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I am not certain of the correct forum to post this. Moderators(s) please move if appropriate.

My wife is soon to return to Thailand, She has a wee laptop which she carries everywhere. One of her friends has told her that Thai customs at all entry airports are routinely examining all laptops owned by returning Thais and confiscating them and sometimes fineing the owners if the laptop has any history of accessing any site disapproved of by the Junta.

I consider this unlikely given the huge numbers of passengers arriving every day. Madam wants me to recover her laptop to factory settings before she sets off. I can do, but has any body else heard of or experienced this story.

It appears that the pupose of schools in Thailand is to make the owners rich. Education is a secondary object.

Further information has come to light. We married in Scotland in 1986 but have did not register the marriage until Feb 1014. We were not issued with a Thai Marriage Certificate. My wie asked for one at the time and was told that because we already had a Scottish Certificate that was sufficient. Furthemore the official said " you cannot have two". This Scottish Certificate, even with certified translation, is not acceptable for Visa puposes.  Without a Thai certificate I may have difficulty getting an extension based on marriage

I have asked family in Chiangmai to try again at the ampeu but in the meantime I am touting for any more sensible  suggestions.

I cannot find the exact answer in the visas forum.

I am married to a Thai citizen and retiring to Thailand next month. I tried to apply for a Non-Imm O visa based on marriage, but the consul has rejected the document which I thought was my Marriage Certificate and time is short, I may not be able to obtain a new copy from Thailand in time.The paperwork for my company pension has also been rejected as "not authenticated" so a retirement Visa is not available.  As I understand it I can enter Thailand on a visa exempt basis (for which I will need a return ticket) or a Touist Visa. Can I change the visa basis once I am in thailand and how do I do it ?

I hear echos of the Hitler Jugend.

What puzzles me is the excuse "there is no call for it". How can a product go out ot stock if nobody wants it?

Who's pockets will the profit go into?

As I posted last week, my package to my grandweans was delivered in oly 8 days, intact, with no interference from customs and in spite of my forgetting to register it . The address was written in english and my son- in-laws name is Khan.

Some two weeks ago I had difficulty accessing internet banking. An expert at the bank helpline led me through a series of attempts and discovered that I had blocked pop-ups on both my antivirus programme and my brouser. Removing pop-up blocker on the antivirus solved the problem.

However, along the way I had to disable and enable various programmes trying to find the problem. I have managed to disable the computer service which remembers my login for ThaiVisa and several other preferred sites and also the preferred configuration for some others. I now have to log  in every time and select the wanted configuration. I cannot find how to enable these services. There may be more than one programme disabled. I am using Windows 7 Home Premium and up to date Firefox. I also have Avast free antivirus and Spybot installed.

Request help from experts.

I cannot find a specific forum to post this in.

Last Tuesday I posted a Christmas Parcel to my grandweans in Chiang mai. Since most previous items have failed to arrive (believed stolen) I usually register any item with a tracking service to ensure delivery. This time I forgot.

Imagine my surprise when my daughter skyped me to announce its he arrival this afternoon ( Thursday) Well done Thailand Mail.

I hope it tastes better than the designer beers which have flooded the market in UK.

They need to be chilled to make them drinkable. When served merely cool they either taste foul or have no taste at all.

About 4mins 3sec there appeared to be a glimpse of a Vee twin.

Hurray, it worked. Thank you very much!

10 hours ago, chrisinth said:

Right-click on an un-used part of your desktop and click View. You will see Large, Medium & Small Icons with a black dot next to the view that has been selected. Left-click on your choice.

 

This is the easiest way to do it, and as long as the display settings haven't been changed since your upgrade to W10 it should sort it out. Your graphic card on a g6 shouldn't affect the size of desktop icons.....................

I have acquired an HP Pavilion g6 laptop. The OS has been upgraded to Windows 10. The shortcut icons are much bigger than I would like and I want to reduce them to about half their size.

I cannot find any way to do this. Would any expert please advise me ?

15 hours ago, sanemax said:

Wonder why they were in the toilet for so long , a bunch of them at that .

Were they doing drugs ?

The Kurds are doing most of the fighting in Iraq while the other groups hang back. The Kurds will feel entitled to a reward.

What will that be ? Will they get any ?

Google maps show  that it is only a 30 min walk

N18.863822, E98.979273  One man business, has always done a good job in the past.

Hurray !

At such a high mileage, the cylinder bores and piston rings are bound to be well worn. New rings may help, but a rebore and oversize pistons are necessary. But, it may be economical to get a reconditioned engine.

Did an employer report them to avoid paying their wages ?

I recall my late father-in-law putting prawn fry into his paddy and leaving them to feed off the mosquito larvae. Unfortunately modern chemical fertilisers kill the prawns.

9 hours ago, chiang mai said:

 

Thanks for that - I'm not familiar with Laithong Lacquerware, can you give me a marker or location guideline?

Highway 1006 just after Tambon San KLang Police Stn and before outer ring road.

N18.773914 E99.062264

His name is Ajaz

There is a showroom next to Laithong Lacquerware on th Sankampaeng Road. He may be able to help.