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    Buying property in Thailand

    By Anonymous, Created on: 17/02/2006, Last updated on: 11/11/2011

    » Nothing much to say here is there, i think that IAN has told us all there is to know and believe me.......... .he's right.

    • Anonymous commented : BANGKOKPOST, 24 JULY 2006 DATELINEBangkok Land scandalon Samui needs study Prachachart Turakij editorial _ Over two decades ago, Samui was known as a paradise island with beautiful beaches and verdant forests. As tourism grew, property developers descended on the island. New hotels and luxury housing projects sprouted up. Land prices skyrocketed. Samui is back in the news, but for a different reason. Two weeks ago, Surat Thani provincial authorities began looking into possible encroachment onto forest reserve land and other illegal ownership. Caretaker Natural Resources and Environment Minister Yongyuth Tiyapairat flew to the island with investigators. He said there was evidence that several plots of land around Khao Dang and Khao Duangnok might have been obtained illegally for sale to foreigners. Meanwhile, another investigation was launched by Pien Yongnu, head of the Bangkok Metropolitan Waterworks Labour Union, who claimed that leading members of the ruling Thai Rak Thai party had bought large parcels of land from local villagers and later obtained title deeds. Sand was dumped onto rocky beaches while local authorities were ordered to cut a new road into the area, Mr Pien claimed. Our own investigations reveal that foreign companies are involved in the current land development boom on Samui. Big advertisements for property projects have appeared in Thai and foreign media to draw foreign buyers. Some of these projects are operated by foreigners who use Thai proxies to set up companies here. With a lot of money at their disposal, these foreign property developers buy land along the beaches and on the hills. We urge caretaker Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to look into this matter and take action against anyone found to have violated the law.

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    Thai Labour Museum

    Museums, Ratchathewi, Bangkok

    Price : N/A, Posted on 23/08/2010

    » The Thai Labour Museum is a single-storey red building near the Makkasan Railway Station. It was first the railway police station, then became the railway labour union office before it became a museum on 17 October 1993. Outside the museum is a monum

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    Bids are in for 3G auction

    Database, Published on 25/08/2010

    » Bidding papers for Asia's last great 3G auction went on sale at the office of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), and five buyers bought eight lots of them; the dark horses from Samart I-Mobile and Loxley plunked down their envelopes of baht, but the Big Boys sent two agents each; there was No 1 yuppiephone firm Advanced Info Service of Shingapore and its subsidiary AWN, No 2 network Dtac of Norway and its subsidiary DTAC Internet Service, and No 3 provider True Move of Thailand and its arm SK Wireless; the big guys are still waiting to see if they can get in on 3G with a "new" firm that isn't beholden to your TOT or your CAT Telecom, and if so, the subsidiaries will be the bidders if licences actually do go under the gavel on Sept 28 - but otherwise the existing companies will bid; the auction could theoretically get hot, but probably cool heads will keep the prices down to a manageable level; setting up and starting a real 3G network will cost at least 30 billion baht on top of the licence fee of 13 to 30 billion, experts believe.

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    Telecom confusion

    Terry Fredrickson, Published on 24/09/2010

    » Progress in the telecommunications industry in Thailand is at a standstill after the agency responsible for issuing licences abruptly stopped doing so.

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    ASEAN to pilot free labour market for professionals in 2015

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 13/10/2010

    » ASEAN has plans to move to a free regional labour market much like the European Union starting in 2015.

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    Choosing cheap Chinese Products over Thai jobs

    By needchange, Created on: 17/10/2010, Last updated on: 24/11/2015

    » Everyone knows the story of what has been happening in the US in terms of the trade deficit with China. If you go to Walmart, almost every product sold there comes from China. Walmart is America's biggest retailer if I'm correct. The trend is the same at many other retailers around the country. So...

    • wilko commented : I think the OP's perception of US trade with China is incorrect and so any conclusions flowing from that must in turn be very flawed. labour cost resources and govt spending - or in the case of the US printing of money has resulted in a swing of manufacturing away from highly paid countries. This is needed as they can then concentrate on work that pays more appropriately. china has invested heavily in buying dollars etc and shows a good balance on their books - the US does not. Countries around the world need goods of ALL standards and China is perfectly capable of manufacturing high quality goods - just look at any familiar brand or product and the chances are you will find it was made in China and the quality is just the same as it was when manufactured bak home - form razorblades through fashion to computers the quality is as requested by the Brand Company in whatever country they may be. Union are of course not to blame - it is management who run companies and make the final decisions. People aren't priced out of jobs, they are priced into different areas of work - some may find this difficult but nothing is static and things change pretty quick these days - just look at the world economy over the last 3 years. clinging to ideological concepts about US or anywhere being a "great manufacturer" is a waste of time.. you might also want to consider that in many areas - automobiles being a prime example - the US made a product that to all intents and purposes was quite useless except for an ever decreasing share of a home market. china and Thailand will over the next few years face new problems - in fact they already are - that of a bourgeoning middle class - these people want more money are better educated and in the end want more say in how the country is run. thailand and China are at present both reacting to this kind of change in a repressive manner - this has been shown over and over not to work. in the long term, no economy can flourish under a repressive regime....both will have to give way. for US to blame their problems on China though is a joke - they are responsible for their own decline. That decline is arguably inevitable too, and just how the US deals with it may be crucial. at present the signs don't look very good, common sense, critical thinking have given way to dogma sound-bites and bigotry as groupings like the Tea party spout nonsense about "taking America back" 0- who from and to where is unclear though - one thing is for sure the US can't go back anywhere or take back something they never had.

    • 48 replies, 211,938 views

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    Energy dependence on Burma

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 17/11/2010

    » An energy dependence on natural gas from Burma looms in Thailand's future. The time to start planning is now.

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    Global trade imbalances

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 08/12/2010

    » The problems currently plaguing the world economy and what emerging market countries such as Thailand can do about it are outlined by the head of Thailand's SEC.

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    Restructuring the State Railway of Thailand

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 22/12/2010

    » Thailand's railways are a quaint trip back into the past but changing them for modern commerce will take a thorough restructuring.

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    "Striking where it hurts"

    Terry Fredrickson, Published on 13/01/2011

    » The Thai Patriots Network is threatening to close a border checkpoint in Sa Kaeo to press for the release of seven Thais in a Cambodian jail.

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