Lorry

57 minutes ago, hotandsticky said:

Thai law was based on French....for which you can read UK..

I tried to tell you that French law (eg code civil) and UK law (eg common law) are pretty much the opposite of each other.  Its obviously hopeless.

1 hour ago, hotandsticky said:

every other country

This ain't Kansas

2 hours ago, hotandsticky said:

 

 

Yes they do.

 

All mandates cease on death....... 

 

 

(My source is my knowledge and experience in 30+ years in the banking industry  - plus my ability to Google to confirm that I am right).

 

https://rochelegal.co.uk/what-happens-to-a-lasting-power-of-attorney-when-someone-dies/

See my latest post.

Your ability to google impeded your ability to realize theRE exist different countries in this world,  not only the UK

2 hours ago, 5davidhen1 said:

MY source was a bank official at Lloyds bank in the UK.

UK has never been continental European, as I said, and even doesn't consider themselves to be a part of Europe (I guess they think as a province of India they are an Asian country?)

UK/AngloSaxon law systems and European systems are very different. 

Japan copied French and German laws, later Taiwan and China followed. 

About Thai laws, I just don't know enough. 

10 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Powers of Attorney cease on the death of the donor.

Not in continental European law.

You state this as if you definitely know this.  May I ask for the source of your knowledge?

4 hours ago, 5davidhen1 said:

POAs and co-signers' authority both DIE (expire) with the death of the individual.

Is that true? I am asking because in my home-country they do not expire with the death of the individual.  I am not sure about Thai law.

Does anybody know 

- what Thai law says? (There are answers in this thread from SCB and BBL)

- how these situations are in fact handled in Thailand? (As someone posted,  I have never heard of people being prosecuted in these situations)

7 hours ago, dinsdale said:

This is incredibly disrespectful to those who have suffered from these jabs.

You really believe MSM that my broken leg is not a result from the vax?

21 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

someone might see on the internet

Did I say I saw it on the internet?

I didn't. 

I asked BBL.

And I did something like that. Worked very well. For a couple of 100,000s, and a limited time frame (like a year), any other solution - like what you suggest - is not practicable. Way too much trouble. And the expenses will eat the principal.  

I would do it differently if it's many million baht ( @TallGuyJohninBKK sounds good). And if OP is just looking for a solution for his eventual death in 10, 20 or 50 years,  in that case the whole thread doesn't make sense. 

In any case,  and whatever solution,  for sums like OP's sums, I would keep the Thai judicial system out of it - as has been said by another poster. 

It will be a lot of effort,  very expensive,  and in the end,  the bureaucrats and lawyers will cheat the girl out of her money.

Uneducated, poor Thai girls always lose against the vultures,  be it Thai bureaucrats or lawyers from our home-countries. I have seen both.  Keep them out.

3 hours ago, dinsdale said:

Right. AZ and J&J were withdrawn for a reason and only those at risk of serious complications due to a Covid-19 infection are recommended to be vaccinated. Injury from the jabs is not a tiny number.

Yep. 

A short time (only a year) after my mRNA vax i broke my leg  - i should have known!

Later my father died,  he was only 91, and even he wasn't vaccinated,  I did my research on TrumpsTruth.com and found,  that the death of close relatives is a well known side-effect of mRNA.

On 7/11/2025 at 12:39 PM, Kerryd said:

I have a Big C card - apparently it gives me a 5% discount on my purchases.

It's not the membership that gets you a discount. 

It's the BigC credit card that gets you a discount. 

Completely different. 

This problems about matching Sim and bank account are easily sorted out:

It only took me five calls to AIS, increasingly frustrating. A couple of calls to my bank. Three visits to three different AIS Centers.

Two visits to 2 different Samsung centers and 3 visits to phone repair shops,  because the nice AIS girl who finally helped me match Sim and bank broke my phone (with the banking app) for good.

A visit to NASA to buy a new phone,  that was the easiest part. 

Setting up a new banking app on the new phone,  easy.

So easy!

2 hours ago, Equatorial said:

Here is Grok's answer: 

Here is Bangkok Bank's answer: a cashier check doesn't expire. 

Anyway,  if you fear it might not be honored after many years,  you can always cash it from time to time and buy a new one.  20 minutes,  20 baht.

The Chinese - the only ones that matter - do not agree:

https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/3067122/safer-tourism-needed-now

From this editorial:

"recently, there have been reports of Thai police extorting bribes from them for minor felonies such as smoking vapes, as well as offering VIP services to Chinese tourists in exchange for money.

Worse still are the reports of Chinese nationals being kidnapped here by gangsters, including their own compatriots.

A recent case in Ubol Ratchathani province saw seven Chinese men kidnapped by eight people, including four police officers and one ranger, who were later arrested for allegedly trying to extort them out of 2 million baht.

This problem has existed for years, and the previous administration led by Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha also failed to tackle it.

Meanwhile, immigration police graft and fake national ID cards or illegal permits issued by the Ministry of the Interior allow many foreigners to live and operate underground businesses here."

On 7/11/2025 at 3:16 PM, Karma80 said:

As long as you don't breathe between January and April

You can always bring your own oxygen tank.

You can also rent one.

It's your choice. 

4 hours ago, Will B Good said:

 

Funnily enough I have just bought steel capped, builders wellies and put them to good use.

 

Trying to work in Thai mud in flip flops is an idiots game I've played far too long.

Good.

Working barefooted in the rice fields (Thailand,  Indonesia) gives you melioidosis, leptospirosis, etc etc.

In rich countries (Japan, Taiwan) rice farmers wear boots. Gives you fungus, pretty much untreatable, but not deadly.

4 hours ago, impulse said:

 

Do you know that from statistical test results?

 

The post you're responding to indicates 236 reported case and 34 deaths.  That means there's 7 reported cases for every death.  But how many people are walking around not knowing they even have it?  All they know is that they're suffering life altering symptoms.  How many afflicted expats in Thailand just think they're getting old?

 

It would be interesting to see a study of test results in the general population and (perhaps) in the patients reporting symptoms on the list.  Then (and only then) could we reasonably make the statement you did.

 

Connda is writing typical #####

Actually,  if you live on a farm in Mukdahan and do some outdoor activities there,  the risk of melioidosis is not negligible. 

You will meet people who have it.

It doesn't help that the medical system in Mukdahan or Yasothon is fairly limited. 

If you live in a high-rise condo in Bangkok,  and never venture out of your building as you have a 7/11 in the building,  don't worry about melioidosis.

59 minutes ago, redwood1 said:

I read else where that a customer might have to verify their id before every ride....This article seems to have left out this nasty possibility.....They already have your id by your phone number.....So would they want face scans ? finger prints? blood or DNA tests or what? Before every ride...

Face scans (BP yesterday )

You are not supposed to use your gf's app to order a car and than travel anonymously.  It's called surveillance. 

DNA tests,  like in China and the US, will come later. 

3 hours ago, 5davidhen1 said:

I'm very interested in the option of entrusting my girlfriend by depositing a substantial sum into her a/c

That really needs complete trust.

And she will spend all of it before you die.

You can buy a cashier's check (bank check, bought over the counter for 20 B) at any branch,  in her name. Keep it in your drawer together with your passport etc. She will find it, once you are dead (if she is an uneducated rural girl,  it would be helpful to explain beforehand what a cashier's check is). She can cash it at any big branch, takes 20 minutes,  completely legal. 

This requires a lot less of trust. She may not know of the existence of the check,  or she may know,  but doesn't know, where exactly you keep it.

23 hours ago, Kerryd said:

I have a Big C card - apparently it gives me a 5% discount on my purchases.

Never heard of this. 

Is this really true???

I used to have BigC membership. All I got for it were endless (like, a meter long) slips of paper.

Neither I, nor any Thai I asked,  ever figured out anything useful from these slips. 

So now I always say,  I don't have membership.  Faster,  anyway. 

Am I missing something? 

5% on all BigC purchases would be a lot, I hardly shop anywhere else. 

3 hours ago, daejung said:

Normally, Songkran in Bangkok takes place from April 13 to 15.

This year, however, it started on Saturday, April 12.

 

Are the dates for Songkran 2026 already known?

 

I’ve been in Bangkok several times during Songkran, and I’d like to avoid it next year.

 

Thanks!

In Bangkok, you can be pretty sure that water playing will be only from 13th to 15th.

Other places might be different

On 7/8/2025 at 8:21 PM, richard_smith237 said:

wonder what the Anti-vaxxers do when they are bitten ?

You got your answer 5 posts later, by Britman

On 7/8/2025 at 8:33 PM, BritManToo said:

I've never bothered, but did notice the story has no actual numbers of deaths.

Which makes me think there are so few that it's just another disease scare story.

 

My pal was bitten by a dog while walking near wat doing Suthep two months back, he didn't bother either.

If you had read the story you would have seen the number. 

Yes, it's very low, but I am not going to explain the necessity of rabies vaccine. 

Go and get yourself bitten!

2 hours ago, BilllyGOAT said:

That's true. It's possible. But I was also wrongly diagnosed in the past for folliculitis (by more than one skin doctor), when in fact my condition was something different. So I'm a bit weary now of a folliculitis diagnosis. 

If Fucidine helps,  it was folliculitis.

2 hours ago, sidjameson said:

20bht is a subsidized fare. 

Are you disgusted at the Thai people getting a subsidy from their government or that the Thai government isn't subsidizing foreigners?

In my home-country, there are subsidized fares, too.

There would be a huge outcry if they wouldn't apply to foreigners.

Actually,  only foreign tourists have to pay (the subsidized fares). Foreign migrants don't have to pay at all.

3 minutes ago, kwilco said:

Coms from China and in many S.E. Asian cutlures - people weldom say hello or yes or no.

That's true. 

And I was recently told that all these 'polite nothings' (like when an American buying a coke at 7/11 says 5 or 10 times 'thank you') were not the norm in my home-country either,  about 100 years ago.