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    Do you speak English Khun Noy?

    By surapong, Created on: 26/07/2010, Last updated on: 07/01/2016

    » Ms Noy’s gonna need some English lessons in order to pass her tests to prove that her command of the language is good enough before being granted her visa. The number of Thai women from the Northeast marrying foreigners is rising every year. Over the past few months, almost 2,000 people have shown...

    • Voice commented : Back in the 60s and 70s any girls live outside EEC countries could be an au pair here in England. But since they have formed a bigger European union the immigration law has change forever. Nowadays you won’t see a girl from Thailand or China or none EU working as an au pair in the English households. The reason that anyone outside EU has to go through these entire tests is because they don’t want foreigners from outside EU to enter their country. Even though it is not as bad as Thailand is when it comes to controlling immigration. Thailand has different idea about having foreigners in their country. First of all it has to do with how the establishment see whether or not foreigners can be a treated to them. While many other countries are allow you to the right to buy or own Thai establishment see this as a big treated to them. Since much of the foreign currencies are much stronger than Thai currency. It would have been much easy for foreigners to afford to buy up all the properties in Thailand which would have left many Thai out of the properties market. If Thailand own by foreigners Thailand won’t be belong to Thailand anymore. Only if and when they see no treats, I am sure things could be really different in Thailand. But whatever reason behind these laws or rules or whether it’s in England or Thailand. I think people who wish to live in another country should get themselves ready for a life and experience of integration with the country they will call it home. So I think it right that they should learn the language and customs so they can be ready to integrate well. Without language and integration life could become very difficult indeed. Knowing the language could get you a job, making friends and it will give you a chance to learn about another people culture too.

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    How come ATV's are not road legal in Thailand?

    By modsquad, Created on: 16/10/2011, Last updated on: 12/03/2016

    » Inadvertently deleted post. Here is the original entry. by allied on Sun Oct 16, 2011 11:41 am I am at a loss to understand why all terrain vehicles (quad bikes) are not road legal in Thailand. Many of the roads in Thailand are rough which is why most ofter people drive 4x4 or pick ups. If you go...

    • allied commented : I am affraid that is not correct. There are proceedures in place in all EEC countries wich allow you to register an off-road vehicle for use on public roads (in Thailand there is no proceedure - that I am aware of) As roads in Europe could broadly be regarded as a better standard than roads in Thailand, it would seem to make a lot of sense to allow people to ride ATV's legally and put compliance and registration proceedures in place to govern them. Otherwse the cheapest options are the only ones available and they are not compliant to anything except being cheap - but are they being used on the road anyway? I am not sure I agree that motorbikes are safer than ATV's either. ATVs get a lot of bad press from accidents at so called ATV Parks, which tend to be very poorly managed. Cheapest machines - probably poorly maintained, riders with little or no experience, very little training and little to no safety equipment. I have visted three of these parks and found them all to be of this ilk. The riders then attemp a challenging course which they are not prepared for. The result - accidents! There may be good ATV parks in Thailand I have not visited them all! If you did the same thing for motor bikes (or any other vehicle) I think you would get more accidents on motor bikes as the rider has to balance the bike as well as negotiate the obsticles.

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    Europe welcomes Thai chickens

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 04/04/2012

    » European dining room doors swing open to Thai chickens once again, first time since 2004 Avian flu when Thai chicken exports were banned.

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    Up in the air

    Life, Published on 16/08/2012

    » Rising concerns over global warming from soaring use of air-conditioners in developing countries like India and China have driven people in the cooling and ventilation industry to invent greener and more efficient technologies.

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    Postbag: Asean trade the answer

    News, Published on 19/10/2012

    » In his article, ''EU fallout offers Asean hard lesson'', (BP, Oct 17), Pita Limjaroenrat claims that ''Asean, like the EU began as a political project''. However, what is now known as the European Union was conceived with the Treaty of Rome in 1957 as the European Economic Community (EEC), also known as the Common Market.

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    Alternatives to rice

    News, Published on 18/11/2012

    » Thailand has deservedly prided itself on being the world's No1 rice exporter. Now that status is being challenged, but being among the top 10 is still commendable. Anyway, rice is overrated. It is a water-guzzling, low-nutrition, labour-intensive, low-income crop. There are other crops which are better choices. There will always be rice farmers in Thailand, but let's see diversity _ fruits (trees, berry bushes, vines), nuts (very few nuts are grown anywhere in Thailand), avocados, hemp, ornamentals ... I'd like to suggest that rice farmers devote a portion of their farmland to perennials (useful trees or bushes) and another portion to annual crops which would generate better income than rice.

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    Afghan election frontrunner releases audio to 'prove' fraud claims

    AFP, Published on 22/06/2014

    » The campaign team of Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah on Sunday released audio recordings which they said contained evidence of fraud against a senior member of the country's Independent Election Commission (IEC).

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    Postbag: Corrupt construction

    News, Published on 14/11/2014

    » Re: “Palms to grease?” (BP, Nov 10).

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    Alternate-day driving comes to choking Indian capital

    Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 28/12/2015

    » New Delhi will greet the New Year with as many as 900,000 fewer private vehicles on its congested, smog-shrouded roads. The number could rise further now that the state government has decided to extend its alternate-day driving restrictions to vehicles entering the megalopolis of 25.8 million from outside.

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    In defence of THAI

    News, Postbag, Published on 02/01/2016

    » Re: “Safety concerns hit industry’s credibility”, this issue really hurts the credibility of the country.

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