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I think you will find foreigners cannot get finance for secondhand cars without either a work permit or citizenship.

2 hours ago, jamesbrock said:

 

How could the Thai embassy in Switzerland grant you a visa a. without a passport; and b. while you were blacklisted?

 

You need to concoct a more believable story for your next scam attempt.

The whole sad tail seems strange, a Swiss embassy would not issue a retirement visa only a O or what ever and then you would apply for a retirement extension of stay in Thailand. Also why are you paying tax, I think you need to get your story straight before you do anything else. If you have a wife in Thailand as you mention why not apply for a marriage visa extension and then list your mother as a dependent.

2 hours ago, whatproblem said:

Yes you can ,I took one out on my friends wife ,she is a alcoholic and I did it for their children ,my ex is the beneficiary but I will give the money to the ladies children,all I needed was her ID card for a hour

Technically not legal, no recognised 'insurable interest'

An insurance policy on someone else's life is only legal if that person has an 'insurable interest'  such as a wife. If you are not married and she is not totally dependent upon your money then she would have great difficulty in getting any money if you were deceased. It is one of the twelve basic principles of insurance known internationally which Thailand has agreed to observe.

2 hours ago, scorecard said:

Actually a very long section of the track mid Thailand to CM was totally relaid with all new materials about 18 months ago.

Maybe but still narrow gauge and the tracks I saw leading out of Chiang Mai don't give much confidence in the ability to go 'faster'

 A salary of 10,000 Baht is high for a first time live in maid, maybe it should have thrown up some concerns earlier

Many of the old 'Thai' names were created, I think by Rama 5, to allow those with Chinese names to be better assimilated into Thai society.

2 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

So the BKK Post today is quoting the NBTC chief as saying their plan is only aimed at tourists --  not expats legally living in country.

 

The article also quotes him as saying it's possible for the telco's to alter their SIMs so that location services cannot be turned off -- though that reference didn't specify whether he meant GPS or SIM tower triangulation.

 

 

SIM card triangulation, GPS can be turned off on most phones.

8 minutes ago, bkkcanuck8 said:

 

Actually, location can be much more accurate than that - even more if they have all telco's towers to triangulate.  If your phone can calculate your position fairly accurately using cell towers only, and/or cell phones and wifi... they can calculate your position in the same manner through signal strength at several towers to triangulate.  The GPS in the phone often is used for location services - but only in areas where it has clear view of several (i.e. 3 satellites) and that is not always the case.  People assume that they are relying on GPS when often it is not.

Agree, but you can turn of the GPS locator on most phones anyway.

They really do not know what they are talking about, powers that be that is. Just having a SIM number will not help, OK you can see if the phone is turned on but not exact location, could be anywhere in many hundred square kilometers. To track you also need the IMEI number of the phone. The location of this will vary from phone to phone, but the IMEI/MEID number is usually printed on a sticker that is affixed to the phone underneath the battery. If the phone has an IMEI number but you are on a network that uses MEID numbers, ignore the last digit (IMEI is 15 digits, MEID is 14 digits). Without this it is almost impossible to track a location. IMEI stands for   'International Mobile Equipment Identity' number.

Whats new here?, they have said this so many times in the past and nothing ever happens.

The reason they use heat detectors is because smoke detector types are limited due to the government refusing to let certain types, which work better, into the country. Nothing new there, and sprinklers are limited due to height of buildings.The difference in time to actuate of heat against smoke detectors would have made no difference in this situation.

Mobile phones do not cause fires at petrol stations period. It is static on the cars.

Looks like the old - Land of Scammers - has now been overtaken with - Land of Skimmers !!

Just saying ....

Because guys like him my EU-bank has Thailand (and Singapore as well) on the black list. This means i can only get 10.000 baht for ever atm-transaction where i pay the 220 + 100 baht for every single transaction.

Many tourists refuse to use the atm's now and walk around with cash which is a risk for being robbed and give Thailand a bad name.

You must use a strange bank because I can get 20,000 per transaction with no problems.

After five years do they really think any 'money' will be found, it is long gone and away.

On june 24th it will not matter what those clowns in Europe say.

Britain will be out of the EU.

Don't think so and certainly hope not.

Funny looking water monitor, looks more like a baby crocodile

Heard it all before, all hot air, nothing will improve.

Money would be better spent in controlling Soi dogs at least they are real.

The sad thing is that they, Thais, actually believe it. Rolled ten times, don't think so maybe once.

A good example of a bar made notorious by regular raids with the attendant press and social media coverage and frequently critical reviews, not least on TV. It is now attracting the basest forms of life and making a fortune in the process! Thank goodness these people have been drawn away from other decent bars where we can drink with less unwanted unpleasant distraction.

It does not have regular raids, only one this year and then they were found to be free of drugs. Guess you are just bias, no one is forcing you to go and it keeps the tourists happy so what?

The regulations might be there but no one follows them, another pointless exercise.

You have British passport, that is one ID and driving licence, why a problem?

When is 'enough' enough, in parts of Chiang Mai we are already being rationed to eight hours out of every 24.

From experience the inaccessibility is the problem. I had a Cobra under mine and no way to get to it for removal, trouble was our small dogs could get under so we had to wire net the whole perimeter to stop them.