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Of course foreigners are allowed to buy stocks. You're just asking the wrong people. Banks don't sell them, brokerages do. You'd need to ask a brokerage to open an account, not a bank. (Most banks here have a brokerage arm. However, it's a separate company, and you have to approach the brokerage directly. You can't open a brokerage account at a bank branch.)
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The problem with Thai is that there are so many potential ways to spell a single word, what with 8 ways to represent "th", four ways to write "s" &c.. Plus there are the complex tone rules, and not to ignore the fact that more than 30% of Thai words are spelled irregularly. What (tonless) transcription schemes such as Google's offer is a way to bypass the ludicrous complexity and allow people to find the correct spelling without having to search through a dozen or more potential spellings, even if they know Thai script. The major problem with the Google system is that it's (AFAIK) completely undocumented and doesn't match any existing common transcription system. But then, Google doesn't care about Thai. Note the utterly pointless transliteration (not transcription) that it offers in Google Translate.
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Interactive Brokers from Thailand?
Oxx replied to Na Fan's topic in Jobs, Economy, Banking, Business, Investments
Then you're probably going to have to generate the appropriate wire transfer instruction from within the IBKR application and go and talk to your local bank and see how they can help. -
I'm perfectly aware that many pharmaceutical companies are making obscene profits on the back of this tragedy. It's expected that Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna will, between themselves, make pre-tax profits of $34 billion this year*. Personally, I'd prefer that all pharmaceutical companies were taken into public ownership and operated on a non-profit basis. However, of course, that's never going to happen. The companies' claws are far too deep into the politicians' pockets. * Just to expand upon that: "Based on company financial statements, the Alliance estimates that Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna will make pre-tax profits of $34 billion this year between them, which works out as over a thousand dollars a second, $65,000 a minute or $93.5 million a day. The monopolies these companies hold have produced five new billionaires during the pandemic, with a combined net wealth of $35.1 billion." https://reliefweb.int/report/world/pfizer-biontech-and-moderna-making-1000-profit-every-second-while-world-s-poorest
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Interactive Brokers from Thailand?
Oxx replied to Na Fan's topic in Jobs, Economy, Banking, Business, Investments
Yes, lots of people do. They have about 600,000 client accounts. I don't know what nationality you are but, for example, I can send money to my UK bank account, and then it's a simple matter to transfer to IBKR. I think it's important to use a proper bank account, rather than a money transfer service. -
Anutin: Pfizer Won't Give Paxlovid Formula to Thailand
Oxx replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Who needs it? Thailand's already got Green Chiretta, the miracle herb that cures Covid. -
Trading Thai stocks and NVDR
Oxx replied to SymS's topic in Jobs, Economy, Banking, Business, Investments
You have not purchased stocks illegally. Foreigners are allowed to purchase Local (L) stocks. However, if they do so, they are not entitled to dividends or have any voting rights. It's stated quite clearly on the SET website: https://www.set.or.th/en/news/econ_mkt_dev/files/Foreigners_Participation.pdf In fact, foreign day traders frequently trade L stocks since they're typically not interested in dividends or voting rights. As others have said, best to stick with F stocks and NVDRs. -
do you say these words like they are high tone or rising tone?
Oxx replied to BananaBandit's topic in Thai Language
The most useful diagram of tone contours that I know of is this: It's from Thubthong, Nuttakorn & Kijsirikul, Boonserm & Luksaneeyanawin, Sudaporn. (2001). Stress and tone recognition of polysyllabic words in Thai speech. The full text is available at researchgate.net. -
(1) Clearly you're no "programmer writer". It's "program", even in British English. And the usual term is "programmer". (2) I believe that "Asean Now" wasn't written by programmers working for Asean Now, but rather they used previously developed software and simply tweaked it a little bit. Just because "Asean Now" can leverage existing bulletin board software doesn't mean that this software can be used to create the Thailand Pass system. (3) You do appear to be utterly clueless.
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Perhaps not your personal fault, but definitely the fault of your US state. Clearly it's important to be able to verify the authenticity of vaccine records, given that fake documents have been found from a number of countries. The ones who "didn't think it through" are the countries and states that didn't consider the importance of the ability to verify authenticity to be essential, not the Thai government.
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It's hyperthyroidism as previously stated. Hyperthyroidism can cause goitre, and it's probably the goitre that's to be surgically reduced in size (not removed). This image perhaps suggests why it's known as "throat eat blood" in Thai: I believe it's particularly common in Isaan where levels of iodine in food are low.
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Based upon a newspaper article today, the entire process is apparently automated, and approval is supposed to "immediate". Any delays are the fault of the person applying if "uploaded vaccination documents [are] unintelligible, prompting Thai officials to resort to manual verification" and "the hotels that visitors had booked were not linked to hospitals that conduct RT-PCR tests".
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Pheu Thai MP throws rice in Parliament to protest PM, minister’s absence
Oxx replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
Also take into account that the majority of rice farmers doesn't own the land they work, so they typically would only get half of that for themselves: 2½ baht. -
Term Deposit Bangkok Bank
Oxx replied to brianthainess's topic in Jobs, Economy, Banking, Business, Investments
The Bank of Thailand publishes deposit rates for all Thai banks in English at https://www.bot.or.th/english/statistics/financialmarkets/interestrate/_layouts/application/interest_rate/IN_Rate.aspx It doesn't cover the irregular terms (e.g. 4 or 7 months) that some banks offer, often with slightly better rates. -
Thai traffic light colors...yellow, amber or orange ?
Oxx replied to MikeN's topic in Thailand Motor Discussion
And it was gas powered (that's English gas, not American gas), and exploded, injuring a policeman, after less than a month. Hardly something to brag about. An afterthought: perhaps it was invented by Irish terrorists. -
Anyone recently had a colonoscopy in Thailand?
Oxx replied to charliechoc's topic in Health and Medicine
You appear to be a bit out of date. For people of average risk, it's recommended that screening is started at 45 (not 50). There is no difference according to gender. https://www.cancer.org/latest-news/american-cancer-society-updates-colorectal-cancer-screening-guideline.html -
I prefer Ayam (a Malaysian brand) to the Thai brands. I use the EVO version for Salad Niçoise, and the sunflower oil version for everything else.