-
Posts
4,725 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Events
Forums
Downloads
Quizzes
Gallery
Blogs
Everything posted by Puccini
-
Disabled teenager demands mother to return 400,000 baht compensation
Puccini replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Did it? -
Fertility crisis set to halve Thailand’s population in six decades
Puccini replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Your reference to virile tourists indicates that you are referring to male tourists. However, it is really more women of childbearing age that are needed for an increase in the birth rate, and foreign female tourists would be unlikely to bring about this increase in the Thailand's birth rate. -
Danish travellers declare Thailand “Best Destination Outside Europe”
Puccini replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
The translation of the original text in the Danish news article on which the OP is based would be "professionals from the travel, tourism and aviation industry". It is up to you and me and all other readers to assign our own individual meanings to the term "professional" as used in this context. -
Thailand’s fitness deficit: Running endorsed to get the nation moving
Puccini replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
I wouldn't be so sure, with all that air pollution most of the year. -
Thai-Ghanaian football player condemns racist Thai referee
Puccini replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
More likely, "face" will not allow the referee to apologize. -
Fertility crisis set to halve Thailand’s population in six decades
Puccini replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
The Minister of Public Health obviously spoke in Thai and on https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pptvhd36.com/health/news/4258/amp I found that he used the appropriate Thai word (อัตราการเกิด) which correctly translates as "birth rate", not as "fertility rate". -
Twinings tea. Personally, when I travel to Thailand I do not look for the same food and beverages that I normally consume in my home country (Italy)
-
With "Anyone here", do you mean a) anyone reading this forum; or b) anyone living in the same unspecified country where you live?
-
smart watch to monitor constantly blood pressure and pulse rate
Puccini replied to fvw53's topic in General Topics
I don't think you will find a smart watch with additional functions limited to the measurement of blood pressure and heart rate. Look through the results you get with a web search for smartwatch with measurement of blood pressure and heart rate and check what comes closest to meeting your limited needs needs. -
Hit and run got me, I'm all broken!
Puccini replied to BritManToo's topic in Motorcycles in Thailand
Celebrate the start of your second life. Best wishes for a speedy recovery. -
Interesting. Thank you for your pointer to the link in the link. So, the linked article in the OP of this topic is a rehash of an earlier article on the same website, apparently machine-translated from a an article in Thai language on another website, with "caught the attention of online communities" changed to "sparked a flurry of criticism in Thailand" I am tempted to call this "pseudo-journalism", but it doesn't do any harm (except that it has caused me a lot of confusion about who is who and what is what in this soap opera) Keep it coming!
-
Thais read and pronounce the word as it is written in Thai. They do not read and pronounce any of the various romanisations or phonetic transcriptions of the word. Unless one has some knowledge of other languages, it is perhaps difficult to understand that speakers of different languages use different phonetic transcriptions for the same Thai word. For example, a French speaker hearing the airport's name in Thai would most likely transcribe it as Souvannapoum or Souvanapoum.
-
Courtesy of Google Bard:
-
translate.google.com gives this Thai pronunciation: https://translate.google.com/?sl=en&tl=th&text=Suvarnabhumi&op=translate For me as a speaker of Italian, I would use the phonetic transcription Suvannaphum. An English speaker would probably use Suvannapoom: https://www.airport-technology.com/projects/suvarnabhumi-airport/
-
You may not be aware of this, but when you put your luggage on the conveyor belt at the check-in counter it is weighed and the weight is automatically recorded in a database as part of an estimation of the flight's take-off weight.
-
Yes, that's how it works. In the cases where a bank is withholding tax — like in my case — they obviously have to report the amount of withheld tax to the RD and remit it to them. Sometimes, I wonder what additional information information, eg my name and the amount of interest paid to me, also gets sent to the RD.
-
I was also wondering about that and thank you for this additional information. I have a strong feeling that "INCOME" on your bank statement is UOB's shorthand for "incoming remittance" and that it is not used to mean "income" in the context of tax laws and regulations. The systems of the Thai banks I currently use look quite advanced to me, but I hate the lack of clear and complete information I am given for incoming remittances. A couple of years ago, I got a deposit to my account without any clue to who the sender was. I wrote to the bank to ask for this information and was told that they could not give it to me. Also the message for the beneficiary the sender puts on his payment order to his bank is never transmitted to me.
-
This news article is four years old and hopefully, things have improved since then: 41 percent of vegetables in Thai markets exceed contamination standards Pesticide watchdog Thai-PAN has today (Wednesday) published its most recent survey, which reveals that 41% of all vegetables in Thailand’s fresh markets are contaminated with chemical pesticides to a level that exceeds internationally acceptable standards. 12 types of banned chemicals were also discovered. Full article: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/41-percent-of-vegetables-in-thai-markets-exceed-contamination-standards/