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My kids have done what Donutz said many times, most countries (Australia is one) insist dual-citizens enter on their Australian passport.

For example a Dual Thai/Australian passport holder can't get an Australian visa if the visa issuing office knows they hold an Australian passport, I know this from experience (oops, dad forgot to get a new passport for daughter)

No idea if Germany does the same

Maybe a regular inspection of the popular swimming beaches for Box Jellyfish would be wise, sadly here the warnings always comes after someone is died. At least they don't try to deny it as they did a couple of years ago both in Malaysia and in Thailand when tourists died from Box Jellyfish.

Sorry but the cynic in me suggests any signs will disappear in a year or two, wouldn't want to scare the tourists now would we!

Love it, yes I'll say hello back to other Farangs, but I often decline to sit down and drink till I can't walk just because they are Farangs, I prefer to get drunk with the locals mostly,

I went this this issue once, bought a "international" ticket from Bangkok to Vientiane on Nok Air, as I lived near Udon, the extra cost was about $10, for what was accepted by Canada Airlines as a onward international flight. It's actually a bus, but for $10, great value as I did get asked by Canada for proof of onward travel

That was fun!

Just watched with captions turned on and google translate, that was weird, so the ROI Lenfield Coffee Maker is his preferred bike of the two, I think that translate from Google into the Royal Enfield being the preferred bike.

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International sign for motorcyclists to increase their speed.

I always see this when I see that sign,

Enfield are just opening a branch in Bangkok, many pics on farcebook.

They do have more HP, but I am not sure they are fast than an SR400, anyone ridden both, a new SR and Enfield?

Earth? Earth? This is Thailand, they don't earth.

But I so wish they did!

On the phone you make a strange grunt noise instead of saying yes - face to face when listening to a long story you raise your eyebrows and head as a way of saying yes

I have a Everest, yep the value is falling fast, though not as fast as cars in the west do.

Very happy with it, many friends have Fortuners and Pajero's, and frankly very happy not to have one, prefer it over them, especially if I am in the back, far more room.

So as a second hand car, yep - I'd recommend it.

ThaiOrient/One2Go still has a 747 parked at Udon, never to fly again I suspect

I like how you get a choice to choose what bike you want to impersonate, 

"Would you like it to be Kawasaki or Ducati sir"

I bet that caught your attention, 

I was in a Mall in Jakarta and saw this, the Ducati 200cc that you buy when you really buy a "Pulsar" 200cc

No idea who Pulsar are, but if you buy a Red one you get a "Ducati" sticker, if you buy the Green one, you get "Kawasaki"

Very nice glossy brochure, reasonable price for a Pirate Ducati!

I have Gold Visa Credit Card from Autayha Bank and Platinum from Citi Bank, Thailand, no over seas bank accounts, not extensions of other accounts.

Maybe they are being polite and you dont meet their risk criteria? 

Ooredoo also owns IndoSat Mobile etc in Indonesia/

Lot's of interesting things in ICT in Myanmar, this event is this coming week, I know a few of the people, good people, good idea, 

http://www.ictworks.org/2014/07/20/please-rsvp-now-what-is-the-future-of-ict-in-myanmar/ 

Trump is an arse

 

See what happens when a yellow company tries to embrace technology?  They choke.  Thaksin made all his money in telecommunications -- the elite knew nothing about it and scoffed at him.  Suddenly a billionaire, they hated him...not for any particular reason, of course....

 

 Give me a monopoly and ill show you how i can make money too.

 

What monopoly? AIS has competition, 

CTH is far from a Yellow company, 

 

 

CTH couldn't organise a p*ss up in a brewery. They can't even get their on screen program guide working.

 

"I would like to say that offering prepaid service is our key strategy, not post-paid or payments on a monthly basis," Chirdsak said.

He said he believed that customer behaviour in the pay-TV business was similar to that in the telecom business, where people prefer prepaid service to post-paid. So the company expects only 20-30 per cent of its new customers to choose the post-paid option.

 

The only reason they want pre-pay customers is because of the total failure of their Accounts Department.

 

I signed up with them last August and despite several phone calls asking where the bill was by November I had still not received one.

 

Mid November they had a scolling message continuosly running at the bottom of the screen on some channels which my wife said was about billing and that if I did not contact them by the end of the month the service would be suspended. I phoned they took my details and said a bill would be sent within 15 days.

 

Needless to say no bill arrived so I phoned again and they said wait your bill is coming. Finally on the 20th February my bill arrived but for January and February only.

 

I have not received a bill since but pay the monthly subscrption the 20th of the month.

 

Mr Chirdsak is talking out of his backside, the reason CTH want pre-pay customers is their woeful inadequecy in getting bills to their post-pay ones.

Agree, on screen programming is a joke, shockingly bad and even worse than TRUE, web page is not that user friendly as well. I also think the signal strength is lacking and programme interruptions too frequent due to low signal.

 

 

When I asked why the signal was poor and kept failing I was told it was due to heavy rain in Vietnam

 

It is uplinked out of Vietnam, so it's sadly the truth.

They totally screwed up their billing systems, 

Wow, what a ride, love to hear how it goes, as mentioned GT Riders and the motorbike section here are good places

Depends what he's wearing