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Heard recently that rosewood trees planted today will be bought back by the company for up to 100k\tree after 10 years. Can start selling after about 5 years but for much less. You need a permit to sell the trees so you should look for a company that can arrange the permit and supply the plants

Went there on a Tuesday without appointment. Finished all the process in less than 1 hour. Got the passport by EMS on Friday same week

It's all about the power of the motor, and somewhat the blades. I have a ninja 1500 watts and it works great

You can have him, I'll take the girl ????

She's welcome on my (not BAHT bus...) Any time she wants

The problem with that is for the sellers. Are they supposed to ask every female for a doctor certificate that she's NOT pregnant? Are the supposed to squeeze female customers boobs to make sure they're not breastfeeding?

You can't get physically addicted to cannabis. And if you're talking about mental addictions, well some people get edicted to chocolate and other such "healthy" substances

Wow. It's been so long since we last had such a post. I really missed those posts. And a nice change from the sick buffalo!

Sure, as long as the same goes for other legal drugs like alcohol and cigarettes. The roles laid out at the moment are already good enough and a bit too much. 1. No under 20 -✔️ 2. No pregnant\nursing women - I would agree to this if the same rule was for alcohol and cigarettes as well 3. No driving under the influence ✔️ What else do you need?

I guess this owl has learnt it's lesson. I'm sure it will never fly into a stationary object again

Don't they get it? The airplane was parked on stand 2! That's the main issue here. Later it was moved to stand 4 for repairs. That was a very good decision. So if you ever have to take a flight out of KK make sure the airplane is parked anywhere BUT stand 2!!

I don't have a card. using cardless withdraw and AFAIK that only works with my bank's ATM's

A good friend of mine changes his number every 3 months or so for me promotion. A neighbor called me today from a new phone number - she also changed numbers frequently. So that's not really the answer imo.

Many nursing agencies that supply such helpers. They also have to arrange for a replacement when the regular one goes on holidays.

Wow!! You are my hero ????

You can simply add the payment to your favourites and then you won't have to look for it in history. It will show on the homepage of the bank's app

Yesterday I walked around for about 1 hour looking for a kbank ATM. Passed many 7-11's with no ATM at all or the wrong bank. And that was in Chiang Mai city, night bazaar area...

This has nothing to do with sea level rising. It's rain water with nowhere to drain. This problem has been here for more than 30 years. Was solved for a while when water was drained to the swamp in bangpli, but they had to build an airport right there, so nowhere for the water to go, again... You're talking about 2011. No official fights about agriculture. The rainy season started very slow and it was considered a drought year and therefore didn't release water from reservoirs. When more rain finally came officials worried they won't last long and kept water. By the time they realised it's not a drought they had to release water faster than the water could flow through the rivers and canals and that is what caused the floods in central Thailand, not only Bangkok

To be honest I've never entered Thailand on a foreign passport and tried to get a new Thai passport. But the process of getting a new (replacement for expired) passport is very simple -just show the old passport. They don't check stamps on the old passport and I doubt they check immigration computer to see when you last left\entered the country using the Thai passport. That said, even if they do, I'm sure it can be solved.

She can simply go and apply for a new Thai passport. Even if by entering on a foreign passport it's a problem, to fix the problem will be much cheaper than 5k\month she's paying to immigration at the moment according to the op - a very strange story by itself...

How is it easier on a foreign passport? Longer immigration ques at the airport in and out and if something happens and she had to stay longer then there's the cost of extension and maybe even an overstay fine.

As do Jesus, Moses and Muhammad with all the wrong doings of people AND leaders of all religions

During King Rama 5 the royal court grew a lot compared to previous kings due to the fact that he had many children - all with royal titles. When Rama 6 became king it was very difficult to distinguish 1 person from another by 1st name only (as there were no family names back then) so 1 would have to be described by his/her name and how they were related (son/daughter of etc') so King Rama 6 has decided all Thai people should have a family name, but the family names must be unique. So every Thai head of family had to choose a family name and register it with the local government office (these days it is done at the district level). Each application was noted with date and time and all requests were sent to Bangkok. In case more than 1 person asked for the same family name - the 1 who was the 1st to request it got it. So, yes, basically all THAI family names were and still are unique. The only way to "get into" an existing Thai family name is by being born to the family or for women to marry into the family. Another option was to get a permission from the "creator" of the family name, so this option today only exists for newly formed family names that the "creator" is still alive (I doubt any of the people that lived during King Rama 6 is still alive today...). As for foreign family names - this is fairly new thing in Thailand. Up until about 35 years ago a Thai woman that officially married a non Thai would have lost her rights to purchase land and own more than 49% of a business. So at that time there was no point for a mixed couple living in Thailand to register their marriage and for the woman to take her husband's name. After that law was changed there were more and more Thai women that took their foreign husband's name thus you can see now more and more Thai people with non Thai family name, and as western family names are far from unique, you have now many non unique "Thai" family names. Also, as the original family names were "created" over 100 years ago (4+ generations) you might find more than 1 person with the same family name and they are seemingly unrelated, although I am pretty sure that if they search for the origin of the family name they will find that they are somehow related. The process to apply for a change of family name is pretty much the same as it was over 100 years ago. 1 has to go to the district office, register the new family name. The request is then stamped with date and time and passed on to the central office in Bangkok. It takes some time before the name is approved or rejected. I am not sure about current rules, but at least until about 20 years ago the family name had to be a THAI name, with a Thai meaning. That means that 1 couldn't even apply for a family name such as Smith/Rogers or any other name with no actual meaning in the Thai language, unless the name change was due to marriage with a person holding such family name. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_name): For centuries, inhabitants of Thailand, formerly known as Siam, did not have surnames. They identified themselves by referring to their parents' given names or the place they resided. The Siamese government started recording data on its citizens during the reign of King Rama V (1868–1910). The data recorded consisted of birth dates, dates of death, and household members. It was difficult to distinguish between citizens as many shared the same name. In 1912, two years after King Rama VI ascended to the throne, he declared that a birth, death, and marriage registration system would be instituted in Siam. Everyone had to bear a surname to identify themselves properly. In 1913, the first Surname Act was promulgated.[1]

I know many western guys named Richard and they ask people to call them Dick. I don’t think anyone has given them details of what their name means in English. ????

You have to assume there is. that's why the IO scan the passport and enter details on the computer. No he can't. When crossing a lands border, the IO of the country you are entering checks the stamp of the country you just left - hence the "no passport swapping at a land border". So just getting stamped out on the EU passport and then turn around and re-enter on the Thai passport won't work, nor going into the other country and coming back the same way . At least 1 way must be by air. Even at Maesai border where Thai national don't need a passport to cross, they are issued an official Thai passport that is stamped out\in on both sides of the border. Not only Thai borders. It's the same at least in all neighbouring countries. Read your post again - you mentioned Thai passport 4 times and 0 times EU passport...