linno2

My family calls them fruit flies - but they are smaller than Australian fruit flies - you can almost breath them in they are so small!

One possibility - symptoms fit with peripheral neuropathy. Main cause is diabetes.  High blood sugar levels can damage the nerves. Other causes include long term excessive alcohol consumption, previous surgery, previous injury, low vitamin B12 levels, thyroid issues, certain infections such as shingles and Lyme (tick) disease, some forms of cancer, immune disorders and more.  It is a common symptom with a range of causes. Worth getting checked out.

That is good news.  I have tried multiple links and not succeeding - I get one error that states connected to Immigration which is not currently accepting connections.  Have tried through Chrome and Bing, on laptop and phone, using different internet providers and wi fi URLs.  I have been able to complete the online form and submission does not deliver a result.  I have checked the status option and can see previous approved 90m day registrations.  I am trying to avoid am 140km round trip for a 2 minute transaction if possible.  If you could share the link you used to achieve success that would be very much appreciated.

Drying rice. Tambon Sam Rit, Amphur Phimai, Changwat Nakhon Ratchasima

On 1/6/2020 at 3:06 PM, Beggar said:

There are many. Some don't get paid and think this is no problem then. But it is not important if you get money or not. It is important that you do something that could be classified as work. 

I understand that volunteering is also classified as work and not permitted without a permit. The payment does not determine if it work.

In Fiji they are about to ban single use plastic bags.  At the vege section of the supermarket they have single use plastic, at the pharmacy, the choc top ice-creams at the cinema etc.  I must admit that I have not sorted what to do with the kitchen garbage in terms of loading into the larger bin that is collected - I still have some black bin liners and a stash of supermarket bags in the meanwhile. What do other folks do?

On 12/21/2019 at 2:36 PM, ezzra said:

No surprise there, most locals lives on hand to mouth daily If you'll stop an average Thai Joe in the street and turns their pockets inside out all that you will find would be some coins and no more than a 20-100 baht...

And there will be many more without bank accounts and those with a variety of loans that are in major negative equity.  Seems many rural Thais are in financial difficulty and going backwards.  There is however a similar situation in Australia and NZ with massive household debt - loans, credit card, purchase plans etc.

On 12/21/2019 at 2:19 PM, fforest1 said:

I think Bangkok Bank charges 20 baht a month for the privilege of having a account... 

Citibank Thai increased their monthly account keeping charges from THB100 to THB300 about 2 years ago with no change in service or anything else I am aware of.

Cheers

Lindsay

18 hours ago, sydneyjed said:

Like Thai Airways in a state of denial and when the crash comes it will be too late!

Flew Thai airways 3 weeks ago (I fly a lot but in the last few years Thai has not been competitively priced so have flown with other carriers).   I was rather shocked at the downward slide.  It was a big top 747 and rather tired with an old entertainment system that didn't work and it was not very clean. The magazine was missing half its front page and the safety guide had been handled so often the laminate was peeled half off.  The standard of the food had dropped substantially.  The age and general unhappiness of the cabin crew had notably increased.  Not a good sign at all.  Their discount airline Thai Smile seems better in every respect. I was for many years a loyal supporter of Thai but their deteriorating membership system, uncompetitive pricing and drop in other dimensions will take a massive effort and injection of strategic management and investment to crawl back to previous time.  I wish them well. 

My wife (Thai) changed her family name to mine as 1) we were married  and 2) we were going on a posting to the Middle East and this was going to be easier all round. I must admit that it has been a challenge for my wife in Thailand with her bank - despite having the legal Thai document recording her name change and an authorised translation of our marriage registration and her ID with my family name the pai is that Kasikorn Bank in Phimai doesn't seem to be able to cope.  Also her drivers license - she gave up.  Meanwhile she still seems to have to bring everything on many occasions when dealing with matters like insurance, electrical and water - they don't want to change her name in their system for some reason.

Good luck!

On 11/9/2019 at 2:22 PM, worgeordie said:

My 84 year old cousin visits us every winter, stays for

3 months,in the past fill 1 form send it off to Thai Embassy

in London along with payment to get Visa,easy

 

Now this time has to fill in a 5 page application,online to get

a E-Visa,what a carry on, picture too light,picture too dark,

needs letter from me inviting her to stay at our house,has

to provide a copy of bank statements,so things are definitely

a lot more difficult now,for her at least.

regards Worgeordie

 

 

It is happening in many countries. More than a dozen previous visas for my wife to Australia (married and joint bank accounts and family all in OZ).  Just helped her complete the 17 page application form with 11 uploaded attachments such as marriage certificate, tabian ban, business registration and web site, drivers license, ID card, old passport details, previous country visa details (5 UK, PNG, Bahrain etc) plus a 10 hour return trip for another round of finger prints and photo. 

14 hours ago, Russell17au said:

and it appears that I am not the only one having problems with this a other things. One is a man with sole custody of his daughter who is working and paying his tax here had his extension application refused even thou he had all the documents that proved his income so he had to deposit 400,000 in the bank and another one is that a bedridden mans wife did his 90 day report and had the same I/O as me and he told her that her husband had to attend in person and he claimed that her husband being bedridden was not on the system and the woman had to get a doctors certificate and photos and take back but when she took them back she saw a different I/O and was told that she did not need those things because her husbands problems are on the system, so what is this coming to. I have until 3 December on what I am going to do. I can pack up and leave Thailand and my wife until I can get her a residents visa for Australia which takes up to 2 years, take my wife and move to Vietnam or somewhere else or see if I can get a Mutli Entry Marriage Visa from Suvannakhet. They are the only options that I seem to have.

 

The previous 2 years has increased to 4 years for your wife to get an Australian visa showing the majority of time in Australia and the costs have grown.

20 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

This stats look awfully low as I have always read it was around 20,000 plus dead annually.

These are car accident death rates in an international list I compiled - mostly from 2016 & some 2013. They do not include those that die in hospital from complications.

On 10/24/2019 at 9:04 PM, mlkik said:

Issan is filthy! I have been for walks in the beautiful countryside only to see discarded rubbish every 6 feet.

Many people just throw their litter in the garden and it mounts up and looks so bad.

Not just Issan though,when I lived in Samutprakarn they were as bad with the litter.

One problem in many rural villages is that there is no rubbish collection at all - hence the common smell of burning plastic.  Also I remember a time in Australia when the roads were littered with trash - it took a health fine, lots of media and about 10 years to change the situation.  Trash has some value when a guy comes around on his motorcycle with side car and scales to take it away in exchange for a few Thai Baht.  The best I have been able to achieve is some heavy duty black bin liners on frames for most of it - but not the broken fans, 3 legged plastic chairs and other larger items.

On 10/25/2019 at 3:47 PM, keith101 said:

As the Thai baht gains more strength exports and tourism will fall even further and dropping the its rate by just 25 basis points will do nothing for the economy .

 

It seems destined for the Aussie dollar to drop below todays rate of 20.6 to into the 19s by next year making it impossible for me at least to continue living here and will probably lead to my divorcing my wife and returning to Aus forever , at least back home a dollar is worth a dollar and wont change .

Definitely getting more expensive in LOS however still remarkably lower cost of living than Oz.  I have just been doing some work in a few Pacific countries - again Thailand notably lower cost of living.  Our dollar is not wonderful globally these days.  As suggested by another subscriber - perhaps consider riding out this current situation at least until the US/China trade war and Brexit play out. 

11 minutes ago, Toany said:

Which immigration office and how many weeks did it take?

It will help the rest of us waiting

In Thailand goal posts have wheels
 

Nakhon Ratchasima - circa 4 weeks. Applied in English with my wife's ID and details as she owns the land.

On 5/25/2019 at 7:09 PM, LongTang said:

Thank you for the report.

I want to make sure i understand this correctly as it is the first time the consequences for not doing the TM30 involve jail time for the visitor !

Did they specifically warned you about visitors being Jailed for not reporting??? If true, then it puts everything on a completely different level, the damage will be enormous !

My friend was taken into the head person's office and told "she could be put in gaol for not reporting". I was not in the room but my friend was clearly 'rattled' by the session. She is a very polite worldy person with 70yrs experience of life - and not rude in any way.

We received online TM30 registration capacity this week.  So will be OK from now on. Thjanks for comments hints and tips.

Cheers!

we got fined THB2,000 for a family friend staying with us. This happened when we took her for a visa extention to regional immigration.  Our fault - just didn't realise that family and friends (75 yrar old woman) staying with you in your house had to be reported (they did give the address to immigration at the time of arrival lin BKK and stayed a night in a BKK hotel first).  Anyway 2 days ago we got the online registration connected. So we can now register our kids when they visit us in our home in a week.  It took about 6 weeks to get the online TM30 registration facility to go live.

details of hpow to contact them?

thanks

Has anyone got the link for the online household visitor registration? The 90 day residence site is 'down' or as they said turned off. Also is there any formal advice from the government advising of the need to register that some one can provide the link for? Thanks in anticipation.

Cheers

Linno

Thanks for the information.

Cheers

In terms of the numbers it seems too low to me per visit. 680,000 visits (not patients) divided by the THB305,000,000 = THB 311 per visit.  Assuming the cost of the clinical staff, the cost of pathology and imaging, pharmacy, blood and other consumables for a spectrum of cardiac, stroke and accident catastrophies along with lesser medical conditions it is a low not high figure.  After all some private hospitals charge THB40k per night in intensive care.  The cost in a government hospital is probably half per night.

This is sensible and common practice and THB100 Baht is remarkably low cost.  The UAE (Dubai, AbuDhabi etc), and Saudi charge a compulsory insurance fee (Saudi is US$75).  It should provide some support for the many cases of people having an accident and needing to crowd fund for their medical bills.  Thai teaching hospitals provide a clinically acceptable level of care.  All for the price of beer. It is good news from my perspective.