
bradiston
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2 hours ago, tomster said:
OK, so asking this for a friend.
He has a 4 year old daughter with a Thai woman that is his girlfriend, not wife. They have never been married and were just boyfriend and girlfriend when the child was born.
He is on the birth certificate.
His relationship with the Thai woman is quite stormy and this results in the kid sometimes having to go to Isaan to stay with the family, while things settle down.
He has been told that if he marries the mother of his child, he will gain the same parental rights immediately as he would have had if they were married when the child was born.
I was under the impression that he would need to go to court and get recognized as the father to get these rights (as I have had to do in the past with my son), but he is adamant that the same parental rights are instantly given if he marries her now.
Is he correct on this or will he still need to go to court to get recognized as the father legally in Thailand to get equal rights over the child (in the eyes of the courts)?
Thanks in advance.
Sorry to butt in, but is said friend really going to rely on the replies on this forum to decide his future relationship with his child? Go see a lawyer, surely!
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5 hours ago, balo said:
Good, some foreigners think they can get away with anything just because Thailand opened up for cannabis sale. This is not Amsterdam (yet).
Not Amsterdam yet? How much further is it?
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Grassed up. Never trust a hippy.
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46 minutes ago, CHSB said:
1am for vegetables. Two fruit stalls open 24 hours. Meat section is fine, perhaps you are a bit sensitive.
Yes indeed I am. The smell turns my stomach. It's not the meat is off or anything. Just the smell of corpse.
Yes 1am for many stalls but some are still setting up at that time. I used to get Chinese peaches and nectarines from one of the 24 hour fruit stalls (at the main intersection) but they haven't arrived yet. And a very disappointing strawberry showing this year. Maybe it's too early?
It's peculiar that most stalls are run by Cambodians. Has it always been that way? And the use of the main thoroughfare as a rat run by motorbikes is crazy.
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22 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:
By the looks of it, closed down. The best fruit market is Ratanakorn on Thepprasit
And open extremely early when very little traffic around. 2am start for the veggies, a bit later for fruit. The meat section I avoid.
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From a reliable source, the best customers are from a certain Asian country, nicknamed 333. 3", 3 minutes, 3,000.
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Must remember to ask the scammer if he knows who I am. That should sort it.
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10 minutes ago, Thaindrew said:Presumably the new deed was only in his name hence he could sell the land, so he fraudulently removed the other “owner”
He couldn't put the deed in his name. It would have been in the company name.
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Whoever the alleged buyer was, was also being deceived. He wouldn't have been able to sell the land without the authorisation of the company directors. All of them. And the company secretary.
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25 minutes ago, Delta Shift said:
Revolut is the cheapest only for card payments. I don't know many people out there spending $1000 a month on CC alone in Thailand. They probably exist but most of them do so using thai banking services as expats. The long-term tourist / digital nomad type uses mainly cash and shouldn't use Wise or Revolut to withdraw anyways.
Imo the best configuration without thai accounts and cards is to use the best service you can find for each type of transaction knowing that Thailand remains very much a cash society.
I see only phone payments in 7 by Thai people. They never pay cash. I use scan mostly too, in Makro, Big C etc. No change given, clean and quick. Shows immediately in my KT account. Don't even need a card. Stuck behind somebody paying 15,374 THB cash. OMG!
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5 minutes ago, nikmar said:
My wife makes a yam wunsen "boran" - a sort of old fashioned way to make it - goes extremely well with a cold beer on a Saturday night. Not unhealthy either.
My ex from Phrae made the hottest dish I have EVER tasted, just a yam woon sen but blisteringly scorching. Virtually inedible for the untrained palate. Many Thais though don't particularly like extremely hot dishes. Course, it depends on the chilis used.
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57 minutes ago, Upnotover said:
You are correct that you cannot get THB account details (a/c number, etc.) within Wise. But you can certainly hold any amount in THB, converting to THB from your main balance when the rate suits you. Thereafter any THB purchases on your card use the THB balance.
I have a bank card. I don't need a Wise card. The best things about Wise are:
1. My pensions get paid in to my Wise sterling account.
2. I can send and hold PHP in my Philippines Wise account.
3. I can transfer in and out whenever I want, hassle free.
4. I have £, $, PHP and € accounts.
Revolut won't allow signing up from a Thai address.
I lost the sale of my house to US citizens because US banks were so squeamish about transferring $ to Wise. My Wise $ account is held in New York. The buyer's bank was in Florida. No can do. And serious limitations on any other $ transfers. $4,500 per month. Maybe there are other ways to do this, like transfer $40,000 into a Wise $ account from the US, but we couldn't figure out a way.
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1 hour ago, RSD1 said:
First, I transfer a foreign currency (dollars, euros, pounds) into my Wise account. I then convert it to Thai Baht when the exchange rate is most favorable. After that, I maintain a Thai Baht balance in my Wise account to spend from. This ensures that all my transactions are made from my Thai Baht balance, avoiding conversion fees on each individual card transaction. Wise typically charges around 0.54% to exchange most major currencies into Thai Baht.
Revolut, on the other hand, allows you to exchange most major currencies into Thai Baht at the interbank rate with no exchange fee, but only up to $1,000 per month on the free plan. After that, they charge a 1% fee on exchanges.
In essence, if you were to spend the equivalent of $2,000 in a month using their cards, the fees would end up being roughly the same (around 1%) with both Wise and Revolut.
Not sure you can hold THB in Wise. They might show the equivalent of your various accounts in THB but they don't have a THB account per se. I have a PHP Wise account as I live in Philippines.
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I'd add Yam, as in "salad". Yam mamuang, green mango salad, is delicious but often quite difficult to come by. Yam woon sen, very thin rice noodle salad. Etc. Yam kop, frog salad, pla, kung etc.
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9 minutes ago, sherwood said:
Simple solution is to cut bureaucratic waste, eliminate the DEI/ woke agenda and stop giving handouts to other countries.
I haven't seen anything proposed in the way of welfare cuts apart for Illegals.
What's on the woke agenda?
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17 hours ago, impulse said:
Er, wasn't the point of the post you are replying to suggesting the complete opposite? That many Goppers are poor, lazy and out of work?
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On 1/7/2025 at 4:01 PM, Bkk Brian said:
How do you know its a minority? How do you know how many millions of followers there are? Did you know that only one in four British Muslims believe Hamas committed murder and rape in Israel on October 7?
Source for that please.
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17 hours ago, BarBoy said:
I'm still in the tourist ghetto sadly and last night I used a popular ride hailing app to get me from A to B.
His attitude was bad from the get go. Complaining about this and that, too far, traffic, no money etc etc..
So when I finally arrived at my destination I gave him a 1 star review, as the app allows for that. I was visiting a friend who is sadly very ill.
About 20 minutes later he shows up at my friends residence again absolutely fuming, demanding that I change the review because it damages his reputation. I politely explained that the review merely mirrored the service I received and he should work on his attitude when dealing with customers. He told me to eff off in thai and drove away in a fit of rage. He hasn't been back since and I'm leaving the ghetto now.
Charming chap, wouldn't you say?? How can they ever improve if they can't take even a single iota of criticism?
You must speak extremely fluent, colloquial Thai to have partaken in those exchanges. The driver chases you down for a 1 star review? And rants in Thai? I'm in total disbelief.
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3 minutes ago, rwill said:
Pacific Cross was advertising a new, more expensive, policy that would provide coverage for pre existing conditions. I don't know if they still offer it. However I had taken a look at it and pre existing condition had a 2 year waiting period PLUS they were only covered up to 300,000 baht.
Wrlife cover me for $400,000.
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She sounds an amazingly generous patron. Womens' football is becoming huge. It's refreshing to watch women taking control of their sporting lives. And reaping rewards now nearing equivalence to blokes. Golf, volleyball, tennis, footie etc etc.
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+44 300 322 7657
I think is the number I use for HMRC. But I haven't had to contact them for some time.
I always use Skype for international calls. I hate the interface but it works ok. You can set an auto top up when it falls below a certain level by a preset amount. Or just manually £5, for instance.
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I'm insured with, wait for it, WRLife, the pet hate insurers of many on this forum. I have, and have had for about 10 years, Afib which I declared, and which is treated with 3 meds. They set a 2 year moratorium which has now expired, so in theory, same as any company, I'm covered for it and any associated problems. I've just been hospitalised for 9 days with cellulitis in BPH. Total cost 250,000 THB. They paid. And for 3, maybe 4, follow up appointments after discharge. I had 3 days in hospital last year with the same condition, also covered. I pay 10,734 THB pm. I just turned 75. My claims triggered a 500 THB pm rise in premiums. But, as ever, YMMV. I'm not making a recommendation. Just reporting back my experience to date.
Just noticed they advertise on this forum, down below. They have a much improved customer service centre if in Thailand, on
+66 2 821 6776
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7 hours ago, CFCol said:
Don't know where your getting your figures from, but I would change your policy.
I came off my bike and broke my collarbone, (Dec 2023), requiring to have a metal plate put in. The Thai government insurance pays B30,000 and my class 1 paid B50,000. So a total of B80,000 for the same premium as you are paying for your not so good policy.
Looks like I need to read the policy document again.
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6 hours ago, Airalee said:
Lose some weight!
Haha. I was on a keto diet for 18 months. Lost 15 kgs.
Fruit Market - Soi Buakhao opposite Buakhao Market, closed down?
in Pattaya
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Sure, I buy from the pickups too when they have strawberries "in stock". I haven't seen any up my way this year though. Pratamnak area. The people who used to sell only strawberries in Ratanakorn haven't had much either recently. I'll have to check.