Lorry

And produced and marketed by Takeda, Japan

No

I know, but I did myself anyway. Pennywise....

Thx

The application form asks me "my previous visa for Thailand is"... The last time I got a visa was a couple of years ago. I guess that's the one I write here? Since then I have been here on extensions. (The last time I entered Thailand was on a reentry permit, but I don't think that's what I should write here) Am I right?

I know one bank that's asking for tax residency. This is my experience in other countries too. I suspect every bank or financial institution handles this a bit differently, but I don't know for sure.

That's the going rate (for farang), not only at this place.

Bangkok Bank offers facial recognition to foreigners. Kbank doesn't.

Correct. Actually, even if you were a generation older, a Thai girlfriend would call you Pee. Lung sounds like an old man, and who will call her boyfriend old? A stranger who is a generation younger than you, especially kids, might call you Lung. But even taxi drivers who are clearly a generation younger than the customer will use Pee. It just sounds nicer.

That would be child abuse

This "number" +69711852123459 is not a phone number, it's not registered anywhere on the planet. It is just what your provider shows you if you receive certain calls routed through the internet (most calls are nowadays routed through the internet). The calls may be scam or not, you have no way to know. I got a call from exactly the same "number" (ie my display showed this number). It was a legitimate call from overseas. I did answer and heard a familiar voice.

As others have said: If the interest rate for THB is lower than for western currencies the market expects that the Baht will appreciate against western currencies. BTW the baht has appreciated against all major currencies for the last 25 years (but better don't talk about events 26 years ago). The Financial Times had a piece about "the world's most resilient currency" not long ago

CIMB?

Many Thais pronounce every s as a th (as in thin) and cannot pronounce an /s/. thin and sin, sick and thick, sing and thing are pronounced the same. I don't know whether this is a regional thing. They seem to have no problem saying "thaw theua" instead of "saw seua". But it becomes a problem when they want to learn English, Spanish or any other language where a /th/ is not an acceptable substitute for an /s/ Today I tried to teach a Thai friend an /s/, with little success. Any experiences from the English teachers?

Unfortunately, legitimate calls from overseas, if routed through the internet (i.e. pretty much all of them) can show up on your display with the same prefix, no matter which country they originate from.

I will have a look, sure. Those very high bills were international calls, difficult to get them much cheaper. Nowadays it's all VoIP, phone bill just several hundred baht.

I figured that. Postpaid used to be good if you were an old customer, but these times seem to be gone. (AIS, where I am also an old customer, just offered me postpaid with a monthly call limit of 500 baht. Hard not to feel insulted. With DTAC, I used to have a monthly limit of 30000, and it was no problem to increase it) So maybe i really switch to prepaid

I got it. Sounds good, change the number to prepaid, and just keep it. I am not aware of any advantage a postpaid number has over a prepaid number. Are you?

How? DTAC told me the cheapest they can offer is 299/ months. It includes 400 free minutes (that I don't really need), no internet included. I am not sure yet, but 299 per month just to keep a number sounds too much.

Can you elaborate?

But on the other side, they will lower visa fees for Chinese and Indians. Tourists who make a trip dependent on the visa fees are the lower end of the spectrum. Here they are seeking volume. Doesn't make a lot of sense to me, but it doesn't have to.

Austrian business class is good. Good seats, friendly service, easy transit at VIE. Austrians often fly Austrian (Germans rarely fly Lufthansa)

Would be unusual (and illegal, obviously). Shingrix has been available in China for years, so a "grey-import" would be doable. My guess is the person answering mails doesn't know there are several different Zoster vaccines. It's all shingrix for them.

4 hours flight Thai business class to BKK recently: Plane was hours late. Initially, it wasn't sure it would fly at all, a bit kaputt. Mediocre lounge. New business class seats are very small, much smaller than the old comfy fauteuils. Traditional Issan girls (40 kg max) would fit in nicely. I couldn't lie flat - pitch is 183cm, about 10cm shorter than me. Leg room is non-existant. Arriving at BKK after 1 am, then a nice sightseeing bus tour "Swampy by night". On the flight out of BKK it was "Swampy by day ". Skybridges are for whimps.

Cash. First, why do I have to let the CC company know which hotels and hospitals I use? So that they can monetize my data (sounds nicer than "sell", doesn't it)? Second, I use cheap hotels, small places in the provinces, even if in theory they accept a foreign CC, why should I torment the sweet sleepy receptionist at midnight with something she is not familiar with? As for hospitals: I have heard enough horror stories about the way big international hospitals refund the deposit people paid by CC. "We will send the refund to your CC in 2 weeks." (commonly said to tourists who 2 weeks from now will have left Thailand - it's not true BTW, but this sentence leads to a lot of bad feelings) I once paid a hospital deposit with my Thai bank card. Not a good idea, either. When I was discharged they couldn't transfer it back to my bank account. The cashier asked me to accept 80,000 in cash. I said, no, if you give me 80,000 in cash I will just have to go down to the bank in your lobby and deposit it into my bank account. Please transfer it. She answered "Then I have to take 80,000 cash out of my till, go down to the bank in our lobby, and deposit it into your account. I do it if you insist" I accepted the cash.