modsquad commented : Comment from Khun Pampan Well, this regulation is both fair and unfair. I am one of the Thai women who is about to marry a German guy. The unfair point for me is that, I graudated with bachelor degree from the USA and double master degrees from the Netherlands and I still have to pass a German test before getting marry. Yes, I am non-EU citizen, but this regulation doesn't apply to those who are from developed countries such as Japan and Korea. Do they speak English or German better than me? I don't think so. That is why I said it is not fair. However, if you look at the integration point, it is good for Thai women to be able to go outside interacting with the others, they can take part time job or classes.

overhaul38 commented : [quote="modsquad":1npw1i1o]Comment from Khun Pampan Well, this regulation is both fair and unfair. I am one of the Thai women who is about to marry a German guy. The unfair point for me is that, I graudated with bachelor degree from the USA and double master degrees from the Netherlands and I still have to pass a German test before getting marry. Yes, I am non-EU citizen, but this regulation doesn't apply to those who are from developed countries such as Japan and Korea. Do they speak English or German better than me? I don't think so. That is why I said it is not fair. However, if you look at the integration point, it is good for Thai women to be able to go outside interacting with the others, they can take part time job or classes.[/quote:1npw1i1o] Liberal immigration laws/rules are always appreciated. I would ask you to work on the requirements for a Farang to obtain Thai citizenship or a long term visa.

EODGhost commented : [quote="overhaul38":ywz7h0ab][quote="modsquad":ywz7h0ab]Comment from Khun Pampan Well, this regulation is both fair and unfair. I am one of the Thai women who is about to marry a German guy. The unfair point for me is that, I graudated with bachelor degree from the USA and double master degrees from the Netherlands and I still have to pass a German test before getting marry. Yes, I am non-EU citizen, but this regulation doesn't apply to those who are from developed countries such as Japan and Korea. Do they speak English or German better than me? I don't think so. That is why I said it is not fair. However, if you look at the integration point, it is good for Thai women to be able to go outside interacting with the others, they can take part time job or classes.[/quote:ywz7h0ab] Liberal immigration laws/rules are always appreciated. I would ask you to work on the requirements for a Farang to obtain Thai citizenship or a long term visa.[/quote:ywz7h0ab] Well Said.

Michael Bukit commented : [quote="Voice":2ddv9apf][quote:2ddv9apf]Michael wrote “Hi Voice. What make you think so that country like Singapore has kept up their standard learnt from the English colonisation. FYI, what make Singapore today is because they had uncorrupt and good leadership government. Many people have thought the same like you when they discuss about Singapore achievements. When the British left Singapore, Singapore is just a third or fourth world country with nothing except the Singaporean. No resources at all and even waters had imported from Malaysia. Because of their good leadership and uncorrupt government and the hardworking people that how they prospers until today. There are many countries colonized by the British before and today they are still a third world country. Look at Burma, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India and many more in the continent of Africa. In Asia, you only see 2 places that are colonized by the British that are doing pretty well. That’s Singapore and Hong Kong because of their hardworking people. The rest are still struggling and some are doing just fine, except country like Brunei with oil.[/quote:2ddv9apf] Look Michael I can agree with some of your comment but what make you think they are uncorrupt! Yes they have good leader without a doubt. Singapore chooses to keep up with their standard because they have a good example without it they would be like other. I know many good and corrupt people in Singapore but because they have only few million people it easy for them to manage. But it no denying that they do work very hard and always have very high standard in everything that they do. Even today they still have the old colony influence and they have adapted to their own style. We cannot achieve our goal without keeping up with good standard Michael. We all have a choice Michael but whether we choose to do them it something that make us different.[/quote:2ddv9apf] Hi Khun Voice, thanks and good to see your reply to my earlier comments. When I said uncorrupt I don’t mean totally zero corruption. I mean minimize. Corruption is everywhere and every country. Click this link and have a look the least corrupt country in the world. http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/gov_c ... corruption FYI, the first economic adviser to Singapore was Albert Winsemius a Dutch citizen. What Singapore had achieved today got not much to do with British colonization. But I will say the bigger influenced in the use of English and of course the laws that set by the British. You can go to this link to read more about him if you wish. http://www.lankanewspapers.com/news/200 ... space.html If you had good advisers and doesn’t have good leaders, honest government, hardworking people and leaders that are not wishing to listen and take other advises it is useless. Singapore achievement is because they had all these and the leaders are willing to accept advises and listen to others. They then implements systems given by the advisers and at the same time improves them. You mention that because they have only few million people it easy for them to manage. This is what many people have thought. But look Khun Voice, there are many countries in this world with small population like Singapore and has been colonized by White European before with many natural resources but they are not doing as well today. And look at Japan with not much resources too and the population is almost 130 million, Korea with 50 million, Germany with 80 over million just to name a few. Their population is not small but they are doing well too. Or can we say they are doing well because they had a large population? To me population is not the issue. The leaders in the country must be honest, minimize corruption, capable to set good systems, provide good education to educate the population, good rules & regulations, laws and most importance they must also enforce them. Talk about the size of country and population. When the British withdraw from Singapore, the Brit had actually return Singapore to Malaysia in 1963. Then Singapore became part of Malaysia again. In 1965 Singapore was throw out of Malaysia and became independence. Because of Malaysia could not agreed with the minister of Singapore demands OR policies. Malaysia thought that if you are demanding all they wants it is better to throw you out and let you swim in the big deep ocean till you start asking for helps. Thinking that Singapore is so small and will not last and survive for more than a few years. Best is to kick them out first and then let them beg Malaysia to take them back if they can’t survive anymore. And Malaysia could have the right to say look, we can take you back but this is the terms & conditions. Accept it or forget it. Who will be so generous to give away an island the size of Singapore to other? A piece of only 4.6 sq kilometer of land at the border of Cambodia already with so many problems.Fortunately Singapore had survived until today and doing much better than Malaysia. Now the Malaysian has said the same thing like you. Singapore had made it because it is small and easy to manage. Today Singapore infrastructure is ones of the best in the world. Public transportation is first class and cheap too. I’ve spent many years living in Singapore that’s how I come to understand.