Nobelcat

Where's Waldo?

All I see is a guy at an ATM.. how did he steal data ???

The phrase "to withdraw people's cash" suggests that they had not yet done so.

By the way, ATM hackers steal the cash from the bank.. it's the bank that subsequently steals the money from the customer rather than suffer the loss themselves.

Banks are responsible for the loss, though, because they have to make sure that their ATMs are safe to use for their customers!

Do you live in Thailand?

1) Get a real Visa from the consulate. These are 60+ day visas. Maybe get double or triple entry, but single is all that's needed.

2) Get a letter of residency. I actually suggest getting more than one while you're at it since you might find a reason to use another (like getting a Thai drivers license). It's normally a minor additional fee for extra paperwork. Letter of residency will require an address and lease. I had a Thai person give me a month to month lease agreement at their house for maybe 3,000 baht per month. I didn't pay them anything and I never spent a night over at the place. You just need something saying that you live somewhere.

3) Go buy the bike. The bike stores will all tell you exactly what you need. I do suggest buying new from a Honda dealer. You wont need to go more than a few blocks to find a repair shop for a Honda bike. If you get anything that's not Honda, you'll find repairs (like tires) to be at least a little bit harder. Anyways, the bike store will tell you what paperwork you need. Passport, residency, lots of cash, license, etc. You don't need to wait for plates or anything, just need that "green" book.

4) Stock up on a few parts that may be hard to find. Anyone in Thailand (like seriously, anyone) can fix a flat tire, but they might not have the tube for a larger bike. Anything that you could possibly think might need to be replaced without warning, bring an extra and maybe an extra beyond that. Consider tubeless tires but put a tube in them anyways. I've seen some people do this just to reduce the chance of popping a tire.

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I just brought my Thai dog with me to California. What the Thai Government requires is a health certificate, certified by the Agriculture Ministry, along with a copy of her vaccinations and micro chip, copy of your passport front page and copy of your airline booking. My Thai vet told me to bring her back, I would need another health certificate from my USA vet that is sent to the USDA for certification and rabies certificate. I asked my vet here in the USA and she says that is correct and she can do that, but I have to mail it in to the USDA. A side note; if you are changing planes like I did in Taiwan, you need to apply for a transfer quarantine permit from the Taiwan Government. Every country has slightly different regulations. Also check with your airline. They will want total weight, including crate. Total dimensions of the carrier and of course money for an "extra baggage" fee.

Jimi,

OP has stated they're flying to Thailand, not away. Leaving Thailand is much more of a mess than arriving in Thailand. And the Health Certificate from the Agriculture Ministry on Export is accepted just fine by the CDC. There's actually zero requirements from CDC (unless you have a specific State requirement). I brought my dog from Thailand into San Francisco without current rabies or current anything else and it was fine. They make you sign a simple form saying you will have your dog vaccinated within 14 days and no follow-up after that.

OneSecond: There are two ways you can travel with your dog. Baggage or Cargo. An animal flying under your seat is still considered accompanied baggage. Unaccompanied baggage (ie, CARGO) can still be on the same flight as you but is treated insanely differently. If you don't know which method your dog is going, then I assume it's as accompanied baggage because the Cargo process is a mess and something you would very clearly know that you were doing (I've done both and the rules around cargo are crazy).

If your dog isn't small and is flying in the belly of the airplane, then also expect them to be picky about size, weight, and the fit for your dog. The last flight I took my dog on was denied because they said there wasn't 2 inches of space above his head when he was sitting. There was plenty of room for him as the normal carrier we used for him was half the size (and he can turn around in that one) but they were right and due to the padding on the floor there was only 1 inch above his head. So they forced me to buy an overpriced carrier on the spot.

QUICKLY: http://www.dld.go.th/webenglish/movec1.html

Brought my dog into Chiang Mai (as baggage) and the only requirements were that the dog have current rabies and some other vaccine (Leptospirosis) that I'll find out at the end of my post. You have a English medical certificate with all that and you should be fine. I actually don't think they checked any paperwork upon entry.

By law, there is a 30 day quarantine but I don't think it's imposed on anyone and there's just some fee you need to pay. At Chiang Mai it was 100 baht ($3) but I heard stories of people paying 10,000 baht ($300) in tea money. You can read on other discussions about how to avoid paying higher prices in general by taking care of it quickly upon entry and never involving more than one person.

Also, and I didn't realize this, Rabies and other vaccines typically expire after 1 year unless you ask your vet to give you a longer term vaccine. So just make sure you're very current on shots and when in Thailand you also make sure you maintain those shots.

http://www.dld.go.th/webenglish/movec1.html

Leptospirosis -- This is the special shot you need

I still don't understand this. Why does someone need to be present in order to be charged with a crime? In Western countries, people can be charged with a crime, and even convicted, without ever showing up in court.

Can someone explain why he needs to be available to be indicted? Is this a Thailand thing? Don't they just file the paperwork with the court and that's that?

I'm not going to read though pages of comments here, but as someone who's blacklisted from a few countries (not my fault) I can actually answer this. Yes, you can transit though and it doesn't matter what airlines you take. It only matters that you have a booked flight with a single airlines company to your final destination. If you instead have a trip to BKK and then another flight to another country, you will likely be denied boarding before you take off on the first leg.

That's the other thing. They wont let you board the flight, and they will refund your money, if you're denied entry into remote destination. They really want to get you there and they don't want you to get rejected along the way (otherwise it's them paying for your flight back, plus you might end up disputing the first ticket... very bad for them). So if they allow you on the flight then you should be okay (though I've been denied before on a 2nd leg due to a mixup). As long as you don't try crossing customs into a country you're blocked from, you'll be fine.

And I do agree with people that KL is quite good, as well as HKG. BKK should be fine for transit though, unless someone pulls a favor and requests that they stop you for some reason.

I'm interested in the answer to this, but since no one else has responded I might as well note that in the special case of the USA, it looks like the worse case scenario when you arrive is that they ask you to quarantine your pet at your house. That's at least what little I've been able to gather from reading the CDC and other sites.

Something in Thailand not up to specifications? How surprising!

After reading the posts, I guess I agree with the people saying that you should talk to management of some kind to see if the guard can stop encouraging the dogs there. Sadly, you're not likely to get far with that and such is life here. If you're concerned for the litter, then contact a dog rescue organization (there are plenty) and they'll take the puppies and even the mom if you ask them to. But that's really only something if you're concerned for them and want to find a good home for them. It wont solve the problem as a new dog will move in the next day unless the staff are told otherwise (which I don't think you'll have much luck).

Sure, you can go the passive aggressive way and "feed them" to remove yourself of the issue, but I don't think it solves your problem for long.

I can only recommend a good restaurant -- the newish one just south of the Night Bizarre and across the street from the new KFC.

And just to remind people that trains derail quite frequently, injuring people.

As being someone who's been on that same route when we derailed (I posted on ThaiVisa at that time too), the people on board who got injured or bruised said that the cause was the headrests (which on the sleepers store horizontally above your head) having detached and landing on them. Next time your ride the train, look at the headrest and think of how easily that's going to come down and crush you.

While I've only done it accidentally, I think going to your local power company location should serve the purpose just fine. I wouldn't even try 7-11 as I don't believe their computers can figure that out (though you're welcome to try). Bring a past bill and give them the baht to overpay. If you have a Thai friend, have them write down what it is that you want to do because I've had issues at my local office with them understanding me.

So when I was out of town for longer than expected, the power company contacted the owner saying that they were going to disconnect service and there would be a reconnection fee. The owner just paid the bill and left it at my door for me to deal with when I got back. My next monthly rent just included the owed amount. So in this case my landlord saved me, but you can also realize with this that your neighbor, landlord, or someone else can always pay the bill on your behalf.

I have been to several of these "sanctuary's", with the family, maybe even at this same wat. I would consider them more as animal dumps, since all the animals are crammed into small dirty cages. I was told these animals have been "rescued", but looks more like they were acquired just to make money. Its a shame that people who pretend to hold life so dear, can do this to animals, and the people that visit these places, enjoying the suffering. Makes no sense to me. I really dont think many farang would go to these places, unless tricked by a tour operator, by telling they were going to a Sanctuary, or in my case, Thai family, wanting to see wildlife.

Thais hold life dear? Thought it was around 100,000 baht or so for a life? Or 50,000 baht if your police station burns down.

Well that's not that bad then (for the ship). The ship is only leaning because the cargo is unbalance. RIP to the victims.

Billy The Kid, I've spent 10 months in Thailand (Chiang Mai) and other than airplane tickets have spent about 450 euro ($550) per month all inclusive. So 3 months really should be more like 1,500 euro plus airfare. That includes transportation, a few beers per week at bars, a few beers per week at home, a few meals at expensive restaurants, mostly meals at local places, rent on a 2 bedroom house, utilities (A/C is 1,000 baht alone) including my mobile phone, and everything related to my required visa runs and visa renewals. Only thing it doesn't include are credit card charges and the only thing I charge to my credit card is airfare.

The majority of my expenses are on my 6,000 baht per month rental (42% of the budget) and dining out (about 25%). The rest (32%?) includes dining at home, visas, transportation, bars & other entertainment, massages. Chiang Mai though is dirt cheap mostly because you have very little to spend your money on.

Thanks for sharing your experience. But you lives in a two bedroom house ? How much a month for that? Great to know you spend only €450 a month but it is the house rent that puzzles me ? Ok without a rent to live €450 a month !! Know what i mean ? I owned the condo in Pattaya and spend €3000 for three month. Chang Mai must be cheaper then !!! Thanks again.

Chiang Mai is impossibly cheap. You can be in the middle of the city, staying at a hotel, for 5,000 baht per month including all your utilities, wifi, air conditioning, etc. I had another hotel offer me their place, which was a bedroom plus a tiny office area, for 7,000 baht. For me, I have a dog so I wanted to be outside the city a bit to get a very small yard for him. 6,000 baht per month, for just the house, isn't unusual. Then you have utilities, for me about another 1,000 baht per month for electric and water. What I have found is that condo living is, for whatever reason, insanely expensive when compared to standalone house rental. The cheapest condo I've found in Chiang Mai, which isn't even anywhere near the center of the city, was 20,000 baht per month for a two bedroom rather small place. One of the benefits of being here for more than a few months is that you can learn of places that you wouldn't have been able to find if you were looking for a place to stay quickly (though I found my place two weeks into my Thailand visit).

As someone who did this myself (age 31), the answer will end up with the country you hold a passport for and where in Thailand you plan to stay.

As a US citizen with "foreign sourced income" but not from Thailand, an Educational visa was really the only option. This has to do with the US's "Foreign Earned Income Exclusion" (if you're from the US, look it up). I found a wonderful school where you were given a personal teacher. If you had time for class, you went to class. If you didn't have time for class, you sent the teacher a text message and postponed the class. You simply had to do 30 hours of class every 3 months. This gets you a 1 year visa and the school will take care of the extensions. I personally went for a 1 year multi-entry visa, and I just need to do a boarder run every 90 days. I did the multi-entry so that I could explore Asia and not need to pay the 1,900 baht for a reentry permit (as well as the hassle for that). Multi-entry is really the way to go, but I'm also less than 4 hours away from an immigration checkpoint (I live in Chiang Mai).

If you're not from the United States, then getting a tripple entry visa makes the most sense. You may also find, like me, that the 30 day extension for 1,900 baht ($60) isn't worth it when a single 60 day entry is only 1,200 baht ($40). But if your plan is simply to get all your extensions from near-by destinations, then yes, they will or might block you from renewing them all the time. I would visit the US for 1 week every 4 months and just got my renewals there (normally just got myself double entry for a total of 120 days).

So tourist visa makes the most sense. At least try it first and see if it's as hard as you think it might be. It's not. But if you have specific tax reasons issues that come up with being legally a "tourist" in another country (as can happen if the USA decides to define you as a tourist) rather than being a student, then go the other route and get a 1 year student visa. The only other benefit for the multi-entry student visa is that I can visit other countries with my friends anytime I want to and I don't need to worry about burning though visa stamps.

9 dead, 10 injurred. So a total of AT LEAST 19 people between two regular pickup trucks (not extended cab trucks). So 2 or 3 people *maybe* in the cab, that leaves 11 more between the two beds of trucks. Not really surprised at the death count when seatbelts aren't being worn and you're outside of the truck.