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2 minutes ago, YeahSiam said:

 

No

It's the time to buy gold.

It's up nearly 40% this year alone in sterling terms.

It is up in "sterling terms" just ONLY because the sterling lost a lot of value. So it will only gain value in sterling if the currency is continuing seeing lower grounds.

1 hour ago, RichardColeman said:

 

 

I Don't remember it being explained by anyone that you would lose as much as 20% of your income for expats. 

Everyone who was interested in the matter knew. The exchange rate ahead of the vote correlated DIRECTLY with the polls ahead of the vote, and this for many weeks.

So where have you been the months before the vote?

Have been in Thai prisons several times, in the IDC they even register your details but never had any problems afterwards...

thx so much, I should have looked further around, already done the appointment

now I filled out

visa application and PP pictures

and in addition have:

invitation letter from friend in shenzhen and contact details

copies of PP and Visa for thailand

marriage certificate of thai wife and her id card and tabien baan copy

flight details printed out

just want to stay 5 days, should be enough for the papers then, right?

Here is what the immigration said (because I asked my wife to call the immigration by herself to get information from first-hand)

I would imagine this is the responsibility of the unit owners. How can the condo manager keep up with condos that are rented.

My condo management reports them and I'm pretty sure they do it online like hotels do.

At my condo a renter is required to check in with the management and provide a copy of passport and rental agreement. A renter at a condo, unlike an owner, could be refused entry if they failed to cooperate with the requirement.

Every Thai knows how to determine if a durian is ripe or not, when ripe it has the smell of durian.

I highly doubt it. I often see thais buying hard, white durian. Durian without taste and smell, simply unripe. I know a durian farmer and he would never even touch such durian many Thais here in Bangkok buy... Mai kautschai...

Just married in Singapore, pretty easy, more easy then in Thailand (at least for me as a german). Just one of you need a 15+1 day stay over there, days, that's pretty much it, Passports of course but these u need anyway to travel...

Sometimes experience is invaluable.

Especially when dealing with authorities hints by others can be really important.

Learnt in the university of life...

Just called the ROM in Singapore.

So if one did not work in Singapore there is no need to have been a resident or get approval from any government authority (even not from the from member Soihok mentioned MOM) in Singapore if you want to marry in Singapore.

Of course you need to have had a stay of at least 15 days In Singapore before filling the notice of marriage. I made sure that they understood what I meant and was assured that the immigration stamps in the passport are sufficient.

So the in my first post mentioned papers to bring under point

B ) Original passports and work/ immigration passes

is a little bit misleading. The only thing they want to see are our passports as we logically do not have work/immigration passes.

The 300 kg of copper cables are of course not mine. As I mentioned they belong to the building. After 23 years they renovated the elevators and there are about 1000 kg of scrap metals as well as about 300 kg of cables.

Our manager has no idea what to do with it, the company doing the elevator renovations has no interest in this stuff.

And as I know from Germany that these things have some value I told them to find out how much we would get for all these things.

Of course I know many places where I could ask but I thought someone probably knows about the prices and the best place to go. At least in Germany they vary widely.

Actually I do not want to have anything to do with it, but when I hear that they simply want to throw it away I get simply crazy. They throw away money. And don't care about it. I think I never get used to this mai pen rai attitude.

In our building we have about 300 kg of copper cable.

In Germany I would get good money for it, about one euro or 37 baht per kilo.

Does anyone know where to go and what one would get in Bangkok?

Need to be resident in Singapore or at least gain approval from the MOM.

Also, you may need to include the services of a registered translator if linguistically challenged.

Please only answers from people with actual knowledge or even better: own experience.

Because for example you do not need to be (permanent) resident in Singapore or at least gain approval from the MOM. Also this was not the question...

Of course I will ask them by myself but experience sometimes is helpful as well...

We're going to marry in Singapore.

According to the ROM website we fulfill all requirements.

On your Appointment at ROM for Verification of Documents and Statutory Declaration:
What to bring?

a) Summary of your Notice of Marriage

B ) Original passports and work/ immigration passes

c) Photocopy of NRIC (SC/SPR) or Passport (Foreigner) of 2 witnesses

d) Signed 'Invitation to Solemnize a Marriage' form

We have everything but work/ immigration passes as we neither work nor immigrated...

So I simply guess that this does not apply to us? Applies only for people with work or the ones who moved there, right?

"Thailand could face its worst drought in more than a decade...The funds will be used to install water pumps and provide mobile water tanks in affected areas..."

Only forgot one little detail. If it's the worst drought in more than a decade, where will they get to water to pump and fill the water tanks?

Insiders know: They are going to propel it upstream.

The ones interested in a field study may travel to KL to see what a monorail is in real...

I don't believe it, people have the cheapest taxes in the World and still complaining. And it's so easy to simply ask the next taxi driver if the first does not want to go where you want to go.

Really feel sorry for these people.

What a life, what a struggle to survive they have.

Why have we made this beautiful planet of ours such an ugly place to live in?

We?

Yes, "we". When good men fail to act, evil prevails. When good men refuse to get involved, evil prevails. When good men refuse to acknowledge that inaction is not just condoning malfeasance, but abetting it, evil prevails.

Evil prevails because we are comfortable and are afraid to risk our comfort.

Sip your latte and accept responsibility for it....

As resident foreigners what responsibility can we exert as we can't vote and our opinions carry no weight, indeed expressing such can bring serious consequences.

there are many things you can do.

You can visit and support families locked up in horrible Thai prisons for years just for not having the right stamp in their passport. Support does not mean to invest a lot of money. When visiting them, for example once per week you can offer a meal or some pens and paper for the children.

In Bangkok there are two groups doing this twice a week. They are doing this for many years now. No one ever had to face any consequences.

The opposite is true: the public eye on it, also the involvement of an US lawyer brought a few enhancements at least for the children.

So, Nongkhaikid, what you bring is just a lame excuse...

six Turkish illegal immigrants might have suffered from stress after being detained for four months and tried to escape.

4 mounth in a thail jail for this matter is a bit exagerated and not too human

In the immigration detention center here in Bangkok some are held for several years for this sort of "crime".

Most sorry I feel for the North Koreans who sit in their practicality for life since Thailand work together with with the North Korean government and agreed not to let them have access to any kind of help, not from a lawyer and not from the UN....

Four months in jail for as it seems not having the right stamp in the passport?

And then a three digit number of people hunting them?

Maybe that's just a set up for some kind of Hollywood movie?