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    The practical use of trusts in planning for the inevitable

    Spectrum, Andrew Wood, Published on 12/08/2012

    » Last week we looked at why many expats should consider trusts to assist them in several ways. Today we delve deeper into the practical use of trusts as efficient financial planning solutions.

  • THAILAND

    PETS IN THAILAND X Man Bites Dog Part One

    Spectrum, Published on 12/08/2012

    » What duties do you have to your pet under Thai law? For example, what if you keep your dog indoors and don't give it enough food and water? Or let's say your cat is sick, you don't bother to take it to the vet and it dies? What if someone sees a dog on the street and kills it just for fun. Can he do that?

  • THAILAND

    US software piracy chase could see Thai companies sink

    Spectrum, Published on 19/08/2012

    » Thai companies using pirated software that export their products to the US could be crippled by a law aimed at targeting the use of illegal IT.

  • THAILAND

    For Belarusian troupe, show must go on despite dangers

    Spectrum, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 19/08/2012

    » Thespians of the Belarus Free Theatre have been beaten, arrested and harassed by authorities. And husband-and-wife co-directors Nicolai Khalezin and Natalia Kaliada, as they explained to Spectrum last week while on a visit to Bangkok, are now forced to live in exile, facing prison sentences if they return home. Within Belarus _ their large landlocked country of just under 10 million people, bordered by Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Latvia and Lithuania _ the actors continue to perform in secret and at great risk to themselves and their audiences.

  • THAILAND

    Pipe dreaming

    Spectrum, Published on 19/08/2012

    » Early on in Steven Martin's prodigiously researched and at times painfully honest memoir Opium Fiend: 21st Century Slave to a 19th Century Addiction, he explains his nostalgia for opium's past. The way he sees it, the historic substance _ a 2000 Vanity Fair article by Nick Tosches referred to it as a "medicine and holy panacea older than any known god" _ suffered an ignoble decline in the face of post-colonial globalisation.

  • THAILAND

    A tale of two cities _ bangkok and yangon face off as AEC 2015 nears

    Spectrum, Published on 19/08/2012

    » Southeast Asian countries will become a single economic community in 2015. As people in each of these countries will be able to move around freely and work or live in any other member nation, there will be a direct impact on the property market in the industrial, office, retail and especially residential sectors.

  • THAILAND

    Blemishes in the beautiful game

    Spectrum, Post Reporters, Published on 23/09/2012

    » The findings of an ongoing parliamentary investigation may threaten the existence of the Football Association of Thailand (FAT), said the spokesman of a committee on corruption last week. As a public organisation under royal patronage and a recipient of public funds, the FAT is not allowed to seek profit, but evidence that the Thai Premier League (TPL) runs on a profit-making model could lead to court-ordered sanctions including dissolving the body that runs football in Thailand.

  • THAILAND

    Koh Samet's serenity shattered by development and disputes

    Spectrum, Piyaporn Wongruang, Published on 23/09/2012

    » As we arrive at the exclusive five-star beach resort on the southern tip of Koh Samet a young security guard approaches us and asks us where we think we are going.

  • THAILAND

    Miss Dao and her amazing feats

    Spectrum, Father Joe Maier, Published on 23/09/2012

    » She has mostly had to learn everything herself. Mum couldn't be there for her, and Miss Dao also has to take care of Granny, as she'd promised her mother. You know, things like mixing her betel nut chaw and holding her hand crossing the street. She has three older half-brothers and a half-sister, but they aren't close. Her half-sister is married, and Dao only saw her once at the temple for her mother's cremation.

  • THAILAND

    Finding the right level essential with common area maintenance fees

    Spectrum, Published on 23/09/2012

    » When purchasing a condominium in Thailand, buyers are required to pay an annual common area maintenance fee which is used by the condominium to secure, clean, maintain and manage the property. The fee is originally set by the developer when registering the condominium as a juristic person, and is based on what the developer perceives as the amount needed to run the condominium.

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