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    family visa

    By Anonymous, Created on: 02/01/2004, Last updated on: 12/09/2006

    » When the Thai government will allow foreigners with Thai spouse and children to own a one year visa without the need to travel out of the country every 3 month or to show 800 thousands bahts in a bank account, this is very unfair and even most of the Thais don't earn this sum per year, why this discrimination...

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    • 65 replies, 24,845 views

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    For the Foreigners who wished to retire, to work and or to live in Thailand

    By Anonymous, Created on: 17/07/2005, Last updated on: 31/12/2012

    » I am kinda tired of mis-information provided by some forumers. I always think that it is best to learn the law ourselves. Since we are learnt persons, otherwise...we would not be participating in this forum. This is a website from Thai Embassy in Washington D.C.. I often using the Thai Embassy...

    • 16 replies, 40,140 views

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    Sin sod and in-law

    By Anonymous, Created on: 13/09/2006, Last updated on: 25/12/2008

    » I supported my gf through colleage and Uni (her parents are not rich), now that she has graduated, i wanted to marry her. But her parents are asking for 1Mil Baht for dowry. I had the money through hard earned savings (i am just a salaried worker), but i find the dowry excessive. I am afraid this...

    • Anonymous commented : http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=85581

    • 77 replies, 64,745 views

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    Nuclear Power for Thailand

    By Anonymous, Created on: 04/09/2007, Last updated on: 09/07/2014

    » The Prime Minister has explained the plan for a nuclear power plant to produce energy for Thailand and help Thailand move away from reliance on oil and gas. Thailand is a net importer of energy, getting much of its energy from the middle east at a huge cost to the country. Added to that the use of...

    • flippogirl commented : Isn't Nuclear (the conventional one) energy great? If a "normal" power plant has a problem, the effects are limited and short lived. If a Nuclear Power plant has a problem, you get this: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/01/world ... hpt=ias_c2 Makes you think if it is all worth of it, or you should just switch off the light and airconditioning.

    • 25 replies, 35,706 views

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    Why do ONLY foreigners get special promotion?

    By Anonymous, Created on: 28/01/2008, Last updated on: 05/02/2014

    » The advertising board on the way to Airport is shown "Foreigner Zone.. Buying house (somewhere around Bangkok..) Foreigner, with Special Price!!" I know the property company may want to attract foreigners to invest in property in Thailand. But, what about Thais who also want to own the...

    • Anonymous commented : Finally, SET index closed at 842.10 (+10.08) after Taksin came back. One thing i don't like about SET index is that it is so vulnerable as if a woman's mood swing.. However, i still believe in Thai stock market in long term.. tried not to watch the index everyday ':-)

    • 81 replies, 319,453 views

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    Market segmentation or price discrimination

    By bitchnomore, Created on: 16/02/2009, Last updated on: 09/05/2009

    » I find that there is a lot of farangs here who are complaining about double pricing standards here in Thailand where they have to pay the often more expensive "tourist rate" rather than the "local rate". They should simply stop bitching, period. Why? 1. If you open your big...

    • DKO commented : ://www.edinburghcastle.gov.uk/index ... ttypes.htm there is NO suggestion of differing prices for non UK citizens NOR a quoted price anything like the 35 GBP you suggest on that or any site I have checked for prices. May I ask you to substantiate your allegations as you have chosen to write them here. 2). The UK do not have ID cards yet although to be implemented. The ID cards you were referring to were probably National trust membership discount cards [b:r5l50kzf]or similar discount [/b:r5l50kzf]which are usually paid for up front and can used at many member locations for a discount entry fee. 2). Your comment 2, There are many, as you describe who are foreigners living and working and paying taxes IN THAILAND and subject to Thai level of wages [b:r5l50kzf]but they STILL get double/treble charged[/b:r5l50kzf]. Maybe you should do some research 3. In the UK pricing is standard most places. The laws are quite strict in the UK of pricing. I cannot say there are not individuals who try it on BUT IT IS NOT COMMON PLACE in the UK as you imply by your example. 4. If the foreigners do not go to Thai locations with different charging tariffs for "locals and foreigners" [b:r5l50kzf]and trust me many will not on principle [/b:r5l50kzf](and not because they cannot afford it) you then lose their families admission fees with theirs and the vendors at the various locations will lose substantial business, hotels may also lose business due to fewer foreign visitors to some National Park locations 5. Hasn't the Military coup, the PAD with its airport closures and the Word Financial Crisis not done enough damage to Thai tourism and attraction venues without Thailand harming itself further with short sighted foreigner pricing policies. Can Thailand afford less tourists and visitors. Thailand is not the only desirable destination in South east Asia. If you are one of these people who think Thailand can be an "island" in the current World and need nobody, then think again . We all need each other including the Genuine British Isles. Your comment 3. about Ayutthaya is not a large extra to pay but you are being highly selective as in many places we can be talking about 100 or 200 Baht or more difference. Once again maybe you should do some research. Additionally you cannot morally justify higher charges for foreigners (base don jealousy) just [u:r5l50kzf]because they may have higher living standards[/u:r5l50kzf]. You do not know which do and which do not have higher living standards. What about all the foreigners who come from lower living standard countries than Thailand should they pay less than Thais? Please do not suggest they would not be here as they cannot afford to come, as that would just be a cop out on what I am saying. Maybe you would like a different charge for each country's residents based upon their standard of living? Maybe a means test questionnaire at each venue. Where do you pay your taxes? where do you work? do you earn more money than most Thais do? I joke but the point is valid where do you stop? Its also about time many Thais stopped this fantasy view that all Farangs are rich. Many cannot afford holidays for many years and have huge home mortgages and taxes. Do you know "bitchnomore" how much it costs for 2 spouses to fly to Thailand from Europe or the US before they even start to try to visit your dual tariff parks and attractions? I suggest you check it out coz it costs them BIG TIME Your comment 4. is YOU suggesting the ticket collectors are 'racist" if they go by colour of skin alone and many Farangs will tell you speaking Thai will not help with a cheaper rate one little bit coz we are still foreigners and the "tourist" rate payable. I wonder what my stepson son will have to pay. Father a farang (mother Thai),who saw him once and my stepson is THAI and only speaks Thai but he looks like a Farang (except his very Thai eyes that Thais do not often notice). Bet he would not be accepted as a Thai until he gets a Thai ID card at the appropriate age. In you intention to protect this lovely country and its people I feel your views do the reverse in reality, causing more negatives than positives. I say this as a Foreigner living here with my Thai wife and stepson and as a person who now considers Thailand as home and only wishes the best for Thailand and its people. May I suggest the you stick with your own alias yourself and bitchnomore . "People in glass houses" comes to mind!

    • 11 replies, 12,828 views

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    Re: Farangs Barred From Buying Thai Land

    By pachangamac042, Created on: 27/05/2009, Last updated on: 22/12/2015

    » [quote="Papadragon":19d1c84s] [b:19d1c84s]Foreigners cannot use a Thai spouse as a nominee to buy property in Thailand, however. “If the Thai spouse has enough money to buy the house that is fine, but if the Thai has no money and uses money given to him or her by a foreigner to acquire...

    • alex1 commented : ://www.phuketgazette.net/news/index ... &display=1 I wonder what happens now to all the houses purchased by farangs married to Thai ladies through nominee Companies or in their Thai partners name using money shipped into Thailand from abroad Will they all be seized by the Government [/quote:3g6dgw19] they might want to divorce and kick you out, no more links to farang, no investigation.

    • 46 replies, 336,066 views

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    Home Sweet Home - Thailand vs Malaysia?

    By GerBo, Created on: 08/08/2009, Last updated on: 28/04/2010

    » I live now exactly 2 years in Thailand with my Thai spouse and see the following things in this 'Land of Smile' to foreigners. I see it sometimes more as discrimination of foreigners in this country. 1. VISA-paper work to overreacting and very unfriendly; 2. Very tough to open a initial savingsaccount...

    • Eric commented : an will rather stay home. The index for Public Safety is sliding downwards. It is turning into a police state with the man in bue serving and protecting their political masters than seving & protecting its citizenz. This was qouted by former PM, Mahatir. We will not have this forum without a knock on the door by the police. Speaking out could land you in jail by courtesy of the dreaded ISA. Peaceful demonstraion is deal with a heavy hand and under the Police Act, no demonstration by more than 3 people is allowed without a permit. Most likely, they will not give you a permit. Than you have the JAIS religous watchdog and RELA (a kind of vigilante) which trip mentioned who acts arbitarily and hand out their own idiosyncratic arrests and punisments. I know all this because I stayed in Malaysia for 15 years before coming to Thailand.

    • 13 replies, 26,852 views

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    Travel guides on your smart phone

    Database, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 20/01/2010

    » I am always trying to expand my use of the iPhone, adding to its original design ideas with use of apps: technical evolution, not revolution. The iPhone allows us to use new types of media, for example: traditional media like newspapers and books are declining.

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    Adding a new dimension to notebooks

    Database, Tony Waltham, Published on 20/01/2010

    » With banner ads for the movie Avatar 3D plastered across newspaper pages and outside Bangkok cinemas over the New Year the timing was certainly right for Acer to make its first foray into 3D with the relatively inexpensive Aspire 5738DG notebook PC being the flagship.

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