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25 minutes ago, prakhonchai nick said:
Its all down to the failings of one inept government after another. Full third party insurance-as a minimum-should be mandatory for all road vehicles. Minister of Transport.....WHERE ART THOU????
100% agree
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24 minutes ago, kingstonkid said:
I agree but would also sue him. In this country it is illegal not to have I'd the cops know who it is if you called them to investigate. If you didn't then it is your fault so just pay.
Illegal not to have?
If you refer to insurance for 3rd party property, then unfortunately the only insurance required to legally drive or ride on the road here is the CTPL (compulsory third party liability or Por Ror Bor), there is no requirement to insure the vehicle or 3rd party property damage.
Most Thais on Motorcycles (and some cars). only have this lowest cover, partly because they see no need for any other cover and mainly because they cannot afford the additional cover.
They also know that generally the police will side with them, I know of several times where accidents have happened through the fault of the motorcyclist and yet the car driver has been made to pay for the damage to the motorcycle, compensate the rider and any pay hospital fees, with the police saying that the rider has no money and the car is bigger!!
Hopefully one day the level of minimum cover is increased to include third party property damage.
Until such time, the soundest advice is to make sure you have the best cover available.
Oh and there would be no point in suing him or her, you get no blood out of stone :)
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4 hours ago, rgrdns said:
Thank you, guys
What to do if the IO did not approve yet (pending) the application within 3 days, must I resubmit or just wait until the due date?
Regards
You need to clarify, when did you last enter Thailand? (I'm assuming from the post title that you left and have recently reentered)
Your 90 day report will be due 89 days after that date, the 90 days resets upon entry.
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52 minutes ago, Kopitiam said:
After 3 boosters, still caught covid. There is a clue there too!
2 hours ago, Spock said:It's not always mild. I had a really nasty bout of it about 2 months ago, three weeks after my 5th vaccine.
And there!
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3 hours ago, stix40 said:
I wanted to know why the showroom wanted a chunk in cash for showroom?
This is perfectly normal and doesn't have to be cash, it can be transfer, bankers draft etc. once you decide to purchase the car then the dealer will want a non-refundable deposit placed to confirm the sale, the amount will differ from dealer to dealer and the value of the car, generally Honda, Toyota, Mazda etc. will ask for 5-10,000 Baht as the deposit, BMW, MB, Audi etc. 50,000 Baht.
This deposit will be deducted from the total cost at the final payment, additional costs on top of the car price are usually a deposit for the red plate (refunded when the white plate arrives) and a registration fee (includes the road tax & polabar).
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2 minutes ago, Jaybott said:Is there any mention of emergency power kicking in? Once main power is lost, an emergency diesel generator should auto start providing emergency power and lighting. The EDG is normally not located in the main engine room but in its own watertight compartment with its own fuel tank and the emergency switchboard.
This is a small ship; so no telling where the EDG was located or it could possibly not have an EDG but emergency battery power. Anyway, emergency power should have been available, at least for awhile.
On a normal vessel, there are two means of emergency lighting, one as you say from the emergency generator and another via battery power.
If the vessel did lose propulsion and therefore steering, then the emergency generator would have been of no use other than to provide a means of light to escape.
With as list as bad as the pictures, it is possible that the emergency generator could not operate due to the bank angle.
I do not think that those who have never worked at sea can fully appreciate the terrible predicament the sailors were in, the ship was listing very badly, with some means of egress being impossible to use due to either the angle of the vessel or water blocking the escape routes, couple this with massive disorientation and it is a nightmare situation.
I've been on offshore ships that were rolling up to 50 degrees and lying in my bunk wondering if this was my last day on earth, if a ship fully capsizes and crew are inside say the engine room, what was the bottom of the ship is now the top, walking on engines and other machinery and with the escape hatches now above you not below, the way out is underwater, a truly nightmarish scenario.
A Navy ship is far worse, lots of pipes in walkways etc.
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Having worked in the maritime industry all my life, I feel for those sailors that are missing and their families.
At the time of the incident, a vessel I am involved with was / is working in the Gulf of Thailand and was waiting on weather, they were reporting swells of 5 - 6m and winds peaking at close to 50NM per hour.
Hopefully there will be a thorough investigation in to what went wrong, to sink a vessel of this nature is not as easy as some on this thread think.
From what we are hearing on the grapevine the initial cause was a loss of propulsion for whatever reason, which led to the ship getting beam on to the seas causing her to roll violently (she had a narrow beam), from this water was taken on causing the eventual sinking.
In heavy weather all vessel Masters will point the bow directly in to the weather, this is the only way to safely navigate rough seas.
Since Titanic, all ships are made of watertight compartments, flood one and the vessel will not sink, inclination tests are also done to determine how many degrees of list is the point of no return, again, a compartment can flood and not cause the ship to capsize. This is especially true of Naval ships for damage stability / control.
It is possible that one of the watertight doors below the waterline was open and the flooding was in more than one compartment, until the investigation it is only speculation.
One poster mentioned free surface effect, this can be a very bad situation for a ship, however, if all of the freeing ports are doing their job it should not cause a vessel to sink.
Let's hope the missing guys are found safe.
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20 hours ago, carlyai said:
Now I'm not sure I have this 100% correct.
Australian Swinburne University partnered with a Thai company establishing
a Laem Chabang School of Engineering.
After 6 to 8 years the Aussie mob pulled out, leaving just the Thai partner and eventually everything closed.
The Farang staff were not paid out their full entitlement.
Teaching staff come under slightly different rules than other industries, TBH I am not really very knowledgeable about that side, for sure in industry that would be illegal and if it went to a labour court they would of been made to pay out 100%, this is regardless if Thai or Farang.
For Crossy's OP, the company should have the rules handbook and this should state each entitlement.
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Under Thai Labour Act, employees are entitled to up to 30 days paid sick leave per year, 3 days or more requires a certificate from a doctor.
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Although technically there is no age limit on a Thai Citizen owning land, in reality it will depend on the Land Office if they will allow registration to a minor, they all have different views on this and it is up to their discretion.
Note you cannot lease land from a minor unless authorised by a court. (Section 1574 of the Civil and Commercial Code)
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39 minutes ago, lopburi3 said:
1. There is no requirement to enter ID card number - that is for additional membership - but they are not clear on that at all.
I'll stand corrected on that, however, it was adamant that I had to enter the ID number and was not allowing me to register any further without it.
It could have been something I did wrong initially.
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16 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said:
Browsing through the site feels quite normal, not particularly slow.
Trust me, when you start actually shopping it is slow, adding items to the cart can take a while.
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Am I the only one that simply cannot get on with the new Lotus's online web portal?
I used to purchase quite a lot via the old Tesco Lotus website, especially the heavier, bulkier items such as water, laundry related, cat food etc.
Since Tesco pulled out the website has been redone and so badly it is untrue, totally illogical and super slow.
When I first tried to use it, I had to reregister all of my details, first surprise, please enter your 13 digit Thai ID card............ I tried several spurious numbers beginning with a 1 or a 3, no chance, ended up having to use my son's ID number, not a big deal, but why would they restrict Foreigners from shopping online with them? There was no option to put a Nationality or passport number.
Every single time you use the site it wants to know the delivery address, I only have one entered in under my username, so use that!!
Next step is where do you want your items delivering from............ I don't care, Lotus's you decide based on the delivery address!!
Then when do you want it delivering, today or next day, no other choices that I can see, the delivery window has now increased to 4 hours from 2 hours as well, which is a PITA as it ties too much time up.
The site is super slow, so takes ages to do the shopping, one time I fell foul as spent over one hour adding items to the cart only to find out that the max. number of items is 99, any more and you have to delete items from your cart ????
All in all, a fail as far as I'm concerned, come on Lotus's you should be able to do better than this!
Before being asked, I work weekdays and divorced, so no 'her indoors' to do the shopping and weekends tend to be busy.
Moan over!
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20 minutes ago, mommysboy said:In the UK, the subvariants are regarded as mild as the parent strain. In fact thus far ICU admissions appear not to have risen in line. I'd rather go with that.
Exactly, both Portugal and SA had the initial wave of the latest sub-variant and neither had excessive deaths compared to Delta or the BA.2 Omicron.
The OP is purely scare tactics.
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On 6/30/2022 at 7:21 AM, MRToMRT said:
How did you find Oman compared to say emirates? did they have layflat?
They were very good and yes lay flat config.
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1 hour ago, Qman said:
I flew Thai Airways arriving on June 28 from Frankfurt to BKK and the English announcements repeatedly said you must wear a mask on the flight. I took off for eating and drinking and since it was an overnight flight and sleeping part of the time I also took off then. I don't think they hassled anyone not wearing masks and I noted most everyone was complying.
This is the part I really do not get, they require all to wear a mask, then feed everybody at the same time, when all remove their mask to eat and drink, making the wearing of a mask pointless in the first place.
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2 minutes ago, NorthernRyland said:I know the prices changed but nothing structural has actually changed. When people start flying again flight patterns will resume and prices will come down.
I think that rather depends on where you are flying to, the war in Ukraine is making flights to and from Europe far more difficult for the airlines and the distance further, which I guess adds to the cost.
Fuel costs have risen tremendously which is certainly not helping the ticket cost.
From what I can see, the flights are actually reasonably full of passengers, which should justify more flights.
The other issue is that airlines and airports are critically low on staff, not just due to sick leave, a lot of redundancies happened over the last couple of years and the companies just assumed that everyone would rush back to their old job, this has not been the case, for example, in Europe (and US) the main reason for the big delays is shortage of staff, especially security, check in, baggage handling etc. where the salaries are close to minimum wage levels and those who left have found better paying employment.
It takes months to train new people, those working airside have to go through rigorous security clearance checks etc. etc.
Some airlines cannot put more flights on right now, a lot of the senior pilots elected to retire or take other employment, which has left the airlines with a pilot shortage and it takes years to replace each one, cabin crew are in short supply etc. etc. all of which will eventually increase each airline's overhead as the the only way to solve this is to employ, train and pay competitive salaries.
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33 minutes ago, NorthernRyland said:Nothing changed why are you saying that? I've heard this in the news media so maybe you're repeating it from them but this kind of propaganda is like magic spells, if you repeat it over and over again it becomes true.
I beg to differ, a huge amount has changed since late December 2021, at that time I was checking flights to the UK for early August 2022 and could book a return FIRST class ticket with Emirates for 118,500 THB, in fact a friend of mine did so and flies in a couple of weeks.
Unfortunately for me, I didn't book it, as at that time it really wasn't clear what the future held Covid wise.
Roll forward to May 2022 and I started looking again, Emirates Biz class was now 130k +, I did end up booking a biz class return with Oman for 99,505 THB which was by far the best price available at that time. I would normally fly in to to MAN and out of LHR, that option isn't available this time with Oman, as they are not flying in to MAN right now, so it means a night in a hotel close to LHR and a 160 mile drive the following day, such is life!
My last trip to the UK was late July 2019 where I paid 58k return biz class with Oman (BKK-MAN-LHR-BKK via MCT), so yes, a lot has changed.
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5 minutes ago, Neeranam said:
INsulting to whom?
The family of the dead girl.
What this does show is that life is cheap here I'm afraid, 8 years for a brutal murder is ridiculously lenient.
Minor drug offences receive the same.
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3 minutes ago, 2long said:My car is a 2006 Jazz V-AT AS with 230k, km
I reckon your car's value is 200-250k THB
That estimate is OTT in my opinion, a quick look at the market and 2004 Honda Jazz are retailing for 140K - 180K out of a dealers.
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5 hours ago, RichardColeman said:
God help them if car insurers just give up with the ludicrous thai drivers
You joke, my car is insured with South East!
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48 minutes ago, Neeranam said:
Ignoring the helmet law is acceptable
I hope that is being sarcastic!
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If you are in the same province, then take the necessary paperwork and file a TM30.
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5 minutes ago, blackcab said:
The 40 per cent mentioned above is the ceiling rate. This is the maximum authorized rate, however WTO rates would always take precedence over the ceiling rate, and General rates would almost always take precedence over WTO rates.
Thanks for the clarification, I just did a quick search based on the HS code, hence why I said about the variables, all imports are subject to 7% VAT on top of the duty.
Fast Track Bangkok Airport
in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
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on the right side of immigration as you go up the ramp.