karlski

Hi,

A few mates recently recommended Rick Simpson Oil to help me get through chemotherapy.

There’s an article from 2023 showing it’s allowed in Thailand but what’s the current status?

https://ktla.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/665254267/rick-simpson-oil-now-available-in-thailand/

Any of you buying it here or from overseas?

From overseas are there Customs hassles inbound to LOS?

DS

do they need a visa extension for the time they will serve in jail here

they'll be arrested for overstay while in prison and let go for 2,000 baht?

The airline indeed will be the ones deciding at the counter. Having a Visa works well with some. I bought a 1 way business class return ticket to satisfy them, then after months of being here, got it refunded by simply making a Skype call to their office. Normal procedure for all of them. travel agent will know exactly what you are doing and facilitate it even more by being hip to which carrier's willing to sell you a floating business class ticket cheapest.

Business class tickets cost more, but are always refundable with no penalty fees. Things may have changed for some of them, but it's how those ticket types operate. It's also excellent because it's only 300-600 more than coach class, and an excellent insurance policy on your travels in general, leaves options open and dials in the visa thing quite well.

I used Korean Airlines 1 way here and Chinese airline for 'return ticket' back to USA.

You can get the ticket refunded anytime you want, it takes about 3 weeks or more for it to post to your account as it clears it's way through the muck.

Make sure as Lopburi says about dates of tickets 'onward' matching dates of the 'business class return' ticket. I did this a Korean Air was fine, -I even had a visa and they still checked.

Visa on Arrival is not so much fun because it's so limited as described above, a normal Tourist Visa will give you 60 days + 30 more added via stamp at immigration office and fee of 1,900 baht (50-60 bucks). You can get them expedited almost overnight with some of the good US firms, but in the field this 'option' may not be viable.

SP4@1-178th Infantry HHC Combat Medics / Cold Steel Lives On

Spies inhabit this forum, don't peep them to your ops.

Foreigners are the main target...

I thought I read "Victory Monument and Ratchaprasong Junction?"

I don't think foreigners are the main target.

But can't disagree that this is more about revenue generation that safety--just like in America!

j.

well said! everyone whines about stuff here that happens in their own country per norm. thanks for being balanced instead of biased -rare for here.

Seven Weeks? Funny how everybody seems concerned now that the Swine Flu is here and Off The Rails.

yeah last week and week before, everyone was "oh the mask selling conspiracy" and "it's nothing".

Perhaps the drink-driving death numbers from the Songkran holiday will always be more deadly than this flu. Although now that it's mutating into treatment resistant versions of itself, who knows.

An ED visa requires border runs every 90 days unless extended. If you are doing 90 days reports you are not here on a visa but on an extension of stay for one year. Such extensions are not available for the Thai language schools with limited study - you have to re-apply for a new extension of stay every 90 days with proof of attendance.

Neither I, nor any of my fellow students have to do border runs every 90 days. We are doing 90 day reports.

The best option would be to get another non-o. You could then extend that entry with paperwork from the school.

Since you would have a non immigrant visa already there would be no need to do a change of visa status.

Unless the school can get you the paper work so you can leave by the 5th. If you get it to late in the week you may have to leave and stay somewhere waiting for the consulate to open on Monday.

You could go back to Laos for either visa instead of Penang.

Makes sense actually, given the timing, and the ways in which immigration works. When you look inside a passport from the eyes of an immigration officer, it's stamp sequence would be solid. Might be other factors in your case, but good suggestion and/or backup plan.

Not sure where your income comes from but you can not work on an ED visa. Are you going to be able to obtain a multi entry ED visa, make border runs, or are you going to be doing 1,900 baht extensions of stay every 90 days? You are not going to obtain any visa for one year that does not require border trips. Visa entry is 90 days only. For language there is a possibility of 90 day extensions of stay but you must pay each time - I suspect that is what you mean (it is not a visa).

If your schooling qualified and you had more than 21 days remaining Immigration can issue a non immigrant visa - but that is only for extensions of stay and is not a multi entry which seems to be what you want - and as I said do not believe most of the language schools are currently able to use this method (but do not follow them closely).

"You are not going to obtain any visa for one year that does not require border trips."

"For language there is a possibility of 90 day extensions of stay but you must pay each time - I suspect that is what you mean (it is not a visa)."

Wrong to the following extent

An ED visa means NO BORDER RUNS. And you don't pay on 90 day reports. 90 day reports are not extensions, because you get a stamp extending you 9 months. 90 day reports are 90 day reports. I'm on one (ED Visa) now. I go to Phuket Town for 90 day reports, and PAY ZERO. It's not a "year visa" but the net result, is a "year" "visa". To get the visa you file papers at the school, they submit them to the ED Ministry. In 2-3 weeks, give or take, they come back ready for the next step. You go Penang with your ED papers the school and the ED Ministry provide, get the ED visa, come back, and 2 months later, report to Phuket Immigration to extend/commence it. They usually issue a 8-9 month stamp requiring 90 day reports. You do your 90 day reports in Phuket Town Immigration Office, pay nothing, and are out in 10 mins. There is no 1,900 baht charge.

The OP's asking about a timing issue, he's already settled on the Visa type.

Hi all,

OK, here's what I did to extend my telecommunications. We all know about VOIP, but it's not the solution when you have customers who are very sensitive about call quality. Grandma might tolerate your voice dropping in and out because she loves you. But high powered lawyers and govt officials have better things to do than deal with low-end voice communications. The mafia hates it too. And clowns. Oprah too, but, well. Yeah.

• Have TOT Connect your land line. (mileage may vary, suggest social engineering, xeroxes of maps, thai lang skills, 300 baht tip)
  
• Buy a Tool Free number from someplace like Kall8.com, which you can get for as low as $4 USD, or 110THB.
  
• Route this number to your Thai landline. Now incoming calls from anywhere to your toll free # ring through on your landline.
  
• Buy a Thaitel card (owned by General Electric in US), for about 300THB ($9 USD). You can use the access codes and call for about baht per minute.
  

This gets you inbound and outbound landline access of good quality. The question and point of the post [which I posted].

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And since we are on the topic, yes, OK, VOIP is good for some things and works OK, sometimes. But in general it's lame, and still not business ready unless you are something like a T-1/T-3/OC12/OC-128. Something that's built for the purpose, and set for dependable bandwidth. That excludes our personal computers and most networks here except maybe something in BKK.

If you think about how large the internet infrastructure in the US [the topic being how do I call the US], and the undersea cable networks that your call has to traverse from here, OSPF isn't doing so hot when all paths, the shortest, and longest, are totally saturated beyond all hope.

So when talking about VOIP quality, consider the networks underlying your call experience. Thailand to Germany, yes, of course it's gonna sound fine. Try calling Brazil on Skype when Brazil's business day is just starting.

So that was *part* of why I sought out a quick "landline" solution. You just need it for business. Oh, and if you want to POWER-PROOF your internet experience, I suggest a laptop with CDMA.

My power lines just dropped, the whole house went dark, but I was still up on laptop and the net. That includes low voltage like telephone, which in emergencies, is critical. Business uninterrupted.

So now we have quite a case for why landline technologies are cool, which sounds weird to say in 2009/2010.

Thanks VOIP, for ripping the market open, once, and then again. I like the cost-reduction boomerang effect on the 2009 landline market more than the initial cheap net based calls of 2005.

I have a TOT land line, is there an option I can use to either my mobile or TOT line to use a calling card or other service?

Skype is not working WELL ENOUGH, so don't even bother mentioning it or other VOIP, the post is asking about calling card options and other land line or mobile options to call.

What's the cheapest card for land lines?

Is there a Long Distance company here?

I also have an 866 number with Kall8 and route it here to Thaiand, so inbound calls are working great.

yep, understood, i'll try and diagram it and see if I can work out the addressing.

Its been a few days but here is a PDF of the config on my setup. I hope this helps you and let me know if something is not clear.

Network.pdf

Works perfect so far, I had to connect the wireless router to my shared ethernet port on the PC because the shared wireless port was being odd, and dropping connects.

I think this was because I had to turn off DHCP on the wireless router. I hard coded an IP/DNS onto the other wireless linux laptop, and it was able to still join the network as needed.

This can be tuned over time, -part of the problem I also faced was Windows XP's inconsistent interface would not always show "shareable" interfaces, even after reboots. I suspect this is just something Winsows Update can fix or driver issues on this laptop. Could even be stuff with interrupts.

Anyhow, the network is now up thanks to your PDF, once I get the completely unwired version working i'll confirm any adjustments that needed to be made. My wireless Router is an SMC (which might be using those gaddy RealTek nic cards).

-karlskii

yep, understood, i'll try and diagram it and see if I can work out the addressing.

I have not noticed this, but will try out some performance tests.

You local machine may be at fault, I would try and find a solution that involves ruling it out as the problem.

Also try another browser.

It could be the equipment in the tower, -have you contacted CAT's support folks?

That sounds good, I have the testing complete for Internet Connection Sharing using "wired" configuration between the laptop with the CDMA and the laptop without it.

Now i'd love to move on to the "wireless" configuration (and the addressing) so my friend downstairs can use it in more remote fashion.

I can follow the information you have and get it running if I understand how to get the wireless router to simply act as a wireless access point. I could connect it's ethernet port #1 to the very same "shared internet" ethernet port on my laptop with the CDMA, and set it's addressing up such that any system "joining" it's network would be able to surf the net, provided, as you say, if the main internet access laptop/cdma are booted and connected.

My other alternative is to run a hard wire down the wire chase downstairs but for the price of ethernet cables out here it's close to the initial setup cost of buying TOT service, which I prefer to avoid till I kno the tenant is comitted for a longer duration.

D-Tec has a hardware device that accepts a SIM card and can connect to your USB port. In Phuket, you can get one at Big C, but it's a rip off.

Get a CAT CDMA card or somehting like that, the Novatel "Ovation" MC727 is rockin. It's 7,000 baht or so, but you get great speeds. DONT buy a SIM-based solution like the D-Tech, it's almost more money and like 20x less the speed, especially during peak times.

I have the following gear, any or all of which could be used to extend my internet connection to my downstairs neighbor.

CAT Novatel Wireless Ovation EV-DO Rev-a, working great, good speed.

Laptop with current network gear, e.g. ethernet and wireless

Windows XP

Wireless Router

Ethernet Cables

I have created a wireless network on the laptop using Network Setup Wizard, and presently using WEP although converting it to WAP is trivial and probably advised.

I have right clicked the CAT CDMA Connection and "shared" it using Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) and have set it to "Wireless Network" although am not 100% certain this is the move (since CAT CDMA appears under Dial-Up Connections, and is PPP based vs. packet radio a.k.a. wireless). When I tried to select "private network" instead, it asked me to choose one from a list, which doesn't exist.

I do own a nice wireless router, but it's main input is an RJ-11 although it's perfectly fine to use port #1 on it as inbound signal connect. I do not have a crossover cable (well, maybe I do, i'll commence the 'hunt' after this missive is blasted out into the http ether)...

I am lazy. As an engineer, I should just know this cold. I could google it using http://www.google.com/microsoft But i'm a Linux server admin, and know you out there using CAT CDMA on EKSPEE probably have a vast underground network of thousands of PC's all surfing a single connection, capable of bringing down entire countries and even other planets on your whim.

Feel like confirming or adjusting the above approaches I took (except the laziness, that I can fix with the evil nescafe at 7-11, I promise [but I could be lying]).

Anyhow, what's the best move? (total invitiation to mockery aside...)

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OK, that's enough for now. As the creepy dude in Lost Highway said to the main protagonist: "now give me back my phone".

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COMRADE THAKSIN can keep hanging with the generals you know where, trying to you know what, so they can yeah that's right. Glad they lost this round and hope they lose all others.

The Thais have been pretty resistant to it all. Congrats. All their neighbors caved immediately, years ago.

I'm very confused. What is the army supposed to be doing, celebrating with the reds?

Give em' a tank ride, they'll have fun and won't think this is an "us & them" scenario like the Chinese and Russians hope for. things will change when those tanks get to where they are going, and expect a bust up. This isn't going to be like when team yellow did their thing and we all know it.

Thaksin, this is your last "sucker punch", enjoy it while you can. After Songkran is up, they are going to clean your clock.

Thais inherently love one another, as it should be, no matter what anyone says, they know who they are, and even as divided as things are, the outside meddlers will never break this country apart.

Never.

Long Live Thailand!

Isn't Thaksin just a proxy for the CHINESE GOVT? Isn't that where he's hiding? The government says they know where he is, why not reveal it so people can see the meddlers from abroad?

Thailand is a huge resource, and the only "open" zone in Asia to foreigners with any freedom of movement or lack of military junta or other significant danger.

Buy out the rural poor, make them think this is about politics, use their violent nature to sweep to power, or at the very least, create a civil war and have things be as uncertain as possible for as long as possible, so that nothing makes sense anymore to anyone.

This is CLASSIC example of a successful campaign by outsiders to purposely destabilize a country. This is not just internal strife.

Can someone point out who's meddling in the background if it's not the Chinese?

Sadly anyone can set up here as an Estate Agent without any qualifications !!

Yup. The baa mee seller near my condo is also an agent looking for potential leasing tenants.

To effect a bank transaction and property transfers, e.g. not just finding leasing leads, is likely the missing data at this stage.

The REBA info is a good start, and lucky it's in Thai and Thai operated, it'll give her enough to go on to feel comfortable asking her parents to cooperate with her intended shift in career focus. It's low season, so she can study what she needs and learn the more complex stuff and land a gig at an existing firm.

We just had a laugh about the baa mee seller.

License? Training? Qualifications?

You haven't talked to any estate agents in Thailand have you!

She's looking for information about a career choice, not insults about her culture or it's business community.

There are legal requirements and certain conditions -that if not satisfied, will result in negative consequences, if you choose to engage in real estate transactions without the proper credentials.

My bet is someone will eventually reply in a thoughtful manner, -the reason I still trust this forum, even though it's become a bit like Dante's Inferno at times in the Cultural Hypocrisy dept.

My friend asked me the other day how she could become a real estate agent.

She grew up here, but has always worked fairly basic jobs, and over time, even though she knows the market is bad right now, insists she'd be great at it.

She's based in Phuket, but willing to go to the right school, training facility, as it's turning low season.

Any schools to recommend?

Any basic outlines of the process & legal requirements?

If possible, can we limit responses to just facts and keep opinion and irrelevant miscellany to a minimum?

Thanks a trillion for any info...

Please forgive my ignorance: Will someone please explain to me

the one big wave that came out of nowhere...how does this happen?

for a solid, non-speculative answer, it's best to wait for the TV interview with the staff member on board at the time of the incident, he'll be able to indicate the conditions at the time of the event.

When doing a visa run, do you have to actually get an entrance visa to the neighboring country, go in and come back out?

do your visa run with one of the local providers in Thailand that do runs in/out of Cambodia, they'll take care of it all and you can just sit back and eat the cheap cookies some of them provide along with lunch. Not sure if BLS (Bangkok Legal Services) does minivan runs there but check them out.