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17 hours ago, peterb17 said:

Do we gather that you don’t actually live at this address ? It’s just some arrangement?

 

like every where in the civilised world you need a legal permanent address- here it links into so many agencies.

Depending on where you live in Thailand, not necessarily........

 If you do your 90 day reports online you could use an old address and nobody would know. CW don’t ask for a current lease contract when renewing a visa extension, my contract finished years ago and CW have never asked to look at it. Other offices are fussier though.

 Don’t forget there are hundreds of thousands of Thais living and working in Bangkok that are officially registered as living back in their home town, even if they only go back there for a few days at Songkran.

54 minutes ago, AdamTH said:

I know! But will the landlord/house owner agree with "the" contract? Giving their ID, House Book, Personal Info...for foreigners..

Sent from my SM-J730GM using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app
 

You (should) only need a copy of ID and housebook, not the originals. Until the introduction of "Smart IDs" recently Thais needed to give copies of their ID for just about every govt transaction, and still do for others so he should be used to it and i don't see why he would not give you a copy. Every landlord that has had dealings with foreigners should know about the registration process. If he does not want to rent to you then thats another matter .........

9 hours ago, Burma Bill said:

This is Lukla Airport with its short sloping runway that ends with a steep drop into a mountain valley.

 

And this was Lukla in 1994 or 1995, cannnot remember which trip this was taken on, probably the first in 1994

Both photos would have been taken from what would be the middle of the aircraft parking area now

It was a dirt strip then and you used to be able to walk down to the end, and see how close some of the tyre marks from landing were to the edge. On my second trip I made sure i got the centre seat front row so that I could see through the open cockpit door on the approach, straight at the hillside !

1 hour ago, Sam Lin said:

Bakery of the Central Chidlom supermarket has fresh hot cross buns as well as chocolate Easter eggs of all sizes, including a giant sized one.

Thanks for that .....it’s been 8 or 9 years since my last hot cross bun, might have a bit of a calorie splurge this weekend.????

I was talking to my GF yesterday about Easter, skipped over most of the religious stuff and told her it is a big holiday back home, a bit like Songkran is here. She was interested (typical Thais and food, LOL.) when I mentioned the traditional food of Hot Cross Buns and Easter Eggs....the chocolate ones not the dyed boiled eggs.  Which got me to wondering if they might be available here in Bangkok, perhaps at somewhere like the Emporium food hall ? Probably would cost an arm and a leg, but has anybody ever seen them for sale in BKK ?

4 hours ago, Formaleins said:

 

It is obvious the drunken fool did not set out to kill anyone, so I cannot see how they can use murder as the charge. There must be something more fitting, death by reckless driving, accidental homicide?? There must be a charge that will fit the crime.

 

If he had waved a gun around and shot somebody while drunk, it would be murder, would n’t it ? Even if he didn’t set out to kill anybody.

 In the wrong hands a car is just another weapon, and there were plenty of warnings about this change of heart so no excuse for ignorance.

 Accidental homicide ..... did he accidentally get drunk ?

5 hours ago, stbkk said:

A week or so ago I was asked for my passport to top up my skytrain card at On-Nut skytrain station, definitely a first (for me).

 

They accepted my pink id card though.

 

And yesterday I topped up again at Phrakhanong BTS, and of course no request for passport, id etc. just hand over the money. 

 

TIT.

That’s because you only have to register your Rabbit card once !

On 4/4/2019 at 5:39 PM, Peksi said:

It seems nobody has done this weird experiment, as one might guess.

 

Around my country they use ground temperature to extract heat in winters and cool in summertime. I am curious if the soil in Thailand would provide anything benefit for cooling purposes.

I did read something on the Coolthaihouse building forum of a guy who is trying that here, you might try looking for his story.

 Something like “ecohouse build in Surin” by Bandersnatch ?

2 hours ago, Chicken George said:

Article 44 stops things in their tracks. No nonsense act.. Something had to be kept quiet. I wont speculate. We will probable never know as thats why 44 was used. End of. Nothing more to see here.

 

Article 44 keeps things quiet ? You gotta be kidding ! it's the use of article 44 that has drawn all the attention. How many pages have been written here on TV over the last few days ? Anything that happens in the near future will be linked to this case, no matter how wild the speculation.

If it was on the orders of somebody at the very top (as some speculate) it would have been very easy to arrange a tragic accident for Big Joke.... wait until he leads a raid somewhere dark, shoot him in the back and blame it on foreign criminals.

Or just arrest him on some trumped up charge, stick him in a cell where the CCTV is broken, and let him commit "suicide".

1 hour ago, Issanbound said:

My mail is, from a very reliable source, it is for this very reason, corruption,  that he is under investigation. Do as I say, not as I do. 

And were you Jimmy7777 before you joined one hour ago ? He claimed to have lots of reliable sources too, his “spook contacts at the Embassy” etc. He has been silent since his claims of Big Joke being arrested, thrown into the royal prison, never to be seen again, are now obviously wrong.

28 minutes ago, balo said:

Nothin wrong here , I go to this site ;

https://www.immigration.go.th/index

 

No porn , and I'm on an old Win 7 laptop. 

That’s the main immigration website, it was the Bangkok Immigration site : http://bangkok.immigration.go.th/intro1.html 

They seem to be cleaning it up right now, only a couple of the links at the bottom of the sidebar menu go to a porno site at the moment.

2 minutes ago, NightSky said:

I found all the links on the site redirect to porn sites 

 

Its most likely an injected redirection script a hacker bot has placed on the server 

 

I doubt they know about it otherwise it would be taken down surely 

 

Pity that Big Joke is “offline” or I could tell him, and get some brownie points for my visa extension renewal next week.

15 minutes ago, rabas said:

I did. .co does not exist, it was a typo in the post. fixed.

The Thai link takes you in to the right website, but  clicking on the picture of H.M. or the English “ enter website” links take you to a porno site.... I have just checked it again on my iPad...... several times

1 minute ago, rabas said:

 

It's not a hack, they upgraded (grain of salt) and added small graphics for some of the main menu items. The menu still goes the the proper pages.  But, they upgraded since yesterday. This weekend it was the older version.

 

bangkok_immigration_co_th is the website for division 1 at Chaengwattana.

immigration_co_th still has all the big joke images.

Try it with .go, ( for government) instead of .co

31 minutes ago, NightSky said:

I just looked at the old immigration website (the one with Bangkok dot immigration in the url) and it’s been hacked with links to rude websites.

 

Hmmm.....

 

does anyone else see that?

I do now .... LOL

1 hour ago, morrobay said:

So you claim inside information and in a few days it will be in the news. Then for your credibility  "talk around " it. 

Well, at various times he has claimed that he knows Big Joke’s downfall is either a routine transfer, or because of political chicanery, or because of corruption(2 different options) or at the behest of Thailand #1, or “something to do with children”...... and maybe other reasons that I have missed.

I guess that gives him enough options to spin and say “I told you so” if and when the real story ever comes out?

16 hours ago, tlandtday said:

Yeah and where did you get this info from?  A far more likely scenario is they were pressured and caved.  I would say no small coincidence a few of these embassies have been critical of a non elected government.

As far as the Australian Embassy at least is concerned, it had nothing to do with the Thai govt, Immigration, or Big Joke.

I don’t know if it was a change in the law re Stat Decs, or just a change in policy by DFAT, but other Australian embassies elsewhere have stopped doing Stat Decs for local use, and state on their websites that they can only do them for documents of Australian origin or for use in Australia.

https://newzealand.embassy.gov.au/wltn/Australiansnotarial.html

https://japan.embassy.gov.au/tkyo/notarial.html

 No matter how big Big Joke thought he was, he had no influence over the Australian embassy’s decision.

As for the people relying on AMM’s Facebook posts as evidence they should remember that he looks at the world through “red tinted glasses” from afar, relying on biased rumors and anecdotes from his former red comrades. He might well be right this time, but I would not bet the house on it.

7 hours ago, Thaiarrow said:

Your attention is directed to  the previous response;

Official statements and news for immigration matters can be found here in foreign language; https://www.immigration.go.th/index . The two sections are News and Announcements.

The reliable source of information on immigration matters is the government, not anonymous persons making claims on Facebook, Panthip, Nation Media website. 

You mean the News and Announcements that are in Thai, even though the page is the English option ? Not so useful is it ? Perhaps you (and LoveThailandElite ) could be gainfully employed on government websites instead of trolling here.

Lazada has people selling the extract and bags of straw.

2 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

Apparently you avoided answering my question and insert your own inscrutable diversion and hope to make us believe that the judiciary is in the hands of politicians and not the establishment. That in spite of political parties not aligned to the establishment have been disbanded and executives banned while those aligned were spared. You really don;t have a strong case. 

I answered your question ....I may be naive but can governing party tear up the constitution and re-write the law to disadvantage political parties?  

 As I said, they can, have, and will probably do it again. Just look at how many Constitutions they have had in living memory.

 Also don’t forget Thais voted to accept this constitution !

 If you think the judiciary has not been influenced by various governments you really should do some reading on the subject. Just as an example, start with “ Pastrygate” http://thailandjumpedtheshark.blogspot.com/2008/06/pastrygate-thaksins-lawyers-jailed.html

And no, I am not saying that only one government or party is the only ones guilty, they are all tarred with the same brush. That link is a good example .....when Thaksin was in charge the courts appreciated his “lunch boxes” and did his will, then when he was gone they went the other way.

 Yingluck was tried by the junta, and if Pheu Thai had won a clear majority they would be getting their revenge on Prayut one way or another. The general and his cohorts might have given themselves immunity for the coup but I am sure a PT govt would get them in court for something.

 It’s the way of Thai “democracy”, and some of the posters here should stop getting their knickers in a knot over something they have no say in.

 If the new government doesn’t suit you, relax, it won’t last 4 years until the next scheduled election. There will be another coup, or another civil uprising by red/yellow shirts, or the coalition will collapse and the parties re-align themselves .....or all three, not necessarily in that order.

6 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

I may be naive but can governing party tear up the constitution and re-write the law to disadvantage political parties? 

This is Thailand, of course they can ...... and have done so before.

you are naive if you think previous governments here have not used what would be considered neutral authorities elsewhere to gain an advantage over their political opponents.

 Make dubious directives to the police, exert influence over the judicial system, twist the arms of the Constitutional Court, lean on the media, use the DSI to harass your opponents, etc etc.

 All run of the mill stuff in Thai politics ! 

IMHO the Future Forward Party might be a breath of fresh air, but they might turn out to be more of the same.