petedk

Let's hope Donald Trump is voted president because he promises "to stop the war in Ukraine, even before he starts as president." 😁

ok extension based on marriage

I am on a marriage visa. Yes, you need more documents, but surely you have them. Copy of wedding certificate, photos, bank statement and so on. I have NEVER had a visit from immigration during the 1 month consideration period.

AirBnB The houses around us are packed with Chinese tourists now.

Usually a nice "wai" and a few words of apology and all is forgiven and forgotten.

I sent my first 90 day report by mail. My friend used an agent. No problems

You beat me to it. They could ban alcohol, cigarrettes, make it illegal to have more 2 people on a motorcycle. Illegal to keep dogs or whatever and nothing will change as the laws are never proerly enforced.

This was also proposed in 2015. It gets mentioned every so often, but no progress is ever made.

I thought the sale of all e-cigarettes was illegal, but it seems from the headline that this particular type are illegal. The people at the weed shop were arrested for "possessing and selling goods without paying the necessary taxes" and another for illegally working. The actual sale of e-cigarettes hasn't been cited as a crime.

I think all over the world. many people use it, but more as a type of "thank you"

Exactly the same here. I have never had any problems All I am saying is that this year they asked for a copy of every page of mu y passport. I didn't have problems this time either. The money was refunded immediately.

This year I managed to get some tax-returns ( as I have done a few times previously), but this time the revenue department wanted a copy of every page of my passport to check that I had lived here more than 180 days. So I can see how they how going to check whether you have stayed here 179 or 181 days.

Your wife will be taxed. The headline says "New tax rules for foreigners", but the new tax rules also cover Thai people.

I also use True and have been complaining to them for the past 2 weeks. The speed is ok during the day, but at about 7 pm it suddenly drops and I am getting 3 Mbps. Using a VPN I can get 300 Mbps. Their technician has been here several times but he doesn't seem to understand the issue.

Any updates on this? I have just appliued for a 24 hour free demo

And today's news... He had a meeting with Malaysian PM Anvar while he was in Phuket, but hey! he is prime minister of Thailand, he can have these meetings.

I have just editted. There are 27,000 sex workers in Pattay, not 200,00 as I previously thought

He never left politics. He " worked from home" in Dubai

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.