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Does anyone know how to do this?  the passport renewal form tells me i need to pay this fee: 

Insured Return Envelope Fee: Pay Courier Pass Back electronically via Thailand Post Mart website. (If the page appears in Thai, you may use a translate function into English at the top right corner of the page.)  A printout the electronic payment confirmation Please provide invoice number THP________________________

 I found the https://www.thailandpostmart.com/  site but no idea how to purchase this

I have a VPN on my computer and 1 on my tablet.. but when i goto maps it is still pinpointing my location to Thailand innstead of Japan which i am connecting too.. i see some VPNs on the app store but they want a cc payment first before i can try it..  is there a VPN that will make my tablet think it's really in Japan?  I need it to think its in Japan otherwise this app i'm using won't work like its in Japan..

I have a VPN on my computer and 1 on my tablet.. but when i goto maps it is still pinpointing my location to Thailand innstead of Japan which i am connecting too.. i see some VPNs on the app store but they want a cc payment first before i can try it..  is there a VPN that will make my tablet think it's really in Japan?  I need it to think its in Japan otherwise this app i'm using won't work like its in Japan..

On 3/2/2024 at 9:45 AM, jphasia said:

I was in South Korean 2 weeks ago for few days with my Thai girlfriend (I said girlfriend because we are not officially but we have been living together for 18 years already and live in the same house in Thailand).

We also went for the first time to South Korea last September 2023 for a week holidays.

So in Sept we both applied for K-ETA through the official website and got apprpved (mine took few minute for approval as French passport but for my girlfriend took few days before approval). Well all good.

When we arrived at Incheon airport, I let my girlfriend pass first the immigration.

When she gave her passport to the officer, immediately the officer stand up anf shout "Thai passport!". Another officer arrived and asked to follow him to a interrogation room. I then want to follow them but they instruct me proceed immigration for me and wait outside! Immigration check took me only few minutes and then I wait right after the immigration point for my girlfriend. Half hours later, an immigration officer to question me: are you living together? How long? Are living in the house..? One point is that i am working in Vietnam and doing a lot of go and back between Vietnam and Thailand. 

That day we flew together directly from Saigon to Seoul. They were very confused why I was pretending living with my girfriend in Thailand but was working in Vietnam...

I started to get inpatient and annoyed and told them at some that if there was problem, that was ok for us and could cancel our holidays in Korea and take the next plane to Tokyo instead...(even we had hotels booked in Korea and return flight from Seoul to Saigon).

Few minutes later, my girlfriend was released, fully cleared immigration. She told me that they questioned a lot (in Thai), she had to show photos of us on her phone (glad she use Google photo as photo storage...) but they were insisting to show them her expired passport (she renewed her passport in 2022). Anyway, finally all good and we enjoyed our holidays.

The K-ETA once approved is valid for 2 years.

So when we went back last month to Seoul, we didn't re-applied for it.

This time, all went well on arrival. No question asked and only few minutes at the immigration check.

i have been to korea with a Thai woman 2 times and such a thing never happened, last time we went (a month ago) we both got 3 months with visa on arrival.. 3 months is pretty generous for a visa on arrival.. 

issue solved, beware of scam websites asking for $99 for a Keta

tx looks like you guys just prevented me from getting scammed

On 12/29/2023 at 10:12 AM, Dirk Z said:

Easily done online with quick response. Cost about 280 baht.

280 baht?? it's asking me for $99!

i am unable to process my wife's K-ETA application because it rejects my cc's  what other options are there to obtaining one?  can she goto the Korean Embassey?

i downloaded the app but there are no orbs in Thailand.. figures

they are giving out free ones if you download the app and find one of those orbs and kyc by having your eyes scanned

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opinions?

If your tourest visa expires on monday when the changwattana is closed, can you instead apply for the extension tuesday and gain a day?  or do you have to doit on Friday and loose 2 days

22 hours ago, SuperSilverHaze said:

My solution

 

No banking apps on the phone.

 

Four accounts, one ATM card

 

 

i have found that online banking itself isn't necessary, all places allow you to pay with a debit card(after entering pin#) & alot of them allow you to pay with the BTS rabbit tap card (which is the fastest way to pay) and the GRAB app also allows you to use a debit card w/o having an online banking service.  it's just a few vending machines that i have to use cash and sometimes it's not taking coins or paperbills.

6 hours ago, HuskerDo2 said:

Imaging if these incredibly intelligent and creative criminals would channel their energies towards things that would make the world a better place. Just not these criminals but all criminals. The world would be such a better place. Pipe dreaming. Too many people out there that are to lazy to work and would rather use their time stealing from hard working folks.

 

As far as the Thai banking system...... it's lacking an awful lot just like the RTP and govt officials that can't seem to make common sense decisions.  

yea really, their smart enough to do that & the work involved and the risks, you wonder why they don't just get a well paying job coding

On 1/18/2023 at 9:49 AM, ozfarang said:

It's pathetic, can't use a bank app for fear of fraud. What a system here in Thailand.

 

I have an Australian bank app and been using it for years and never had a problem, no disappearing funds, no hacks and no worries

yea but people in the uk & aus. have been hit with this type of fraud as well, online banking here is as (in)secure as any online banking, it's not secure.

On 7/5/2022 at 6:03 AM, Kerryd said:

Like when he went into a rage because a much smaller man (Canadian school teacher if I recollect) said something about his tattoos so he whipped out a knife and slashed the guy.

How he managed to get away with that I don't know. Anyone else would have ended up in the slammer and then been deported.

He was arrested a couple other times as well and always seemed to get away with whatever it was they arrested him for.

 

he paid the police, the prosecutor, and the slashed guy.  same as the other minor incidents like that.

15 hours ago, amexpat said:

Have you alerted these people to your discoveries? 

 

What are the international initiative for the prevention of climate change?

 

ICAP includes members from the European Union Emission Trading Scheme, Western Climate Initiative, Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. Established in 1988, the IPCC is the premier international scientific body for climate change reporting.

There is no 'prevention of climate change' .  This stuff is about taxing, raising prices, and big government funding for 'green technologies' like battery powered cars and also funding alot of bogus 'climate research' such as massive supercomputers that 'model' the climate.  It's called the climate industrial complex and it's worth trillions; And it was also just after 1988 when the Big Gov $$ started going into this agenda.

You also have to consider that the 'line' or 'talking point' you get from the IPCC, NOAA, NASA.Goddard ICAP, whatever isn't just that there's 'global warming' as there was clearly global warming prior to the industrial revolution; It's that there is this 'extreme' amount of global warming-like because CO2 levels have exceeded 400ppm it's going to turn this planet back into what it was during dinosaur times (when the CO2 was 4000ppm).  After 150+ years of industrial revolution and 'runaway greenhouse effect' that is clearly not happening, but by now this thing is too big to fail.  Can you imagine if one day the big  globalist government just said "whoops sorry, the runaway greenhouse effect isn't happening so we're zeroing out the whole climate thing"  It would be tantamount to the US Defense Department deciding to cut nearly it's entire budget because actually they're not defending the US, they're defending their various enterprises around the world-and they're just not going to do that anymore, those other countries can defend themselves.

2 hours ago, amexpat said:

The way to deal with conspiracy nuts it to one-up them:

"The moon landing was faked".
"Oh, so you're one of those guys who believes in the  moon". 

What your saying is the way to deal with 'conspiracy nuts' is to use logical fallacies, which is what you just did.  The moon landing and temperature charts that n fact includes modeled data from all over the world and 1930's temperature data that was sharply adjusted down have nothing to do with each other.  BTW at this time, early April in the 1930's it was already above 80 & even 90*F in northern US states:

past 5 or even 10 years it's been just above freezing in early April.  Ski resorts are now opening earlier and closing later all over the world.  Also, although the cool weather here is gone, its still not that hot out there, especially in the mornings, it's still a cool breeze.

1 hour ago, Liverpool Lou said:

There were weather warnings a few days ago about a couple of days cold spell due to some wind from somewhere.   Do you really expect news reports simply because the temperature was down a few degrees?   As you said, nothing to see here.

When it happens in April, yes.. if it were Nov-Feb then no.. and 35 to 21 is a little more than a few

1 hour ago, Lacessit said:

You have zero understanding of the facts of climate science, which are based on observation.

Fact 1. Carbon dioxide levels have been increasing steadily since the Industrial Revolution.

Fact 2. Sea temperature is rising, coral bleaching is increasing worldwide.

Fact 3. The Larsen Ice Shelf is melting at unprecedented rates.

Fact 4. The Vatnajokull Ice Cap has lost 400 sq km of its surface area.

Fact 5. About 13,000 sq km of the Amazon rain forest was deforested in 2020-2021.

Fact 6. Natural gas is just as polluting as coal. When it comes out of the ground, it contains up to 30% carbon dioxide.

Fact 7. The intensity of storms worldwide is increasing, a demonstration of the First Law of Thermodynamics.

 

I won't bother going into what albedo and clathrates mean to climate science, you just don't want to understand. Classic climate change denier, goodbye.

good bye because you know most of that stuff gets ravaged by 'denier' scientists:

http://notrickszone.com/2017/01/24/larsen-c-ice-shelf-crack-not-related-to-climate-change-ice-more-stable-than-previously-thought/

https://notrickszone.com/2020/06/08/new-study-finds-the-larsen-ice-shelf-antarctic-peninsula-has-cooled-more-than-2c-since-1991/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-study-finds-the-larsen-ice-shelf-antarctic-peninsula-has-cooled-more-than-2c-since-1991

The surface mass of the ice sheets on both greenland and Antarctica increases every year, greenlands ice sheet adds about 10" of ice a year.. thats what happens when temps are way below zero almost the entire year except for maybe a month in the southern part of it.  This ice is then constantly calving into the ocean as the glaciers rollinto the water.. that's where all those 'ice losses' they talk about comes from ????

coral bleeching & ocean acidification is a bunch of bu7sht:

17 hours ago, Lacessit said:

Quote me the 4 Laws of Thermodynamics without resorting to Google. They are facts as well, and no-one has succeeded in trashing them. They are the key drivers of anthropogenic climate change. There are others, it is not just CO2 alone.

I suppose you would say gravity is a theory too. That works very well until you step off the balcony of the fourteenth floor of a condo, and become strawberry jam in a few seconds after gravity takes over.

Claiming humans impact climate change when there have always been human activity for the last hundreds & even 2-3 thousand years of human civilization-where humans engage in large scale cultivation and water management-is too vague to be considered 'fact'.  The current interglacial period is about the same as the previous interglacial period, the 'eemian' except the previous one was warmer but shorter.  As far as the last 100-150 years where CO2 levels increased from about 300 to over 400ppm.  The 'climate' is still the same as it was as in the 1800's in all regions of the world despite exaggerations made by politically and financially motivated politicians.  For example it's April now and still cold, with lows in the single digits in places like NE USA, northern europe, etc. and it was like that last year and the year before that and the year before that, and it was like that in the 1800s.  It never or almost never 'gets hot' in those regions in spring, March, April, and even May and the other regions also have the same ol climate.  The real climate change between now and the 1800's is practically undetectable despite and explosion of human population, animal population (due to humans), and agricultural cultivation during the 20th century with greatly increased emissions from burning fossil fuels.

btw a big part of AGW 'greenhouse effect' theory is that there is supposed to be this 'tropical hotspot' in places like here.  So actually it shouldn't even be cool here in December & January anymore because of all the runaway greenhouse effect.  One of the more recent IPCC reports admitted that the 'tropical hotspot' phenomenon never happened, 'yet'  "the reason for this remains elusive" i believe was the wording. 

1 hour ago, lopburi3 said:

And that make-believe put us on the moon and keeps us in space?  Or is that all make-believe too in your mind?   ????

NASA's 'goddard' climate bureaucracy that works with the NOAA & based out of NY City & not Houston & Florida has nothing to do with that.  2 completely separate things.   Specifically I'm talking about these charts they publish that purport to show 'global' climate that shows constant 'warming' for 100 years and the 1930's being much 'cooler' than present times.  To create these things they use modeled data, filled in data, data from parts of the world they have no access to and never had access to decades ago... all of this  skeptic's have made presentations about.  

1 hour ago, amexpat said:

When a certain US leader said there is no warming because it was snowing in D.C., Anderson Cooper of CNN said

"Someone should teach him the difference between climate and weather.

NASA has a website for children." 

The entire NASA website is for children, because most of the data they use is make-believe. 

no doubt the weather is very nice today and I am enjoying it, in a few days it will be back to very hot, a high of 37* on Thursday.. also it was cool in early March and then got hot again.. just very strange to have any cool weather in March or April.