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BYD Seal tips, tricks and help
Has anyone found a solution to the rear camera getting covered in dirt & rain? -
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Putin Urged to Deploy Nuclear Weapons to Expedite War and Sever NATO Supply Routes
Which begs the question....why don't they?....Game over.- 1
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Putin Urged to Deploy Nuclear Weapons to Expedite War and Sever NATO Supply Routes
Well, that is pure example of fake news. somebody from some siberian jungle wrote "open" letter to El Presidente and it was published in street tabloid Please, gimme a break! -
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An Idiots Guide to the Retirement Extension process at Samui Immigration Office
But think about it: in a given month, there are a certain number of people who have to extend their retirement stays, because they are expiring. So say there are 100 in August. They will not reduce their workload by making you come there twice. If they want to spread them out, just 10 each day, they can accept your package the first time you come and do some the next day or whenever. It seems they made Neilly come back just to take the package upstairs which they already had downstairs. -
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Landslide Buries Workers Inside High-Speed Rail Tunnel Construction in Nakhon Ratchasima
Quite normal for mines and underground excavations in China, and they are only the ones that are in the press. Not sure of the mix of nationalities of the workforce here, but from the quote below, I suspect mostly Chinese. Life is even more cheap in China. -
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Muhammad Rasheed Jailed For 17 Years in Australia For Sexual Abuse of Hundreds of Victims
....certainly not for re-offending. -
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Immigration Hacked?
Immigration Hacked? Probably and not for the first time. -
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Police "red box" program
My friend was asked to contribute, they came round to his house from the police box a few hundred meters away. He came to an agreement that he would pay every month if they promised not to stop him when he was driving home from the bars, in his case that would be every night. -
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Can you do same day in and out when doing plane flight border runs?
You say "massive issues" - with Koreans and Russians? Yes, I saw a few news reports of a few cases of such illegal workers - and they were busted, which is good. We used to see the occasional "dive instructor" from the West busted. The joke was using this to pretend every border-bouncer from the West was an "illegal dive-instructor." Compare/contrast to the millions of illegal-workers from neighboring countries, in addition to those allowed in en-masse on L1 Visas (like the H2B in the USA) to keep wages down for Thais. They even use the same "don't want those jobs" sales-pitch, when "... at the low-wage a foreign worker will accept," is left off the statement. As to how it would affect costs, if those companies had to hire Thais - what is the "labor cost" in the retail-price of the products/services? For example, if a condo building had to pay 2x more for the maid who cleans the public areas - how much per condo-unit in annual fees? Repeat with condo-construction per sq-meter with well-paid Thai workers. And how much per KG of shrimp or rice (consider the volume per-worker per-hour)? It is trivial for all but a few edge-cases, and those higher-paid citizen-workers become productive taxpayers instead of an economic net-loss to the country. The tiny difference isn't passed to the consumer, anyway - only "adds up" to significant money on the meta-scale - passed-on via stock-dividends and board-member bonuses. Returning to the DTV - yes, I hope the enforce the provisions for application, which should reduce the number of people from lower-wage nations using it to get access to working illegally in the Thai market - though that is flooded and not being enforced often, regardless. Yes, you can border-bounce on the DTV, every 180 days, for 5 years. Whether some "grease" will be needed at some border-crossings, has yet to be seen - but that would not change the equation. -
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Putin Urged to Deploy Nuclear Weapons to Expedite War and Sever NATO Supply Routes
Nobody wants a nuclear with Russia, which has over 5000 regularly serviced nuclear weapons. That is why the US, Britain and France are pussyfooting about and not sending troops into Ukraine. The fact that Macron even talked about it shows that he's dangerously insane and should be removed from power as soon as possible. Putin is definitely not stupid, which is why he and his advisors know that they could drop nukes on Ukraine and the West could never respond. Lest they risk nuclear war with Russia, which is equal to suicide.- 1
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UK Authorities Seize £5m Worth of Cannabis At Birmingham Airport, Affecting Thai Tourists
I'm guessing they would only make the arrest at the final destination, when the bags are claimed and taken through customs, one would hope that if authorities at point of departure, or transit, have any suspicions they would pass them on. These tourists transited Paris CDG, so on the KLM/Air France flight to Birmingham. -
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Do you laugh about the World now?
Seems like you get your laughs from those worse off than yourself. Your "I'm alright Jack" attitude is quite prevalent in the west and here in expat communities. Nothing wrong in that but when racism, Islamaphobia and sexism is woven into a supposed comical post you expose yourself as part of your perceived "down fall of the World"(sic). I suspect that there are others who are happy that you're not young anymore. -
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Passport expiry ?
12 would be good as then you'll get the whole year of extension, otherwise it will end on the expiry date of your passport. -
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Now travelling overseas every 50 days, keep getting Retirement Extensions?
Let the TGF, who is a medical professional and will be there with me, handle it and see what happens.
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