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Sorry, I not read it clear that's about cash.. not about transfers......

This amount on K-Bank app depends on how much money you have on the bank. But this limit can be much higher if you have more money on the bank.

When you open a Line message in a separate window, then on the TOP left is a slider, with this you can change the transparency level. I hope this was the thing you were searching.

With LH Bank face recognicion works for me... It was setup at LH bank Branch Asok Terminal 21. Only the bigger branches could do it. For example the Bangrak branch couldn't to it... LH = Land and House Bank

A KTC credit card has this feature to block a card temorary.. The fraud protection is not bad. I only had a problem 1 times till now in about more than 10 years I own Thai credit cards. And this was handled by the bank very fast. I not even need to do something. They canceled the fraud transaction themselve, called me, to make sure this was a fraud transaction and then canceled the card and sent me a new one. Can't complain.

Last time when I came back to Thailand (2 weeks ago), the Immigration staff told wife has to come first. So, it's probably only working, when you travel with your wife.. married alone is not enough... I'm waiting for some first hand information, when a married solo traveler tries to use the Thai counter!

I think when you made your transfer the baht still was going up. So at the end you received more money than what you would become with wise. Exchange risk or luck. My experience is, that with bigger amount sometimes a SWIFT transfer can be slightly better. But mostly I choose the WISE, because I know exactly what I will receive, with the SWIFT I could become more, about the same or less... But if you want transfer more than 2 million Thai Baht, then you have to use swift anyway.

So far I know, all building higher than 15 meters had to be build earthquake proof since 2007. In 2021 it was increased to build more safe. So a Building from 2022 (Which is taller than 15m) has to be earthquake proove. Or in that case should have. My room has 2 cracks in the gypsum and unfortunatelly 1 50cm crack over a door frame at a inner wall. Else I can't find any cracks. But yes, there are other rooms which showed more cracks inside the rooms. But to be honest as I never encountered anything similar to this event before it was really horrifying and I hope I never have to encounter something like that again. I also not knew before if the buildings were even likely build earthquake resistant or not!

OK, if you can top it up at 7-11, then I also agree, that this would be easier... As you could use the much better Exchange rate to the Bank rates give by K-Bank. I only use True Wallet with a credit card... I never used money in the wallet option 🙂 Thanks for clarification and sorry for my misinformation!

What is important to fill in into the Residence field for people who really stay in Thailand all the time (except some holidays). As most of them "only" have a NON-O (Non Immigrant) Visa/Extension. So I guess you are only excluded with a Thai Passport or Thai Residency Status! But some people not have a residence other than Thailand.. and as some poster already replied Thailand is not in the list of residence country... it's intersting

OK, I never tried to use true money for Promptpay (I have to try). But even the TrueWallet App is not easy to use for tourists. Can you put a foreign credit card behind? Or how you recharge money without a Thai-Bank account or Thai credit card?

why you think in Bangkok it was 1.35? I felt it 1.22 in Bangkok. And I think the information the OP presented was interesting, Not only to hear about Bangkok. To be honest I have read many other stories in this Forum which I found much less important than what this OP was writing. Especially as he mostly not knew at that time of writting what really happened!

I'm not sure what is more safe. As higher buildings had more static engineering.. as lower rise buildings 3-4 floors I guess there is less static calculation made. I think the bigger problem is, if they always built on standards or as a few years ago in Turkey they find out afterwards if everything was built correct not that much would happen. So far I know at least till now only 1 building was really collapes (and this was under construction). But still very very sad for the workers which are still traped 😞.

You can't have a Wise card, if you live in Thailand, but I already used at least 1 time a Wise debit card in thailand to pay a bill. And one of my friends uses his wise card all the time in Thailand, so I think it's working as normal as any other debit/credit card. But I can tell you, that you are not allowed to order a card as long you have a thai address in wise!

I think a not finished building is not as strong as when finished. As some buildings need the window inserted to reach full strength. So it's a big tragedy... I just saw at least 1 worker could be saved alive. I hope they can find more of the missing workers alive.