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    Prayut raps Thai PBS reporting 

    News, Published on 18/03/2016

    » Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Thursday slammed Thai PBS, the country's sole public TV station for its "one-sided" reporting despite it being financed by the state budget.

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    Art under stress

    Life, Published on 02/12/2015

    » Life's critics take a look at how artists in different fields reflected upon Thailand's political situation over the past 18 months — or why they chose not to.

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    All aboard Ezra's maiden voyage

    B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 10/08/2014

    » With a gravelly, whisky-drenched voice that belies his young years, George Ezra delivers a captivating debut album that will take you on a journey

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    Shan drug lord arrest across from Chiang Rai

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 27/04/2012

    » Shan drug lord wanted by China for murder of 13 boat crew members on the Mekong sent to China immediately after arrest in Laos.

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    Chuvit makes news twice

    Terry Fredrickson, Published on 30/09/2011

    » Chuvit Kamolvisit was back in the news yesterday, first embarrassing police about illegal casinos and then being embarrassed himself over his involvement in the sex business.

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    Sin sod and in-law

    By Anonymous, Created on: 13/09/2006, Last updated on: 25/12/2008

    » I supported my gf through colleage and Uni (her parents are not rich), now that she has graduated, i wanted to marry her. But her parents are asking for 1Mil Baht for dowry. I had the money through hard earned savings (i am just a salaried worker), but i find the dowry excessive. I am afraid this...

    • Anonymous commented : ing over it" are in many cases the Thai family being polite to not cause problems with the new son-in-law, even though he shows no manners or respect. None of the stories match my circumstances or experiences. I think a lot comes down to the social, moral and financial circumstances of the family that you marry into. This is the whole story and nothing else matters. There are good and bad in every country, and good and bad in every family. Perhaps, if I had married into a ratbag family, I would have acted differently. We married a little over a year ago and certainly the bride price was a big problem to me in the early stages of our wedding planning. The whole concept of sinsod was as much against my cultural background as it was part of her culture. In her family's social group it would have been a major embarrassment for a daughter to marry without bringing a bride price into the family. I think it is how the matter is handled by the family, that makes it acceptable or unacceptable to a foreigner. My wife was well educated by her family and always had a well paying job. She always had always contributed "Mother's milk" to her family since she left school and got a job. In our case, my wife and her mother opened a joint bank account and the 250,000 baht sinsod was placed in that account. We also made a gift to her parents of a portion of the wedding present cash we were given, and that was banked in the account as well. I paid for the wedding for some 300 guests but I insisted on some control over our budget so that I would get no nasty surprises and they controlled that part very well. I also bought about 30,000 baht in gold, some of which is for me to wear, not her. We have the gold in New Zealand and we pay a slightly increased "Mother's milk" payment each month, now she is not there to help with family matters. She works part time and contributes to the mothers milk and the housekeeping budget while she attends school to improve her English. If we ever separate, she gets to keep the sinsod money. Because we stay together, at some point her mother will die of old age and the bank account will default to my wife, which in that event, means us. I feel that both sides of the family have had their culture and their pride respected over the wedding arrangements and is my belief that the family genuinely likes me and respects me. There have been no demands for money for any silly reasons. But as there are several children in the extended family attending university, we and other more affluent members of the family have all given money to help out. In our case the amount has been much less than some others in the family pay because my wife has had some expensive medical treatment and the family respect our financial situation. I think that in certain parts of Thailand, many families consider the daughter to be a cash cow to be sold as often as possible for as much as possible. Many writers have had disturbing experiences with greedy low-class people. But then these people live in every country and I would not marry into a family like that in my own country. I certainly would not go to another country to marry into a "trailer trash" family. The solution is simple. Marry a girl from a "Jai Dee" family and you will have no problems. The trick is, it is difficult for a Farang tourist to meet really good Thai girls.

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