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    Getting married / divorced in Thailand - what's required

    Is Thai guy a good man to marry??

    By Anonymous, Created on: 30/06/2002, Last updated on: 18/09/2007

    » I met a Thai guy by chance and wonder if I get the right man?? Can any thai men and women give me some advise?? Thanks a lot!!

    • Anonymous commented : Hi Kok, Yes, I'm Chinese, of course, living in China. We're still keep in touch but he's not in Thailand recently. And we are still in very beginning stage. However, I always wonder if there have a honest men in the world, rather than only in Thailand, but at the moment I'm hanging around with a Thai guy. Do you have any idea about that?? suzy..

    • 14 replies, 14,207 views

    Getting married / divorced in Thailand - what's required

    its not always right that

    By Anonymous, Created on: 20/12/2002, Last updated on: 12/08/2010

    » actually i have a thai pretty girlfriend who being my girl for a year now. and i think thai women are serious and good one bcoz of i've known thai friends both men and women and they're not think about your money in their brain! now a days, they can work and earn as much as men can do. don't look...

    • Anonymous commented : I would think this is another foreign agitators who did not bring any concrete opinions to this forum. A coward would do this kind of thing without openly discuss about anything. csun = China Sun????

    • 27 replies, 36,653 views

    Getting married / divorced in Thailand - what's required

    family visa

    By Anonymous, Created on: 02/01/2004, Last updated on: 12/09/2006

    » When the Thai government will allow foreigners with Thai spouse and children to own a one year visa without the need to travel out of the country every 3 month or to show 800 thousands bahts in a bank account, this is very unfair and even most of the Thais don't earn this sum per year, why this discrimination...

    • Anonymous commented : Which Thai Constitutions are you talking about or before Thailand ever has a western style constitution? You do not need to forgive me since Thais have done nothing to deserve what are happening to us economically and socially in our country. I do forgive you for wanting to be Chinese when PRC does not even want you. Oh, they do want your Thai earned money by telling you that you are more a Chinese. CP gang lost lot of money in PRC for this Chinese-Chinese business dealings. Are you Thai or are you Chinese? You are trying to live your mirage in Thailand and destroying our Thainess and culture in the process.

    • Anonymous commented : No, Ian. You are wrong again about IMF payment. The PRC gave Thailand and PM Thaksin the loan to pay off the IMF with big red string attach to it. Now, Thailand is tolling the PRC political line. IMF does not care about economic status of lay people, which would impact them most. PRC made a calculated political move, which won their political support from Thai government beside the already overwhelm supports from the Chinese business communities in Thailand. As the results, western governments are labeled as white devils.

    • Anonymous commented : According to the book just released by Gen. Chavalit, negotiations for a loan from China fell through. So what are you going on about Rooster ? It was the IMF which bailed Thailand out.

    • 65 replies, 24,845 views

    Getting married / divorced in Thailand - what's required

    Understanding the American ways

    By Anonymous, Created on: 16/10/2004, Last updated on: 28/03/2007

    » I am a Thai lady who left Bangkok at the age of 20, lived in Singapore for 11 years before residing now in the US for the past 4 years. I lived in California for the first year & a half and now I live in Boise, Idaho. Determine to upgrade myself educationally, I enrolled for classes at the local...

    • Anonymous commented : Idaho, is not exactly the international hub of the United States. You are different and that you should be proud of. American's are never sure what to say to someone who is Asian. It is because for the most part we have few things in common. The next issue, we know pretty much nothing about Asia. My company and I send students from China to the US. I inform them of how to over come this problem that so many Asians face. I encourage them to join clubs. There are many in every city in the US. Then you will be with people who have a common interest. The next thing is to be friends with the people you go to school with. You can start a conversation by sitting down in class, look over to the person next to you and say.......Did you get your homework completed? Did you think it was easy or hard or long or borning. Then they will start asking you "Where are you from?" Don't assume American's will know. Most American's want to talk to you but don't know what to say. If you start the conversation then they will jump in. If you only smile then American assume your smile means you are shy and your English is not good. No worries. Be yourself and take risks. You have nothing to lose but loneliness. Hope things work out. Your American Friend,Julia My suggestion is not to run to Canada, because you will find the same problem or worse. The French - Canadians who only speak French.

    • 39 replies, 17,828 views

    Thai environment, energy, safety issues

    Solar Power

    By Anonymous, Created on: 29/03/2005, Last updated on: 31/03/2015

    » I dont understand why Thailand is not using the sun which is there 365 days/year. Can anybody tell me ? I am in the process of building a house but when it comes to solar energy i might have to import myself to only then be confronted with a high import tax on such products. And that while closing...

    • hawaiiman commented : Sorry--it's China..not Chine. The plant will produce a small amount of radioactive plant components over the long term, but still light years ahead of current tech.

    • 58 replies, 163,778 views

    Buying property + home in Thailand : issues + guidelines

    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 : Hey Aussie Dave. I thought that you probably missed this article since business section can sometimes be very boring. This partnership will be good for the business community. In the long term, common Thais will not be able to afford to live and or visit these places. The one of possitive aspect is that this business will help bring/improve the building standards/codes in Thailand to first world standard. Since certain ethnic developers will not meet the world building standards/codes due to profit and their old building habits. Real Estate/Residential Sales Dutch Brokerage Taps Luxury Market, 25 February 2006 The Dutch property brokerage My Trusted House (MTH) is expanding into Asia, using Thailand as its base to explore business opportunities in the region. ''We started with Thailand because European people love to take holidays here. After their visits, some people want to buy a house to stay here,'' said Ronald Joosten, the executive partner of MTH Asia Pacific Co. My Trusted House is a leading property sales and marketing agent in Europe, with a focus on luxury vacation homes. It established MTH Asia Pacific with Thai partners to handle its first operation in Asia. The local partners have not been named. Mr Joosten said that Europeans felt comfortable about investing in property in Thailand, despite the lack of land ownership rights for foreigners. ''Thailand is very strong in terms of safety, the economy as well as political [stability] compared with other Asian countries,'' he said. Apart from tourists, the company intends to target as potential customers the large number of expatriates in top management positions with multinational companies in Thailand. It will also link up with accounting, financial and law firms to help ensure that foreigners earn benefits from their property investments in Thailand. The strong growth of the local resale market for real estate also appeals to investors, Mr Joosten added. The company's first venture in Asia is Royal Maritime in Sattahip, Chon Buri. It consists of 25 luxury villas with prices ranging between 30 million and 70 million baht each. The company will hold its first event, called Living Rich Asia, this weekend at the Raffles Park Nai Lert Hotel in Bangkok, in order to introduce itself and the new villa project to affluent Thai clients. It will also arrange its first tour of Thailand for 50 affluent European investors in March. In addition, MTH plans to join with a local cable TV operator to set up Travel TV, aiming to broadcast across Thailand by the end of this year. The travel TV channel will be its key marketing tool following the success in Europe of Liberty TV, its 24-hour leisure and lifestyle channel based in Luxembourg. The television programming focuses on selling vacation-related products including hotels, airline tickets and property. The channel is currently seen in Luxembourg, Germany France, the Netherlands and Belgium. MTH has other property projects in the pipeline in Chiang Mai, Phuket, Samui and Bangkok. After Thailand, the company will expand its business into other Asian countries, including China and Singapore.

    • Anonymous commented : Mike. You are opening up a can of worm that you could not possibly could face. What percentage of people in USA are actually owning their own houses and or lands? I have never owned my houses and or lands. The mortgage companies and VA owned my houses and land. Since you are in this business, you would knew this. You are talking about made decisions in purchasing property; you knew very well that housing system in USA is segregated by different factors and could be viewed as underline racism. Why do you think HUD is spending tax payer money to house poor people in middle class housing neighborhood and paying developers to set aside their apartments/townhouses for people with low income? Why did we became US citizens? Do you do know why and since there are variety of laws installed against non-citizens and non-European descendents? Number one, we followed US laws. Number two, we served in the US arm forces. And if you have never been in the military, then you will know that only US citizen will receive full clearances and benefits. Let go back and talk about land title, all land tittles in USA could go back as far as since US government took them from whomever their previous owners were. That is clear and plain as A, B, C. It is like thieves leaving their finger prints. Yes, what were done were done and we could not go back. But everyone could not deny that those things are ok. The Jews were are doing their best to get payments for things that were took from them. Do you think they are wrong? Do you know why Al-Qaeda and other anti-American and anti-western organization are thinking? They are thinking like you. Yes, you done it and they could do it to. What would be the different if Al-Qaeda took over the US and sending all European extracts to concentration camps in the desert of the Middle-east?! Well, what done and what will be done, right.? As for Thailand, Thais are very much bring threated as third class citizens of the world because we are docile and manageable by foreigners. And for the indigenous Thais, we are the second class citizens in our country. And my family immigrated to US because western economic powers help ruined our economy and we had assisted US government in certain matter during the Indochina conflict. Otherwise, non-white families would not be abled to immigrate to USA. There are only two categories of Thai immigrants in USA prior to the early 1980...1. farang wives 2. Thai students from rich families and or government sponsored students 3. very rich Thais like those blue blood and or corrupted/connected 4. the exceptional others like my family. Do you know that government owned all the land in PRC? Why are there so many US companies doing business in PRC? It is not about names on the tittles. It is about making money and take advantage of the opportunities of making ugly amount of money in PRC. Nobody is nagging in PRC about not owning land for sure since their leaders would not mind to throw waves of human bodies at the problems. The past Siamese government was too weak and lack of will to make such deals like China about their territories like HK and Macau. Otherwise, Thailand would retain our territorial integrity and benefited from the natural resources and be independent from foreign influences and energy sources. Now, decedents of foreigners with Muslims and Chineses controlling these old territories for their distant masters. I would not be surprise if the next attacks on US soil and Europe by Al-Qaeda are being formulated in Asian countries like Malaysia and Pakistan. I guess that is why airport security in USA is profiling Asian men.? Mike. My advise for you is to enjoy the gullible Thai girls and women, enjoy the foods and the beaches, and stay away from local politics. And maybe, you could investing in condo and small business for your retirement. People, who are getting into politics, do want to make changes and help develop Thailand - socially and economically. Mike. If you are as wealthy as you stated and knowledgeable about realestate business, you could form partnership and making changes in building codes and city planning. Do you have a pioneering spirit?

    • Anonymous commented : To recap again, Mike and Aussie Dave. I have never stated that Thailand has problems with farangs living in Thailand since majority of them are visitors and or retirees beside businessperson. Thailand does have problems with illegal aliens too. The kind of illegal aliens that are not able to go to Australia and or USA. As a tourism dependent country, Thailand has opened door policy so we do attract all elements from developed countries. As Aussie Dave mentioned that Australia could easily controlling their island border. Thailand is surrounded by poor countries and rogue countries. US only have problem with their southern border with Mexico. Who do you think have more problems with illegal aliens and violated visa? Thais could not easily go to US and or other developed countries even to visit their family members there since they could keep us out...just because they could. But I think they are too selfish and too ignorant to leave Thailand since Thailand is the best liveable country in the world. It is like a indigenous Hawaiian used to tell me, "i have to leave paradise to find job on the mainland." As I mentioned before, Siam and Thailand had has been center of centuries of turmoils that are influenced and corrupted by international powers beside modern day corporate powers or those government owned corporate powers. So as I stated before, history tended to teach that humble and good guys always finished last. Iran, north Korea, PRC, and their axis surely understood it well. You and your like-mind do knew very well that Thailand and Thais are not your enemies...we are just easy to push around and third class citizens of the world.

    • 119 replies, 367,763 views

    Getting married / divorced in Thailand - what's required

    More Chinese Should Marry Thai

    By Anonymous, Created on: 28/07/2006, Last updated on: 13/10/2006

    » Given the increasingly close friendly economic relations between the two countries, why should n't more Chinese should be allowed to marry Thais ?

    • Anonymous commented : Ian. I am for exporting Thailand's local Chinese girls to PRC to marry those China-men who are the result of the "One Child Policy." Beside, even the ugly local Chinese girls do not want to marry local Thai farm boys. Better yet, Japanese farmers need wives and are unabled to marry urban Japanese girls. So more Thai urban Chinese girls need to go to Japan first since the living conditions there are much better than in PRC. Like the Thai-Chinese governor in the far Southern Thailand said, "everyone should have try some Chinese girls." He has commented about the redlight district in his governing province, which serving local and Malaysian customers beside other foreigners. These Chinese brothels appearancely imported in Chinese girls from PRC and elsewhere.

    • Anonymous commented : Well, Ian. You will have to contact the Snake Head Gang for the Chinese girls. As for the urban Thai-Chinese girls, you can place advertisements in the Thai and English language dating websites. Considering, Thailand does have a lot of surplus Thai-Chinese girls who are unabled to find their great expectations in Thailand. These girls could have a mass wedding ceremony like those Moonies in Korea. Those rich China men would prefer to go live in the comfortable life styles in the western countries and ...how about getting marry with those European girls like Russian girls or and Aussie girls.

    • 6 replies, 3,723 views

    Getting married / divorced in Thailand - what's required

    Huge Economic Benefit

    By Anonymous, Created on: 28/07/2006, Last updated on: 25/10/2006

    » If Thailand allowed more Chinese to marry Thai women.

    • Anonymous commented : Whatever for? To send their money back to China? Besidesm the only thai girls who will marry the chinese are those left on the shelf, either by the thais or farangs. Which makes them second or third hand brides.

    • Anonymous commented : No - so that the Chinese put more money into Thailand, and make more of a commitment. Obviously the Thai wife can not send money to China. And believe you me - when you marry a Thai, A LOT of your money goes into Thailand !!!

    • 2 replies, 1,716 views

    Getting married / divorced in Thailand - what's required

    Chainese Thai customs, meeting parents, etc.

    By Anonymous, Created on: 08/11/2006, Last updated on: 03/09/2007

    » Dear all, I am a foreigner legally working in Thailand for the past 3 years. Right now I am dating a Chinese-Thai girl whom I like very, very, very much. People - including this girl - tell me that Chinese-Thai culture is rather different in many ways from Thai culture. She is a "Proper"...

    • Anonymous commented : You must know the culture and tradition of China, Korea and Japan. These three countries regard it very much Shameful to their society if son or daughter marry foreigners, especially farang. They regard especially local woman carrying farang or mixed blood children, as 'prostitute' who gave body at money. Because through farang invasion into China, USA occupation of Japan, Korean war, they saw it by their own eyes. They avoid absolutely marrying African, Arab, Indian and south eastern asians whose complexion is deeply darkened. Three countries people in inter-marrying among them is not regarded cross-marriage and even today many millions of marriage are existant, in Shanghai, Manjuria, Seoul, Busan, Tokyo, Osaka or any part of this region. Today they accept northern Vietnamese man and woman because they are racially similar. However they avoid marrying Thai man and woman although there are some common-law relations seen but they do not take the Luk Geung (children with Thai wife) back to their own country but raise in Thailand. Auther here, I believe your marriage certainly have problem within three years, with many reason. Be careful.

    • Anonymous commented : Thai Chinese or Non Thai Chinese.. in fact they share the same culture as the Thai Native.. Their First Priority will be her Family, and you as Husband will always number 2. Why becos they are influence by the Thai Enviroment when they move to Siam. Well I am Chinese Foreigner from Asia but manage to marry a Thai Chinese. But dowry tradition they maintain and even demand higher. Guess what 2 Million Baht.. but I negotiate to around 120,000 baht.. deal or no deal up to there family decision. Well you are right they will not move out of the family, unless they work in other province and stay alone. However Chinese do marry Foreigner. I have a Thai Colleage, dark complexion, but manage to marry a Fair complexion Thai chinese. My Singaporean Chinese Female friends marry a American Negro man. His complexion.. as Dark as Chacoal. One thing for truth in Thailand, Chinese Thai are mostly well educated not only in Thailand but in Oversea University, so the family demand a premium. Next they want to make sure you are comparable to there standard. In Chinese Dragon & Phoenix. If you want to look for decent Chinese Thai, you can go to China Town in BKK, but do not mix with the China Lady coming to Thai for Vice. If you are serious look for Chinese wife.. look no further, please visit Singapore.. they are the breed with high standard but low dowry. The woman loves to marry foreigner. And the Man love to import overseas wife too..

    • 3 replies, 2,902 views

    Buying property + home in Thailand : issues + guidelines

    Freedom of Ownership by Owning Boathouse

    By Anonymous, Created on: 13/01/2007, Last updated on: 11/10/2015

    » Excellent idea my dear Rooster. I once heard of a farang on Koh Samui who built a detachable house - so when the Bangkok big-shots, who owned the land, decided to do that traditonal Thai scam of telling the farang to move off their land, hoping to get...

    • Anonymous commented : Jimi and Hans - you're both right : sooner or later Western countries will enact Reciprocal Laws banning Thais from owning in our countries whatever we can not own in theirs. Already we're moving towards this with ever-tighter visa requirements. It's a silly zero sum game, where Thailand replies in kind : but there you are - these silly Thai laws are a left-over from this country's military-ruled, Cold War era. I'm surprised how many Thais don't realise the world has moved on. As for your remarks about financial boycott etc. Jimi, it's obvious the baht is currently considerably over-valued. Expect a crash like '97, when the correction inevitably hits. They don't want to learn anything from '97 - there's too much money to be made ignoring it ! Unlike Vietnam, China, etc., which have moved on - Thailand is dragging itself back into the Third World.

    • 43 replies, 303,573 views

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