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    Getting married

    By Anonymous, Created on: 04/04/2003, Last updated on: 18/04/2006

    » I have a girl friend from Thailand whom I would like to marry. I am concerned though about the differences between Thai culture and my own. (USA) I often don't understand her. We lack intimacy in our relationship which she doesn't seem concerned about. She says it is because I am not Thai. I...

    • Anonymous commented : as a wedding consultant in a resort in Phuket. I don't know about Cadadian but if you are British and want to get married in Thailand, you have to contact British Embassy in Bangkok. The hotel can only hold you a wedding ceremony but they can not support you the legal document. By the way, Congratulation

    • 18 replies, 7,812 views

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    Malaysia Muslim get marru in Thailand

    By Anonymous, Created on: 09/04/2003, Last updated on: 04/11/2015

    » As we know, in Malaysian Shariah Law, it's not easy to get marry without permission with parents or qualified member in family . But when we think wisely, It's not wrong to get marry in Thailand. It's legal in Islam but illegal for Malaysia Law. They go there to get marry because of certain reasons...

    • Anonymous commented : atisfying oneself rather than resort to having a mistress without any responsibility

    • 39 replies, 63,949 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 : of his own money" in the resort. "This is something I was keen to do. It is a private investment. I like Thailand, I like the people there, the economy is doing pretty well, and it is a popular destination," said Leahy, according to the newspaper. West Sands is targetting foreigners to buy the apartments, and Mr Leahy singled out Scandinavians and Germans because they favour greenness. Environmental features include a rainwater collection system, an organic garden, recycling facilities and solar panelling, said the newspaper. Apartments in the 40-acre resort will be aimed at a "wide range" of buyers, from European expatriates to UK residents looking to retire in Thailand, Mr Leahy said. .

    • Anonymous commented : see a nicer Phuket and other resort areas. On the negative side, the common Joe will not be able to visit these areas and or own any of these condos. I could not possibly buy into this condo. It is to ritzy for me. I am hoping that the developers and investors are willing to invest in the infrastructures also like water recycling plant and more clean energy sources.

    • Anonymous commented : orest encroachment by tourist resorts. The move follows an uproar over an advertisement by ''The Peak'' property project, left on a website and in a property trading guide, placed by foreign firm Samui Property Solution. The project, which spans 514 rai on Kao Dang mountain, sells land for eight million baht a rai, amounting to over 4.1 billion baht. The governor said the checks would take some time. Paitoon Lertgrai, of the provincial land office, said the checks would show how each land holder had acquired property and see if any land plots fell into the hands of foreigners, including those registered as entities. Under the law, only a company with foreigners holding up to 49% of shares and Thai partners holding 51% can acquire land. Mr Paitoon said his office has asked the Commercial Ministry to check the shareholdings of property firms on the island to ensure foreign shareholdings do not exceed the legal limit. Land would be taken back from any firms that breached the law. Meanwhile, Koh Samui district chief Decha Kangsanant and land official Charoen Chanpan claimed that ''The Peak'' operator defied an order by the Surat Thani provincial office that construction work be suspended pending the land ownership probe. Concrete roads have been laid through the mountain, though construction was allowed only on the 198-rai low-lying areas. Project administrator Suthep Wangdan claimed to have obtained permission from tambon Koh Samui municipality. He also claimed to have obtained a Nor Sor 3 land ownership document over the plot as long ago as 1989. Mr Charoen said the district land office was gathering rights papers for inspection. Caretaker Natural Resources and Environmental Minister Yongyuth Tiyapairat will take an investigation team to inspect the area tomorrow. He raised concerns about forest encroachment on the island, saying local authorities were moving too slowly to tackle the problem. A regulation to curb mountain encroachment would be introduced. It would apply in areas higher than 150 metres above sea level, and restrict the height of the buildings to no more than six metres, with each development plot limited to 75 square metres.

    • Anonymous commented : t the ownership status of the resort's land. The transfer came after Mr Yongyuth inspected Koh Samui and found massive encroachment of forest land on the island. A survey found that over 1,700 rai out of 6,900 rai of forest area on the island had been cleared, and some of the encroached areas had been turned into a land development project. The inspection followed an uproar over an advertisement by The Peak property project, on a website and in a property trading guide, placed by foreign firm Samui Property Solutions. The project, which spans 514 rai on Koh Samui's Kao Dang mountain, sells land for eight million baht a rai, amounting to more than 4.1 billion baht. The project developer had named two Thai companies, Great Hills International and Ratchathani, which are subsidiaries of Bangkok-based Piyavate Hospital Group, as owners of the land. An inquiry was being conducted to see if the two firms were owned by Thais. A group of local residents yesterday submitted a complaint to the minister opposing the distribution of ownership documents on mountainous areas of the island. They claimed investors had brought several fully-grown coconut trees onto the land to show it was being utilised and to claim ownership over the encroached plots on Kao Dang mountain.

    • Anonymous commented : t and land speculation on the resort island of Koh Samui, a member of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said yesterday. Chaiyapan Praphasawat said illegal land grabs had increased across the island in the five years since the Thai Rak Thai party won power in 2001. Mr Chaiyapan, a member of the commission's sub-panel on land, water and forest problems, was responding to a call by caretaker Natural Resources and Environment Minister Yongyuth Tiyapairat for the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) to look into the growing land scandal. Mr Chaiyapan called on the caretaker government to take serious and sincere action to bring those involved to justice as quickly as possible. He said the sub-panel, chaired by rights commissioner Sunee Chairos, had received a flood of complaints from Koh Samui residents over the past three years. The villagers were afraid they would have no place to live one day if nothing was done to stop the rich and influential from continuing their land grab, Mr Chaiyapan said. "The information we have has implicated well-known politicians of this government in land encroachment," he said. The politicians, whose names were not revealed, acquired the land through nominees who would later sell the property to foreign developers at high prices. It was apparent that the land acquisitions were made with the use of inside information as the politicians knew well in advance about the state development plan. However, there was no evidence to prove that the villagers were forced to sell the land against their will. The politicians and land developers had bribed land officials to issue land ownership documents, including nor sor 3 kor papers, for areas designated as public land, he said. They should not have allowed the land to change hands as the original owners had no land documents, he said. "The villagers only had land use tax papers. How could they then sell their land?" Mr Chaiyapan also urged the DSI to look into other suspect areas, particularly the development of land under the government's Designated Areas for Sustainable Tourism Administration, which was the subject of many complaints. Pol Maj-Gen Latthasanya Piensomparn, commander of the natural resources and environment crime division, said the issuance of land documents for many plots on Khao Duang Nok and Khao Dang mountains on the island appeared to be illegal. However, it would be difficult to find the evidence needed to bring the wrongdoers to justice. Songsak Trichum, assistant village head of tambon Bopud in Koh Samui district, said more than half of land ownership papers on Koh Samui were unlawfully issued. He was concerned that the next generation of Thais on the island would have no land to make a living. Sunthorn Watcharakuldirok, head of a panel investigating the issuing of land documents on Koh Samui, said the probe had found that Suwat Vichaidit, a former Surat Thani land official, had issued a title deed for a 96-rai plot on Khao Duang Nok mountain to Suthep Wangdan, developer of The Peak property project. The land in question did not have a sor khor 1, a lower level land use paper required for issuing a land title deed.

    • Anonymous commented : ance of land documents on the resort island. The DSI yesterday also brought Kim Lindergaard Neilsen, a 36-year-old Dane charged in the case, to the Criminal Court. Meanwhile, the Land Department has transferred three land officials for their alleged involvement in the illegal issuance of land documents to developers of the Peak property project, a reliable source said yesterday. The three were ordered transferred by Land Department chief Pirapol Tritotsavit. The suspects, who were not named, were moved to inactive posts to facilitate the inquiry. One was transferred on July 18 and the other two, who were C-5 and C-6 level officials, on July 21. State action on The Peak project on Koh Samui, which had allegedly acquired land illegally on Khao Dang and Khao Duang Nok mountain, followed after advertisements for the sale of 514 rai of land on a website and in a property trading guide were placed by Samui Property Solutions, a foreign firm. The land, being sold for up to eight million baht a rai, for a total of 4.1 billion baht, set alarm bells ringing and a crackdown was ordered to put an end to land encroachment by tourist resorts. Surat Thani Ssenator Pravit Nilwatcharamanee said the government should take the land scandal seriously and bring those behind the encroachments and money-laundering to justice.

    • Anonymous commented : 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

    • Anonymous commented : e house built in golf club or resort housing complex. 49/51% joint compnay who tries to sell such estate is simply hoax. When foreigner walk into land department to register ownership, he will be rejected (ownership is called 'Chanot'). Usually the hooker try to make 'concession' to the buyer and it is possible (concession of land is called 'Gamasit'). Condominium Act, foreigner can own upto 40% of whole condominium building. The land where building stand is the joint ownership under name of, for instance, 4 foreigners and 6 thai nationals. The rate of 40 60 is controlled by the land department whenever a registration is reported. The sales tax of condominium is 1 % of sale and purchase price. Foreigner or foreign corporate can own land in the authrorized industrial estate under permission of BOI (in fact by IEAT, and Land Depart) but this is Gamasit and when they leave, the land must be returned to the seller, here the company of the industrial estate. Unless free or dumping price, the seller is not willing to pay back. This is another law suported hoax. New government is expected to relax land ownership for foreigners who really need residence, not land speculation. Until this laws is intact, do not buy any house attached into a land plot.

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