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My Lord, she isn't even that dark... unless the photos I saw have been bleached?? It boggles my mind how much the world (especially southeast Asia) is still caught up in this light skin obsession on 2014.

Look at www.dbd.go.th before registering any company unnecesarely. If you register a limited partnership, you will have to pay a CPA and do taxed even if you do not make so much money. It is not necesary to register 1 million capital, can be just 100K or less depending in the business. Just go a dbd local office and get info. If you will work just online, may not be needs for a Thai bus registration.

Can you get permission to stay in Thailand if you are part of a partnership? Does that allow permission to work for that partnership? I checked the DBD website, but I couldn't find anything about partnerships and visas.

If a partnership does allow one to live and work on the partnership in Thailand, does it also require being married to a Thai citizen?

Might be smart to say, "Here they are, all 5 pieces that we found," with the other 20 pieces tucked away elsewhere.

Has anyone seen close-up photos of these sheets? I want to see what is written on them. If it's Japanese, you gotta at least be able to read a little Japanese to know that; otherwise it's indistinguishable from Chinese (items like this usually don't have any kana, only kanji). I could definitely see folks in Japan applying pressure to get that stuff back. If there are no published photos, Thailand could also say, "whoops, sorry, not Japanese at all, we guessed wrong cuz nobody can read what is written." ...but maybe it has a picture of the Japanese Imperial flag? I'm just curious how they know it's Japanese, and if they have a chance to claim, "whoops, sorry, not Japanese, we made a mistake."

How is it different in Japan? How is their negative reaction different? I am not doubting you in the least, I am just curious to understand this more.

It can be annoying, but I think they are usually trying to be nice. I find that if you get your Thai up to a certain level, they will switch to Thai, and are happy to do so provided your level is high enough.

Note that it certainly isn't their responsibility to teach someone Thai, and it isn't fair to expect them to try speaking overly-simple Thai so that the farang can try following the conversation.

If you are not Asian, then it is hardly strange that they should think that English is the preferred means of communication. The obnoxious part is how much a Thai person may insist on sticking with English after you speak Thai. Again, my experience here is that they are happy to speak in Thai provided that the conversation can go smoothly. It's up to you to get it to go smoothly.

I lived in Japan for 15 years and I am fluent in Japanese (I went to interpreting school there and I am a professional translator). I find Japanese people who speak English to respond very negatively when I speak in Japanese, and that has caused many problems for me over my years in Japan. While people in Bangkok sometimes don't want me speaking Thai and push English on me, it is nothing like Japan, and for that I am just happy to be living here and not there. You have my empathy with your (our?) situation, but I assure you it's not so bad.

I am a permanent resident of Japan. There are no significant fees to obtain residency, and no bank deposit is required. Because I am not married to a Japanese national, I had to be in Japan for 10 years before I could apply. I think I had to show that I paid taxes for the last couple of years... whatever forms I had to present, I remember that it wasn't actually that hard to get. I think foreigners who have married a Japanese national can apply for permanent residency after 3 years of living in Japan, but I'm not sure.

Most Japanese people can't stand Thai rice. I can't imagine this is going to be successful.

Where are police divisions 2 and 5?

Yes, of course I read that they are "on the borders of neighbouring provinces of Pathum Thani and Samut Prakan." Is there a map for the jurisdictions? Just curious... I wonder how much having a chain lock on the bikes help. I have a big fat lock, but I have never used it...

Should be a good show! I think the name comes from a rock quarry that the event was held in last year and the year before. Check it out if you like live music but are sick of hearing the same tunes covered all the time.

It's breeze easy. I have a PayPal account using a U.S. address, but I could not send money from it to my bank account in Thailand at Krung Thai Bank. I set up another account with another email address and entered a Thai street address. I was able to open the account no problem. Then I transferred money from the PayPal account that I just opened to my Krung Thai bank account. It took 5 days.

There are other posts about this that will walk you through the process. I did it myself by reading the posts here on the Thai Visa forum.

Total joy and good news. I was able to successfully link my bank account at Krung Thai Bank with my Thai-PayPal account. Thai-PayPal sends a couple of tiny trial transfers, which went through after 5 days (kinda slow, but it worked!). I am now transferring a larger sum of money. It appears that transferring an amount in U.S. dollars from my Thai-PayPal account to my Krung Thai Bank account doesn't cost anything to convert to baht, and just uses PayPal's exchange rate for the day. This is nice, because generally when converting between currencies within a PayPal account, it costs a rather high conversion fee.

So, my attempt to transfer money from my PayPal-US account failed. When adding a new bank account to a PayPal account, PayPal sends 2 tiny trial money transfers into that account, just a few pennies. After those tiny transfers arrive, you have to tell PayPal the amounts of the tiny transfer ($0.02 and $0.06, or whatever the amounts are). Once those amounts are confirmed, then that bank account gets added to your PayPal account.

So, to recap here, in order to send money from an account in the U.S. to Krung Thai Bank, it must be sent via New York Bank of Melon, with whom Krung Thai Bank has a business agreement with.

My transfer from PayPal to NY Bank of Melon started out fine, but the tiny trial transfers never made it to my account at Krung Thai, so PayPal said, "sorry, New York Bank of Melon doesn't recognize that account number," because it's actually an account number at Krung Thai Bank.

So, back to square one. In my hunt, I found this very handy posting about someone sending money via PayPal:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/311138-paypal-and-thai-bank-accounts/

Basically, just as monty said above, you gotta have a Thai-PayPal account. Follow the directions from the link pasted above, and you can set up a Thai-PayPal account and still keep any other PayPal account open.

Of course, if you have already have a PayPal account linked to your email address, you'll have to create a new email address to get a Thai-PayPal account.

As of now, I created a new Thai-PayPal account, then I sent some funds from my US-PayPal account to that new Thai-PayPal account. I am currently trying to transfer money from my Thai-PayPal account to my bank account at Krung Thai Bank. Thai-PayPal says that it will take about 5 days to process everything, after which I'll post the results.

In going from US-PayPal -->Thai-PayPal --> Thai bank, the currency conversion is going to cost you, as Pib pointed out. That's one of the spots PayPal makes its money.

I might be to have my clients pay me in baht instead of whatever currency....

Here's the latest on my attempt to send money from my U.S. PayPal account to Krung Thai Bank.

The transfer didn't work. Krung Thai Bank has an agreement with New York Bank of Melon, so I had to enter the routing number for the New York Bank of Melon. For the account number, I entered my account number at Krung Thai Bank. The transfer was rejected 5 days later with the reason, "The New York Bank of Melon does not recognize that account number."

I'm going to Krung Thai Bank today to see if I can straighten out the problem. I'll post my progress later.

I play guitar and banjo. Would love to play with a fiddle player, definitely have him contact me next time he comes this way.

Hey, you're right, thanks for the correction... I did a quick search for it, couldn't find it, and just assumed there wasn't one.

I believe PayPal in the U.S. can wire money to a Thai Bank. People on this website have stated that they have had success with it. It sounds like Pib has had success as well?

I don't believe there is a PayPal-Thailand, like there are for other countries. In Japan, Japanese banks will not allow money to be sent from PayPal-U.S. to a Japanese bank, but they do allow it from a PayPal-Japan account, which is technically a separate company from PayPal-U.S. (so separate that money cannot be sent from PayPal-U.S. to PayPal-Japan). But this is not the case for Thailand.

I live in Bangkok and play bluegrass and old-time. I'd love to get together with anyone for some fiddle tunes or to sing any of the standards. Definitely PM me if you or any players are headed up this way.

Just wanted to add that I rented a Santa suit for Christmas 2012. It was just 400 baht. Loads to choose from.

I just got back. I feel lighter, good to shed that unneeded blood.

I told them that I was there for the little girl, and staff knew right away.

So I guess they need 7 more donors, huh?