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I hate Truewallet. If I am asked for money, unfortunately, my banking app isn't working. Promptpay, I don't have. "Oh, just go down to the 7/11 in your condo and pay money into my Truewallet!" My excuse is, that our 7/11 staff doesn't let foreigners do this - not a very credible excuse. Is there a better one? (Unfortunately, I speak Thai, so I can't claim 7/11 didn't understand my English)

Try to use the word "prostitute" (in writing) or a Thai equivalent (when speaking) to the most hardened Thai prostitute and you will see that she considers it defamatory. "I am not a prostitute" is ok. "I am a freelancer" is ok, too. *"I am a prostitute" is an ungrammatical sentence in Thinglish. You cannot combine the words "I" and "prostitute". *"You are..." is defamatory and a criminal offence.

As a practical example from today's news, read the articles in the BP and the Thaiger about the nurse murdered on Samui. Both don't dare to mention the name of the hospital. Printing full name of the murdered nurse, that's no problem.

Topic of my OP was not so much photos of passport of a foreigner. I know about this. Topic was photos of Thai ID cards (and of pink card or DL). By far the best answer came ftom @Upnotover And I think a simple photo of an ID card in the phone is not usually considered sufficient identification (by police, hotels, in business) - or am I wrong?

In the OP i asked Any ideas? I was thinking of proactively write to the office, that under no circumstances is anybody allowed into my room. But now I think this is just stating the obvious, so why repeat it. And they might even feel I am another absentee landlord, to be scammed.

They are new... There maybe was some minimal relationship between the scammers and the owner. They knew his email adress. They also had the same nationality, and the juristic person probably thought, there are not even a handful of billions of these guys, so they certainly must all be friends ...

Our juristic office has line, too. I added them last week when I was there in person, and sent them the room number. Nothing else was in the chat. Later that day, they sent me a message in line: "are you the owner of room xxx?" I answered "yes" Seems like this is all legitimation they need.

I am still a spring chicken. Just yesterday, my age was estimated to be 50

Wow. Yes, I think this is what I have once seen. So I would conclude: - if a Thai shows me his ID in this app, it's legitimate - if a Thai who isn't here, eg an absentee landlord, sends me his ID as a signed photograph in line, it may very well be legitimate, because he can't do this with the official app - if a Thai stands in front of me and shows me as ID a photo on his phone, not the official app - probably fishy? or just lazy?

The other day, 2 foreigners showed up at our juristic person. They said, they were relatives of an absentee owner who is abroad and came to sell the place. They wanted the technician of the juristic person to open the condo, as they didn't have a key. Their only legitimation was an email sent from the owner's email address. The juristic person wanted to give them access to the condo, and asked a friend of the owner living nearby whether he had a key. The friend called the owner, the owner had never heard of these 2 guys and didn't want to let them in, let alone sell the place. It followed a day-long discussion between juristic person, who sided with those 2 foreigners, and the owner's friend. The owner's friend wanted to see their passports, they were not willing to show them. In the end, he was going to call the police. But the 2 guys suddenly had very urgent other business to do and left. The juristic person does have copies of all owners' passports and chanotes. How far could those 2 guys have gotten? Could they just plunder the place, get a deposit from an unsuspecting buyer, or could they actually sell the place? How common are these scams in Bangkok? What precautions to take? (One very simple precaution: keep the chanote not in your condo)

I have seen Thais with just a photo of their ID (one of them I happen to know doctored the ID picture), and with the photo inside an official looking app. When you say "digital version", do you mean just a photo or something like the DLT QR app? BTW my photo of passport was (only) once rejected, they wanted the real passport. ( I think it was AIS but I can't really remember)

Interesting. I tried it, didn't work for me, but from the Google reviews it seems to work for some people. Is there a similar app for a Thai ID card or a pink card? Or is it acceptable for Thais to use only a photo of the ID card for identification

For many years, we have heard that foreigners don't have to carry the passport at all times, a picture of the passport in the phone (or a photocopy) would be sufficient. Recently, I have witnessed several times how Thais used a photo of an ID card in their phone. Sometimes the photo is inside an official-looking app (forgot the name). But at least in one case I happen to know that the photo has been doctored. Is it normal nowadays for Thais to use a photo instead of the real ID? Does anybody use a photo of his DL or of the pink card instead of the real thing?

Your relatives might sell it. Why waste something on dying grandma, if you could sell it on the black market?

Too bad. I have used the appointments the last couple of times, it was good...so now it's spending a day waiting for Godot again, like in the old times

Thx This leads all to the same place i used. BTW for "Extension of Retirement Visa" (funny, they themselves call it this technically incorrect name) May is fully booked, in June they have 3 days available, for July it is too early. IIRC this used to be much better. Is this the norm now? Like this, one can just forget about appointments.

The link changes often. I just used https://gov.immigration1.queueonline.net/appointment/login.html?v35 It seems to work. Is this the current link?

I am happy to see so many posters with quite positive experiences about palliative care in Thailand. I haven't seen posts like that in older threads about the same subject. So things seem really to be improving. As for @Celsius, no, this is not only about money. The availability of pain medication in Thailand is very limited. Some very common medications are not available in Thailand at all. Others (Fentanyl patches were mentioned) are not easy to get.

My experience how ordinary Thais die is pretty similar to what @connda wrote. They die in agony. All they get is paracetamol tablets. There has been some improvement recently, as @Sheryl notes. But pain management - even if it is not end-of-life - is a very weak point in Thai healthcare.

Yes, this is how it used to be. I was able to call them from another number, they said they would look into it. It would take a week. They even called me back on my original number - in Burmese!

AIS 1175 keeps talking to me in Burmese, and Burmese only. Several tries to change them failed (IVR in myAIS is set to English - but in reality speaks only Burmese, English speaking agents won't call me back, their SMS are in Thai or English) I am not Burmese. I don't speak a single word of Burmese, in the beginning, I didn't even know what language they were speaking. I have never been to Burma. I asked them for English, Thai, Chinese... no way, Burmese only. They find it funny, but I am effectively locked out of their call center. Anybody has the same problem? PS anyone knows a good language course for Burmese?

They did take a chance. And it didn't work out. They realized they do not have an option. People are willing to die or go to prison if their kids are starving. They won't risk this for a better pick-up or a nicer educational system. Look at Marcos I and Marcos II. Many other examples, but I better don't go into details.

Same in Bangkok. Up to thousands of sqare foot shop area. Parking space for dozens of cars.

You know that Paxlovid is available in Thailand?

You are not fair to them. The change of a political system doesn't happen easily, neither fast. It often takes generations. Look at other countries' history.