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    British Embassy in Bangkok

    By Anonymous, Created on: 05/10/2004, Last updated on: 25/02/2011

    » In March, my Thai partner wanted to visit me in London. Before granting a visa, the Embassy wanted a mountain of paperwork including proof of my income, whether or not I woned my own home and a whole lot of other things. At this stage, I have to say that we have many controversial issues in the UK...

    • Anonymous commented : and I have lots of beautiful beaches to enjoy and my boyfriend dont want to be in England anyway. ...I am just sad with the way they treat Thai people. If she had just slowly read my document, she would have found what she was looking for. If she had just listenned carefully, she wouldn't have broken someone's heart. If she had just been a little bit more patient,everything around her would have been more beautiful.

    • 64 replies, 66,876 views

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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 : aradise 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.

    • Anonymous commented : Sands development on Mai Khao beach in Phuket, the prices of luxury apartments start at around 6.5 million baht, and range up to the most luxurious home, which has a listed sales price of nearly 67 million baht. The Telegraph newspaper of London said this morning that the chief investor is Tesco CEO Terry Leahy, who "has invested millions of pounds of his own money" in the resort. "This is something I was keen to do. It is a private investment. I like Thailand, I like the people there, the economy is doing pretty well, and it is a popular destination," said Leahy, according to the newspaper. West Sands is targetting foreigners to buy the apartments, and Mr Leahy singled out Scandinavians and Germans because they favour greenness. Environmental features include a rainwater collection system, an organic garden, recycling facilities and solar panelling, said the newspaper. Apartments in the 40-acre resort will be aimed at a "wide range" of buyers, from European expatriates to UK residents looking to retire in Thailand, Mr Leahy said. .

    • 119 replies, 367,763 views

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    Do You Support Your Thai In-Laws?

    By Anonymous, Created on: 02/03/2006, Last updated on: 14/02/2007

    » In Thailand, children take care of their parents. They kind of pay back the debt that they contracted just by being born and educated by their parents. And contrary to "popular" belief, it is valid whether you are rich or poor (but of course far more meaningful if the parents are poor...)....

    • Anonymous commented : go to other cities and to the beaches. If you are planning to live alone, than a townhouse or condomenium would seem to be a choice; you would still have small garden in townhouse or pot garden in condo.

    • 26 replies, 12,936 views

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    Thai Marriage Laws

    By Anonymous, Created on: 18/05/2007, Last updated on: 11/08/2010

    » I am trying to understand why Westerners living and married to Thai nationals are denied permanent residency status once they are legally married in the kingdom. In the west a Thai national receives residency once they are officially married to a western citizen. Procedures are followed and intensive...

    • Anonymous commented : of undesirables living in the beach city near bangkok will do to the already badly bruised image of Thailand.

    • 68 replies, 108,200 views

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    Thai tradition

    By Anonymous, Created on: 16/12/2007, Last updated on: 03/01/2009

    » Hello Colin, AD, Robert etc. I have been reading your posting in this forum and I have to say I most agree with you. Just a breeze of common sense and down to earth wisdom in a desert of plain stupidity and naivety. Unsuspecting and gullible farangs are easy pray for abuse and scams. Many of these...

    • 53 replies, 35,047 views

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    About Face.

    By Sean Moran, Created on: 14/10/2008, Last updated on: 13/04/2014

    » One olde axiom that comes to mind is, '[i:3b539sim]If you can't say something nice, then keep your mouth s.h.u.t.[/i:3b539sim]' Just a thread that pertains to one of the cultural differences one might notice in venturing from a typical 'westernised' society of the assertive kind to the shores of...

    • Sean Moran commented : ined out from sleeping on the beach and had to shelter in the ranger's hut at arounf 03:00 AM before that Saturday morning that the photo was taken: [img:188q8ofh]http://www.geocities.com/smoranean/img/gall/banc01.jpg[/img:188q8ofh] I think I owe my best mate Anuchit my life, although we've lost contact this past year. He might have changed phone numbers and he doesn't write English to email. I've never met a better bloke in all my life. It was only after we'd been out nightclubbing for a few months (to pick up the ladies and stuff of which we never had any luck at all) that we stopped off at some traditional massage place for a traditional Thai massage to ease our broken little hearts after another night down at the US1 or Rayong Brewery without meeting any women that he had to produce the .38 from his jacket. My friend is a policeman, kao jai? Only then did he confess that for all those months when we would head into town on a Saturday night to visit Legacia or somewhere in Mapthaput, he made sure to carry his revolver. Not to shoot me, but because I was farang, TO PROTECT ME [b:188q8ofh]in case I got up to too much mischief when I was drunk[/b:188q8ofh]. I'll never forget that. That was altruism. Maybe just the same as he had a word in Mrs Na's ear about not ripping off the farang the night I first got invited to KMS (Karaoke Mai sanuk), he may have displayed a little courteous firepower to some of the strangers at the night clubs (without my knowledge) if ever there were (and believe me there were on one or two occasions) times when I was too pisst to know which country I was ranting and raving in. When I decided to head off from Rayong to Chanthaburi, which turned out to be Khorat and then Nonthaburi, my best mate served the dinner and while I ate, he rode off on my mo-sai without my knowledge to have both the front and back tyres on the Suzuki replaced by the shop across the road. The cost was less than 300 baht. That's what I remunerated, but it actually cost less, because they trusted him as the restauanteur across the road, and he (in the same overprotective way that I can't help but appreciate) didn't know that I'd been going to that same motorcyucle shop since I bought the bike for new kickstarts and oil changes. I reckon I would have paid around 250 baht each for the tyres, which is fair for a farang, but my best mate got me an even better deal. After my collision, I saved the Suzy and it coasted off into the wilderness while I hit the car without need of extra force. It spent a few months in the police holding yard and accrued 200 odd baht in charges for sitting there rusting away. I gave Anuchit the bike, and went 50/50 on the disposal fee for him to get it out when I got back to LoS. The least I could do. I'll always be a wanderer, but I don't want to be an hermit.

    • 61 replies, 76,687 views

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    IS Thailand Safe?

    By Wally, Created on: 08/11/2008, Last updated on: 07/12/2008

    » Thailand is relatively safe, many of the statistics you cite are largely Thai-Thai. All countries have areas best avoided, Thailand is no different, but for the most part I think it is quite safe. Mind you this will vary depending whether you are in Chiang Mai or Pattaya.

    • Martinus commented : ket, between Patong and Karon beaches, tourists were regularly knocked from their scooters in smash and grabs. The local police were doing nothing. It wasn' until the Consulate starting major griping that the head police in Bangkok sent down some officers to deal with it .[/quote:ntgckkre] Obviuosly you have never wondered why in the US the rental cars are stripped from anything remotely showing it is a rental...... contrary to any other nation where I have rented cars.... Wake up man.....

    • 13 replies, 20,072 views

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    Bangkok Airways launches “FLYER PASS”

    By prnews, Created on: 22/07/2009, Last updated on: 22/07/2009

    » [img:6hhhcnzp]http://www.bangkokpost.com/ads/4r-8.jpg[/img:6hhhcnzp] Bangkok Airways’ Prote Setsuwan Vice President – Marketing, Mr.Puttipong Prasarttong-Osoth President, M.L. Nandhika Varavarn, Vice President for Corporate Communications, Ms. Chonlada Chevathakorn, Senior Sales...

    • 0 replies, 10,237 views

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    America bashing at Esplanade Mall

    By gohmer, Created on: 09/05/2010, Last updated on: 11/06/2011

    » I putting this post up because it is related to international relationships with American citizens living and visiting Thailand. It illustrated to me that little is known about America by most people in Thailand, in fact, I think that few in the world truly understand what America is about and how...

    • PeterAndyWolfe commented : LE - there are plenty of nice beaches in the world. Red shirt/Yellow shirt - be damned. I am a tourist plain and simple. American - Ignorant - well some are! I've traveled through Texas where steer horns adorn the hoods of trucks, bankers strut around in stetsons and they name freeways after mentally deficient ex-presidents. There's a whole U.S. STATE filled with idiotic Americans and they travel the world leaving Anti-American sentiment where ever they go. So a lot of Americans ARE clueless. So what? A Texan probably bullied him at one time and left a bad impression. There are 30 million Thai. one store owner does not, a national sentiment, make. If I am boycotting Thailand at the present it's because I want to relax while on vacation - There are great deals right now on Bangkok hotels but wearing a flack jacket to dinner in 90 degree weather just doesn't sound like much fun.

    • 119 replies, 154,424 views

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