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It operates as a standard ATM card. It just has certain benefits as to currency exchange costs etc. It offers connection to the Visa Paywave system, as do the other cards. For other options you can see that TTB bank's absolute bog standard card has the same function except it's actually better (since the rates are better, although not listed on this chart):

I'm afraid I don't believe he will be able to obtain an exemption. As a male citizen he has a duty that is not avoided by being a dual or triple citizen, or by living abroad: In fact he could even lose his Thai citizenship if he does not comply: There are only very few exemptions. The best possibility looks like walking into the consulate and getting a meeting. If they're not answering the phone I don't see any other option. It is there where the exemption is typically issued.

This case just gets stranger. It turns out that they actually pleaded guilty at the trial despite insisting that they wanted their 'day in court' just a couple of days ago. So foolish but understandable because they obviously buy into the narrative that you see on this topic that the farang is uniquely oppressed by the Thai legal system. Having watched the CCTV, there is simply no way the judge would have found them guilty. The only possibility is that the CCTV has been edited in their favour; I notice that the beginning of the fight is not available for viewing. Did they provoke? Who punched first?

They are extremely cheap compared with English lawyers. It's a very simple legal case and would not require much work on the part of the lawyer.

Let's be clear: You cannot sell what you don't own. There was clearly no risk of prison, as anyone could see from reading about their case. The legal fees won't have cost much. Their campaign to get diplomats and politicians involved had no effect on the verdict.

There is only one driving course that I'm aware of which is actually close to a metro station and that is "42 Tee Off" near Phra Kanong BTS. It is excellent quality but considerably more expensive than the other driving courses around Bangkok. If you are taking a Grab (there is no Uber in Thailand), then you can always find driving courses just outside the centre and just beyond the metro station lines. You just have to search for "golf" on the Google map.

A British newspaper claims "The pair have spent every penny they own trying to clear their names". Just how much is a lawyer for a simple criminal case costing them. What on earth are they doing? I'd think it would have cost so far no more than 20,000 baht, and the trial itself would be no more than 30,000. Am I disconnected from reality?

I'm not even sure that it applies to CW. I can certainly remember CW changing it so the question arises when did they change back to the old way of doing it. I worry that this belief is one of those strange untested myths that have cropped up on this forum. Certainly when I applied at the last minute I have always received an approval. The problem is I can't remember when I last did that.

Your dispositional attitude of suspicion seems similar to the couple in the story. You can tell they don't trust the process, Thai law... or something. I get it. It's foreign, odd, unfamiliar, exasperatingly different, but it creaks along. Looking at many of these cases it is this attitude which leads so many people to just give up before the argument begins. They sign some piece of paper admitting guilt or don't fight the case. My uncle is a Thai judge. He has that same cosmopolitan air as British judges I've known. There is nothing alien about his idea of justice. And since there is no jury, the judge's attitude is what matters. This couple needs to relax.

The court case has yet to take place. How can this be a miscarriage? This tiresome hyperbole is unhelpful. If they only did what they said they did then it seems very unlikely to be a prison sentence even if they are found guilty. This displays such a high level of illiteracy towards the functions of political interventions. Putting all that aside... They need to calm down, meditate a little, prepare themselves for a strange court environment, make sure their lawyer has clearly briefed them, and ensure their lawyer has a full grasp of the case, and simply tell the truth.

In 2023, I used my Thai debit card. I just made sure to increase its transaction limits for international transactions for the time they told me the debiting would take place. It went smoothly.

I thought this was such a normal part of everyday knowledge that I didn't think anybody could not know this.

What if the tax rate at source is 0%. Is that "tax paid" under Thai regulations? Or must there be some tax paid? If so, is 0.1% enough?

This was already revealed several weeks ago. We even have had feedback from major casinos about this high deposit threshold. It is obvious that the big casinos, The ones you see in las Vegas or Macau will be extremely reluctant to invest since there just will not be enough footfall. Instead, the same dodgy casinos you can find on the border with Cambodia or in the Three Diamond area of Lao or just in Burma. This all but ensures corruption and criminality.

It is literally the case in the UK. If a foreigner is illegally resident in the UK for 20 years (it was 14 years until just this month) then they have a right to indefinite leave to remain (ILR).

Until February this year, if a person is illegally resident in the UK for 14 years then they are entitled to Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR). This was changed this month (!) to a 20-year requirement. Perhaps Thailand can extend the same humanity to British citizens as Britain has so kindly done to Thai citizens.

Because of this comment I did the same for CW. Interestingly the website invites you to leave a comment as to why the cancellation, so I left a note pointing out the lack of action on the original submission. I then resubmitted and the next day it was accepted.

It has been observed by many commentators on Thailand, the English language newspapers love to use the word hub (as in "the hub of...") for some catchy new initiative by the Thai government. But what word are they thinking of in Thai when they write this? What is written on the PR leaflet given out by the Thai government? Has anyone spotted a word frequently popping up in the Thai newspapers that could explain the overuse of the word hub? My guess is the word ที่ตั้ง . Any thoughts?

I've never experienced this. Presumably it only arises on accounts that display behaviour indicating the user has changed status.

I'm worried about moving them into the recovery position after a motorbike accident because of the extremely high risk of neck damage. Just when is it safe?

I agree largely with the author but I have sympathy for the behaviour nevertheless. The progressive tendencies have built up an enormous extra constitutional framework that constantly pushes change. We can call this "the deep state". These vast bureaucracies are obviously not mentioned in the constitution and would never have been imagined by the young founding fathers. So what was added can just as legitimately be taken away. We can see a similar situation in the UK with Tony Blair's massive expansion of Quangos, removing power from politicians and giving it to a Byzantium complex of half- understood organisations that often work against the government in power. Ultimately power derives from the mandate of the people. And if they seek extreme change to the government then that must be largely legitimate and by definition democratic.

This is like banning someone from pouring mineral water into a sewage ditch. The Chinese market is infamous for food adulterated with chemical or biological poisons. Nothing can be trusted. It's so bad that not only can food from China not be trusted but even the clothes they export frequently lead to chemical poisonings. China's behaviour is best explained as a form of displacement. They did the same thing with Japan's controlled release of radiation into the Pacific from the Fukushima plant. Those radiation releases didn't even come close to the annual regular leaks into the sea by China, but the Chinese government still got their population to scream about Japan's "reckless" behaviour, without noticing their own government's far worse behaviour.

That company has partnered in the past with Everton FC, Alan Shearer, Warwick & Edgbaston Cricket Club, among many others. Strange to see them associated with dodgy Chinese-Burmese activities.

I suspect you could, but you'd need to use it very quickly before you lack the energy/air to use it.

The Lifevac is more highly rated than the Dechoker. It is also easy to purchase on Lazada. I might get one. One time I can close to death in Thailand was choking on some stringy meat. Nobody helped despite sitting in a busy shopping centre. I had to just pull the meat out, causing quite a bit of blood loss from a tear. The restaurant owner later said he thought I was reacting to the food being too spicy. Now I've experienced people's indifference I want to be better prepared. I've heard people, especially women, out of embarrassment from the choking, will head to the toilets, and then there will die.