petedk

Come on! Give Thai police credit where credit is due. They would round up a couple of immigrants and make them scapegoats. 😀

Aren't tourists required to have travel insurance or medical insurance before they can enter Thailand? Maybe that rule was never implemented.

Uhm I know a Thai girl who studies at an international school where they have to read a lot of text books and novels in English. The students receive them as PDFs and this particular girl immediately uses Google translate. She never reads the novels , but only downloads summaries from the Internet and somehow manages to pass all her exams. So I guess her statistics show that she reads 12 - 15 books each semester, where in fact she only skims the downloaded summaries. To be fair though, I have noticed that 1 or 2 (not more) students at university read books, whereas 20 years ago that number would have been 0.

They probably will never find them as they are Thai. If they had been Russians they would already have been deported and blacklisted. 🙂

I was in Denmark about a month ago. When ever I paid cash, people were so surprised. Yes, a quick tap of the payment card on the machine and all is well. I lived there 25 years ago and even then we used the DK card for most payments. The QR code system using the mobile is far too slow. If shops and so on had a small card terminal then it would be ok for a cashless society, but then how would you pay the small street vendors and motorcycle taxis?

I think that the police are only doing crackdowns in Phuket. I often complained to police about the Chineses Yourguides/mini-van drivers who used to block my entrance. I tried talking to the drivers, but they neither spoke English or Thai. Nothing was ever done about them.

Agree with you but the Yellow book and pink card are so damned hard to get. I have tried 5 times now and each time was told that they were too busy. I started the fifth application 3 months ago. It seems I may get it this time...... if I give a 10,000 Baht tip.

I have all my original documents (including my birth certificate. mother's death certificate) in a folder. I take that with me every time I visit a government office as you never know what they will ask for. I have also been asked at some government offices, if I was "interested in giving a tip" so I usually have 2K cash. I hate to pay more. On an additional note: I did NOT have the 10K cash on me when applying for the yellow house book.

This may well be the requirement, but in September when I went to extend my visa they asked for an updated TM 30. I had been to Phuket for 3 days. It wasn't a problem as my wife (house owner) was with me and updated there and then. Went out to print a copy for them. Everything depends on the mood of the officer processing the extension. I have seen them disagree many times.

Not really a new requirement, but when I renewed my extension 3 months, the first thing they asked for was the TM30. I had all my documents and copies with me in a folder. Sometimes they do ask for something different.

Where did he throw the window?

I have been teaching at a university for over 20 years and I have probably heard of at least 10 cases where Thai male teachers at upcountry secondary schools have asked girls to "help clean their offices" and have raped and abused them. When the girls get too old they choose a new victim. I have had two students confess that it happened to them, but they never complained "as most people knew about it anyway."

Why not? I am sure the other prisoners will fulfill his sexual desires in the lunch breaks.

Have you retired? When you retire you can continue paying SS yourself, otherwise you lose the medical insurance. In order to continue paying, you need a pink ID card, It was confirmed once again today at my SS office.

When did you finish work? I called the SSO head office and it is a requirement now It was inttroduced sometme laSt year.