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Does anybody know any store that sells ribena either the stuff you add water to or the cartons which are ready to drink

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If you go to edit>preferences>advanced and look for the 'copy files to Itunes libary if this is selecected then Itunes will copy the music to the Itunes folder and you can delte the original, if this is not checked then when you add songs/albums it will add to Itunes libaray but from the original location.

You can see the location of the fuile by right clikc any song in Itunes and then click 'showin windows explorer'

Its much better and less messy if you just have the copy to itunes library that way you know they are all in the same location rather than spread out over different folders

... don't forget also if you are a tax payer then you should get around 12,000 baht back from the tax people when you have a baby, you don't need to be Thai to get that you just need to pay tax

Made me think.

I don't work in Thailand but I own shares there and according ly pay the 10% non-resident witholding tax ... I wonder if my situation would qualify for a rebate?

If not, my gf is a tax payer ... how does that work?

It comes from the Social Security Fund. Not taxes. You have to be employed and making monthly contributions to the fund. If your GF is employed at a legitimate company that does withholding, then she would qualify. Otherwise, you are not covered.

Not sure if it is tax or social security, i would have thought it would have been the tax people as the maximum any person can pay for social security is 750 baht pe month which mean eveyone who claims gets more that than they paid in SS..

anyway the place is down a little sub soi off silom, the one next to Kbank, maybe soi 2 or soi 4,

OP best to just go in, one problem you may have is language barrier so that is what needs to be weighed up cost v communication , if you go private you can almost guarentee a good level of english or if you go goverment you can almost guarentee a low level of english but either way you will get a good level of care

thankfully nobody was killed this time, however Im sad to say that Brits in general are reputable as well for carrying attitude problems from time to time... A possibly iced up Thai working illegally and an angry possibly very loud and aggressive Brit threatening with police or reciprocal violence is just asking for trouble.

Wow you really do generalize hey, in one quote you have all Brits have attitude problems and all Thai tourist workers are on ice..... Come on man, tad unfair don't you think??

Me n the mrs have had 2 children in the police hospital in chillin, nice clean, clean, friendly an at most only 10k, although my mrs is Thai you should have no problem not speaking Thai, we started to go there 4 weeks before the arrival instead of local GP, don't forget also if you are a tax payer then you should get around 12,000 baht back from the tax people when you have a baby, you don't need to be Thai to get that you just need to pay tax

I dont think people are being trolls, haters or anything else, if I was to be honest I would say this is so far fetched that it is hard to belive, this sounds like a story made up for the cops or the girls family to justify she was drug trafficking, although we all cannot say 100% it didnt happen like this, its kind of hard to belive it's true, the girl went all the way to brazil to meet somebody she had never even met even after you had cautioned her about the very think that happened to her, she gets to Brazil and is repetadly raped in a hotel and forced to travel back with drugs.. just cannot buy that theory

Unfortunately I don't think you willto get a lot of sympathy for this on TV, this sounds like a horrible situation and I hope the girl will be ok but you have to agree it stinks of a 'got caught' alibi and at any time she could have told the authorities and if I had been gang raped that is the first thing I would have done regardless who or what the gangs threats were but she chose to not tell anybody anything until she gets caught and this is where the cops will have heard the same story 100's of times, if she had gone straight to authorities and said to them she had been gang raped and forced to smuggled drugs they would have been very sympathetic and problem asked her to help setup a sting but I guess we will never know........

Good luck to her I hope they are lenient on her

Had money sent from PayPal to my KBank savings account here many times never once had a problem

Looking to buy a England replica shirt does anybody know where to get them

Thanks

I love the game of 5's n 3's if anyone knows how to play id love to challenge you,

Up n down

The quality is superior and you can use a proper telephone. Skype doesn't offer an inbound Canadian phone number for friends and family to call you with a local CDN number.

I dont use Skype much but I do use VOIP. It works on my Android mobile phone for free so I dont need another telephone. Quality is fine.

I pay the equivalent of 60B/month for a package of largely unlimited calls to 40 countries and a free UK DID. I also have another completely free UK DID and also a European DID that I pay 1000B (equiv) per year for (thinking of ditching this last at some point as it is too expensive, but at the moment I still have a couple of people who call me on it). All three accounts run on my Android phone simultaneously.

So MagicJack seems very expensive to me.

What provide are you using, seems like a great deal, care to share...

Phone up true on 1331 and see what package you are on, generally if you dont subscribe to any data package they just charge you one baht per minute and nowadays alot of phones are always connected so that can be why your credit is being eaten, change from timed package to volume package should fix your probs.

Thanks everyone I will go to Savanakhet and get a multi entry, thanks mario2008 those links look extremely useful

Im looking to get a Non-0 visa from Laos and was wondering if it is easy enough to get, im married with kids and looking for work in BKK so will they give me a 3 month Non-O ir do they generally only give Tourist Visa's? If you can get a Non-0 what paper work is needed?

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Which ever you choose dont go with Dtac they have a 1GB cap which is crap compared to either AIS or True who both have 3GB+

Unfortunately the Fans of Football that were laughing at the fans of American Football last year in October when True stopped the programming of the ASN network, now on GMM Grammy, are finding out what it is like to make plans and have them ruined. All the programing on the GMM Z box in English is at least 2 years old except for live broadcasting and the Thai channels. I have subscribed to the internet for all the sports programming that I watch, Nascar, Baseball, and NFL American Football. It is all in HD and all you need to view it on your tv is get an HDMI cable, plug it in to your computer and your tv and tell your computer that you have 2 screens. You might have to get a computer pro to help you with this part, but it is beautiful. I don't watch football (soccer) so I don't know what is available for it on the internet.

True has made their bed and now will have to sleep in it. GMM Grammy is out to get True. And after all they have taken away from us I don't blame them. Hell it's only 900 Baht for the GMM box and you pay at least 1400 baht to get sports on True. If you want HD it's way more than that. Personally I am my own director and producer and I pay less for the internet connection for the sports than a 1 year subscription for True Sports.

Good Luck Everybody

What is the site you use for streaming sport, iv been looking for a good one as I don't have true

I've been using true online billing for months now to pay my internet by credit card. I just tried to pay this month and the whole system has changed. After some time I managed to find my bill but can't pay it as I seem to be going round and round in circles with Thai language popups even though I'm supposed to be in English according to the language icon and the URL A phone call to 1686 told me that the new billing system was not working and wouldn't be until sometime next month. I was asked to find another method of payment.

As they have taken away a working system and replaced it with a non-working one I think they can wait. What kind of IT department destroys a working system only to replace it with a non-functioning one. A stupid one I think. And as for all the silly twitter "like" buttons all over the place on a https (secure) site...well that proves to me that they don't have a clue what they are doing technically.

I hear ya, exactly the same for me, been paying my bills with them for about 2 yrs then i log in and all changed and cannot pay my bill either it keeps going round in a infinate loop.

And who the hell is goin to use the like button for twitter or facebook when they are paying bills, that is just stupid man and im suprised a big comapny like true allowed it!

I'd get a 4s if I was you, why buy a phone and get a older model, you won't be able to use a 4 in Thailand as it is a CDMA phone and none of the networks are CDMA For voice but the 4s is a world phone so you can use on GSM or CDMA, camera better processor better just a better phone and for the sale of a $100 u might as well do it.

Your best to check if you have any slots free first also if your going big on the RAM then you need 64 bit machine as 32 only supports 3gb

Good luck

Sounds like a cool setup what kit you using??

I'm posting this in the family children section as I thought it would be more appropriate than jop wanted.

When I first met my wife 8 years ago she was working in a restaurant in Koh Samui, 2 young kids later(3 1/2, 2) she is itching to do some work, problem is that she wants to work in a restaurant again but she hasn't really thought it through regarding the hrs as it is 5-12 pm which is not convenient at all.

Does anybody know of any farang owned creche's in Bangkok that maybe looking for Thai' staff who speak very good English, when we was briefly living in Hua Hin she found a job at a creche for a holiday cover but after 2 weeks of that the boss and the kids loved her so she was offered a full time job, unfortunately right at that time I had to come back to BKK to work so we couldn't do it but she can do that no problem.

Anyway if anyone knows of a creche that might need a Thai person between 9-5 who speaks very good English, doesn't smoke, very rarely drinks, is hard working and good with children then I appreciate you could pass on my details.

Thanks

Today I tried to access the Itunes store at couldn't connect using wifi, at first I thought maybe a problem with connection the firewall then I decided to try on my Iphone and couldnt either so I tried on my Iphone using 3G and had no problems.

I was in the process of phoning True to see if they block it then it occurs to me to change my DNS which I have set manually on both PC and Iphone at 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 and changed to to my router default and secondary 208.67.222.222 and he presto as soon as I did that Itunes connected no problem.

Do you think maybe google upto some dirty tricks? This happened to anyone else who is using Google servers for DNS

Do you think it will be faster, I got a 1 yr old novo myself I might trade in

Well here is the interesting thing i just noticed while I was watching a Youtube video using the app, that when you watch a video the default way to show you is with the volume buttons at the bottom so that means either the default for Youtube is upside down or that you are meant to view stuff in landscape with the home button to the right in which case the camera is correct its just Apple didnt think about that and adjust accordingly when they announced that with OS 5 you could use the volume up button to take pics