SABloke

Shouldn't that be forum's or forums', depending on whether you refer to AN as the forum or each sub-forum separately. Either way, it's nice to see you leading from the front with the excitement induced typing errors you speak of. Pot, meet Kettle 🤣

Thailand just LOVES laws that are overly-complicated: gambling being case in point. Gambling as a whole has never been illegal in Thailand, since one could gamble on horses and buy lottery tickets (basically gambling). Now they want to legalise gambling for two specific sports. But where is the logic in that - how is someone gambling on football more accepted than someone gambling on golf? Just make it legal across the board and use some of the tax revenue to set up support campaigns/institutes for those that suffer from addiction.

My passport does not have that, so I do tend to take my old passport along when updating things (Don't remember them (DLT) asking for it last time, but then again it was a small provincial DLT sonthey don't deal with many foreigners)

Got it - in hindsight, I should've just let my TDL expire then last year (I renewed early on the visa-exempt) and done the 5 year licence this year) 🤣. Anyway - much appreciated again. Cheers 🫡

Great to hear - appreciate the info. Thanks Dr.Jack! COR was easy enough last time so looks like plain sailing dor the 5 year. Final question then: my 2 year expires next year 2026 - would I be able to renew it for the 5 year this year (around 14 months before expiry)?

Non-O (mentioned in the title 🙂) Do you mind elaborating on the stamping process at arrivals please - Does it say "Non-O" in my passport or do I need to take the email confirmation/proof with me to the DLT?

Last year when I headed back to Thailand my 5 year licence was only renewed for 2 years since I entered on visa-exempt (I had hoped that after doing the initial 2 year then 5 year licence, all subsequent licences would be 5 years 🤔) However, the traffic officer told me to come back next time with a visa and she'd give me 5. So I now learn that one can apply for an E-visa and receive the visa via email. However, I assume that at immigration they check the E-visa validity and then stamp the correct number of days. So how will traffic department verify the visa? Do they just check the email and believe that, or is it the fact that the IO at arrival in BKK gives you a special "Non-O" stamp? Thanks in advance for any info.

Makes it sound like a rare cancer or something. How? Unless the mother was never around which is alluded to by mention of only her husband and father helping her. Look, I feel sorry for the lady's discomfort, but she might have some psychological issue which leads to excessive overeating - there's no "rare mystery" to how a person becomes this large. It's eating...a lot.

That's the one I saw (north of Soi 7) which would've scuppered my plans. Using my phone so misread the the ©2025 as the photo date 🤣

Thanks for all the replies. We'll be staying north of Soi 7 near the Thappraya Rd./Dongtan beach corner so looks like we'll be unaffected.

Hi, I just checked out the streetview for Jomtien and it seems there is (was?) a lot lf construction blocking access to the beach. It's hard to know when the streetview was take (dated 2025). Any local update regarding the state of construction along the beach road greatly appreciated.

Nah, it just means that now there will be 7 people checking your re-entry permit application at Chaengwattana, rather than the current 4 🙃

I honestly can't remember the last time I did a TM6 🤔 3 trips in the past 15 months. I seem to recall asking for one on a plane and the flight attendant said they weren't needed anymore. Am I going crazy? Edit to add: I enter using the Thai queue (not a Thai citizen though), so maybe that's why they don't ask for it?

Ah yes, the modern generation, where the consequences of your own decisions make you a victim.

Maybe they were recalling conversations they had earlier in the day where this weird foreigner was walking around shoving photos in their faces asking them "What do you call them in Thai?" 🤣

This is a dumb comparison - total false equivalency. A better comparison would be the following: would you rather A) put a child in a car X amount of times (like many do every year), or B) let a child crawl under an elephant X amount of times? My kids have been in cars thousands of times, but I wouldn't let them under an elephant once (let alone thousands of times). Why - because the one interaction carries way more short-term inherent danger to my children due to the size and strength of an elephant.

I have just gotten off the phone with a KBank rep - she confirmed that NOTHING will happen to the status of my account (lack of access; mobile banking etc.) if I do not return the form. However, she did say that next time I updated my phone number or passport at a Kbank branch they might ask if I have Thai TIN. I am not a US-Citizen so her answer was based on this.

Hole

Well Pharoah got 26 months (although he did have 10kg's more, if that makes a huge difference? His judge didn't believe his "victim" story: "Judge John Potter told Pharoah during sentencing: "People like you, who take part in importing commercial quantities of cannabis like this, must and no doubt would expect on capture to be sent to prison." Maybe Sohail was lucky and got a soft judge.

Clearly not as important as the 80% of the information in the article that seeks to understand why the poor culprit did what they did. Disgusting article to be fair.

I know what "certified" actually means, thanks. However, I also know what "certified" means in practical terms when dealing with banks in Thailand. However, you go ahead and get a notarised copy of your passport and email it to them by all means. 👍

From my experience "certified" in Thai banking means signed by the account holder.

Kasikorn has gone from being very foreign user friendly to being a pain in the ass. Surprisingly KTB (government) allowed me to update information and do some other services without my bank books out of province (just a few verification phone calls to account branch - as they do with Thai citizens), whereas Kbank cited "government regulations" not letting me do the same. Relating to these docs: what happens if we don't reply by 20 December?

Hope she's smart enough to be his ex now.

80 Million THB per km - seems high for this part of the world 🤔