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Chill. China has started doling out Pfizer vaccines to their own population because they followed Xi's 'zero covid' down the CCP's rabbit hole about 14 months too long. Now their pharmacies and hospitals are completely out of the rubbish vaccines that they sold to the Third world. Xi's days are numbered.

Which only refers to a white westerner. ...and they're off!

Are you trying all this with the same judge/court/lawyer? The primary contact address and passport information is over 10 years old, people move and passports expire. It is pretty unrealistic to expect that the 'missing' person can easily be found, especially if that person may be making and extra effort NOT to be found. Have you typed his name and city of birth and/or last known residence into a broad Google search? Loads of info on how to search here If you have a local address in Germany, see if they have a local newspaper and post a 'legal' notice about an unclaimed inheritance. That'll shake the blighter out of the woodwork.

All registered marriages in Thailand are in a national database that can be accessed at any Amphur and not just the one where the marriage was registered. This database has been in place for at least twenty years. There is probably an address for the errant male marital partner on that registration.

No. You were suggesting that the OP's race was contributing to their difficulties at the bank. Yes, I would totally ignore the woman. Same as I chose to ignore the old Thai lady that got very upset and shouting rude, racist things about 'all farangs' when I wore my shoes inside the waiting room at the ophthalmologists. I had missed the signage to take off one's shoes in the hallway outside. I went back outside, removed my shoes and re-entered. I apologized to the two staff members and the five other people waiting but pointedly ignored the shouty old buzzard. After half-a-minute, she stormed out of the waiting room, still ranting and raving.

Commenting on corruption is moaning now is it, sounds like somebody has a dodgy extension And it sounds like someone's still moaning.

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I said overseas. It was a comment on good service from both AIS and DTAC roaming in case anyone else is interested.

I will be setting up my TP-Link Archer MR600 4G+ Cat6 AC1200 before the New Year. Looking on lazada, it appears that DTAC and (maybe) True are the only ones offering 30 Mb/100Gb SIM cards and AIS's best offering is 15 Mb/100Gb. I have both AIS and DTAC on my mobile phone. I use a ~90 baht/month data package on AIS as primary as well as a more expensive one (~300 baht/month?) on DTAC as backup. It used to be DTAC as primary until the AIS bargain came along. I use the data connections for internet and to stream UK radio via Bluetooth in the truck and in the office. I've never had major connection issues with either and the overseas roaming packages they both offer have worked well. I have an app that identifies and calculates the distance to the different cell towers as well as signal strength, etc.. The nearest one is AIS which is less than 500 meters away. There's a couple of DTAC towers, both around 1,800 meters away. The signal strength (dBm) difference is minimal. I am on the outskirts of Udon Thani so pretty much wide open spaces with no high rises and power lines, etc.. Looking at a related thread with the last comment about 6 months ago, when it comes to technicalities, it suggests that DTAC would be the best option. This will be a single-user (my office) with a maximum of three computers on the LAN. No gaming, no great demands for streaming Netflix or other media (but that may change if the quality exceeds my otherwise benign interest). So, bearing in mind that location, location, location is paramount, I will be going with DTAC's ~1700 baht offering. How is their activation process? Any other advice welcome.

Arrived at 06:30 with two haggis, one black pudding, a kg of unsmoked back bacon and a Black Bomber cheese. No beagles. Gutted.

LOL. Way too many of those and not enough staff.

Still moaning about agents and their clients I see. For everyone else, there are agents. Ask @proton

Timely reminder there @BigStar, have fun and don't drop your wallet until it's empty.

Love that race card don't you? It must be getting as worn out as your Thai ID card. As for getting into a race discussion with anonymous locals at the bank...

In my instance, after waiting the requisite 30 (or 60) days of public notices and efforts (by mail) to contact with no response, my lawyer advised we could proceed. I was out of the country at the time so he booked a court date for after my return. Unfortunately, in the interim, word got to my then wife who had apparently been overseas visiting her sister. She got a lawyer who contacted my lawyer and all parties agreed to show up. Court date #1: First time I had seen her in many months and she wants to contest. Judge says we both need to fully assess and agree on our conjugal property, each provide a character witness and attend his court again 30-days hence. After court, I advised my lawyer I had no assets in Thailand (true) and she had everything she was already entitled to. He worked on that with her lawyer. Court date #2: Her lawyer's there but she's a no-show. Judge goes ahead and hears my character witness, the Thai wife of a mutual friend who knew us both well. All I can say from her testimony was I learned a lot about my soon-to-be ex and it wasn't good! Judge advises that we must attend a third time and tells her lawyer to make sure she attends in person. Court date #3: Her lawyer's there but she's a no-show again. Her lawyer also advises that she hadn't paid him either. Judge rules that she's a time-waster (could have told him that already but I followed protocols) and proceeds to grant my divorce. The only bit of protocol I resisted was the gesture of giving a token sum to my ex-wife. It may be cultural or whatever but I still said no. The judge told my lawyer that it's only a gesture and even 1 satang would be seen as 'proper'. I still said no and the judge commented that's the first time he had ever had that rejected in his court. As I mentioned, this was last century when mobile phones were very few, email largely unused by locals and absolutely NO social media. Thus the efforts to contact were easy to fulfill; letter(s) to last known address(es) and public notices. Probably a bigger task these days with the different ways of finding people but with mobile phones and social media, it should be easier and not more difficult IMHO. Your judge is maybe being pedantic or your lawyer isn't trying hard enough and/or milking it. You can always get another one. Good luck.

Ha! Fool. I never even started.

If it was a local wedding ceremony with monks and family and no formal registration with any Amphur, there's no further action needed. In the eyes of the law, they were never married. If the marriage was in Thailand and registered with a local Amphur, it should be relatively easy to get a divorce on the grounds of separation but 'years ago' needs to be defined. I did it some time last century and I retained a lawyer since efforts were required to contact the respondent such as last known address plus a 30-day (or maybe it was 60-day) public notice, before going to court. In my case, there had been no contact for over 18 months. I don't recall how much I paid the lawyer but it was around the same price as a decent night out to celebrate the final, legal parting of the ways. I'm theorizing here but for an overseas-registered marriage, whatever formal and legal proceedings that are required by that 'home' country needs to be done first. The divorce papers issued would then need to be formalized either at the local Thai Embassy or Consulate in that 'home' country and/or translated and formalized at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bangkok. Good luck.

Along with a short bout on statins, I dropped fried food, all dairy and all alcohol from my diet. I also rode my bicycle around 40-50 km/week. Subsequent blood work showed that in less than 3 weeks, I had cut bad cholesterol in half. The doctor said that statins probably accounted for the bulk of that reduction. I maintain the healthy diet and exercise and plan on stopping the crutch of statins after 6 months. I'll have tests done at that point and repeat after 3 months.

Statins will drop your 'bad' lipids numbers pretty much overnight. Not sure how a pill can make you feel better since, in my experience, high lipids by themselves didn't make me feel bad. Are you exercising as well? Dietary changes? Popping pills is the lazy doctor's way of filling the pharmaceutical company's coffers while not doing much to keep you out of a premature coffin.

Better for what? For example, my tractor is great at ploughing and it has a fast-mode for highway use but I don't use it on the shopping runs.

Good point well made. This yellow-painted median commences about 2.5 km east of the accident scene and extends all the way to the outskirts of Ubon Ratchatani, some 15 km to the west. Using the 'imaginary boulevard' reasoning, traffic headed west would be prohibited from turning to/from the yellow-painted median until a cross-roads about 2 km outside Ubon Ratchatani. Unfortunately, there's also a third lane enabled U-turn less than 300 m west of where they were killed. I would apportion the bulk of any blame on the driver of the CR-V that rear-ended the Yaris. The pickup driver would be blameless as the still shot from cctv doesn't show if there was anything occupying his right-hand lane. Either way, having dashed lines, vehicles headed east are allowed to overtake whereas vehicles headed west, like the CR-V aren't.

It may be a cash cow at 34 k baht a pop but Hakparn's after the cash whale of half a million baht and beyond per customer. Context.

My ex-fiancee in the US asked me to help her buy a used car and I settled on a red Prelude. It was awesome and if I had a bit of spare cash, I would buy one here. It was a fun car to drive and she ended up using my pickup as I was always using her Prelude. That or a Volkswagen Karman Ghia.

Why do some members repeatedly conflate the agents and their ways for getting poor old farangs an extension with the several millions, maybe billions, of payments accepted by senior IO's to allow Chinese to become Thai and buy land? As I suggested in an earlier thread, they aren't in the least bit interested in broke old men squatting on the in-laws land in Isaan no matter how much you wish they were.

Following on from @SomchaiDIY's informative earlier post with the accident location, if you use Google Earth Street View and travel in the westerly direction the Yaris was taking, there's two lanes (in both directions), a 60 kmh speed limit sign, followed by a yellow school zone sign and then a 50 kmh limit sign, also painted on the road surface. There's no signage prohibiting left or right turns. The white dashes on the west-bound lane indicates that this is the side with the school and hence a solid white line is between both lanes. According to this version of the Thailand Highway Code YELLOW LINES: mark the center of a two-way road used for two-way traffic. You may pass on a two-way road if the yellow center line is broken. When a solid and a broken yellow line are together, you must not pass if you are driving next to the solid line. Two solid yellow lines mean no passing. Never drive to the left of these lines. https://thaidrivinglicense.wordpress.com/traffic-sign/ It's ambiguous in that they seem to be for preventing cars passing or overtaking other cars but doesn't use the word cross or crossing as in, "Two solid yellow lines mean no crossing. Never cross to the left of these lines." An earlier post suggested the pickup may have been partially to blame but looking at the picture below, taken from Google Earth Street View, the pickup would have been coming over a slight crest (heading east towards the street camera view). Also note in the picture that a car has just emerged from the right-side road (where the Yaris was turning into) and has crossed the solid yellow hatched zones do do this. In my experience in Isaan, these solid yellow lines are crossed every day, not overtaken on but by vehicles entering and exiting from side streets. They are not prohibited from doing so.