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Apparently they are just about to start the next stage which is a big water theme park. Is supposed to finished in 12 months.

My wife changed her last name to mine after getting married.  It was a bit of a hassle to do. Just went to her local Amphur to do it.  It took about 3 hours all up.  Most of that time was waiting.  The head of the Amphur did try to talk her out of it though.  My Thai language skills are very limited and I was sitting in the the head of the Amphurs office (had to get his signature) and he was talking quite sternly to my wife.  I asked her after we walked out what that was all about and she said that he was asking her why she wanted to change her name, if she was sure and that it would make things more difficult in the future, plus that I would be entitled to half of what she owned etc.  I was pretty angry and said I wished I had understood as I would have put him in his place.

True what a previous post says that some Thais don't like it.

I have used Commonwealth bank on several occassions to transfer money to Thailand and have never had any issues.  I have always done this via internet banking and you get to choose to send it in AUD.  It does take a few days to arrive in the Thai bank account however.

There is another company in Sydney (X Wing) that will also transfer money to Thailand for you and the rate is normally pretty good.  I have not used them to transfer money to Thailand but I have used them to Transfer money to Australia and was very satisfied.  Thai banks make you jump through so many hoops to transfer money out of the country and this was so easy.  We simply transferred the funds from our Thai Bank to their Thai bank and within approx 2 hours (once they could verify the tranfer had gone through) I walked into their office and collected the cash ($10,000).  The rate was also very good.

Where have you been sleeping?  Could possibly be Bed Bugs.