Peabody

Thai only?

I have had conflicting answers to this question so thought I would ask

Do teachers working in a tier 1 or tier 2 international school such as Harrow ( Tier 1 ) or St.Stephen's (Tier 2 ) require a teaching license from the teachers council of Thailand?

very surprised to see harrow and shrewsbury being described as mid-tier schools but I can understand the points about high numbers of Thai students, interesting reading.

See Fletchsmile's post above yours. He explains it very well.

What was not mentioned, but is very real, is the GENERAL (not 100%) tendency of Thai students to not give a hoot about actually learning. Blatant plagiarism and other forms of academic dishonesty are rampant. The more Thai students in a class/school, the lower the overall academic achievement.

Antique replicas?

The enter before date is the expiration date of the visa. If there was no requirement to do the 2nd entry by a certain date it would be open ended meaning for infinity.

Ah yes...the infinity visa. That's what we want!!

Oh well...live and learn.

Thanks for a quick, if disappointing, answer, LB. I'd heard that, but it didn't seem right. Too bad!

Thanks to you too, U Joe. I am trying to calculate the cost of the various options now.

Sorry to ask, but as much info as I've gathered, I am more confused than ever.

A Filipina friend of mine got a 60 day double-entry tourist visa in Vientienne for 2000 THB on 17 February 2015. She re-entered Thailand on the same day, 17 February and is stamped in until 17 April. The tourist visa affixed to her passport is stamped "Enter before 15 May 2015"

What I want to do is to have her apply for a 30 day extension shortly before 17 April (taking account of Songkran holidays, of course). She would then return to Manila about 15 May. She already has a return ticket to Thailand on 15 June and would then use her second entry when she returns.

My main question is can she do this or do BOTH entries have to happen before 15 May?

Also: is there an additional fee for the second entry? I know that the extension is 1900 THB.

Thanks in advance .

QUOTE: "However they later discovered that the correct answers to the questions did not match the question asked."

The ... hmmm ... "the correct answers to the questions ..." Yep got that.

"... did not match the question asked." Nope, you've lost me.

Is there one question or two? Is there one moral or two? Are there any morals at all, or are you just kidding?

This means that the actual questions did not match the correct answers provided before the test.

They reckon 7% of the population can have genetic disorders or carry bad genes and pass on? Sounds a tadge on the high side? If there are 60,000 thelassemia sufferers in Thailand that's less than 0.1% of the population, I wonder what disorders the other 6.9% are supposed to have?

From what I remember, I think this is about right. Plus, they mention 600 other genetic defects, so that certainly adds to the non-thalassemia group.

I think the key here is that Thailand neither found these genetic defects nor did they develop the screening methods. Their so-called "breakthrough" is in implementing these protocols, some of which have been in use in the west for decades

Yup, I understand this "break through" is not really a break through, a break through in implementation is good but I still don't buy into the 7% thing. Crikey that means for every 100 people I know 7 have defective genes and for every 1000 people I've trained, 70 have genetic disorders too? As far as I know I don't think I know one person with defective genes, unless migraine counts? Is cancer due to defective genes?

Alwyn- many/most of these defective genes are recessive alleles and carried in a single copy (heterozygous) state, with the dominant allele compensating for the defective allele. It is only when the 2 defective, recessive alleles are combined that the condition is expressed. Even then, it is often an effect that is not visible externally.

And most cancers are due to defective genes or the mechanisms that regulate genes, especially those that (the control mechanisms are genetic also).monitor and regulate control points in cell division or the failsafe auto-destruct mechanisms (apoptosis).

They reckon 7% of the population can have genetic disorders or carry bad genes and pass on? Sounds a tadge on the high side? If there are 60,000 thelassemia sufferers in Thailand that's less than 0.1% of the population, I wonder what disorders the other 6.9% are supposed to have?

From what I remember, I think this is about right. Plus, they mention 600 other genetic defects, so that certainly adds to the non-thalassemia group.

I think the key here is that Thailand neither found these genetic defects nor did they develop the screening methods. Their so-called "breakthrough" is in implementing these protocols, some of which have been in use in the west for decades

Thanks SOOO much for your prompt. informative replies, UbonJoe and DigitalChromaKey

I've searched for information about L-A visas, but could not find an answer to my question. You guys seem to have some knowledge, so...

My Thai GF and I are traveling to Myanmar in about 3 weeks for a one week holiday. We are planning to take our Burmese friend, a 21 year old woman who works in Bangkok as a domestic helper, mauve passport valid until 2018, L-A Visa stamped in the passport. Her visa expires in October this year.

The visa is marked neither single entry nor multiple entry. My question is, will she be able to purchase a re-entry stamp on exiting Swampy and return to Thailand under her existing visa? She originally entered by land at Mae Sot, paying a 300 THB gratuity to the kind official who helped her.

Thanks in advance for any help. I know we should be able to go to Chaeng Wattana for info direct from the horse's mouth, but maybe someone knows something.

"Work History for Visa Applicaticant" 555!

The Burmese will start, the Laos will follow, then the Cambodians. In the mean time Thailand will still be debating how to correctly fill in an arrival card and continue stapling them in the passport causing damage to new chip passport most counties issue.

Cambodia already has a good online visa website.

Yesterday, at Swampy, my arrival card was handed back to me and was NOT stapled into my passport. First time

Another hard-hitting piece of Thai investigative journalism, implementing research into actual statistics and rigorous analysis of data, leading to the headline.

Or else just again parroting some TAT shill spouting their usual nonsense, backed up by NOTHING.

Not sure which.

Right now, virtually every single parking space on both Soi Rangnaam and on Rajavithii soi 3 are taken up by vans. Moving these parked vans to Makhasan and/or Phayatai would make a huge difference in the traffic flow in this area and provide more access to the restaurants, shops and residences in the area.

Both were fun loving , polite, respectful, kids. They will be missed by many.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/724750-thai-cabinet-divides-responsibilities-among-three-remaining-deputy-prime-ministers/?utm_source=newsletter-20140509-0759&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news

Phongthep said he was also in charge of the Centre for Administration of Peace and Order (CAPO) in place of former labour minister Chalerm Yoobamrung, who also oversaw the centre.

Not only is Chalerm deliberately ignoring the CC verdict but his own party too. Still what can one expect from someone who has a record of perverting the course of justice. A shining example of Thaksin's style of 'democracy'.

Did Phongthep miss the meeting, then? Should he not be ordering Chalerm out of the room?

Wasn't Thailand's rice bought by the government at about $450/ton?

$100 loss per ton x 800,000 tons = $80,000,000 USD loss or near to 2.5 billion THB

Or is this new rice? Or is my math wrong?

Wasn't it a MILLION tons just YESTERDAY?

Yesterday:

"G2G

Govt eyes income from 1m-tonne G2G China rice sale

Petchanet Pratruangkrai

The Nation

BANGKOK: -- The caretaker government has high hopes of bringing in some funding from the sale of 1 million tonnes of rice from the state stockpile via a government-to-government deal to pay what it owes farmers under the pledging programme.

The rice sale would help speed up payments to farmers, as only one bidder showed up yesterday when the Finance Ministry opened the bidding for its Bt20 billion promissory notes (PN).

An industry source said the Chinese government could sign an agreement for the deal in the next few weeks depending on the Thai government's readiness.

The source said the G2G deal must be done with China's state-owned enterprise COFCO as the Thai government's counterpart. However, the deal should not be finalised in short.

"Still, the government is yet to seek the Election Commission’s approval for the deal, as this is considered an obligation of the new government," said Surasak Riangkrul, director general of Department of Foreign Trade.

Meanwhile, the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) on Thursday agreed to set up "Farmer Assistance Funds" for temporary relief to the unpaid farmers. There will be three funds: one from donations, one interest-free, and a third that is expected to provide a return on investment, for which the BAAC will pay interest of 0.63 per cent per annum.

BAAC president Luck Wajananawat said the bank projected receiving about Bt20 billion in donations and investments from those wanting to help the unpaid farmers.

The funds will be open for donations and investment from March 10 to June 30, while payments should be able to reach farmers from March 10 until the end of the year. The BAAC will manage the funds transparently and should get some return for investors from rice sales or loans by the end of the year, Luck said.

Minimum investment to each fund (except donations, for which there is no minimum) is set at Bt1,000.

The BAAC will allocate initial investment capital worth Bt100 million from its own resources, from which it expects to earn no interest. The bank will also allocate Bt10 million from its central budget to advertise the project.

A group of farmers yesterday gathered in front of the United Nations building on Rajdamnoen Avenue, while waiting to submit a petition to HM the King asking for the royal assistance.

The payment could be further delayed as the Public Debt Management Office yesterday had a difficulty in finding the buyers of the eight-month PN.

Several state enterprises were reluctant to join the bidding, fearing that it could violate a constitutional clause that a caretaker government should not embark on recurring debt. It was not disclosed which who was the only bidder for the financial paper."

They announced on the sound truck that the rally at the Chaeng Wattana caused hardship to passenger van operators and local residents.

Theres the clue right there, this will be drivers and others who are fed up with their wages being affected by the protesters getting together, dosnt take a genius to know a lot of drivers and general lower paid jobs are done by red shirt supporters.

This was bound to happen at some point, you mess with normal peoples jobs and ability to earn they wont put up with it for long.

You really believe yourself?

Nope i believe what i know to be true, who do you think does all the menial jobs and just how do you think they will react when they can't pay the bills or support their families ?

Just what do you suppose the red supporters do for their day job ? where do you think these militants work day to day ? their families eat just how ?

Behind every spokesman are the ground troops ( figure of speech ) they all need to work they all need to eat, .

its a cliche of fight club sure but the following is pretty true here.

Remember this. The people you're trying to step on, we're everyone you depend on. We're the people who do your laundry and cook your food and serve your dinner. We make your bed. We guard you while you're asleep. We drive the ambulances. We direct your call. We are cooks and taxi drivers and we know everything about you. We process your insurance claims and credit card charges. We control every part of your life.

We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't. And we're just learning this fact. So don't <deleted> with us.

add in all the other thai menial jobs and you get the picture.

I dont advocate violence but when you take away the basics from the ones that have little, they have nothing to lose and can get very very pi**ed off

You are referring to the current gov's screwing over the rice farmers?

Maybe they can just get their rice back and sell it themselves.

UNCTAD points out Thai Econ remains strong

BANGKOK, 30 Aug 2013 (NNT) - Dr. Supachai Panitchpak, Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), pointed out that the economy of Thailand remains strong while suggesting economic restructuring to improve overall performance.

Dr. Supachai considered the current massive outflow of foreign capital due to the U.S. Quantitative Easing (QE) withdrawal, as not a sign of fragility in the local economy, saying only small segment is being affected by the phenomena.

He said that the QE withdrawal is a good thing as it gives a clear image of the actual situation of the basic economy to Asian nations so they can readjust their production volume and management strategies accordingly in order to attract foreign investment. He cited however a short term effect such as shrinking economic growth.

Dr. Suphachai said that nonetheless Thailand needs to increase its competitive level, suggesting the Government put greater investment on production efficiency to spearhead similar investment in the private sector, in order to achieve a sustainable economic growth. Dr. Supachai clarifies that the practice would not affect the public debt despite its potential to reach more than 60% of the GPD as a multitude of investments would benefit long term employments and revenue.

-- NNT 2013-08-30

Did Supachai say this as a rep of UNCTAD or did he say it as a loyal Thai wearing blinders?