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Thai tax riddle: Elite Visa holders off the hook?
I think they might also lose a lot of Wealthy Thais , beside some Wealthy retire expat .... -
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problem with a hand mower
A quick look at Google, if it is the same model, they is a small disc in the middle of the wheel ,I would say if you put in a small screwdriver that should leaver off ,giving you access to the nut on the wheel ,which should come off giving you access to the blade drive ,as you said probably dirt in they ,and some grease would not come a miss. You could look up your model on YouTube could well be a video on how to take it apart and clean it all up. -
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Is Thailand Value for money
I'm an independent soul, been here 2 years from the UK, OAP ex blue collar grafter, crap pension, divorced, had own 3bed semi in nice village, all brought and paid for but could only just about exist, sold up to travel the world, ended up here, struck lucky and love the place. Not bothered about drink, but smoke, here 50p a pack, UK over £10, petrol head driver, done more miles in reverse than most have done going forward, car costs here a quarter of what they are in UK, electric costs half of what it costs in UK, renting etc here 15kbaht, UK dread to think of rent and rates. Beautiful people and places to go and as cheap as chips, all the naysayers should just go to where they are happy, I've found my happy place. -
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Thai tax riddle: Elite Visa holders off the hook?
I think they might also lose a lot of Wealthy Thais , beside some Wealthy retire expat .... -
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Thai tax riddle: Elite Visa holders off the hook?
I think they might also lose a lot of Wealthy Thais , beside some Wealthy retire expat .... -
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7 Types of Used Cars to Avoid in Thailand
Yup, had it last year in Chiang Mai. -
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BREAKING NEWS School Bus Fire Claims Multiple Lives and Injures Young Students in Rangsit
Montri is the very 'service' in question. I wrote to the school who passed on my e-mail directly too them... asking their various policies... The school probably thought I was over-doing it from a safety perspective, but I really didn't care... A few standouts... - Child seats: Its the Childs responsibility not the companies (poor response, but the meant its the parents responsibility to provide child seats which we did and the teacher agreed to ensure the kids were in their seats properly). - Seat belts are 3 point - Busses and vans are diesel only - Drunk driving (this response was so very typically Thai)... paraphrasing: "we test our drivers for drink each morning, if they are drunk they are suspended for the day"... (I was left astonished)... I'm sure I can dig out the e-mail response from them somewhere if you want me to PM it to you. -
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Thai tax riddle: Elite Visa holders off the hook?
I think they might also lose a lot of Wealthy Thais , beside some Wealthy retire expat .... -
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BREAKING NEWS School Bus Fire Claims Multiple Lives and Injures Young Students in Rangsit
you have no idea what you're talking about..just look where the seat of the fire is and the convection heat happening..big words and forensic phraseology i know, but stop insinuating certain countries are worse than others..this can happen anywhere at any time..IMO the cause is not engine failure or a gas leak but the seizing up of the front left wheel bearing causing the bus to come to a grinding halt, smoke billowing then fire erupting..have a closer look at the CCTV footage. Totally unpreventable!!!! what!..these vehicle fires happen every day of the week with cars, trains, truck and buses. You should learn to button your lip until you are at least qualified to spread such irrelevant opinions. RIP to those poor children and adults involved. -
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THAILAND LIVE Thailand Live Tuesday 1 October 2024
Investigation of fatal school coach fire gets underway Photo: Thai PBS World Forensic investigators have started collecting evidence from the ill-fated double-decked coach that caught fire today, killing 22 school students and three teachers. Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1339544-school-bus-fire-claims-multiple-lives-and-injures-young-students-in-rangsit/?do=findComment&comment=19274008 -
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7 Types of Used Cars to Avoid in Thailand
Just start off by avoiding anything except for Toyota and Honda and go from there. -
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Is Thailand Value for money
Depends what you talk about. I lived in America and I was not able to find Cafes of the high quality that are all over the place in Chiang Mai. Those giant theme Cafes like a Disney world or Park. Shopping Malls also are of higher quality in Thailand than in the US. Restaurants, okay, there's great restaurants in the US, but there's equally awesome ones in Thailand. The thing is you don't get what you pay for in the US, you pay a giant price for a Thai massage, but it's unlikely to beat a 1300 Baht Spa massage in Thailand. There's degraded places in the US too, it's not all Wyoming super ranches. -
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How will this bill demand Sanctuary Cities cooperate with the ruling if passed?
As for so-called sanctuary cities and their supposed correlation with crime rates: "In an August 2016 study of roughly 80 jurisdictions, University of California at Riverside and Highline College researchers used FBI city-level crime data to see how violent and property crime rates changed after sanctuary policies were adopted. Then they compared each sanctuary city to a similarly situated, non-sanctuary city, based on census data and other variables. They found that “a sanctuary policy itself has no statistically meaningful effect on crime.” [emphasis added] University of California at San Diego professor Tom Wong looked at 608 sanctuary counties and found lower rates of crime in those counties than in non-sanctuary counties. His research was published in January by the progressive think tank Center for American Progress. [emphasis added] Other studies showed that in some jurisdictions, immigrant-friendly policies led to a decrease in crime, PolitiFact found. Washington Post https://archive.ph/McbRw https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/02/08/trumps-claim-that-sanctuary-cities-breed-crime/ "Researchers from the study Sessions cited found that sanctuary policies do not affect crime rates either way. The study analyzed crime data from jurisdictions that "expressly forbid city officials or police departments from inquiring into immigration status" and analyzed it in two methods. [emphasis added] First, researchers compared cities’ crime rate in the year before and the year after a policy’s implementation. In the second approach, they "matched each sanctuary city to a similarly situated non-sanctuary city based on relevant census and political variables," the authors explained in an October 2016 post in the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog. At the end, "We find no statistically discernible difference in violent crime rate, rape, or property crime across the cities. Our findings provide evidence that sanctuary policies have no effect on crime rates, despite narratives to the contrary," said the 2016 study, titled "The Politics of Refuge: Sanctuary Cities, Crime, and Undocumented Immigration." The researchers were from the University of California at Riverside and Highline College. [emphasis added] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/jul/24/jeff-sessions/jeff-sessions-mischaracterizes-study-sanctuary-cit/ "...a January 2017 report that considered more than 600 counties to be sanctuary locales. The report by the Washington-based Center for American Progress, a liberal public policy research and advocacy group, "The Effects of Sanctuary Policies on Crime and the Economy," states that crime in 2015 was significantly lower in 608 "sanctuary" counties than in counties where law officers were more compliant with requests from Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to detain locally-held suspects. [emphasis added] Tom K. Wong, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego, wrote: "There are, on average, 35.5 fewer crimes committed per 10,000 people in sanctuary counties compared to non-sanctuary counties. Altogether, the data suggest that when local law enforcement focuses on keeping communities safe, rather than becoming entangled in federal immigration enforcement efforts, communities are safer," the report says, plus there are other advantages such as stronger economies." https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/may/10/sally-hernandez/sally-hernandez-says-cities-labeled-sanctuaries-ha/ -
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Boozy Australian Tourist Restrained by Phuket Airport Police
Silly man he knows the rules,he left aust they are just as tuff or hard on this.On the plane they will give a drink to passengers or the airport.You show up drunk anywhere in world expect trouble.Now he has made it ten times worse for himself to return or travel again.He will be detained,and after no more drink he can travel but with another airline to get back.
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