jayceenik

What if a TGF inherits from a non-resident farang boyfriend assets over 50M located outside Thailand and not taxed there (like in Singapore) ?

Would she have to declare the inheritance and pay the 10% tax over the 50M ?

Pattaya TOT.

Yes, www.hotmail.com or whatever Outlook takes now forever to load.

Bizarely hola! is now proxy UK when my hotmail/outlook account is open.

Signaling it senses a Thai-based censorship ?

End October I too had a long wait at CW for my one-year extension.

Got queue ticket before 9. Was processed at about 1030 but it was only after lunch at 1 that I finally got the "approval" signature.

Here in LOS I get MSN news in English (Chrome) and in French (IE) on the respective homepages.

Same choice if I Google MSN news.

Saddened by this tragic event.

But still, police couldn't be contacted ? They was too busy ? Had to use the internet ? What if it was you who phoned the police, and there was no answer ?

And the building itself. A victim of the Asian economic crisis ? What, the one that hit Thailand back in 1996/97 ? The building has been in this state since then ? Nearly two decades ?

And, on the Skytrain, between Nana station and Asoke station, and maybe a bit beyond as well, are the partly-built buildings still there ? I take it those were also buildings were construction stopped during the building process, due to lack of money for wages and materials.

The abandoned one near Nana BTS on Sukhumvit (Post Office side) was pulled down a few years ago. It's a big open space now.

Further up is the Times Square U-shaped complex which was built decades ago and left unfinished for many years. It was finally finished some years back and seems to be doing well.

The big one at the corner of Sukhumvit and Asoke (going to the Convention Center) was also finally done for occupancy after years being left unfinished.

As for the sky-high monster where the unfortunate farang was found hanged I've looked at it over the years every time I've been to Saphan Taksin BTS and wondered why such an attractive-looking high-rise in such a prime BKK location could have been left so close (apparently) to termination. An insurance-unacceptable flawed safety design in the fire-escape stairwells ?

It's not good for such buildings to be left open to the weather for so many years. Rain waster will eventually get in the concrete and the re-bars will rust and crack the concrete. I was surprised to see the long-abandoned Times Square building being resuscitated !!

I had never heard of that Torch Browser.

I just went to their website. Impressive.

HP laptop-Vista 32b.

Chrome started not to work two weeks ago.

Chrome icons visible but Chrome would either not open or open a non-responsive window.

I tried to uninstall-reinstall several times but no success.

Chrome would show up again as installed but I never saw the actual download bar moving.

I Googled for solutions, seems like it's a problem for some.

One poster said to delete the Chrome profile folder that's possibly corrupted but my system would not let me do it (though I'm administrator)

Maybe I'll try the new Chrome Canary.

Really annoying as Chrome Cloud holds all my bookmarks !!

Fortunately Chrome still works on my two PC (Win 7 and 8)and on a Vaio (Win 7).

OK - I've got www.nbcnews.com back normal.

Must have been a gremlin ...

But living (happily, I must say) in LOS we first think of censorship, don't we 555

www.nbcnews.com which used to be my homepage is now "Access Denied".

This morning a US-based friend sent me an email with a link to a science related article published by nbcnews.com - Access Denied too.

This what I get :

You don't have permission to access "http://www.nbcnews.com/" on this server.

Reference #18.8f9190cb.1416906598.4378c20

The test is there. All correct answers are in dark print.

Memorize them, then forget them as some are wrong.

I went for my DL renewal a couple months ago.

I studied the few Thai rules-of-the-road manuals I could find (I read Thai).

I then studied the e-questions mentioned (in English) and soon realized that I had better abstain as some of them are confusing at best and "wrong" (against what the manuals say) at worst.

I've been eating Mama (and the other brands too) for decades.

Mostly because they are so convenient and quick to prepare.

I'm doing good but, indeed, I've been told by several Thais (my dentist, for one) they they're not good for one's health. I was even sent once by a BKK TGF a long web article in Thai (that I Google translated) about how bad those noodles are. Concerned and also willing to please that then TGF I tried different home fast meals but soon reverted to my trusted Mama.

In my experience I thus can say that the OP is right to have noticed that some Thais don't endorse Mama and the like noodles for health reason.

Horror story at ChaengWattana this past Tuesday.

Went in at 9 AM (they open at 8.30) for the one-year extension. Got queue # 43.

Was processed at 11 AM in less than 5 min (all my documentation in perfect order as usual) and got the one-year stamp but had to wait until 1 PM for the supervising officer to come back from a "meeting" to get the final approval signature on the stamp ...

Is there not a requirement that the 800k must originate from outside LOS ?

I always have my bank letter stipulate that.

Having lived in LOS for ages I've read and heard about all the police/immigration problems faced by bar owners who have been seen/caught working in their (usually in the TGF's name) bar - either being behind the counter, working the sound system, doing maintenance work or, yes, serving drinks to their friends.

So I can understand why the OP was disconcerted seeing a farang working so openly in a CW food outlet.

Of course there ought to be a very legal reason.

But IMHO no need to send the OP to the TV gallows for asking !!

I'm going to CW for my one-year extension next Tuesday.

Will have a look at the Food Court.

Will not report what I see or not see !!

It's getting too hot here on this thread !! LOL

Why do you make this any concern of yours. The Thai government has people to take care of these things. If they do not, it still is no concern of yours.

The OP was just wondering seeing a 'farang' working in a food court.

The OP was not "concerned".

No need to flame him.

Friendly forum or not ?

TOT Pattaya - Phone line.

Connection was OK yesterday morning though with a couple disconnects.

From 1 PM on no connection and the phone line is dead.

Same this morning.

I've to go to TOT Central Rd again this morning.

Using my landlord's non-TOT WiFi with permission now.

Pattaya TOT Internet by a phone line.

The OP mentioned a TOT network problem being fixed.

I think that's why my connection was breaking up .

Since this morning only one brief disconnect.

Fingers crossed and all that !!

TOT Pattaya.

Since Thursday last week I've had a terrible forever breaking connection.

Interestingly yesterday Sunday the connection had very few breaks,

This early morning the connection was breaking up again.

This afternoon it was just unworkable.

Bizarrely this evening the connection got better after 7 PM and as I'm writing this has only a few breaks.

I've been twice to TOT already.

Twice the technician called but never showed up.

Going back to complain tomorrow.

TOT Pattaya.

Problems since last Thursday. Cuts and only intermittent connection.

I complained to TOT in person Thursday noon and a tech called me Friday AM.

No improvement and Friday PM TOT told me a tech would come to my place Saturday AM.

Indeed the guy called Saturday but never showed up.

Saturday AM I had connection but PM absolutely nothing until 9 PM.

Today I have connection since this morning with only a few short cuts.

It's not a modem going bad. I checked with another modem - same connection problem.

I've been drinking the city water for years in both my studios - BKK and Pattaya.

But it goes through a ceramic filter.

No need to carry heavy water containers from the supermarket.

No need to pollute the planet with discarded plastic water bottles.

Granted, if I were a tourist I'd certainly have to buy water in bottles.

I'm a Belgian living in LOS.

Many years back I went to Belgium for a vacation.

I thought I'd take the opportunity to deposit a couple thousand US$ cash I had left over from previous vacations in the US.on the account I've had with a bank there for countless years

Cannot do they told me. I had to go to a money changer to get Euros that then I could deposit on my account.

I was pretty annoyed and queried why the new rule. It's forced by the US they told me ...

Another false misleading headline from Thai Visa

America is making citizens of all countries fill out a form when creating a new account

No, stupid Thai Bank employees are making citizens of all countries fill out a form when creating a new account

My, my we're getting really upset - aren't we ?

This is because many wealthy Americans are renouncing their passport to buy citizenship in another country to avoid paying tax. By us law you may still owe tax even if you are no longer a citizen so theoretically all non us citizens are potential us tax evaders.

Thanks for answering that because I meant to ask why were they asking on the form above renouncing citizenship.

So are you saying that if you are a US citizen it is impossible to relinquish your tax obligations for the rest of your life no matter what measures you try to adopt?

Google the details about renouncing a US citizenship. Frightening !!

And check also the financial misadventures that have struck people with dual citizenship who thought they were clear of US laws because they considered themselves true citizens of their other nationality and hadn't lived in the US for a long time.

There are several amusing trick applications of that law.

Like preventing you from entering the US again if you have renounced your citizenship because of tax reason. They would arrest you at the border anyway if you hadn't paid your full taxes before absconding.

I renounced mine decades ago at the US consulate in Brussels.

At that time there were none of these pesky IRS laws but there was an awful lot of signed declarations to make.

The procedure was free then.

DLT dress code.

Actually I read on a forum some time ago that an Australian who wanted to get a Driving License on the basis of his Australian/International license was refused service at a Dpt of Land Transport office (I don't remember where) because he was in shorts. He was with his TGF and the official made quite clear to her that he was not dressed properly and to come back "politely" dressed.

At the time I made a note to put my long pants on at my next renewal application.

And that's the way I went to the DLT this time !!