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The positive thing about the strong wind storm was that it removed many billboards promoting some condo project and advertisement signs stuck on poles and along the road side. Thank you mother nature.

n00b, on 2012-05-14 03:01:46, said:

Don't worry about - you'll be as safe in Pattaya as anywhere in the world and there are loads of great places on WS, and elsewhere, to enjoy yourself.

Just don't make a d1ck of yourself and try not to draw too much attention your way. I go out a lot on my own and have never had the slightest bit of aggro anywhere.

Sorry to hear that, hope you're ok.

Gone, on 2012-04-07 18:27:33, said:

yes but he will have a receipt from sending money from wherever he is to thailand.
And on any transaction don't you have to fill out the reason why you are sending funds abroad to someones account.
That with some emails should be enough proof shouldn't it ? or am i wrong and he has big problem ?

I went to the land transportation office today to get my driver and scooter license.  I have a license (car only) from the US.  Thought some of you might like to know the details.

Got there around 8am, and having ignored BB1950's excellent advise regarding what copies to have, had to run across the street to make copies and lose my great place in line.  Oh well.

Overall, it was an easy experience.  They guide you through the entire process.  Though a bit like being herded by cattle.  No biggie.

The DL was a breeze.  Had to do an eye color test, then a brake reaction test, then some test with posts where you have to line them up.  I suggest for the slower among us, practice going from the gas to the brakes real fast.  Several people failed that today.  Nobody failed the other test.

I took the "written" test and lucked out.  Passed my first try.  Some questions are a bit tricky.  You can study for an hour before you take the test.

I had to come back after lunch for the scooter test.  I failed the part where you drive over the narrow, elevated section.  But wifey smooth talked the guy into letting me pass as I only ran off the very final part of it.  I had to rent a scooter from across the street as we went there in the car.

Overall, very friendly people and a relatively easy process.  Though it did take all day.

But hey, I'm LEGAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Contact the Thai embassy, or the Thai foreign office department of consular affairs. They are charged with helping Thai nationals in problems and will try to locate her family, etc.

protection of Thai nationals abroad division: consular02 *at* mfa.go.th,

valid advise has been given to you already.

Fly out.

Take both, old and new, passport to airport and you will pay there your overstay.

At the same time they will transfer stamp from old passport to new passport and you are allowed to leave.

Isn't what he's really saying...

Thai's own land, but the Thai person is related to a foreigner (spouse, brother-in-law, etc.), so we think they got the money for the land from the foreigner, and therefore we want to take it away from the Thai person that owns it because it really means the foreigner owns it.

This would get laughed out of court by any reasonable judge...

(Now the nominee shareholders of "Thai" companies... - that might be a different matter entirely as that may actually be provable in court... However, if they start going down that road, there are lots of rocks to be turned over, starting with DTAC, Tesco, Toyota, Nissan, Western Digital, etc. etc. It would rather go against the attempt to get companies to continue to invest in Thailand after the flooding...)

Does anyone still question the stupidity, short-sightedness and greed of the little filths in charge of this country? If a Thai spouse owns the land then she owns the land and there cannot possibly be a law violation. As far as Thai corporations using nominees, the Thai law allows it so where's the problem? These people talk out their own asses and don't even understand their own system, which doesn't suprise me as they are all idiots! They don't care about their own people, they only care about pretending to have wealth and looking the part. They don't work for it or earn it, they steal it and are simply common theives. A message to all these greedy little Thai beurocrats who actually think they are something - we in the west who actually do have real wealth see you all as a bunch of corrupt, second-class world citizens who simply steal from your own people. You have nothing that impresses us and never will. Give me an Isaan farmer that works hard every day to put food on his family's table and a decent roof over their heads any day over any phony Thai politician/thief trying too hard to impress us that he or she is worth anything.

So a person married to a Thai has no right to buy a piece of land in the name of his / her spouse, and build a house to live in?

Nationalistic pricks.

Haze crisis is taking its toll on Mae Hong Son health

BANGKOK, 11 March 2012 (NNT) – The impact of continued haze crisis in Thailand's northern region is posing more effects on the health of residents there.

Locals in northern Mae Hong Son are feeling more impact from the haze crisis in the country's North, which has continued unresolved for many weeks now.

Haze-hit residents said that, at the height of the haze, blocked respiratory system, sore throats and dizziness are common symptoms they have felt. However, they admitted that face masks do help ease such effects.

On Saturday, the air quality test in Mae Hong Son indicated the average amount of small dust particles was at 210.3 micrograms per cubic meter, considerably higher than the 120 micrograms-per-cubic-meter safety level.


-- NNT 2012-03-11

Yes, was only for a couple hours it seems....

london, on 2011-09-19 18:38:37, said:

There are many people doing this in Pattaya.

I suspect that many units in most new developments are sold (initially) to people who have not the slightest intention of ever living in them or renting them out.
They hope to buy at a discount to list price and resell later, often before the building is even finished. Sometimes it pays off. Sometimes it doesn't.

On top of that you have the people who buy "fire sale" resale properties in order to put them straight back on the market at a higher price, possibly after a little "renovation" (aka painting) that is usually done on the cheap.

Some property owners here (or their inheritors) might be surprised to learn exactly what happens when they put property on the market at a "quick sale" price with some agents.

Turkey/Istambul but I spent most of my time in Bursa...the old Ottoman capital before the conquest of Constantinople and right up against the big mountain Uludag...fascinating place with good eats and I liked to spend time at the many local bira salonu...with 300 year old hamams bath houses next door...ancient...

if I had the money and the will I'd stay in Beyoglu in Istambul overlooking the bosphorus and adopt a rumpled suit and a perpetual cigarette and a little moustache and discuss east-west literature with Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk...

otherwise HCMC or Hanoi might be acceptable on  permanent basis...the food is better in Istambul...

'hey! ain't yew tutsiwarrior from Thailand?'...'yeah, that's me and what's it to ye?...'

pomchop, on 2012-02-24 14:38:19, said:

Um no, that is not my experience. I have never seen this in Europe, and I suspect that any hotel offering rooms exclusively to its nationals would be frowned upon. And of course, locals != nationals. While it's okay to provide benefits to the local community who has to bear the consequences of tourism, discrimination on account of ethnicity or nationality is certainly not the same.

Cheers, CMX