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When I lived in Bangkok I used the 'real' Mitsubishi service department to fix my water pump a couple of time. Their service was excellent, the guy would come out with a pile of spares and fix it on the spot. Not expensive either, from memory.
No idea if there is a branch in Pattaya, but might be worth a few minutes on google.
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When I applied in 2006 (under the business category) my wife and baby son came with me on the various visits to immigration (Suan Plu in those days), and immigration asked for copies of the baby's birth certificate, which we supplied. A few months later I then had to go to the police hospital with my son to have a DNA test to prove I was actually his biological father!
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My 17 year old son caught Dengue in April. He had hardly been out of the house (in Phrakhanong) let alone Bangkok for many months because of school remote learning.
So yes, you can get it in Bangkok, and it is serious.
He was in hospital for 5 nights, and for a time his temperature was over 40c. Very dangerous, and obviously very worrying at the time.
Thankfully fully recovered and is fine now.
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14 hours ago, scorecard said:
Tabien Baan book is part of Amphur records to know who lives at what house and not much more. Not relevant to immigration processes.
In reality, if your RED police registration book is up to date your full residential address is in this book.
I did mine a few weeks back at CW in Bangkok, and everything is the same as it always was.
1. The two forms, with a photo on each.
2. The PR book. Blue for the first one, or white for subsequent ones if you have filled up the blue one.
3. The red 'police book' as we all seem to call it.
4. Your money!
If I remember correctly I needed to take the tabian baan when I had filled my blue PR book and needed to get a replacement, but never for a regular re-entry visa.
Still amused to be fingerprinted each time. And the huge old-fashioned ledgers still in use. Thailand as usual waiting to be dragged into somewhere near the modern world.
Hope that helps.
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13 hours ago, scorecard said:
Have you received your exit/re-entry stamp at the airport just before departure many times?
I've never done it, always had some concern that desk might be closed etc.
On the other hand the Imm. office is not that far from my home in Chiang Mai, and they have 3 sometimes 4 staff on this task, so I've never had to wait more than 1 or 2 minutes to start the process, usually completed within 10 minutes.
No sorry, I've never done it at the airport.
I am like you, worried it might not be open. And to be honest, a couple of hours (most of which is fighting the traffic and finding somewhere to park!) one day a year to renew it at immigration is not too inconvenient.
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On 5/24/2022 at 5:01 PM, onthemoon said:
You get all the forms (two in total) at the counter outside. Just show them your white book, they know which forms you'll need. You don't need to figure out anything.
If you forget to bring photos, there is a shop downstairs in the basement.
All very easy. Just bring enough money.
Yes you can indeed. But also if you know what you are doing (or can remember, lol), its easy to fill them in at home and go straight in and get your queue number. I find it saves having to queue at the counter outside.
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22 minutes ago, Bangel72 said:
Has anyone done PR re-entry permits recently? I heard building works at Chang Wattana so was wondering if they could be done at airport like other visas?
Yep,
Did one there last week. No problem.
After I dredged up all my old records to figure out what forms I needed, of course. Hadn't done one for 3 years... Lol.
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Hi all,
As no interest, price reduced to 349,000 THB.
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Hi all,
One owner from new (me!), genuine very low mileage 44,000 km, as I have been working out of the country a lot of the time.
Regular yearly service every year at the Toyota dealership I bought it from.
Very good overall condition, although there is a small recent scrape on the rear left lower wing. Happened in a car park while I was inside shopping!
375,000 Thb.
PM me for viewing etc.
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27 minutes ago, jayboy said:
Your suggestion to lead with the pink id would be more compelling if most officials were familiar with it.Since I've had one the typical reaction when produced is profound bafflement.To be fair my sense it is now being more widely understood though the golden rule for the time being is bring along another form of id just in case.
Indeed, I agree it does vary considerably between offices, and even individuals in the office. I can only pass on my personal experience in the hope that it helps. In my case the manager/supervisor at the DLT office in Sukhumvit was very familiar with it.
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3 hours ago, Michael Hare said:
For the driver's licence, you just need pink ID and tabien baan, like Thai citizens. However, bring your red book, just in case.
This is definitely true, but it is often not easy, because many officials at the transport department have no understanding of PR.
When I renewed my 5 year license last year, the first level staff I spoke to had no idea about PR's, but quickly called their supervisor/manager. She was very familiar with it, and it was all completed smoothly enough once she got involved. My suggestion would be to just lead with the pink id card, and see what happens. I made the mistake of giving them my pr book and the pink id, which may have caused the confusion.
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18 hours ago, John Bird said:Are you trolling or that ignorant? Araipamas are a South American species... Best you can do is see them at an exhibition and shoot some pics.
Sorry, but I am neither trolling or ignorant. A simple google search will show you that arapaima (and a number of other south american species) have been stocked in a number of places in Thailand. I have personally seen them rolling on the surface many times while fishing at Bungamran, and have caught many pacu and amazon red tail catfish over the years at pilot 111.
I asked an honest question on what has always in the past been a pleasant and helpful forum.
Please keep it civil. Thanks!
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Hi everybody,
I'll be returning to the UK permanently later in the year, and one thing I want to do before I go is catch an arapaima. I've never really bothered about them before, preferring more affordable (and still enjoyable) places like Pilot 111 and Bungsamran. But I have now decided having some exotic photos to show my mates back home will be a nice keepsake as well as give me some bragging rights!
So, If anybody has any recent experiences or suggestions, I'd love to hear them.
I'm based in Bangkok, but am retired now so have plenty of spare time for multi day options, such as Hua Hin etc. I don't really want to go much further than that though.
I've seen a few videos of Jurassic, which looks amazing but with a price to match. Also Elton view has some good reviews.
But I'd much prefer some recent first hand experiences and/or suggestions if anybody has any.
Thanks,
Steve
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I've been sending a fairly full A4 size envelope domestically (Bangkok->Bangkok) via EMS every month for many years. 42 Baht usually. Never had a single problem, invariably arrives the next day if posted in the morning.
Great service.
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24 minutes ago, Percy P said:
Where is the Tesco you mention and the MRT
Rama 9 MRT station, entrance to Fortune town very close to exit of MRT station.
As you look at this entrance to fortune town, Tesco is at the end of the building on the RH side.
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I have been using a shop called 'pro corner' there for a number of years. Have had nothing but good service from the guy, who is (I think) half-thai, half Japanese, and speaks excellent English. He will give you a free evaluation and suggestions.
If you are walking from the MRT entrance towards the Tesco/IT city end, when you get to near the end where it splits into a square before the food court, if you look to the left where it splits you will see the shop. The sign is in English. I'm also not 100% sure what floor, I think it is 2 up from the ground floor. I know, I'm hopeless, sorry!
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I had a similar problem with a different foreign financial institution (not Australian). I had been receiving the otp via sms to my AIS (08 prefix) number for years, and it suddenly stopped working a few weeks back.
Luckily their customer service was very helpful, and they very quickly moved the otp delivery to email, which works better for me to be honest.
I had nightmares just thinking about the issues you describe with the two different 'not me' responses, so was lucky I could sort it out with a couple of emails.
You have my deepest sympathy.
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I don't read or speak good enough Thai to contribute to the language discussion, but I had a similar problem. When I started my job the Thai staff put their interpretation of how my surname should be spelt in Thai on the WP documents.
When my son was born a few years later, the hospital put their version on his Thai birth certificate. Surprise, surprise these were different.
Fast forward another couple of years to my permanent residence application, and immigration noticed this. We ended up changing my sons surname in Thai (on his birth certificate at the local amphur office) to match my WP version, so that they were all aligned. This was apparently easier than changing my WP and other documents in my name.
According to my ex-wife the hospital version was more accurate, but I didn't care one way or the other. My son is also more likely to be using his English name more in the future for work and living outside of Thailand, so he doesn't care either.
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Quite a few years ago, (I'm guessing 7 or ???? when I bought my last set of Irons here in Bangkok, I spent several afternoons at the All star golf complex (its on google maps).
At the time they had a lot of different brands shops, and all of them allowed you to take a club on to the range and try it. I found the service there was great, and ended up buying a set of Callaway irons that just 'worked' for me after hitting a pile of balls with them.
I tried Ping, Titlliest, Taylor Made, Callaway, Mizuno, all with no problem.
It is a bit of a pain to get to, but if you want to try before you buy I can recomend the service.
However, I haven't been there for a long time, so it may be worth making a phone call before coming up from Pattaya for the day!
Hope that helps.
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Not sure if this is any help, but if you still have a bank account etc. out of Thailand, you might look at Kraken.
I opened the account and transferred money to it to start trading from a UK bank account in less than a couple of hours.
I've been trading with it for 6 months, and it all works fine.
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Yes exactly, not clear at all.
If you read the article it seems to say that this is in addition to the existing m-pass/easypass, if I read it correctly.
I have been using an easypass for years, and will not bother with this new extra, unless it links seamlessly with the easypass. Fat chance, considering its Thailand.
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22 minutes ago, Konini said:
Slightly off-topic, please forgive me.
Is anyone else having problems with Bangkok Bank internet banking? I haven't been able to get on to for days, after logging in I get a page telling me it's unavailable - tried a couple of other browsers, same same. No problems with the phone app, just the net banking.
It was as slow as a lazy dog first thing this morning, and timed out on me 4 or 5 times before I gave up. Was ok when I tried it later, around 11am. Ok over the week end though.
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17 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:
You can't get a UK birth certificate if the child was not born in the UK! The birth certificate is a record of the date of birth and needs to show where it took place. Just get the Thai birth certificate translated and it's fine for getting a UK passport. More importantly, you will need your long-form birth certificate to show that you are British Otherwise Than By Descent and can pass on your citizenship to a child born abroad.
Interesting. At the time my son was born (17 years ago) I investigated and was told to get the birth registered at the Embassy, which I did. Several different people told me they had done this, and that it should make things easier generally in the UK, not just for passports etc.
I have just checked the document we have and at the top it says 'Birth within the district of the British Consul at Bangkok', and after the details the bottom part says that the registration officer confirms that it is a true copy of the entry in the register. I don't know if something has changed since then, or if this is indeed just the document mentioned in the ukgov register-a-birth link further up the thread.
I remember it was a simple enough thing to get though, just a trip to the embassy, filled in a form and a week or so later collected the document. My approach was always to do anything like this that might help to make things easier for him in the future.
We have certainly used it a couple of times where his UK birth certificate was asked for, and it's always been accepted as one, including for his British passport application.
Hope this is of use.
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Why don't you just get him a proper British birth certificate?
That's what I did for my son, no problem at all. Dual nationality, British and Thai, Thai mother, born in Thailand.
I did it at the Embassy just after he was born, admittedly 17 years ago now.
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I read a book called 'Plentiful Energy' promoting this type of cooling in the integral fast reactor which was around in the 1990's (co-written by 2 scientists who had worked on the project) . The whole program was very well advanced, and the technology was found to have numerous advantages over traditional water cooled reactors. Unfortunately it was cancelled by the Clinton administration of the time. There is a detailed discussion about the pros and cons of liquid sodium v. water cooling in it, which is very worth a read, along with the whole book in fact.