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- Thu May 02, 2024 12:06 pm
- Forum: Home, Lifestyle & Family
- Topic: Solar power setup for your home in Thailand
- Replies: 209
- Views: 40004
Re: Solar power setup for your home in Thailand
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- Thu May 02, 2024 10:28 am
- Forum: Home, Lifestyle & Family
- Topic: Solar power setup for your home in Thailand
- Replies: 209
- Views: 40004
Re: Solar power setup for your home in Thailand
ROI for us works out at about 10 years, considering our current usage and the 'medium house with batteries' quote from that site (and buying another 3 a/c units). But it would be nice to leave the a/c on all day and mitigate the constant power outages!
- Thu May 02, 2024 9:40 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Thailand to introduce compulsory travel insurance/tourist tax
- Replies: 169
- Views: 27967
Re: Thailand to introduce compulsory travel insurance/tourist tax
Call to renew levy on tourists Tourism operators are urging the new tourism minister to resume the plan to collect a 300-baht fee from tourists because it is not considered an obstacle to arrivals. The Tourism Council of Thailand (TCT) said it plans to discuss the necessity of this project with Ser...
- Thu May 02, 2024 8:35 am
- Forum: Home, Lifestyle & Family
- Topic: Solar power setup for your home in Thailand
- Replies: 209
- Views: 40004
Re: Solar power setup for your home in Thailand
As always, some good info and feedback in this thread. Let us know the costs and how the installation goes, Steve. I am still looking into solar since our power bills (and almost everyone else I know) skyrocketed last month ... a trend that is likely to continue. I calculated our ROI to be around 12...
- Thu May 02, 2024 8:19 am
- Forum: Motoring
- Topic: Minivan, bus and road accidents
- Replies: 1308
- Views: 236384
Re: Minivan, bus and road accidents
‘Big Chilli’ publisher Colin Hastings dies in car crash The well-known British publisher and journalist Colin Hastings was killed in a car accident in Bang Saray, Chon Buri on Monday afternoon. He was 73. The publisher of the English-language lifestyle magazine Big Chilli, Colin died when the car h...
- Wed May 01, 2024 11:30 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Thai Minimum Wage Increase
- Replies: 41
- Views: 8340
Re: Thai Minimum Wage Increase
Fairplay, but more backing for the argument for price hikes across the board for everything and everyone to cover the increases while the govt hikes taxes. The majority will be worse off at the end of the month which means more debt.
- Wed May 01, 2024 11:01 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Thai Minimum Wage Increase
- Replies: 41
- Views: 8340
Re: Thai Minimum Wage Increase
We read every few days about Thailand's terrible debt situation, so where will this extra 40฿/day come from? Tax 'em, tax 'em again, then tax 'em some more, something this govt appears pretty adept at. Higher wages leads to increased costs for staff, services, labour, deliveries, products, food, et...
- Wed May 01, 2024 10:49 am
- Forum: Legal, Visa, Finances & Employment
- Topic: The 90 Day Report Thread
- Replies: 179
- Views: 192905
Re: The 90 Day Report Thread
The 24-hour reporting after arrival and 90-day confirmation of address reporting are two different things. The stamps in and out are in the immigration database, but the address confirmation doesn't appear to be (hence the pieces of paper stapled into your passport ... which no other country I've be...
- Wed May 01, 2024 8:08 am
- Forum: Flights, Airlines & Airports
- Topic: Flights to/from Thailand status, news, and updates
- Replies: 351
- Views: 261089
Re: Flights to/from Thailand status, news, and updates
Suvarnabhumi, Don Mueang set for $4.8bn expansion The operator of Thailand's two main airports plans to spend about US$4.8 billion to more than double capacity by the end of the decade to cope with a surge in post-coronavirus-pandemic tourism. In the biggest expansion of Suvarnabhumi airport since ...
- Wed May 01, 2024 7:37 am
- Forum: Legal, Visa, Finances & Employment
- Topic: The 90 Day Report Thread
- Replies: 179
- Views: 192905
Re: The 90 Day Report Thread
Why do you report when you return? My understanding, perhaps wrong, is when you leave the country then return the return date starts the 90 day cycle irregardless of the cycle before leaving. The idea for those of us not living near the immigration office is to keep the online cycle going. If the 9...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 12:50 pm
- Forum: Legal, Visa, Finances & Employment
- Topic: The 90 Day Report Thread
- Replies: 179
- Views: 192905
Re: The 90 Day Report Thread
Likewise, have done it online after returning. The two systems (online and manual/immigration) do not appear to be linked/connected so you can even do the online report when you're not in the country!
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 11:51 am
- Forum: Digital Realm
- Topic: Canon Camera Repair
- Replies: 13
- Views: 609
Re: Canon Camera Repair
You do realize you can crank the screen brightness up manually when in sunlight ... the auto brightness setting often doesn't automatically react to rapid light intensity changes.
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 11:39 am
- Forum: Digital Realm
- Topic: Canon Camera Repair
- Replies: 13
- Views: 609
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 10:02 am
- Forum: Sports Fans
- Topic: Euros 2024
- Replies: 110
- Views: 160860
Re: Euros 2024
Many private companies have bid for the license to broadcast Euro 2024, which means the competition will be aired in Thailand, said Kongsak Yodmanee, the governor of the new Sports Authority of Thailand. He said related companies will make announcements in a week's time. Source: Thai Enquirer 439935...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 9:14 am
- Forum: On The Road
- Topic: Trip to Zhangjiajie, Hunan, China
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2184
Re: Trip to Zhangjiajie, Hunan, China
It does look fantastic, shame the visa is such a ballache for certain passport holders.