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Lorry

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  1. Sorry, I don't know any agency for this. Whether the "token amount" would work - I don't know. I know one RD office where it didn't work. No tax no TIN.
  2. Very wrong. People go to the destinations pictured in travel brochures and promoted by travel agents (today, both is mostly online, by Google, IG etc). And it must be cheap. BTW many tourist come in groups, they chose a package named "Thailand" or whatever and then they are ferried wherever the tour operator brings them. Or do you think a foreigner sits at home, brooding over a world map and thinking "I really, really want to go to Soi Pattanakarn 20"? They are brought to Pattanakarn 20 by the truckload busload.
  3. Exactly, happened to me once too. Thais sitting behind a desk heard a foreigner utter the word "tax" and automatically figured he is talking about VAT (I wasn't) and he wants a refund (I didn't want one).
  4. IF you really want a TIN - a big if - you can easily get one by applying for a refund of withholding tax (the tax withheld by your Thai bank from the interest of your Thai bank account). You have to go to the bank first, they will issue you a document stating how much withholding tax you paid, then you have to bring this to the RD office. This can routinely be done for the last 3 years.
  5. Thx I will try them all until I find one I like :)
  6. Correction: its not complete grains, they have been ground somewhat, but still very grainy, very hard. Not a powder at all.
  7. I ordered the psyllium in Thailand J's picture. I got grains, not powder. In shoppee and Lazada I cannot find out from the pictures which one is grains, which one is powder. I need powder. Any experiences? (as recommended by Sheryl, tomorrow I will try Villa)
  8. I don't know, but it looks like they are going to Bangkok anyway. Easier for them
  9. Many Thais from the provinces have one account upcountry and another in Bangkok. Often the same bank
  10. I used to have 5 savings accounts with Bangkok Bank for decades. (I recently switched to another bank, for unrelated reasons) Every account served a different purpose (Aom, Bee, Cat, Dear and myself) Never any problem, and never met anybody - bank staff or not - who found this unusual.
  11. Thx. I know this and this was my first advice (especially as they were asking about abortion pills, which are very easy to get in Cambodia).
  12. The pregnant woman is in Indonesia, I don't think the morning after pill is easily available there (just guessing)
  13. Thanks for all the answers. Very helpful indeed
  14. Do PDA or Khlongtan Hospital provide abortion for foreigners without residence in Thailand (Indonesian passport)? Any experience?
  15. A friend of mine in a NATO country yesterday complained bitterly "what NATO did". He's afraid that NATO might provoke Putin (who has been good for Russia and has made Russians rich) even more, so that Putin might nuke his country. So he is contemplating where to flee. Funny thing is, he's thinking of another NATO country. He's not even contemplating holidays in Russia, far less fleeing to Russia.
  16. All the posters saying you need to file and pay taxes to get RD 21 and 22 are right, federico's guess that you may get it without paying taxes is wrong. But if you have a savings account with a Thai bank you have income in Thailand (the interest) and you are paying tax (withholding tax). It may be only 50 baht a year, no problem, the bank will issue you a form how much tax was withheld, you take this form and go to your local RD, claim your taxes back by filing taxes, get a copy of what you filed, go to the regional RD office and ask for RD 21 and 22 (it will come by mail, about 2 weeks), Impossible Yo can easily get RD 21 and 22 for 2022 You can claim back the withholding tax that was withheld from the interest of your savings account for 3 years (that's routine, 6 years is possible but more complicated). If you go to your bank this year they will issue you the forms listing withheld taxes for 2023, 2022 an 2021. Then proceed as above.
  17. Not 3,100 It is 31,000 baht for one course of 5 days (=30 tablets) You have to add cost for doctor and covid test. Pfizer has raised the price recently ( e.g. in Europe from 60 - sixty - € to 1100 - elevenhundred - € since March if you don't get it through insurance). 31,000 baht is now quite a bargain. Molnupiravir is only about 2500 baht, that's at Bangkok Hospital and includes doctor fee. But Merck has withdrawn their application for molnupiravir in Europe as it was clear it would be rejected because molnupiravir is not very useful.
  18. Bumrungrad has Paxlovid, 31000 baht (plus cost for doctor and test)
  19. Atorvastatin to "treat" high cholesterol should only be given if you have a high risk of cardiovascular disease. We don't know your other risk factors so we cannot comment. No medication should be given to treat an isolated lab value. Creatinine 1.45 is too high. Hopefully, you are just dehydrated from the summer heat. Drink a lot (your urine should have the color of white wine, not of beer) for a week or two and check creatinine again.
  20. There is no general answer to this question. You have to do sensitivity testing, available in all hospitals. ( if they wrote ESBL that means they did sensitivity testing, so you should find the results in your records, but I would do a new one) Ask to include testing for sitafloxacin and fosfomycin, sometimes effective against ESBL E coli and easily available in well-stocked pharmacies. Norfloxacin is usually not effective. So, if norfloxacin was effective you probably didn't have ESBL.
  21. Death. Overdosing is common, in the vain hope to get more satisfactory sex the more viagra or cialis one takes. If you are healthy, it may lead to - blurred vision - low blood pressure and rapid heart beat, leading to dizziness, and maybe fainting - priapism: a very unpleasant erection lasting many hours, having the effect of a tourniquet on your penis. This is a medical emergency. Unfortunately, most people who take viagra or cialis are not healthy: elderly men with less than perfect blood vessels. Their damaged blood vessels are the reason for their erectile dysfunction, but it may also be the reason for coronary artery disease and high blood pressure - for which they may receive medication or not. These people may die from an overdose of ED drugx.
  22. But the risk to develop long covid is not lower at your 2rd, 3rd or 4th... infection, it's the same risk every time you catch covid
  23. My credit cards have been frozen many times because I used it abroad. Out of state, or in another town, has never been a problem, though, so I gave up complaining.
  24. Changing residence for a bank account to Thailand is tricky. They may do as Barclays did in the UK: accept it for a while, then all of a sudden kick you out. A friend had this experience with 2 German banks. He even asked before changing residence whether there would be a problem. They said no, but changed their mind after 2 or 3 years.
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