Anonymous commented : I have friends and one relative working at the Thai Postal Service. They do admit that they have lot of bad apples in their ranks. However, mails and packages gone through other countries before arriving in Thailand. Many of the mails with checks were opened in Hong Kong by criminal gang there also before arriving in Thailand. Often, the packages are holding for inspection and taxation or for security reasons. With modern day e-mail and e-check, people should try find other way to send their mail, packages, or money. DHL, FedEx, and UPS are the prefer way to send packages. Gifts are taxable beside other commercial items.

Anonymous commented : Check the many web sites that offer information, the US embassy web site is the best. The embassy is the only one who can issue a visa, no outside agency can help you. The applicant must clearly show why they will return to Thailand. Family, business show reciepts business license, bank account, property. What you are trying to overcome is history, many Thais have gone to many countries and failed to return. So the need to show a reason for returnimng to Thailand can seem overwhelming. Gather the paperwork that she has and submit it for consideration, assume that she will be deined, wait a while, more money, reciepts from the shop, mom and pops title deed, whatever and try again. Pattaya is not a very good recommendation and the people at the embassy are aware of it's reputation. If she doesn't have a passport, that is a good start, travel together to Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, etc is helpful. Look at the application and try to anticipate the informatyion you will need. They will want proof, not just her statement. It will not be easy, but trying again will add some weight to the application.

Anonymous commented : Recently I was told by my Thai wife (I met her in a Hong Kong club) that she had an affair with a Thai men and has a 12 years old daughter and she asked me to adopt this grown girl as her step father. I am merely 32 years old man. I felt meserable but I have deep sympathy in her confession of hard life of her young days (I wonder if her statement was true or not because her eldest brother-in-law, a Japanese man was blocked to talk to me everytime I visited on her old mother, brother and sisters. In fact I wanted to talk with him about our marriage problem and listen to him how to manage his. He speaks well English and run his own business in Bangkok). I am sad to see that she even try to have her friends divorced from Thai husbands and remarry with American men. Do I have to suspect her as the paid agent by doing so ?. My parents, brother and sisters initially accepted her when we married but now all shunned her away as my savings have been dwindled. Language and culture barriers are others which limits to make good family. I refused to have child with her and now I have to have 12 years old grown daughter. What shall I do with this woman ?

Anonymous commented : I knew of a Japanese guy who married Isan teacher and had two kids. He supported her family with finest house in the county and rice mill and so on so that the mother in law can work and support herself. This guy sent his wife to the master degree and lived for 8 years. Recently her mother and her younger sister staying in New Jersey, try to let the teacher divorced and remarry a milk delivery man in New Jersey. The sister was ex-prostitute working in Hong Kong and Singapore and stay in New Jersey doing some lousy work. Sin Sot was partly paid 100,000 baht out of committed one million baht. On the secret process of visa processing to join this new husband, the Japanese guy caught them. He employed a lawyor, who said there is related laws of Sin Sot, Engagement, Marriage and family obligations in the Civil Act and these family violated clearly the related laws of Sin Sot and human traffickings. The guy is now preparing legal process against all people, his wife, her sister, her mother and the hooked up new husband and sue them to Thai court and New York magistrate with many critical, destructive charges against each of them. Unfortunately to this family, this Japanese guy is well educated international journalist and this time he is resolute to root out such fraudulant double marriage, not only custody his own children.

Anonymous commented : No-one made the land or natural resources. Land is the heritage of the people as a whole. Land values are not created by the owner, but by the demand for it, which is determined by its natural attributes or its location in relation to amenities and services provided by others. If foreigners are allowed to buy land, it will drive land prices and land rents upwards. This will reduce the standard of living for the indigenous population, causing abject poverty for many on low or no income. I have visited Thailand many times. The fact the poor can gather wild plants to eat on land not owned by anyone and fish for food means that nobody starves. But, as private landownership increases, this is option is rapidly diminishing. Of course people should have stewardship of the land; otherwise, they will not farm or develop it. But they should compensate the community for withholding it from use by others. People are entitled to value added by their productive efforts, but not from the value of the land itself, which is unearned. This can be achieved by a) the local or central government leasing out the land, as happened in Hong Kong. There the British Government leased land from China for 150 years and raised revenue by selling shorter term leases, or b) taxing the land values on an annual basis. The latter will ensure that the increase in value of land goes to the community as a whole and not the individual land owner. In this way, public investment in infrastructure, amenities, health and education services etc, can be financed without raising other taxes. The tax liability will also ensure that land prices remain low, thereby avoiding the government having to raise interest rates (as in the UK at present) to cool down the property boom. Interest rates have the same affect on property prices as a land value tax (lower them and property prices rise, raise them and property price fall – other things being equal) but high interest rates have detrimental effects on businesses and impoverishes those who are in debt. Thailand has a wonderful chance of avoiding the problems of a high land price economy – gross inequality, high business start up costs, inflationary pressures, and harmful corrective policies. People in the UK have become wage slaves for most of their lives to finance huge mortgages or high rents for a roof over their heads.

Anonymous commented : Hi Juta, I have a question for you and hope with your expertise you can assist me. I have been married to my husband for almost 2 years in Bangkok. He is a Thai citizen. We have our wedding certificate done and endorsed in Bangkok. At this moment we are working in Hong Kong and Jan 2007 we shall move back to Bangkok. I would like to know how can I go about to obtain for my visa to stay in Bangkok. Hope to hear from you soon. Thanks & Regards.

Anonymous commented : Be careful to farangs who seek for marriage through M, Y, match dot com, and many hundred marriage hoax dot com agents. Many innocent, female students, housewives, female teachers and female government officials are hoaxed into cross-marriage by offering unlimited conditions such as millions baht Sin Sot (dowry), adoption of Thai born children from former or incumbent husbands of Thai nationals. This networks are partly agented by Thai prostitutes and overseas prostitutes or ex-prostitute-married or divorced from farang husband. There is a New York agent. Her name is Mrs. Robinson (ex-Thai prostitute worked in Bangkok, Pattaya, Hong Kong, Singapore and lured a naive American young man to marry). London, Rome, New York, LA are the main places where lure innocent Thai women to marry, milk delivery man, sewage dealer, drug traffickers, unemployeed, prostitution runner, etc. Well educated Thai women found miserable life after known all history and capacity of new husband and dumped into commercial venues with adopted Thai children. All Thai women must be very careful and Thai government must involve in this international marriage and welfare of their own national children.