SlyAnimal

These guys have full live coverage of all world cup games, and the replays are available afterwards too for 1700 THB:

https://connect-th.beinsports.com/en#

Also I think Rugbypass.com have highlights + discussion etc about the matches and will be either free or cheap I think (I haven't actually checked though, just remember some ads from them)

https://www.rugbypass.com/

Also as a general note, I think these guys below have coverage of 6 nations etc when the rugby world cup isn't on.

https://www.premiersportsasia.com/

All of them you can stream on your computer, and they probably have mobile apps too (Which you can then comcast or whatever to your TV).

Over the past 13 years I've had 3x teaching licence waivers from Krusapa at 2 different schools.  2011, 2015 & 2020 I think.
The one in 2015 I didn't end up using for a work permit.
My old school also applied for a waiver for me in around 2017 I think, although they needed to click a button within 30 days and didn't, so the waiver wasn't granted (They weren't very organized).
I previously passed 2/4 of the krusapa tests before they abolished them
I also have a Thai Culture Certificate from 2014 I think
I also started doing a diploma in teaching, but stopped due to covid etc (And didn't return to it).

I'm thinking about going back to teaching in 2024, it'd likely be at the same school I had my last waiver from.
If I did do you think I'd be able to get another license waiver?
If I did, I'm thinking about sticking with it for a fair while so that I can apply for citizenship (I easily meet all requirements except for having a WP + earn 40k+ for 3+ years)
Do you think I'd be able to get enough waivers for +5-7 years?  Or if I wouldn't be able to, what would I probably need to do instead?  (I saw there's some new system?)

8 hours ago, ezzra said:

What's this i read? police are seriously charging a VIP, well connected high profile person? something is wrong there, wires cost crossed somewhere?...

His father is the top cop who was told by the head of police to not investigate the attempted drive by shooting of Big Joke (The police chief who waged war on corruption before being transferred to an inactive post without explaination).

After a recording of the conversation was leaked to the media, his father was charged by the police for leaking confidential information (Although couldn’t prove that he did it in court).
 

The police might not be shedding any tears if the son gets thrown under the bus.

I've started playing New World on AP southeast - Acherusia, and have created a Company there called "The Battleborn" on The Mauraders faction (Green) which will be a +7/+8 UTC timezone company.

Anyone who's interested in joining, feel free to give me a message ingame (PapaNasty) or on discord @PapaNasty#2628 

I don’t get it.

If they’ve already pleaded guilty then what purpose does the re-enactment serve? Unless the police believed he was lying about being guilty?

And if he wasn’t pleading guilty, then why would he agree to help re-enact something he didn’t do?

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No, they weren't, not if by "vaccinated" you mean fully vaccinated, i.e. people who had had their 2nd dose of vaccine more than two weeks before getting sick.

 

Those who died and were fully vaccinated (with their 2nd dose of AZ at least a couple of weeks beforehand) represented only 0.6% of the fatalities.

 

"there were 4,656 COVID-19 fatalities nationwide between 25 July - 19 August. 63.8% of deaths had not been vaccinated."

No this is the statistic I was referring to (Or rather, the inverse of it, so 36.2% of deaths were people who were vaccinated).

Although all of the statistics in this article are very misleading in general, but in a semi-obvious way which I assume was intentional, so that they could criticize Sinovac without directly criticizing it (As legal action has been taken against some people who have criticized Sinovac).

Since 36.2% of the deaths were in vaccinated people.  Which given that only around 1/3 of Thailand is vaccinated, points towards the vaccinations doing pretty much nothing against the delta.  And most people who have been vaccinated, have been vaccinated with Sinovac.

However, they've then gone to lengths to try and make the amount of people who died after 2x AZ vaccinations look like only a very small amount of the total deaths (Although without knowing the percentage of the population who have 2x shots of AZ, it's a bit like saying 0% of people with Moderna died.  Since of course it's 0% because no one (or very very few) actually have Moderna so far).

So roughly 1/3 of the people who died were vaccinated.

And roughly 1/3 of the population vaccinated.

Not sure what these statistics are trying to tell us….

The article is written to give the perspective that the vaccinations are helping a lot.

But the statistics seem to be painting a different picture.

Howdy,
A friend is going to do their annual multiple entry visa based on marriage at Suvannakhet at the start of next month.

Have the requirements changed at all from last year?

As I'm always hearing rumours from people that they're going to tighten up and require proof of funds or similar, but in the past the requirements at Suvannakhet have always remained the same.  Is it still that way?

Saw a topic here a month or two back which said that someone had been informed that the Thai Consulate in the UK wasn't going to issue Multiple entry Os anymore, and that this might be something that would be applied to other consulates/embassies as well.

Does Suvannakhet still offer Multiple entry Os?  And are the requirements still the same as they were last year etc (e.g. Don't have to show any money in the bank etc).

Awesome thanks

All SETV are 60 days (which can be extended by another 30 days) no matter where you get them from

If your friend has not already done so they can extend their Visa Exempt at any Thai Immigration office, this certainly applies to G7 countries, not sure about other country's, someone else will be able to confirm

Cool that's what I thought, that they were all 60 days (And I hadn't seen anything in the news to say that they weren't). Although apparently there is some discretion available from border officials? Are there any reports of only 30 day stamps being given, despite people having a SETV?

Also from what he was saying, double entry tourist visas are a thing of the past now? You can either get a single or multiple entry? (And that apparently you can only get multiple entry visas in your home country?).

I've got a friend who is currently in Thailand Visa Exempt, and they want to go and get a tourist visa from Suvannakhet to extend their stay.

However, another friend has told me that they have now changed the system, and now instead of being 60 it's 30?

Is this correct? And if so how long is the extension then? (e.g. can he then extend it by 60 so that it's the full 90? or is an extension only an additional 30 days?)

Also how long can visa exempt be extended by?

And are they still writing "out/in" if someone does a visa run (And then potentially not allowing them to enter again afterwards?).

Thanks for any assistance given

As per the title, how early can I go to extend my marriage extension?

I usually know things like this, but for some reason I'm just not sure at the moment. As I think it's 30 days, but for some reason I have a recollection of being told I was too early and that it's actually 15 days, or something like that (That might have been while I was on an employment extension or for a 90 day report though, I don't know, it's been so long that it's all foggy lol).

Reason being, I need to book a flight, as I'm going to go overseas between the time that I apply for my extension, and the date by which I have to pick it up (I should get a +1 month extension to my existing visa, so I'm hoping to apply 30 days before, leave a few days grace for incase I miss a document or similar, head overseas for 6 weeks and then come back roughly 1 week before the end of the +1 month extension so that I'll have plenty of time to pickup my new visa).

Ok they aren't going to take the risk of being denied entry, so are going to apply for an emergency passport tomorrow morning. Hopefully they can get new ones before their flight.

There is no risk.

They are perfectly legal and within the rules.

Why waste time and money when there is no need?

For some reason they feel safer taking the advice of the NZ Thai Embassy instead of Thaivisa forum members, no idea why

To be honest, if it were me, I'm not sure which option I'd have taken either, as being denied entry would have such a massive negative effect compared to the cost of simply getting a passport issued urgently, so it's really just the safe option.

Ok they aren't going to take the risk of being denied entry, so are going to apply for an emergency passport tomorrow morning. Hopefully they can get new ones before their flight.

My aunt/uncle are coming to visit Thailand later this week, for around 2-3 weeks, but just noticed that their passports expire in mid Feb (~4 1/2 months time). By the time they leave, they'll still have 120+ days remaining.

I remember reading that you must have 6 months remaining on your passport to enter a country, but also remember reading a newspaper report which said it was actually 3 months. I'm thinking that they might say 6 months, but enforce 3?

Please advise me whether you think they'll have any problems entering Thailand.

You seem to have an extension of stay based on retirement with a multiple re-entry permit. This means you must cancel it at immigration and leave the same day you cancel it. But I would ask them to only cancel the re-entry permit, so you have some more time.

Having a re-entry permit means your permission to stay remains valid when leaving. When you do not have a re-entry permit(anymore) the extension of stay automatically becomes invalid when leaving the country.

Is he able to just apply for an extension based on employment, at his local immigration office, to replace his existing extension/re-entry permit?

As I know it's definitely possible to change from a retirement extension to a marriage one (One of the teachers at my school did so last year), and assume the same would be possible with employment?

Generally, as a Non Native English Speaker you'd probably be stuck in the 25-30k salary bracket, but with a maths degree, you're probably more looking at 25k - 35k, maybe more once you get some more teaching experience (Even getting 35k for your first job would be pretty amazing without prior teaching experience).

These aren't that bad.

15k is probably quite good for a person from Laos.

35k for a 10 month contract isn't that bad, particularly as the visa + workpermit are fully paid for, and it's only 20 hours per week.

As visa wise you'd still receive a 12 month contract, just the contract would have a clause that you'd only receive salary for 10 months (My contract, which I just signed today, is quite similar to this, with April unpaid). Being unpaid for a couple of months can suit some people e.g. I wouldn't want to have to teach summer school in April, or even go to sign in, instead I like having the freedom to travel etc, without having to worry about that other junk. Of course, without money, you can't travel, so you simply have to view the contract as a 29k or 26.6k contract with free time over the summer.

In saying that, no one with a degree in education would apply, and not many BEdu teachers would be interested in 26.6k unless it was in our wife's hometown or we simply found the 2 month's holiday to be an attractive option.

You should probably post this in the Classifieds section instead

http://classifieds.thaivisa.com/real-estate/

I'm going to close this thread so that you can post there instead

Goodluck.

Personally I thought it was a valid thread, not an attractive job option for most of the teachers who visit the forums here, since we're all currently teaching and thus have much higher expectations.

But some of us may know others who might be willing to take a lower salary in order to gain experience or simply because they live nearby and have too much free time on their hands.

I know of 2 people who might have been interested if it was closer to where they currently live and was a flexible/relaxed workplace. No doubt there would have been some in Sisaket who would have felt the same way if they heard that the job was available.

Studying at Chula is great, although hard work.

I wasn't there for that long, as only studied lvl 3 then dropped out half way through lvl 4 as didn't like the format in lvl 4 (I felt there was too much time spent testing and not enough time spent teaching, compared to lvl 3, which burnt me out since it meant I needed to do 3-5h homework/self study each day instead of 2-3h).

In class you have mostly amazing teachers and although the material itself isn't amazing, the learning atmosphere is brilliant. As everyone is pretty focused and you're completely immersed in Thai for 3h every day, even outside of class most people try to speak Thai during lunch etc.

They also organize these "soda parties" which I found was the most enjoyable part of the course. Where they get some of the university students to come in and practice speaking Thai with you in an informal setting. I had some really great yarns with random people as a result.

You also have use of the university facilities (pool/gym/libraries etc) which is pretty cool. I was training with their rugby team too which was fun and added to the immersion, although admit this was probably a factor in why I burnt out, since with study as well, it meant I had very little time to "blob out" and relax.

I definitely feel that my Thai was significantly improved from my time spent studying at Chula, even though I was just there for 3 months.

I believe that they can also provide you with a visa, although I was on a marriage visa extension so didn't look into it myself.

Yep he's correct, you have to already be teaching in order to apply. I wanted to apply for one of these courses so I could get my licence + improve my Thai, but won't have my letter etc from Krusapa before applications close, so will have to wait til next year.

The qualification is usually referred to as "Bor-Ban-Dit", although I think it's actually a graduate diploma, and is only offered by Rajabhat Universities (In the past these were teacher's training colleges or technical colleges) and I think should should take 1 year (not 2).

In order to get a job teaching, your brother in law can get a 2 year provisional teacher's licence, which can be obtained by anyone with a bachelor degree (provided a school sponsors the licence). This allows people to work as a teacher while still working towards a full licence.

Krusapa also offers seminars which, when all 9 have been completed, provide a full teacher's licence (Thai only). You need to be teaching in order to do the seminars.