
ben2203
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If he was dumb enough to loose 65M, you wonder how he was ever smart to accumlate that fortune ??
I have to say all the foreign scammers are amateurs.
They should take lessons from Thai scammers who take people for all life savings, houses, cars etc.
Like Irish the other day, was taken for 65 million.
He says a bank loan was made in his name fraudulently by bankers and the court deemed it his responsibility to continue paying for the loan.
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For tax reasons, best to import from Japan or Hong Kong
UK Look into industrial digging equipment, road rollers, compactors etc but again Japan seems to be where everybody goes for second hand goods -
Should I trust them too? I mean, really I'm just another farang with a PhD from a really good school. That means I'm basically the same as a Burmese house boy to them, right?
It's probably more so arrogance and jealousy, you probably have what is considered to be a very high salary which means that you have to take a considerable amount of flack and jump through numerous hoops for their gratification, regardless of your background.
Personally, I would just apply for a visa extension yourself, if they refuse to give you one without the necessary paperwork from Thammasat, leave the country and come back in which effectively cancels the non-immigrant F visa and puts you on a tourist visa and save yourself a lot of hassle and money, though you're still essentially forking out for the trip.
By the way, Chinese Universities actually pay a significant amount more than Thai universities.
Actually, this is kinda ludicrous, an American PhD holder from a reputable western university is getting given the run around and given false information and made to renew his contract every year.
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I kinda like Asia Sermkij, for one, they put the book in your name and then just keep the book until you've paid everything and then they just call you and say, you've paid, come and collect the book.
Thannachart in my experience is ok, they probably think that as a farang you are incapable of paying debts because that's a Thai thing.
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The London Pie, he's on facebook (for Bangkok)
https://www.facebook.com/thelondonpie?ref=ts&fref=tssathu pradit branch
https://www.facebook.com/londonpiebangkok?fref=ts
Ekamai branch
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Renting out condos?
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Do as Samran advises, he advised me on the exact same issue a few years back.
Basically, at land borders they are not used to dual Thai nationalities so it's better to use an airport. I got asked at the airport why there was no exit stamp in my Thai passport and I just showed them my British passport and they let me in but told me to use the Thai passport for entry and exit to Thailand and the British passport whenever I needed it. Basically, two minute check and that was it.
You can also use the auto gates too but the police at the airport know a lot more than the police at the borders.-
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It's an interesting case as they were provided services outside of Thailand, but I assume the payments to them were processed within Thailand. There has been a lot of discussion over the years that internet work where there are no Thai clients, no Thai banking involvement for payment, etc. is more or less "OK" as far as work permit laws ... sometimes even confirmed by some immigration offices. I know purists will say NEVER but in real life that isn't really so. Talking about stuff done in private as well usually from a home ... this place has a physical business office location so that would be different.
I think had they worked from separate places, i.e. from home and not been in a shared facility then they would have been fine and nobody could prevent you from doing it. It's more or less the company's fault anyway for not getting the staff work permits, they were probably taking a significant cut for finding them clients so they should have sorted it out or not put the teachers in this position in the first place. Of course, as asking for work permits goes, it's not the easiest thing to do unless you have a government stamp but at least make a login system or something where the employee just works from home and pay for an internet connection though that probably has a lot to do with things too.
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Hi there,
I recently overstayed by 1 day, I went to the local immigration office prior to the overstay and explained I wanted to stay the extra day, I was informed not to worry about 1 day. On arrival at the airport immigration pulled me into the office, charged me 500 THB and stamped my passport!! I now worry this may cause me problems returning or obtaining Visa's in the future....this was my first violation....any thoughts or advice is very welcome :-)
Nah, the stamp in your passport just says you were fined and the amount of your fine, I had to pay about 3000 once because I had left my passport in my shirt and thrown my shirt into the washing machine, DOH, it takes so long to get a new passport so I couldn't get a visa until that time. I just explained it to them and then they took the money, stamped the passport, took copies of all the other stuff and that was it.
I guess if you had a lot of those stamps in your passport somebody who didn't like the look of you might want to make a problem for you but it's doubtful.
You're not going to be on a blacklist for a 1 day overstay, people overstay all the time.
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Adrenaline kicks in after a vehicle pursuit and altercation.
Too bad the drunk chose to endanger all those lives when he chose to drive drunk and resist arrest.
What the drunk did doesn't matter! Absolutely no excuse for a policeman kicking a handcuffed man in the face. In most civilized countries the cop would be suspended without pay pending an investigation and probable criminal assault charges.
But here I imagine he will be back on active duty in a month or so. Very sad.
This is how Thai police work
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All down to lack of vehicle maintenance i reckon,ie,brake failure,more than likely a maintenance issue,maintenance is an ugly word in Thailand.
Usually, it's shoddy engineers, you don't pay them enough or love them enough sometimes you get shoddy work.
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So if they don't have any victims/evidence they were involved in the scam then why link them to it, is it because they are Nigerian? Why not just run the story as 4 Nigerian men arrested for overstay.
I guess it's a way of publicising it too. I know a person who fell victim to this scam only two days ago. Deposited 30,000 baht into the account and then said it's not enough have to deposit an extra 82,000 baht.
She realised it was a scam after she sent the money to the account, went to the police station in her home town, not pattaya, and they weren't interested but did tell her that the bank account was opened in the name of a girl who was born only a month earlier, so where they are getting the details from, who knows?
Fortunately, these scams have been going on for a while so it's not easy to be tricked but I somewhat feel for the average Thai with no qualm against the world and lose a substantial amount of money to such thievery.
Before people start banging their drums about serves Thais right for tricking countless others. It's not nice whatever the nationality.
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Go to the vet asap!
Vets probably won't put her down, although you see it as her suffering, it's a sin to take a life so Thai people don't like to kill things, that includes, insects, rodents, animals etc.
Though, there are exceptions but it probably won't be offered as a service.
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Just ignore it. What personal details of yours does she have
Address, number, all the usual. She has certainly been to the police, she took photos there along with some sort of report.
I would like to go to the appointment, because perhaps I'll get the 30 grand back which she tricked me out of. She says I 'damaged her reputation' by posting about it on facebook. But I'm not the one who was sleeping around? I don't think I'm in the wrong, but this is thailand, i know the laws here are quite different from back home. I did make posts baring all the details which all her FB friends could see.
(For some context, I'm 25 and working here for 3 years now, she's a first year college student. I thought too young to trick me for money!).
Just counter sue her, that's what Thai people do, it happens all the time.
I don't know about the 30,000 though, I doubt you will get it back
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Locked up for 1-2 hours then let out with a 200B fine and a stern warning not to do it again.
The crackdown that works.
They could only nick them for not carrying ID cards, an offence has to be committed before they get arrested hence the reason they got nicked for 1-2 hours and only a 200 baht fine.
Unfortunately, even crooks have rights.
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Unfortunate, 40,000,000 is quite a significant amount of money to lose.
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It's possible that you could leave the country with just those documents but I think it would be pretty unusual and also take a lot of time to sort out at the airport. I would suggest going to the ministry of foreign affairs and getting a Thai passport there, explaining the situation with the mother and let them issue a travel document rather than risk possibly not being able to fly.
Essentially, he is Thai now, regardless of the British Passport. So that being the case, you do have to get a Thai passport basically.
The rule is, in and out of Thailand on Thai passport, if you come in on your british passport, you are thus British regardless of if you have a Thai passport, ID card etc. The same logic would be used going out, I would guess.
Some immigration police could overlook it, get the documents copied etc, but getting them there at the right time etc. Doubtful, I would say MFA and explain to them, takes 15 minutes to process it and it's ready within 3 days, or chaeng watthana anyway. -
How strange that in less than a week the Army can pay the farmers but the PTP exgovernment couldn't manage to do the same thing in more than 9 MONTHS.
Well there is always somebody throwing spanners in the works
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20 satang, the cost of the bag not used
what bullsh"t, i think the purchase dept at Tesco Lotus need to have a talk to the supplier as he is ripping them off (try 3-4 satang)
There is no 3-4 satang, satang denominations are 25 and 50, and 100 satang make 1 baht. Were you thinking of baht, perhaps?
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How many criminals do ya think really use these CHEAP visa services or make this trip themselves to Ranong??
Most criminals I know have money to burn or launder and use air travel usually buisness class to do there visa runs..
All paid for with other peoples money...
Maybe has something to do with Burmese labourers then perhaps?
Though, isn't that rule supposed to apply to all entry points?
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when will all this stop ,we marry thai lady ,build house here come and live ,most of cause no problems ,we support there parents,educate there children ,then get hard time from the government ,visa runs ,our thai wife can come to the west get visa for life without any investment ,can start new life with no problems from the government /work,in the UK free health care ,,about time thailand ,gave as old gents little respect for our efforts ,for sure marrying a thai lady is better than ending up in a OAP home ,well maybe ,and well maybe cheaper
Get a marriage visa
I think you missed his point. Even with a marriage visa there is the bullshit of 90 day reporting, renewing every year. In most 1st world countries, once you have been accepted for long stay, there isn't the constant bullshit of 90 day reporting and visa renewing for the rest of your life...once you're in, you're in.
You can get a residency permit or/and be put on a trebbian baan book, a yellow book which means that you wouldn't then have to report your address to immigration every 90 days, I believe that is the case.
You can also post them to immigration apparently, I never did as I wanted to be sure that it was done, you can go to every immigration bureau, once I was in Loei as there was a flood in Bangkok so I went to the immigration place in Chiang Khan, those there though asked for a tip which of course you don't have to pay, I gave him 100 baht so he could chip in and buy some whisky though you need not pay it.
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- Photocopy of passport pages with following pages
- front page showing name / surname / Passport No., ect.
- current visa
- last entry stamp of immigration
- last extension of visa
- Photocopy of departure card TM.6 click to view Example TM.6 card
- Previous notifications of staying over 90 days (if any) click to view Example document
- Completely filled in and signed notification form TM.47 click to view Example document (Don't forget to sign name.)
- Envelope with 10 Baht stamp affixed and return address of foreigner for the officer in charge to send back the lower part of form TM. 47 after having received the notification. This part must be kept for reference and for future notifications of staying over 90 days.
- The above mentioned documents must be sent by registered mail and the receipt of the registration kept by the foreigner.
Send the mail before the renewal date 15 days to Immigration office
Notice :
- Your registered mail must be sent to the Immigration office at least 15 days before the due date of notification.
- Your new form will be stamped as of the expiration date of your old receipt.
- Please keep your receipt of your registered mail in case of lost mail.
- Your document can not be processed if you have passed the 90 days limit. ( You must come to the nearest immigration office or Immigration Division 1 in person to pay fine 2,000 Baht)
- Waiting for reply mail over 1 month, please contact Immigration Office with your registered mail receipt. "
Shame it can't be done online though.
This comes from the immigration website, so you can send it by post, at least a week beforehand and by registered mail, retain the slip and if you haven't received anything within a month contact them with the slip and provide new documents, etc, everything should be fine and more convenient then.
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- Photocopy of passport pages with following pages
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when will all this stop ,we marry thai lady ,build house here come and live ,most of cause no problems ,we support there parents,educate there children ,then get hard time from the government ,visa runs ,our thai wife can come to the west get visa for life without any investment ,can start new life with no problems from the government /work,in the UK free health care ,,about time thailand ,gave as old gents little respect for our efforts ,for sure marrying a thai lady is better than ending up in a OAP home ,well maybe ,and well maybe cheaper
This is unfortunately the problem, I think it has to have something to do with the Russian gangsters and the story about them killing somebody over a debt, actually they were going to murder the wife also but she herself stabbed herself in the neck and they thought she was dead anyway so they only killed the guy. Point is those people have yet to be found and I guess they are wanting to get rid of some of these types, which is good in a way.
If you are married then you can get a renewable yearly visa based on marriage in any case, the only pain is the three monthly address reports but I think those can be done away with, if you are in the trebbian baan which also means you can buy cars and motorbikes and put them in your name as you there is an address to register the vehicle too, so that is an added bonus of being on the electoral register, though you of course don't have the right to vote though.
Even if you are a teacher you can also get a yearly renewable visa based on employment too.
Also, the immigration have been good in warning people not to leave to Burma as there is no embassy or consulate there so they could get stranded, I think normally they wouldn't bother.
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Moral is if you are going to do an armed robbery, steal a car and rob a shop that is not in your local locality, especially as small as koh Samui, you can drive around it in like 30 minutes, can't you?
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The father could be Norther Irish, Scottish or Welsh and not English but that's not even racism as neither are races they are countries, Perhaps, it was to do with assuming that the kid would be better off with his English relatives. I wholeheartedly agree with you though, it seems that the boy was living with only his father, the mother of the child wasn't there for 7 days so I assume they had separated, and the mother doesn't seem to have the kid's welfare at heart really, otherwise she probably would have called to find out how he was doing etc.
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Indian tourist assaulted for allegedly using fake banknotes
in Chiang Rai
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People get shot here over monetary disputes