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  1. According to your link you have to have Permanent Residence to do that - a non-starter for most foreigners living here.
  2. True. But you're ignoring the fact that the fund fees are typically for an institutional class, so are less than a normal retail investor would pay. Plus you don't have FX charges and inconvenience to worry about if your wealth is in THB (as the OP's is). FIFs are not perfect, but then they're not disastrous, either. For some people they're the right solution.
  3. The banks' asset management companies typically only offer their own mutual funds. If you use a full service broker you have access to the funds of around 19 different asset management companies in Thailand, including their FIFs. Offshore brokers are pretty terrible for funds. Interactive Brokers has offshore funds, but I'm not eligible to purchase any of them. (I'm not American.) Swissquote has a fairly wide range, around 20,000 funds, but the fees are high and the individual funds are not particularly attractive, and few are GBP-denominated (my preferred currency). Saxo Singapore offers only around 500 funds.
  4. I suspect there would be issues funding an account and making withdrawals. They don't accept THB.
  5. One doesn't buy stocks through a bank - one does it through a stockbroker, so no. However, there are several Thai stockbrokers that support international trading. Perhaps the most foreigner-friendly is Phillips POEMS. It does cover NASDAQ. https://www.poems.in.th/service_detail.aspx?id=378&Markets We Offer Don't expect it to be anything like as cheap as you can get in the US.
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  7. Paying 0.35% for platform fees in the UK is a mug's game. Interactive Investor charges a flat GBP 200/year for a general trading account. If you're Thailand resident, IBKR will open your account in the US, not Luxembourg. If you're not American, buying mutual funds on IBKR is a non-starter. Very limited range available, and requiring a lot of additional paperwork. Tax on dividends is generally not reclaimable - it's implemented as a withholding tax. You won't get back the 30% (or 15%, depending on tax agreements) withheld by Uncle Sam.
  8. Thank you for your really helpful and informative reply. However, in future, if you've got nothing to add, please stop wasting electrons - their supply, after all, is finite, unlike the supply of human stupidity.
  9. What does that actually mean? Each trade has two sides. Will the buyer and seller both pay 0.1%? Will each pay 0.05%? Or will one side pay 0.1% and the other nothing? (With the London Stock Exchange it's only the seller that pays 0.5% tax on each trade. 0.5% makes Thailand's 0.1% seem reasonable.) Anyway, clear as mud.
  10. The priority lane is about 90 metres from the entrance to one of the Immigration halls. The signage now clearly states it's available to Business Class and First Class passengers. When I used it, there were 5 desk open, each with a queue of about 20 people. Some of the queues stalled with individuals who had problems problems. Not an ideal situation. I possibly would have been better off not using the priority lane, but I still got through quite some time before my luggage arrived at the belt.
  11. Can business class arrivals still bypass the horrendous immigration queues on arrival? I know airlines stopped handing out priority passes years ago, but is there currently any equivalent? FWIW I'll be arriving next week on Emirates. (I'm not over 70, and don't want to pay anything.)
  12. No need. I already have a Masters degree in linguistics. However, I have a question for you: why do you assume that the language group originated in Bengal, when its members are used in Bihar, Nepal, Assam, Arunchal Pradesh, Nagaland, Bangladesh as well as Bengal and elsewhere? And wherever the language originated, it's perfectly possible for one language to displace others. For example, the peoples of South America didn't originally speak Spanish or Portuguese. The fact that the Rohingya speak a language related to Bengali says nothing about where they're from.
  13. There is a large group of languages which are closely related, including Assamese, Bengali, Bishnupriya, Manipuri, Chakma, Chittagonian, Hajong, Rangpuri, Kamtapuri, Rajbongshi, Noakhalian, Rohingya, Surjapuri, Sylheti, Tanchangya - all spoken in that part of the world. To assert that the Rohingya are Bengali just because they speak a language in the same family is ridiculous. It's as ridiculous as suggesting that Spaniards are really Italian because their languages are similar, or that the English are really German because their language evolved from North Sea Germanic (Ingvaeonic).
  14. That's Tatmadaw propaganda and false. They originate from the Arakan region in what is now part of Burma, but historically was independent. See, for example, https://www.sociostudies.org/journal/articles/2759620/
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