willi2006

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:

...

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. 
...

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.

It might be technically possible to manage the bank account of a deceased person with an ATM card or online. But it is illegal in Thailand and I think in other countries too.
The executor has to take the will to the court and get approval, no lawyer required. After that he can execute the last will.

At the Thai courts are lawyers who give some advice for free.

Another good experience:

Two years ago my neighbors asked me for advice. Their fridge freezer combination didn't cool anymore. I had a look and guessed that the compressor is broken. There was a sticker 10 years warranty for the compressor and the phone number of Samsung service. They came next day and found that the pipe was damaged and due to this the compressor broke. They had to pay for the replacement of the pipe but not for the compressor, about 2500 THB.

It depends not only on the shops but also on the people you talk to and how you talk.

Many years ago a friend of mine bought a toaster at a Big supermarket chain. At home he discovered that it didn't work. When he showed it to me I saw that on the box was written "defect" in Thai. He brought it back. The defect item was placed in he shelve and he got another one.

Several years ago the panel of a LG monitor died within the warranty period of the manufacturer. I brought it to IT city where I bought it. They sent it to Bangkok, said might take 2month or more. After little more than one month they called me and I got a replacement monitor with full HD, the broken one had a lower resolution. It's still working.

About two years ago I bought an USB memory stick at JIB. It broke after a few month. The shop required the original package of the stick to handle the case which I didn't have. I insisted and finally they sent it to the manufacturer SanDisk. I got a free replacement and kept the package.

From my experience you can not rely on the shop here, but on the manufacturer's warranty.

A friend of mine who is in Thailand already long and speaks Thai well explained to me the two tier pricing as follows: On the signs usually are different prices for "Thai" and "Foreigners". But this isn't quite correct. There are different prices for locals and tourists as in many other countries too. Thus even being a foreigner but can proof with the pink id card being a local you should get the local price. He did it already. But may be you have to insist to be a local and ask for the manager.

So I'll go and get a pink id card.

7 hours ago, FarangFB said:

I'm also not convinced that it makes any difference.

 

I have the regular 200mb fiber Does anyone here have this connection?

 

Here is my speedtest to an american server (San Francisco, Comcast server)

...

5 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

No one from 3BB has ever promised that their INTERNATIONAL connections to places like the U.S. (in your example above) are going to match the service maximums of their 200/50 Mbps fiber plan. The 200/50 numbers have always and only been shown as maximums for domestic Thailand usage.

 

I agree, the higher speed makes a difference only for servers in Thailand.

I still have a 3BB copper connection for 630 THB per month. According to the router I have:

- Downstream: 18845 Kbps

- Upstream: 639 Kbps.

Speedtest from Frankfurt in Germany currently shows 14 Mbps down and 550 Kbps up.

I regularly download videos larger than 1.5 GB from Germany with 12 to 16 Mbps.

The 200 Mbps fiber isn't really faster for this usage. I wouldn't pay 1 Baht for that. And I neither want to have an additional box nor an additional possible point of failure.

So since the normal death rate is 70 per day or 420 over six days, Songkran, has saved 114 lives, let's extend the holiday.

Guess, that's not the case. 70 per day or 25.000 per year is the number of people dying within 1 month after the accident according to police. Whereas 306 in 6 days is the number of people who died immediately or may be at the same day.

As far as I read 30.000 per year are dying within 3 months after the accident according to the department of health.

This is what google translate says ความสมบูรณ์

Well, Google translate.

My paper dictionary says "สมบูรณ์" means "completeness", "perfectness", "healthiness" but also "well-fed".

For "integrity" it offers "ความซื่อสัตย์", "ความจริงใจ". May be you can find these Thai words in thick dictionaries but they are not well known by Thai people.