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  1. Hong King 'in kind' Bitcoin ETF approvals are expected pretty soon.

     

    I believe they are targeted at the Chinese market and allow direct exposure via brokerage accounts.

     

    It has been notoriously hard to purchase Bitcoin in China at some times over the last few years, with this new development, if approved it will allow the Chinese to gamble their money on Bitcoin through their brokerage accounts. I heard the Chinese love that sort of thing.....

     

     

  2. 15 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

     

    I had whooping cough as a kid. No idea if I could get it again or not.

     

    Yes, I think me and the brother/sister all had it as well but that was a very long time ago back in the 1970s.

     

    I know it's something that is routinely vaccinated against these days.

     

    Also I know this whooping cough outbreak which seemed to begin last year has now gone global, it's everywhere. If you search the news there are many reports from all around the world and they're recent.

     

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  3. There were lots of reports in various places around the world of what they call the 'hundred day cough' which is apparently nothing more than a nickname for an old infection commonly known as 'whooping cough' or pertussis.

     

    These reports started late last year but have really surged recently.

     

    It is bacterial in nature and it's going around right now.

     

    I would imagine that most of us are vaccinated against it already but who knows.

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  4. 2 hours ago, Confuscious said:


    I had the same problem in Korat.
    This year, they wanted to see a proof of income and the source of the income.
    I have been told by somebody at Immigration that this was to proof that I had declard my income to the tax department.

     

    Which is odd as you do that after the end of the current tax year, so nothing will have been declared for the current year, especially if it's this time of year.

  5. 10 hours ago, Mywayboy said:

    Report states they are both Boxers .

    Trained disciplined Boxers would not behave in this manner bringing disrepute to the sport

     

    I knew one boxer whilst growing up, he trained all the time. He also loved to bully people, luckily not me though as I was a friend of his slightly younger brother.

     

    So this trained boxer who I knew, he was quite a good boxer as well, when he murdered his next door neighbour he was sentenced to life in prison which is where he both belongs and remains.

     

    The other one became a drug barongot caught and ended up in prison as well. Another one who my father knew ended up in prison for hiding a body.

     

    Trained and restrained right? 🤣

     

    These are just the ones I know about personally and I don't follow boxing at all.

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  6. The new fees are so crazy that I wouldn't be surprised if there's some kind of 'mistake' here.

     

    I guess we will find out soon enough though!

     

    It would be massively unfair to charge tourists from NZ these huge fees when they stay the same around the rest of the world. If they apply the same fees to the rest of the world then they might just find that nobody gets a visa again, ever.

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  7. If you must buy something then leasing is the way to go but based on what I've read over the years the lease renewal is not guaranteed in any way.

     

    Also a lease contract which has a 'binding' obligation on the registered land owner to renew after each 30 year term is not legal which it is speculated nullifies the lease completely. A lease contract with clauses that are not allowed doesn't simply nullify the bad clauses - it nullifies the whole lease - is this true? Has it been tested yet?

    So there's a lot of people out there who think they're sitting pretty in their house on a lease that's quite possibly not acceptable should the owner decide they want it back.

     

    If I ever did a 30 year lease on a piece of land I would consider it a long term rent for 30 years max, I'll probably be dead by then anyway so it wouldn't matter as I have no aires and would likely pick up another house or two over the coming decades also on 30 year leases which stretch far beyond my time here.

     

    Now I would do this on my Mrs name and lease from her, we are not married which is important because you can't do contracts between husband and wife. Well you can easily do them - but they can easily be reversed based on what I've read on here as well.

     

    I figure if you spend 5% of your assets on a house then it's kind of disposable anyway but there's no need to let anyone know that.

     

     

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  8. 9 hours ago, Mike Lister said:

    Thailand’s cabinet on Tuesday approved a tax exemption for crypto earnings to encourage fundraising via investment tokens, multiple local news outlets reported.

    Under the exemption, holders of investment tokens that have had the 15% capital gains tax withheld don’t need to include the profits when calculating their income tax, essentially ending a scenario of double taxation, according to one report.

     

    https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/03/13/thailand-greenlights-income-tax-exemption-for-investment-token-earnings-report/

     

    This is not at all as clear cut as it first sounds.

    They're talking about a credit from a withholding tax that has been cancelled / doesn't exist. It's one of those things that was introduced but not implemented anywhere back in 2022 and then withdrawn.

    Unless this is the same thing being added back in again - it kind of sounds like it.

     

    They also mention the SEC and 'investment tokens' in the original Thai text which I ran through google translate - not specifically 'crypto'. I wonder if they're talking about a new type of investment shares here which have yet to be launched.

     

    Coindesk which is notoriously unreliable and will report any old rubbish have been reporting all sorts of stuff for years now - they even link to one of the out of date stories about withholding tax from 2022 which cites the BKPost in the article and speak about the tax benefits including a VAT exemption until December 2023 which was 3 months ago in an article published 2 days ago. They're not to be taken seriously.

     

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  9. They appear to be 'catching' people at some airports based on recent news stories out of Phuket.

     

    Obviously this is due to the airline check in desks, they check your current extension of stay date - they always did even when nobody cared about overstays because it can delay you getting to the gate.

     

    Go and get an extension, like others have said, if they say no to the extension because you've already had one then you get 7 days which is no problem at all.

     

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