Dinand

As far as I know you should be able to apply based on your uk license (I did this), this will give you a 2 year Thai license (will get longer on each extension). 

Otherwise you can always contact your embassy to get an international license.

The reason is lack of skills on the side of the developers under their employment.

If they use text they need a developer to manually update everything every time the content changes because they can't develop a proper content management system.

They could use existing systems that are open source but I guess the business doesn't want that.

I am in a nice queue to get the international covid cert (been in the queue for more than a month) in January, guess I won't need it anymore...

I am curious about one thing, it's returning to Thailand. Just wondering if you know any extra information about the 21 day requirement to skip quarantine, can it be skipped if you originally travelled out from the Thailand?

How do they check if you stayed 21 days in the country from where you travelled to Thailand?

Since I am working here the 21 day requirement would still make it impossible for me to visit my home country. I can spend 14 days at the most.

So apparently people need to be tested before entering Buriram on Sokran (600thb) if they come from Bangkok.

Most of the official info is in Thai so it's quite difficult to know any details (or to be aware at all) if you are a foreigner.

I am wondering what would happen if you don't get tested and stay in a hotel, what could be the consequences?

And if you get tested (not sure how that will work since hundreds of thousands of people will enter Buriram around the same time) what are  the consequences (financially and forced stay) if you test positive?

Even if Buriram manages to test a few 100000 people in a few hours, my main concern is is actually testing positive. I think that many people in Thailand have it, or have had it and are just asymptotic, both cases may trigger a positive result. Are you forced to be quarantined at a hospital, and if so, for how long? The more important question, how much? 

I am on a work permit and was able to get a credit card without security deposit at SCB.

Because the elevator is necessary to reach your room and the pool is not. I also think it is ridiculous not to open the pools but the government can obviously not afford closing elevators in apartment buildings

23 minutes ago, saengd said:

The spread on foreign currency exchange in Thailand is one of the lowest anywhere, far smaller than in the UK for example. There are companies such as Dee money and for inbound funds only, Transferwise, who offer attractive rates but this depends on the amount of the transfer. The bottom line is that no company or bank offers this service for free, they either make money on the exchange rate, on a sending fee, a receiving fee of just a plain old fee, sometimes on all those things. If I transfer between my Thai and UK banks I usually transfer upwards of 1 mill. Baht at a time, on that amount I have yet to see anyone beat HSBC UK and their fixed price of four Pounds. 

4 pounds is good if they offer a good exchange rate as well. Deemoney asks 150THB for any transfer, with a maximum of 800000THB

1 hour ago, saengd said:

You cannot transfer THB outside of Thailand, any bank you instruct will first exchange it to the currency of the receiving bank. THB is a restricted currency, only very limited amounts can be exported as THB, except by Chinese to two specific provinces and even this is limited also.

 

Your best approach to the transfer is using the SWIFT system via a Thai bank, that requires you to have a Thai bank account and proof that the money you want to transfer was not earned inside Thailand or if it was, that tax was paid on it.

 

The local conversion rates are not good, Deemoney gives you the official rate. Swift transfers usually cost money too. If I can avoid them I will. There's many ways to get around proving the money wasn't earned here or that you paid taxes on it, you can use cryptocurrencies for example

You can check out deemoney, a new startup for transferring money from Thailand. If you have a Thai bank account maybe you can top up TransferWise via Mastercard or visa? Although I am not sure if TransferWise will do the conversion or the Thai bank will