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Middle East Gaza Grief: Children Pay Hefty Price in Ongoing Conflict
Shame shame shame. Of course they hate Israel, after years in a concentration camp. -
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Hello from AA Insurance Brokers – Your Insurance Information Service on Asean Now
I am sure the OP will correct me if wrong but they only stopped dealing directly with International Insurance policies as it was against the Thai regulations for Thai based brokers. They created the Indian office specifically for that.........and to push Regency products ....... They have never stopped handling Thai based insurers. -
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Crime Foreigner Buries Dog Alive in Shocking Phuket Incident
I am sure they have a soft cell for this guy back in France. -
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The Expat Paradox: An Appraisal of Westerners in Thailand
I was assigned to the US embassy 4 different times; while I also lived in many EUR capitals, Asian Capitals, even a couple of African and my good/bad thoughts about all those years of living away from the US. Near the top of my list of course for retirement here - NO cold weather. I have put up with the floods, even evacuated out of BKK in 2011 to Kanchanaburi for 3 months. But, I have lived where there are earthquakes of really strong level 8/9, typhoons, cyclones, hurrivanes, droughts, heat, weather conditions of all types yet Thailand remains a smoother changing nation - yeah, seems a lot more rain lately but that may change too who knows. Food wise, I love Thai dishes of many different types and still seem to be paying a lot less than those same meals in the US Thai restaurants even if the quality remains the same. I don't drink alcohol, nor have I smoked dope or anything along those lines as I like to think I care for my mind and my body. I exercise religiously every day for at least 60 minutes with different types of exercise - weights, walking, core exercises. I eat healthy foods and an no where near being overweight. My BP remains in the healthy region and I check it regularly. I have never been bed ridden or hospitalized since I was a baby though at the age of 30, I did have walking pneumonia but antibiotics wipe it away with no lasting effects. I have run matathons though my body now refuses that distance. I was an avid SCUBA diver (over 500 divers) while assigned to the Philippines - best sea life dives in the clearest of waters. I spent a lot of time on the golf courses around the world, even in places like Italy that didn't have many public courses. Housing here is way much cheaper than in the US, as are vehicle prices though foreign vehicles are taxed way too much. Yeah driving here is definetly scary at times but one learns to be more careful and alert at all times in order to survive. The political scene has been changing since I first began to visit Thailand and stays the same - ever changing! but as an expat, I can't become involved in those deliberations so I don't complain about them. Health care/insurance - I have a US govt sponsored insurance policy for me and my family and while it is expensive, I have had it or the like since 1970 and will keep it until I pass away as the coverage is complete for me an my family. I am on my second family as my 1st wife died later in life of Breast cancer - we had a daughter now older and having a great job and 2nd family with a Thai wife versus US wife, we too have a daughter now 21 a student at the number #1 Thai University and this year going as an exchange student to a top Koean University. Graduated from CM International School reading, writing, speaking, teaching in four different languges, Chinese, Thai, Korean and English. She was accepted at a US college with scholarships but opted to stay in Thailand and on a liberal arts degree wasn't planning a STEM career anyway and the cost is definetly in my favor here! I try to avoid complaining about anything here except for current US politics and forum users comments at times though I do understand that it is an open forum and one only has a very few prohibative comments. I still consider this country to be a paradise, especially considering where I would probably be living in the US if I had retired there. -
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Middle East Gaza Grief: Children Pay Hefty Price in Ongoing Conflict
When will the hostages be released by the murderous savages called Hamas who control Gaza by violence and intimidation. That would have stopped this war a long time ago. The truth is Hamas, Hezbollah, & the Palestine Fighters wanted this war; and they got it! As the Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky put it: “We were not created in order to teach morals and manners to our enemies.” -
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USA immigration and customs enforcement ,protecting the homeland…News
Igor got caught, Good Job Ice!
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