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    The Value of a Tourist.

    By Sean Moran, Created on: 18/01/2009, Last updated on: 15/12/2010

    » What are some of the most common positive and negative results of foreign tourists from overseas visiting Thailand? Thai opinions welcome, kap.

    • Sean Moran commented : dividual files: Our Thai bank books, Certified income from our Embassy or Consulate, our health certificate, our residence a.s.o. Why do they not even dear to tell how many we are in this "one year" Retirement, Expat (work permit group) Tourism, 6% but is our contribution included [/quote:3jh49m2o] I have a spare hankerchief if you need to borrow it...

    • 85 replies, 111,416 views

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    Shoul I send her money monthly?

    By Anonymous, Created on: 07/01/2008, Last updated on: 17/06/2010

    » I had known her for 4 months, got engaged while visiting for the first time for 2 weeks, yet, only 2 months later, felt the pressure to pay the 250 K BHT for the 1 rai village lot. She says she has 1 Million BHT in the bank, but, does not want to touch it (keeping it for her 2 kids future…?)...

    • TaxMeIAmCanadian commented : ur and read Thailand Fever, a book about Thai-Farang relationships. Then read Money Number One. You will save yourself a lot of grief and money. You may have a good one, a wife that is, but the odds are against you.

    • 16 replies, 51,763 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...

    • dutchboy commented : ajor medical treatment I will book the first available flight to Bangkok, and have the procedure here.

    • 27 replies, 141,925 views

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    The right!!

    By Anonymous, Created on: 26/02/2006, Last updated on: 02/12/2007

    » I would like to know what are the rights of a foreigner who marries a Thai girl? I know he cannot buy the land but the condo is ok...he cannot have a thai citizenship nor a thai passport easity, etc. In other few country...when the citizen marries a foreigner, the husband or wife get a chance to...

    • Anonymous commented : assport, get that little blue book and be content with your 3 monthly run to the immigration police in Bangkok. Gets you a nice day off work. Believe me, you'll all live happily ever after

    • 25 replies, 11,144 views

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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 : didn't even look at her bank book. I read all the various embassy requirements very carefully before each application and provided detailed documentation on both of our backgrounds as well as invitations from hosts with copies of their passports and evidence of their addresses. I attended all the interviews with her. On each occasion she was given the visa immediately after brief interviews to confirm some of the details in the documentation. I have no complaints at all except that the American Embassy is very hot and queues there are long and that the Spanish Embassy requires notarised documents from a host which cost me 200 euros. The British Embassy came out absolute tops in terms of efficiency and courtesy for my money. I also have nothing but praise for the consular section. If you look at British Embassy web site you will see that they are looking for a company to outsource some of the visa work to. I hope they can maintain the same standards.

    • 64 replies, 66,876 views

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    Pre-Marital Sex. - Part I.

    By Anonymous, Created on: 18/06/2003, Last updated on: 26/04/2007

    » Hello Mr. Rooster ; I moved this discussion to this more appropriate thread. Mr. Rooster wrote : "People are like animals, and their sexual drives will involve some types of pre-marital sex. So prostitution will be there to provide needed service. " The sexual urge is indeed extraordinarily powerful,...

    • Anonymous commented : Hello All ; Another startling cut from the Bangkok Post , July 24, 2003. "Epic Marriage Ends" " Taipei - The 103-year-old wife in the world's longest-lasting marriage has died. Liu Yang-wan from Taiwan was married in 1917 to Liu Yung-yang, who is now 104. Their daughter-in-law said Mrs. Liu died peacefully from natural causes. Their 86 year marriage was the longest registered in the Guiness Book of World Records, beating former American record holders by three years. According to ancient tradition, Liu Yang-wan was sent to live with her future husband's family at the age of 5, to take care of him and do household chores, relatives said. - Reuters." After the "new thinkers" get over their horror, let's take a closer look at this. Apparently, the boy was 6 and the girl was 5 when they were brought together by the familes. As a result of this arrangement, the fabric of the childrens's lives becomes so inter-twined that the very thought of separation becomes UNTHINKABLE. This is a true soul mate. This is so important that I want to say it again : if you can successfully inter-twine the children's lives, the thought of separation becomes UNTHINKABLE. This is what you need to strive for if you want a low divorce rate. Contrast this to our current "wisdom", which strives for independance, self sufficiency, strength, women's rights, men's right's, children's right's, and the whole "dating game", which takes our children's precious hearts and rips them to shreds. The new thinking cannot solve any of today's problems. Rather, it is the cause of today's problems. Who do you think will have a lower divorce rate, the "ancient tradition" mentioned above, or our "new thinking" tradition? I believe things could improve substantially if we try to fuse some of the elements of "ancient tradition" with the rigors and "artificial environments" of modern life. This is entirely possible, but so far our sociologists and cultural leaders (both in the West and in Thailand) have failed to even identify the root cause of the problems. This is why everyone is spinning out of control, and this is why I know that things will continue to get worse, MUCH, MUCH worse before they get better. Cheers!!

    • Anonymous commented : ve read some very interesting books about it and I would like to post some quotes from "The Teaching of Buddha", by Buddhist Promoting Foundation, Japan. So everyone please feel free to correct me if I am wrong about anything. "The parents should do five things for their children : - avoid doing evil, set an example of good deeds, give them an education, arrange for their marriage, and let them inherit the family wealth at the proper time. If the parents and child follow these rules the family will always live in peace." pp 214. "Third, people should respect old customs and not change them unreasonably, and they should also observe the rules of ceremony and maintain justice." pp. 230 Friends, makes sense to me. My book on the teachings of Budda does not specifically say for the parents to arrange marriage at puberty, but apparently this is what Thailand has been doing for a very long time. "Or students' sex: ``Look at the history, at what age did a Thai girl want to have a husband in the past? When she had her first period! The system of modern education teaches that virginity should be protected until university graduation, and if a woman chooses to lose it before we panic because we think it's such a big problem." - Outspoken writer Lakhana Punvichai in Bangkok Post Real Time, March 28, 2003. "She says men fear her. She says they try to stay away from her free-spoken radius of tough thoughts and liberal lucidity. Now we hear her think, we watch her unravel, and ah, we say those men don't know what they are missing." Sadly, Ms. Lakhana attempts to legitimize casual student sex by comparing student sex to marrying your soul mate and life's partner when you are young. They are not the same at all. For my feelings on this teaching, see my 'Background Info' post. Yes, I am afraid of her, and yes, I do know what I am missing. Cheers!!!

    • 20 replies, 16,987 views

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