john smith

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

Is this the group that runs Icon Siam in Bangkok?

Thank you Gottfrid for your first answer. Your PWD answer chills me to the bone. No bank here is going to own up to a mistake of that magnitude.

I am having a problem with my bank. There is confusion between me and them and my insurance company - a Thai company. A payment made to the insurance company by the bank has possibly gone astray . As of now everyone is hiding in the bushes and mumbling not me. It seems as if I shall have to sort things out. Cash was moved between my two bank books - savings and savings deposit and then sent onward to as of now an unknown destination. So far I have been unable to find the meaning of the passbook codes and as little English is spoken at my local bank branch I would like to have all of my proverbial ducks in a row before discussing the problem with the two parties involved. I should add that all of this was handled by the bank teller So, can someone please tell me what in simple terms the passbook are telling me with the letters SMT and PWD ? Hopefully one of these will indicate something meaningful.

I did my transfer from my old passport to my new passport this week no letter from my UK Embassy having been provided as is now the normal procedure.Huahin charged B 500 for the service. Obviously things may be different elsewhere

Well, I guess Jingthings analysis of Vance could be described as balanced and analytical ( yep, irony)

Thank you all for your advice it was most helpful. My daughter in the UK will make the payment for me. I was not aware that someone else could pay for me

The passport office has informed me that they can not process payment for my new passport without saying what the problem is. I can only presume that the problem is my Bangkok Bank Be1st debit card. As the message that I received talks about payment in a meaningful if unclear way. The card has a Mastercard logo on it and I know that Mastercard is acceptable because it says so on the passport application form. I did notice that my card has an end by date but no starting date. Can this be the problem? If so how to solve it? Am I blessed to be the first Expat. who has encountered this problem? Help and advice please. I am reluctant to broach the problem with my bank as the staff assume the frozen rabbit stare when faced with any unfamiliar problem.

The website is a dog's dinner. Sometimes it works and sometimes it does not. I am referring to my attempts to book a flight to Nepal in November. Initially the website insisted that I wanted to fly today and return today. Sometimes the booking calendar appeared. Sometimes it did not. Eventually my outward and inward dates were recognized. I tapped to book and the page returned to today's date. I give up. A travel agent can do it for me. There are lots of pretty pictures on the website I give them that.