Everything posted by Felt 35
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Hospital Experience - Behaviour, greed and illegal practices
I can confirm, if not as intrusively as the OP, but a similar experience and fortunately I quickly realized that if I stay there I would be taken on an expensive trip with "great actors" so I did as OP walked out and I will never set foot in that hospital again. Btw, went back home a bit later and the diagnose was totally different to what they come up with here included the treatment they want me to go through here. Felt
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Thailand's Afternoon Booze Ban Lifted: Restaurants Rejoice
Must be a sad life for those of you who applaud the free flow of even more booze when hardly anyone here, whether residents or visitors, seems to be sober at any time of the day.☹️ Felt Thai Alcohol Consumption Surges Amid Worrying Trend of Younger Smokers Alcohol consumption patterns in Thailand and their relationship with non-communicable disease - PMC Substance Abuse Policy in Thailand: Current Challenges and Future Strategies | FSI Drunk Driving In Thailand Still The Main Killer During Songkran
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- Is Thailand Done With the Shinawatras?
No- People say Thais are friendly but...
- Hua Hin Railway Station to Undergo Major Revamp
Havent they just done this 🤔 PHOTO SPECIAL: New Hua Hin train station opens - Hua Hin Today- Departure passport stamp in specific cases?
Thanks to all for helpful info 🙏 Felt- Departure passport stamp in specific cases?
Thanks for the reply. The last two times I have travelled I have clearly not noticed this option. Is this in the same area/queue where you usually go through immigration on departure? Felt- Departure passport stamp in specific cases?
Does anyone know if there are and eventually where there is an Immigration office at Suvarnabhumi that can and will stamp a passport with a departure stamp in special cases upon departure when the traveler needs this in connection with documentation for the regional tax office in Thailand next year? Thanks Felt- Thailand’s Immigration Bureau Revokes 10,000 Visas
IMO it's just another copied political trait from the US Trump administration is reviewing all 55 million foreigners with US visas for any violations Felt- Remove negative thinking
Run🏃♂️ Think Fast: The Mental and Cognitive Benefits of Running- Grab Targets Thailand's Expats with New Perks and Features
Target yes, and literally. One of Grab's drunk, half-blind motorcyclists hit me three years ago. It caused me a shoulder rotator cuff injury and a non-displaced hip fracture. Yes, it was his fault, but there was no CTV where it happened, so it took the police two weeks to get him to the police station and when he first arrived, he was completely broke and under the influence. So, the police tried to explain to me in an apologetic way that he didn't have a license and the motorcycle was owned by a friend. He didn't even have the money to pay the symbolic fine the police gave him as a penalty, far from offering me any compensation, Now the day I get so lazy I use something like this company or any similar to get me my food I better look for the coffin. Btw, some reading below about how delivery service can affect our health. Felt How Food Delivery Hurts People and the Environment The negative effects of food delivery: From pollution to malnutrition | Society | EL PAÍS English- Hospital checking visa
What kind of answer is that to someone hospitalized? 🤮 Not everyone living in Thailand is a criminal and if the criminals get past the brown guys in Immigration, then it is no one else's (or more likely a brown envelope let them in) fault but the Immigration itself and not a patient in a hospital. Felt- Hospital checking visa
I think they know that😉- Alert! Bangkok Bank new rule money seasoning
Probably a "three-leaf clover", if you ask me. If not impossible, and done time and time again. Felt- Thailand Digital Arrival Card. TDAC
Thanks for the replies, guys.👍 Felt- Thailand Digital Arrival Card. TDAC
😐Yes, I'm aware of that but did not know it was so detailed. But I found out because when they stopped stamping passports on departure then the regional tax office demanded my travel history to see if I was actually in Thailand more than 180 days in the year so I could get my annual "Income tax payment certificate" (Yes they are not overly interested in us paying taxes) Previously when the passport was stamped on departure and entry it was enough with passport copies. So, I visited the immigration who printed out all my travel history with pictures and that from different areas at Suvarnabhumi exit /entry all the way back to when I last got a new passport 5 years ago😮 Felt- An Operating Manual for Understanding the Thai Mind
I read the book "Wondering into Thai Culture" many moons ago (Still to buy from Amazon) and that book have for me been extremely useful throughout life here. Felt- Thailand Digital Arrival Card. TDAC
Is it acceptable to just have a printout? I have a phone but don't use the Internet and apps on my phone or do I have to show a QR code on my phone? I'm only going to be away from Thailand for 5 days and when asked about which countries I've visited in the last two weeks, should I then write both Thailand and the country I've visited? Btw, do someone have a link to the original TDAC I looked at Thai Immigration website but there I found only a brief introduction to the procedure! Thanks Felt- BKK Bank New Acct-Long term expat to provide ID from home countr
Thanks for the reply. However, this was not about get or renew a driving license. Just a new driving license card due to wear and tear. Btw, If I want to drive (rent a car as example) here I will addition need an international permit which is easy to get issued back home for either one- or three-years and as long as you do not renew or need to make other changes to the original driver's license, which is initially issued for 100 years with a requirement for a medical certificate after the age of 70, it does not prevent insurance, etc. from being valid. Felt- BKK Bank New Acct-Long term expat to provide ID from home countr
Personally, I have my bank accounts and have been with Bangkok Bank exactly 29 years and also have accounts in Krungsri so this is not about bank accounts for me pr. today but if this develops into be all banks and other platforms not to forget official offices, it could eventually cause problems for me and many others, I believe, who have simply emigrated from their home countries. Felt- BKK Bank New Acct-Long term expat to provide ID from home countr
I don't understand. If I live in my home country permanent with address there and stay in a condo or house, I can have a national Id card valid even to board flights in all Schengen without passport, but I don't live in my home country and my permanent address is here. My passport I renew, when necessary, at the embassy in Bangkok. Last year I was visiting relatives' home for a couple weeks and at the same time want to get a new "driving license card only" due to wear, and tear carry it in my wallet for 45 years but no was the answer, you have no address as living here. So how are the regulations for all of yours who can have a home address connected to passport in prvious home country if you are from USA, Germany, France etc. and have moved out and the only address you have is here🤔 Or only on long-term tourist / visas? Thanks Felt- BKK Bank New Acct-Long term expat to provide ID from home countr
Very possible, and there's more money to be made by pushing people into Elite visas and LTRs, and we know who started the Elite visas and who's holding the strings now. Just the word elite in a country on the verge of bankruptcy can make one think about the kind of people behind it.🤔🙃 Felt- BKK Bank New Acct-Long term expat to provide ID from home countr
Great, not. So those of us who have lived in Thailand for decades and have no address in our previous home country what do we do? One thing for me personally is that before the year is over Bangkok Bank is going to see my account shrink to max 500 baht. Happy new year Bangkok bank. Felt- Tax Break Bonanza: Thais to Benefit from New Foreign Income Rule
I don't think it will work for us foreign Thai tax residents with tax treaties, as most tax treaties and that's it, are actually treaties based on two countries, not one way or more like our method only as it is always presented in the media here. Our method only doesn't work in treaties. Felt - Is Thailand Done With the Shinawatras?