your Spending Habits?
That's one of the higher tiers. 25% on income between THB 1,000,001 and THB 2,000,000 -
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Foreign Tourist Swallows Traffic Ticket in Odd Pattaya Incident
Time to open your eyes. I see Thais pulled over just as often. Yes I do. -
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Foreign Tourist Swallows Traffic Ticket in Odd Pattaya Incident
Judging by his attitude and clothes, he's probably "French". If only they could deport these sc*mbags. -
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Thailand goes high-tech: New E-Visa set to transform travel
I understood what you meant. In particular Non O popular at places in Laos... Savannakhet and Vientiane. Hopefully the process time will be under 5 days. Anything much longer would become unattractive option. Moreso as there is option to border bounce and obtain the Non O in Thailand from visa exempt entry. The added kicker is that seems no online payment possible for the eVisa in Laos as least in initial months. -
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Who lives on 20k a month ?
That area is away from the main city , last time that I was there, they were building about ten high rise skyscrapers along the beach road . The city is chock a block with traffic and there's lots of human turds laying around the streets and on the beaches -
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Thai Baht Expected to Slide to 35.50 per Dollar by 2025
USD is not the national currency, end of. -
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How Has Thailand’s New Income Tax Law Affected Your Spending Habits?
There's a pinned document in the finance section called introduction to Thai income tax, perhaps someone will kindly link for this member. -
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Day-to-day life in Myanmar
Thanks BurmaBill, Norfolkandchance. To be honest, I was more annoyed than anything else, because I like custard cremes. And yes - I brought along medicine just in case, so are feeling weak but better now. Now I am in the small town of Nyaung Shwe, which nestles at the north end of Inle Lake, and is where tourists set off for boat trips on the lake. I was last here visiting orphanages 6 years ago, and how it has changed, thanks to Covid and then the military coup. Absolutely no foreign tourists of course. There are local tourists, but my driver tells me that they all stay in nearby Taunggyi, and then make day trips to Nyaung Shwe. So the town economy has collapsed 😞 No large hotels are open, no 'western' food restaurants, no tourist shops etc. The mobile internet is stopped by the military and there are only a few hours of electricity each day... My trip from Mandalay was not so good! As I mentioned, I got food poisoning the day before, so wasn't feeling on top of the world. My driver told me that the main route to Inle Lake had huge delays (4 hours), since every vehicle was x-rayed for weapons. So we took a smaller road over the mountains. This was a 6-hour 'switchback' journey on a small and very bumpy road. Every few km we had to stop for police or military checkpoints. As we approached Kalaw, the military presence was much tougher, and the soldiers were surprised to see a foreigner. At 2 checkpoints, they did not want to let me proceed. But my driver told them that I was an important foreigner, and the soldier didn't want the responsibility of stopping me! So we proceeded. Right now, I'm at a zero-star hotel in Nyaung Shwe. (I won't show you photos of the bathroom because maybe you've just eaten your lunch!). Since there are no minimarts open or western food restaurants, I bought some banana, fried chicken and fresh bread, which will keep me in the land of the living tonight. Tomorrow I'll start my orphanage and monastery school visits/donations 🙂 I chatted with the banana seller, who spoke good English. My Burmese language ability is what language experts call 'pretty crxp'. It's at conversational level for both spoken and reading the language, which no doubt is still much better than most westerners! She told me that I was the first foreigner that she had seen in weeks...
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