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In Topic: Thai PM Opens "Thai Kitchen To The World" Event To Promote Thai Food...
Yesterday, 14:29
jayboy, on 2012-05-27 21:08:01, said:
OzMick, on 2012-05-27 20:52:34, said:
Australia is a rice producer and exporter of medium grain rice, the size of the crop limited by water availability. Around 1 million tonnes/year is grown with the highest yield/hectare (around 10, Thailand 3.3) and lowest water usage in the world, and of course FAR fewer people employed so much higher incomes.
Can you imagine the look on Yingluk's face if it was suggested we could teach Thais how to grow rice.
Can you imagine the look on Yingluk's face if it was suggested we could teach Thais how to grow rice.
Australia's undoubted competitive advantages and Thailand's very low rice farming yields are a matter of record, but have nothing to do with the thread.
If there is a point here I should be mildly interested to know what it is.My hunch however is that the usual suspects inanely trail around the forum looking for threads relating to the Prime Minister with the aim of mud slinging.Fair enough but in this instance where the PM is making an excellent impression for Thailand in Australia they seem to have rather lost their way - so the question remains.What exact point is being made?
Having dinner with her (and 300 of her closest friends) tonight. I'll let you know how good an impression she is making.
In Topic: Converting To Thai Citizenship
2012-05-25 14:07:20
Time Traveller, on 2012-05-25 13:41:07, said:
samran, on 2012-04-01 13:06:03, said:
A few observations.
- It has struck me as quite amusing that those who have gone 'native' live the stereotypical Thai existence (earn sweet FA and live in a hut out Ban Nork way)are the ones that don't make the cut, whereas those who wish to emulate a relative level of earnings and lifestyle of their home countries are welcome to apply. For those who love to complain about the Thai system discriminating against them for being 'foreign', it is quite illuminating and a little ironic that the citizenship process awards you for being, erm, foreign in your outlook and goals. They obviously don't want people who set the threshold low.
- It has struck me as quite amusing that those who have gone 'native' live the stereotypical Thai existence (earn sweet FA and live in a hut out Ban Nork way)are the ones that don't make the cut, whereas those who wish to emulate a relative level of earnings and lifestyle of their home countries are welcome to apply. For those who love to complain about the Thai system discriminating against them for being 'foreign', it is quite illuminating and a little ironic that the citizenship process awards you for being, erm, foreign in your outlook and goals. They obviously don't want people who set the threshold low.
So why has the government insituted the Migrant Worker Labour scheme giving them ID cards, 2 year extendable visas and access to social services?
In Topic: Converting To Thai Citizenship
2012-05-25 12:13:30
Naam, on 2012-05-25 11:09:02, said:
NewlyMintedThai, on 2012-03-31 16:11:27, said:
I'm not cagey at all.
I had PR for over five years on application. Speak, read, and write Thai fluently. Owned a condo. Had salary of maximum 150K in previous years. Do you consider that "huge"? I sure don't.
So, do you know anyone who has applied and failed to get it? Where do your beliefs about "impossibility" come from? Everyone I know who has applied has gotten it (including those I met during the process).
I had PR for over five years on application. Speak, read, and write Thai fluently. Owned a condo. Had salary of maximum 150K in previous years. Do you consider that "huge"? I sure don't.
So, do you know anyone who has applied and failed to get it? Where do your beliefs about "impossibility" come from? Everyone I know who has applied has gotten it (including those I met during the process).
waiting patiently for your answer...
pretty sure he's said in the past that it was 3 years. Same with another person I know who just got it.
In Topic: Thai Residency Applications Being Approved
2012-05-25 10:40:11
Arkady, on 2012-05-25 09:51:40, said:
lopburi3, on 2012-05-22 13:25:11, said:
Believe Arkady is showing his age - decades ago rules were different - at this time being born in Thailand does not make you Thai.
Fair cop. I admit that I was born before December 1971 when the revolutionary decree banning citizenship from those born in Thailand to alien parents without PR (and stripping it from them retroactively) came into effect.
Still, back then, many countries employed the same principle.
It has only been since the 1980's that countries have changed to the 'need a parent(s) to be PR' rule for citizenship to be gained.
US now is the only major exception that I can think of- and only due to the face it is in the constitution and not just plain old legislation which can be changed at a relative whim.
