Lorry

Update from OP: I did it by mail yesterday as recommended by the first 2 posters. Online still "pending", 3 days now. My friend whom I mentioned never got a reaction online, he tried twice. Because of the upcoming holiday, today is his last day of the grace period. So he is spending another day at CW right now.

Thx to both of you. I will do it by mail right now.

A friends application was pending for 7 days. Then he applied again, pending 4 or 5 days now. (It did work for him in the past) My own application has been pending for 2 days only, but it has never worked for me. Hotline doesn't pick up the phone. BTW Notification by mail must be made at least 15 days before the due date. Notification online can only be done 14 days before the due date. So, I have to decide early on whether to do it by mail (which works) or online (would be easier if it works). If I try online and it doesn't work, the only option is to go to CW, mail isn't possible any more. Is this correct?

Do you know all these languages well enough? I know only 3 of them, and beg to differ. Yes. Sounds very stilted, even fake, though. Like I don't know any native speaker of English who uses RP in daily life.

What native speakers of English use in daily life is not how a newscaster speaks.

No, every language I know works like this. I gave you an example for English. Another example: "you" according to a dictionary is pronounced "yoo". That's the pronunciation in isolation. In context, in actual speech, it is usually pronounced very different. Dictionary: pronunciation in isolation, in addition to this, often quite bookish Conversation: the word may not be stressed, may be shortened, sounds may assimilate to neighbouring sounds (you observed ian > ien, an > en), complicated sounds may be simplified (you observed tch > sh which you erroneously describe as s; a rolling r may become a single tap which for foreigners may be indistinguishable from l) This is still standard Thai, it's not dialect or slang.

Google: no Paiboon: I only know their dictionary and their course for beginners, the answer for both is no I don't know Thaipod

The examples you gave are none of the above. These are regular changes in pronunciation when you change from dictionary pronunciation to normal conversational speech. In English, a poor foreigner may look up the pronunciation of the words "I", "do", "not", "know" in a dictionary. But this is not how the sentence "I don't know" is normally pronounced in a conversation.

This is how things are seen in Taiwan. The decision of TSMC to build a fab in Arizona has drawn a lot of criticism in Taiwan.

I don't understand what you write. "to the country" means to the tax authority of that country, not the embassy Yes, Thailand will receive information, too. If you are a tax resident of Thailand and you have a bank account in Singapore, the Singapore bank will send information about this account to the Thai tax authorities. How does the Singapore bank know you are a tax resident in Thailand? They will ask you (FATCA works like this). And if you used a Thai passport when you opened the account, they have every reason to ask where you are a tax resident.

ATK of a close friend positive today. Yesterday sore throat, I insisted on ATK before going out, negative. Today cough, he wanted to go out again, ATK positive. This friend has recently started to not wear a mask anymore. <deleted> happens.

CRS requires the Thai bank to report the account if the holder of the account is a tax resident in another country. This may or may not be the country of his passport. In theory, only this matters, and nationality is not important. They should report to the country where he is a tax resident. In practice, SHERRING (link see above) thinks Thai banks will just report to the country of the nationality of the account holder. Much easier.

Listen to it in .5 speed and you hear, that the speaker isn't ever saying l for ร, there is a thrill. This influences the preceding ng: The sibillant ng, which takes time, becomes a fast plosive at the same position, ie a g. Yes, it's very different from Paiboon.

Its not TS and its not S. ช is never CH like an English "ch". It is an initial t melting immediately into an alveolo-palatal fricative like in Mandarin xiao (as in Xiaomi), IPA [ɕiɑu˨˩˦] It's also aspirated, meaning it's followed by a weak h- sound. The initial t is often gone, that's why its Shinawatra instead of Chinawatra. ช is often used in Thai for an English sh. But actually the resulting sound [ɕ] (which is heard in the example sentence) may sound more like s (especially like a Spanish s) than like sh.

My bank told me that the relevant law has just been published in March. They are still waiting for the regulations of the BoT how to handle this. (I suspect it will be similar to FATCA) They don't expect to hear from BoT before the election.

About 10 years ago, a farang was attacked with a machete and mugged at BTS Phrakhanong at 11pm. At that time (before covid), 11pm would not be considered late at night in Bangkok. I often walked deserted walkways along our Khlong at 2 am or 3am. GF was not happy that I did that. I am a bit more careful nowadays. I would not walk 500m to my condo at night at BTS Bearing, Samrong and so on. Not a safe neighborhood. For young women walking in the sois, Bangkok has never been safe. They are mugged regularly, even at daylight (5am, 6am when going to work)

That's correct. Healthy people over 45 - 50 should have a colonoscopy every 10 years. More often if at risk for colon cancer, which most people aren't. See various guidelines. But somewhere between 70 and 80 (maybe 85) people should stop doing regular colonoscopies. Guidelines vary, some say 72 or 75. That would be quite a few of AN members. An example for guidelines: https://www.cancer.org/cancer/colon-rectal-cancer/detection-diagnosis-staging/acs-recommendations.html

Hip has arthrosis. Range of movement limited. There also is a small disk herniation L1/2. Both conditions may explain my symptoms. When he moved my leg, he could provoke the typical symptoms of hip arthrosis (like pain, limited ROM) but not those of disk herniation (like numbness or Lasegue). So he thinks the symptoms probably stem mostly from the hip. He suggested a steroid injection into the hip to see, how much of an improvement this will bring.

Update: I went to see Dr Sarij, Spine Center Bangkok Hospital. He turned out to be just the kind of doctor I was looking for: he has also done hip replacements, sees more than only my spine or only my hip, had a look at spinal MRI AND at hip x-ray, examined both hip and spine and discussed his findings with me. Recommended.

Maybe you haven't seen the prices in the tourist south (Samui, Phuket) lately. They have doubled since covid. Even the most expensive hospital in Pattaya seems like a bargain now

1m in 3 days is quite possible if some kind of operation or invasive procedure (eg coronary stents, thrombectomy...) was done, otherwise hard to imagine. Bumrungrad doesn't usually do completely unnecessary tests, there are other hospitals (eg second tier hospitals in the tourist south) who do that a lot more. Government hospitals, on the other side, do only the absolutely necessary. It's a minimal treatment which is in most cases exactly what the patient needs, but in some cases it's not enough from a Western point of view. I quite like the goverment style. You can get it at the private arm of Siriraj Hospital, it won't be much cheaper than Bumrungrad, though.

It usually helps to be a beautiful young woman

They have prices for Thais, resident foreigners, tourists, and foreign insurances But the differences are often not very clear. BTW doctor fees are set by the doctor case by case, if he likes you they are cheap.

It surprised me, too. As Nigel said, the price of about 2500 even included testing and the usual smarties (colorful assorted useless tablets)

2500 baht (paid by a friend in Bangkok Hospital Huahin).