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Domestic / cross cultural issues - Thai / Foreigner concerns
It's a puzzlement!
By Eggmeng, Created on: 01/04/2011, Last updated on: 01/04/2011
» Songkran will be upon us again soon, and we'll surely have the usual letters about how a once lovely tradition has been turned on its head. Many will complain ad nauseum about how the holiday now serves no purpose but to add to the mayhem on our already life threatening roads. Not me though. Because...
Visa / work permit / resident / citizenship / dual passport - what's required
U.S. Visa Appointment
By thaiherb, Created on: 03/04/2011, Last updated on: 05/07/2011
» Can anyone help me answer my question on behalf of my brother? I applied for a B2 visa for my brother and paid for a pin number since February 17, this year. I tried to get an appointment by log-on the internet a few times a day for more than a month. Every time I log-on and answered all the questions...
Domestic / cross cultural issues - Thai / Foreigner concerns
Child Drowning Still Rampant in Thailand and SE Asia
By mracronym, Created on: 07/01/2011, Last updated on: 08/01/2011
» Child drowning is a silent killer throughout SE Asia. Every 15 minutes a child drowns in Asia. In Thailand alone, 2,650 children will drown this year, that’s 10 children every day. There’s a reason these staggering numbers aren’t flashed across new headlines, or really given much attention...
Getting married / divorced in Thailand - what's required
The prospective In-laws
By cadcolin, Created on: 14/07/2010, Last updated on: 01/09/2010
» Ok so i meet my dream girl who has agreed to be my wife meet the parents got there blessing everybody is happy been back in the uk a week and the prospective in-laws are now currently organising the society weddding of the century my gf is crying all the time her parenst have gone completley crazy...
Visa / work permit / resident / citizenship / dual passport - what's required
Permanent Residence Permit ?
By skyaslimit, Created on: 16/04/2010, Last updated on: 14/01/2014
» I never wrote to this forum before but there is a very big question mark in my mind regarding the anouncments of yearly PR here in Thailand which I applied three Prime ministers ago since then I am getting 180 days extentions regularly but no results, why is that ? I also search all the official web...
Domestic / cross cultural issues - Thai / Foreigner concerns
Turning your house into a shop
By Andy781, Created on: 18/06/2010, Last updated on: 25/06/2010
» I have just brought a house in a village preuksa village been here 3 months nice and quite apart from the Thais little yappy dogs that bark to much... I have just discovered the house opposite me is having building work done they will turn it into a little shop , this makes me very angry as the...
Domestic / cross cultural issues - Thai / Foreigner concerns
foreigners have got no rights?
By majoy, Created on: 24/03/2010, Last updated on: 12/04/2010
» We moved to this new house six months ago and everything is fine except for the noisy dogs next door. I spoke to the owner and asked if they could make their dogs quiet and she said it's not their dogs fault but the dog opposite who always stand outside their gate and make their dogs bark...how ridiculous!...
Domestic / cross cultural issues - Thai / Foreigner concerns
Maid in Bangkok
By SiamBob, Created on: 05/04/2010, Last updated on: 13/08/2015
» I recently purchased a condo here in Bangkok. I’m trying to be a good and considerate neighbor and resident, but without knowing I apparently violated one of the Thai cultural taboos. Sometimes while waiting for the elevator or walking around the building I speak to the neighbors and the condo...
Domestic / cross cultural issues - Thai / Foreigner concerns
Western fast food
By Pranot, Created on: 02/07/2009, Last updated on: 29/07/2009
» Today Western fast food is popular because there are many branches of this food everywhere and it is comfortable to buy and eat them. In my opinion, we should not buy Western fast food for three reasons: First, Western fast food is expensive. It has less quantity because a raw material in production...
Domestic / cross cultural issues - Thai / Foreigner concerns
Farang and their seemingly paradoxical ways
By Mr. Surin Province, Created on: 17/10/2008, Last updated on: 17/04/2010
» As a long-historied Farang resident myself, comfortable and understanding, I have to ask the age old question regarding Westerners that find it necessary to stay/live here while finding life so objectionable in many ways. Why is this so? I've experienced this throughout Asia {in particular the LOS}...
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