jayceenik

At KTB interest rates on fixed terms deposits are inferior for farang held accounts. Also, I was asked to get a TIN even though I already had a long time savings account with them.

I can't understand why the great majority of posters on this thread seems to dislike/hate Thais and root for a farang who has been so rude to a woman (because she is Thai she doesn't count as a woman?). That Swiss guy would pay hell if he had behaved like that in his country (kicking a Swiss woman or a foreigner). As for the him being definitively shown the door it depends how much pull he has here in Thailand. The oldtimers will remember that German in Pattaya that the Police wanted to get rid of (they had good reasons!). It took a few years because the German was very influential and could muster powerful relations. A Police chief and a Governor lost their jobs in the confrontation. Finally a new Governor with extra strength support was able to sent the guy and his lieutenant on their way out.

You should visit US vassal state Belgium. We are home to numerous US troops, US military Headquarters, and about two dozens US nuclear missiles. I am a real Belgian! BTW, in my adventurous youth I even enlisted in the US Army and did an extended tour in VN.

As a Belgian I object to your insulting stance about the USSR valiant soldiers who fought in WWII. The Soviet Army broke the back of the German Army in Stalingrad and Kursk and was the main contributor to the liberation of Europe. You must be a German still sore about the Barbarossa failure. And, Yes, I support Putin 100%. Ukraine's Bandera nationalists formed a SS brigade in WWII so I have no sympathy for Zelensky and his Azov battallions.

My first TIN. 03FEB89. 9 numbers. At the time I was renting a studio in Sukhumvit 22. I got a job for an Aussie company in Papua New Guinea. One month on - two weeks off. Airfare paid to BKK. The then Thai govt decided to tax farangs who were spending more than a couple months a year in LOS. That was me. We had to declare our overseas income and pay Thai taxes on it No reentry for those who didn't get a clearance from the RD. I declared a very low nominal salary, received a TIN by post and paid a token sum in 1989 ,1990 and 1991. Then this new "farang" tax was scrapped. I had completely forgotten about this TIN when I had to get one a few years ago when I made a time deposit account at KTB and they insisted on my having a TIN to open this time account even though I already had a savings account with them. Today I just exhumed the old one while clearing my papers. So, now I have two TINs!

You talking only about Russians or do you generalize about all nationalities? In other words, according to you is that only Russians who misbehave when in other countries?

This Western hatred for Russians dates back eons. Mure recently, remember that Patton wanted to fight his way from Normandy to Moscow, crush the Soviet army and occupy the USSR. Me, count my humble retired Belgian person to be resolutely supporting Putin in that dreadful US-Ukraine proxy war against Russia.

Thanks for the info. I was sure the employee was feeding me BS but it's good to be reassured by others. They indeed said that I had better open this FCD account in the BKK Bank Silom HQ where there would not be this doublr currency exchange. These FCD accounts are held and managed in the bank HQ and are thus of no benefit to the oulying branches. Just extra work that doesn't concern these subsidiaries branches unless one opens a concurrent THB with them.

I went to the BKK Bank main branch in Ubon to get info for my opening a EUR FCD account with them. I have a EUR savings account with Citi in SIN that I want to transfer here. The bank said they need to see my Belgian passport and my NonImmO stay permit. Fair enough, but then they want to see my Thai marriage certificate, my wife's house registration, and additional documents from my bank, immigration and amphoe. They then told me the way to transfer my EUR Citi funds to that account is to have Citi SIN SWIFT transfer my funds in EUR to my FCD account, have these funds exchanged in THB and then re-exchanged into EUR to then be entered in my FCD account. This is absolutely ridiculous. I don't want to convert my EUR into THB at this time. Is that the way FCD in Thailand work? I thought FCD were for keeping your foreign currency in your foreign currency until you decided to convert part or all into THB.

A lot of virtue-signaling here. We're talking about the safety of a plane load of people in case of an accident and quick evacuation is required. Any one objecting that airlines, for example, will not seat a handicapped person by an emergency exit? . I applaud VietJet Air for sticking to the common sense ICAO air safety regulations. Anyway, these safety regulations apply to ALL airlines.

Decisions-Decisions! I think the Ubon BaNANA Sunee branch is indeed bigger than the Ubon Central JIB so it's where I'll buy my new (first time) ASUS. Present one is a Win10 AIO Lenovo bought online in 2017. Time flies! It has started acting up so it's time to go to a new Win11 SSD AIO brand. BTW I once DID work for 8 months in the PNG Highlands on contract to an AUS company. So the "wild" picture brought back memories from my younger more adventurous days. 😀

In a couple weeks I'll leave my village to buy a new PC in town. I know the model I want, I just would like to inquire here where it's best to buy: JIB or BaNANA. Both have shops in Ubon (Central and Sunnee). Are they good same-same for buying a PC?

I have AN on Opera. I've been getting often these No More Activity for a long time now. I just hit the Reload button (curved arrow top left) and scrolling gets back to normal after reloading.

Yes, it can be done like that. The bank has no knowledge of the farang husband's death and it is simple for the TW to withdraw money from the account if she has the ATM card of the deceased and the PIN. I know personally of a case like that here in TH. After her UK husband died in the village the TW got hold of his ATM card and somehow managed to find the PIN. She withdrew all the account money day-limit by day-limit. The account was in a Thai bank.

Indeed. A few years back after I thought I'd like to have a long time relationship with a girl I met in Pattaya I went to a local lawyer and made a proper Testament-Last Will and made her sole beneficiary of all I had in TH. It included everything: the 800k+ bank account, my motorcycle and everything i had in my apt. Cost me 10k We eventually got married in her village and I have a happy life with her. That Will is thus now redundant but TW says to keep it as it could make getting the bank money for her quicker.