2012 APDSA MID-YEAR MEETING, NAKORN PATHOM, THAILAND

APDSA Mid-Year Meeting 2012 

(APDSA MYM2012) 

23 rd -25 th November 2010 NakhonPathom, Thailand 

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2012 APDSA MID-YEAR MEETING, NAKHON PATHOM, THAILAND 4 Nov 2012 

Greetings from Thailand! 

We look forward to welcoming you with our special activities and making your 

stay in Thailand a rich experience. We would like to provide you with as much 

essential information on Thailand as possible in order to help you get prepared for 

the upcoming activities. It is our utmost wish that you enjoy this meeting and have a 

pleasant time here in the Land of Smiles. See you this November! 

Content 

MYM 2012 staff 

Page 

- MYM 2012 schedule 3 

- Arrival 5 

- Accommodation 10 

- Climate 11 

-Electricity 12 

- Currency exchange 13 

-Contact us 17 

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MYM 2012 Schedule 

MYM 2012 Schedule 

Venue: Nakhon Pathom-Bangkok,Thailand 

Date: 23 th – 25 th November 2012 

Day 1 

18.00-21.00 

Arrival 

Take bus to Salaya 

Campus,Mahidol University 

Check in 

Welcome dinner 

Suvarnnabhumi international 

Airport 

Salaya Pavillion Hotel 

http://www.salayapavilion.com/ 

MULC 

6.00-7.50 

8.30-10.00 

10.15-11.30 

11.40-12.30 

13.00-14.00 

14.20-21.00 

Day2 

Morning call and Breakfast 

Meeting Session I 

--Break -- 

Meeting Session I [continued] 

Lunch 

Meeting Session II 

---prepare time— 

City tour 

o Visit the Sanam Chandra 

Palace and see the Thai 

performance/Classical Dance 

o Visit Phra Pathom Chedi/ 

Salaya Pavilion Hotel 

MULC 

MULC 

MULC 

Sanam Chandra Palace 

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18.00-19.30 

20.30-21.00 

21.40-22.40 

6.00-8.30 

10.30-11.50 

12.00 

12.45-13.00 

14.00 

Enjoy Loy Krathong Festival 

Dinner 

Private Loy Krathong Festival 

Special Program for an owl 

troop – Jakka time (“Biking on 

romantic pathway”) 

Day3 

Morning call and breakfast 

Tour of Thai dental school 

Lunch 

closing ceremony 

Free time and leaving 

Phra Pathom Chedi( The largest 

pagoda in Thailand) 

Rose Garden Riverside(A 

restaurant with a romantic and 

beautiful sights with Thai and 

International foods) 

Rose Garden Riverside 

Roller Coaster/ Star Bridge(The 

most famous biking pathway in 

Salaya Campus) 

Salaya Pavilion Hotel 

Golden Jubilee Medical 

Center(Nakhon Pathom) and 

MU Dental Hospital(Bangkok) 

Faculty of Dentistry, Mahidol 

University and Phayathai BTS 

station connected to Airport 

Rail Link 

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Arrival 

We will arrange transportation for all foreign delegates starts from 9.00 at 

Suvarnabhumi Airport. After you pass through immigration, customs check-point and 

claim your luggage. Please step forward to the meeting point (Gate 3). We will be 

holding an easy-recognizing APDSA MYM sign waiting for your arrival. No worries in 

case your flight delays, please take notice that we (Transportation Team) will be 

waiting you until your arrival.. 

For anyone who will arrive Bangkok before the day of event begins, the 

transportation service will be also provided for you to the destination on Friday 23th. 

Please go to gather at the Airport Rail Link Makkasan station or take 

underground(MRT) to Petchburi station which is the interchange with the Airport Rail 

Link Makkasan station (exit gate 3). Our transportation team will be waiting there. 

The departure time of the bus will start at 11.00 AM. Another departure time will be 

informed later. 

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Procedures after arrival 

Arrival Regulation & Procedures 

International Arrival 

Documents 

to be shown 

STEP 1 STEP 2 STEP 3 STEP 4 STEP 5 

STEP 6 

Passport 

Immigration 

Card (TM 6) 

Meeting 

Point 

Documents to be shown : Passport, Immigration Card (TM 6) 

Step 1 : Disembark from the aircraft 

Step 2 : Show passport and Immigration Card TM6 at the Immigration Control Counter 

Step 3 : Wait for luggage, at Baggage Claim 

Step 4 : Pass Through customs check-point 

Step 5 : Move to Meeting point (Gate 3) on Arrival Hall 2nd Floor 

Step 6 : 

Leave the airport to Salaya Pavilion Hotel by Airport Rail Link and vans 

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Step 1: Disembark from the aircraft 

Before you disembark from the 

aircraft, flight attendants will 

distribute the immigration card. 

Please complete the form before 

reporting to arrival passport control. 

Please ask your flight attendant to 

provide the form on board the 

aircraft. Alternatively, you may 

obtain the form at arrival passport control counters after you disembark from the 

aircraft. 

Step 2: Show passport and Immigration Card TM6 

at the Immigration Control Counter 

Present your travel documents to 

the Arrival Passport Control officer: 

Passport, Visa (if you have), 

Immigration card 

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Step 3: Wait for luggage, at Baggage Claim 

Proceed to the Baggage Claim to 

retrieve your baggage 

Please check the Baggage Claim 

point that shows the same flight 

number as yours. 

Step 4: Pass through customs check-point 

If the items in your baggage are 

not dutiable, please proceed to 

the ‘Nothing to Declare’ on green 

channel. (The customs officers 

may be random inspections of 

your baggage.) If you bring 

dutiable or prohibited goods into 

Kingdom of Thailand, please 

proceed to the ‘Good to Declare’ on red channel. Here are some items that 

regulate by the customs department of Thailand. 

Prohibitions:- Narcotics 

- Obscene printed materials 

- Preserved wildlife 

Limitations: some kind of stuffs to be imported or exported shall have the permission from the 

related authorities such as 

- Firearm, explosive (Royal Thai Police) 

- Statue of Buddha, Antique (Customs Department) 

- Telecommunication Equipment 

- Plants (Department of Agriculture) 

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- Certain types of drug and chemicals (Food and Drug Administration) 

Duty exempted personal effects: 

- Personal effects with value not more than THB 10,000.- 

- Not more than 200 cigarettes 

- Not more than 250 g cigars or tobacco 

- Not more than 1 liter liquor 

Pets: For import of pets, please contact Animals and Quarantine Station 

Tips: All kinds of imported goods shall be subjected to import duty and tax. 

For more details: Tel.02-134-0636-7 or www.customs.go.th 

Step 5: Move to Meeting point (Gate 3) on Arrival Hall 2nd Floor 

After you pass the customs, 

please move on to meet us at 

meeting point (gate 3). 

Transportation team will waiting 

for you and shows an easyrecognized 

APDSA MYM sign. 

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StStep 6: Leave the airport to Salaya Pavilion Hotel by 

Airport Rail Link and vans 

We will bring you to 

Salaya Pavillion by 

Airport Rail Link. You 

will receive a roundtrip 

ticket so please 

keep the return ticket 

with yourself. We will 

take about 20 minutes 

from Suvarnabhumi Station (B1 level of terminal) to Phaya Thai Station. After you 

arrive at Phayathai Station, the vans will pick you up there and spend about an hour 

to Salaya Pavillion. 

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ACCOMMODATION 

Salaya Pavillion Hotel is a modern and cozy 4- star hotel right in the heart of Salaya 

at Nakhonpathom Province. Our hotel is part of a well-known Mahidol University 

International College (MUIC) 

Deluxe room 

Room type 

36.5 sqm., twin beds, modern and elegant 

decoration, greenery campus view, Radio 

Frequency Database Identification System for 

your security concern. 

Superior Room 

43.2 sqm., twin beds, contemporary decoration 

with a distinct Thai influence, greenery campus 

view. 

Food and Beverage 

Herb Garden 

At this restaurant we focus as good as we can on a very healthy choice of simple 

food and beverages. ‚Herb Garden Restaurant‛ is known to be the perfect 

destination for some of the finest organic salads and healthy a la carte dishes. We 

also offer some of the most famous Thai herbal drinks not commonly available at 

other hotels. 

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Our cozy restaurant is built with 

contemporary Thai decorations 

complimented by solid wooden 

furniture and framed posters of 

medical herbs and cookery. 

From Mondays to Thursdays, you 

will find a very delicious healthy 

buffet salad and the excellent 

choices of Western a la carte menu. And, Fridays, you will find different a la carte 

cuisine for example German, French, Japanese, Thai etc. So, come and excite your 

appetite with our meals that are specially prepared by our experienced Executive 

Chef and his team. Also, you will be pampered by our service team members who 

are always very happy to service you at all time. 

CLIMATE 

November is when you'll start seeing locals rugging up to deal with the "cold" 

temperatures. It's moderate, low to high 20s Celsius with very little — almost no — 

rain to speak of. 

More information for Nakhon pathom weather : http://www.tmd.go.th/en/ 

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Electricity 

Electricity in Thailand is 220 Volts, alternating at 50 cycles per second. If you travel 

to Thailand with a device that does not accept 220 Volts at 50 Hertz, you will need a 

voltage converter. 

There are three main types of voltage converter. Resistor-network converters 

will usually be advertised as supporting something like 50-1600 Watts. They are 

light-weight and support high-wattage electrical appliances like hair dryers and irons. 

However, they can only be used for short periods of time and are not ideal for digital 

devices. 

Transformers will have a much lower maximum Watt rating, usually 50 or 

100. Transformers can often be used continuously and provide better electricity for 

low wattage appliances like battery chargers, radios, laptop computers, cameras, 

mp3 players and camcorders. However, they are heavy because they contain large 

iron rods and lots of copper wire. 

Some companies sell combination converters that include both a resistor 

network and a transformer in the same package. This kind of converter will usually 

come with a switch that switches between the two modes. If you absolutely need 

both types of converter, then this is the type to buy. 

Thailand Plug Adapters and Outlet Shapes 

Outlets in Thailand generally accept 2 types of plug 

Two round pins 

Flat blade plug 

If your appliances plug has a different shape, you may need a plug 

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adapter. 

Depending on how much you plan to travel in the future, it may be 

worthwhile to get a combination voltage converter and plug adapter. 

Currency Exchange 

On arrival in Bangkok currency exchange counters are conveniently located in the 

arrival hall after you pass customs inspection. There are also some TM machines in 

the hall. Thailand receives visitors from throughout the world and can exchange most 

currencies. I save up my left over bank notes from other countries and take them to 

Thailand to exchange. The exchange rate at the Bangkok airport is reasonable 

compared with what you can get in town. If you want to shop rates, just exchange 

enough for your first day. 

Money exchange counters are very easy to find in the visitor areas of Bangkok. Most 

of the money changers you see are outlets of Thai banks. Generally their rates are 

competitive with one another. You can get a better rate with travelers checks than 

bank notes although they charge 23 baht in handling fees and stamps for each 

travelers check. Try to bring large travelers checks. 

If you bring bank notes, try to bring newer notes. This is especially true of the new 

US banknote designs. US dollar bank notes and travelers checks are the most 

widely accepted, easiest to exchange and give the best rates. 

When changing travelers checks you'll need your passport for identification and they 

will ask you where you are staying. And of course always recount and check to see 

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that you've gotten the full amount. 

Foreign Exchange Rates as of 27 July 2012 

Weighted-average Interbank Exchange Rate = 31.572 Baht/US Dollar 

1. Average Counter Rates Quoted by Commercial Banks 

( Baht / 1 Unit of Foreign Currency ) 

Country 

Currency 

Average Buying Rates 

Sight Bill 

Transfer 

Average Selling 

Rates 

UNITED STATES USD 31.3381 31.4369 31.7190 

UNITED KINGDOM GBP 49.0034 49.1585 49.8670 

EURO ZONE EUR 38.3565 38.4795 39.0847 

JAPAN (100 Yen) JPY 39.8539 39.9709 40.7623 

HONG KONG HKD 4.0256 4.0411 4.1001 

MALAYSIA MYR 9.8070 9.8514 10.1548 

SINGAPORE SGD 24.9117 24.9915 25.4752 

BRUNEI DARUSSALAM BND 24.5425 24.9378 25.5492 

PHILIPPINES PHP 0.7289 0.7402 0.7652 

INDONESIA (1000 Rupiah) IDR 3.0566 3.1062 3.6421 

INDIA INR 0.5151 0.5323 0.6069 

SWITZERLAND CHF 31.9181 32.0122 32.5719 

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AUSTRALIA AUD 32.4793 32.5781 33.1582 

NEW ZEALAND NZD 24.9734 25.0545 25.5351 

PAKISTAN PKR 0.3247 0.3262 0.3445 

CANADA CAD 30.9270 31.0277 31.5560 

SWEDEN SEK 4.5417 4.5603 4.6420 

DENMARK DKK 5.1505 5.1692 5.2548 

NORWAY NOK 5.1790 5.1986 5.2894 

CHINA CNY 4.8416 4.8760 5.0350 

2. Foreign Exchange Rates (THOMSON REUTERS) with Bangkok Market Crossing 

Country Currency Buying Rates Selling Rates 

MEXICO MXN 2.3435 2.3645 

SOUTH AFRICA ZAR 3.8163 3.8506 

KOREA, REPUBLIC OF KRW 0.0274 0.0277 

TAIWAN TWD 1.0439 1.0533 

KUWAIT KWD 111.5179 112.5186 

SAUDI ARABIA SAR 8.3823 8.4575 

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES AED 8.5587 8.6355 

MYANMAR MMK 0.0360 0.0363 

BANGLADESH BDT 0.3840 0.3874 

CZECH REPUBLIC CZK 1.5241 1.5378 

CAMBODIA KHR 0.0076 0.0077 

KENYA KES 0.3729 0.3763 

LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC LAK 0.0039 0.0040 

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RUSSIAN FEDERATION RUB 0.9716 0.9803 

VIET NAM VND 0.0015 0.0015 

EGYPT EGP 5.1825 5.2290 

POLAND PLN 9.3315 9.4152 

SRI LANKA LKR 0.2397 0.2419 

IRAQ IQD 0.0270 0.0273 

BAHRAIN BHD 83.3870 84.1353 

OMAN OMR 81.6543 82.3870 

JORDAN JOD 44.4463 44.8452 

QATAR QAR 8.6349 8.7123 

MALDIVES MVR 2.0374 2.0557 

NEPAL NPR 0.3539 0.3570 

PAPUA NEW GUINEA PGK 15.5613 15.7009 

ISRAEL ILS 7.7002 7.7693 

HUNGARY HUF 0.1360 0.1372 

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Contact us 

President 

SuriyakulWongsue 

Email: swongsue@gmail.com 

Tel: +66 868080842 

Vice President 

PrapatsornChongkavinit 

Email: pipako12@hotmail.com 

Tel: +66 858865850 

Website 

http://mym2012.apdsa.com/ 

E-mail 

mym2012thailand@gmail.com 

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2012 APDSA MID-YEAR MEETING, NAKORN PATHOM, THAILAND

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