Managing currency rates is against America's rules. Thailand might find themselves having some problems with the US and ability to trade if they act to reduce the Thai baht and increase their surplus in trade with the US. 

1) You can buy a re-entry at the airport.

2) If you intend to go 'home' just once a year a single re-entry purchased either with your visa or renewal, allows you to go and come back.

3) You do not need to worry about 90 reports if you are out of the country.....when you come back you get a piece of paper for 90 day reports dated 90 days after you enter Thailand.

4) Do not be absent from Thailand when your annual renewal of the visa is required, if to are out of the country, you will have to start from scratch to get a new visa. 

5) Multiple entry, as the name implies, means you can go and come without buying a re-entry at your local immigration office or the airport. There is no limit on the re-entries, but the ME is, I think, twice the price of the SE ie 3800 baht for ME and 1900 baht for single re-entry. 

No point wasting money if you will not be travelling outside Thailand a lot, IMHO. I always buy the ME as I am at the age where everybody seems to be dying and I might get called home to attend the funeral.

Moroni, the smallest person in politics. But she is hot, hot, hot....seducing both Rishi and Kier in minutes. She made them feel special while Uk women sneer at them. She's probably a witch and casts spells on people and she would probably be burnt at the stake in medieval times, now we make her Prime Minister of a (formerly) fascist country. What is it about all these women in the EU from Ursula on down....all fascists.....the Baltic states, ugh?

15 hours ago, Luuk Chaai said:

tailgating is S.O.P. on Thai roads   ( standard operating procedure )

Sadly it is, especially on fast roads. It freaks me out. Minivans used to be a real scourge on fast road (and coaches) driving 2 inches from your back bumper. I take my foot off the gas and slow down slowly. 

3 hours ago, spermwhale said:

"After 40 gruelling years as an electronics buyer"... who writes this stuff? 

Also: This isn't true: But his dream retirement turned into a financial nightmare when he discovered his UK state pension had been frozen.

He didn't have his pension frozen. He just doesn't get cost-of-living increases. Big difference. he still gets his money, so I'm not sure how that is a "financial nightmare." 

AI writes it, it seems.....I'm sure AI knows what a gruelling job electronics buying is. 

It is very common with niacin. Try to get an extended relief for your wife.

What they're building a postage stamp sized data centre? 

I'm waiting to see if abolishing the taxes makes wine any cheaper for the consumer.

6 hours ago, connda said:

Is street food good for you? Old rancid oil. Cheap oil. Food dripping with oil.

 

What I see here is Westerner cultural superiority.  Westerners are freaking clean freaks.  In 17 years here I have seen all the tropes, exaggerations, and outright falsehoods about "Thai street food."  This is reflective of Westerners who come here already prejudging something that isn't part and parcel of their own culture - well, outside of perhaps food stalls you can find a fairs.
Ultra-clean Farang Fred:  "Unlike Thailand we have whole branches of our excessively large, nanny-state government dedicated to inspecting food establishments, especially "ify" food stalls at fairs."
Exactly!  One of the things I like about Thailand is that it doesn't have a nanny-state government monstrosity getting into everyone's business.  Kids can't even open a freaking lemonade stand in the West.

I've lived in Bangkok, Korat, and Chiang Mai and have often eaten Thai street food as well as getting to know the vendors who prepare the food.  Yeah - that does require you to have immersed into both the culture and the language of Thailand 👈 something most Westerners who lock themselves in gated communities and who associate primarily with their fellow farangs can never grasp.  I personally have lived IN Thai communities since I got here in 2007 and made an effort to learn the language and to assimilate the best I can into the culture. 

So I find that the topic of "Thai street food" just brings out the worst of Western Cultural Chauvinism. 
"It's dirty!
"It's greasy, cockroach laden trash!!"
"You'll get food poisoning!!!"

Hate to burst ya'll's ethnocentric bubbles, but the street food I've eaten is fresh, delicious, and generally prepared one order at a time right in front of you if you take the time to watch the process and interact with the staff.  Like any brick&mortar establishment (where you can't see the staff prepare the food), on occasion you'll find a place where the food sucks.  But those are the exceptions and not the rule.  And, oh!  I have had food poisoning in Thailand twice!!!  👉 Both times after eating at international fast food restaurants (I avoid those place like the plague now - can't name them due to Thai defamation laws). 

Denigrating "Thai street food" is just more Thai-bashing by Westerners who come to Thailand with bad case of Ethnic Egotism:  Western food clean; Thai street food dirty.  Most probably don't eat Thai street food because they already harbor the preconceived notion that it's unfit for human consumption.  That's ok, go back to your clean gated communities and eat clean food from Michelin 5 star restaurants and wallow in your Western ethnic snobbery.  Eating "Thai street food" is obviously beneath your social status.
"Dirty food for dirty people!  Grrrrr!"

Yes not is beneath meat to eat the crap from the street....it's dirt and taste that I can't abide. If you are too poor to eat decent food, go ahead eat that vile brew that would be closed down in a second in US or Uk for hygiene violations. 

4 hours ago, ronster said:

Probably equal to McDonald's , KFC , burger king etc .

The oil they mostly use is horrible and that's why I don't eat a lot of street food , as hours later you still get a horrible aftertaste in your mouth . I only use sunflower oil or olive oil if I'm cooking at home .

Obviously some places hygiene standards are non existent and what they put in som tam in some cases smells like a rotting corpse . But otherwise I have never been ill after eating Thai street food , only time I have been sick after eating was from KFC ! 

I won't eat that <deleted>e either

You know I have never eaten any street food while I am here. I wonder where the vendor washes his hands after he has been to the toilet. I can't see can't clean toilets anywhere except malls so I'm assuming he does his business in some filthy market toilet.....so no thanks to food handled by him/her.

Will; drive up the prices of medicines in Thailand. The Thai government must do two things 1) develop the ridiculously priced generic market for multi source products....but from China/India from FDA inspected plants 2) stop pharmaceutical being exported to keep prices down (Thai made products as well as import for re-export.)

Most key inventions are disputed.....look no further than the hate match between Isaac Newton and Liebnitz. I will say that I think the US claims all the inventions when in fact they develop technology for profit. 

Nice. I love to see overstaffed garbage bags when I am on an overly expensive vacation. 

NO. But I do like to look at beautiful women....but no chat and no touch. 

What no Anutin?

15 hours ago, it is what it is said:

 

it's not about the legality, it's about the safety. the law is there to protect idiots from themselves

My view is that it is a nanny state law. Idiots deserve what they get.

It doesn't have a world class tourist image to protect. It is s stinging poo hole

22 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

I have had a kasikorn credit card since 2008, having never worked in Thailand prior. I don't have any security on my credit cards or the spouse credit card I have issued by kasikorn bank. 

 

I also have a wisdom card which I had to deposit some money into MTL account, I get interest paid every few years, the balance I deposited plus growth will be returned after 14 years if I remember.

 

@MarkT63, try applying for a wisdom credit card from kasikorn bank. 

 

I have had the same experience but it was back in about 2010, but without the MTL. My wife was friendly with the bank manager. The other card that comes with the wisdom card still gives you free admittance to a lounge at Suvarnabumhi. When it came out the wisdom card was great, you had a special coffee and snacks area and special parking, plus jumping the queue.

The old KTB bank that merged with the military bank gave my wife and I a credit card but the limit for the wife was paltry.