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Yes....got the new bivalent Moderna booster last week at Chiangmai Neurogical Hospital (hours 8AM-noon, Monday thru Friday, walk-in basis). They also offer the Pfizer booster (have no clue if it's the new one) and Astra Seneca (spelling?) booster.
Also.....based on their website....Nakorn Ping hospital is offering the same three boosters.....with the Moderna one described as the new bivalent booster.
Edit: Somebody in that other thread suggested Chiangmai RAM. When I contact RAM about 6 weeks ago, they told me they weren't doing any covid vaccines then. Maybe that's changed.
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Yes, it is a bit confusing. The building between emergency (and 13-floor part) and the street is signed both on the west and street side as "Sriphat Building" and I'm guessing originally that front building was at least part of the private arm known as Sriphat. When I talked to the staff this morning, they said they would call the 13-floor part you refer to as Suan Dawk (yes, the idiom for the hospital complex there due to being near the gate) whereas Sriphat hospital shares the space in that 13-floor building (whether Sriphat shares all 13 floors, I have no idea as I've visited people at Sriphat many, many, times for more than a decade and they have always been on the highest 3-4 floors).
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Off topic but, after a visit today, asked some nurses if the hospital was Sriphat or Suan Dawk. There's answer was it was both as they are "sharing space." Guess that at least partly explains the confusion.
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4 minutes ago, CMBob said:
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4 hours ago, elektrified said:
Sriphat moved more than a year ago - maybe two years now. The Sriphat building is still there of course but "Sriphat" is now on Sirimongkalajarn.
I've been regularly visiting a friend on floor 11 of the old Sriphat and at least he thinks he is in Sriphat Hospital. I believe the photo above is of the outpatient department/building. And, of course, there's a new imaging center on Sirimangkalajarn (by Salad Concept), a new optical center south of Suthep Road, etc.
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1 hour ago, connda said:
To be honest, go to the ER in Maharaj and use the Thai government hospital facilities.
Out of curiosity, does Maharaj actually have a separate emergency (trauma) center? To my knowledge, there's only one in that complex and it's straight ahead as you drive in there....and actually closer to the Sripat building. I have no clue what entity owns or manages it.
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For the benefit of the crews crammed into those 75-year-old tanks, I hope they come with a very good reverse gear.
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7 hours ago, CartagenaWarlock said:
To preserve you "Permission to Stay" date you need a re-netry permit but why bother?
Actually, I don't believe a re-entry permit will preserve in any manner a 30-day exempt stamp. The 30-day exempt stamp will expire when OP leaves the country and OP will get a new 30-day stamp upon re-entry into the country (presuming he doesn't have some unusual history in Thailand). That's all that's needed for the OP's stated plans. And it costs nothing.
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Condolences to UbonJoe's family and friends.
The comments in this thread are a true testament of his knowledge about Thai visas and his patient help to a whole lot of people.
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The banks don't inform Immigration of anything.
Given you are leaving permanently, I'm wondering why your concern isn't taking the funds with you. If it was me, I'd transfer out the funds ASAP as you may very well be unable to do so from your home country.
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4 hours ago, chris.m.s said:
Thanks for the information, i asked because i heard you still have to show you have 800,000bht in the bank, but from your reply you don't is the correct.
Amount you do or don't have in a Thai bank has nothing to do with the 90-day address reporting; however, if what you're talking about is that Immigration told you to come back 3 months after your extension to prove you kept 800k (or whatever amount) in a bank, that's a totally different thing (and most people advise to ignore those requests to return to show you've maintained the proper amount).
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Don't really know but would suggest stopping in one of the furniture shops at Baan Tawai and I'm sure they can either do it or advise you who to talk to at Baan Tawai. Had a large coffee table custom made there a decade ago so I'm sure they can take care of refinishing your desk. If you or somebody with you speaks Thai, all the better. Good luck.
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You clearly have the right to resign as a director of a company and do so (1) precisely as provided for in the corporation's constitution/bylaws and (2) in a manner you can easily prove you did it (i.e., saying something over the phone doesn't cut it).
But I know of no method you can simply "resign" your shareholder status other than by lawfully transferring those shares to another person or entity who/which accepts the shares.
Whether doing either or both actions causes a problem for the corporation would be dependent upon the rules of the given corporation or the applicable jurisdiction (if you're talking about a Thai corporation, only way to be sure is to check with a Thai lawyer).
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8 hours ago, buick said:
the TM30 exercise is an odd one. i'm at a hotel outside bkk (but in thailand) for a few days every month. my apartment manager has no idea when i return from these trips so does not do a new TM30. but whatever she prints off for me before i go to CW each year seems to do the job.
I'm on the usual annual extension based on retirement here in Chiangmai and have had no problem doing the online TM47 (90-day) reports until last week, same being rejected because I stayed in a hotel in Hua Hin a couple weeks ago which filed the usual TM30 for me. So, I had to do the 90-day report in person (no issue, took 5 minutes) and then separately had to go in to "update" my TM30 address (and that only required for me to show them my passport which had the old TM30 Receipt of Notification with my long-time address on the form). As has been noted, the TM30 rules were changed 2-3 years back and supposedly one doesn't have to do a new TM30 or "update" if one returns to the same TM30 registered address. Regardless of the so-called rules (which appear to vary by office and officer at times), I'm told the online TM47 reports are all handled somewhere in Bangkok and that at least occasionally other people are having the same problem I've had. And it doesn't always happen that way (I stayed in the same Hua Hin hotel early last year too and had no problem in continuing with the online TM47 reports). And apparently the problem never happens when one leaves and re-enters the country (I've been to Vietnam 3 times for short trips since January of 2022 and those hotels thankfully don't file TM30s in Thailand that would gum up the works).
(The only reason I did the TM30 "update" was so I could merrily continue to file online TM47 reports)
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Having never heard of the reason they initially gave you (that you were not located in the UK), one wonders why an embassy clerk reached that conclusion. Perhaps a simple error or computer glitch on their part or, for some reason unknown to you, they saw something leading them to believe you were not in the UK. As to the latter possibility, only thing I can think of that might cause that thinking is that you were using a VPN which would indicate your online application was sourced in another country.
In any event, hopefully there's no issue in you doing a border bounce in some fashion and activating your now-granted Tourist Visa.
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17 hours ago, chalawaan said:
.....Your second best option is to depart internationally on one passport and return on the other if you can get a day return trip to anywhere that is cheap enough...
Not very likely OP can use a cancelled/punched passport for any purpose (other than to show visa/permit status and/or to transfer stamp(s) to new passport).
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17 minutes ago, biervoormij said:
I don't think the tourist tax is damaging Thailand's reputation abroad. I would be surprised if most tourist have even heard about this new tax. If they are coming to Thailand and don't care about the dual pricing, the Taxi mafia and the air quality an additional 300 baht added to an already expensive airline ticket is just a drop in the bucket.
Agree except I believe a fair number of international tourists are becoming aware of the air quality.
But, as concerns the so-called "tourist tax", most tourists wouldn't even be aware of it (given the airlines, when the tax is implemented, won't disclose the nature of the extra 300 baht charge).
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One option might be Kantary Hills....they have a salad & antipasto buffet on Wednesday evenings and a carvery buffet on Fridays. You can check it out on their website for times and prices.
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18 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:I found the topic interesting, certainly contained information that I was unaware of and have learnt from.
While I'll have to admit the thread contained some interesting info about rabies treatment, overall I found the thread rather weird. Why?
(1) A guy sitting on a moat bench at night (which evokes certain questions as to why) and getting bit by a rat.
(2) Then gets a bit huffy because a few found the whole deal a bit weird/funny.
(3) And nobody as yet has expressed any concern about the rat.....555555.
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Repeating notions posted above and also repeating a fair number of often-heard comments from US expats here in Chiangmai, it would be nice if the Consulate employees would actually earn their nice US government salaries and actually provide services that would actually be helpful to US expats. Let's see, you quit doing passport renewals for the most part, quit doing residence certificates (which expats needed for obtaining a vehicle, etc.), you quit doing income affidavits (which made it more difficult for extensions based upon the 65k a month), and now you're even quitting providing the form letters to assist transfer of Thai stamps into a new passport.
And you're spending mega-taxpayer dollars to build a mega-building out next to Index mall. Given we US expats pay US income taxes which help fund you're operations and palace-building here, how about actually asking the US expats what services they would prefer and, then (I'm not holding my breath), actually provide them.
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12 hours ago, lungbing said:
I did my passport change just two days ago. The only thing that caught me out was I need a copy of every page of the old passport. Straightforward and no fee. Ten years ago 200 baht was asked for.
Had stamps transferred to a new passport 3 months ago here in Chiangmai. Besides a copy of the new passport photo page and a filled-out "Transfer Stamp to New Passport Form", they also wanted a copy of every page of the old passport (in my case, every page including stamps from other countries). Was quick and easy and there was no fee.
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13 hours ago, nigelforbes said:
I got mine in Chiang Mai. I rate the Thai Revenue as the easiest and most professional of all the government agencies, they're super helpful, no hassles, give accurate info plus they're friendly.
I also got mine in Chiangmai about a decade ago, a lady at the revenue office providing same. I do recall that, besides a copy of a couple pages of the passport, she wanted a residence certificate and that she did accept a copy of one I had although it was a few months old. I obtained the tax ID number solely for the purpose of filing a Thai tax return to retrieve the 15% of bank interest withheld.
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Rather obvious that the "many years" hasn't added up to a fair amount of awareness of the rules.
And, given he's on annual extensions based on retirement, the usual stamp (at least as granted in Chiangmai) reads in part: "TO KEEP YOUR STAY PERMIT RE-ENTRY PERMIT MUST BE MADE BEFORE LEAVING THAILAND."
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Went once to the Blind School (near Suthep gate) as they offered massage and was turned over to about a 65 year old blind woman who grabbed me by the shirt sleeve and dragged me into a two-story teak building. Once inside, she flipped the light switch at the bottom of some stairs and no light came on (which, of course, was unknown to her). She dragged me up the stairs.....it was absolutely pitch black, I couldn't see a thing....and then hit me with the standard massage outfit (baggy pants you tie, pull on shirt). Once the massage started, I realized she also was hard of hearing too (and/or didn't understand my yelling "jep maak!" every couple of minutes). Not sure if she knew how to give a Thai massage but she had most excellent torture skills.
Stick with the Olde Time Medicine School, you won't regret it.
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I should add that they want your Mor Prom number (begins with 60000.....) so they can enter your information in the system. You probably can get the shot there without that information (I did although I emailed them later with my Mor Prom number).