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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 : In today's Bangkok Post (hard copy) letter's page is a missive from a British guy (who is married to a Thai lady) about Ken Bigley who has just been killed by kidnappers in Iraq. British Prime Minister Tony Blair spoke to Ken Bigley's family in the UK and Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw went to see Ken Bigley's family in the UK to offer condolenses from the government and the Queen sent a letter of condolenses to Ken Bigley's mother. No one on an, official level, has said anything to Ken Bigley's Thai wife, Sombat Bigley !!! I know how I feel about the prospect of my government treating my wife in that same way. My heart goes out to her in her loss and I must admit that I am ashamed of the way my government has ignored her in her loss.

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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 : BANGKOKPOST, 24 JULY 2006 DATELINEBangkok Land scandalon Samui needs study Prachachart Turakij editorial _ Over two decades ago, Samui was known as a paradise 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 : BANGKOKPOST, 11 August 2006 LAND DEAL TURMOIL Revocations, seizures unlikely in probe, at least at first Officials investigating alleged illegal occupation of prime land plots on Koh Samui's mountains have warned people not to expect dramatic results, at least initially. The Lands and Forestry departments are investigating alleged forest-land incursions by the country's top land developer and a local businessman. A member of the Land Department's inquiry panel said although an initial inquiry had shown that the land plots were unlawfully obtained, authorities might neither confiscate the land, nor revoke the land ownership documents in the near future. ''We have to be sure that our decision to take legal action against the land owners will not backfire. We must not lose the case if the land owners counter-sue,'' said Prateep Charoenporn, deputy Land Department chief. Mr Prateep said another internal committee would be set up to review the result of the investigation before the case is sent to court. The process might take at least a month. This internal committee, however, is likely to come up with similar findings to the Forestry Department's inquiry team. The land in question includes a 96-rai land plot on Khao Duang Nok and a 451-rai plot on Khao Dang in the northeastern part of the resort island. The inquiry into the alleged illegal land acquisition started last month after an owner of The Peak project advertised the land for sale at prices up to eight million baht per rai covering more than 500 rai of land on Khao Dang mountain. Caretaker Natural Resources and Environment Minister Yongyuth Tiyapairat last week said the ownership of 96-rai plot on Khao Duang Nok was unlawful and he would revoke the land ownership document. Mr Yongyuth, also chairman of the national land committee, said the case had brought to light a conspiracy between state officials and land development investors involving the illegal issuance of land right documents on Samui island. According to a source in the Samui land scam inquiry panel, officials earlier believed that the 96-rai plot was part of The Peak project, located on nearby Khao Dang, because the land's owner had claimed he worked for the operator of The Peak project. However, they later learned the 96-rai plot might not be part of The Peak after all. The land under investigation comprises five land plots. Four plots had land title deeds, while the other plot is secured under a sor kor 1 land occupation paper, which was in the process of being upgraded into a title deed, said the source. But an examination of aerial photographs found the sor kor 1 paper belongs to other land plots outside the 96-rai area, the source said. The combined size of the sor kor 1 lands was also smaller than the actual land area. Land ownership of the 96-rai land plot should be revoked, and the land seized by the state, he said. Regarding the investigation of the 451-rai plot under The Peak project, officials found that over 100 rai was open to question. Customers, all foreigners, were now reluctant to lease The Peak's land plots, a staff member from The Peak project said. The controversy over land development projects resulted from the government's unclear policy on public land management, and inconsistencies in the process of issuing land right documents, he said. Samui natives tended to make false claims about the amount of land under their occupation to avoid paying large amounts of land taxes. ''We have already become the culprit even though the investigation is not yet complete,'' he said

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    where can i buy money tree seeds?

    By Anonymous, Created on: 15/03/2007, Last updated on: 21/03/2007

    » we,ve all heard the word money tree ,this weird and wonderful plant that seems to be owned by nearly all farangs who are married to a thai lady ,her parents, brothers ,sisters ,and all the hangers on his wife calls friends ,well i,m married just to a thai lady thats all ,but i feel i,m being discriminated...

    • Anonymous commented : in. Just call the norwegaian prime minister J. Stoltenberg of the Labour party. After poring out billions of dollars (tax-payers money, of course) to Robert Mugabe, Yassir Arafat, Vladimir Putin and all the other dictators of the world he has now made the decicion that Norway (4 mill. people) must donate hundreds of millions to the Peoples Republic of China (1,3 bill. people) to help them clean the waist from their factories. (because we live at the same planet, you know!) If somebody has a money-tree it must be him. Ha-ha-ha! Best regards, Hans

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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 : ted under conservative former prime minister John Howard but amended in parliament late on Monday, a "blight" on Australia's image. "This is an important achievement. The legislation removes what has been a blight on Australia?s reputation as the land of a fair go (chance)," Macklin said. Disabling the legislation allowed Howard to send troops into Outback Aboriginal towns, restrict welfare payments and ban alcohol, under a so-called "intervention" policy condemned as disrciminatory by the United Nations. Macklin said the suspension of race laws left Aborigines, Australia's original inhabitants with a culture stretching back tens of thousands of years, feeling "hurt, betrayed and less worthy than other Australians". "Reinstating the RDA (Race Discrimination Act) restores dignity and helps Indigenous Australians to take ownership of their lives and to drive change in the Northern Territory," she said. Aborigines are believed to have numbered around one million at the time of white settlement, but there are now just 470,000 out of a population of 22 million, and they are Australia's most disadvantaged minority. Centre-left Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered an historic apology in February 2008 for past mistreatment after British settlers arrived in Sydney Cove in 1788, but refused to reverse the controversial intervention. UN special rapporteur James Anaya in February condemned the policy as discriminatory and said it stigmatised a group which already suffered disproportionate rates of infant mortality, health problems and suicide. Anaya said the intervention was at odds with Australia's human rights obligations and called for the race laws to be reinstated as a matter of priority. Macklin said 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.

    • 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

    • Aussie John commented : Yasoboy Totally agree with you mate the Australian Aboriginals are the true owners of the land. But I was born here. I did'nt ask to be. My mothers country was blown up fifty years ago and she ended up here. I have Aboriginal freinds here and they do not hold me responsible for the past. I walk with them together, they are my equal as my Isaan wife is. Unlike what you have in Thailand. If you are Isaan Thai then look at the history of what those with power and influence over the decades have done to destroy the once pristine forest not to mention the language and long cultural history. Maybe when you get an Issan Prime Minister your family and mine will get the equal opportunity they have been struggling for. Then maybe they can move forward together although I doubt it with the nature of class in the kingdom. I am not a rascist as you keep assuming or an imperialist or coloniser I just want to support my family in an honest and ethical way. I have many freinds in Isaan who agree with my opinions. They'd love me to come and live in Thailand. Stop blaming this generation for the sins of past generations. Millions of Russians have died for causes not to mention Jews, Chinese, Africans almost all nations have been affected by brutalities from the past. As a new generation with the ability to communicate we should be able to find resolutions to the sins of the past and learn to live together in a moral and hopefully ethical way. Time is the only answer. Thanks. Khun John

    • taurus commented : [quote="Aussie John":29vz5im8]Yasoboy Totally agree with you mate the Australian Aboriginals are the true owners of the land. But I was born here. I did'nt ask to be. My mothers country was blown up fifty years ago and she ended up here. I have Aboriginal freinds here and they do not hold me responsible for the past. I walk with them together, they are my equal as my Isaan wife is. Unlike what you have in Thailand. If you are Isaan Thai then look at the history of what those with power and influence over the decades have done to destroy the once pristine forest not to mention the language and long cultural history. Maybe when you get an Issan Prime Minister your family and mine will get the equal opportunity they have been struggling for. Then maybe they can move forward together although I doubt it with the nature of class in the kingdom. I am not a rascist as you keep assuming or an imperialist or coloniser I just want to support my family in an honest and ethical way. I have many freinds in Isaan who agree with my opinions. They'd love me to come and live in Thailand. Stop blaming this generation for the sins of past generations. Millions of Russians have died for causes not to mention Jews, Chinese, Africans almost all nations have been affected by brutalities from the past. As a new generation with the ability to communicate we should be able to find resolutions to the sins of the past and learn to live together in a moral and hopefully ethical way. Time is the only answer. Thanks. Khun John[/quote:29vz5im8] Just a shame John that Zimbabwe's multi- billionaire socialist leader Robert Mugabe do's not think like you ain't it , were before under Ian Smiths capitalist regime it was the "breadbasket of Africa ", now they are starving by the millions and dependent on UN food aid ,with the highest inflation in the world and the lowest life expectancy , http://www.slate.com/id/81386 Australia would be just the same if they give it back to the "rightful owners" and they took over government

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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...

    • Arthur_Ide commented : [quote="Paul Garrioch":389ev6z0]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 oil is polluting and a cause of green house gases. So the plan is to import huge numbers of foreign experts into Thailand and spend lots of money to build a nuclear power plant which would be operational by about 2020. Thailand would then need to continue hiring foreigners to run the plant, perhaps continue paying off the foreign debt they will get by building the plant and will be in constant need of foreign uranium and foreign help to get rid of or store the incredibly toxic waste produce that comes from nuclear energy. It seems to my simple brain that this does not fix Thailand's energy problems. Nuclear energy relies on foreign materials (uranium) which Australia almost has a monopoly on and so can set the price however they want (ie. wait 10-20 years until everyone relies on uranium and then double the price). Nuclear energy is just as polluting or more so than oil, especially if you count the mass usage of oil and coal used in the mining of uranium. Then there is the massive problem of storing incredibly toxic waste for thousands of years. Added to that - in a world political situation that is becoming more unstable and a world environment that is becoming more unstable - why would we want a nuclear power plant anywhere near us? Hmmm, what can we do to stop this silly idea???? Clearly the better answers are: Use less energy. Use energy more efficiently Use renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, thermal, tidal, etc.[/quote:389ev6z0] It is absurd to continue to use massive amounts of energy when 50 years ago the energy consumption was less than 5% of what it is today. Nuclear is not the answer. Look at what happened in Japan. Nuclear plants are unsafe. Turn to renewable energy sources, such as solar, wind, and water.

    • 25 replies, 35,706 views

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