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Ubonjoe is correct.

However, be aware your original tourist vis is a  single entry  tourist visa and leaving  Thailand  will void that visa if you leave even with a 30 day extension.

If you are planning to travel to Laos you will also need a Lao visa, which can be obtained on arrival in Laos.

Also if you want to keep your single entry Tourist visa valid even with a 30 day extension you should buy a exit re-entry permit for 1000 Baht to allow you to re-enter Thailand from Laos to keep your single entry Tourist visa extension valid on your return from Laos.

I am not the expert, but  believe that as an Aussie national you can also get a visa exempt 30 day entry on your return from Laos as an alternative to a Thai re-entry permit.

But as I said I am not an expert as I said before.

Yes but the U.S. has over 1000 of them.

And THAAD is deployed in South Korea specifically to deter against North Korean launches.

Every Thai knows who is effectively in charge and who is supposed to bow to their superiors.

If you don't you haven't lived in Thailand long enough.

In other countries, failing to signal a turn and being hit from the rear is usually a indicator of being at fault.

But this is Thailand.

Dos are not dangerous.

It is their masters that let them become dangerous.

Dogs can be gentle and true companions if treated  properly.

But if locked up and deprived of an outlet for their natural  frustrations they can become "bad" and are  called  dangerous.

Most often it is simply a result of years of bad treatment by their ignorant owners.

This story just illustrates that sad fact.

my brother, as a small boy, as bitten by a dog.

She was a female who had just had a few babies.

My bother reached into her pen to pick up one of her babies, and she snapped at him.

It was only a natural defense of her new born puppies who she being stressed from the birth,  was trying to  protect

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Do you know what happens when you blow up a whale with explosives?

A big mess as the flesh scatters over a large area.

Additionally, you destroy any evidence of what caused the whale's death.

Cutting up the whale gives experts a chance to do a forensic autopsy  analyses and perhaps determine if the  whale died  from an illness as well as providing students a rare chance to learn from the whale's body.

Since I am approaching my 71st birthday  in October 2017 I can assure you there are a number of ways to do what you want.

let's just say I retired in 2011  with a monthly  pension and have been living in Thailand since that time.

It is perfectly possible I you plan ahead, know the requirements, and have a little common sense.

If I can do I so can you.

Not true that a Thai can not speak excellent English.

I know a Thai woman who was listening as I made a mistake and accidently deleted some information from my computer.

I swore at my computer when it happened.

She said to me in perfect English , "Don't  cuss at your computer, you're the one who made  the mistake".

She was right, but what surprised me more was that she knew and used the  English word cuss  correctly in a sentence.

Crossing  a land border with an overstay can lead to you being  refused return entrance  to Thailand

and being forced to stay in another country where you do not have a legal visa.

Would you rather be in detention in Laos or Cambodia?

Think about it.

There was recently a post by someone who is or was stuck in Laos, not allowed to return to Thailand, and unable to afford an air ticket out of that country.

I have said it before and I will repeat it here ,it is not an airport, it is a  shopping center mal a l with runways attached to it.

As a 70 year old man going through a r row of shops filled with overpriced goods, many that I neither want or will ever buy in order to arrive or depart Bangkok in a wheelchair I have no real love for Swampy except as an overpriced transit point I pass through as quickly as I can.

I give the "Christians" as much respect as I do to "Thai Buddhists" whatever that means.

They are all "children of God" as are the honest Moslems, the honest Buddhists, and any other religion you may name..

Beyond that I have seen to many "religions" to believe in Just one.

The problem is not with the religions it is with the people who profess to be believers in them.

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Technically, YES it is.

If your computer is located in Thailand that is enough to meet the definition of WORKING on-line from  Thailand, and that requires a work permit.

It does not matter if you directly or indirectly profit or get any income from this activity just having the computer  in Thailand and using it here is enough to meet the legal definition of "working in Thailand"

However, having said that, as with many things the law in Thailand does not deal directly with such a situation.

In fact the law on working on-line from  Thailand is way out of date and does not even consider many on-line activities.

So, in fact until the law is clarified as to what is definitely legal and what is  illegal, you are in a "gray area" legally and therefore the exact answer is unclear,

Personally,  I would advise being very careful, and keeping any such activity "under the radar"  until the law is made clear.

But I am not a lawyer.

5 hours ago, Usernames said:

Apparently, he was a Nigerian immigrant. Another nugget of evidence that immigration laws in the US are crazy. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/who-dr-henry-bello-new-10718565

Male cattle fecal matter. (Bull s**t)

He was asked to resign because of an allegation made against him of sexual harassment.

He killed one person, I believe a female nurse, who had accused him.

Then he committed  suicide by his own rifle.

The other victims were mainly due to the fact he had an automatic weapon (an AR-15 rifle) with  which he sprayed bullets about at random.

In Bangkok, if you look carefully, you can find rundown buildings next to some 5 star tourist hotels, often within a few meters of these "luxury" hotels.  

These cheap hotels are where non-Thai "migrant" workers are housed.

Many of them work as cleaning staff, kitchen staff, and other menial jobs in the nearby 5 star hotels.

Often they make less than the so-called minimum wage.

This is a reality in some of the most expensive  tourist hotels in Bangkok, and probably other "tourist" destinations in Thailand.

Don't be fooled by the 5 star gloss, much of Thai "luxury hotels" are fueled by exploitation of foreign workers as well as poor Thais.

This is the "sharp end" of Western style Capitalism which the foreign tourists never see.

As it says in the Bible, they that hath eyes, let them see, and ears, let them hear.

Two years ago I was handed such a form for "Personal Information".

I was told to take it outside and fill it out as I waited for my queue number to be called.

As it happened I needed to go to the bathroom, and I threw that form into the trash along my way.

I got my extension as usual, and was never asked for that form when my passport and extension was ready.

It was just something the higher  ups in immigration wanted as a survey, it went away by itself in a couple of months.

The most offensive part was that I was supposed to list my Bank accounts in Thailand and provide the account numbers on the form.

As I say it ended up in the trash.

Nice, but where is the proof?

Suspicion are one thing but unless there Is some evidence suspicions are meaningless.

Not that I have any great sympathy for  the Thai police, but again mommy must prove her case,

What she says may well  be true, but talk is cheap, and suspicion I just a word in the dictionary.

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selling their daughters into the sex trade.

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Remember every sale requires both a  seller and a buyer

Can you honestly say that you never bought sex in Thailand

I can't.

Not only in Thailand but worldwide ticks and bedbugs  are a worldwide problem.

it has been this way for thousands of years since or ancestors started sharing their caves with animals and there ticks.

When I lived in that Mo ban family 0ur house had 5 dogs.

Every 3 month my Thai girlfriend  would load all 5 dogs and 2 cats into the car and take them to the vet where they were given a bath to kill fleas and ticks.

Cost me about 350 Baht for the whole crew.

My girlfriend was a Buddhist who was told by a monk that allowing animals to suffer was a 

bad practice and a karma destroying act.

She also had all our animals neutered so as they would not have unwanted babies.

By pure chance, I was born in an area where Lyme  disease  is prevalent.

I had a friend named George who contacted Lyme disease while hunting in the local woods, and spent several years of  feeling  continuously tired and exhausted.

He was finally diagnosed with a case of Lyme disease from a Tick infected  bite.

At that time the doctors did not know much about Lyme disease , and they thought it was a fake disease.

He was one of the first Lyme disease  suffers.

He is now recovered.

Pure nonsense.

Hill tribe blood could be used for "lowlanders" if  meets the requirements.

It would of course have to tested as would any blood to show it is disease free.

The same requirements would be true of English blood. or any other westerners blood.

That is why you have to check the donors carefully wherever they come from.

In Malaria areas you have to be especially careful not to  use blood f from  Malaria suffers unless it was found to be free of malaria.

Yes  but what is acceptable as "food" differs in different counties.

You need to stop thinking like a "westerner" if you are going to live in a foreign country

In Vietnam dog meat has been consumed for years

When I lived in what was then called Saigon, I had a dog, a stray I took care of and fed.

I learned later that someone had taken my dog and killed him for food.

A well known metrological phenomenon  caused as you correctly said by ice crystals in the high altitude atmosphere with the light from the sun or sometimes the full moon refracted by entering the ice crystals at just the right angle to produce a "ring around the Sun or Moon".

More commonly seen at higher latitudes, but certainly possible This far south at Bangkok's latitude if the ice crystals just happen to be aligned correctly with the sun or moon.

There is a song by a group whose name I don't remember now on You Tube video right now with the title, "There's a Ring  Around the Moon" if you are interested.

There is a Japanese chain of sushi restaurants in Bangkok.

I have been to one of them before, but I've forgotten the name.

I know there is one of this chain in Central Department store.

I guess I am having a "senor moment " as I can not recall the name of the restaurant.

I will recognize the name as soon as I see it.

Anyone here, can you help me remember the name?

I have no use for Donald the fool.

I spent 5 years in Vietnam in the U.S. Army from 1966 to 1971, and the draft dodger Trump went to a Military school as a honor student at that time, but never even served one day in the U.S. military.

That fact tells me all I need to know about Donald the  fraudster  Trump.

Yes it is possible at CW.

In fact I just did it there last week.

The fee is still 1900 Baht.

Copy passport I.D. page downstairs and arrival  stamp downstairs in copy shop.

Photos (packet of 5 photos is 100 Baht) 

Fill out form upstairs, sign it, and get queue ticket.

Wait until called and pay fee of 1900 Baht.

When called again collect passport with 30 day extension

I am extended until 27 July 2017.