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27 minutes ago, Jumbo1968 said:

Who appoints the members on the Constitutional Court and do the members ever change ?

They are probably left over from Prayuth's regime, as are the CC members.

Most likely nominated by the self elected senate.

1 hour ago, ballpoint said:

Silly me. I thought that they were serving time fo a medical reason. Then I realised that there is no cure for stupidity.

3 hours ago, sirineou said:

Not everywhere. 

I can only talk about my area Khon Kaen 'cause I have never been to another immigration office. But they are a pleasure to work with them. If there is a problem they work with you to solve it.  I can't say enough good things about them. 

 

Kamphaeng Phet Immigration office is the same.

So how do you get rid stray cats?

We have one tabby cat probably about 4 or 5 months old that adopted us.

This last couple of weeks there have been 2 older cats hanging around and trying to steal our cats food and trying to get in anywhere they can.

I think that one may belong to a neighbour, but I have no idea where the other one comes from.

11 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

Yes, every time you stay away from home, you should register when you return.

Some folk say not true and in theory, you only need to do it if you have been registered somewhere else in Thailand. Hotel, hospital etc. But here on Samui they are pedantic.

I think that it is this one. If this does not work, send me a PM and I will ask the accounts girl.

Register online and then download the phone app for an easier solution.

Online TM 30 works as well. It just takes a little bit longer.

 

https://tm30.immigration.go.th/tm30api/loginExternal.jsp?value=EXT&id=33990f2fd7b4d09b5dcc2eb17f350644

I have a feeling that the TM30 rule only applies if you go out of the province that you are registered in. However each Immigration office seem to follow the national guidelines, BUT each IO can ask for additional information from the applicant.

I have always thought that Megan truly believed that by marrying Prince Harry yhat she would automatically become a Princess and then perhaps be a Queen.

It doesn't quite happen like that.

I also thought that Prince Harry was driven more by his small head than by his brain.

It was their choice to make, and if it doesn't work out, it is a problem of their own making.

If you want privacy, then stay out of the social media and the limelight.

If you stay in the social media, then don't complain about the loss of privacy.

4 hours ago, newbee2022 said:

Every journey starts with a first step 

From the internet.

There are over 37,000 Educational Institutions and nearly 20 million students in the Thai education system.

If each school only had 4 buses that would be around 150,000 school buses that would be required and an average of 133 pupils per bus per day.

The school that my son went to from M1 to M6 had at least 20 school buses, trucks, vans and pickups every school day, not counting the parents who drop and collect their children every school day by car, pickup, motorbike or scooter.

2 hours ago, 2008bangkok said:

Letters?

OK if the Thai lady can read English or read at all. Someone would need to translate for her as she may have dropped out of school when when she was young.

How fluent are you at reading and writing in Thai. I am certainly not.

It is easy to lose contact with people and easier still if you are 2 different nationalities, 2 different languages and even 2 completely different language structures.

7 hours ago, KannikaP said:

And then it took him all this time to get in contact. Perhaps a better explanation is that he didn't want to.

The internet has been with us for over 25 years,

You are assuming that both the American and the Thai both have access to the internet. That both of them know who they are looking for, and where to find people on the internet.

 A bold and a very broad assumption.

And yes I know that the internet has been around a long time. I was drive testing mobile  handoffs in Germany in 1999, but the internet was not very large back then, nor was it that good.

The internet requires a large amount of bandwidth and a large amount of ground cabling plus underwater trans oceanic cabling. 25 years ago the internet was quite small and clunky and it still cannot keep up with demands even now.

All it takes is one boat to rip up even 1 undersea cable and links simply die for hours or days until it can be repaired.

1 hour ago, KannikaP said:

And then it took him all this time to get in contact. Perhaps a better explanation is that he didn't want to.

The internet has been with us for over 25 years,

How do you KNOW what happened during that time period or do you know any of the family?

15 minutes ago, newbee2022 said:

I reckon you should start a #gofundme campaign immediately.

If each member here will donate 10 USD, a second hand one might be possible.

A nice thought but if only one were bought, which school should get and who would yake on the responsibility for it, and who would service and maintain it?

15 hours ago, schultzlivgthai said:

Have you seen what’s used for transporting kids to and from school?? ASEANnow finds photos on line with no bearing whatsoever on Thailand! Vans and pickups are overloaded with kids all across Thailand daily, I think we’re fortunate that we don’t see this more often.  No such thing as seatbelts either. 

The closest bus price I can get to the OP photo is this.

what is the cost of a school bus made by International in the USA

How much does a US school bus cost?
Both Type C and D buses weigh over 10,000 pounds and can carry up to 72 people. The cost of an electric Type C or D school bus ranges from $320,000 to $440,000, while their diesel counterparts come in between $90,000 to $110,000.

To this must be added shipping costs, the cost of converting the vehicle from LHD to RHD, to make it safer for school children in Thailand to enter and exit, the forex rate between the USD and the THB, import taxes and VAT on the top.

Just the price of the bus alone at a forex rate of 34thb/USD is 3,400,000, conversion costs are unknown but probably IRO of 680,000, shipping costs unknown, importation fees and customs duty @ 250% would bring it to over 10,000,000 plus VAT at 7% would bring each bus to around 11,000,000 thb. That does not include spares (all imported), service and a back up service.

For the costs alone, how many would each school need, and who would pay for it?

3 hours ago, 2008bangkok said:

Staying with a mother and baby until 1 year old is admirable, it's not father is it, they won't even remember the interaction.

And like the article says, he then left, now you cannot do that as a real Dad can you

If you are in the military, and you get posted elsewhere, you go where you are sent. It is not as if you get a choice in the matter.

11 hours ago, Thechook said:

So he isn't actually the father.

And your problem with that, is what exactly?

21 hours ago, KannikaP said:

He f..ked off back to the USA when the kid was one year old.

Perhaps his posting to Thailand finished and he was posted elsewhere.

Perhaps his service commitment had expired and he was sent back to the USA and given an honourable discharge.

Both are far more reasonable explanations than yours.

3 hours ago, Jeff the Chef said:

I'm on my 2nd year here living out in the sticks, every time I see a foreigner (white /black westerner on my travels locally I make the effort to say "Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening, some respond, some don't, no problem to me, politeness never hurt anyone. 

I see the odd one or two in the shopping malls. Like you I generally say good morning and only 1 Dutch guy stopped to chat for a while. The rest either said good morning or simply ignored me. Up to them.

I did this a couple of months ago at my BKK branch.

Be aware that if you have a joint account, they will most likely want your wife to be there as well. Even if it is an either/or account.

5 hours ago, Raindancer said:

Send them an email and confirm the address you want it sent to.  They are normally sent out mid to late May each year. 

Thank you. This is the first year that they have missed. Perhaps they sent it via the postal system and it went AWOL.

On 8/6/2024 at 2:00 PM, Peterphuket said:

99.9999999%  is not married to a Thai, next question please.

Well I and about 10 of my friends ARE married to Thai ladies, me for over 24 years, the others for varying amounts of time, and yes, we do live in Thailand, me since May 2001.

I suppose that we are among the 0.00000001%

25 minutes ago, herfiehandbag said:

Equiniti!

 

As I am sure you know every year they send you a pension statement!

 

Two years ago mine was opened at the Bangkok International mail office ( a sticker telling me this was used to reseal it. The amount I received annually, and the monthly amount was written in Thailand script on the back of the envelope!

 

But they tell me that they won't use email as it "is not secure"!

I didn't get a statement this year

8 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

there is always a reason to jail someone who is against the government or protest....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_me_the_man_and_I_will_give_you_the_case_against_him

"Give me the man and I will give you the case against him"[1] (Polish: Dajcie mi człowieka, a paragraf się znajdzie; translated to English more literally as "give me the man; there'll be a paragraph[a] for him",[2] Russian: Был бы человек, а статья найдется ("If there is a person, there will be an article [in the criminal code]"), also interpreted as "give me the man, and I will find the crime",[3] or "show me the man and I'll show you the crime"[4]) is a saying that was popularized in the Soviet Union and in Poland in the period of the People's Republic of Poland, attributed to the Stalinist-era Soviet jurist Andrey Vyshinsky,[2][5]: 200 [6] or the Soviet secret police chief Lavrentiy Beria.[3][4] It refers to the miscarriage of justice in the form of the abuse of power by the jurists, who can find the defendant guilty of "something" if they so desire.[5][6][7]: 179 [8]: 85