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3 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

Not surprised they must have a flood now of foreigners opening bank accounts here.  Probably more changes to come as how many of these accounts could/will be used for criminal activity?

 

Good point. Especially if it continues to increase, there might well be some reactions like this.

7 hours ago, NanLaew said:

The mandatory use of OTP's and other forms of 2FA authorization via short code sms and/email is common across the whole, childish world these days.

[my bank] 2 factor authentication means biometrics, which they want to supersede OTP. Typically the face, iow phone selfie camera. The bank has my fingerprints, which is used when I go in, but i haven't seen it mentioned wrt 2FA.

10 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

Have two accounts at Bankok Bank and SCB.

First is with ATM card and online access. Second one is fixed deposit with higher balance and accepted by immigration for 800/400k.

At any time you can fill up fixed deposit from the normal savings account 

What is the interest rate on fixed deposits? [currently.]

Good is subjective - very subjective, especially this.  End of.

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4 hours ago, ChintaHuma said:

Please advice all that is required for retirement in Thailand. I know I have to keep 800K in a bank account

It is all here. Just not in one place.  You need to do several weeks - at least - of reading on this forum.

16 hours ago, KhunLA said:

or should we cut more trees down to make paper...

Trees for paper and packaging are grown commercially for that purpose. Usually pine and wattle, afaik. So the rest is about it is done wrt ecology - what was originally there, effects on things that live in it.  ...Entire process optimised for specific size and type of timber.

1 hour ago, OneMoreFarang said:

then I would ask myself: Is that the kind of guy I would employ in my company?

I would just end the interview in a minute or two. 

...That's just the tip of the iceberg, the rest you'd find out later.

8 hours ago, Mickmouse1 said:

I dearly love to understand why so many FALANGS R DESPERATE  to stay in Siam and not return home? Yet, many are critical of Thai hospitality which allows them to stay.

Because they're old bitches. Or just plain stupid.

On 11/7/2022 at 4:13 PM, rbkk said:

Why were the press invited? 

Because something was going on, obviously, and some news reporters have connections.

On 11/7/2022 at 5:37 PM, Mac Mickmanus said:

The best thing that he could have done would be to go peacefully and immediately  to the Police station and try to arrange

yeh, but psychos often don't do the best thing.

On 11/7/2022 at 4:07 PM, bob smith said:

treating overstayers like animals now. how nice.

???? riiiight. Just read the story man. It is not about visa.  What does it take for you to understand - he was ranting, behaving aggressively and threatening violence and so on.

17 minutes ago, zyphodb said:

True the world over, they seem to be maturing younger these days, girls anyway, and keeping those looks for longer....

There has been a trend, since many years ago, of early onset puberty. [Related to 'pseudo-hormones' in packaging and hormone stuff used by milk producers.]

3 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I think officially the rules are that nobody below the age of 20 is allowed in bars.

Do the police check the age of people in bars and enforce these rules?

Because if they would do that then it would be impossible that a customer picks up an underaged girl in a bar.

Obviously some girls look young. But with others it is not obvious. If a girl works in a bar (and the customer has to pay bar fine) then IMHO the bar and bar owner and bar manager are mostly responsible for this.

Police raids - random checks to see whether licensed premises are checking ID like they are legally required to d, i.e. they are liable. Although of course there is police corruption.

Nonsense. <deleted>. Sounds like straight from Daily Express or The Sun or something.

And of course motivated by anti-vaccine attitude, just one step from science denial and foolish conspiracy theories.

On 12/29/2021 at 12:43 AM, CrunchWrapSupreme said:

In BKK, on the other hand, I saw much fewer of them, mostly in language schools, rarely in formal schools. I once worked at a famous big name BKK private school, with a huge foreign teaching staff, and the lack of any black people was quite noticeable.

Don't bother looking for Thai or any SE Asian teachers in Africa.

On 12/29/2021 at 3:54 AM, Surasak said:

With respect, he is not a native English speaker. He is an American by his own admittance. From a personal point of view, reading his post, I get the impression there is a chip on his shoulder. I hope I am wrong, but just how I read it.

Well, that was one thought while i've been reading here - that the one thing i'd be concerned about if I were a parent is whether he has that whiney accent that is so usual [with brothers] in Hollywood films.

That's ok, let him carry on.  The more exposure he gets, the better.

I have boycotted Turkey since 2014.  No big deal except the red lentils in the shop are from a Canada company getting the lentils from Turkey.  As for "Turkish Delight," I wouldn't even touch the locally-made product.

Ref. the age and sexualising and so on... by the way, the Age of Consent in Sweden is 15.

1 hour ago, evadgib said:

Three years ago the state heavy handily dealt with a father who took his daughter on holiday in school time.

 

Yesterday dozens of kids and their parents turned up in school time to watch a child truant with parental consent in the other direction deliver a cult sermon in Bristol.

 

You couldn't make it up...????

"outcomes-based education"

^^^And use from a foreign location is abnormal.  ...That is vacation/travel, expat will need to change the phone number/ update it.

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The automatic system will overide any notes or notifications if the system detects an unusual payment request.

That's about it.   If you do not notify about foreign travel location and period, then very likely (typically) all requests at a foreign location will be rejected.  Or cause a query/confirmation request.  Hence the need to change the phone number, if the system uses SMS for confirmation requests.
 

The system will trigger confirmation requests according to the rules/etc. based on your use history. ...Which can include location/s within your base country.  Other factors are the amount, the category of store/business...all that is combined to calculate a risk level/rating.
If foreign location, countries have different weighting/ratings.  So you might find, for example, that Malaysia has a higher risk rating than Thailand.

My bank does use SMS...the SMS says reply YES to confirm.  So hence the need to add the new phone number, so the SMS gets sent to both phone numbers.  (I think there are apps that forward all SMS recieved to an email address.)

Of course the problem is when it happens at a hotel reception or shop in a foreign location.  [...]

1 hour ago, Gweiloman said:

That’s crazy. Mai Sai is a 4 hr drive each way and they do this every 14 days? By minivan? Why are they so desperate to remain in Thailand?

They don't want to change.  Doing that is easier for them than a big change. ...Especially as they get older.

I can't see that lasting very much longer. 

They're all aware of people staying by doing visa runs.  Then it depends on who's running the show, which faction/group and so on.

Then add to that the tendency for more/better computer systems to be developed.  And interconnected.  Increasing tendency, even if gradual.

^^^I know what you mean, but difficult to say most. People have same basic characteristics,but of course some of those tend to show up more in one gender than the other.  *However*, it reminds me of something...office/corporate - big, department/s with mostly women / women managers...not unusual to find some uhhh nastiness. ...I mean i've seen it, heard about it firsthand...a retail planning/buying dept...the scene was they didn't take lunch break - take lunch break, get bitchy/sarcastic remarks, like it gets translated into not doing the team thing right.  And so on.  Then in my dept...friend away for 3-4 months maternity leave...someone had started story that she just got pregnant to save her marriage, i said <deleted>, she said "B, you know what [Ixxxxx] women are like..."  ...More tendency to gossip.

5 hours ago, WaveHunter said:

Thanks for the Kudos, and yes, I agree that the Chinese Central Government officials are true masters of reacting to such a crisis, but my point is that they are abysmal when it comes to be proactive to prevent one.  Furthermore, while they have instituted a lockdown that would be impossible by almost any other nation in the world, it was not really that effective in a number of serious ways.

 

For instance, even though they knew that at this time of year, the Lunar New Year holiday, when the largest migration of people in the world occurs every year, they waited until over 5 million people in Wuhan left the city before announcing the lockdown.  Even worse, they made the announcement a day before actually imposing it, allowing over 200,000 vehicles to flee the city.

 

I see this as a major issue right now because many of those people may have travelled outside of China before screening practices at international airport was in place.  Furthermore, many would have been asymptomatic yet fully capable of spreading the virus.  I see this as a major "wild card" in how likely it will add to the possibility of a true pandemic.  I think over the next week there will be more of them developing symptoms in foreign countries and being confirmed as infected, and worse, new human-to-human transmissions of the virus being confirmed in those countries.

 

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Yes, good one.

Apparently they first requested people not to leave, but many did, of course, so they started with the lockdown.

However, wrt the lockdown, and the quick building of hospitals and so on, still better than any other country would have / could have done.  The high volume of people travelling in and out of China, though, is also a unique factor.  Aside from that, though, better in China than if it had happened in Cairo or Lagos. ...I'm quite familiar with one or two places that are not capable of doing anything, except maybe the lockdown. Utterly incapable or incompetent wrt the organisation and provision of masks and hand cleaners and the testing equipment and skills, never mind the hospitals.

3 hours ago, Monomial said:

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And if you do like to chase skirts, thousands of drop dead gorgeous Ukranian hookers that will be happy to hang out with you as long as your wallet can handle it.

Just not the ladyboys. (Maybe not applicable to most tvf members, but still.)

Anyway, i'm not sure promoting it here is a good thing.

Yes, 12 months, no visa, just my passport.

- Which reminds me, I saw today that EU/Schengen visa prices being increased, substantially.  It's really expensive now.  And for me, the added expense of an expensive trip to the capital city - flights, taxis, overnight hotel. (Because of the biometrics.)