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True and "Old Town Wine" is a fruit wine, as is "Holla" and everyone to their own taste, but as another has said....."Cat piss is free if you have some spare time to collect it". Whatever else is said, it matters not to me because I will stick with my usual wine, made from grapes. However, this seems not to be fully correct, if I correctly understand the difference between blue tax-labelled locally blended "fruit" wine and orange tax-labelled imported wine. Yes, Holla is a fruit wine with blue tax-label, and it also says clearly "fruit wine" on the packing. In my opinion the white "crispy" is a fine refreshing affordable table wine, when cold; not necessarily to be compared with some expensive imported yellow-labelled wines. But, The Old Town, is indeed an orange tax-labelled imported wine from South Africa, which the packing also clearly says – you and others can apparently for sure drink it, even when addicted to wine from grapes, if you like the taste... Below is a photo of the said wines that I bought in Makro yesterday... And close-ups of the text...

You sound like you favour lawbreakers – "...don't follow rules or don't have valid license..." – rather than those following the rules...🤔

"Southern islands" can for example be Koh Samui and Koh Phuket, many international schools there with foreign students...

If you read further on the box-text it's actually suitable for for drinking. Excellent taste in my opinion, if you like that of Algerian/Tunesian wine, which some says taste like the (very) old French vines that was lost in France during a fost, because it's the same old vine exported from France. I prefer "The Old Town" dry red in taste more than the double as expensive box-wines – which I unfortunately have to settle with, when The Old Town is sold out – I shall find dedicated bottles to match The Old Town's excellent taste. The Old Town dry white at same price is however – in my opinion – almost undrinkable. I gladly pay double as much to enjoy a glass of white table wine. Holla, also available in Makro, has a good cheap white table wine; while the Holla red is drinkable, but not even close to the taste of The Old Town. However, it's a matter of taste – which can be way more important than price – and you might not have same taste as I do...

It's fair enough to close those outlets that don't follow rules or don't have valid license, when a such is required...👍

Really bad journalism: Nothing has changed for the usual retirees, just additional options focused at more wealthy retirees...

I've use pool-grout widely for all outdoor tiles – including terrasses on top of rooms – and where waterproof is needed, like bathroom floors. Both Weber and Crocodile has excellent pool-grout products, also in smaller quantities. I've mainly used the Weber-products for wetrooms, pool and outdoor. Link to Weber here... https://www.th.weber/en/search-content/content_type/product/activities/tile-grouts-21/area/swimming-pool-99

Easy, try to buy a small beer in a high-society place. I've paid 250 baht for a soda with a slice of lemon in such a local night club 15 years ago – dare not to revisit now, scared of the price increrase since then... Going price for a soda with a slice of lemon is around 80 baht in the nightlife places normal folks like me can afford to attend – makes it 100 baht with tips – I don't drink beer, but 160 baht sounds reasonable in comparising...

The only main benefit of investing savings in Thailand is to avoid currency exchange rate fluctuations. If you invest in foreign bonds or equity – i.e., not Thai bonds and equity – just keep your savings in your home country, if there is no tax-benefits in changing to Thailand. You will still be in need of exchange from foreign currency to Thai baht, when invested internationallt through a Thai bank or broker, also to te transfer dividends and gain from sale. You can in average gain 4% dividends on Thai stocks after 10% withholding tax – which can be final tax on dividend income – eventual capital gain in SET-traded (SET = Stock Exchange of Thailand) stocks are taxfree. However, numerous Thai stocks has lost value during the later years due to foreign investment capital outflow. Only few stocks seems to have kept value or increased in value above average inflation. This can mean that it's a great time to buy cheap stocks, or this can mean that Thai stocks can still risk losing value. You can open a SET trading account with online trading platform from both a bank or a broker. You shall buy stocks that can be obtained with NVDR-option – no voting tights, which doesn'tr matter if your are not investing billions – as you otherwise need to be within the 49% permitted share for foreign ownership and regbister the indivual stock as foreign owned, to be eligible for dividend. It was a great benefit for me to transfer some savings into Thailand when I got 40% more baht for my Danish currency than today, and exchange to average 4+% dividend without currency exchange fluctuation. Today the exchange rate to Thai baht is more average; so, if you don't belie that you will get less baht for your foreign currency in the future, you shall also take that into consideration before you invest in Thailand. And also always remenber: Never invest more money in Thailand than you can afford to lose...

Is Thaksin no longer the leader.?.🤔

The text says "a number of rescue vehicles" and "a foreign motorcyclist riding a chopper suddenly swerved in front of the ambulance, ignoring warning signals". Seems like video is from the ambulance's dashcam with another rescue vehicle driving in front.

Seems like women one meet on a street in Pattaya are "no go" – again and again news-stories about those untrustworthy ladies...

I got my TIN – registration, as I already had a Thai ID-number from my house book – at the local Customs Department. I needed to show passport with a long-stay visa, including permission to stay – i.e. extension of stay-stamp – and proof of taxable income in Thailand. I got my TIN-registration receipt immediately...

When I did it some years ago, I just brought the old- and new passport, and my DL. New photo taken and a modest fee of then less than 200 baht for the card; easy peasy... As I'm now listed in my house's Yellow House Book and have a pink ID-card, they use my Thai ID-number for DL – even more easy peasy...👍 – so, I don't need to change DL with the number of the new passport, which I got last month...😉

I'm tired of the Marvel universe and another bad franchise of Jurassic World and like – and yes, I have seen the last "Jurassic World Rebirth"...👎– however, the last Thai film I saw in July "Kayaor – Disrespecting Faith and the Supernatural" was actually better than expected and a good script, which didn't spoil everything at the end, as often in Thai horror-movies...👍 But being tired of many of the Hollywood film I've also cut my "Sunday movie" to one a month, However, in July it was two, as I wasted two and half valuable hour of my life with yet another Jurassic-franchise...