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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...

    • Jason McDonald commented : Dear Patrick You are indeed lucky to be living in Australia. Australia is a very multi cultural country where, by and large cultures respect each other and get along well. There are isolated episodes where cultures clash but this is to be expected. i don't want to go over ground which has been posted adinfinitum on this website but some Thai people who post to this site keep repeating the same old stories. These are mainly about how bad the west was 200 to 400 years ago. Well given that the western countries present a less distorted view of history than many asian countries people in the west understand that we have been less than good global citizens in the past. But that was a long time ago. When Thai people come to Australia they are processed fairly and if they met the requirements they get PR and Citizenship. They are treated like other Australians, they can own land, even set up a Thai restuarant and actually work in it. They don't have to have a white or black Australian own 51% of their business. I could go on and on. Contrast this to living in Thailand were your thai wife has to have a special card from the hotel with her so she can prove that she is not a hooker when you go to Phuket for a holiday. Or that you get called Farang all the time not kon Farang. That you get called a guest in this country when you live here. That when you try to buy something like a car you get told mai dai or try to get a driving licence again mai dai or open a bank account again mai dai. Now i know you can do some of these things because i have done so; but to continually keep getting the mai dai statement drives me mad. Not to mention the kon thai special prices everywhere you go. I could go on and on. But patrick I will take the lead from you and move my Thai wife to Australia where all Thai people are treated equally and more to the point equal with everyother person in Australia. Then when we have children they will be children not half children as they would be in Thailand if we had them; becasue she is people Thai and I am non person farang (farang not kon farang). To prove the point currently in Australia we have a Prime Minister who was not born in Australia. And at least one Minister who is asian. Be honest is there any Thai person that could ever envisage a person who was not born a thai ever be elected to the office of PM? Or a farang born in Thailand whose parents are farang ever become a Minister? I don't want to go over ground that has been well and truely trodden and i apologise. But it is really good to have people post and open up this for discussion. This is great to see. J

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    Dare to teach, lead to learn

    Learningpost, Purich Trivitayakhun, Published on 23/02/2010

    » Over 500 English-language teachers from all over Thailand gathered at the 30th Annual Thailand Tesol International Conference from Jan 29 to 30 at the Twin Towers Hotel, Bangkok.

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    Pattaya takes action to ensure smooth run of music festival

    Business, Chadamas Chinmaneevong, Published on 05/03/2010

    » Pattaya City is ready to deal with any possible political incident affecting the 9th Pattaya International Music Festival 2010 scheduled for March 19-21, says Mayor Itthiphol Kunplume.

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    Forging business leaders

    Learningpost, Purich Trivitayakhun, Published on 23/03/2010

    » Even with a great deal of knowledge, without leadership and entrepreneurial skills, business students will not be sufficiently prepared to become leaders in their chosen field.

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    Hoteliers in North and South dread unrest impacts

    Business, Chadamas Chinmaneevong, Published on 12/04/2010

    » Hotel operators in the northern and southern parts of Thailand are concerned that growing political conflicts could hurt their businesses during the Songkran festival, even though they are far from the scenes of protest in Bangkok.

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    Samui stays afloat

    Nina Suebsukcharoen, Published on 02/05/2010

    » While images of deadly clashes in Bangkok have gone around the world, the fallout for tourism to the country's premier resort islands, Phuket and Samui, has not been as bad as feared so far, says Bill Barnett, managing director of C9 Hotelworks.

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    Completely in the dark

    Database, Published on 05/05/2010

    » The prime minister's TV show is called Having Confidence in Thailand but no one has much confidence in NBT Channel 11, the slavishly pro-government station; someone forced the station off the air for nine minutes just after the beginning of the Sunday morning show, and technical "experts" were in the dark about it, no pun intended; Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva was just starting to explain his latest policy towards the red-shirt protesters when the screen went blank from what National Broadcasting Services of Thailand director Rattana Charonesak said was a stronger signal transmitted over the Channel 11 one; she admitted that she was completely in the dark about the incident, no pun intended.

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    Tourism set to revive in second half

    Business, Chatrudee Theparat, Published on 07/05/2010

    » DUBAI : Tourism operators expect an influx of foreign visitors into Thailand in the second half of the year as political protests end while the world economy rebounds.

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    Hotels take a major hit from the red siege

    Spectrum, Nina Suebsukcharoen, Published on 09/05/2010

    » Since the state of emergency was imposed in Bangkok in April foreign arrivals are down at least 20% from the same period a year ago. The impact on some hotels in the capital has been severe, and comes at a time when the industry was just beginning to see a substantial turn around, said Andrew Langdon, senior vice-president of Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels.

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    Tourism, confidence hit in April

    Business, Parista Yuthamanop, Published on 01/06/2010

    » The 10-week-long red-shirt protests in Bangkok had a severe impact on tourism and general consumer confidence in April, according to the latest data released by the Bank of Thailand.

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