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Pureed. You mean like a mango smoothie?!? Gross!

On 5/27/2024 at 11:01 PM, organicman said:

I can't access Krungsri app anymore via VPN. It tells me to turn off my VPN. Anyone else having the same issues trying to access their Thai bank account under a VPN connection???

 

There is no way in hell i will use the internet without a VPN on!!! 

 

It was bad enough last year that they didn't allow us to run an Anti-Virus program to protect our phones from Malware anymore!! My phone was infected with Malware late last year because I forgot to turn it back on after using Krungsri App. I lost all my photos and everything! Same with my Thai girlfriend's phone!!

 

 

 

 

SCB app has been like that for a very long time now.

Is this whole thing just for the first time you install the app on your phone and they send you an SMS to validate or is it for every time you login? What if you’re using wifi? Or you’re traveling? Or have a foreign SIM in your phone and use that for data? There are so many possible combinations and a lot could go wrong and surely they don’t want 1 million customers calling and visiting brand locations. It would be a time sucking disaster for the banks in addition to all the users. My guess is it would only be for the initial setup and installation, which already can only be done with some banks from a Thai IP address. I bought my last new phone in HK and couldn’t install the SCB app again until I got back to Thailand. 

Making lots of bookings on booking.com works just fine to get the visa and keep them all active until you actually arrive in Europe. Then change or cancel them. Maybe eat the first night at the first destination because if you said one hotel on your application and then when you arrive the border agent might also call to confirm that the reservation is still valid. But once you clear immigration feel free to cancel them all. Just choose ones that are no payment until check in and only pay if you cancel with less than 24 hours notice. I have a passport from a Schengen visa territory so no problem for me but had to go through all the same BS because I wanted to take my maid with us to see our home and life there, and she was going to stay at our house, but since we lived in Thailand, we didn’t have proof of residence and banks and all that. So we did the booking.com route and canceled after clearing immigration and took our holiday and went back to Thailand. Stupid rules deserve stupid responses. It’s not like it’s reality and actually keeping good guys in and bad guys out but more like those tests you took in high school to see who can follow directions and jump through hoops.

13 hours ago, Phillip9 said:

 

I'm guessing you haven't seen any of the news reports about how the US southern border is currently completely overwelmed with immigrants from every corner of the world like never before in history.......

To quote your illustrious ex president. But seriously, those are the lowest of the low, the ones who actually want to be the illegal Mexican lawn boys, or Ecuadorian lawn boys, or Bolivian lawn boys. 

Complete and utter arrogance. They think that everyone wants to live there and be an illegal Mexican lawn boy for the rest of their lives. Haven’t they realized that for the last 20 years so-called third-world people don’t want to live in the US? A.) they’re probably better off in their home countries and b.) if they’re not, and they do want to move, the US is hardly the first choice any more. Maybe from the 1950s to 2000 it was but since 2000 or 9/11 only the lowest of the low South Americans want to go to the US. Everybody else would rather go to Canada or the UK or Australia or anywhere in Europe. Arrogance to the extreme. Riding their legacy laurels as if it were still 1950s. I once lived in HK and was planning to move temporarily to the US for work and offered to take my Filipina maid at the time to the US and sponsor her for a visa. She just laughed and politely declined. She later told me she likes the US but it was like number 30 on her list, so she held out for something better.

Last month I flew from Manila to Bangkok to Samui and then Samui to Bangkok to Rome via Abu Dhabi. Not once in any part of any of it was there any discussion of Covid or vaccines or even masks, except apparently masks were required in the Abu Dhabi terminal, but only about half the people seemed to notice that one. Otherwise it was 100% pre-Covid. Nobody cares any more. Outside of China and HK, Covid is as relevant to international travel as the bubonic plague.

As someone said, use FTX and convert to USD and send to your bank in Thailand. Or, if you can withstand the long wait for KYC at Bitkub, they give pretty good rates on the sell side and you convert to THB and withdraw instantly 24/7 to your local bank account.  I use SCB and its near instant 24/7/365.

300 is standard for a barber not a salon in Samui and you need to make an appointment in advance otherwise you’ll be sitting and waiting for an hour or two.

Try this one for Bangkok. This was for girls but 13000 14 years ago is still crazy. Those are proper western prices!

On 2/19/2022 at 11:17 AM, ThaiApec said:

Hi T, I got the same problem as you guys now (in 2022) ... are you saying that the Immigration could give you first a 30 days extension without any letter from your Embassy (after your 90 days APEC visa entry) ... and the letter of your Embassy is needed only if you want to stay longer than 30 days ? In that case; what kind of letter (letter content) should the Embassy issue for you ? Thanks for your clarification.

 

Sorry, I left Thailand and Asia in general almost 2 years ago. I really have no idea now. Good luck.

23 minutes ago, malibukid said:

America is a failed state and is sad portrait of its former self.  i got sick of it 20 years ago and saw the writing on the wall and got the hell out.  most Americans are adverse to travel and so will go down with the ship.  i am happily watching it from abroad self destruct.  the American people deserve what they now have.  thanks to Trump and Regan all the progress that was made in the last 60 years is gone.  this is just a happier place to be for me.

Well said! It when and why I left also. The patriot act and the ensuing rise of police state was the last straw. I didn’t want to raise kids in a country like that. And since then I’ve lived in 7 countries. My kids get the benefit of choice. And we can sit back with a bowl of popcorn and watch the US Civil war on the pro-American news channels like CNN or FOX or others. Much better that way.

Technically speaking you can get divorced in any country where you are resident and do it in the local courts where resident. I used to live in HK and everyone is an expat there and there are all sorts of expats filing for divorce there with no connection to HK other than one of both parties was then resident there. They are all expat marriages - like maybe an American who may have married a Swiss in Barbados while they were living in Toronto and now one lives in Mexico and the other is concurrently resident in HK and Dubai but spends all their time as a tourist in Thailand. Where to get divorced? The general rules is that either party can file for divorce where that party is officially resident and do so in the local court and then that local court can decide to try to apply either their local laws or the laws where most appropriate. It’s called forum shopping. I’m a citizen of 3 countries, and so was my ex, of 2 different countries, we together lived in 6 other countries over the years, never having anything resembling a “home country,” and we got married on holiday in a totally unrelated country, and my ex did exactly that, and my lawyers did the same.

On 7/18/2021 at 8:42 AM, giddyup said:

Will they come to my house, pickup and then deliver my passport?

I did that last year. Yes.

All good advice and all correct, big from a practical standpoint, it will be nearly impossible for you to get a bank account in HK as a non HK resident and with neither you nor the company having any ties there. I am an HK permanent resident who has split time between HK and Thailand over the last 8-9 years. You’re better off finding another offshore jurisdiction where you can get the company and the bank account, like Vanuatu for example, or America is a good option also, but then again if your clients are Google or others best fo make sure they’ll work with you as an offshore entity. And also most every offshore jurisdiction anywhere, if you want a bank account, you’ll need to travel there, and in the age of Covid it’s not so easy also.

2 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

 

Me too, although I'm not sure that orgin will show international matches. Or I use catch up on IPTV. Fullmatches has quite recently taken to producing several pop-ups on the first choice player which you can close and after 5-6 tries you get the match (AdBlock doesn't stop most of the pop-ups), but the alternative player usually has no such inconvenience. 

Will it be on any of the UK channels on the Thai IPTV with catch up? I’m sure it will be on BT Sport or Sky sports.

On 4/2/2021 at 7:56 AM, patman30 said:

that sort of defeats the object of the cars being self driven, no ?

why would someone need to have a license, follow the rules, know how to drive, when the car is doing the driving not the passenger ?

they will more likely be self driving Taxi's, most people will have no need to own one

other drivers, not the “driver” of the self driving car. AI is based on predictability and rule following of the other non AI drivers on the road. And when the other drivers are kamikaze crack-heads, I think the Tesla programmers wouldn’t know how to deal with that. Maybe they need to spend a few years driving the roads of Thailand themselves. But then again Tesla would have to pay them hazard pay because probably only 1/2 of them would return to California alive! ????

Yeah, but in countries where the roads are uniform, lines are painted, and other divers a.) have licenses, b.) follow the rules and c.) have a clue how to drive.  That said, in Thailand maybe in 200 years!

On 2/22/2021 at 1:13 PM, Heng said:

 

The folks at *** and **** were fine with my Thai passport.   But yes, personal visit required and you'll need a reason to open the account.   Mine was simply, 'I want to reduce my country risk and to diversify my assets.'   It also didn't hurt that I hinted that I would be willing to purchase an insurance savings plan as well (instant commission for the account rep. and also basically ties you to the bank for the next 15-20 years).   

Interesting. Was this in the last year or two? I had thought it had gotten much more difficult in recent years. I too bank there but wanted to help my in laws open a bank account there and took the in laws there to my branch at DBS and they rejected them. Was it DBS or another? Did you contact them in advance of your visit? Or just walk into a branch? What other docs did you take with you before you flew to Singapore for this?

On 12/29/2020 at 9:36 AM, yabbra said:

 

So you're saying it's possible to get verified with a crypto exchange & open a bank account in Singapore while your country of residence is Thailand?

Not any more. Singapore banks are closing accounts left and right for non residents even if they’ve opened those accounts years ago, and it’s damned near impossible to open new accounts there unless a Singapore resident or company.