thailand will give him pr or not?

He lives in Thailand but ‘supercommutes’ to Singapore—living off what he makes from 3 hours a week Shao Chun Chen used to work more than 40 hours a week in his corporate career in Singapore. Now, he has a three-hour-a-week job that sustains his and his family’s life in Thailand. The 39-year-old grew up in Singapore and spent most of his life in the city-state before moving to Chiang Mai, Thailand, with his wife in November 2024. Today, he “supercommutes” from Thailand to Singapore, flying over 1,200 miles once a week to work as an adjunct lecturer at the National University of Singapore. He says he brings in about $2,000 to $4,000 Singapore dollars ($1,540 to $3,070) per month teaching a weekly three-hour digital marketing class, and the amount that he makes teaching the course is enough to cover his travels and all of his and his wife’s living expenses in Thailand. “I’m gaming the system,” Chen told CNBC Make It. “Three hours of working in Singapore can sustain my entire expenditure in Thailand.”   Making dollars, spending baht Since moving to Chiang Mai with his wife in November, Chen says, his lifestyle and quality of life have become “so much better.” “I’m also conscious that not everyone can do it, and the locals are not making as much as we are. [We are] earning in dollars, spending in baht,” he says. “I no longer feel the need to ... be on that hamster wheel or to always be producing.” ″[Here] I make breakfast for my wife, and in my previous life, I didn’t even have that privilege. [I was] just rushing,” he added. Along with not feeling as much financial or time pressure on a daily basis, Chen says, he no longer feels the need to “over-plan” his life. “For the first time in my life, I could just sort of ... enjoy what Thailand has to offer,” Chen says. In Singapore, he says, he was paying about about $2,450 a month for his two-bedroom condominium. Now, he lives in a brand new one-bedroom condo which costs him $450 a month — and it’s much more luxurious. “I’m already overpaying because I’m [paying] on a monthly basis ... If you sign a yearly lease, then it will be closer to $300,” Chen says. “It’s a ridiculous condo,” Chen says. “It has multiple pools. It has a water slide ... a fully equipped gym, a huge co-working space [and] its own Pilates studio,” he added. As for other living expenses in Thailand, Chen says, he spends between $300 and $500 a month for food and groceries for him and his wife, and about $200 a month for transportation. He also spends about $250 for each round-trip flight to Singapore every Friday. “The strategy for anyone who wants to live in a country like Thailand is to really embrace the local culture, the local options, the local way of life,” rather than try to bring your own lifestyle to the place, Chen says. “I’ve actually met a few expats here, and they’re really not happy because they were only attracted to Thailand because of the cost of living,” he says. “They were complaining: ‘Oh, the croissant doesn’t taste as good as back home. They don’t use real butter here, they use palm oil’ ... and then they need to find a specific cafe, and that’s actually more expensive.” Instead, expats can save money by buying local products like Thai food, Thai medicine and Thai beer, Chen says. “Everything made in Thailand is cheap, but the moment you want to buy international options, like wine from France ... it’s more expensive,” he adds. Although the decision to leave the corporate world to live in Thailand has given him more time and flexibility to enjoy life and build up his different streams of income, Chen says, there are downsides. For example, he no longer has the structure and predictability that corporate life once afforded him. And when it comes to supercommuting from Thailand to Singapore, traffic is often a big hurdle, as is the amount of energy that it can take to travel so often, he says. But ultimately, he says, he’s happy with his life in Thailand, though he is open to moving back to Singapore if the right opportunity comes along.

fierce i wonder how the guy looks like

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/prison-officer-ca...-124118036.html A female prison officer came into work on her days off to have sex with a convicted rapist inmate, a court heard. Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington, 29, had a six-month relationship with Bradley Trengrove while working as a warden at HMP The Verne on the Isle of Portland in Dorset. They had sex up to 40 times, often in prison workshops while nobody was around. The mother-of-three became pregnant before losing the baby. After the inmate was moved to another prison, she visited him with an empty Calpol syringe in her bra so she could “artificially inseminate” herself with his sperm. Austin-Saddington, from Weymouth, pleaded guilty to misconduct in a public office, but avoided jail as she was given a two-year suspended sentence. Bournemouth Crown Court heard she started working as a prison officer at Verne Prison in July 2019. Her probation period was extended because she was suspected of having an inappropriate relationship with two prisoners, the court was told. In January 2022, Trengrove, who was serving a 13-year extended jail sentence for raping a woman and having sexual activity with a child, was transferred to the prison. He began a relationship with Austin-Saddington in August of that year. During the affair, she smuggled a mobile phone into the Category C prison for him and saved his name in her phone under “husband to be”, the court heard. Robert Bryan, prosecuting, read out messages she sent to Trengrove stating he was “the one”, her “reason for living”, and that she would love him “til my last breath”. Trengrove’s account of the relationship, read to the court by Mr Bryan, said: “I did maintenance work around the prison, there were lots of workshops, we would meet down at the workshops where less people were around. “It got to the point she was coming in for work on days off and we would work together for three or four hours at a time.” The pair had unprotected sex between 30 and 40 times, the court heard. In November, she told him she was pregnant, but lost the baby at about eight weeks. In March 2023, Trengrove was moved to HMP Channings Wood in Devon, where Austin-Saddington tried to send him intimate photos that were intercepted by staff. On May 26 of that year, she visited him under a false name. During a pat down search, officers found she was not wearing underpants and had the empty syringe in her bra. She was arrested after the visit. Emily Cook, defending Austin-Saddington, said her client took full responsibility for the affair. The two ‘formed a very intense and infatuated relationship, Austin-Saddington’s lawyer said She said: “You can see from the messaging, they formed a very intense and infatuated relationship. She takes full responsibility for what she did. She is very ashamed and upset. “You are not sentencing the woman who committed these offences, she’s a very different woman now.” She argued that her client shouldn’t be jailed because she had been left wheelchair-bound, having suffered a fall following her crimes. Judge Jonathan Fuller KC said: “Had it not been for the accident that befell Miss Austin-Saddington, the sentence would have been an immediate sentence of imprisonment.” Trengrove admitted encouraging or assisting her in the misconduct, having a mobile phone inside prison and using it for “unauthorised transmission of images or sound”. He was given another two years and three months to serve on top of his original sentence.