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    Dowery

    By Anonymous, Created on: 26/05/2004, Last updated on: 09/03/2007

    » Hello and thanks to all that responded to my last questions. Those of you who have been following my last questions thanks. I am set to marry in Nov or Dec and I talked to her family. My dowery is set at 2 milllion bath and I already gave a 200,000 bath strater to show that I was interested. What...

    • Anonymous commented : Rooster, I appreciate your input in allowing me to look at things from the other side of the colour spectrum. The story you told is unfortunate and no one should deserve such kind of treatment. I'm not on either side and prefer to look at the situation as it happens. I respect your support of Prenuptial agreement despite the fact that it may very well misrepresent the very basic foundation of marriage. Should the marriage be based on the written contract for it to work and for us to live by? I can see the point where prenuptial agreement could be beneficial to both parties if that could provide a form of security or protection if one has decided early to break the vow, but how effective it can truly be in sorting out the ideal candidate. Do we measure the value of men by their possessions and how much money one can provide? What happen to those that can't provide? Are they then be condemed? I agree with you that life is not perfect. Life is full of obstacles. Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If we go through life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as we could have been. By the way, my life is so far fetched from the fairy tales.

    • Anonymous commented : Now, I do not know much about your girlfriend's family. This could be a test for your character. If she is educated and family has spend a lot of their wealth glooming her, than this dowery could be the measurement of her values to her family. In Thai culture, gold is the measure of wealth and security. The 10 bahts of gold is equivalent to 10 US troy ounces. Well, gold in the open market is valuing $400 per troy ounce = 16,000 Thai bahts. The 10 bahts of gold would cost 160,000 Thai bahts. These 10 bahts are most likely to be your bride's jewelry's wedding gifts from you like ring, neck-lace, bracelets, belt, and ear rings. These golds are usually your bride property, security, and future family's jewelries. The cash of 200,000 Thai bahts dowery is for show and return to you and your bride later. If her family has outstanding loan from financing her education, than you may not see this money or partially returned to your new family. You just need to have an adult from your family or someone to representing you in the closed door negotiation process. Now, you have to remember that most of these traditions are for a show, a test, work ethic, character, and etc.. You should remember that every Thai parents want their daughter to marry well, which will reflect well to their friends and extended families. Please do not act like egocentric foreigner. Remember, you are representing your family and your race also.

    • 61 replies, 27,697 views

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    Solar Power

    By Anonymous, Created on: 29/03/2005, Last updated on: 31/03/2015

    » I dont understand why Thailand is not using the sun which is there 365 days/year. Can anybody tell me ? I am in the process of building a house but when it comes to solar energy i might have to import myself to only then be confronted with a high import tax on such products. And that while closing...

    • Anonymous commented : he drift!) There are so many measures we could take to get the ball rolling, yet as you say I think the lobbyists (coal as much or more than oil here in Oz) seem to have the inside running. Hopefully that'll change soon. Another thought - why don't we all use solar lawnmowers? Think about how often they're used, and how much time they spend sitting around when they could be connected to a solar panel - too easy! Cheers David

    • NodBad commented : 100kW concentrating solar trough units (alegedly) available for purchase in Thailand. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Just to spread a little Thai solar info... I have dealt with a company called ECC care based in Chonburi (Environmental Competence Centre). Their main work is purifying nasty solvents for recycling and reuse. They do an eco training day for schools or businesses which is how I came to be working with them. BUT as well as a full-size wind turbine they have a concentrating solar facility. It has 3 or 4 parabolic troughs of about 10 x 2m. They are remarkable in that they use cheap-as-chips moulded fibre-glass units bolted together and covered with plastic mirror board and a few diagonal steady cables. These supply a mysterious engine- once I was told it was a unique invention by the companies boss and had no moving parts and hit 60% efficiency (A thermoacoustic stirling might fit that description, but 60% just about exceeds Carnot efficiency so I'm sceptical. It should require a dish to get hot enough to achieve that figure; troughs aren't hot enough). On another visit a year or two later it had become a 'steam engine'. The heat collector tubes are very small (dia. 25mm?). They claim the unit is commercially available from them if you want to buy one. From the top of my head they claimed 100kW peak output and were asking 100,000 Euros (about 4,750,556.11 THB). But something's suspicious: Over three visits the unit has never been running and indeed was parked, mirrors down at the same angle over the course of several years between visits. I don't think it's ever used. An extreme pity as it would be the most inspirational sight for the school kids who visit. I took NASA insolation data for the site, multiplied by the collector area and allowed them an efficiency of about 30%. I then found the price paid by the Thai government for solar (8 baht per kWh). The pay back time was in a matter of a few years. I contacted them with this info and the Thai govt. website to bring distributed power onto the grid and asked if they would like to connect and could I come and see the engine running? No reply. (Just checked their site and seen different figures again) If they really can knock these units out at the price and performance claimed surely with a bit of marketing every factory owner and many private individuals in the country would want one? I have long felt that the solar solution should be to ditch NASA levels of tech and certainly to abandon Photovoltaics until the price drops by 80%. The answer is to make concentrating units (mirrors) as cheap and scruffy as is necessary to make them economical. I've built accurate parabolic troughs with school kids. A sheet of bendy mirror board, some scrap timber a tape measure and a pocket calculator hits the spot. Phillips made portable stirling engine generators in the 50s at affordable prices. They need have little more technology or cost than a lawnmower engine. ECC seemed to be approaching the ideal I'd dreamed of but are sat on their knowledge. Go on; someone rowst 'em up and buy one and publicise it. I dare ya! links: http://www.netmeter.org

    • 58 replies, 163,778 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 : o will be asked to take legal measures against those involved in money laundering, said the DSI chief, adding seven cases of land encroachment on Koh Samui were being investigated by his department.

    • 119 replies, 367,763 views

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    Changes and Effects of Foreign Business Act

    By Anonymous, Created on: 10/02/2007, Last updated on: 27/01/2015

    » The purpose of this act since 1970s, is though no one clarify openly, to protect local industry against the foreign market invasion. Therefore FBA is in fact Domestic Industry Protection Act. Since 1990s of open door policy, Thailand had promoted vigorously FDI - foreign direct investment of almost...

    • Anonymous commented : Migo, Yes, it is a simple mathmatics that if foreign shareholders dispose suplus share in Thai stock market, most of Thai people expect they pick up the scattering falling stock free of charge. The damaged countries will show up with retaliatory measure, like raising this "Thai agenda' to international institute such as WTO and the damaged foreign firm wil sue to own court or international court. Such ghosts will hang around Thai economy and it will collapse in a morning. The buyer of free falling stock will be prohibited for next transaction until the legal claim is cleared. Then, Thailand will not be able to remain "Mai Pen Rai" status. I believe Thai policy makers will waste some more time until they realize the mistake. FBA is not such adhoc appointee's job and it must have been conveyed to the next legitimate government. They are real revolutionary than the military coup leaders are. What a nonsense !. Migo, your investment may await for next 10 years to fruit if any or written off like useless papers. Be scrupulous !. Always the world rolls beyond Thai wisdom.

    • 18 replies, 93,164 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...

    • Yasoboy commented : id Tuesday the intervention's measures had been overhauled to comply with the Act and reflect "special measures that help indigenous people in the Northern Territory achieve equal human rights". In February, two years after the apology, Rudd conceded progress towards improving Aborigines' lives had been too slow, with wide gulfs remaining in life expectancy, child mortality and health.

    • 68 replies, 108,200 views

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    How will you ever know?

    By Anonymous, Created on: 08/08/2007, Last updated on: 02/08/2009

    » How will you know if your marriage to your beautiful Thai wife is for real or a marriage of convenience? From my little experience of just divorcing my wicked charlatan Thai wife as all she wanted was an ILR (UK visa) and divorce money. I am questioning how many men on the planet are/have also been...

    • Anonymous commented : as developed good interim measures. No finance visas - unless you're a wealthy celebrity. Unlike the UK, it is now almost impossible for a bar-girl to scam her way into Oz. Howard's Australia has let in far more Thais than ever before - but only the better ones. Not the worst.

    • 43 replies, 91,143 views

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