As of this morning Sky News Channel also seems to have disappeared and been substituted with Euro sports.

So now it appears they have dropped BBC, Fox and sky

I don't know if they're just trying to economise or what but I'm glad it's at least provided free in my apartment

because I wouldn't be happy to pay this outfit a single cent for their service

17 hours ago, waxpro said:

Thanks to all your comments,

I done some searching in this forum, I can say that property market is over saturated,

In Cambodia probably chances are much better if to buy some units and rent them out,

but, another main obstacle, that I dont know anything about the rules there, as I guess any biz deal seems to be surrounded by corruption etc,

Maybe I can suggest to stay away from property market in here, buying products and export probably still the best option to my understand,

 

" In Cambodia probably chances are much better if to buy some units and rent them out,"

.............Maybe your friend needs to do a lot of research before coming to that conclusion

https://aecnewstoday.com/2017/is-the-phnom-penh-property-market-headed-for-a-massive-crash/

" The practical driver's course test is very simple and follows the Youtube videos "

I only did a fraction of what you did because I was able to produce my current drivers license from overseas but what I was surprised at was the high number of Thai's that failed the reaction test.

The Marine Department have announced the ferry service between Sattahip and Koh Chang will be launched next month (September). It will depart from Chuk Samet pier and arrive in Bang Bao pier which I think it fabulous news ! They are now just setting the fares

Because I stay in  Bai Lan which is the next village from Bang Bao this will also mean I can avoid taking the rip off white songthaews and cut out one hour's road  journey from the north to the south of the island.

And whilst I’m excited at this alternative way to travel to Koh Chang now that there are no big buses from Pattaya I will be less excited if they don’t provide a cost-effective way to reach Chuk Samet pier in the first place.Does anyone know what means of public transport there is to Chuk Samet pier?

I will not use a taxi to go there just like I won’t use a taxi to go to Utapao airport because they try to charge what is often the same amount as the air fare.

31 minutes ago, lkv said:

Just to clarify further... i=10 or....

 

What is the value of "i" because i will soon be applying for my fourth this year.

20 hours ago, alocacoc said:

Good to know. Maybe I do another TV visa in Vientiane before I leave Thailand for good. Have 1 metv from homecountry, 2 TV from Vientiane and 2tv from Savannakhet. No via exempt entries and no warning stamps. I will show them rental contract and proof of finance. Shouldn't be a problem to get a new visa I guess.

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alocacoc you may be interested to read a post by murraynz from New Zealand in the following thread because he says an immigration officer told him they have just changed the rules (again) and that they are now only allowing one tourist visa entry per year

1 hour ago, murraynz said:

i have only recently, re-entered thailand {bkk} on a setv  visa...i am nz citizen who last left thailand on 13jan 2017...the imm officer was not going to let me in---saying the rules have now changed. i can only get i setv entry per year....he told me he wasnt interested that i owned condo here and did not want to work here.....i showed him large transfer into my bkk bank account and told him that i was applying shortly for retirement visa.....i heeventually let me go...i hope others dont set themselves up for this problem

" the rules have now changed. i can only get i setv entry per year "

well that is certainly one way of tackling the understaffing and queue problem at Don Mueng airport

how they keep up with all these constant  rules changes is beyond me

but in your case why don't they simply apply for a retirement visa  ?

" Phinit Maneerat had been told to say nothing  "

2 hours ago, retarius said:

Another nail in the coffin of this sick apartheid society.

and all because someone asked who exactly owns the US Federal Reserve Central bank (because  even that question now is considered anti-Semitic)

6 hours ago, JSixpack said:

 

OH NO. They somehow didn't get the memo about the new Rule. I hate to cause such distress, but

Priced out from home market, Chinese swoop in to buy Thai real estate

BANGKOK/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Mainland Chinese are snapping up more properties in Thailand for both personal and investment purposes, after being priced out of the market in big cities at home, developers in the Southeast Asian country said on Wednesday.

 

With its beaches, varied street food and ancient temples, Thailand has become a holiday favourite with Chinese visitors, who are expected to account for close to a third of an estimated record 35 million tourists this year.

 

Thai property developer Sansiri Pcl, which is opening three new offices in China this year to join its Beijing branch, said sales to Chinese buyers had risen steadily over the past three years.

—https://in.reuters.com/article/thailand-china-property-idINKBN1AI0VY

 

'Course we got the answer to that--not right now, but later of course. Black clouds are a-formin'.

 

 

Like Japan?  Not as large a ratio all considered as doomsayers would like to believe, and besides much is gov't debt much more easily managed; in China that balance sheet looks relatively good. The failure in this assumption, another example of the complex fallacy, is, as usual, the certainty that Nothing Can Or Will Be Done. Hence, Apocalypse!!! Or, well,  maybe not . . .

 

 "It can be netted out to a certain degree," Veron said, adding that China has a history of restructuring the debts in its economy.

 

And because there's a political directive to maintain social stability — a key tenant for Chinese leadership — lenders may likely allow for debt restructuring in a way that the system in the West would not. So the "time bomb" might not explode anytime soon.

 

"I'm sanguine that you won't see financial instability of the type of 2007-2008 in the North Atlantic crisis," Veron said. "The instability piece was linked to the fact that we have essentially market-driven financial systems, and that's just not the case in China."

—https://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/09/chinas-debt-worse-than-you-think-but-maybe-not-be-a-problem.html

 

" So the "time bomb" might not explode anytime soon. "

typical type of crap you get from CNBC. How do they know? " And because there's a political directive to maintain social stability  "when the sh** hits the fan in China the only way they will be able to keep social stability is using Tiananmen Square type tactics with tanks and guns. I mean when should the alarm bells ring when the debt is already over 250%- when its 400%, 500% , 1000%?

Is China’s economy turning Japanese?

Quote

But how great is the risk of China turning Japanese? Does China, the world’s second-biggest economy in 2017, run the risk of repeating the fate of what was the world’s second-biggest economy in 1989 — Japanese-style “lost decades?”. If Japan’s fate were to befall its giant neighbour, the consequences would be devastating for the global economy. China provides 40 per cent of its annual growth. China also supplies just over 20 per cent of US imports, the same percentage as Japan in the mid-1980s.

https://www.ft.com/content/a3564812-363c-11e7-99bd-13beb0903fa3

1 hour ago, alocacoc said:

Good to know. Maybe I do another TV visa in Vientiane before I leave Thailand for good. Have 1 metv from homecountry, 2 TV from Vientiane and 2tv from Savannakhet. No via exempt entries and no warning stamps. I will show them rental contract and proof of finance. Shouldn't be a problem to get a new visa I guess.

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so is that one year nine months of continuously living here? So that kind of dismisses the claim by some that you can only stay here six or nine months out of every year on tourist visas.

3 hours ago, JackThompson said:

Vientiane regularly rejects applicants with "This person travels to Thailand frequently..." extra-stamps placed on used tourist-visas.  In the past, as soon as they gave you one of those, it was either "get a new passport" or don't go back there, again.  Vientiane's particular variety of the extra-stamp mentioned showing residence and proof-of-income - but I never saw a report where they allowed showing either of these.  I showed both a few months back, and they didn't care - "with this remark" they can't give a new TR-Visa - so "get a new passport," I was told.  

 

The one recent-change (or maybe has been this way awhile), is they won't issue a TR-Visa even when it was another consulate who added the extra-stamp to a TR-Visa that was not from a Laos consulate.  In the past, an extra-stamp from one consulate would not necessarily block you at another.  I got a TR-Visa at Savanahket to spite the extra-stamp from Phnom Penh without incident - though showing money and proof of where I was staying is always required to apply at Savanakhet.

is there any significance  that elviajero in his post on page 1 of this thread seem to think that the OP would have received this stamp from the immigration authorities upon his exit from Thailand?

because I have always had the impression that the embassies and consulates issued these stamps just based on seeing lots of visa stickers in someone's passport.

But surely immigration wouldn't be interested in how many visa stickers you have - and particularly when someone is exiting the country?

so I'm wondering if they based their decision to issue this stamp from data they had in front of them on their computer screens.

it would seem to me that what happened to the original poster can't really be called a trend yet because surely there would have been other reports of similar incidents? As with the other extraordinary events that have happened recently such as the two people being detained there don't seem to be any follow-up cases.

this suggests that these are all isolated incidents and they may have happened because of extraneous circumstances that weren't mentioned in the description of events.?

7 minutes ago, anto said:

I think you still have to go to their office at Arcade and pick up the ticket itself .I have done it before and not waited more than 15 minutes to pick up .

why would you need more than this?

1. Counter service (7 – 11) Reciept

2. Screen Capture or Print Out Ticket with Greenbus Logo on the screen

3. Comfirmed SMS via Mobile Phone with Travel Details

3 hours ago, thecyclist said:

They also seem to be charging 1$ tax on people leaving the country.

I crossed this border 10 years ago heading into Cambodia and they were asking for one $.

Whatever fancy names you give it, tax ,overtime fee etc, if no  official receipt/ticket is given, you can bet that not a dime of it ends up in the national or provincial coffers. 

Also consider what has been happening at the Hadlek/koh kong border:The amount they try to squeeze out of you has been increasing steadily over the years.Why is that:People pay up.If everybody refuses the extortion goes away.You reap what you sow.

In Luang Prabang there is a bamboo footbridge which crosses the river and even there a person leaps out of their little makeshift office and demands two dollars or they won't let you crossI have found recently Laos has become one of the worst places for charging money for whatever they can get away with including entry to all its temples. Very money hungry

20 hours ago, thecyclist said:

It is a scam.They ask for the same 2 bucks when leaving Laos at that border crossing.For the so called 1 $ overtime fee they give you a ticket.Last year I was leaving Laos and refused to pay , I questioned him in Thai (while recording) about this fee, what his name was, whether I would get a receipt etc

Worked like a charm (on the Cambodian side as well), they stamped me out without paying for deleting.They are scared as hell of any recorded evidence of their corruption.Accidentally I failed to delete.Still have the clip. 

Whether it is worth it (saving 2$ on Lao side and 5 on Cambodian side)is an other question.For me it was, took only a few minutes for them to give in.  Why castigate the guy for refusing to give in to systemic extortion ?Would like to know what happened to him.

" Why castigate the guy for refusing to give in to systemic extortion ? "

because as someone else mentioned earlier when you cross into the area between the two countries you are in a kind of no man's land and you are surrounded by all these people with the power to potentially do or say anything. If you read the book by Kerry and Kay Danes named appropriately " Nightmare in Laos " after they were accused (wrongly)of cheating the authorities you come to realise it's not worth arguing with anyone in authority in Laos even if they demanded $20! these people can stitch you up at the drop of a hat

I can't believe all these people are telling you to go to Arcade bus station just to buy a ticket. Quite ridiculous

I don't use green bus myself that often but I see looking at their website that it seems they have a similar system to NCA whereby you can make a telephone booking and then go to 711 to make the payment

http://www.greenbusthailand.com/website/en/services/bus/trading-channel

3 hours ago, lopburi3 said:

This is not a vaccination provided by clinics or normal hospitals AFAIK.  Bangkok Immigration and the Thai Red Cross center are the normal places to obtain.

Bangkok immigration! Now I have this mental image of a grouchy immigration officer clutching a syringe

actually I found this place which is much easier to get to and it does have yellow fever on their list So I've just sent them an email

https://www.bnhhospital.com/medical-service/international-travel-medicine-clinic-itmc/

I can  comment regarding NCA.

every 7/11 in Thailand is an agent!

you just phone NCA on 1624 and select the English option and book your seat on the phone.

Then you have until midnight on the day you make this telephone booking to go to any 7/11

to pay the amount they tell you on the phone and you will get your receipt and ticket combined.

You just show this slip of paper to the hostess when you board the bus and that's it.

what could be easier

3 hours ago, Korat88 said:

There is a place that provides vaccinations in the ground floor connection going from Soi Sukhumvit 23 that connects to Asoke-Montri road in the Interchange Building. Specifically for travelers it seems. Never used them and don't know about them just noticed on my way to Sukhumvit MRT station virtually every day. Failing that any hospital I would think? Hope that helps.

 

https://www.interchange21.com/location/

thanks a lot I will check it out

3 hours ago, Essecola said:

As far as I am aware, there are TWO western MDs practicing in Bkk. One is a man who speaks Thai. The other is a British woman who has a clinic near Thong Lor or Phrom Phong.  Of course there could be more but those 2 are the only ones I am aware of. The person who posted above about the heavy Thai language requirements is absolutely correct.

there was an older foreign doctor in BNH Hospital in Convent Road but maybe he has retired by now

2 hours ago, moe666 said:

no rain here as of yet

that's rather amazing because the sky news channel weather map has shown a dark blue area in the North West for many days now and together with the 10 day weather forecast which is shown thunderstorms every day I just assumed it was pouring down there

https://weather.com/weather/tenday/l/THXX0003:1:TH

I need to get yellow fever vaccination and certificate to be allowed into Bolivia after I have first visited Peru.

Could anyone please suggest where would be the best place to go for this vaccination?

Thanks a lot

I am not in Chiang Mai at the momentI and no one has made any comments in the long-running " Rain " thread  so has the rain not been as bad in the north-west?

After seeing these photos regarding how hard hit Sakhon Nakhon city has been hit I just wondered if Chiang Mai has escaped the effects so far?

On ‎26‎/‎07‎/‎2017 at 4:56 PM, bberrythailand said:

 

Are you sure ? No big bus to Koh Chang anymore ?

 

 

I'm sure

andwhen I came back from  KC about a month ago I had to get Cherdchai Tour big bus for Bangkok. They turn right just before reaching Rayong.

You can either get off there  and  get a minivan for the rest of the journey. I missed that stop so the next opportunity was Chonburi where I had to get a minivan from there.and it was the ride from hell!

Speeding, tailgating, using the mobile phone all at the same time.and that's why I prefer big buses