scotinsiam

Glad to hear there is a crackdown on this.... whatever it is. Well done.

Could somebody advise me which banks pay 3% in the UK or alternatively offshore accounts paying a similar amount in GBP? The best I can manage is 1.95% with Barclays, but for 12 months only. It then reverts to 0.5%!

NZ banks are paying 4% p.a for a 1 year term. Tax free if you're a non resident.

Poor return, you can get over 9% here

http://www.csb.co.in/asp/0100text.asp?pageId=43

You cannot get a visa here unless it is linked to getting certain extensions of stay at immigration.

Unless you have a work permit (or a application for one) you will not get a B visa at any nearby embassy or consulate.

The nearest location is Australia for getting a B visa with a letter from employer.

Just got my B visa at Kuala Lumpur with letter from employer

Sounds like another quality guy living in paradise.

E 20 tastes better with coke IMO

she really is a halfwit....or am i being cruel to halfwits....

Who cares - She is hot and can do no wrong in my eyes.

Yesterday, I went to Jomtien for a 30-day extension on my tourist visa issued at KL. Now I know why the employee actually spent five minutes checking the number on my visa sticker against a list of visa numbers.

I left Thailand 2 days ago and (B visa from KL & Work permit) and my passport was thoroughly checked and as you say looking at a list.

I saw this handsome fashion guru in Big C last week his gut was touching the food products in the fridge.

You really care what a 70 yo man is wearing? Crikey!

Sorry farang 000999 I did not realise it was you I was photographing, Try covering your gut up on your next trip out to the store people buy food there.

No ploblem here, foreigner think too mut bah.

I saw this handsome fashion guru in Big C last week his gut was touching the food products in the fridge.

Geez - in the frozen dept as well - has he no sense of feeling - I need a fur coat and a scarf for that isle

He was well insulated with blubber and a hat

Look at Index on the super highway and also big C next door, On the same road nearby is also a furniture warehouse but can't recall the name sorry. You can look at index online I think

I saw this handsome fashion guru in Big C last week his gut was touching the food products in the fridge.

Glad they are getting out - surprised it has taken so long. If my child was in that shithole they would have been home a long time ago. <deleted> toilet.

The Suriwongse and Princess are also pretty close and a slight notch above R Lanna.

Or you could go mad and do Le Meridien?

Last time I passed maybe 7 weeks ago the Suriwongse looked like it was closed and maybe being cleaned up - is it still open? I stayed at it about 6 years ago and it was a dump then.

Thai man shows his penis to foreign tourists

...all four cm of it,,,

I have been informed that he is being charged in a juvenile court due to the size of his weapon.

To be fair to the locals the car is disguised to look normal - so the fact it is photographing them picking their nose must be alarming.

UK passport is no longer renewed in Thailand - You need to fill in a form (C1) and send with a copy of your passport to Hong Kong (currently) and your passport will be sent to you from the UK it takes around 4 weeks.

I believe in the future you will not send to HK but to the UK direct.

I am also invested in the LM MPF fund - based and working in Thailand.

PTTGC may have to pay only 'small compensation'
Pongphon Sarnsamak
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- PTT Global Chemical may only have to pay about Bt200 million - a relatively small compensation amount - for all damage caused by the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Thailand off Rayong, an economic expert has said.

This figure is based on an international rate that companies that cause an oil spill must pay - of US$1,200 (about Bt37,500) per litre - as compensation for all damage, according to Adis Israngkura na Ayudhaya, of the National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA).

Adis spoke at a public forum yesterday titled "The Lesson Learned, Analysis of the Oil Spill in the Gulf of Thailand: The Impact on Marine Interests" held by the Thailand Research Fund. (surely to early to be looking at lessons learnt)

He said the sum the oil firm should pay for damage to natural resources and affected people was based on the international rate. (impossible to know at this point) And when he used this rate to calculate the compensation, along with the Kingdom's gross national income per capita (irrelevant) - which is one-tenth the international rate - he found PTTGC may pay only Bt200 million ($6.4 million) for damage caused by the leak of 50,000 litres of oil into the gulf. 37500 baht x 50,000 lts (Lies) = 1875000000 Baht????

The scale of damage at Ao Phrao on Koh Samet was not large, (impossible to judge at this point) if compared with the massive spill of 60 million litres in Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989, or the Deepwater Horizon spill, which saw more than 750 million litres gush into the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. For the first event, oil giant Exxon had to pay $27 billion in compensation, while British Petroleum (BP) had to pay about $56 billion for the second. (each case totally irrelevant to this)

"I am not sure we can ask for compensation for environmental damage, as the Thai legal system will ask for a bill," Adis said. (what???)

He said there were four categories of compensation for damage from oil spills - cost of the clean-up, cash for affected businesses, for natural resources, and a punitive fine.

PTTGC vowed earlier to take responsibility and said it would pay compensation to affected people and state agencies for damage to natural resources.

However, people were asked not to file lawsuits as the firm would then have to wait for a court ruling, and this could delay the process for a long time.

-- The Nation 2013-08-10