KunMatt

So to answer your OP, what did you put as the issuing authority for your previous C - Visit visa? British Embassy, High Commission, Consulate?

You 'don't buy anything about any pings or Immarsat' because it was a clever English firm with brilliant staff that sussed it out or you don't understand the technology behind it?

Chaps, the thing when straight down and is lying on the bottom of the ocean. There would likely be no debris if it went straight in. The wings on these jets with head-on forces are super strong -- anyone remember the Ethiopian airliner that was highjacked, ran out of fuel and put down nearshore? The left wing dipped first, caught a reef and cartwheeled the entire aircraft as opposed to tearing off.

With this 'accident' the motors would have been torn off but they too would sink without trace. Windows would have imploded equalizing pressure, but not much gets through them. And bearing in mind that remote spot is massive and it was a while before anyone started looking down there.

I am always very anti-conspiracy theorists but you have to admit that there are a lot of strange things about this whole event, and not just the usual ambiguities and questions based on the slow release of info from governments or the release of wrong info from news outlets that are trying to get the story first, I mean things like the passengers phones still ringing or being logged into IM services for a day or more after the plane went missing. The videos of relatives calling the phones and showing the passengers online were released on various media sites before the conspiracy claims even started.

How did the plane fly for 8 hours in the opposite direction of it's destination before crashing into the ocean off of Australia when it was headed for China?? How and why were all of the tracking beacons turned off?

I think like most people, until I can believe some definite proof about what happened then I'm going to keep an open mind about this because the official explanation of events does not seem to make sense.

And the Ethiopian 961 flight was ditched into the sea during an attempted landing. It did not fall out of the sky into the ocean from 30,000ft after running out of fuel.

Fuel ran out a short distance from the airport at Grande Comore, and the crew attempted a ditching in the sea. Hijackers attacked the pilots physically as they attempted to land in the water, resulting in a catastrophic ditching that killed 125 of the 175 people on board.

But then we don't know if MH370 did fall out of the sky from 30,000ft, or even which hemisphere it was in, or even if it did crash for sure. The truth is, as readers, we pretty much know about as much of the fate of this aircraft as we did as the first new report that plane was first reported as missing and presumed crashed into the ocean.

Come now be honest

Farmer were happy to take the crazy price....why not...I would if offered.

But it was not sustainable. Who did not know that? Look at the result.

Yet the farmers got use to the higher price & thought it would last forever.

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Are you speaking from personal experience or just from what you read on the news on this forum?

For the first year of the scheme the farmers MAY have got a slight increase in the sale price for their rice but most of the promised 30% increase on market price was sucked up by the millers and at very best the farmers MAY have got 11k or 12k per tonne when the PTP PROMISED them 15k per tonne. The 2nd year Yingluck stopped subsidising the farmers for their irrigation which used to be 2k baht per rai and then the price of rice tumbled, so now you have to deduct another 2k baht from the price of rice which wasn't a factor before. This year the farmers are getting about 6k per tonne at the end. If you really think that the farmers had any time to "get used to the higher price" then I think you are mistaken about what you are talking about.

Last year was the first time ever that my partner's family ever made a loss on their rice. It actually cost them 5k baht last year for them all to work in the fields all year to make rice. Yes they have rice to eat but they could've just bought the rice they needed for probably 5k baht too and saved all the hard graft. They are expecting this year to cost them the same.

Unless something drastic happens then this will continue.

So here's the update for everyone that said that the complaints hotline will do nothing and so on.

Now bearing in mind that this taxi driver not only refused to do his job but also wanted 5 times the normal fare, was rude and almost drove over me while I was holding my child leaning into his taxi with the back door still open. I know that the outcome of this is going to generate a lot of hate because, well this is the General Forum and haters love to hate and the same people would hate on me equally if I said I didn't complain, so here we go.

I just got a text back from 1584 saying that the driver lost his license. He'll have to go to the office/police to get it back.

Here's the text "ได้ระงับการดำเนินการด้านทะเบียนของรถหมายเลขทะเบียน[taxi number]ที่ท่านร้องเรียนไว้แล้วและได้ติดตามผู้ขับรถมาสอบสวน"

So the 1584 hotline line does take complaints seriously, just wield this power carefully as I just made one call and that was all it took!

Since this incident I've been using GrabTaxi which has saved me a lot of problems. The taxis are always clean and 9/10 of them have a seatbelt in the rearseats that you can actually use. The only thing is they usually call me to confirm where I am and I have to explain in Thai my location to them, so bear that in mind.

OK, so let the tirade of pathetic hateful comments commence General Forum people...

1: Limited reading ability...

2: Trying to Ridicule Poster...

3: Think this Site is a Joke and Unsuccessfully trying to be funny...

With that answer you posted above... I am ashamed to admitt "I did, take the time to read YOUR comment!

No, none of the above. I answered his question but then he wanted to argue the toss about the wording of the OP to try and make another point, and tbh I cannot be bothered to get into it with him cuz it will never end.

I never said what I believe about this whole ordeal and it doesn't matter really. None of us know what happened so everything that is said is a guess based on limited and incorrect information released by the various governments and news outlets. I'm not going to argue somebody about somebody else's guesses.

And if that was over the Indian Ocean, there would be debris from South Africa to Western Australia, and India to the South Pole. There has still been no wreckage recovered, so for my money, it's still likely that it was flown onto the water, deadstick because satellite pings indicated it suffered fuel exhaustion abeam Geraldton in Western Australia, so was still in the air at that time, and very little breakup occurred on contact with the water.

Explain this: satellite pings indicated it suffered fuel exhaustion

I though this was only a communication satellite???? And in reference to this fact was all it could receive was the pings..... nothing more! All reference to distance and speed was the human factor trying to use formulas to figure out Polarity... Speed... and position...

Plane had no way of sending any message other then the "Pings.... wanting to connect to Rolls Royce, which there was no connection as Maylasia had chosen to not subscribe.... None of this has anything in reference to fuel or anything else. Signal was there but program was unable to transmit as it was not opened for communication transferals.

Errrr obviously because from the position calculated from the ping data they were able to see that the plane was in the middle of the ocean at the end of it's fuel usage time and had no way of getting to land with the time it had remaining, so they concluded it ran out of fuel.

Ok...

So Humans deducted it ran out of fuel, correct??? NOT what you posted "satellite pings indicated it suffered fuel exhaustion"

Actually satellite picked up "PINGS" but noone knows 100% sure where they were from... Correct??

So as much if my son went to school and left his lunch box on kitchen table.... Momma would deduct he had no lunch... "Not thinking maybe his girlfriend treated him to Micky D's....

As you can see there are possible other senarios... Doesn't mean anyone is Bashing ANYONE!! But as a proven fact, time and time again Humans are prone to make mistakes, take wild guesses...ok?

Since there is delays other senarios should be studied.... Until anything is proven beyound any Doubt... it has to be concidered (Maybe not Logical...but probabal!

And for those of you reading... I hope beyound any Doubt if it went down, it is in the Indian Ocean... and NO WHERE ELSE!! (Before you go thru your stupid Bashing again!)

We may deeply want to oppose any other view, but until proven wrong... unfortunately they have to be on the table.

TL: DR

Could not be bothered to read your post past your first paragraph, or to read the rest of the thread to find out who you are trying to argue with.

Is insinuation of US involvement based on no evidence and emotional attachment to anti US feeling OK with you?

The Nation's now running a story headlined "Book suggests missing Malaysian airliner accidentally shot down".

The other paper is now running the same story.

And if that was over the Indian Ocean, there would be debris from South Africa to Western Australia, and India to the South Pole. There has still been no wreckage recovered, so for my money, it's still likely that it was flown onto the water, deadstick because satellite pings indicated it suffered fuel exhaustion abeam Geraldton in Western Australia, so was still in the air at that time, and very little breakup occurred on contact with the water.

Explain this: satellite pings indicated it suffered fuel exhaustion

I though this was only a communication satellite???? And in reference to this fact was all it could receive was the pings..... nothing more! All reference to distance and speed was the human factor trying to use formulas to figure out Polarity... Speed... and position...

Plane had no way of sending any message other then the "Pings.... wanting to connect to Rolls Royce, which there was no connection as Maylasia had chosen to not subscribe.... None of this has anything in reference to fuel or anything else. Signal was there but program was unable to transmit as it was not opened for communication transferals.

Errrr obviously because from the position calculated from the ping data they were able to see that the plane was in the middle of the ocean at the end of it's fuel usage time and had no way of getting to land with the time it had remaining, so they concluded it ran out of fuel.

Ok i just got back from VFS Bangkok. My application was accepted by VFS. I will now post my experience to see if it helps other people needing to make a first passport for their half Thai-half British child. I am married to my Thai wife so if you are not married maybe docs are different.

I firstly emailed VFS for an appointment. I gave them 4 possible days and i got the first day i asked for.

Here is the email address [email protected]

When you get the appointment here is where you need to go. It is 100m just down Sukhumvit soi 13 on the right. Go into the main entrance and

the lifts to the 28th floor are behing Tom n Toms coffee shop.

Tip .... do all your photocopying elsewhere as it is 5 times more expensive inside this building. Sukhumvit 13 is right by Nana BTS station.

Trendy Office Building, 28th Floor,

Sukhumvit Road Soi 13, Klongtoey Nua

Wattana, Bangkok, 10110, Thailand

Ok now you got the appointment you had better get your paperwork right.

This is what i needed and it was all accepted.

1. Full colour copies of every page of my British passport. Even the empty pages. All the way from front to back and in colour.

2. My full birth certificate from Uk. This must have your mum and dads names on it . Short version not allowed. They will check original and keep copy.

3. My childs Thai birth certificate and a translation and a photocopy of original.

4. My wifes passport and a photocopy of main page.

5.A signed copy of my wifes id card. I did not take this card as my wife needed it elsewhere.

6.My wifes birth certificate and a photocopy and a translation.

7.Our Tabien Baan housebook and photocopy and translation showing wifey and my child.(this acted as proof of address)

8. 2 photos of my child. Be careful to check the dimensions as there is a set requirement from chin to forehead. Be sure to check. 1 photo

must be certified by a suitable person. I used a friend who is retired civil servant Rules are here .https://www.gov.uk/photos-for-passports

9. Thai marriage certificate and the written part. This is 2 sheets. They need to be copied and translated.

10. I also needed my divorce certificate to prove a previous marraige was over. This also applies if your previous partner died. You need a death certificate. They checked the original and kept a copy.

Obviously you need to complete the application form and payment form.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/overseas-passport-creditdebit-card-payment-authorisation

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/applying-for-a-passport-from-outside-the-uk-application-form

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/overseas-passports-guidance

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/overseas-passport-supporting-documents-group-2

I have highlighted red what you need translated. I used Keyvisa in Pattaya for translation. He charged me 500b per page and it was done sameday. Overall it was 8 pages. The boss there also checked my paperwork so i got some free advice. If you go to Bangkok allow time for your translations.

I went upstairs at the Trendy 20 mins before my time and got a ticket opposite the lifts and entered the big waiting room. It was well organised and i went directly to window 11 where passports were being dealt with. I was out of there by 3pm. The Thai lady who served me was polite and very helpful. She had a checklist and i just handed her each paperwork as she requested it and she filed all the paperwork she needed to keep and gave me back originals. She handed me a receipt and took my phone number and email and told me they would be in touch within a few weeks to collect the passport.

I hope this helps others in my situation.

I submitted different paperwork to you. I'm hoping to get the application back a the end of the month.

I didn't submit our Tabian Baan or my partner's Thai ID card. But I did submit my partner's Thai passport, my child's Thai passport and my child's UK birth registration.

Also, I only submitted a colour photocopy of the main page of my passport, and the rest of it in Black and White, simply because I couldn't find a copyshop anywhere with a colour photocopier, they could only scan and colour print which would've taken ages and cost a lot with my extra large 48 page passport.

Let's see what happens with my application. I'll update here...

Everyone always complains about people "abusing the system" by doing border runs but nobody ever mentions the exploit of this loophole to get 7 days to leave the country for a rejected application. I wonder why?

And I expect no "clampdown" on this "abuse of the system" because it nets immigration an easy 1900 baht for nothing for every rejected application.

Yes I must say I was surprised to read about this. I am affected by this, I am 39 yrs old, working all around the world, living in Thailand on visa-on-arrival for 11 yrs. I am a fly-in, fly-out global employee, and there are many of me here in Phuket. I am not married. So realistically I am not entitled to any form of non-immigrant visa, although I was able to obtain a non-O in the past when Thai Consulates were looser.

I have a lot to lose from this, if it continues to be enforced. I have a condo here, a car, 2 golfclub memberships. I have never worked here (I earn damn good money abroad), have no intention of ever working here, and I have to say I am concerned. My only hope is that this is just another short-lived weed-out of the teachers, tourguides and other oxygen thieves (timeshare sales) and in a few weeks we are back to business as usual.

You could apply for a 1 year multi-entry visa rather than existing on visa exemptions. Surely you could get a non-O for visiting friends who are here legally - as in local Thais and legal ex-pats.

I think you are using 5 year old data on how to get a Non-Imm O visa. This year the rules are that you need to be married and have a certain amount to of money sitting in a Thai bank account.

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They are a total nightmare! Maybe better to go home and do the same day application in the uk!

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That's my backup plan. If the passport gets rejected on a technicality then I will get my child a UK visa for the holiday we are planning to the UK this summer and make her passport in the UK while we are there.

Has anyone else done this recently?

I did. I submitted my child's application weeks ago and I have little confidence to be honest.

I had walked in to check all paperwork, like I posted here before, and they gave me an appointment for 10 days later. When I went to the appointment there was no appointment and the desk staff told me I had to book an appointment online. In the end they got someone to do the application but I'm guessing she has never done it before because she was asking me what I needed to submit and if it was OK, and so on.

I will find out at the end of the month if everything was accepted. I submitted copies of my passport, my child's Thai passport, my partners Thai passport, my UK birth Certificate, my partners Thai birth certificate and translation, my child Thai birth certificate and translation and my child's UK registration certificate.

Crossing fingers is all I can do right now. The last time we did it for my first child was so much easier for every aspect.

Yeah I'm looking forward to GTA5 on PS4 as I was far too busy with other games to get it for the PS3 so I skipped it expecting it to release on PS4, same with The Last of Us and I can't wait to play that for the first time when it releases next month.

Hopefully GTA5 will get anoumced soon too.

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I just emailed for an appointment for next week. This is the reply i got.

I am amazed that an official British agency can give information like this. It appears a 5 year old child wrote it!!

Rule Brittania no more i am afraid!

plus to add insult to injury it is written in far cking American!!

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Importants for HMPO[/size]

*The application what apply in Bangkok, Thailand will process and be considered by HMPO in the UK at least 4 weeks up to 6 months approximately[/size]

*Please provide your passport and whole pages color copies with your signature on every pages, the other document can be in black-white.[/size]

*Thailand country only accept the payment by Credit/Debit card, require to print out and complete the payment form. Submit at the same time with document at HMOP Bangkok Center.[/size]

*The applicant need to apply in person in Bangkok, Thailand only[/size]

*No posting service but you can allow someone to collect it with your authority latter, please inform it on the day you apply.[/size]

*All documents which are not in English need to be translated into English with the official stamp[/size]

*The children no need to attend, the parent can apply on behalf of him/her[/size]

That's pathetic isn't it? How hard is it really to get a British person to one time proof read the reply email you send to every applicant?

Having said that, I didn't see any British person working at the VFS, or at the British Embassy!

Install GrabTaxi for Android or iPhone and the problem is solved. You might have to wait for a while but those Taxi drivers are great. I have tried them last week from Asoke to Don Muang Airport for 229 Baht plus I got a 25 Baht discount. Grab Taxi is expanding rapidly in Thailand and they give the drivers a 70 Baht bonus per airport trip.

So do you get better quality taxis when using GrabTaxi? What I'm really interested in is getting a taxi with seatbelts in the rear seats that I can actually use. I guess that they need to have GPS and a radio to work with the app so I'm hoping this points towards a newer and better maintained car.

My driver spoke fluent English and the taxi from the inside was ok. GrabTaxi doesn't allow run down cabs to join their programme.

That's what I was hoping. So seat belts in the back that you could use?

Install GrabTaxi for Android or iPhone and the problem is solved. You might have to wait for a while but those Taxi drivers are great. I have tried them last week from Asoke to Don Muang Airport for 229 Baht plus I got a 25 Baht discount. Grab Taxi is expanding rapidly in Thailand and they give the drivers a 70 Baht bonus per airport trip.

So do you get better quality taxis when using GrabTaxi? What I'm really interested in is getting a taxi with seatbelts in the rear seats that I can actually use. I guess that they need to have GPS and a radio to work with the app so I'm hoping this points towards a newer and better maintained car.

I am so sick of this. It's always the same whingers. Why don't you offer them b100± ?

Can anyone think of a business where owner must do something wholly against their will that ends up costing time, money or both?

Taxi drivers make a pittance, be more supportive.

Whining because they wont take your fat drunk ass down a few sois on Sukhumvhit in stand still traffic is just not good form.

Yeah, they won't take you from a transport center? That is a problem. Other than that, up to him!

Offer double meter or + 100 or stop crying.

If that post was aimed at me then nothing of what you said is true or actually happened and you just come off as a huge whinger making up parts of the story to complain and rant about.

The taxi driver that I reported wanted 5 times the regular fare, when I asked him to use the meter he just immediately drove off with me still leaning into the back of the cab and nearly drove over me while I was standing there with the door open. It was 10.30am so no traffic along the 15/20 minute route, obviously I wasn't drunk at that time in the morning coming from an appointment at the VFS, and the route was mainly highway going to a busy district where he would most likely pick up another regular fare.

If you think that his behaviour is perfectly acceptable and should be the way that taxis operate here then I more than disagree with you.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/713266-dlt-over-10000-complaints-against-thai-cab-drivers-received-in-past-5-months/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/bkktaxireport

Android app: http://bkktaxi.tsadvanced.com/blog/

Phone : 1584

Email : [email protected]

web-site: http://apps.dlt.go.th/1584complain/frmComplainTuck-User.php?TuckType=88

FWIW, I've been using GrabTaxi recently with excellent results. There is a 25 baht surcharge.

http://grabtaxi.com/bangkok-thailand/

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grabtaxi.passenger

So do you get better quality taxis when using GrabTaxi? What I'm really interested in is getting a taxi with seatbelts in the rear seats that I can actually use. I guess that they need to have GPS and a radio to work with the app so I'm hoping this points towards a newer and better maintained car.

Or can any old usualvtaxi get the GrabTaxi radio/receiver?

I feel sometimes on TV that I live in a different Bkk to so many posters. I am happy that this thread was created but very disappointed by the amount of negativity towards the thousands of hard working Thais who in my opinion provide such an excellent service. Of course a more expensive and better service for the likes of the OP would be a good addition but primarily Bkk taxis are for Bkk people ! Do the maths ... 35 baht flag, heavy traffic etc etc..I take an average of 4 taxis a day in the Sukhumvit area and a few every month to the airports. I rarely get turned down and only negotiate after about 3am outside the clubs , soi 11, RCA, etc then it's usual for everyone including Thais. I also go to some pretty obscure parts of Bkk sometimes.. Samat Prakan, Bang Na, Yanhee hospital area.. Same story..great service for the price. Done this for the last 5 years. Do wd live in the same Bkk KunMatt?

Maybe the clue to the problem lies with the OP..I noticed Kun Matt clicked 'like to the sad poster who wrote..

.."Totally agree and wish that UBER will kill the business of all these low so retarded farmers..."

Maybe an attitude adjustment rather than an App would help... As I said earlier the Bkk taxi system works great for most of us and no system is perfect...

OK, so this is exactly what I said would happen in the OP, somebody would come and blame me for a taxi driver not wanting to drive me home in a taxi.

Exactly which part of my end of this contract of carriage am I doing wrong?? I need a taxi, I stop a taxi, I tell the taxi driver politely in Thai where I want to go, the taxi refuses my fare and almost drives over me as I am leaning in to explain where I want to go.

Please enlighten me what I can do to correct all of my mistakes.

So after all that RANT. Get over your little man syndrome. Get on with your life OR buy a car, easy way to get around!!!! ????

Hello quintessential General Forum everyman. Welcome to the happy hour. I've been expecting you.

Poor fella trying to scrape a living at 80p flag and average fare £ 2

And you want to do him more with a fine of 500/1000.

Beggars belief .

Good thing about BKK there's loads of taxis.

Ask max 4 .

And 1 will go .

Asking the 10+ in ain't too sure.

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And here comes the typical General Forum level of response. I was going to comment that it's gone so well until now, but it's now it drunken times so I expected more of these brainless replies to come...

Brainless ??

I thought I would post from behind the wheel of a cab .

Rather than most who think we are their hired slaves.

Been driving a black cab in the smoke for nearly 20 years.

That's how I can live my life the way I want to.

In London I will only refuse if

Really. Really drunk.

Happy drunks most welcome.

Or I feel I will have a aggro at the end.

Failing that all are welcome inside.

If for example someone wants the flyers and I know the M4 Is solid I would explain to them

Better get the Heathrow express. Rather than sit in traffic. Punters are happy.

Yes we do have dodgy black cabs .

It's not an easy job at the best of times.

Has for the BRAINLESS comment. No probs been called worse.

However my brain (hippocampus) is bigger than yours.

Be lucky

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And this post has what to do with the thread or your last reply?? (apart from appearing that you really hate your taxi driver job in the UK).

Price fixing leads to shortages if, as in this case, the price is fixed too low. A free market where prices are set by negotiation between buyers and sellers is almost always a better answer.

I fully support the right of these taxi drivers to charge market rate for their services - just as I do my own. If you don't like the price you are offered, ask another driver or take the bus. It's called commerce people!

As I already said in this thread, that is fine, charge me more but give me a clean serviced taxi with full seat belts and a fully qualified driver.

But usually what I get is a stinking battered taxi with a hungover/drunk taxi driver who speeds wrecklessly and has no seat belts in the back of the car. Why should I pay full price for this level of service??