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The blue book can only have Thai residents' names. The yellow book can have only non-Thai resident names. These books are the house book and indicate who lives in the premise. The yellow book is useful to stop paying property tax, and to obtain a pink ID card. For a Pattaya city hall issued yellow book, in regards to certification of translation, basically it is a 2 step process. First you need to get an official translation of the document done by a translator who is certified by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). 2nd step is to present the original document plus the certified translation to MFA. MFA will verify the translation and provide a document saying they have verified. Of course, there is a fee for both steps. Be aware that MFA may identify a mistake in the translation or not agree with the translation resulting in no verification letter. In this case you'll have to return to your translator and get a new corrected translation and re-submit to MFA. MFA will require payment for each and every submission, not sure about your translator. Note that the MFA office is in Bangkok, so you'll be making a second, or multiple trip(s) to Bangkok until the translation is verified by MFA. To avoid potential multiple trips to Bangkok, choosing a translator in or near the MFA building maybe a less risky choice. All of the requirements are identified in the checklist that is available at City Hall.

Esso has no sediment diesel. I guess that will change with Bangchak takeover. Can anyone recommend a brand of diesel without sediment? Forget about PTT, some of their stations were recently in the news where their pumps were pumping less than the meter reading.

Bangchak has bought out Esso in Thailand from Exxon, deal is closing in November 2023 according to other media. Esso has a reputation for quality fuel, much better quality than all Thai fuel companies including Bangchak. Also, some Thai fuel company filling stations have been caught with pumps that dispense less fuel than shown on the pump. For diesel fuel, which other company sells diesel without sediment? If you are a current Esso customer, will you use Bangchak fuel or change to another brand?

Notice all the workers at the construction site in the photo NONE! This is like second road and Soi 15 construction jobs, many days with no workers and no work progressing at the job sites. Also south road pedestrian walkways, still haven't been completed 100% and parts of the walkway tiles are already broken and crumbling - such high quality materials are used. This project has going on for 5 years. Pattaya and surrounding area has had continuous road construction. for more than 7 years. No sooner is an area completed, then some reason causes them to dig it up again. There is no coordination or cooperation between the different groups that maintain the utilities below the street or at street level. Many times when repairs or replacement are done, they use the products that fail in less than 5 years, causing the need to block traffic again and start a new project.

I think you have a diamond in the rough. You just need to make a few cuts, shape her into a beautiful personality, and apply a little spit and polish To help you understand women here is a list of some differences: GENDER DIFFERENCES MEN WOMEN Receive worth largely from work, success and career (significance) Receive worth from relationships (security and love) Want honour and respect Want love verbalized Goal oriented People oriented Love competitive sports Interested in relationships Want to feel competent Not afraid to admit need help Won’t take advice – want to be in control Want to help, to support, to rescue Want to deal with problems in a solution focused, logical rational manner Want to talk about problems on an emotional level Tend to withdraw into their ‘caves’ when stressed, to be alone and gain strength and inner calm Tend to talk and share and want to feel supported when have problems Men are literal (right brain dominant) and need to be told things (can’t guess) Woman are intuitive, (left and right brain balanced) emotional, know what people feel and need Compartmentalise Can concentrate on only one thing at a time Summarise No clear divisions Everything affects everything else Can do six things at once See whole picture Observe things generally See detail Speak +/- 12 500 words a day Speak +/- 26 000 words per day Sex drive motivated chiefly by physical needs. Aroused by sight Sex drive motivated chiefly by emotional Sex drive motivated chiefly by physical needs. Aroused by sight Sex drive motivated chiefly by emotional needs Aroused by mood, ‘atmosphere’ or relationship Not noticeably affected by hormone changes Can be dramatically affected by hormone changes Handle depression by externalizing – blaming, become aggressive, angry Internalize depression – take blame, guilt, shut down

China is hunting about 100 people around the world in an operation called Fox Hunt. You can find more details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fox_Hunt Does Thailand cooperate in Fox Hunt and assist the Chinese government?

So at Bang Lamung (pattaya) DLT can I use the pink ID card or the yellow book instead of getting a immigration residence letter to renew driver's licenses?

Thai people will need take action and not still or just talk, condemn or criticize. Surely they want a PM that they vote for?

You're wrong about the passport. They can't cancel or do anything they want unless it is granted to them by law. There nothing futile about this. Watch and wait, you'll learn about law in Canada.

Focused on overstaying foreigners but what about all illegal entry foreigners? Best to start at all the factories for illegal entry foreigners rather than entertainment venues. Thousands of illegals working in the factories and businesses in Bangkok, Samut Prakan, and all of the provinces around Bangkok, and all the way down through Chonburi to Rayong. Oh I forgot, Thailand profits, makes lots of money, by using illegal entry foreigner workers, so that's OK. Thais can break the law as long as they are making money.

Absolutely wrong! Not entirely his fault. The Canadian Government had no legal reason to cancel his passport. They had a right to not renew it, but not to cancel it. Also the service received from the Embassy was pathetic., no way near what you received. Why do think he is a dead beat dad? He received no notification that he had to go to court nor anything about the judgement against him. How can you fault a person for not knowing? Probably whoever was obligated to notify him didn't do an adequate job. They wanted to screw him. The increase in payment was small, in the $100-200 range. He had been paying, he just didn't know about the increase. Of course he has now complied with the court order and increased the payment. He is a responsible dad, not a deadbeat. He has hired a law firm and they are preparing the case against the government for malicious prosecution, dereliction of duty, etc., from non-cohesive series of ministries, etc. etc. You are right, he needs some luck suing the government. He case need to be well researched, all the facts and evidence gathered, freedom of information request processed, etc. to be successful - lots of work. This is just part of a larger strategic plan. The issue is far from completion. In time we'll learn how this matter gets concluded.

In Pattaya, the City Hall issued the yellow book and I had to take it down to the property tax department in City Hall to register it, so I didn't have to pay in future years. I assumed the 2 departments in the same City Hall would coordinate, but they didn't. Of course your City Hall may work differently. I recommend you go to the Khet with the yellow book and the bill.

Where do you live? The tax is at the municipal level. My property tax office is in the City Hall, Pattaya. Show the book at the office where you pay the taxes in person. The tax bill normally has the tax office address or at least a phone number to ask questions. If the bill has been issued, it's too late to get relief for the current billing period. The book had to be registered in the land tax office before the first day of the tax year.

The tricky part is that the fire maybe extinguished at the collision scene, as the fire department puts away their gear, the fire erupts again. Sometime, the vehicle bursts into flames a third time as it is being towed away. Have a look:

What age is your child and in what grade? How old are you and your wife? Are you working here? What do you contribute to the family? There are many mathematics disciplines such as: algebra, arithmetic, trigonometry, Integral calculus, etc. There are huge differences in the disciplines and the work/effort required. There isn't any consensus on the discipline definitions. Some say calculus is advanced algebra and geometry, etc.. There are very few good mathematics teachers or programs in Thailand. Rather than going deeper into this tangent, looking after yourself is important too. Do you want to take control of the situation? If so, look at what you contribute and what the family contributes to you. If you control/contribute the money and there is no easy replacement, then use it to take control, but also be prepared for consequences. Think ahead! If your contributions can be easily replaced or are not significant/important to other members, then walk away. Find another relationship that values your contributions. If your needs/desires are not being fulfilled, try a trial separation. Tell her you need some time alone to think about important matters etc. Rent a condo for a month, wherever you desire, take a break, relax, enjoy life, plan for the future. Life is too short to be in stressful relationship. Stress can cause a heart attack.

Lots of e-bike fires throughout the world. If you google e-bike fires, New York and London alone had some spectacular fires. 75 fires in New York in 2021, resulting in 72 injuries and three deaths, London England had 130 similar fires. If an EV car is in an accident, it too can catch fire. There are reports that it can catch fire multiple times. Some fire departments bring an open top water tanker truck to an ev car collision. If the EV is on fire, it gets dumped into the water tanker.

Here is an update on my friend and his issues with the Embassy of Canada in Bangkok. He returned to Canada using an Emergency Travel Order and hired a lawyer, he's getting ready to sue the government. There is a law in Canada that says passports can't be issued to people who are in arrears for child support payments. This is why the embassy couldn't issue him a new passport but they never told him this reason. They just said they couldn't renew his passport because a certain government dept. was blocking the renewal. His ex-wife (Canadian) went to court to get the child support payments increased but he never received any notification of the court date or the verdict. So she got the increase since he didn't appear in court. The increase was granted and the payments became in arrears because the existing payments were less than the new court ordered payments, thus preventing him from getting a new passport. However, someone in the government also cancelled his passport prior to the expiry date, and also the embassy didn't issue an emergency travel order, in a timely manner, to allow him to return to Canada to get a new passport. This is the basis of the law suit. More to come on this topic.

Enforcing the laws, rules and regulation will go a long way to make the roads safer. Plus increase the fines along with introducing minimums for violations. For example, reckless driving max. fine is about 3,000 baht. It is up to the officer investigating to decide the amount. I have heard that the fine is only 500 baht in Pattaya if a pedestrian is struck and sent unconscious to the hospital emergency department by ambulance. This amount is ridiculous. Reckless driving causing bodily should have a minimum fine of at least 10,000 baht especially hitting a pedestrian. Hitting a pedestrian in a crosswalk max. fine is 4,000 baht, but there is no minimum. There are reports in Pattaya, if a video is brought to the Police station showing a vehicle driving through a red light, the police will accept the video but do nothing afterwards. One excuse is that the driver needs to charged not the vehicle owner. This loop hole needs to be changed so that the owner is charged unless the real driver comes forward and admits driving at the time and location of the violation.

Global egg prices are rising. I heard in USA, some retailers are charge up to US$7 for dozen large size eggs. In Ontario Canada, a dozen large size eggs in a supermarket are CAD$3.69 or about 95 baht. Large equals about Thai size 1 maybe some are size 0.

Nice to hear a couple of more brown suited corrupt figures have been detected and isolated.

My Canadian passport has no more blank pages so I have obtained a new passport while in Canada. I have a OA non-immigrant retirement visa and many extensions, the last one expiring in February 2024 and a multiple re-entry permit until February 2024. Upon re-entering Thailand, I understand that both old and new passports need to be presented to IO who should stamp the new passport allowing me to stay until Feb. Could someone clarify the next steps to only have to carry the new passport? Should I take the attached completed form to Jomtien immigration a few days after arrival? Do I have to go to MFA in Bangkok to transfer the original OA visa into the new passport so that I can continue to do extensions with only the new passport? 5926ab6c8f4d1_Tranferstampsnewpassport.pdf

I know of several gentlemen in their 80's that have girlfriends in their 30's. These ladies are slim nice looking. The gentlemen are not rich but can afford to take care of a Thai woman. So if you are in your 70's and can satisfy a woman, hopefully you can handle a forty old. Try it, what do you have to lose?

This is a good point. The seller should qualify the buyer before entering into a purchase and sale agreement. Ask to see proof buyer has the funds, and also their government issued ID and anything else that may be required to successfully complete the transaction. Match the ID to bank book name at a minimum. The buyer should obtain the final payment bank draft several days before the closing date. Note that a foreign buyer must have documentary proof, which must be provided to the land office, that the purchase funds were transferred from outside Thailand. I am not sure if the transfer amount is the purchase price or the land office valuation of the property. Buyer makes several photo copies of the bank draft. A copy should be provided to the seller several days before the closing date to confirm that it is complete and correct. The seller should take the copy to the bank and verify that it is legitimate. On the closing date, buyer shows the original bank draft to the seller and if seller agrees the draft is complete and correct, matching the previously provided photo copy, the documents and fees are handed to land office for transfer. Seller must provide debt free letter from the condo juristic person, stating the condo is debt free. The land office will prepare a transfer document, if the land office agrees to the transfer, that both seller and buyer must sign. Once the land office has finished processing, the chanote comes to the buyer for verification, and if correct and complete, buyer hands final payment, the original bank draft, to seller. Nobody leaves the land office until both parties are satisfied. These last few minutes are crucial to successfully concluding the process. Hopefully there are no surprises. Land office doesn't provide escrow services. Both buyer and seller need to be personally physically engaged in the transaction at the land office, not sitting in a lawyer's office waiting for the law clerk to return with all the documents. An important point is that if the buyer is unable to complete the transaction on the closing date, normally the buyer forfeits the deposit to the seller. Buyer may misspell the seller's name on the bank draft, or doesn't have the original external funds transfer proof, etc.

The final payment should be done in the land office, not in a lawyer's office or elsewhere. The land office will examine and modify the original chanote. They will also issue a document stating the transfer of title between the buyer and seller. The land office also updates their own records, checks for encumbrances on the property and collects the transfer tax. The land office probably won't do all of this if there are issues with chanote or the title according to their records. I highly recommend the buyer watch the process in the land office, look at everything and ask questions if your don't understand what is happening. Thai lawyers may not be protecting their client's property or interests adequately. The buyer must personally participate in the transaction at critical points in the process and verify documents.

My first post in this thread, had several important points for the buyer to do before handing over the cash. Many lawyers may not be protecting their client's money and interests sufficiently. I highly recommend any buyer not sit back and expect the lawyer to do everything for you. The buyer must be actively engaged, at critical points, in the transaction. Don't trust the lawyer! to protect you and your money. Always, see and copy the original chanote before signing the agreement. Do not accept a copy of the chanote. On the closing day, always examine the chanote has your name in it and the document from the land office also states the transfer has been made, before making final payment. Never give the final payment to the seller until the chanote is in your (buyer) hands along with blue book. Your name will be in Thai language, so have your lawyer, or an official certified translator, translate your name into Thai well before the final payment so you can personally verify your name is in the chanote. Sometimes the land office will refuse to transfer a condo into foreigner name because foreigners already own 49% of the condo building/complex. There are other reasons the land office will refuse to register the transfer.