Everything posted by mikebell
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PM Pledges Reform After Low Corruption Ranking for Thailand
Does this mean they will stop or start investigating the millions withdrawn from unnamed bank accounts in 100 baht notes just before Anutin's election 'victory'?
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Three Held in Pattaya Pirate Tour Boat Inspection
Until an agreement can be reached with the tour boat operator.
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Chinese Bank Manager Held in Pattaya Over Fraud
Exactly my point. TDAC is a useless waste of time and resources, particularly for long-term expats. Before hordes of people tell me how easy it is, it took me hours trying to do it on a slow internet connection in Spain on a very old phone. It would not allow me to input my Thai phone number but was happy with a bogus UK one.
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What Movies or TV shows are you watching (2026)
Ponies
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What Movies or TV shows are you watching (2026)
Just finished it. Good script; tense plot and, at 4 episodes, short enough to reach a conclusion (whilst still leaving scope for S2.)
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Chinese Bank Manager Held in Pattaya Over Fraud
So the TDAC system didn't work?
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Pattaya Hotel Worker Stops Foreign Couple Over Public Indecency
Because this is the LOS forum of AseanNow?
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Police Raid Unlicensed Karaoke Bar for Trafficking
I felt sure, after reading the headline, that no charges would be brought. I am staggered that this venue failed to take the usual 'precautions'.
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Motor Bike Insurance for Rented Bike
I couldn't find a section dealing with this; hopefully the mods will put me right. My son-in-law, a very experienced motorbike rider/owner is on holiday here with me. He would like any recommendations for companies that have fully comprehensive cover on a rented bike. He will be driving in the Pattaya area and the company nearest me does not seem to understand this concept. Cheers in advance.
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What Movies or TV shows are you watching (2026)
PoniesTV Series 2026– TV-MA The best thing I have watched this year. Great characters/script/lots of plot twists to keep you guessing. Persons of No Interest to the KGB.
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Notification of staying in The Kingdom (Over 90 days) – TM 47
I'm going to have to do this in 3 months. It outrages me that expats buy an annual 'Visa' (in my case by keeping 800K in a Thai bank at pathetic interest rates!) I buy a multi-re-entry permit; I fill in the ludicrously unnecessary TDAC form using the SAME information I have been photocopying 2 or 3 times a year at the same office for over 20 YEARS!!! YES the system is much more streamlined now (I can remember queuing at 7.15 before Immigration opened.) Few of the above posters, praising the system in minutes rather than hours, do not include the extra cost of travel and time. I'm 83 and can foresee much more difficult journeys ahead.
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Fears Rise Over Advance Voting Errors Ahead of Poll
Here we go again. Suspicious withdrawals of millions in 100 baht notes. Officials lying; giving wrong information; clerical errors; all in the name of Thai Democracy, the results of which will be nullified if the Army is displeased.
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Tourist Video Uncovers Sea Pollution at Pattaya's Jomtien Beach
The outrage is not caused by the dumping but the bad publicity at being found out. Every breath we take is laced with carcinogens that the Thai Government permit by failing to make the police work. Ditto every death on the road; every failed safety check. There's never any accountability.
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Two Siblings Arrested in Kalasin Underage Prostitution Sting
Porn by name; porn by nature.
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Pattaya Bar Guards Accused of Beating Tourist Over Unpaid Bill
It is news when ONLY four Thais attack a farang instead of the normal 8. It is news when all four of the assailants had the same complaint - an unpaid bill. Often the gang attack is swollen by a number of passing Thais who whale in simply because they see a farang on the ground.
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Pattaya Standardizes Umbrella Colors for Beach Order
Will the police be instructed to enforce the colour scheme?
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Foreign Biker Killed in Head-On Crash With Car in Pattaya
RTP are the butchers in charge.
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Royal Thai Police Implement New Traffic Policy for Road Safety
It won't work. Over decades RTP have negotiated a 14 day working year during the two 7 Dangerous Days of Overtime. To expect them to take to the streets for 3 months will drive them to exhaustion.
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Police Detain Pair Over Public Sex Act on Pattaya Beach
Prompt action by Plod as it required no effort or travel.
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Torrent does not exist
Thanks for the reply. I will try your link on my return from Vietnam.
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Chinese National Arrested in Pattaya E-Cigarette Sting
Count how many top brass involved in this arrest! Surprised they didn't name the undercover guy.
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Torrent does not exist
When I search The Pirate Bay, I get - Torrent does not exsist. I've cleared my cache. Is there anything else I can do? Type: Files: 0 Size: 0 B IMDB: [search on TPB] Uploaded: 1970-01-01 By: Seeders: 0 Leechers: 0 Info Hash: 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
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Factory Shuttle Bus Overturns in Chonburi, Injuring 42
SOP - sift the evidence and await incoming bids.
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Pattaya's Image Hit by Brazen Sale of Sex Drugs in Tourist Areas
1st you need a police force. There's a woman who parks her motor bike every day causing traffic chaos at Mike's Shopping Mall entrance on 2nd Road. She sells contraband cigarettes. It is a short walk from the police station if any officer felt like some exercise. He c(sh)ould arrest her on both counts in an effort to justify his salary.
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Philippines is off my list !!!!
I did consider setting up some kind of fake address there so as to unfreeze my State Pension. I'd love to know if it is possible.