willi2006

Have a look here https://aqicn.org/city/chiang-mai/

Scroll down to see history.

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Sugar cane field burning is carried out before harvesting the cane to make the process easier and require less manual labor.

https://sites.google.com/site/sugarcanepm/pre-harvest-burning

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Sugarcane burning is estimated to contribute more than half of Palm Beach County’s total emissions for 15 hazardous air pollutants.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-03-28/america-s-sugar-cane-growers-have-a-burning-problem

It's even done in richer countries.
The polluters save money.
The dealers buy cheaper and make more money.
The population pays.

Pay either cash or via mobile banking using QR code or transfer.

Close to Lumphini Park at Chulalongkorn Hospital the Real-time Air Quality Index (AQI) is currently 34:

https://waqi.info/#/c/13.731/100.535/16z

17 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

If you had your stamps transferred at immigration when you got the new passport your old passport number will be on the first visa page of your new passport. There should be big stamp that has the info on it.

15 hours ago, bbi1 said:

Is this problem only with SCB or with Kasikorn too, or you can go to any branch with KBank to update your passport number?

Three different bank employees required my old passport and sent me to the branch where I opened the account. The fourth knew about the stamp from immigration, didn't require my old passport and didn't send me to the opening branch. It was the person not the bank.

I don't know of a less serious but of a more serious. When the meter isn't reconnected for too long you have to pay the same as if there haven't been a meter.

Try internet search for thailand+knockdown+house

As far as I know the fee is 100 THB plus VAT.

17 hours ago, nightfox said:

So whats the falang price to get in as free or waved is not a word Im used to in Thailand.

Khon Kaen Zoo was already free for people over 60 years, Thai and foreigner.
Which mobile app to use for reservation?

14 minutes ago, Magenta408 said:

This is the real crisis. ...

Why is this the real crisis, a crisis at all, compared to what?

Power bill cut for 22m houses

<link to Bangkok Post removed per forum rules>
Energy Ministry proposes new ways to cut electricity bills
https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30386505

Khon Kaen Immigration always requires a 90 days report with form and copies when doing an extension even if the 90 days report isn't due yet. And you get the slip with the next date for 90 days report too.
I think that's convenient when you don't leave the country: You have one date for extension and 90 days report and three other dates for 90 days reports within one year.

4 hours ago, Moonlover said:

... I walk in the countryside every morning so I am very conscious of the air quality.

How do you judge the air quality? From smell? From sight?

You can smell some pollution, not all. E.g. wood or charcoal fires smell, e.g. carbon monoxide doesn't smell.
You can see some pollution, not all.

22 minutes ago, padgebkk said:

It seems the only places that air quality measurements are taken in Thailand are Bangkok and Chiang Mai.

There are many stations.

Have a look here:
World's Air Pollution: Real-time Air Quality Index Thailand

or here

openSenseMap

24 minutes ago, Antonymous said:

There needs to be a strongman, perhaps a prominent General, appointed by this government and given wide powers and a big budget with the SOLE responsibility to stop air pollution. Make his actions transparent, public, announced regularly to the media. Why has this not happened? We all know why.

 

There are already strong men holding the power and taking advantage of burning: business and money. Profit: Produce cheap  and sell expensive. Others have to bear the burden of health problems.

50 minutes ago, legend49 said:

Obviously these minions to not understand it will change readings regularly, through weather patterns and people input. Sunday 9am is a day of low industry and traffic even blind Freddy could tell you the reading will be low.

Agree,

from AQI 193 to 172 is a variation of 10% and is in no way an improvement. The daily variation is usually higher than 10%. See e.g. https://aqicn.org/city/thailand/nakornping-hospital/

And it will go up again.

Seeing  here the pollution and the wind

https://www.airvisual.com/earth

and here the fires

https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#z:6;c:103.1,16.0;t:adv-points;d:2020-02-25..2020-02-27;l:street,firms_noaa20-viirs,firms_viirs,firms_modis_a,firms_modis_t

gives the answer.

Find historical data of up to 3 years:

http://aqicn.org/city/rayong/

Tracks almost each number worldwide
https://www.17track.net/

5 hours ago, saikaial said:

It was only a few months ago that the Dam was over 100% of maximum and areas were flooded.

...

Are you sure ?

Wasn't this in October 2017 ?

19 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

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I suspect those who can’t renew their Thai DL using their yellow house book have their name on their DL in Roman (English) Alphabet & their DL was initially obtained using a letter of residence & their passport. 
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I got my driving licences with with my name in Roman letters using a letter of residence & passport 13 years ago. Later I got the yellow house book with my name in Thai letters. No problem to renew the driving licenses with name in Roman letters and yellow book with name in Thai letters last year in Khon Kaen.

I'm afraid there's no simple answer. It depends on the details.
Ventilation against humidity: Some gaps will do the job.

Ventilation against heat. The roof space is heated up by sun radiation, similar to a closed car parked in the sun. Opening the windows will help. But parking in the shadow under a tree or carport will help more. I measured up to 70 °C in our roof space.

Questions to answer:

• Is the temperature between roof space and outside on top of the roof enough to drive the roof vent?
• Is there enough wind to drive the roof vent?
• Is there a motor to drive the roof vent?
• Where does the incoming air is taken from? Is it cool enough to do the job?
• Is the air flow rate high enough to get the temperature down?

6 hours ago, Swiss1960 said:

... and since I know that the yellow book is not accepted by DLT as proof of Address ...

Yellow book is greatly appreciated at Khon Kaen DLT.