Foxx

On 11/3/2023 at 7:40 AM, BenCrew said:

I've been having turmeric milk every morning for the past 6 or 7 years now! Have to say, the lead hasn't yet taken effect

So, it hasn't put lead in your pencil.  Sorry to hear that.  Try sildenafil instead.  

Typical.  These Malayan tigers coming here, taking our Thai tigers' jobs.  I hope Immigration gets onto this quickly and deports it.

In 2022 Thailand imported 104,162 kg of turmeric from India.  However, this is dwarfed by the 2,189,220 kg from Burma.

https://wits.worldbank.org/trade/comtrade/en/country/All/year/2022/tradeflow/Exports/partner/THA/product/091030

Is it possible to transfer existing holdings in mutual funds from one Thai broker to another? I'm seeking to change broker, but don't want to have the transactional expenses of sale and repurchase.

Thank you.

On 7/29/2023 at 1:26 PM, Toby1947 said:

get me a Bachelor of science degree issued from Oxford University

Oxford hasn't issued BSc degrees for a very long time.  When they were issued they were equivalent to a Masters degree.

Students who study science at Oxford as undergraduates receive a BA.

10 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

2 hours ago, Foxx said:

 

Fake news.  Israeli propaganda.

I really do have to respond to this again. This comment is pure trolling so please stop it or back up your comment.

Try searching Google for "Hamas tied a pregnant woman to a chair, cut out the baby, stabbed it to death, cut off the woman's breasts and left her to die" - not a single match from a reputable news source.  (The Daily Mail, which appears as results #2 is not a reputable news source, but a sleazy UK tabloid filled with clickbait.)

Of course, if you have a link to some reputable news sources including all the details alleged, I'll retract.

As Aeschylus said two and a half millennia ago “In war, truth is the first casualty.”  Still true today.

57 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Hamas tied a pregnant woman to a chair, cut out the baby, stabbed it to death, cut off the woman's breasts and left her to die.

Fake news.  Israeli propaganda.

The official test is the Thai Ministry of Education's P6 Exam, which tests if you're as smart as a Thai 6th grader.

I believe it's only administered once a year in December.

Additional tuition is usually advised since you need to have skills such as addressing an envelope correctly and putting the stamp in the right place.  (More onerous than it sounds.)

Most of the schools in Bangkok using the Union method have courses for this.

As Gaccha mentioned, Chulalongkorn University also has an unofficial test which gives you a grade.

When I arrived a week ago they had closed one of the Immigration halls, and only half the counters were staffed in the other hall.  Very poor service.

Linagliptin (anti-diabetes drug) went off-patent in August of this year.  Apparently 63 generic brands have been launched, but none of them appears to be available in Thailand yet, which is a pity.  At 1,530 baht/pack of 30, the original Trajenta is rather pricey.

https://www.immigration.go.th/?page_id=3159

If the Buddha figure was within the tree trunk, it wasn't "unearthed".  Untrunked, or unboled possibly.  Definitely not "unearthed".

This doesn't make sense.  Bang Pa-in to Bang Bua Thong is 55 km on highways 32 and 9.  How then, can one have a "34.1 kilometre motorway project, linking Bang Bua Thong in Nonthaburi and Bang Pa-in"?  It sounds like this is, in fact, a partial renovation of bits of highway 9.  Not a bad idea if it increases capacity.  The road gets very congested at peak times.

I simply can't believe that Trump wrote that statement.  Writing "the data are false" is a level of grammatical understanding that is way, way above Trump's third grade level of English.

8 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

One interesting example is the hand movement of Thai dancers. These superficially mimic Chinese hand movements, but lack the storytelling of the Chinese style. Actually, the hand movements seen in Thailand closely resemble Khmer style. But the hand movements in Khmer/Mon culture provide meanings for the hand positions, whereas the Thai style has no meanings, they just look good. Obviously, when the Tai people arrived in Thailand, they learned the hand movements, but not the meaning.

Almost total tosh.  Following the sacking of Angkor the Siamese brought all the court dancers back with them.  Thai dancing is a direct descendent of Khmer dancing.  And the gestures do have meanings.

https://www.government.nl/topics/income-tax/filing-a-tax-return

No.  IBKR doesn't report to the Thai tax authorities.  There is no tax on capital gains tax in Thailand.  There is no tax on foreign dividends in Thailand (provided you don't bring the proceeds into Thailand in the same calendar year).  Of course, all of that might change next year.

The Skeptoid podcast covered this subject and concluded 

"My favorite source for authoritative visual information is the website of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. It's a source regular Skeptoid listeners might remember from episode #740 about blue-blocking glasses for people who work at computer screens, their data was very clear that all such products are completely worthless scams, and computer screens do not harm your eyes in any way unless you give yourself eye strain — which blue blocking glasses don't help with."

https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4740

One of the fallacies here is that religion and ethnicity are closely associated.  Hinduism is not the sole preserve of Indian people, and you can't conclude "there is a big genetic contribution from India".  It's a bit like saying that Europeans are descended from Semitic peoples because they are Christian and Jesus was a Semite.

(1) To get the best rates of interest you need to lock up the money for a number of years.  You can't pay into an account monthly.

(2) A compromise might be something like Krung Sri Bank's Mee Tae Dai account which has limited withdrawals, but allows frequent deposits and pays a higher rate of interest than a savings account.  Other banks have similar products.

(3) Why are you doing this? By keeping your money in cash you won't be getting enough interest to even cover the cost of inflation.

Given the possibility of tax on money coming into Thailand, I'm contemplating moving a significant lump sum here before the end of the year.  I was therefore wondering whether anyone had any experience to report of Krungsri Exclusive, and particularly whether they give you a credit card without having a locked-in deposit.