Daewoo

Daewoo, on 2012-05-01 10:48:18, said:

Daewoo ... few people have such clarity on the subject ... but may I add 2 humble additions to your assessment?

1/  when trying on that shirt ... make sure it's a Female school uniform (University of course!) ...
2/  make sure she is an orphan.  Not only are you assisting the potentially underprivileged in Thailand (you do have charitable bones don't you?) but you have removed the future Parents complication.

Thongkorn, on 2012-04-13 22:47:56, said:

Exactly. The subject  could just as easily read, ' what kind of moron brings a $2000 video camera out on songkran '.



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The VAT refund desk at the airport most definitely check your passport before issuing your refund slip which you swap for the actual refund air side.

Never mind "new challenges", I really don't think they can even cope with current and existing challenges.

Gone, on 2012-03-19 11:14:10, said:

He didn't say it was a "new law." He said there would be stricter enforcement of existing law in response to a high profile case of someone getting away with something due to the lax enforcement of the existing law.

Many new policies seem to come about as a result of farang abusing current policies [and probably because of discussions on this board where advice is given to work around existing policies or to exploit loopholes].

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I fly internationally out of Suvarnabhumi usually two, sometimes three times a month.  In more than 40 trips over the last year, I have NEVER waited more than 30 minutes at passport control exiting and not more than 25 minutes entering.
REUTERS just carried a story making it sound like two hour waits are the norm; that is just so untrue and inaccurate. Yes, occasionally several high volume flights will coincide due to flight delays and long back ups can ensue but that also happens at every major international airport in the world.  For instance, I have had hour long lines in Hong Kong and Atlanta.

that is correct according to their website, I would use booking.com to book them.
Or use their dedicated booking form

http://www.heidelber...bookingeng.html

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The drop-off worked like clockwork then.  

All I can say is who cares what other people do?

I was in Non Khai once with my then close-to-my-age g/f.  We went into a fairly nice restaurant, and while sitting, an oldish guy, impeccably dressed, came in with a very young, very beautiful woman, also impeccably dressed.  He held out her chair, and they conversed in Thai throughout their meal.  There had to be 50 years between them, but both seemed happy.  I caught the guy's eye and gave him a salute. He smiled and saluted back.

If you can, why not?  And whose business is it anyway?

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huge amount of off topic and/or insulting posts gone...

boys, behave yourselves....

clare:

some of the more important things u should be listing as someoen who has never been away from home before are things like:

bank accounts and how to do in thailand (not so simple)
visas (cracking down on visa runners)
if u dont eat meat and stuff, to tell the thruth, most thais in those dinky apartments dont cook, they buy stuff at the local stalls-- its cheap and easy but if u dont eat that, it will be less easy and less cheap. they dont cook in the rooms cause the rooms rae very small, in many thai living areas in the city, they cook on the balcony or in the hallway balcony, sharing area with others.

its a very big change to go from england home to bangkok home if u've not travelled before.

another more personal note: here on my kibbutz we get a lot of people moving here because they had it 'bad' from wherever they came from. however, mostly, their troubles and trials found them here also, either because they got themselves involved , again, in the same types of situations or similar (from nasty boyfriend/abusive relationships to monetary troubles) ones... your psychological baggage goes with u no matter where u go. as for leaving one bad area for an other, i think u are going from the frying pan to the fire.  

i have  three kids some older then u, ex army and independant, and i still wouldnt imagine my duaghter or son moving to an asian city without them first living in there home country city on there own for a while, to gain experience needed.  liviing is different then travelling around, hoboing, living here and there ... u are running from something spooky because u could just as easily move to somewhere else in england, hel_l, u could come to my kibbutz as a volunteer and live /work/travel/meet cool poeple/get away for a while, and we are different then england, being mediterreanean and middle eastern.  

you are worring about clothing sizes but not about actual living expenses: transport, medical (where to get the pill , or what to do in a medical emergency), culture shock , and ill tell u something else. i taught in thailand for all of two weeks in a small city in issan (ban chiang to be specific)and two weeks was more then enough for me. im not the teaching type.  

this forum can act like your home: we give support and also as uve noticed the occassional poking fun... but u will find that most people here really do know what they are talking about, their advice is golden (ive used it plenty), and great for english speaking emotional support...

good luck
bina
israel

Unfortunately they just transfer their problems from home to Thailand. Thinking a change of location will make all right

Big-whoop...now they can find them work de-feathering birds at a chicken processing plant or or gutting fish at a tuna cannery for starvation wages.

mrdeedee, on 2010-09-08 06:31:10, said:

Nothing to stop you loaning money to a company to facilitate a development.  Nothing to stop you being a director with a 49% shareholding either. All within the law.  There is certrainly nothing wrong with registering a 30 year lease with a prepaid second 30 year term notwithstanding that after 30 years there may be an issue with enforcing the second term.  In 30 years the law will have changed anyway and in 30 years I will probably be dead and the land / property belong to my children which was the intention anyway.  Fancy free is certainly not a term I consider approriate to the case in point.  Blaming the wronged party is a strange way to see the world indeed and I don;t see how being the victim of fraud can be anything other than being the wronged party.  Maybe your idea of justice is radically different to mine.

Berkshire, on 2010-09-08 15:48:20, said:

   The reality is the OP was trying to defraud the Thai people out of land, because using a falsehood and holding it out as true, ie: getting married and saying your not to the gov, is in fact fraud ....... His wife defrauded him out of the land she was also a party of in the first fraud, Since he asked his wife to be fraudulent and dishonest right from the beginning it should come as no great shock she is dishonest. She really isn't any more or less of a criminal than he is, since they both did the same thing in different ways ..... defraud people of land by dishonesty.  And yes even though he paid for the land it's still legally fraud.

In a fair court of law a Judge who knew all the facts would say that courts don't settle disputes between 2 crimes to decide which lawbreaker is more or less deserving of the ill gotten gains ........  The land would go back to the Thai  without compensation and the girl to jail for forgery

I don't believe one word of this nonsense story in the first place but from a legal point of view you really have no legal remedy when you try and complain to the courts that someone stole the stolen car you paid for from the chop shop, obviously, and this case is pretty much the same thing.

   Sorry it's harsh but it's only harsh because sometimes the truth of what people do is in fact harsh.   ....... I think it's pretty harsh to tell a girl you won't marry her because you love control over the family money more than her.  And any woman would feel that way.

   Hey Honey let's live together and have kids and act like a family but I won't marry you because then I won't be able to control everything ....... Yeah that's gona end well !   lol