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copy/paste works. It puts the picture in the area below the post and you just hit insert. It is in blue, bottom right. You cannot see it until you hold the curser over it. -
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Minister launches emergency plan as deadly dust chokes Thailand
We have (as an extended family) about 200 acres…..mostly sugarcane……the leaves will all be burned this year, next year and the year after……no one is going to fine anyone for burning or stop anyone from burning. The leaves have to be burned for one single reason……’we' need to now where to ‘plant’ the shears for ploughing. The only solution I can see is that sugarcane must be delivered with the leaves intact and the sugarcane processors must forced, paid, induced, bribed by the government to remove the leaves at the factory and mulch them. -
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Thai tomboy assaulted by neighbour over loud noise in Pattaya - video
Gotta love the way the image is pseudo-censored to make the blood appear black. Moronic beyond belief... Like black blood is somehow "better" than red blood. Our world is getting dumber and dumber :D -
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Parasailing Operator Dies in Phuket Fall Incident
A demonstration is now in progress at Karon Beach of a parasail boat where the rider is winched up and down from a platform on the boat. There is no 'monkey' hanging on to the lines by his fingernails. This has cost advantages as there is no need for the 'monkey' nor for so many aggressive, whistle-blowing ground crew touts on the beach. Of course, the operators will not accept this as the parachute flies much lower, the customers will lose the thrill of sweeping over the heads of beachgoers while the speed boat ploughs dangerously through the swimmers to make a beach landing. Touts will not have direct access to customers, customer turnover will be slower as riders will have to be ferried out to the speedboat when (as most of the year) waves are breaking on the shore. Let's see if government can 'sell' this safer system to the operators who have long been accustomed to being left to get on with their business without much care about safety. -
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LTR Visa is Now available for Long Term Residency
The logic (or lack of it) makes me wonder if they have a forum where they review the visa system holistically covering all options, or is it rather different govt departments competing against each other with their own visas. I would guess the LTR, DTV and other affordably priced visas are created by departments who genuinely try to attract certain type of people to reside (= spend or bring money) in/to Thailand, and the new options obviously are working for many people to whom Elite was the only officially available one in the past (language school visas used to circumvent the rules though). So Elite really has become the the last resort visa to get cash from marginal foreigner segments who do not qualify for others, yet for whatever reason want to stay here. Pricing the Elite more affordably might actually be financially better for the sellers of Elite. However, if you do not qualify for LTR or DTV, retirement or the likes, Elite even with its current pricing is not a bad deal for certain groups as long as tax rules remain as they are even with tax on income brought in (as long as no global taxation) as the cost is very small compared to tax savings for certain group of people. You spend some 20k USD to get the visa, and might be able to save 10, 100, 1000 or even more times in taxes in your home country by becoming tax resident here. I recall I was considering getting the Elite before turning 50 for couple of years for the very reason, however at the time you could still manage to stay enough in Thailand by traveling in/out the country without any visa or tourist visa, so did not at the end as was traveling quite a bit anyway.
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