Froggybanrai

The interest of the ISP in degrading the bandwidth when using IPTV is to discourage you from using it which drives you towards buying the ISP's premium package...True Visions has several of those packages in store.

I have the feeling that True online is shrinking the bandwidth when I am connected to IPTV. Neftlix and YouTube premium display like a breeze in 4k or FHD but IPTV is constantly buffering. Anyone feels the same? Any suggestion?

Same here. Tried online for a week and then went in person...

A friend of mine with retirement extension stuck in Europe and probably never coming back wants to sell his car here. Apparently the transport dept requires a certificate of résidence which he obviously cannot provide. It seems to me that it should be possible to produce some kind of proxy but I cannot get reliable

infos about this. Anyone has actual experience of this situation and how to untangle it?

Prob with joint account is that some banks (TMB for one) refuse ATM card and Mobile App to this type of account, so it's not very convenient, you can only withdraw from the bank counter.

Apparently the Health Minister was giving away the masks holding them with his bare hands... This is reported by comments in thai language in Facebook and other sites (and by the way the pic shows the minister indeed not ewearing any gloves). 

Bought mine at Lazada's 6 months ago, perfectly happy with it, no prb whatsoever including 4G

Agree with Southernstar, BUPA has a good yearly policy for about 3,500THB. Not sure about UK but this coverage is required to secure a Schenghen visa. Check their website.

Personally, I've been visiting Thailand for 30 years, permanently living for 15 and having dealt with various immigration offices in several provinces I can say that altogether, I was always attended to in a polite nice manner by the staff there. In the days when there were never ending queues at the old office in Sathorn BKK, there was plenty of time (sometimes the whole day) to wander around and  I was several times given the opportunity of witnessing conflicts arising from the lack of comprehension of the procedure by some ill mannered short tempered farang. 

Not saying this is the case here, wasn't present to witness.

Besides, I doubt that they would put you on a plane out just for being ill mannered. Somehow, there must be some (serious) infringement of  the current regulations. Can't believe one sec that this could be related to the colour of the shirt on your pic! 

Why isn't the police simply issuing an Interpol arrest warrant? Surely Singapore would abide.

I would classify overstayers as undesirables. There is no excuse for long overstaying. Its very easy to get a 3 month extension if you are sick or ill. Most of them took advantage of the easy visa requirements to live in Thailand and now that the country is trying to come in line with others as far as immigration is concerned they do nothing but complain and insult the immigration department.

They may have Thai wives and children, but that does not give them any special rights. They can get a marriage visa and if they do not have enough funds they should not expect to be able to stay here. I am sure a Thai in similar circumstances would not be able to stay in thier countries.

In Hanoi, I used the VOA procedure twice in the past 3 months and never waited more than 20 minutes to get my stamp at the airport so I see it as a very convenient procedure, certainly better than having to queue at some embassy. The only drawback if you are short on the $ side is that you pay twice, once online to get the "Approval Letter" and a second time to get your visa stamp upon arrival...

https://vietnamvisa.govt.vn/apply-online/

As a (french) frequent traveller to VN I can attest that there is absolutely no problem if you follow the procedure (see website above).

By the way, depending on your nationality, if you are staying less than 15 days and hold a valid return ticket you need no visa at all, not even an immigration form.Just proceed to immigration when you arrive, they scan your passport and give you 15 days max, easy and free. You cannot come back to VN on the same exemption scheme less than 1 month after the last exit though, if you need to do so then you will need a visa.

You will find all you need in the attachment

mariage_sept_2015_fr-th_22092015.pdf

Your situation regarding employment is totally irrelevant here both on the thai side and the french side.

As long as you meet the other requirements you may marry as you wish.You should check the embassy in Thailand website:

http://www.ambafrance-th.org/Etat-civil-586

For a start it would be nice if PTT (and probably others) trained their staff about this. Several times I've had to prevent some to use their phone while filling my tank...

If u can put up with French comments and if u have a TrueVisions package that includes TV5Monde u can watch it live. Saturday 9pm.

Thank you very much Guys, that is the information I needed. Should be no problem in the middle of the dry season then except for adverse traffic and ...dust!

Best wishes to all.

Cheers

Planning this next month (Isuzu D-Max 2WD) and was wondering if anybody has recent experience with that road.

I am a long term resident in Thailand, currently visiting Cordoba in Spain with my Miss and was rather surprised to see that sites free for me as a EU citizen were charging 0.30 for others... Kind of a revenge taken for so many years of dual pricing in LOS, except that those 120baths also came out my own pocket!

You probably did buy wrong, difficult to tell on which account though. Prescription or execution of the prescription?... I've been wearing progressive lenses for 25 years, into my fifth or sixth pair now I guess and couldn't live without them!

However ophthalmology is a real medical science hardly mastered by a sales girl after a few hours crash training course (in Thailand, the boss of these chains/franchises may have real qualifications but he's out playing golf while the shop is handled by 9000B/month sales girls...

So get a proper prescription from a real ophthalmologist (who by the way may discover some other field related pathology)

Then try to get a serious optician and that's the hard part. There is one I would recommend in BKK, small shop on SUKHUMVIT, just under NANA BTS station (odd sois side) in his sixties, been there for 30 years, knows his stuff!

Price probably matters less however, for 30k you should get among the best lenses available such as Hoya or Essilor but no, you do not get the same lens for 3k and 30k except if cheated.

Finally, yes it takes a bit of time to adapt, not much in my experience though, but if you still feel uncomfortable after a few days something is wrong.

I've been shopping around for 8 years including online with an ordinary BANGKOK BANK VISA card, each transaction being debited on the spot from my savings account. Never encountered any problem.

I've had all sorts. Toyota is top but price is coming with it...

Been driving Isuzu D-Max Z Prestige for 2 years, just passed 70K maintenance with flying colors. Excellent handling,very low fuel consumption, 10K regular maintenance never exceeded 2000B. Definitely the best below 1milB.

Ranger is sturdy but tough for my old bottom!

I confess not having tested latest models though.

Finally, if you're in the sticks, Isuzu and Toyota have the best service network.

For many years I have been routinely using a Bangkok Bank debit card for purchases over the internet as well as physical purchases. No problen whatsoever.