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15 minutes ago, johng said:

For such a large company I really don't support a (money saving ?) move

to reduce services for paying customers

  "viva la email"   

They haven’t increased their prices for years and upgraded me from 80MB ADSL to 500MB fibre for no cost so I am well pleased with the value for money aspects anyway.

12 minutes ago, johng said:

Well kind of not surprising  if its "True"  ( probably not)

I'd try phoning them on some other number  than the one in the email.

 

In any case its a good idea to have other email accounts  just in case

Yahoo Gmail..Hotmail ? still exists not sure.

I have Gmail account anyway so it’s not a big deal. True has been very good to me since I started using them in 2007 for internet services so I don’t have any complaints about them so I will just wait and see.

I recently got an email from True stating that my truemail email account will end on 1st December 2024. I actually wondered if it was some kind of scam at first so I made sure that I didn’t click on any links in the email. I just wondered if anyone else had received such an email. I tried to send an email to truecorp but they don’t have customer service by email anymore and it takes too long to get connected to an English speaking agent through the app so I thought I would check and see if anyone else had received such an email.

10 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I wonder if it was ripped on arrival?

 

I've heard of several reasons for not allowing someone to board, but a small rip, seriously? IMO there is something missing from this story.

 

Perhaps the main takeaway from this is if you are skint, don't go on holidays to foreign countries.

Note that it said a rip on the photo page. Maybe concern about the photo being tampered with. We don’t know that she wasn’t intending to enter the countries that she was traveling through especially as she had spent time in India before. Much more to this story than meets the eye I think. She would have checked in before clearing immigration surely so the airline would only see her passport again at the gate where they only do a quick check in my experience. Why are they trying to raise £1000 anyway?

For the benefit of others who search this topic in future I am pleased to report that wheelchairs are available at the security checkpoint at Building B. You have to leave ID or driving license as security deposit.

Does anyone know if there is a wheelchair available for use at the Immigration Office at Chaeng Wattana? I am not very good at walking long distances and it would be useful to know that a wheelchair is available for use so my wife can push me around if necessary. TIA

On 6/3/2024 at 8:44 AM, 1948wjm said:

With the new visa rules now in place eff 01 June & I will probably use an agent to handle this

What new rules came in effective June 1st?

2 minutes ago, johng said:

You just proved the point that there is much more than just one thing you can't talk about in Thailand and most other places..."free speech"

is rapidly fading into oblivion..accused of all the ism's, hate speak 

mis,dis and mall information, (Putin) propaganda !!

Agreed but that was under a military government and they were arrested under laws that are very specific to Thailand ( lese majeste). Protesters who didn’t breach LM laws were left alone because they got around the Covid regulations by traveling in cars with less than 5 passengers.I don’t understand why people are defending a guy who is doing business here on a tourist visa. The OP is actually misleading by suggestion that he might be charged for criticizing the country when his real crimes were related to breach of his visa conditions which he incriminated himself for.

I haven’t been to Pai since 1990. Has it changed much? 😄

10 hours ago, BTB1977 said:

What a sell out. He reported the truth.  But thailand turns a blind eye to the truth. 

Yes he reported the truth that he was running a business illegally whilst on a tourist visa and was picked up by the police for it so I guess that they didn’t turn a blind eye to it. All the other stuff like insulting the nurse who was trying to help him was irrelevant but not likely to put the authorities into a tolerant mood towards him. Isn’t there a website called the Darwin Awards for people like him.

12 hours ago, webfact said:

Mr. Thomas was informed that if he continues posting potentially harmful material about Thailand online, he could face prosecution under Thai law.

I wonder if he said something about the family that we don’t talk about? Now that would be silly

Does anyone have any recent experience in obtaining a non O visa in Penang based on marriage? In particular can you confirm that copies of Malaysia entry stamp is required? If so is there anywhere near Consulate where you can get copies done? Any other relevant information that is not stated on the Consulate website?TIA

15 hours ago, Upnotover said:

This one?  Worldwide should be good enough for Malaysia.

Thanks. Mine is actually slightly different but I found reference to one like mine that confirms the same information. My concern arose after I read a post elsewhere where someone said that their SCB ATM card didn’t work in Malaysia so I thought I would check rather than get caught out. I can always carry cash of course or change money at the airport.

Does anyone have any experience using SCB Mastercard ATM/Debit card in ATMs in Malaysia? I have checked their website and it only seems to mention using Visa cards

Has any members had recent experience in obtaining a non O marriage visa at Penang? In particular did they ask for any document copies that are not listed on their website? Do you need a copy of your Malaysia entry stamp ( difficult if true because I will arrive late night the day before I submit my application). TIA.

It always saddens me when a story like this is published on TV and all that most posters can do is make smart Alec comments about how bad safety is on Thai roads and how they could easily solve the problem. If it is so easy to solve then how come there are still 40,000 road deaths a year in the USA despite strict policing and legislation.personally all I want to do is offer my condolences to the families of the bereaved and count my self lucky that I left work early yesterday so I was on the motorway earlier than the incident in the post.

Why is there no quoted source for this news story?

 

 

Bangkok was ranked the world's most visited city with nearly 16 million people travelling to the Thai capital, ahead of London and Paris

 

 

sorry but London had 28 millions visitors and Paris 26 millions ..... I wonder where they got their information .

They may have got it from Forbes http://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewbender/2013/06/07/bangkok-tops-the-worlds-10-most-visited-cities/

 

 

Ha Ha. The source data quoted in Forbes comes from MasterCard and is quoted by numerous news providers. I couldn't find mention of the 28 million mentioned in laurentbkk's post anywhere on the net. Even London's own advertising agency only claims 16 million. It seems that the OP is correct (or at least verifiable) unlike certain TV poster's claims:-)

Bangkok was ranked the world's most visited city with nearly 16 million people travelling to the Thai capital, ahead of London and Paris

 

 

sorry but London had 28 millions visitors and Paris 26 millions ..... I wonder where they got their information .

They may have got it from Forbes http://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewbender/2013/06/07/bangkok-tops-the-worlds-10-most-visited-cities/

It all seems pretty reasonable to me. All the farangs who posted complaints should go and protest about the severity of punishments for visa over stayers in their home countries

coming 55 out of 60 is no news. It is normal for a country that wasn't colonised. The interesting news is that Thailand ranked 10 out of 60 for rate of improvement in English. Now that is surprising and suggests that the education system here is doing something right . Unfortunately none of the posters read the report and jumped o with the negative posts hased on thr news summary. Not clever guys.i say well done Thailand and poor old S. Korea who poured huge sums into English learning only to get worse at it

The Thai government wants to hire 50,000 foreigners to do work the Thais don't want or don't know how to do. Does this mean that the government does not think Thais are capable or they just want a free lunch. It sounds like a complicated solution to a simple problem. The correct attitude would be “get off the mobile, get out of debt, and go to work.” This is directed to the youth.

The unemployment rate among Thai citizens is less than 01% with many having two jobs to make ends meet. It's one of the reasons that 'speed' pills are so popular in this country. With all the flood prevention schemes, 2.2 - 2.5 trillion Baht infrastructure schemes, etc., Thailand needs a lot more workers than are currently available.

Sorry, but I have to disagree. There are thousands, if not millions, of workers semi-employed growing rice under government subsidy, but happy to do so because of their lifestyle. Stop the subsidy, make small-holding rice farming uneconomic (ie face reality) and they will be forced to seek employment elsewhere. But don't expect them to vote for you when the real world bites their arse.

I think it would be good if posters on TV start including a few more verifiable facts in their posts. When you make a statement disagreeing with another poster ( and where does his figure of lessthan 1% unemployment come from?) claiming that "there are thousands if not millions of workers semi employed ...." it just tells me that you can't estimate the number of such workers within a factor of thousands and consequently you are really not in a position to disagree with his point. I am not trying to have a go at you as this forum is full of factless posts containing highly opinionated statements about various topics and I think it would improve the quality of the debates if more people at least attempted to support their opinions with a few facts:-)