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There's a lot of information in English on the Social Security website:

www.sso.go.th

Social Security Knowledge
- Benefits
- Registration of new place of business
- How to register the insured
- FAQ

I didn't have any luck with trying to convert the file, so what I ended up doing was using Excel's Find & Replace:

Find: ก Replace: ก
FInd: ข Replace: ข
Find: ฃ Replace: ฃ

etc

This took a little while, but did the trick.

I have a large (20,000 entries) database in .sql format that I want to edit. I imported it into Excel and the English content displays correctly, but the Thai looks like this:

เอกสารนี้สิ้นสุด

Can excel convert this to display the Thai characters?

Should I have specified the encoding during the import process? What is the name of this encoding?

I'm Australian and live in Thailand. My wife is Thai and our kids were born here and have Australian passports already. I'm planning our first holiday as a family to Australia and am wondering whether we all will be covered by Medicare.

My parents in Australia have told me that I am still listed on their Medicare card, so I guess I am still in the system even though I haven't paid taxes in Australia for 10 years. I am having this confirmed though. If I am still in Medicare, does that mean my kids will automatically be covered? What about my wife? Otherwise I will buy travel insurance.

I assume that's a photo of the construction worker. They wouldn't print pictures of sexual assault victims in the media, yes.

since when has coconuts been elevated to media status?

Actually even worse their source is here : http://m.sanook.com/m/news_detail/latest/1491696/

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Here's the story in Thai Rath. Looks like 40 stitches in that picture: http://m.thairath.co.th/content/newspaper/406124

According to the KPN website (http://kpnaward.mthai.com/kpn9) the picture in OP is from a different person i.e. Arada "Ploy" Kraiphiraphan, NOT Kannapat “Preme” Worabawormpat. Unless she changed her name, which is not uncommon in Thailand.

In other coutries driving toyota vios and yaris are luxuries but in Thailand it's using for taxis just like UK benz for taxis purpose what to lowering standard for the models and owners.

I thought taxis in Bangkok were Carollas, not Vioses.

In the end I decided to get a work permit.

How much does first class insurance for your BMW cost? For my wife's 2007 Honda City it is 12,500 baht with coverage for two drivers only. Current insurer is Union Prospers. She claims every single scratch no matter who's fault it was and when it comes time to renew, gets three quotes from big name insurers and goes with the cheapest.

Does she have to make a police report for all those scratches to be able to claim if nobody else involved...?

No, does not have to make police reports. Gets it done just before renewal. The insurance staff call it "mai mee phae" (ไม่มีแผล) i.e. restore to "no wounds" condition.

How much does first class insurance for your BMW cost? For my wife's 2007 Honda City it is 12,500 baht with coverage for two drivers only. Current insurer is Union Prospers. She claims every single scratch no matter who's fault it was and when it comes time to renew, gets three quotes from big name insurers and goes with the cheapest.

I asked the girls at the front desk in Central Festival and they said officially only 5 types of cars are allowed to park and their makes/models are printed on the pillars in the supercar area:

Ferrari

Lamborghini

Maserati

Nissan GT-R

Porsche

How about supercar parking specifically at Central malls?

I know for their VIP parking you have to spend money in the mall e.g. 60,000 baht gives you 1 months vip parking. There are many conditions such as what shops and what type of goods and services count.

Anyone ever used the supercar parking at Central malls?

I thought the supercar parking in malls was supposed to be for cars with low clearance that can't make it up the ramps. But I see standard cars like BMW sedans, Camry and Prius parked in these areas. Do you have to apply for some kind of sticker to park there or do you just drive up and convince the guard that your car is a "supercar"?

I need to convert english words into thai for registering company names etc. Does anyone know of any software, app or website that can do this?

e.g.

input: international

output: อินเตอร์เนชั่นแนล

Called the land office and was told that public canals are under the jurisdiction of the thesaban. Will contact our local thesaban in person.

Meanwhile, an engineer friend told me that the correct thing to do is to dig out the public canal and line it with concrete. Then you can lay concrete slabs over the top to hide it and allow vehicles to pass over it. He also said that some land owners lay concrete sewer pipes in the public canals and then backfill with soil and build over the top. This is not officially allowed, so they have to pay off the thesaban to do this.

your la-muang may be under the tesabahn but some small and large waterways are under a national authority whose name escapes me.

You need to check, though if it's "dead" then if the tesabahn says it's theirs I'd go with that.

Your friend is kinda right about the culvert, though I would be concerned about just doing it myself, depending on what it's importance is ie under the house?

I needed an entrance drive across, well quite a long way along, a la-muang, and asked the tesabahn.

They kindly had a guy make up a plan at no charge, then costed it.

It was a tesabahn civil engineer who made the plan, but a private company (possibly a "friend" of the tesabahn, who knows) which gave the "bid" I believe. It may or may not have become problematical if I had said "I'll do your plan myself or get outside prices"? I'd say haggle it down to a happy medium, pay them and worth this bit of extra expense to avoid any future problems once and for all.

Thanks for sharing how you delt with your situation. Sounds like the best way to satisfy both parties.

Some additional information. Our accounting company has said that my wife's salary is already at the maximum allowed by the revenue dept and therefore should not be increase this year. I think that is why they added a salary for me. Has anyone ever heard of the revenue dept putting ceilings on owner salaries? Does it depend on company sales levels?

Called the land office and was told that public canals are under the jurisdiction of the thesaban. Will contact our local thesaban in person.

Meanwhile, an engineer friend told me that the correct thing to do is to dig out the public canal and line it with concrete. Then you can lay concrete slabs over the top to hide it and allow vehicles to pass over it. He also said that some land owners lay concrete sewer pipes in the public canals and then backfill with soil and build over the top. This is not officially allowed, so they have to pay off the thesaban to do this.

I am a foreigner and own a limited company with my Thai wife. I don't work for the company and I extend my visa based on marriage. We are registered for VAT, declare all our income and try to do everything by the book.

Recently my wife mentioned that in our accounts, I am being paid a salary for tax advantages. Is this allowed? I thought a foreign owner without a work permit could only be paid from company profits. I am surprised our accountant has set it up this way without mentioning a work permit. Should I contact the accounting firm and cancel my salary?

How is this situation policed? Does the revenue dept check whether foreigners receiving salaries have work permits? Does the labor office communicate with the revenue dept?

I am no expert, nor do I claim to know anything about this issue. However here is my observation in based on pattaya.

There is a hotel and other property owners who have done illegal extensions that block a certain canal in south pattaya. This causes flooding but other than a few newspaper reports everytime it floods, the canal still has not been cleared as far as I know.

Near where I live, there are 2 public access lanes to nearby beaches that were blocked off a few years ago. The land on either side and the lane itself have since been sold and developed. Voila, public asset had become private property. Nobody even batted an eyelid, not even the residents nearby who now need to walk further away to access the beach.

Some beaches are now being claimed as private beaches, security makes it clear you are not welcome although I am not sure what happens if one refuses to budge.

I have been told that on the beach side of walking street, all the shops there are illegal construction, yet they are still there.

So your question may appear to be logical but the answer I think may be flexible.

Thanks for those observations.

I'm going to call our local land office and see what they say about the this kind of land. Will post the response.

Does anyone know whether you can officially buy this kind of land from the government if it is next to or protruding into your land? Or once government land, always government land?

I've seen on many titled deeds, especially in current or former rice growing areas, land marked as "lam meuang" or "meuang satharana prayot". On one piece of land in an urban area, an approximately 3 metre wide section of canal land extends into the midle of a square piece of land, almost cutting it in half. The canal does not exist anymore and no evidence of it can be seen on the site, but it is there on the title deed.

If someone bought this property, what could they do on this section of government land? Can they enclose it with a fence that goes around the freehold property? Can they build a house, a shed, a road over it? If not, what about plant trees, plant a garden, raise animals on it? Or does it have to be left completely untouched?

If you want to supply national supermarkets or superstores in Thailand and overseas, you should apply for GTIN-13 numbers to be incorporated into EAN-13 barcodes. The organization to contact about this is www.gs1thailand.org. Membership fee is 7,000 baht and annual fee is 8,000 baht for small businesses. This gets you 10,000 barcodes which you can assign to your products as you please. GS1 is a non-government organization connected to the international GS1 network. Their website is only in Thai, so if you need general information in other languages, visit the GS1 website of another country.

Does anyone know of any Thai businesses or government office which provide the service of EAN-13 registration for use on product barcodes and labels?