petedk

My condolences to the victims. ONE Chinese lady is killed and security is beefed up all over Bangkok and other parts of the country. 300+ people (including foreigners) are killed on the roads every day. What is done about that? No need to answer. We all know.

You are correct. Depending on the reason for denied entry of course. The airline is at check-in will check your visa, passport expiry date and maybe other stamps regarding denied entry. If you are stopped at immigration and denied entry for any of these reasons, the airline is required to pay for your flight home. That is why they are strict at check-in. Also if there are too many breaches by the airline, then they will be blacklisted. Of course the airline will try to get you to pay, but by law they have to pay under these circumstances.

I have noticed at nearly all car parks the security guards walk around writing down the registration numbers of cars. I though it was just to give them something to do.

Yes, I have been using MRT elder card for years and it is 50% off . I originally got one from BTS and I topped up with 500 Baht. Went through the gate and security took away my card. No refund! It'll be interesting to see if the new government get their "Flat rate of 20 Baht" through. Will this be for Thais only? Will there be dual pricing and foreigners charged 4 , 5 or 10 times the Thai rate as in National Parks?

I don't know when I will die, so I don't know what to write.

Someone told me that this is at Srinakarinwirot University. There is a lot of construction going on there and some passage ways look extremely dangerous. I am certainly very wary when walking through there.

Thaksin expects to be released in October. How convenient!

You are wrong. When I renewed my visa last time, they asked for a copy of my TM30. They said they could see that I had done it, but still asked for a copy.

You are leaving for business. Do you have your own company or business? My friend is self employed and travels to Thailand regularly on a business visa. He has to produce a letter to immigration from his employer (himself) and he often stays 6 motnhs or so. Out for a month and then back. He does do business here, before anyone asks.

The most helpful and sensible posting here

We used to have about 50 or more (yes, I tried to count) flying around our house. The maid opposite used to put food next to our house to feed them and we often had big arguments about this. Recently, some Burmese guys have been coming around with some kind of cage/trap on telescopic poles. They capture the pigeons in the cage and carefully wrap a bag around the cage. I have no idea what they do with the pigeons, but they are very gentle with them. Now, we don't have a single pigeon around here.

But as I said earlier, nothing happens.

You are right, but does anyone care? Chinese people have overtaken nearly half of our soi and running the places as hotels, with guests staying 1 night only. Drunken people coming and going all night. Luxury cars blocking the road. plus many other disturbances that I won't mention here. Everyone in our soi signed a petition to the local council, we have called the police hundreds of times and absolutely nothing is done about.

ha noticed yesterday that our Chinese neighbours who have been away for a few days have 6 or 7 pieces of meat hanging up in their outdoor kitchen. I was wondering if they were lambs or goats judging by the size, but now I woner.

I find nearly all SCB and UOB banks foreigner friendly. Never have any problems. Try calling SCB call center and ask for advice

And military protection. I can see the Chinese "family" near us have had soldiers walking around their property for the last week.

Spot on. There is a "hotel" near us, owned by Chinese, run by Chinese. All food is delivered from the same Chinese restaurant. All prostitutes are Chinese and delivered by the same cars. The guests staying there all have luxury cars, Rolls Royce, Bentleys and so on. All very strong, short clipped hair. Sleep during the day. Wake up around 5 pm and do a couple of hours of heavy weight training and martial arts. Then they "do something" all night long. Cars coming and going every 30 minutes until 6 am when they decide to sleep.

We often have white Rolls Royces, yellow Bentleys, white RR Cullinans all on red plates and owned by Chinese parked in our soi. There must be hundreds of them in Bangkok.

You forgot the military.

Actually, they are Rolls Royces, Bentleys, Mercedes, but they seem to be opening and closing the doors all night long

I sympathise with you too. The 2 houses next door to us have been bought up by Chinese who basically run them as a hotel/party house. No matter who stays there they sleep from 7 am to about 4 pm. Then party and make a noise until 6 am. They have cars with 20 doors in each one and they come and go all night.

That's if it is a private TV station sending it. I remember once before SAT sent something similar (World Cup or European Cup) but only sent with Thai commentary. Maybe they have learned from their mistake. I watch via streaming anyway.

Already confirmed as fake news.

Why on earth do they still publish these figures? Everyone knows they are not real. My doctor said to me that you can multiply these figures by 10 to get a more accurate picture. At least the death rates seem to be low. That is a good thing.

The majority of Thais that I know fully support Russia. They get their news from some Thai channel that resends Russian tv. Anything from CNN or BBC according to them is fake news.