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    Wet future

    Terry Fredrickson, Published on 21/12/2010

    » Researchers predict that unless preventative measures are taking, climate change will put much of Bangkok under water.

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    MARRIAGE ADVICE

    By neil4374, Created on: 17/12/2010, Last updated on: 08/01/2011

    » Hey, Not sure if I've posted in the right spot, apologies if i havnt. I am a Britsh chap and my girlfriend is Thai, We are getting married in Thailand in February. I Have been researching the advice and documentation needed and now pretty much understand the hoops to jump through etc! However.......

    • nowayout commented : I got my Thai marriage certificate translated from Thai to English on Silom 3rd or 4th floor next to Central by an "Official" translation company. Had to go back because they spelled my name wrong (even after I gave them a copy of my passport). Then tried to use the "official" translated document at the Thai Embassy in KL. They found many translation errors. Luckily the Thai embassy in KL offers translation services and half the price too. They also gave the translated document an official "Translated by the Royal Thai Embassy" seal with the Thai version attached and folded together wth another stamp covering the fold. I made a good color copy and use it everywhere with no questions.

    • 9 replies, 35,592 views

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    Celebrate “Loy Krathong Festival 2010” at Centre Point

    By prnews, Created on: 17/11/2010, Last updated on: 17/11/2010

    » [color=#FF0000:2hc1gg8z][b:2hc1gg8z]Celebrate “Loy Krathong Festival 2010” at Centre Point[/b:2hc1gg8z][/color:2hc1gg8z] Centre Point Hospitality invites guests to celebrate “Loy Krathong Festival 2010” under the romantic moonlight at Centre Point Hotels and Residences. Guests will enjoy...

    • 0 replies, 1,840 views

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    Weekly ‘Sanook’ column

    By modsquad, Created on: 08/11/2010, Last updated on: 08/11/2010

    » Andrew Biggs writes the weekly ‘Sanook’( roughly translated sanook means fun ) column which appears in the Sunday Brunch section. A fluent Thai speaker and long time resident, his columns explore the sometimes humorous and subtle traits of the Thai people. Forum readers might enjoy re-visiting...

    • 0 replies, 103,096 views

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    XCLUSIVE DAY WITH YOUR MOTHER ……

    By prnews, Created on: 10/08/2010, Last updated on: 10/08/2010

    » [b:2032yu8q]XCLUSIVE DAY WITH YOUR MOTHER ……[/b:2032yu8q] Special International Buffet Lunch on August 12th, 2010 ( Mother’s Day ) at L’avenue Restaurant, FuramaXclusive Sathorn Bangkok • Price is 199- net / person. If the guest makes reservation for more than 5 persons, free special...

    • 0 replies, 2,063 views

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    Do you speak English Khun Noy?

    By surapong, Created on: 26/07/2010, Last updated on: 07/01/2016

    » Ms Noy’s gonna need some English lessons in order to pass her tests to prove that her command of the language is good enough before being granted her visa. The number of Thai women from the Northeast marrying foreigners is rising every year. Over the past few months, almost 2,000 people have shown...

    • ramdom commented : C'mon, I don't think anyone is so great that they can judge anyone else as better or worse, even though I'm going to a bit of it in this post . Beau58, your problem is that you think YOUR idea of what is acceptable is correct and everything else is not. Everyone's entitled to fall in love, and women in Thai bars tailored for farangs as a population are not much worse than the general populace. In the US, there are zillions of stories of women cheating on men (and vice versa of course), taking them to the cleaners, etc. and ALL of these people are NOT those who work in bars! So it's possible that a woman who works these bars might end up being a more loyal and smarter partner than someone who is college educated. The number of women who may cheat and play around with farangs is no more, I think, than the number of farangs who cheat around and play around with these women. So it's all quid pro quo. Working in a bar doesn't make one any less inferior to someone who doesn't, as your comments imply. It takes all kinds in this world, and people have to survive. Some people are fortunate enough to be afforded, and to seize, opportunities to be professors (like you and me), and some people clean toilets, and some people work in bars. It's a profession, and some do it even though it destroys their soul. I see by your comments you look down on this, but in my view, THAT makes you more unenlightened than anyone who would sell their body for the sake of money. I often say that people who work for corporate America prostitute their minds. People in general sell something, and you do too, as a professor, since you had to get paid somehow. Your judgements simply indicate unenlightened thinking (particularly in the Buddhist sense). The problem also is your role as an academic. I'm an academic also, a professor who's been honoured at the highest levels here in the US and who's been offered honorary professorships at Kasetsart and Mahidol (and Chulalongkorn if I desired though the problem is I'm told by a Chancellor that the U moves slowly when it comes to cutting edge science), all by the young age of 38 (I got my tenure at 32), and I can tell you we tend to live in an Ivory Tower. I am familiar with higher education in Thailand in science in all geographical areas quite well. Your comments indicate that you too are kind of out of touch, like many academics, as to what is happening on the ground. Every person is an individual, and people just don't have opportunities. If people are given these, they too will love to learn. I see education in Thailand generally on a slow ramp up. It is moving out of an agrarian way of thinking to one based on innovation, but it is slow. But given my numerous Thai graduate and postdoctoral students that I've mentored, I will say Thai people are as capable of innovation as anyone else in the world. I've given talks at Chulalongkorn, Mahidol, Kasetsart, etc. you name it, and I can tell you the humanity and the intelligence that happens in Chula (who are highly educated and extremely smart) is also present when you sit on the barstool on Sukhumvit or Silom (perhaps at a lower frequency, but that's natural in any place in the world). But both are opportunities to learn and you learn different things and skills. Where I am, we have tons of Thai restaurants and many are run by people who've had no more than a grade 6 education in Thailand, and some can't read and write in English! Yet the ones who've done this for several years or decades, their entrepreneurial skill would match or exceed that of your average MBA. So you overstate formal education. All people are capable of everything. If two people are happy, it doesn't matter how that happiness occur. I can't think of anything better than all the rich farangs marrying all the women who work in bars finding great matches and living happily ever after. If that happens, there's nothing wrong with that and in fact, would be a great equaliser and testament to globalisation. So more power to the farangs who've taken the plunge and the women in the bars who're willing to leave their homeland and go to a foreign country for the sake of love. I've defended the women working in bars, but I'll also defend the farangs who choose the lifestyle of going to an Isaan village and hanging out there, or those that open bars in Koh Chang. If that's what they choose and that's what makes them happy, who are you to judge that is any less better than your choice? Your judgements are what is telling (so I suppose are my judgements of you but I'll do it this time to enlighten you ). As far as money, a million baht, or 50K/month, is small change for some people. If they have it, why not spend it? I personally don't believe in the concept of dowry and can argue it out intellectually with a Thai person, but if you buy into it, why limit it? I'd say spend based on how happy you feel, and take care, as in any situation, and enter it with your eyes open. And screw all the naysayers.

    • 130 replies, 902,399 views

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    getting Thai nationality to work as a lawyer without getting married

    By Anonymous, Created on: 22/08/2006, Last updated on: 06/08/2007

    » Could anyone please advise me if my boyfriend, who is an Australian paralegal, is able to work and live in Thailand without getting married straightaway. He wants to move here and try to find a job in the law firms first, then we would get married when he settled down. I have heard that getting...

    • Anonymous commented : Khun Nat Aud 22nd...........Talk to Dr. David Glickman. Attorney at law , 807 Silom Rd 4th floor Bkk. He is an American attorney who is married to a Thai and also qualified as a lawyer in Thailand. A very approachable and nice man.

    • 11 replies, 6,207 views

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    Getting married to thai girl and getting Visa for Australia

    By Anonymous, Created on: 16/07/2006, Last updated on: 13/08/2007

    » On August the 28th i will Marry my Beautiful Thai girl friend i hope that we will be able to obtain a partner visa by Xmas so that herand her daughter will be here in Australia for the new year any advice on how to obtain Visa and how to have our mariage legally reconised will be much apreciated

    • Anonymous commented : OUTCOME PART 1 Firstly let me thank everyone for their replies, the positive and the negative ones. The positive gave me encouragement the negative made me work harder to get every thing right. After some hassle we eventually got legally married on the 24th August 2 dates later than planned. We then had or public wedding ceremony on the 28th, which all Credit to my new wife went superbly well. I would like to tell every one of my experiences in getting legally married so as to help others doing the same. 1. I got a certified copy of my decree nisi from my solicitor in Australia 2. I took this to the Australian embassy (STALAG OZ EMMB) in Bangkok Filled out a Customized Statutory declaration form to say I was single (Make sure you have all your details and your intendeds details) they then stamped and signed this, this cost $60 I think. They also viewed my copy of my decree nisi and said for all it was certified in Australia it may not be viewed as valid in Thailand. 3. We then looked for a translation service and being based in the Silom rd area we thought we would look there first. We were told to look down the east end of Silom rd, found a place that was closed, but phoned the number in the shop window. ‘Mr. Ben’ answered, “yes I can do it for you in 2 hours, come down to my new shop at the west end of Silom rd and I will do it”. We set off on our way and found another place but they would take 2 days. So we ended up at Mr. Bens shop. My First impression was that I had never seen such an unkempt place of business and thought that it was just one of many places he may use to draw his custom from. Mr. Ben was not there and the lady behind the desk phoned him and told us he would be there shortly. 2 hours dragged by in which I looked at all the pictures of Mr. Ben receiving his degree in law, meeting the king ect. He then turned up, said he would not be long doing the translation and Proceeded to do the translation on a 1960’s typewriter. After another 2 hours he gave us translated copies of my statutory declaration and my decree nisi and charged us 2500 Bht. 4. The next step was to go to the Ministry of foreign affairs, Sri Ayudhaya rd to get our translated documents certified. This was the easiest step in the process, for all the building is high security it is well run. I paid an extra amount (My wife has all the receipts and I can not remember how much) to have them processed with in 2 hour. All staff were very helpful, there are a coffee shops, restaurants and newsagents for you to fill your time. I left the place in a good mood for once. 5. The last stage was to visit the Ampher or District Registrar; we went to Bangrak District office (Bangrak which translates as Village of love). We took all our documentation including my girlfriends house registration and found we had everything except we needed copies of our ID (Passport, ID Card). We also brought with us 2 witnesses, you can bring 1 but they will charge you 500 Bht for them to stand in. We took over 1 hour to get everything stamped and sealed but were happily married at the end of it. In conclusion my worst experience of it all was how the Australian embassy treat it taxpayers. Mr. Ben although he held us up he did a good job and I see him as an old professional who has lost his way, I felt sorry for him. The Ministry of foreign affairs showed me that for all Thailand maybe backward in some ways, it can meet world standards admirably. I would like to hear from other people who have been through this process. Maybe we can post a list of good translation services in Bangkok. I would also like to hear your opinions on the Australian Embassy. If I receive sufficient replies/emails I would like to send them to the applicable authorities.

    • 23 replies, 15,284 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 : You can go to any mosques in Thailand to get married and the mosque will provide you with a marriage certificate. It's very straightforward. They can married you on the day but you can only collect the marriage certificate the next day. Both the bride and the groom have to provide two passport sized photographs each. There's a mosque close to Sofitel Silom Hotel, Bangkok.

    • Anonymous commented : d some how....but in my side..bangkok is way to far from Bukit kayu hitam in kedah... hence i really want to know about the islamic mariage procedure in sadao..because sadao is close to our country...it helps to reduce the cost to go there;-)and Zack,it is an honour for me to thank u if u can give me the call number of the person or the KADI in charge in this event(mariage)...so that i can make a confirmation with the kadi before i go over there...and last but not least...can u estimate how much money do i need to bring along during the mariage process? eventually,all your cooperation is highly appreciated...may allah bless all of people who help others from being the wrongdoer..thank u..

    • 39 replies, 63,949 views

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