tomster

Huh? Have you ever had a business bank account in Thailand?

One is used for business, the other is used for you personally. Sometimes people use their personal apps for business but from a company accounting point of view, you should really just use your business account to do business transactions.

They are personal apps, not business.

Today Kbank (bless them) finally retired their (very useful) Kbank SME App on Andriod. You are supposed to transition to their new app KBIZ - but only for Thai's and not for us dirty foreigners (even though I have banked with them for 18 years). I run two busy businesses here and being able to make payments on my phone is super useful, so I need to change to bank with a decent mobile phone app. Bangkok Bank doesn't have a phone app (that I am aware of - please correct me if I'm wrong), so even though I have a business account with them they are out of the potential banks to switch to. So looking for a bank that allows foreigners to use their mobile app - a massive bonus would be the ability to scan QR codes to make payments from that app as this was lacking on the KBank app that has just been retired. Thanks in advance.

It's a whopping great hole in the new law - you do now need to register on the Plook Ganja app but any Thai can do it and there are no inspections or similar. Then you can grow however much you want pretty much, it's not possible for anybody to check if you sell it or not. So you now have commercial farms having to get some serious paperwork together for their commercial licenses, but everybody else growing unlimited amounts without any restrictions and in reality able to sell it without any problems. What could possibly go wrong?

After legalisation in June 2022 loads of people gave growing at home ago, but since then most seemed to have stopped because a. it is actually quite hard here if you are not used to growing in high heat & humidty, and b. the price of flower is currently that cheap there is no point. However, the price of flower is about to go North as the low grade growers stop producing low grade weed that nobody wants, the new GACP requirement will knock most of them out of production. So lets say the price went back to 150-250 Baht per gram for even the mid-range, avergage flower (which is very possible) would you consider growing your own at home? It costs about 25-35 Baht per gram to do so, for reference. Cheers.

Are there any clinics on the Darkside that will issue acceptable health certificates for work permit renewals? I know of several on the brightside, just being lazy. Thanks in advance.

Ah sorry, I did not see the first message.

Do you use Lineman or Food Panda at all?

Very helpful, thanks for the insight.

Do you use it over Grab, or is Grab the go to and Food Panda the back up?

Interested to know if any board members use Lineman or Food Panda food delivery apps regularly? I just saw something online saying that Lineman had 44% of the food delivery market in Thailand in early 2024 with Grab at 40% - that really surprised me.

Thanks.

As per the title, if you eat lots of ship/prawns, what's your preferred brand that hopefully does not use antibiotics and other toxic additives to keep the shrimp healthy? Thanks in advance.

I have a new Nespresso machine on order, wondering what milk other board members prefer to use in their coffee? Thanks in advance.