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8 hours ago, rwill said:

If you can afford to open a schwab one international account it is one of the best options.  It takes $25,000 to open it.  If you already own stocks you can transfer them to satisfy that too.  With the schwab account you can use your foreign address and telephone number.  Wire transfers are free.  And if you ask for a debit card there are no fees and they also pay the foreign Thai ATM fee for you too.  They will call you after you apply to talk to you, also part of the KYC thingy.  

 

It's really a plus to me not to have to maintain a US address and phone number.  Lots of US banks now want to send you an SMS to do transactions  and only take US numbers.

I would like to know how you manage to wire to a foreign account for free.  Every time I try to do that, they remind me of $15 fee for that service.

Are they still selling traveller's cheques?

At leasest, I can no longer buy them  anywhere in Japan.

Besides, the link below clearly shows the social status of traveller's cheques in today's society.

http://thefinanser.com/2016/11/american-express-book-mormon.html/

Hello allane,

Thank you for the reply.

14 hours ago, siam2007 said:

on-native speaker WITHOUT a degree

What kind of degree is needed?

Is it supposed to be related to English or teaching?

I am a non-native speaker of English but earned a master's in engineering and MBA in the US.

Am I qualified to teach English in Thailand?

I did take TOEIC recently and scored 990, so TOEIC is no problem.