john smith

As of September last year the company declared liabilities of 100 billion baht including bonds. Payments to contractors were delayed. The company has lost money every year since 2020. TRIS credit rating is BB-

Dr Qadhi was educated in a Saudi university widely considered to advocate the Whabbi strain of Islam. This should give pause for careful thought. Whether not the Dr. Advocating the project subscribes to the Whabbi tenenants of Islam which are widely considered to be somewhat extreme is not known and there is no reason to believe that he does but the Governor of Texas would do well to give very careful thought to this project which might well attract religious extremists. Whabbism is an ultra conservative form of Islam. Adherents to its beliefs are encouraged to flock to Jihadist movements

To quote Foghorn Leghorn " Ah do despair ,ah say I do despair."

Were I the worried parent of the boy I would be appalled to read some of the comments on this thread a number of them show a cynical indifference to the feelings of his parents who may well be out of their minds with worry.

For cycle read motorcycle. Given the context of the thread I thought that was a given. Obviously not.

Twenty years ago on Samui police attempted to use the same tactics and achieved nothing. The shop owners absorbed the losses . The fines then and now are so small that tourists really do not care. Shop owners simply will not check for driving licences as to refuse to rent cycles would destroy them. I lived a short distance from one such shop. On several occasions whist talking to the shop owner over an afternoon beer the shop owner left his beer to rent a cycle to a tourist who had shortly before been stopped for not having a licence. Cycle rental is a big business

Does Bangkok Bank still charge B 200 for one years printout of all transactions in bank book ( not deposit account) ordinary passbook.

I may be three or four days late renewing my non O retirement visa ( possible hospital stay) is there a fine for this or will I need to cross a border return and start the whole process again? God forbid!

Slightly irritated by two of the comments in particular the one with "Friend" in inverted commas please let me explain. My " friend" is an eighty three year old lady with arthritis in both shoulders. She was scared that the officers might not understand her inability to lift her arms and not understand her refusal to do so. Previously she has only flown to Europe and how Asian airports work and the possible lack of English was a matter of considerable concern. Her son Googled the question. The first AI answer there was wrong. I have a small for fun bet on the question. Thank you to those who actually answered the question sensibly. I shall pass on the information.

To settle a bet does one go through a body scan on arrival at Bangkok airport? My friend believes AI which says yes. I say this only happens at departure and AI is wrong.

Oops! I missed a zero in line five. It should read £ 6000

I live in Thailand for more than 180 contiuous days a year. My income sent here is from my foreign pensions. My state pension is in theory not taxed. It is lumped together with my second pension. Thia reduces my tax allowance to around £ 6, 000 from £12, 000 +. Thus, the Revenue takes 20% of the £6, 000 but this is technically not tax being simply a reduction of my tax free allowance. Presuming that we who are not Thai citizens will be given tax numbers I wonder how the £600+ of non taxable income will be seen if it is more than the tax allowance of Thais? As a slightly silly aside given that I pay B 86 000 annually for my Thai medical insurance can I claim tax relief on that whether or not I'm liable for tax payment here?

I was under the obviously mistaken belief that prostitution was a reserved for Thais occupation

Yes I know this is the wrong forum but I find the new format difficult to navigate. The problem- I ordered a phone. Lazada sent an invoice. The phone arrived and I handed over the cash. It was not sufficient. The invoice on the delivery persons phone showed B 300 more than the invoice on my phone.I refused delivery and sent a complaint to the company from which I had bought the phone. Their response was " This is the break price." After receiving this answer I emailed Lazada customer complaints. There was no response. Could anyone explain what break price means or is it a lost in translation situation and abandon ship?

I was in Bangkok last week in a quiet part of the city near a large hotel. Three very large buses of a type that I have not seen before were parked outside the hotel. Every bus had HAN TOURS in large letters on its sides. This I suspect is an indication of which country is cornering the Chinese section of the market here. It was an incredibly blatant statement