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6 hours ago, HeijoshinCool said:.
Never a problem renting a scooter if you are a tourist. Just give a copy of your passport (not the passport itself). You could also get a 90 day intl' license at AAA for cheap.
If you are on a long-stay visa, technically you are required to have a Thai motorcycle license......
But lots don't, including me, which does tend to irritate and baffle the virtue signalers.
You only can get a IDP, if you have a valid driver license from your home country.
Driving without license - no matter in which country - means not only fines when checked (and they like to check in tourist places in Thailand) and most of all means driving without insurance. If you have an accident while driving without license, NO insurance will pay a cent - so better have some millions of cash ready to pay for the hospital and for repatriation.
Driving a car or motorbike without valid license and brag about it? Stupid is as stupid does.
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From quarantine to prison... job well done, boys and girls... stupid is as stupid does
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The "normal" 40K/400K Thai-insurance is ONLY needed for the 1-year Non-Imm O-A Visa. The 90d Non-Imm O Visa does NOT require a "normal" health insurance.
No, the 40K/400K (Baht) insurance does NOT meet the requirements for Covid-19. The Covid-19 health insurance must meet 100K USD and you need a letter from the insurance that explicitly states this coverage for Covid-related issues. The Covid insurance can be from any company, also international, as long as you have the supporting document for the 100K coverage.
As the 40K/400K insurance is for the 1y O-A Visa, of course no insurance company will issue it for 90 days, since you need the insurance for the full year of your Visa (and renewed annually thereafter). Only Covid-related insurances are issued in line with the duration of your stay. So if you come with a 90d O-Visa, you would need an insurance covering these 90 days. After that, when you get your annual extension, nobody will require you to have an insurance.
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Because the credit cards provide security and a legal framework that neither this Strike API nor bitcoin provides.
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Never had to deal with this myself, but since it is a pretty common problem in humanity, I would guess any doctor i.e. in Memorial hospital would be qualified to deal with it. If you want to spend more, go to Bangkok hospital Pattaya
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21 hours ago, Doctor Tom said:
flying ability would be a bigger one.
Yep, but you have to see the positive side... this is THE chance of Thailand to not only keep the first place in road accidents and deaths worldwide, but gain another first place in the number of annual air accident deaths worldwide...
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Yeah, now I am so 1'000% sure of your golden heart wanting nothing but to enlighten us...
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I bought a bed on Monday and checked various stores. Almost every shop has few king beds outside with large discounts, I.e Home Pro, Index, Baan Beyond.
That said... main cost is the mattress, personally I would never save on that, it will haunt you over years. Saving 10'000 Baht on the mattress is 3 Baht per day over 10 years... my good sleep is worth more.
Index has many good mattresses with up to 50% on the first flfloor
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4 minutes ago, mattk1 said:
Swiss1960, you say the flaws are obvious but really they aren't ????
Then in your second paragraph you say "At that time, your kids would be on their own, need their own visas etc". Well according to immigration, that's the status they are now LOL.. They have to have a visa NOW, even as Thai kids with renewed THAI passports. Can't you see how stupid that is?
Then you mention my kids not needing to work, how do you know anything about their situation? For all you know, at age 18 they could be inheriting millions ????
Anyway thanks for your input buddy ????
If you can't see the flaws, then for your kids, I hope that they earned their mental capabilities from their mother...
Next flaw: Even though they need a Visa / extension, they are not "on their own", their Visa is depending on yours...Dream on about your kids future, up to you
But you don't want to hear, you can't comprehend intelligent and valid arguments (from all the people who tried to give you input) and like to be such a smug boy and always right, so you have earned a slot on my ignore list, my boy
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20 stores to buy the same item from with slightly different prices, but only 1 supplier in the background... many shops i.e. in Lazada are just sales mailboxes with no real shop. Once you order from them, they order from their supplier and when the item arrives at their mailbox, they then repack and send to you, hence the delay.
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Well, I wish her good luck, and it is a bold move for a country like Thailand to put a woman at the helm, so congratulations to the Thai football association for their courage.
However... with no or only few capable players, how can anybody expect her to be more successful than her predecessors?
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6 hours ago, mattk1 said:
They would be in Thailand classed as foreigners just like us. That's the whole idea buddy.
They won't need to work
The flaws in your thinking are obvious...
Your kids are now 9 and 7 according to your post... but you are discussing a situation in between 10 and 20 years in the future, when your kids will be in the age where conscription can happen (normally 21, but anytime between 18 and 29, if i.e. they were out of country when they were 21). At that time, your kids would be on their own, need their own visas etc.
And in your previous post, you write that you don't even have the money for a UK quarantine... now you want to make us believe, that you kids, once they reach conscription age, still don't need to work? Pretty unbelievable, right?
You better start thinking this situation over again and not take decisions that in 10 years from now are fully the responsibility of your kids. You don`t even know where they will want to live by then...
And btw I am not your buddy.
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a) to many cables
b) no landing spaces
c) taxi mafia wouldn't like them
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OP: you are mixing defamation and consumer protection
1) yes, the Thai defamation / computer crime acts make it a CRIME to speak the truth, if somebody might lose face / reputation because of that. This law protects the government and all other rich and powerful people and nobody else. It's ridiculous and should be scrapped but we know this will never happen.
2) Consumer protection law exists and is actually quite useful for normal people. If you are REALLY cheated (I.e. not getting what you ordered, warranty not honoured etc), you report it through police / consumer protection office and you WILL be able to win, but it is not a fast process.
I personally had a case against a motorbike company, and after the consumer protection office in Pattaya city hall talked with them, I got money back.
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8 hours ago, ArcticFox said:Just do their obligation to their country. As a vet, I find you people who prefer to dump their country's defense onto 'someone else' to be morally bankrupt. You want the benefits without paying the costs.
As a vet of another country I partially agree with you. HOWEVER given what you can read about the treatment of soldiers in the Thai army, I would also do everything possible to get my son out of this "club"
@mattk1: Your wife's idea is flawed, since I assume that the sons would NOT live in Thailand as British citizens, but as Thai - just in order to go to school, work, not applying annually for extensions etc. I ALSO assume that they would be in a blue book somewhere, therefore officially registered as Thai citizens in Thailand, therefore fully within the system.
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Personally I would go for Astra Zeneca, which is an official and tested way (official as in world-wide, not just a Thai government idea), and then later look for Pfizer / Moderna as a booster. Two shots of Astra will also give you a vaccination certificate that as of now is accepted in many countries, if you need to travel. Mix-and-match vaccinations are - as far as I know - still very much a grey area whether they will be accepted or not.
Disclaimer: I am not a medically educated person, my opinion is based on certificates / travel needs
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Cosplay or real police officers?
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8 hours ago, Carrbhoy said:
I think Mor Chana app is specific to the 'sandbox' schemes - I'm doing ASQ in Bangkok so, as far as I'm aware, the correct App for me is the ThailandPlus. Hopefully it will be fixed by then! Thanks for replying.
The print out of the COE is your alternative solution, if the Thailand Plus app does not work. However, when I arrived in Thailand (end of July), nobody even asked about the app, they wanted to see was papers, papers, paper sand more papers...
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5 hours ago, Peterw42 said:
Depends, are you buying the house from the company or changing who owns the company.
Changing the company directors doesn't involve the land office so no transfer fees and taxes.
A straight house purchase from a company has the usual 2-3% transfer and taxes, usually shared between buyer and seller, and a 3% business tax paid by the seller
Correct. In the second case however, the seller will then sit on an empty shelf company, for which he still has to pay annual taxes, or dissolve it (not cheap) or sell it to somebody else. The seller might not want to sit on these costs while having to share the land office taxes with the buyer (well... I would not want to do that), so this scenario might bring some discussion with it.
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36 minutes ago, new2here said:
i was at BangSue on Tuesday, and i asked this question…. “how can i import vaccine data from jab received abroad into the MP system?”
The answer i got was that it is not possible to import data into MP from external sources. The MP platform only aggregates jab data from domestic sources like Central vaccination center, Thai Ruamjai and other similar programs.
My guess - a guess only - is that you won’t get able to do so.. only because to do means that the RTG would then effectively assuming some liability for the legitimacy of data, that they can’t really verify independently. Now, perhaps if more countries went to an all “E-certificate” system, then it might be able to have one common platform- but as at now, you can’t
The same issue is of course true vice versa... if somebody vaccinated in Thailand wants to import the data into an app from their home country for travel - not possible.
All you can do is use your home country app (or a paper copy of your certificate) and hope that the person checking it is intelligent enough to check (and read) what they see
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Every other vaccine would have been available in equal amounts and even earlier, if the Thai government would not have been sitting on their collective a$$es for over one year and hoping - like Donald Trump - that the summer / Songkran / you name it will magically make the virus go away...
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It means exactly what it says... YOU keep the copy and send the original back with your next request. The IO noticed that you did differently and instead of declining your 90d report for the "missing" original, he was very nice with you and informed you about your mistakes.
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It is an absolute disaster/craziness/you name it to read how Thai health officials create new ideas every day and endanger the health and lives of their citizens. Just this week
- boosters under the skin instead of in the muscles to save vaccines...- human trial with 100'000 STUDENTS in BKK, using the Chinese stuff instead of a real vaccine (Pfizer was promised for all students just days before)
- only one mRNA shot for students due to some fear of myocarditis which was never expressed anywhere in the world, leaving the students at risk
- mixture of vaccines that NOBODY ELSE in the world is trying to do/ accepting
- opening the country, when they are definitely not ready for it. The risk for the country is of course coming from within and NOT from the tourists, as those would mostly come fully vaccinated.
To me, it looks like everybody wearing a white coat or a khaki uniform is now qualified to utter his opinion as "fact" in order to get his 5 minutes of fame (and later shame), but not a single one of these <deleted myself> ever listens to what the WORLD as a whole has already experienced.
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Majority of parents in Pattaya want their children to receive Covid -19 vaccine, says recent Pattaya City poll
in Pattaya News
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You probably live in Soi 6 and never go further than Soi 6/1...