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    getting divorced my mail.

    By Anonymous, Created on: 13/06/2004, Last updated on: 22/01/2008

    » I am Thai woman. I got married American about 1 and half years ago in Thailand. Now I want to get divorced and he doesn't want to fly here to give me divorced. He would like me to send him money for the ticket, hotel and food for a week in Thailand. And that will cost me alot of money. I have talked...

    • Anonymous commented : (additionally?) include many plane tickets. But I understood her point and resolved that if I have to do it, so I shall. Then, the next time we discussed that, she told me that it should be something like 2 or 3 million bahts!!! there are limits to my bank accounts and this is crazy, even if she claims that it will be given back. So, I saw many posts encouraging or discouraging the dowry. I have already chosen that I will give a dowry. BUT!!!! consider this: I have spent 8 months in BKK working 70 hours per week (in average). Now I have been spending 15 months without vacation in some other European country. I am not poor but I am not rich. I don't own a house. I take part in the cleaning, laundry, cooking and I treat her as my equal. I have good manners and I am respectful of her beliefs/culture/family. Can one still just reply with a plain "if you love her, just pay the dowry"?

    • 21 replies, 11,466 views

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    thai divorce and property law

    By Anonymous, Created on: 21/02/2005, Last updated on: 16/01/2006

    » I'm a U.S. citizen and married to a thai guy in U.S., he has nothing in U.S. but business ownership, land and bank accounts in thailand. our baby is going to be U.S. citizen, i want to know, is it true by law that he told me that i cannot co-own any business, land or bank account of his? what can...

    • Anonymous commented : m paying all expenses, hotel, plane, etc. She refuses and says they must meet in Khon Kaen. My son worries that it wouldn't be safe to return to Khon Kaen. Although agreeing to co-signment of a non-contested divorce, she seems to be talleying up "her" expenses---could they hit him with a big bill for costing her "face" or whatever...and refuse to let him leave the country w/o his first paying? With a police chief father, who seems to really enjoy finding drug cars, which the police can then keep for themselves, and an uncle who is a lawyer---and the kind of records she seems to be keeping---it seems highly unlikely that my son can sail in, sign, and sail out. Would a proxy be allowed? The girl, herself, seems to rather naive, she has been caring for her sister's (who married a farang GI) child since the boy was 2 years old---the child is constantly being refused immigration by Thai authorities. The family seems to have an agenda of their own and she is just a pawn in the game...or so it seemed, until last spring when she seemed to change character from a loving bride and began ranting for more and more money. (We chalked it up to some translator writing the letters...perhaps even her sister who is now rich via marrying a farang who later became successful businessman. NO to spending outside the budget, but she just went ahead. Then threatened to become a bar-girl if he didn't send between 450 and 500 dollars a month. Later, she said this wasn't a serious threat, only a "test" of him. Originally the future wedding ceremony in Khon Kaen was agreed by the family to be: $1000 bride price, a modest ceremony which could be up to a $1000, and a diamond ring. Then this spring, arguing for $400 or $500 a month--which was never agreed upon priorly although she claims so--she also demands now for the wedding: 150,000 bahts for mother; 150,000 bahts for reception which the Mom will cater ; and 150,000 bahts for show at wedding--with an unspecified amount returned later. One one-carat diamond ring. She now claims if these demands aren't meant her parents will refuse to let her come to America. Also, recently she has said if $250 monthly isn't sent to mother then she won't be "allowed" to go. Once in America, she claims she will try to pay half of Mom's costs. My son thought maybe they could get non-contested annulment and then apply for a K-1 visa for her---as it seems risky to bring her to America as a wife---while he would be protected if she were only a fiancee. If they were simpatico here, they could marry in the US, and then return for the Thai ceremony in a year (and he could get a pre-nup before he marries her here.) Would this work?

    • 44 replies, 19,067 views

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    getting engaged

    By Anonymous, Created on: 12/01/2006, Last updated on: 08/05/2006

    » Hi All I have been dating my Thai girlfriend for some time now and i return to thailand in feb 06, I have asked her to return to england with me and spend some time to see how see likes it. I would like to get engaged with her and then once she has spent some time with me in uk, i will ask her...

    • Anonymous commented : Australia and caught the next plane to Bkk the next day, this was after about 3 months (Oct 2005) of chat on internet and telephone. She said to me when I arrived if we can go some were in Thailand and wait till she is 20 yrs old to get a passport legally with out her parents knowing cuase she had not a good relationship with her mum. I said this is not a positive way for a future friendship to develop between us and will not create a strong foundation for our relationship if we have one in the future, so I asked to meet her parents. Her mum and one aunty and her auntys husband came to dinner they accepted me as her boyfriend, I said I will like to try and build a relationship with her and pay for her univeristy and living while she studies. Her mum asked her to be good to me and that was that!!! So I got her an apartment, etc, etc. and returned to Australia, every 3-4 weeks I went to Bkk, I have been returning since October 2005. We chat daily via sms, internet and telephone. She knows I have a business in Australia, but accepted the fact that I am NOT STUPID AND KNOW THE LAWS OF THE STREET. The apartment costs 5,500bht a mth in On Nut and she has a budget to live on that is better than the avaerage salary of 8,000bht a mth in Thailand, so basicaly I did not spiol her nore have I been a cheap charly, I said to her lets go step by step and 'WHAT DO U NEED? As oppossed to how much money do You want? I am very straight forward and honest and some say (her mum & other family members) I am over confident, basicaly I know who I am and express it as I do not believe in FEAR!!! I live the life I love and believe I recieve blessings from above.... I am polite but honest.... On 30 Dec 2005 she asked me if I would like to meet the rest of her family and stay at her grandmothers home in the country 2 hrs drive from Bkk for NYE (1 Jan 2006) and said she has never taken any boy to meet her family ever in the past. I said why not I have had enough party's in my life in many countrys on NYE. So I found myself being driven to her grandmothers house via her auntys and uncles mobile phone store different aunty and uncle from the ones I met months earlier and slept next to her and her grand mother for NYE on the floor!!! I felt touched what can I say....It was pleasant. Since that time I asked her if she wanted to come visit my country being Australia and meet my friends and family and see my lifestyle. She wanted to so much it caused big trouble in her family as her mum would Not get her a passport and in Thailand the law is 20 yrs to get passport legally with out parents permission. So, I asked what next, she replied (knowing that I have never been married or even engaged and that I never planned to marry in this life time) can we please get married just for my parents, she had stated when I first met her that she never wants to marry or have children, which suited me as I have felt the same all my life. I am 36 yrs old now and she is 19 yrs old now, I was 35 when I met her... I am a very young, fit and cool 35 yrs old, 'so I am told'... lol After meeting her mum again and step dad as she grew up with a step dad her real dad did the runner on her mum when she was pregnant to this gal I am writitng about. They accepted me to marry her and asked when? it was decided Sept 2006 and they said one of thier cousins married a english man and he paid 500,000bht and gold to parents as the 'Dowry' (Sin sod or Khan Maak). I said ok can she come to Australia 1st to meet my family and see my country to determine if she wants to live thier and if she likes it so we can plan our future together in a mature and logical way with out pressure and time frames. They said 'NO' marry 1st, and then said have a quik wedding and you can take her. I felt like I was being sold a human being and backed off and told her in front of her parents and one Thai-indian friend I asked to acompany me to this lunch meeting - that I DONT BUY PEOPLE, its Illegal in my country and immoral & degrading according to the way I was raised. We have had many problems since that meeting with her parents. Since that time this young gal has tried to commit suicide, run away from her famliy and myself, she cutt off all communications with me and told me not to marry her as her family are what we had talked about regaing many Thai's and started to treat her as a ATM due to the fact that she had a farang boyfriend, she cheated on me with a other man. I felt It would be best if I hired an interpreting service here in Australia and talk direct to her mum via a Thai interpreter provided by my Govt. services, after that 1 and half hour chat with her mum on the phone that costed over $200AUD I caught a plane to Bkk 3 weeks ago and found her, we spent Sokran festival together on 2 of the Islands after having dinner with her parents and brother and they gave permission...lol...Her step dad said he respects me for bringing her back home after she had left to go live with that Sugar daddy Cult...and that I am a good man he felt... We went away together and spoke in detail about all the events that took place over the past 8 months. I am now back in Australia, and I am a little confussed but feel like I know whats going on. Can anyone tell me what they think of the above even though its in brief and I have cut a long story very short.... I would also like to know if anyone can tell me how much a 'Dowry' is normaly paid to the family? (Amount & Gold) Do legal agreements legaly cover my assets in Thailand? She has said she will sign any legal document from my legal advisers regarding the protection of my assets in Australia... Does a legal registered marriage in Thailand protect the Farang? Or does it differ from a Thai to Thai marriage? She has stated she loves me, and will be loyal as its the Thai culture way and she has been a good person to me over all, so I am split 50/50. No she is Not a Glamour, and not the type of girlfriend I have even dated in my life in any country, she is average looking, tiny/thin and short. But I must say I was and am attracted to her thinking pattern and level of intellect and do see potential as a real life friend/partner or what ever you wish to call it when 2 people have a meeting of the minds 'Soul-Mate? Thanks in advance... Thong Lo (my Thai nick name) lol

    • 13 replies, 8,567 views

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    The Improvement Of Operational Efficiency Concurrent With The Building of A Magnificient Edifice

    By Anonymous, Created on: 23/11/2006, Last updated on: 17/02/2008

    » Administrators of Countries have over the years built Magnificient Edifices to boost their International image and thus make a cliam for the biggest Building,biggest Airport,biggest Hotel etc.The new Airport in Bangkok does have the right to claim that it is one of the biggest in Asia and perhaps...

    • 2 replies, 2,574 views

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    Freedom of Ownership by Owning Boathouse

    By Anonymous, Created on: 13/01/2007, Last updated on: 11/10/2015

    » Excellent idea my dear Rooster. I once heard of a farang on Koh Samui who built a detachable house - so when the Bangkok big-shots, who owned the land, decided to do that traditonal Thai scam of telling the farang to move off their land, hoping to get...

    • Anonymous commented : re getting off the boats and planes illegally. I would also like to expand the new laws to cover any business deals and for Thai government to impound any properties and assets of any persons, businesses, and or countries...by using any existing old and new laws including international laws. I would not leave out any other assets that could be reached back as far as possible including any illegal treaties and such.

    • 43 replies, 303,573 views

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    Medical care in Thailand

    By Anonymous, Created on: 15/02/2007, Last updated on: 13/03/2014

    » So next time you go to Thailand for an holiday or medical care give the Thai people the respect they deserve. Because the nurses or the Hotel staff are mostly much under payed and their home situation is many times not so brilliant. Deal with a genuine courtesy, politeness and respect, and not in...

    • Sean Moran commented : so that other tourists on the plane would not be put off their in-flight snack by the sight of my shaved head covered in scalpel wounds and stitches. I also remain truly grateful for the extra effort you made to procure me my first packet of Marlboro after the accident when I wasn't recovered quite enough to leave Bumrungrad on my own to visit the local 711. I remain addicted to Birdy iced coffee as I explained back then. Hope you and yours are doing well and wish you all every happiness and success with the good things in life. Yours Sincerely, Sean Moran. ---ooo--- Essentially, the major advantage that the health system in Thailand has over that of other countries where I have been is that Thai health professionals treat their patients with the dignity we like to think we give to other human beings, rather than just another job on the to-do list; another burden to contend with between coffee breaks; another lab rat in the human biol department; another cadaver to play around with before the time comes when they automatically graduate and inflict the same learned attitudes on live test subjects. This human kindness rarely found in Australia spans from the private hospitals such as Bumrungrad to the public hospitals that have refunded my attempts to pay for their lifesaving help, to the drug stores where I have always been able to access the medication that helps my lungs to keep me alive. Every night I get closer to dying while I remain in Australia, not because they cannot source the prednisolone that would save my life, but because they are too pedantic and childishly stubborn to let me buy it. This is why, when I drop by an Australian pharmacy for a replacement salbutamol puffer (Ventolin/Asmol) and the newly emploed ignoramus behind the counter blurts out that same stupid teasing rhetorical question, "Are you using a preventer?", I find the friendliest succinct answer that comes to mind is, "As soon as I can afford to get back to a civilised country, miss." followed by a scowl that tells her, "Just serve the friggin' paying customer his ventolin and stfu when you won't sell him what you're asking about anyway, biatch" The simplification of the secondary and tertiary academic process in Australia has severely impeded the quality of staff in the local public health system; from pharmacists to public hospital nursing staff (mostly contract workers) to GPs, where those who would not have graduated from high school before the affirmative action following the Beasley Report of 1985 can now be authorised to stand at your hospital bedside and inject mystery drugs into your body under the pretense that "it's just a little something to help you relax..." This is why I now refrain from using the colloquial TLC (The Lucky Country) in favour of TFS (The Fatal Shore). Getting back to a civilised country once more is literally a matter of life or death for some of us.

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    double aiport tax

    By Anonymous, Created on: 03/03/2007, Last updated on: 11/05/2007

    » I, my wife and infant son, recently purchased one way tickets from Bangkok to Hong Kong for 2nd Feb. The travel agent, Pakarang (A&J) Travel of Pattaya, charged me an extra 2,100 baht for airport tax and said I wouldn't need to pay at the new airport. On our arrival at check-in I was told...

    • 3 replies, 3,087 views

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    Theft at the new bangkok airport

    By Anonymous, Created on: 17/04/2007, Last updated on: 15/10/2008

    » People pretending to be security guards who pat your body down while another searches your carry-on luggage. I discovered this when they asked me to give them my bag for security...and then realized they had no badges and reched my bag before they opened it. I became quite loud in my objections...

    • timo77 commented : practically never traveled by plane before this. Also their knowledge of languages is limited. But it wasn't supposed to be too hard deal, just change once a plane in Bkk and that's all. And usually it's quite a trivial case to get someone from the airline company to guide you if needed. For some reason that I don't understand, the travel agent couldn't get anyone to guide them at Bkk. I don't know if they were lazy or if there was a true problem with this. Anyway, the advice from the travel agent was to just ask someone airport official at Bkk. My parents-in-law followed the advice - and what a mistake it was!! As a background information the relation between Thailand and Cambodia has always been very tight and unfortunately people tend to learn to hate each others. Especially this tend to be the case with thai people, although maybe I'm not in a position to judge this in a neutral way. Anyway, back to the story. My parents-in-law were taken immediately to the questionings into some room.You know, they were not supposed to go to any western country. First they (airport officials, immigration staff or whatever) argued that their Schengen visa was not valid and because of that they cannot go anywhere. It was received in German Embassy in Phnom Penh since Finland doesn't have own in Cambodia. The claim was that only the one received at Finnish Embassy in Bangkok was valid (which was a nonsense of course). Luckily my parents-in-law knew exactly what was the truth and finally that issue was cleared when someone from Finnish airline (or embassy) came to clarify the case. Next issue related to the luggage which were checked in in Phnom Penh without any problem and which were supposed to go directly to Helsinki. People at airport now claimed that my parents-in-law have too much weight and they must pay for overweight. This was also nonsense, but since my parents-in-law had luggage at the maximum limit they were not so sure of the truth. First they required 300 000 baht (which is close to 10 000 euro), which of course my parents refused to pay. A little later the requirement dropped down to 30 000 baht, but no deal either. At this point the airport staff (or whatever they were) were so persistent that if there is no payment or if they don't reduce weight my parents-in-law cannot take their stuff into Finland. So they yielded to take off stuff from the bags until the weight issue would be ok. What a mess! Finally the half of the stuff was taken and even more was required until my mother-in-law exploded and said take it all if it's not good enough. Suddenly the airport thieves backed off and let it finally be. In the end it was not even all. Finally my parents-in-law were guided, but not to the plane to Helsinki, but to a plane back to Cambodia! Luckily they found it out and somehow found the right plane, at the last minute. Saddest thing in this whole stealing issue was not a financial part, but the fact that when you go to see your relatives for long way and see a lot of trouble to prepare and get nice gifts and everything, then in one moment everything is ruined in one moment by a bunch of assholes dressed in uniforms.

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    Want to divorce british husband

    By Anonymous, Created on: 27/06/2007, Last updated on: 04/11/2007

    » I have been with him for 10 months. I'm pregnant about 5 months now. we have been having problem about his lying about his ex wife that he still contact her. Until now his ex wife just sent valentines cards to him and ask him to return to her. he never tell me anything until i found the card....

    • Anonymous commented : vorce, ½ of his money, and a plane ticket back to Thailand.” Typical…

    • 18 replies, 7,918 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...

    • drake commented : n mistakes, this is the wrong planet. Here, the issue is the same with radiation and nuclear energy. Man CAN NOT live without being exposed to Nuclear power or radiation, perhaps some want to exclude the use of man made technology but there is no way avoiding the natural ones. For that matter, life wouldn't exist without Nuclear power and radiations in the first place. Just look up on any clear day or night and remind self that them out there are billions of ginormous nuclear reactors burning and spewing out countless amount of radiation non stop. Some fine day when one of the little twinkly light turned itself in to a Cosmic Gamma Ray Burst source and point it's beam this way, life on earth will be all dead in an instant, except for perhaps cockroaches. And if all of the beams should missed earth, in about five billion years the Sun will go red giant and completely (re)absorbed the Earth - providing same result but now the survivability of cockroaches will be extremely poor. Now THAT's inevitable. Should we fret about all that ? Create a committee to investigate and mitigate perhaps ? Or just simply continue to live as the Hindus do, continue to live life as it is knowing that Reality and Existence will end when the dreamer wakes. But I digressed. Fukushima reactors are 40+ years old first gen BWR design whose technology and they were scheduled for EOL (end of life) this year but someone, unfortunately, decided to extend their working permit for another 10 years. Nature revoked the permit. Apparently, the cause of the melt down was steam leak due to substandard pipe welds that blew when the quake hit and causing the turbine cooling pumps and emergency steam powered pumps to fail even before they were partially flooded. The design didn't need electricity to run the emergency pumps and would have withstood the flood IF the welds had held. Yet, as some of the constructions were clearly below specifications the reactors lived for their entire designed life expectancy and survived through all of the previous quakes of 'expected' intensity - a testament to the engineering and robustness of the system itself. So far, there are less dead/injured/loss from this Nuclear event than the Tsunami itself or the Tsunami of 2004 but yet all the irrational anti Nukers are so focoused on it. Why ? At the end, this will proved to be just a fraction of the Chernobyl incident and mostly forgotten. Opponents of nuclear power always point to historical negatives, as insignificant as they are, rarely if ever admitting to what else are available or what good had come from Nuclear Science and Technologies so far. Today, other Nuclear technologies beyond BWR or Uranium Cycle fuels are available. Nobody talks about them much. From what I gathers the anti-nuke don't want them because their singular reason for existence will be mitigated and the pro-nuke don't want them because it's a competing technology and there is less money in it. As for decisions rashly made by politicians at the behest of Green Loons the world over to abandon Nuclear Power, some things are better left to adults and we will sort that all out in due time. FYR http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_an ... _accidents http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_reactors

    • 25 replies, 35,706 views

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