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Yes, it works with commercial banks like those named or even Stonehenge Bangkok Bank. UOB is a different story; had a credit card for 30+ years by Citibank and since UOB took over, literally n nothing works anymore. Well, I had a fraud billing, announced by SMS with a phone number to call in case of fraud. After 17 minutes waiting a lady answered "no sapeak Thai" and cut the line. Went online onto the website; the first pop-up on their webpage are the numbers to call in case of fraud, one for Thai and one for English. 32 minutes into the waiting - phone got answered, card blocked and new card announced for "next month". No online statement viewable for the time being so it is "wait and see"; I for one would want to keep the card as the paperwork involved to get a credit card from another bank reminds me of Einstein's theories with an avalanche of papers, certificates, blue ink signed copies and hours at the bank. But to your question, I am using BKK Bank for a foreign currency deposit account, online through Bualuang Ibanking and it works flawlessly, real time BUT only during office hours of the bank (for whatever reason) .....

Well, even he will learn rather sooner than later, that he cannot eat money nor does power last forever. Yet, absolute power corrupts absolutely - as the saying goes; but we all know that this certainly does not apply to the kind gentleman who took care of watches of his deceased friend as he was not willing to share the details of the widow to avoid more pain over the lost husband. Mysterious are the ways of the East ........

What a lucky surprise - sort of a Songkran gift?

We're all back in business - it seems ..........

The envelope size is not finally defined yet - me thinks!

Prior Covid = TAT was blowing its own trumpets over 40 million tourists (as if they would have anything to do with this) Post Covid = overcrowded Did, by percentage, more Thais than tourists die? Or is it, that the level of tourist went down even further and now becomes unmanageable as the slice of the zero-tourists (China) and the cheaper segment (Russians in Pattaya) increased compared to Phuket with the richer Russians? Quality is one thing, quantity is another - fact is that Thailand actually cannot handle either due to its own people not being able to welcome, accomodate or handle the business ....

Ensure uninterrupted popcorn supplies 😉

Thai must have retired dozens of B747 all over Thailand; from Nong Khai via Korat, Bangkok etc. They also dumped the 6 Airbus 380; their fleet planning boggles the mind ..........

Tip of the iceberg, if you ask me; visit any casino (King Royals, Savan or Poipet) for clarification of what "serious" money can mean .........

They seem to know the culture of the envelopes as well ..... Or did the Thais learn it from Khun Amelica?

Organs clean themselves, unless you've massively intervened in unnatural build-up. What you might have is an ear infection hence don't fiddle around with questionable therapies but see and ENT specialist.

It is like Bollywood - the poorer are happy to escape reality for a mental break. Some go to the cinema (like in Mumbai), others get completely drunk (half Isan) and some smoke weed. Latter is also smoked - quite apparently - most likely in various government offices which spring to mind with fantastic statistics, forecasts and assumptions.

I do not want to be cheeky but how many of us have seen many, many Thais washing their pick-ups at the rim of a river or a lake. A pristine example is the Mabpachan and the Chaknok lake outside Pattaya. Apart from dirt and oil residue the entire garbage of the car gets offloaded in the hope, that the mess will disappear mysteriously overnight. Fine the guy driving along the beach but use the very same measures once a semi-divine Khon Thai is doing worse than that - me thinks 😉

Google is your friend 😉

The fight of the titans ..... I would put my money on the police officer but then, this is Thailand .......

Don't get blended by all that confusing stuff on property and zero rights for non-Thais. It is a fact and still some smarties think they can beat the system. Eventually the non-Thais will lose ...... always. What you can secure is the financial interest in property with complicated legal paperwork on financing a loan for the property. But it will take time to force the land title owner to sell the property and pay you back. As a 60+ years old geezer you should seriously consider renting only; an idiot of a neighbour, too close to a temple or a 7/11 or a motorbike repair shop, smells from the fermented-fish-factory or any other inconvenience = pack your stuff and move elsewhere without a financial impact ........ Irrespective what the beauty of night might try to tell you which is - in most cases - only in HER interest. As blood is thicker than water - specially in Thailand - you will get her entire family breathing down your neck on the subject. Avoid that by saying "no have money" and you're sorted.

You want to see the development of tourism in a fast forward mode? Go to Luang Prabang, within less than five years they turned this jewel of an Indochinese Shangri-la into a steamroller of zero-dollar tourists shouting, screaming and misbehaving in such a way you would slap your own child. But Thailand is toasted already so just go ahead and destroy the little you have left of what was once "amazing Thailand". How sad and what a pity ..........

a) he will eventually get arrested for ............ not holding a work permit b) what he is doing, is ...... wrong, yet if the authorities would focus more on copyrights, trademarks etc. and less on digital wallets, special tourism zones and 300 Baht landing taxation for tourists ....... There is not a day in the calendar where I am not offered fake watches, fake viagra, illegal copies of movies on CDs and the usual offerings of fake hand bags and purses in Bangkok on the way to/from work Lock him up and start educating your own people that ........ if a deal seems to be too good to be true then ........ the rest is history 😉

Less influence by governmental goons who have not the slightest clue what they are talking about and Bob's your uncle!

Don't get blended, the photo does not show a congregation of idiots but a congregation of dangerous, self-centered men out for the hunt of whatever money and power they can get. The real script of their "digital wallet" business will surface sooner or later - get ready for a big surprise. The uncles and grannies in Isan have not the slightest clue, where this money comes from but that is irrelevant; the Bangkokian taxpayers might be advised that it is their money going out the window straight into some selected few pockets. Governmentally approved highway robbery? We'll see .......

I did all the calculations; a single house with a 8x4 swimming pool (i.e. a pump running 2 x 1 hour/daily) and comfy air temperatures by state-of-the-art inverter units cannot be fed with solar power to reach a breakeven point. Even if the swimming pool pump works on-grid only (i.e. no sun = no electricity), you still cannot make ends meet and hence it is with the money-greedy government to do its home work on the taxation of solar power equipment imports. All this is of course a big joke considering the fact, that we live in a country with 250+ sunshine days a year while in frozen Europe with not even half the solar power they manage to run the latter with efficiency and profitability of the equipment owner - go back and do your home work!

It's about an accused, the mother of a rape victim, the police, inefficiency and/or corruption, face and the saving/loss of the latter and 5 million Thai Baht. The main subject should be the 5-years old little girl who, quite obviously, went through the most terrible experience in her life and that is not even a subject here anymore. I can only hope that she can blank out this memory. What have we become; we're monstrous greedy self-centered creatures and I am thoroughly ashamed 😞 I do not feel guilty over the incident, as I am not involved in any way but honestly, can society only focus on the first paragraph above?

What an excellent opportunity to drag feet across the monkey plague - this time in Lopburi or, as a sideshow, in Petchburi. Culling is the only solution as even the local big faces have to make a choice. Are cities here for people or primates. Once you've defined that (will take months for countless working groups and committees studying the situation) then the next step might be kicked into action. Handbags, fancy shoes and watch straps are made of crocodile leather which are groomed in ..... crocodile farms. Why not let the crocodiles roam freely - like the macaques? Honestly, you have to do something here and now without further delay; feed them with tranquilized goodies, round 'em up and cull them. It cannot be, that macaques terrorize anything just because the semi-divines are - again - too lenient to put a plan into action. And, for all the do-gooders out there, if you disagree, then you're certainly most welcome to catch a monkey or two for your own private little garden - if you can 😉

What a load of ......... Bhutan does not charge a tourism tax; you have to spend USD 200 (not 100) per day and that covers hotel, transportation, the works. The reason behind this is, that the Bhutanese have understood the basics and want the upper crust of the tourism cake. Thailand, on the other hand, has lost its plot quite some time ago and is facing the zero-dollar Chinese avalanche and the mostly hatred Southasians; don't even go further West to the Middle East. Put the industry back to where it was, teach your people languages beyond "you buy drink for me", clean up your petty corruptions literally everywhere and get the semi-divine Khon Thai to understand the word "service" and "friendly". Upgrade whatever you do and clear out all that cheap s"ç%t everywhere; will take time as falling down is always done much faster than climbing back - Thailand is a pristine example of that!

Possibly more Russian than Portuguese; irrespective all that .... irrelevant. Here you can look at boobies free of charge, any gogo dump will cream you with overpriced drinks ......