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He gets his opinions from the NYTimes...

Well move back there then. Don't whine on AN.

Fly to France, get on a plank and row to England...no problem, money for jam? Don't forget to tell them you're a muslim with four wives and 30 children!!

I used to own land and property in the resort cities, through my companies etc I did the houses in Isaarn, for my other half whilst I was active in business in the big cities. I am glad we did them way back when. Now, when I see how it is all developing, constant rule changing, the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing, these latest ideas about taxing ex-pats on foreign income, overt nationalism, and in cases, racism being displayed by the government ministers, I am glad to be out of it. The country is becoming a giant basket case of errors and mistakes, by those in charge, it's worse than ever. They leap from one cockup to the next.

I came off my bike in a heavy storm a couple of weeks ago at about 10pm. A large tree branch came down across the road and I hit it. I was not going very fast at all - it was as black as the earl of hells waistcoat; but I was thrown across the road. Lying there stunned and battered, feeling like I had gone 3 rounds with Mike Tyson. Two cars pulled up, one each side of the site, and sat their watching me from about 30 metres away. I was able to drag myself into the gutter. They sat there watching for 20 minutes or so until a "rescue pick up" arrived and took me to hospital. No one got out of either car - mind you it was still raining quite hard! By contrast, the "rescue crew" were excellent. They took me to hospital, contacted my daughter and even recovered the damaged bike.

THE COURT, Indicates the following provisional measures: (1) By fifteen votes to two, The State of Israel shall, in accordance with its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, in relation to Palestinians in Gaza, take all measures within its power to prevent the commission of all acts within the scope of Article II of this Convention, in particular: - 25 - (a) killing members of the group; (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; and (d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; IN FAVOUR: President Donoghue; Vice-President Gevorgian; Judges Tomka, Abraham, Bennouna, Yusuf, Xue, Bhandari, Robinson, Salam, Iwasawa, Nolte, Charlesworth, Brant; Judge ad hoc Moseneke; AGAINST: Judge Sebutinde; Judge ad hoc Barak; (2) By fifteen votes to two, The State of Israel shall ensure with immediate effect that its military does not commit any acts described in point 1 above; IN FAVOUR: President Donoghue; Vice-President Gevorgian; Judges Tomka, Abraham, Bennouna, Yusuf, Xue, Bhandari, Robinson, Salam, Iwasawa, Nolte, Charlesworth, Brant; Judge ad hoc Moseneke; AGAINST: Judge Sebutinde; Judge ad hoc Barak; (3) By sixteen votes to one, The State of Israel shall take all measures within its power to prevent and punish the direct and public incitement to commit genocide in relation to members of the Palestinian group in the Gaza Strip; IN FAVOUR: President Donoghue; Vice-President Gevorgian; Judges Tomka, Abraham, Bennouna, Yusuf, Xue, Bhandari, Robinson, Salam, Iwasawa, Nolte, Charlesworth, Brant; Judges ad hoc Barak, Moseneke; AGAINST: Judge Sebutinde; (4) By sixteen votes to one, The State of Israel shall take immediate and effective measures to enable the provision of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance to address the adverse conditions of life faced by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip; IN FAVOUR: President Donoghue; Vice-President Gevorgian; Judges Tomka, Abraham, Bennouna, Yusuf, Xue, Bhandari, Robinson, Salam, Iwasawa, Nolte, Charlesworth, Brant; Judges ad hoc Barak, Moseneke; AGAINST: Judge Sebutinde; - 26 - (5) By fifteen votes to two, The State of Israel shall take effective measures to prevent the destruction and ensure the preservation of evidence related to allegations of acts within the scope of Article II and Article III of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide against members of the Palestinian group in the Gaza Strip; IN FAVOUR: President Donoghue; Vice-President Gevorgian; Judges Tomka, Abraham, Bennouna, Yusuf, Xue, Bhandari, Robinson, Salam, Iwasawa, Nolte, Charlesworth, Brant; Judge ad hoc Moseneke; AGAINST: Judge Sebutinde; Judge ad hoc Barak; (6) By fifteen votes to two, The State of Israel shall submit a report to the Court on all measures taken to give effect to this Order within one month as from the date of this Order. IN FAVOUR: President Donoghue; Vice-President Gevorgian; Judges Tomka, Abraham, Bennouna, Yusuf, Xue, Bhandari, Robinson, Salam, Iwasawa, Nolte, Charlesworth, Brant; Judge ad hoc Moseneke; AGAINST: Judge Sebutinde; Judge ad hoc Barak https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20240126-ord-01-00-en.pdf

Ex-Deputy PM's Wealth Revealed, Including Cars Worth 87M Baht Picture: Courtesy of Wikipedia Thailand's former Deputy PM and Sports Authority of Thailand Chairman, General Prawit Wongsuwon, has faced scrutiny following the exposure of his vast wealth and assets, including a collection of luxury cars worth 87 million Baht, by the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC). Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1326043-ex-deputy-pms-wealth-revealed-including-cars-worth-87m-baht/

Picture: Courtesy of Wikipedia Thailand's former Deputy PM and Sports Authority of Thailand Chairman, General Prawit Wongsuwon, has faced scrutiny following the exposure of his vast wealth and assets, including a collection of luxury cars worth 87 million Baht, by the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC). The 78-year-old chief of the Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) declared in the triennial financial report- required by his position- that he was single and possessed total assets worth 87.84 million Baht, with a minor debt of 757 Baht. Gens Prawit's assets comprise of considerable bank deposits of 40.48 million Baht, investments of approximately 6.53 million Baht, prime real estate in Bangkok and Pathum Thani totalling around 10 million Baht, and a fleet of five luxury vehicles amounting to 13.6 million Baht, among others. Outstanding among his assets were his luxury vehicles, including a 4 million Baht Jaguar I-Pace AWD HSE and a 2.5 million Baht Mercedes Benz V250d. Also included in his declaration were a TW Steel watch, nine valuable rings, and three handguns. Gen. Prawit's comparatively modest annual income of 2.34 million Baht raised eyebrows, fuelling discussions about his wealth's actual magnitude. The disclosure becomes more significant considering previous controversies involving the General, including allegations of false asset declarations related to luxury items. Despite his refutations, the new revelations have again cast doubt on Gen. Prawit's true wealth and incited further public investigations into his alleged impropriety. -- 2024-04-27 Get our Daily Newsletter - Click HERE to subscribe

I have seen this so many times in Thailand it isnt funny. It is no surprise people would be angry if one party leaves the scene. But one watch the video and read and listen to the explanation " At fault didnt signal " just shows that Thais dont have a clue reason the media reports are shown and only adds to the problem of their driving. The vehicle regardless of race of driver had 95% completed and taken the right away from approaching vehicles yet this moron at speeds well over the limit crashes into the vehicle as if it was never there. In many cases police will come see it is a foreigner unable to explain language even if they could the police not a clue as to their own law nor does court Thai are from the same driving system in general.

Who says they aren't the 'main road'?

Yes... it is time to wipe out the mostly peace loving jews and other peaceful people and give rise to the loving, peaceful muslims... oh wait.

Typical behavior of Russian putinoids thugs 😞 Revoke their 3 month visa free stay in Thailand and support Ukrainians instead!

That Twitter account is trying to cause trouble. They said he didn't check on the injured motorcyclist but cut the clip seconds before that would have happened. They also say "Farang again". He knows what he's doing. Btw, driver doesn't look European to me but it's hard to tell. Having said that the drivers didn't look too interested in the injured driver when the exited the car. Many Thai people behave this way to when they get into accidents too (slowly come out of the car and look around cautiously, notice the injured rider but inspect the car first etc...)

and you have every right to be concerned if you so wish. I'm concerned that overpopulation is going to be the end of humanity, but there is sod all I can do about it, and if I'm wrong I suspect there is sod all you can do about the conservatives taking over the country. The only thing I can say about that eventuality is that hopefully people stop going on about man made climate change or how many genders there are in humans. Given that most people on the planet apparently live awful lives I don't think most will give a monkey's about who sits in the W H. At least it will shut HRC up, which would be a good thing, IMO.

Point is you don't turn into oncoming traffic,and look twice to gauge speed.

It is very difficult to judge but it seems like the bike rider had plenty of time to stop and avoid the collision. Having said that, it is never right to leave the scene of the accident when someone is injured.

You are missing my point, see the madman on his little vehicle travelling an unsafe speed through an intersection with some cars 100km/h, he is barely visible, that lunatic is trying to outrun a 2 tonne SUV, there's the problem.

The sedan driver might have been using his smartphone while driving and did not notice the motosai?

c'mon man his phone fer christs sake.....his phone, doesnt get more serious than that

yay the Thais never do that, they always rush to the victim, comical.

In any event it is highly unlikely that any tax on the State Pension would be due at the Thai end, thanks to the exemptions and allowances listed in para 76 of Mike's guide. I have prepared a spreadsheet setting out how a ภ.ง.ด. 91 return might look like in my case, based on TRD's 2023 forms and the State Pension being my sole source of assessable income. The result is a negative figure - which is even before the 0% rate exemption up to 150k referred to in para 75 of Mike's guide comes into play! In these circumstances I can now see no good reason why I should be expected to surmount the formidable bureaucratic roadblocks which the TRD have, in their infinite wisdom, chosen to place in my way as regards both obtaining a TIN initially and subsequently filing tax returns either online or in paper form. Indeed, I wonder whether Article 23(3) of the UK/Thailand DTA could also be said to apply to those in receipt of UK company pensions where sufficient evidence exists of tax payments to HMRC? This could be an even more crucial factor in their case given that they are otherwise highly unlikely to be fully exempted at the Thai end.

This is Asia... the only reason for sidewalks is to have a parking spot for motorcycles

Bottled it? If it went ahead you would have said it was a deliberate provocation by openly Jewish people, if they call it off you say bottled it......

Until the sub grade collapses, or some ass drive a 10ton truck over it

Great news./ Hopefully she will come back and get the PM's job and kick to oaf Srettha into history.