RickFarang

I hope somebody can eliminate or at least reduce my confusion.

I am American, here on a retirement visa, and wish to begin work for a company forming in the United States. The work would be performed in Thailand by myself and possibly a local Thai employee or two. It would be easiest for me to just have all three of us be employees for the American company, it that is possible. The key of course, it my being able to qualify for a proper visa and work permit. I am prepared to set up a Thai company and hire a total of four Thai employees, but that is an awful lot of hassle on top of the basic hassle of getting a visa and work permit.

We will engage in R&D; we will not export anything except information.

Do I need to form a company in order to work here?

Thank you in advance for any thoughtful advice.

This may not be the best business model: Find the feature or aspect of your product that your customers use most and then cripple or restrict it. There must be a more graceful way to deal with bandwidth hogs. Maybe time to block Youtube again?

School got cancelled and my social life took a serious battering, but other than that it didnt affect me!!!

How about the state of emergencies. is that also lifted.

I hope not for a while to control the movements of protesters

According to the original post, the state of emergency is still in place.

Reports received of reshirts (identified by red flags) setting fires in downtown Udon both tires and buildings. Central Plaza and many businesses downtown closed.

I had the same problem from May through August last year. My hosting service kept telling me that my computer was infected, of that my password was not secure enough. Finally when I showed them that the server logs did not show anybody logging in by any method during the time an infection occurred, they admitted that it was possible the hackers were using a backdoor in their system.

Chaning hosting services seems to have cured the problem. I suggest you consider the same.

I use AIS GPRS via a Nokia cell phone with Bluetooth. While in Pattaya in September, I was unable to get onto several sites (nothing important; only banking and email!), but when there a few months later, the problem was cleared up.

Maybe if you just wait a while, things will start working for you.

Best possible way to avoid this is if you don't have your own car or motorbike, keep out of Phuket.

Actually, that is good advice -stay out of Phuket unless you absolutely must go.

It is shocking that so many people seem to be intimately familiar with the process of handling overstays at the airport!

I used to use *131**99# (SEND). It is expensive, maybe 40-ish baht per minute.

I carry two phones, keeping my Thai/AIS phone on (GSM 1900, roams onto T-Mo or AT&T), but use a 2nd hand-set with T-Mobile to return calls that I see on my Thai phone. I return SMSes on my Thai phone as that is only 10 baht per SMS.

Maybe contact AIS to confirm details? Dial 1175 or 02-271-9000 or email to [email protected]

Thank you! I will give it a try the next time I am out of the country.

When I'm in Thailand I can easily check the voicemail on my US cell # from my AIS phone. I call my # in the US, hit * when my voicemail greeting starts, then enter my PIN and away I go. I have not figured out how to do the reverse, however: check my voicemail on my Thai cell # from my phone in the US. I know that when I'm in Thailand I just hit *99 and I go to voicemail, but what about when I'm back in the US and want to check for any messages on my Thai number? I've looked through this forum as well as AIS's own web site (which wasn't working well to begin with) and have found nothing so far.

Any ideas?

I have the same question. Has anybody come up with an answer in the two years sinc TAdam asked this question?

Gentlemen!

I think the last paragraph explains the purpose of the story. Emphasis mine.

Foreigners taking over land in North, claims farmers' group

In Chiang Rai, chief of a palm oil cooperative Inkham Namwong claimed that around 70 per cent of farmland and plantation in the province had been rented to foreigners. He said he was waiting for government funds to help set up a new cooperative that would help Thai farmers compete against foreign-owned palm plantations.

-- The Nation 2009-08-12

Keep your shorts on! Its not a crackdown if nobody is violating a law. Nothing has happened, but an investigation.

But...Is there a law that makes it illegal for foreigners to be minority owners in companies involved in farming?

The last I heard, the Land Transportation Offices in Bangkok will be satisfied with an address certification from the police. The police station nearest your home is the place to go. A friend of mine did that, and after a week or two (supposedly enough time for them to verify the address), they provided him with the letter.

Mmy brother lives in Thailand and is married to a Thai would that help with a non-O visa? Also if denied for the non-O would that hurt my chances to get an ed visa?

In theory, it would not have any effect on your own visa.

I did that a few years ago to bring my renewal date to one that is more convenient.

In the space where you are supposed to fill in the lenth of the extension you are requesting, just put the number of days you want your visa extended.

Yes, that includes parts of Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Cupertino, and I think some of San Jose.

Remember to dial an international acces code, such as 001 if you are using a telephone.

That means that you would dial "001-1-408-XXX-XXXX".

If you are dialing from Skype then +1-408-XXX-XXXX will get you connected.

Hi all.  I have a 1 2 call simcard.  I keep getting SMS messages from a servive called "NewsPlus".  Its not much good to me as I cannot read Thai.  It averages about 6 messages a day.  Am sure it is not free.  Does anybody know how I can stop this service.  I have tried replying to the messages without success.  Thanks

I loaded a Nokia cell phone to my sister-in-law for a few weeks. When she gave it back, it had this annoying feature activated - the phone would buzz every hour or two with messages I didn't care about. Finally, I found an option in one of the phone's menus and deselected the option. It may be set up the same way in your phone.

Now, if you have a way to stop advertisers, including 1-2-call, from sending my spam (other than turning off the phone), that would be real good to know...

Gentlemen,

At this point, we should recognize that keeping large sums of money in an account that is accessible by an ATM card is very risky.

Keep the balance low and transfer in funds as needed.

Given that there is currently no language evident on the government web sites that indicates the service is not for Bangkok residents, at a minimum, I would ask if I can send my notification by mail the next time I visited Immigration.

Look here Rick.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/90-Day-Repor...95#entry2437695

From that thread, opalhort wrote:

"I do live in BKK and have reported my mail ever since it was possible and never had a problem."

So, I see people saying that they don't believe they can report by mail, and Opaihort saying that he does so without any problem. Seems to me all the real evidence points to being able to report to Bangkok Immigration via mail, no mattery were you live in Thailand.

Since I don't live near Bangkok, the question is purely achedemic and will refuse to entertain doubters any longer.

Happy new year to all of you!

Lopburi 3 who new just about everything always used to say that Bangkok Residents could not use this service.

It was for up country residents only.

That answers my question. Agreed, Lopburi 3 is the authority.

It might be that policy has changed. Or it might be that somebody writing a website thought that the main appeal of this service was for those who lived upcountry and would be more greatly inconvenienced by having to travel to make their 90 day report.

Several years ago, I remember reading on either the Immigration Police web site or the Royal Consulate in Bangkok's web site, reading a phrase like this one "Residents upcountry may mail their 90 day notification...", but that language is currently not present on either the Immigration Police web site or the Los Angeles Consulate web site.

Given that there is currently no language evident on the government web sites that indicates the service is not for Bangkok residents, at a minimum, I would ask if I can send my notification by mail the next time I visited Immigration.

It seems that the operating model here is a bit different from that in the U.S. For example, (AFIK) the only way to drop in at a hospital and have something looked at is to visit the emergency room.

A friend in Bangkok has provided the name of a no-nonsense doctor at Bumrungrad, and I might wind up following up on that lead.

Its a little frustrating -when I drive around in the evening, I see lots of little free-standing clinics open for business, with lots of people waiting to see the doctor(s). They remind me of the small "Doc in a box" clinics in the U.S. I visited on, run by a heart specialist and was pleased, but he is a specialist. I visited a GP clinic and had to struggle mightily with the language, and had less than satisfactory results.

Maybe I did not phrase my question well. I am looking for an excellent English speaking doctor in a small (non-hospital) clinic in Udon. I will be most appreciative of any leads.

You can send it today and it will be there in plenty of time. Note: the postage is 10 baht for the return envelope not 5 as it says on webpage.

Thanks Ubonjoe

As a matter of fact I have just been informed that I wouldn't be able to use this mail service as I am a Bangkok's resident

Thanks anyway

That doesn't make sense. Who told you that????

Just got mine back. They enclosed instructions which includes this (slightly different) room number and postal code.

90 DAYS REGISTRATION,

ROOM 206 IMMIGRATION BUREAU,

SOI SUAN PLU, SOUTH SATHORN RD.,

SATHORN, BANGKOK 10120

(some text removed)

any pm response or any luck finding a dr.? i am in udon and looking for the same.

I had posted first on udonmap.com and only received a recommendation for a doctor about an hour from here. Maybe he is closer to you, Robee, than to me.

http://www.udonmap.com/udonthaniforum/look...nic-t11186.html

Its difficult to believe that everybody is going to hospitals to have checkups, and so on. Maybe I am not asking the question correctly.

Its time for me to find a good doctor to help me watch after my health. I'm not looking for much: just and excellent doctor with a good command of English, low prices and his own clinic (I don't want to pay a commission to a hospital each time I see him) within a short motorbike ride of Udon Thani.

Can anybody recommend a doctor like this?