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You make it sound like a beacon of stability - it's not - this is what happened between mid September 2024 and mid September 2025 :

Not a chance they can get this, this is why you need to get some certificate yourself if it's required for immigration purposes. It's possible some countries may share details directly with Thailand but not in Europe, you have to get it yourself and then send it in.

The Baht has increased in value, a lot, against the Pound, Dollar, Euro, Yen and Aussie Dollar. The Dollars not the problem here, the Baht is bucking the trend. Why is it suddenly worth so much more? We are talking between 5 to 12% here depending on what you compare it to. Did Thailand put its price up?

In more than 10 years I never once had an evening notification until about 2 months ago. So something changed, no idea what. Normally if it wasn't credited by about 4 or 5pm then it was a next day thing, maybe they're waiting for the exchange rate to be more advantageous - for the bank.

They do call if it's over about 2 million Baht I believe and ask for 'reason for transfer' - but they don't wait around - I've had them wake me at 9am when doing such a transfer less than 24 hours before. I deliberately did one for more than 2 million Baht last year just to test what would happen - got the phone call. Apparently they simply enter the reason into the computer - also they wanted to make sure I accepted the exchange rate - not sure what happens if you don't accept the exchange rate but it seemed about right and I was still half asleep.....

Do you use a VPN and hibernate it while the VPN is on by any chance? I have found that this can cause networking to fail on Win 11 - sometimes but not all the time with OpenVPN. it only happens when I forget to disconnect the VPN prior to hibernation. For a full shutdown it shouldn't happen as it ends all processes.

Odd, I sent about $45,000 to Kbank a few weeks back via SWIFT wire (same as normal when sending USD for me) and it arrived the next day, in the evening. This credit being applied in the evening is new, they used to come in the morning.

So is it taxable if there are profits or not?

Not for me - I go later in the day - never before 2pm Also I might 'go shopping' only every 2 weeks at most, the Mrs goes the rest of the time - for fresh food and the likes.

No, it's a food shopping thing that I do when shopping for food, so it's more of an afterthought - I'm there for the food but if it's too early in the day then I get caught out because I forgot about the dumb alcohol sales rules. It's not the end of the world but it is an inconvenience and I generally never buy only one of anything - why buy one of a long shelf life product when you can simply purchase 2 or 3 of them - which I always do - the only problem with this approach is you can forget to replenish them when you run low as you're accustomed to having a shelf full of whatever it is....

I'm generally busy with other things in these hours, not always but often.

Yeah me too, sometimes I like to buy some wine or a bottle of brandy and I have to hold off shopping until 5pm and sometimes I forget about that dumb rule.

I doubt it, I'm not sure of the exact wording on the application form these days as it changes over the years but when I applied it stated that people would not be eligible for 'membership' if they've ever been bankrupt or been sentenced to more than 1 year in prison. Which by definition would seem to exclude all minor or even some semi serious convictions where there was less than 1 year in prison as the sentence by a judge. Now it wasn't clear if this was about 'records' inside Thailand or outside, or both. But it didn't affect me (never having been to a prison at all) so I didn't care and ignored it completely.

Yes, that's the one I'm going to use this time - nearer and more accessible than the 'Call Kim' one which is over the other side of the river. The only worry is - are Thai citizens having any issues with getting visas or in country extensions?

The interest rates are so derisory that I'm pretty sure it's simply not worth putting your money in any accounts inside Thailand, you can get far more return elsewhere. For example, I've got just under a million USD earning around 6.x% a year outside of Thailand which I consider acceptable but not exceptional, why would I ever consider moving this amount into Thailand? They do want remittances don't they? They must think we're suckers

I plan to go to Cambodia for a few months with the Mrs, she's Thai. We both need a visa that can be extended so it needs to by an 'E' type visa for 30 days which is then extended inside the country. I've done this a few times before. We will only be going for about 90 days max and I know a 3 month extension is easily available - or it was. The question is, due to recent border issues - are they still issuing the online 30 day 'E' type visas to Thai nationals for arrival on a flight to Phnom Penh from Bangkok, probably with Thai airways? Also if anyone has any information about in country extensions for Thai nationals based on very recent experience that would be helpful to me. I'm not going until October some time.

Opening the border would help here, apparently the workers are needed but they can't get in.

Recently I've been receiving credits into my account as late as 7pm in the evening at Kasikorn. Which is odd as they always used to arrive at either 8 or 9am or around 4 to 5 pm - this 7 to 8pm thing is new - so something changed and recently. Sometimes I get a same day transfer bot more of then than not it's next day or 2 days, then it can hit the account at any time - I suspect this is the sending bank introducing the delay here - I have had transfers sent for compliance checks which is nonsense, it's SWIFT in and SWIFT out in my bank - always has been.

Jets often move around, do we even know if he's on it ? Maybe he's flying back to Singapore for a second attempt?

I was previously told it's all about the oil/gas out in the sea but I'm now convinced more than ever this whole issue was about the proposed casinos in Thailand. Anutin and the 'Peoples Party' are apparently both against the casinos which lets face it would have decimated Cambodias visitor numbers by which we're talking about the Chinese. Not the tour bus Chinese but the casino crowd - a very different crowd. Macau opened up a whole Las Vegas style strip of casinos a long time back - I was there a month or two before it opened, it overtook the actual Las Vegas in revenue very quickly. I'm sure the oil/gas argument between the two states lives on but something like the casinos would directly and negatively affect the revenue flows for the entire country - hence rising tensions which should now all disappear overnight in a matter of weeks - just in time for the high seasons in both countries....

It had a good run 🤣

That was a very generous cutoff at $800, I can't believe they allowed this to continue as long as possible. I remember when Amazon was shipping all the music CDs and DVDs - yes, it was that long ago from Jersey which is outside the UK in order to avoid taxes and the tax free limit was real low - like 20 pounds. They did it specifically to stop importers avoiding this kind of thing. Thailand taxes everything on import, what's good for Thailand is surely good for the US

What did they do? Add a couple of new flights per day or something?

Also on Netflix Thailand

No, what I mean is when there's a problem you should do a 'restart' as it's more complete than a shutdown. If that doesn't fix it then it's not a stubborn driver living in the hibernation part of the accelerated boot. So do the restart just once, then continue with normal shutdowns.