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Experience with a Ret. Visa from Jomtien but moving to another province
Thank you for your clarification. I'm sure not only I but also other readers will appreciate it if the names of immigration offices are written in full, not in two-letter acronyms or abbreviations. -
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Latest developments and discussion of recent events in the Ukraine War
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukraine-incursion-kursk-russia-capture-land-soldiers-1.7300381?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar "We started shouting that there are conscripts here, don't shoot," he said. Another 22-year-old conscript said Ukrainian troops started storming his position on Aug. 7. He and a few others managed to spend the night hiding in a trench, but the next day, he was hit by a grenade and later captured. As he spoke, he lay on the lower half of a bunk bed, shrapnel still embedded in both of his legs. He is from St. Petersburg and was conscripted in October. "We were told that we would not take part in hostilities," he said. "We understood that anything was possible, but we did not think that our day would end with us being prisoners of war in another country." -
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Trump’s nephew insists former president is showing signs of ‘dementia’ like his grandfather
It was announced that Ronnie Reagan had Alzheimers the decade after he left office. It wasn't news then either. One thing both RFKjr and DT have in common: their families are asking that Americans NOT vote for them. -
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THAILAND LIVE Thailand Live Thursday 22 August 2024
to continue: Thailand Live Friday 23 August 2024 https://aseannow.com/topic/1336239-thailand-live-friday-23-august-2024/ -
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Experience with a Ret. Visa from Jomtien but moving to another province
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THAILAND LIVE Thailand Live Friday 23 August 2024
Thailand's Tourism Surge Threatened by Zero-Dollar Chinese Tours File photo for reference only Thailand's tourism industry, currently experiencing rapid growth due to a new visa-free policy, is catering to a large influx of international visitors. However, even though Chinese tourists make up the majority, issues are emerging regarding Chinese zero-dollar tours. These tours are potentially decreasing Thailand's potential revenue. Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1336225-thailands-tourism-surge-threatened-by-zero-dollar-chinese-tours/ -
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THAILAND LIVE Thailand Live Friday 23 August 2024
Foreign man caught standing naked in cannabis shop in Phuket Photo via Facebook/ Phuket Times ภูเก็ตไทม์ A picture of a naked foreign man proudly showing off the family jewels inside a cannabis shop in the Patong neighbourhood of Phuket went viral on Thai social media. The reason for his nakedness is still under investigation. Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1336223-foreign-man-caught-standing-naked-in-cannabis-shop-in-phuket/ -
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THAILAND LIVE Thailand Live Friday 23 August 2024
Picture from responders. The Cessna Caravan C208 aircraft that crashed, was carrying five foreign passengers, all Chinese nationals, with two pilots and two flight attendants, total of 9 onboard. It is assumed that there were no survivors. Aircraft Crash in Chachoengsao, 9 Assumed Dead, Including 2 Children Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1336202-22-august-small-aircraft-crash-in-chachoengsao/ -
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Longest Sentences Yet for Rioters Involved in Racist Mob Violence Across England
State pensions exist; they are paid through the largesse of today's taxpayers. The military is paid by the taxpayer; its not a private enterprise, which was the case until the early 20th Century, when significant parts of the british military were the Militias, which literally were private armies. Famously, the East India Company had its own armies and navy. Under present rules, residential homes are state subsidised; they take all your money until that last £25k or so. A residential home will easily burn through £50k a year, so for most people, its more or less all gone after 5-6 years. The last Conservative government wanted to put a cap on personal care, so was proposing to initiate effectively a socialist policy (ie. in the end, the State will help you to the grave). Labour has kiboshed that. The Police are also state funded, far removed from the original Bow Street Runners, that were funded throuh a business subscription. Britain still has State funded education, a socialist idea. There is also unemployment benefit and child maintenance support. Its still possible to get social housing. Having a 2 day weekend is a socialist idea. Some say Henry Ford invented it; nah, it was an idea he stole. The 2 day weekend was established in 1843 by Marsden and Lowes who secured a saturday afternoon off for Mancunian workers. Public holidays; an example of the dull hand of government interfering with the private business of enterprise. There is a reason why football matches used to all have a saturday 3pm kickoff. Then there was then paid summer break, invented by French communists in the 1930s. Maternity leave, also very socialist. Free eyeglasses and prescriptions for kids; socialist. Vouchers for childcare; socialist. Veteran's pensions from a grateful nation; socialist. Lots of policies embraced by Brits who describe themselves as anti-socialist, yet would consider many of these things the natural order of things. I suspect many Americans would be quite jealous of the ability to take a paid vacation, take maternity leave or even something like redundancy rights. Market Socialism and Free Market Capitalism are probably dead in the West; we don't make anything to control, because of Free Market Capitalism, and now the most ardent proponants of capitalism are finding themselves espousing quasi-communist (Godwin Law Mk2) policies of protectionism (what gives them the goddam right to tell the owners of a company where they should make things). We are left with vacuous Populism. No one calls themselves a populist; that's a labeled applied by others. Populism has no ideology besides being all things to all men, ideas that bend with the wind. Populism feeds on fear. Charlie Chaplin's largely adlibbed Great Dictator speech still has an impact 90 years later, thanks a bit to an Inception soundtrack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8HdOHrc3OQ Perhaps the old isms have had their day; they were largely responses to technological changes in society. Our societies are undergoing profound change due to technology, but the question will be whether we become slaves to the technologies or masters. And become masters for what purpose; we want the technologies to fix the problems in the world (eg environmental damage) and to free our time up (which is the general direction of travel taken ever since man discovered fire leading to the paid time off or early retirement in Thailand). This is when we get into gene Roddenberry visions of a society where money has no meaning. Maybe that ism is technoutopianism. Though that is an ideology, but not a political ideology (yet). -
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Trump Faces Backlash After Falsely Implying Taylor Swift's Endorsement
Afghanistan? Also he backed off on Syria and Venezuela, capitulating to his buddy Putin in both cases. Who would have thought they'd see a US president be so openly traitorous? Why is the man on the right smiling? Why does the man on the left look like he is in pain and still hunched over? To paraphrase the line from the movie Casablanca "we'll always have Helsinki." -
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Using an overseas Debit Card to minimise paying tax for those of us staying over 180 days
It is not "technically" tax evasion - it is tax evasion. Por. 161/2566 talks about money you "bring in" into Thailand - นำเงิน...เข้ามา. And that's what you are doing. It doesn't prescribe by which means the money has to be brought in. This is so obvious that it's hard to believe you honestly thought otherwise. Wishful thinking.- 1
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