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Quite. A friend of mine was told a few months back it would be over 2 years and he decided to pay the 12k to have it done. Another friend has had both done in the last couple of years and only waited months. He had both done on NHS but carried out in a private hospital, it's a real shxxshow.

Like many other things in this life, you have to do the homework, pay your money and take the chance. I am on the outskirts of Chonburi, built in 2009 for 900K, probably spent about 300K on upkeep over the years, doesn't owe me anything.

What version of android are you using? Since version 11, possibly 10, android has denied access to system and data files so your file manager will not see them. The other thing is possibly your file manager. In the past I have had problems with the file manage that came with the device and had to install a better one to do what I wanted. I used FX File Explorer but many available free on Playstore. I recently had to buy a new TV box and that came with android 11 and I had a problem the other way round I couldn't get at the data files to overwrite them. A bit of googling brought up a variety of suggestions for workarounds, all based on using a more sophisticated file manager that had to be paid for. I didn't bother following it through, just laboriously set up the new installation manually.

Having a passport number on the TM30 doesn't make it from the passport holder or mean the TM30 and TM47 are linked in the database. The TM30 in my passport was done long before any 90 day online system. If you want to believe they dug out all old TM30s and fed them into the system that is up to you, but it wouldn't make it true. Ref your link, yes indeed. I suggested in another post why the online system wouldn't work with a new passport obtained in Thailand.

Your wording sounds like you are talking about doing the 90 days in person and what you say may well be true at some offices. As far as the online system is concerned I would be surprised if it cross checks the passport numbers against TM30s. It is not out of the question but a questionable exercise in database linking and TM30s are not actually from the passport holder. The TM 30 in my passport is from 2015 and had many different visas and trips abroad since then. When I have done a 90 day in person they have just glanced through the passport noting what is stapled inside.

Almost certainly. If you renew your passport in Thailand the chain gets broken as the 90 days relates to an entry, which would have been done using the old passport. The online system would have no way of connecting the 2 passports. If you enter the country on a new passport there shouldn't be a problem doing the first 90 day online, will get a definitive answer to that one at the end of the year.

Scotland also has 2 privately funded Spaceports in the pipeline. The one at Saxa Vord in Shetland is expecting a licence shortly and looking to a first launch by the end of the year. The other in Sutherland is also well on the way, being built by Orbex whose HQ is in my home town of Forres. Both are commercial enterprises aimed at small satellites. Who would have thought that there was any "Space" expertise in the remote and sparsley populated north of Scotland.

The scientists aren't in the government, they were dealing with NASA when the US needed to use Thailand for R&R. Thailand has been involved in satellite remote sensing since the launch of NASA ERTS-1 Programme in 1971 through Thailand Remote Sensing Programme (TRSP) under the National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT). In 1979, TRSP was elevated to become one of the NRCT's division, namely Thailand Remote Sensing Center (TRSC). TRSC serviced and promoted utlization of remote sensing data for management of natural resources and environment in Thailand In 1982, Thailand Ground Receiving Station was set up as first of its kind in Southeast Asia. Then TRSC became satellite data distributor to users worldwide. The available satellite data are such as LANDSAT, SPOT, NOAA, ERS and MOS. https://web.archive.org/web/20111018082040/http://www.gistda.or.th/gistda_n/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5&Itemid=2

Who indeed. https://www.forbes.com/sites/rgluckman/2022/09/11/thai-aerospace-entrepreneur-james-yenbamroong-bets-big-with-space-satellite/?sh=63702784291e

Quite. The Government and the EU as a whole screwed the issue up many years ago, rather than a co-ordinated effort they all tried to to their own thing allowing freeloaders to mingle with genuine cases. It is what it is and you do not need much of a brain to see things are not getting any better. The government should open up safe passage with entry based on genuine asylum, the others being sent straight back to where they came from. It would be unlikely then for any genuine cases to be on small boats so they could just be rounded up and immediately deported.

Brexit mentality, kick the French in the teeth and then expect them to help.

Ex military would be used to it. When I joined up there were 18 in a room and all you got was a bed and a wooden locker & wardrobe. They had to refurbish the accommodation when Stradishall was converted from an RAF base to an open prison. It does not matter what you think the government owes them or anyone else, they will only ever do what they think will attract more votes.

Government involvement goes back quite a way and I thought I had seen something not that long ago about a private venture. https://web.archive.org/web/20111018082040/http://www.gistda.or.th/gistda_n/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5&Itemid=2 https://www.forbes.com/sites/rgluckman/2022/09/11/thai-aerospace-entrepreneur-james-yenbamroong-bets-big-with-space-satellite/?sh=63702784291e

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rgluckman/2022/09/11/thai-aerospace-entrepreneur-james-yenbamroong-bets-big-with-space-satellite/?sh=63702784291e

Did mine in 2010 at Chonburi, no witnesses or translations required. May have helped being a new build and my wife was applyng for her blue book at the same time. Only thing was my wife got hers the following day, I had to wait six weeks while they did a police report. As for being beneficial, I would say getting vaccinated around 9am on the day the covid vaccine rollout started, having been placed on the vaccine register by the hospital. I was registered at the hospital with yellow book as opposed to passport.

There is never "any mention of Thailand’s shortcomings or deficits" Only attempts by "anti-Thai" expats to vilify the government actions based on media reports.

Mine is also due end of month following a trip abroad. Will be interesting to see a difference.

Not if the spaceport is private enterprise and commercially viable. There is nothing wrong with the government touting for investment from interested parties worldwide. They however need to create legislation that can lead to approval. if the government eventually proposes to fully fund the project in favour of other infrastructure it becomes a different argument.

My friend lives in Bury St Edmunds, ex Honington and my chief on Buccs in 72. Visit him every year and always difficult to get there.

We went through last September and I was charged 200 baht, wife tried to use pink card but they refused saying price for foreigners had been discounted from 400 baht. As said, if you don't like it don't go. We were heading north so cheaper and quicker to pay than to turn round and drive round. Fifteen to twenty years ago the going rate for foreigners into a national park was 400 baht, not gone up much. When we went to China the average price for any attraction was in the order of £25 plus, as with many other countries. The real niggle with expats is that the Thais don't pay as much, then in the next breath they will complain about the government not doing anything for the people.

This is not new Bill, and they have only ever talked about satellites There is an ever growing demand for small satellies, why there is 2 spaceports under construction in the UK, potentially a lucrative investment. This is from 2021. While Thailand did officially launch a satellite last year, it was manufactured in the Netherlands and launched in French Guiana. The Thai-made satellite is the first thing in space made in Thailand, aside from some trees on the International Space Station. https://thethaiger.com/hot-news/technology/first-thai-made-satellite-to-launch-in-2023

If a group of business people can put a private enterprise spaceport together with very little in the way of public funds only a certain mentality would think that the same could not be done in Thailand. Of course western governments wouldn't be too keen on their residents investing is such a project so the Thais would look to more enthusiastic partners, fuelling another round of anti Thai rhetoric.

Not unique to Thailand Bill. If you live in East Anglia there are no trains running west. The UK has a GDP severl times that of Thailand and things are not that much better.

I use Sri Ratcha and my last one was effectively by return, receipt timed at 14.07 and approval 14.09. Appeared automated, too quick for human intervention.

Why the ignorant Thai bashing rhetoric. Spaceports are not intended for manned flight and being a commercial venture can launch rockets made in other countries. The spaceport in the north of Scotland has an outline plan to launch rockets made in UK, Germany and the US.