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      Reasons of change

      Your logic is a bit odd, bro. What you are talking about is like feeding stray dogs that expect everyone to give them roast beef sandwiches without doing anything. I downloaded Grab one day after my now wife and I asked 10 taxis to take us home (30 minute trip) and use the meter. Now I only use Grab or Bolt. If a taxi stops and asks me where I am going, I ignore them. If they are persistent, I tell them to F off. It's funny because it's true! I totally agree. How does that work?
      keysersoze276 in Pattaya
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      Reasons of change

      Admittedly, I took a regular taxi today. Only because I was standing outside a hopsital on crutches with a broken leg. One of the hospital staff members told the driver where I was going and helped me into the car. Foolishly, I assumed it was legit. two blocks down the road I notices he hadn't turned on the meter. He asked for 500 baht. I refused. He begged and also begged to take the tollway which cost 110 baht and took 12 minutes longer than taking the main roads. They are required by law to use the meter. If most of them are breaking the law and overcharging, why use their service. And why in the h@!! would you tip them? I rarely tip because they rarely use the meter with no questions asked. In those rare circumstances, I let them keep the change or give a small tip. With the driver today the total was 322. NOT 500. As I was transferring the money and he demanded and begged for 400, so I tipped him the exact amount. Regular taxis should be grateful to even have a passenger. Not overcharging and refusing to use the meter or denying people rides. Both actions are illegal and the public has been encouraged to report the drivers.
      keysersoze276 in Pattaya
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      Why Are You Even Here? The Surprising Attitudes of Some Expats in Thailand

      Erm, no!
      JamesPhuket10 in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
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      Reasons of change

      This is exactly why taxis and grab drivers have been in so many very violent brawls. The Grab drivers must do their job according to the price. They get to choose to accept and pick you up or not. You can tip them if you like, but they cant overcharge or demand tips like taxi drivers do almost every time.
      keysersoze276 in Pattaya
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      Why Are You Even Here? The Surprising Attitudes of Some Expats in Thailand

      Oh no, not another one please, no it is not standard for Thai women to be the dominant partner, that job is left up to American women as I saw on the two occasions I worked in the USA. My Thai partner cooks both Thai and Farang food at home and she and I decide ourselves what we each want to eat. Have you not noticed a large number of Western restaurants all around Thailand, they are frequented by Thais mostly as they are well outside of the tourist areas.
      JamesPhuket10 in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
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      Thai Police Bust Multi-Million Baht Sex Toy Smuggling Ring

      did they smuggle it in the country through varioud bodily orifices?
      digbeth in Thailand News
    7. 45

      Reasons of change

      Your logic is a bit odd, bro. What you are talking about is like feeding stray dogs that expect everyone to give them roast beef sandwiches without doing anything. I downloaded Grab one day after my now wife and I asked 10 taxis to take us home (30 minute trip) and use the meter. Now I only use Grab or Bolt. If a taxi stops and asks me where I am going, I ignore them. If they are persistent, I tell them to F off. It's funny because it's true! I totally agree.
      keysersoze276 in Pattaya
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      Reasons of change

      Your logic is a bit odd, bro. What you are talking about is like feeding stray dogs that expect everyone to give them roast beef sandwiches without doing anything. I downloaded Grab one day after my now wife and I asked 10 taxis to take us home (30 minute trip) and use the meter. Now I only use Grab or Bolt. If a taxi stops and asks me where I am going, I ignore them. If they are persistent, I tell them to F off. It's funny because it's true! I totally agree.
      keysersoze276 in Pattaya
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      Thai woman sends husband to prison for raping 13 year old niece

      Her actions in reporting the crime will (hopefully) result in him being sent to jail, so not totally inaccurate.
      shy coconut in Isaan News
    10. 45

      Reasons of change

      Your logic is a bit odd, bro. What you are talking about is like feeding stray dogs that expect everyone to give them roast beef sandwiches without doing anything. I downloaded Grab one day after my now wife and I asked 10 taxis to take us home (30 minute trip) and use the meter. Now I only use Grab or Bolt. If a taxi stops and asks me where I am going, I ignore them. If they are persistent, I tell them to F off.
      keysersoze276 in Pattaya
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      Thai Police Bust Multi-Million Baht Sex Toy Smuggling Ring

      hmmm
      fondue zoo in Thailand News
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      Why Doesnt "Me Too" Apply to Democrats?

      He doesn't deny it happened https://nypost.com/2024/10/11/us-news/doug-emhoff-brushes-off-reports-he-forcefully-struck-ex-girlfriend-as-a-distraction-in-first-public-response-to-allegations/
      Yagoda in Political Soapbox
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      Why Do You Even Drink?

      I'm pretty much done with alcohol and coffee now. Neither of them do much for me anymore.
      shdmn in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
    14. 93

      Why Are You Even Here? The Surprising Attitudes of Some Expats in Thailand

      You are right to a certain extent, the funny thing is according to the majority of Thais we all come from the same country, which is "farangLand", it does not matter if we are Russian, English, American, etc we are all farangs, we all have the same culture, I find it funny so don't take it as I am complaining. Also, the article is a little bit simplistic, there are lots of overlapping cultures in Thailand, the Thais in the south see themselves as completely different culturally to say the people from Isaan and vice versa, they even have completely different dialects and languages and would not understand each other if they were speaking in their local dialects to each other. I laughed once as I knew an Australian in Phuket for a few years and he went to Thai language school a few times a week, after a year he said he had learned a lot of standard Thai but it was not much use with his wife and her friends as they all spoke Laos (Isaan) to each other. Well-off Educated Thais do not mix with the less educated ones unless they are "conchies" (spelling?) working for them, even then, they eat at different tables as is the case when they are on a car trip with a Thai full time driver and they stop to eat. I have seen that firsthand on many occasions. In the late 1980's I was sitting in a very large house in Bangkok, it was owned by the ex-vice-president of Thailand, we were there to invite him to our upcoming marriage ceremony in Bangkok, a "conchie", came into the room with a tray of refreshments for us but saw we were sitting down so she got on her knees, walked on her knees across the large room and presented us with the drinks, I was shocked but the ex-president took it as being normal. Do Thais become very British for example when they live in the UK for decades, do they fit in and learn how to talk straight, become orderly and logical, do they heck like, they take what suits them just as the rest of us do, I have also seen this first-hand many times. So as long as we accept we will never be seen as or be accepted as a Thai, have to continue to get annual visa extensions, and 90-day reporting then all is fine but I do not intend to sit and look through rose-tinted glasses thinking I have been accepted as a local, that will never happen. But as I said I have accepted this as a fact, nowhere in the world is perfect, 99% of life here is great. Leave your wealth, and money in your home country as it is almost guaranteed we will have to go back there when very old, don't do as many do and burn the bridges to the only country which will look after them to some level when that old age point arrives.
      JamesPhuket10 in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
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      How to I get rid of this new left hand sidebar?

      I don't like it and don't want it.
      shdmn in Forum Support Desk

Wanting to open a Brokerage account, suggestions ? Quote

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SurinBeach

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I want to open a Brokerage account simply for the reason of receiving some shares from a company floating in Canada in 2 weeks time ....

I'm a non-Res Brit living in Phuket, so any recommendations ?

Will be in Bangkok Monday if there's options there ?

I do have an HSBC Singapore (basic) account but the brokerage options look like its HK and Sing markets only ...

Thanks in advance ...

Regards,

Minister.....

Ps I'd prefer it wasn't UK based but OK to open there .....if that was the last resort

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I assume when you write SCB you mean Standard Chartered Bank rather than Siam Commercial Bank in this case, given it's very unlikely Thai brokers give access to Canadian stocks.

Stan Chart Singapore won't be your answer. They give access to about a dozen world stock markets. Unfortunately for you, Canada isn't one of them. Also while the Stan Chart equity platform is conveniently linked to your bank accounts, the functionality is rather crude. OK for investing online and where not time critical but not day trading. In addition the back office and support functions aren't that great with dealing with non-standard simple buying and selling. I think they'd struggle getting you set up in 2 weeks for a share transfer in as part of a corporate action rather than a simple buy of shares. Bottom line, for what you're looking for SCB / Stan Chart wouldn't be the answer.

As you're a Brit I'd mention that I also use Hargreaves Lansdown in the UK. They are great for UK centric investments as well as global unit trusts, investment trusts etc. They do offer some access to overseas markets including Canadian stocks. However, this tends to be the ones that are able to be settled thru Crest. Also you suffer an exchange rate hit on buy and sell as they don't offer foreign currency bank accounts. The only two Candaian stocks I own thru them were AOI and NGC as high risk high reward resource sector stocks. HL may be a long shot for you, and they are very competent at back office processing and corporate actions unlike SCB, but you would need a UK address etc to facilitate opening.

You'd be better off with a dedicated stock broker rather than a bank offering stock broking facilities or UK based broker. Names like Interactive Brokers might be worth a look. I believe also the securities companies related to the Singaporean banks (as opposed to banks themselves) all off Canada as a market, i.e Singaporean brokers such as DBS Vickers, OCBC Securities, UOB Kay Hian, when I looked a while back at accessing some high risk high reward Canadian registered stocks.

Cheers

Fletch :)

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Actually a mate referred this company, Central World based.....

www.Fnsyrus.com - ..::: Welcome to Finansia Syrus Securities

Let us know how you get on. There aren't many Thai based brokers that offer global trading, and I didn't realise these guys did until you posted it.

When I followed your link and clicked on global trading it says they do 13 markets around the globe. It also says they are cooperating with OCBC securities which is one of the Singaporean ones I mentioned above that includes Canada in their markets. I'd be interested to know which ones FSS cover? There are some interesting opportunities come up in Canadian stocks from time to time - often speculative tho.

Cheers

Fletch :)

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rak sa_ngop Gold Member

rak sa_ngop

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Thanks alot Fletch, actually I meant Siam Commercial Bank but their brokerage website it's looking pretty SET specific....

I might try the UK route as you suggest

Cheers

SB

If you go the UK route I suggest you establish at the outset if the account is available to non-UK residents. Many (most?) are not.

This assumes that you do not have a UK address. Even if you have a UK address and you can open an account I am not sure if they would ever question why all your trades are being made from an overseas location.

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