sonnyJ

Bangkokgas, I always thought that the Japanese and Koreans get 90 days on arrival/no need for a visa? Can't they renew it?

I really don't have proof for this but I think at some point in the past there was at least some kind of "part-time" job allowed to do just with the ED no work permits. Maybe what qualified as 0% tax income.

That's nice to hear, there has been at least some kind of development. Maybe it's all connected to the (still) planned major Asian highway project which would make this post as an international immigration post maybe. So far it has not been granted as such?? Right? So what ever the Burmese choose to stamp or not stamp i understand but how can Thai immigration stamp you at a only local immigration post? Again no logic what so ever..

...Again it still doesnt matter...

I think this all matters and thanks for the add on the laws. So it should be clear now.

Working on internet in Thailand is vary rarely enforced though. I know a guy who visited various gov. offices in Bangkok and tried to find out how to pay the tax from his internet business, they weren't interested at all and told him to bugger off.

I am also wondering if the border at Mae Sot is a viable option for visa run just to get out of Thailand and come in again on visa exemption.

Can lopburi confirm ?

Mae Sot is excellent for a quick visa run. Nice and quiet with friendly officials.

I will be going there myself next Monday.

What are you talking about?

Could someone confirm this please?

Last time a few years ago I was at Mae Sot/Myawaddy there my passport was not even stamped. You would just leave your passport to the angrily shouting immigration guy with a rifle and pay about 10 USD. Technically it has never been an international entry point, travel is strictly restricted beyond the town/ overnight stay not allowed.

Yangon is a nice place to visit but not a place for nightlife.

Freedom

Immigration NEVER checks to see if you have a 90-day slip when you're leaving at the airport. If you forget to do your 90-day check in, just leave the country by air. I'm not sure about overland border crossings, but they probably don't check it there either. They may start enforcing it whenever, but it's been smooth sailing so far.

WRONG! Absolute crap! After almost 30 years of coming in and out by air (mostly) a hundred or more times, last October exiting at Suvarnaphumi I was hauled aside and asked why I hadn't done 90-day reporting. I didn't know what they were talking about, I told them. They said it's been a law for ages, but they let me go with a warning to make sure to do it next time.

I have now educated myself about the whole thing, thanks especially to thaivisa.com, and WILL make sure. I advise everybody else on a one-year visa to do so too.

Did you by any chance have that paper still pinned at your passport when you were exiting? By the way now they have changed it a larger paper that is never pinned, makes you wonder if they don't even want you to do it then.. I of course always removed the attached paper when i stayed over 200 days few times before... never had a single problem.. Then I decided to go 'legal' so guess I'm more hooked to the system now. Still the desks 9 and 5 are not connected at Bangkok Imm. so at border points I wouldn't really worry about it. Who knows when things might chance though. There is a law that requires you to report change of address in 24 hours also..

I'd like to know has anyone ever been charged more than 2000 for going in late?

Southern Burma would be great after a nice coup d'etat. Or if the generals would get a bit smarter they could sell/lease the whole of Tenasserim Division to farangs to build up and develop. Then we could hire Damian and Rambo to keep up the law and order there. Would be a win-win for everyone.

...And why do you think most nation states have immigration controls as your's most certainly does.

Isn't Poland a member of E.U.?

So please explain how are they working in U.K. illegally.

Maybe tax evasion???

Did you read the whole post or was that too much to ask?

From further down

"I hear blokes in Thailand whinging about legal Polish workers in the UK then in the next breath wondering how they are going to bend Thailands rules to stay their to spend their pittance."

Maybe I misread it or it was just your negative perspective on things happening in our World.

After thiunking aabout your post for 10 minutes I kind a get your message to the world.

...And why do you think most nation states have immigration controls as your's most certainly does.

Isn't Poland a member of E.U.?

So please explain how are they working in U.K. illegally.

Maybe tax evasion???

I often wonder what would happen if we would all pack up and no tourist's would arrive, this country would be stuffed.

Tourists will always arrive in Thailand, it's the guys living in Thailand on Tourist Visa's that are the problem.

You just never fail do you.

...Whatever, you are wrong and don’t understand tax regulations...

I think you are contradicting your self here.

Yes the Thais INVENTED their game.

You stay over 180days in a fiscal year you are considered a resident which mean you need to pay tax from foreign income to Thai authorities by the local (law). Unless you are paying taxes somewhere else, which happen to have an anti double taxation treaties with Thailand.

If Penang insist on an outbound ticket to an " international location " before issuance of a TV........would that flight date be entered into the system they have?

What would happen if that flight is not taken and therefore there are no corresponding exit/entry stamps in the passport.

Refusal next time? I ask because I know some posters will consider buying the ticket and then cancelling for a refund once the TV is issued.

Any thoughts?

That is a good point. It will probably take a while they catch it up, like maybe 2 months.

I think I have seen something similar and am pretty sure few of my friends saw it too or so they claimed. The sun melted and disappeared leaving the sky layered horizontally by all the colours of the prism. This was in the early morning hours and it didn't rain at all though. That made us think of something very Godly, but I'm not sure what we were feeling at the time. I guess it was pretty cold.

..............before one of the numerous criminals they harbor ends up killing a celebrity or relative of/or a very important personality................

As if a non celebrity's life is of any less value?????

You know that's not what I meant.

Don't worry Tony, some of us do understand your point.

I should add that there should be some facesaving and maybe even some lives before it all hits the fan. I don't believe it will happen though.

I supported the economy at the local mom & pop's by spending almost 500 THB in alcohol and tobacco.

OP: Are you asking where to get a tattoo or the history of traditional tattoos?

Plenty of shady taxi drivers at the airport. Them many times telling my friends that they don't have change for 40 or 60 at the same time waving bunch of 20s in their hands. Then asking/taking the complaint card and won't give it back. It's a disgrace. Welcome to Thailand. Or maybe it's a good wake up call for the tourists, they could loose a lot more than that. Last time I went to meet my friend arriving at my place. Guess what the taxi guy was having a problem with him. When I told him in Thai that he's not honest politely and read his register number in Thai he almost attacked me on front of my apartment in Bangkok. Some are the lowest bunch of lowlifes as you can get in Thailand.

Them come in all colours, usually very small in diameter and fairly thick pills. Texture on surface is very rough in SEA made ones (won't resemble pills from pharmaceutical factories).

Why on earth does almost every single news story involving damage to propoerty or persons intentional or not have a sentence at the bottom saying : "So and so fled the scene", it's ridiculous.

Damian

Is the news article ridiculous in it's reporting or is the driver being ridiculous when he flees the scene?

I am inclined to agree with Galong, more likely to be fearful of their lives from a passenger lynching when they realise the consequences of what was probably reckless driving.

Ever seen a Thai walk up to the front of the bus and tap the driver on the shoulder to then tell him to slow down? Never happens. Face kills and no one learns. Will happen again in a week or so.

I was in a bus full with 60 schoolkids and teachers the first weeks I was here and asked a Thai teacher what was going on with the bus driver being so careless? "Don't worry, it's normal"

Never again, even my wife doesn't get to drive.

I am very concerned about your safety in thailand! Do you need any help to leave?

I hate to see people suffer.

If you're trying to be sarcastic, let me deflate your balloon over in Hong Kong by saying for the umpteenth time on here that I'm on my way out. You need not worry about my and my family's safety any longer.

So everything is going as normal in LOS. Thanks for the input Tony.

The common explanation by social anthropologists is that man needs to fulfill his basic needs for food, shelter, clothes, community, leader and a belief system (religion). It happens in every culture known to man.

Well, except there was this one guy living in a barrel at the times of ancient Greek states. He had his own philosophy.

Yeah but Diogenes was pickled - likely in his own excreta.

In the recent vegetarian thread I considered bringing up Pythagoras but thought better of it. He was the one who followed such a strict adherence to vegetarianism that, when chased by an angry mob, he let them catch and kill him rather than trample through a field of beans.

And on these forums, there are posters who seem to emulate Greek thinker Crates who would turn up uninvited at people's homes just to insult them.

Those ancient Greeks were a fun lot...

The huge majority of our own kind seem to be unable to accept that mankind's fuzzy logic is merely a function of chemical/biological interactions in the brain that simply cease activity when the body becomes comfortably dead.

IMHO, for us to insist that we are deserving, any more than a carrot, of an afterlife is mere imagination and human arrogance.

Ghost stories, same-same. When I was a young lad, I was deep in my woods in the dark of night alone when an American bobcat (Lynx rufus) screamed at a terrifying volume just meters away from where I was sitting. Since I never actually saw him, had I been superstitious I could have imagined the Horrific Ghost of the Abodes of the Shades of the Dead and scared the bejesus out of myself.. but I knew better.

I have to admit however that I did wet myself a bit...

All I was saying is what I don't know. I have been waiting for the ghosts to visit for sometime too.

Interesting that the pilot's union is not in an uproar for the program depicting its members as philandering, cheating romeos. Or, is that considered an accurate depiction?

Nice one. Only the flowers of Thailand from the pale faced segment of 'ying' society can work as "air hostesses" - none has ever experienced an orgasm prior to marriage - or so their scheming mother's believe!

Here here.

Well, I missed the show. But by knowing a few air hostesses and according what I have read here this one might have hit a bit too close to reality.

Mistaken identity?

Are you people saying Jomtien is full of blood thirsty youngsters? If it is the case they would organize some kind of fights among themselves?

whassamatta wid you guys?...just 'cause ye can't see 'em don't mean they ain't there...ghosts and demonisation in general exists in all cultures; a control device that moms and dads and the likes of George Bush find quite handy...'if you ain't a righteous american Osama is gonna eat yer children...' and etc, etc...

boogymen in general comprise a lot of our daily ritual...dying is as natural as taking a shit but there is something wrong with not being afraid of death...hence the ritual that surrounds the event. Not that it's that terrible; families need an excuse to congregate and insult each other on occasion...

we can all become immortal by enshrining our own personal absurdity on the internet...'ghosts?...death?...be not proud...'

The common explanation by social anthropologists is that man needs to fulfill his basic needs for food, shelter, clothes, community, leader and a belief system (religion). It happens in every culture known to man.

Well, except there was this one guy living in a barrel at the times of ancient Greek states. He had his own philosophy.

Sorry, did you used to work for the UK government's health department in the 80's.

Grow up man, off topic and irrelevant.

Maybe I did!

UNAIDS report identified Thailand's highest risk group: housewives.

So Mr Sweet "grown up, on-topic and relevant" Chariot, how did they contract it?

Maybe you should only reply to OP's from now on.

Maybe if you don't make stupid comments you won't get stupid replies. QED

SC you must be joking, on a deadly topic...

If these housewives reach the 15% of population as estimated on the other thread. It's not a matter of laughter.