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22 hours ago, Dolf said:

He mumbled 12 words incorrectly in 4 minutes. That's enough for him to lose a school debate. Worst president since 1948 as polls say and not fit to be there.

 

Why would anyone listen to an hour of nonsense unless it's their job?

 

 

But that's not proven fact, just your biased opinion.

3 minutes ago, Dolf said:

Mostly a personal attack on Trump. Very poor speech. 3 months to write it and it was negative. They had Biden on caffeine to keep him awake.

Yawn, double yawn...

3 hours ago, Dolf said:

Cheering for normal people not silly old fools reading scripted speeches.

OIC, you mean

Incorrect troll flame spelling removed by moderator.

11 hours ago, Georgealbert said:

Perfect answer, this survey would have been forgotten in a week, but by the government questioning how valid it is, just brings in back into the spotlight and can only bring more bad PR.

I did some googling, can't find specific organization called 'Business Financing' in any country.  

9 hours ago, Bandersnatch said:

I own 2 Chinese made EVs  the first one I purchased 3 years ago and would never go back to an ICE car. Never had any problems.

 

8 Years warranty on the car and battery 

 

@Maybole I would you suggest ignore the “EV experts” who have never actually owned one, everything that claim to know is secondhand at best.

• Response:  This is my neighbor, knows nothing about EVs but delights in ear bashing about how bad they are. Claims there's no charging stations in homes or car service centres or shopping malls in his district because local council have banned them. And claims best possible total travel distance for Chinese manufactured EVs is 40 Km, because of Chinese laws.
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The EVs in Thailand discussion has lots of news and real world experiences from EV owners in Thailand.

 

https://aseannow.com/topic/1257405-electric-vehicles-in-thailand

 

 

 

16 hours ago, Sheryl said:

You are not on a strict no sugar diet (or any sort of no or liw sugar diet)  if you are eating fruit for breakfast. 

 

With fasting sugars well under 100 in the morning and a recent episode of hypoglycemia midday, I suggest a more substantial breakfast. In particular more protein and some healthy fats. This will help stabiluze  your daytime blood sugar. 

 

 

Listen to Dr. Sheryl, a qualified well experienced doctor.

20 hours ago, bob smith said:

i have an opportunity to leave thailand in the next few weeks.

 

mrs smith doesnt want me to go.

 

personally i have had it up to here with this place,

ive had enough of the racism, xenophobia and silly little games the locals love to play on us.

 

I have a lot to lose here.

property, business, family etc.

but im not sure how much more I can take living here.

I want to live in a normal country

not in a video game.

 

decisions decisions. 

 

bob.

Boring, boring, boring...

3 hours ago, cleopatra2 said:

The issue I see is that you entered into an agreement and then terminated that agreement.

Normally in such contracts/agreements contain penalty clauses exist within certain limitations.

The deposit usually is only withheld and released after the rental agreement has been concluded.

Depending upon the agreement and termination it is possible that the company is waiting to deduct any termination penalties before releasing the deposit.

It all depends upon what you agreed to.

And perhaps they always wait for final electricity, internet, water bills.. 

6 hours ago, Hellfire said:

If the locals will judge you not the way you are but according to some stereotypes prevalent in their society at the moment - I promise and guarantee you will never have a peaceful life here. 

Again, in English please.

1 minute ago, aussienam said:

It's not evidence, it's a 'scenario'. And I included words to the effect I hoped it (that scenario) wasn't what happened/close to the truth. Which is why I hope there is more to the story than what was reported. 

Make up your mind...

3 hours ago, bg53 said:

 

Call the bank. You never know.

At last, a totally logical response. Instead of 5 off the cuff member responses based on nothing. 

3 minutes ago, aussienam said:

I've met a few expats who have invested into a bar and their partner manages it.  They just sit and build rapport with customers to generate repeat business. So technically not working but just drinking and customers buying them drinks plus the bar staff. 

I've been told they need to be very careful to never lift a finger to help, in case they are deemed working.  Answering the phone to acknowledge a room is available, picking up a dirty ashtray to give it to staff, anything that a bar staff employee could do.  But recommending a drink is deemed working?  I hope there is more to the story than that as this sounds truly lame. 

Imagine you are sitting in a bar you invested in that your wife runs.  A regular comes in and says, "Mate, what do you recommend for something new to drink, I'm sick of beer?"  "Mate, how about a Sangsom and coke?" Thai undercover police swoop in.  Evidence of working!  No way.  

 Wow, what evidence do you have to support this scenario? 

1 hour ago, ikke1959 said:

explain what reasons

The response is totally obvious except to folks who don't want to see the obvious; Thailand, like most countries, protects it's own citizens by totally prohibiting non-Thais from working in certain industries / professions, and by having a system whereby foreigners have to have a valid work permit to work. Same in most countries. 

6 hours ago, flyingtlger said:

Is it just me? There seems to be a lot of Swedes getting in trouble in Thailand....

Yeah, and seems to me that Monday follows Sunday, that's interesting and troubling.

On 3/6/2024 at 8:17 AM, recom273 said:

You need professional assistance - this is digital marketing, not just pulling together a website as an alternative to fb. 

You need to do a lot of thinking about how you prefer your company to operate into the future and ensure these points dominate your website.

12 hours ago, steven100 said:

thanks, so it's a percentage of the amount obviously ....   so I was charged 3%  in Australia + the 220 baht here ...

That's expensive yeah ' 

But different banks (in OZ / anywhere) have different policies on these charges. They're not standard across all banks.

19 hours ago, Foxx said:

The simple answer is to renounce your US citizenship.  That way your worldwide income will no longer be taxable by the US and you won't have this sort of additional compliance issues.

But what if he has no other citizenship? He would be stateless...

On 3/6/2024 at 12:52 PM, Lacessit said:

Please, no. I am getting too many proposals from 60 yo Thai massage ladies who say they want to "take care".

Just ensure you push them back, especially if you encounter Thai ladies who try to insist that farang men have to have a Thai wife. Friend just beat off such situation.

Neighbor invited him in for a beer, Thai lady he's never never seen before sitting in the living room. She speaks English and instantly starts with 'how much money do you have?'  but proceeds quickly to 'it's Thai law you have to have a Thai wife'.

Neighbors Thai wife then intervenes and tells the new lady there is no such law and it's rude to keep asking how much money anybody has.

A few minutes later the neighbors Thai wife tells the new lady to leave.

Why because the new lady had whispered that she was going to ask to see the farangs passport them steal it. Because that would mean he has no passport so he cannot leave Thailand so the police would have to give him an approval document to stay in Thailand. 

56 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Another opportunity to work the $800 million smile, check out some new 5 star hotels, eat in the latest Michelin starred restaurants, and drink the recent vintage of Lafite, Margaux and Domaine Romanee-Conti. It is very unlikely he will accomplish anything productive, as that is not what this do nothing PM is all about.

Seems to me he's focused on one thing 'the property market' and not much more.

He may well be quite an expert at property development matters but I rather doubt he has much / any knowledge of national economics etc. 

13 hours ago, lkn said:

For the money, they must come from abroad and should be sent to a bank account in your name.

 

Then you can just go ask your bank for a FET form, it doesn’t matter who sent the money, when it was sent, what was stated as purpose for sending the money, or that it was multiple transactions.

 

At least that was my experience with Krungthai and the Chiang Mai Land Office. I just want to my bank, asked them to total up all money I have received from abroad over the last 2-3 years, which were actually sent to two different accounts I had with Krungthai, and some funds were sent by my company.

 

They produced a letter that I then gave to the Land Office.

 

Some people will tell you that it must be one transaction with the exact amount, it must have the stated purpose, etc. This is generally when you send the money to a third party, e.g. a lawyer doing the purchase on your behalf, or the developer. This is partly just to make things easier, and partly because of AML.

 

As for the actual purcdiffere hase, all terms can be negotiated between you and the seller, but the deal is performed at the Land Office with you given the seller a cashier’s cheque and the seller giving you the title deed. There are transfer fee (2% of appraised value) and stamp duty (0.5% of sales value or appraised value, whatever is highest) which is normally split equally between buyer and seller. There might also be some local taxes and minor fees, but probably less than 1,000 baht.

Actual payment process (cash / cashiers cheque) changes land office by land office.  Also note that if the cashiers cheque was written at a bank in a different region of Thailand there could be a 2, 3, 4, 5 days delay in clearing the cheque (even if it's a bank cashiers cheque).  This should be discussed and agreed in detail in advance with the buyer. 

I'm aware of a house sale in Pattaya, buyer presented a bank cashiers cheque at the land office. Seller said "I'm not handing over the keys until my bank clears this cheque". It took 5 days to clear. Buyer went back to land office and complained. Land office senior said "until the seller gets the money (cheque is cleared) you have not paid, you have to wait". 

On 3/5/2024 at 8:27 AM, Chomper Higgot said:

The thousands of truckers who will be put out of work by auto drive vehicles will definitely miss manual driven vehicles.

 

A disproportionate number of these people are Veterans, good, well paying jobs about to be stripped out.

 

Profit up, wealth distribution down.

 

Strange comments.

"A disproportionate number of these people are Veterans, good, well paying jobs about to be stripped out."

- Veterans - how is that relevant to the comment and what proof of this point is there?

I suggest many veterans would praise auto transmissions, easy and not complex to use. Changing from manual transmission to auto transmission is not difficult in any way.

- How is driving a manual transmission vehicle a 'well paying job"? 

- Reducing manual transmission vehicles "well paying jobs about to be stripped out." How's that? 

All of the above is just improvements in technology, got to be expected.