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Never had a problem with the immigration team here in Kanchanaburi, always professional, polite and willing to help!

Unfortunately can't say the same about other offices around the country!

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Mae Sai,

Also very polite and very helpful

No, the XP Home here is the same.  There's another XP version available here that's not available in the US, a basic version, and that version you don't want.

However, I don't see how using XP home instead of Pro will help things... more likely add more problems rather than solve the current one.

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Do you mean windows xp for thailand only

Bought new HP PAVILION a 1051L with Windows Pro installed,the store set up everthing in my house,only problem was it refused to download anything,they finally took it back, now they are trying to set up another one seem to have the same problem,I am ready to tell them to install the XP Home,but I understand XP Home here in Thailand is not the same then in the U S. Does anyone have any suggestions?

I mean not easy....

even for people who are here, it is easy to belive...

Somebody could really make a fortune,create their own cartoons about Thailand from our forum and have them published in the STATES in the funny pages,everybody would laugh their ass off.

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Save your time mate, no one that hasn't been here would believe it!

Yes, you are right

Somebody could really make a fortune,create their own cartoons about Thailand from our forum and have them published in the STATES in the funny pages,everybody would laugh their ass off.

We have a lot of new housing construction going on where I live and I tell I would not work that hard for any body expecially in that heat.I am really surprized to see women working with them side by side.I also had many things done on my house and I can honestly say they are very hard working people.

I was a superintendent over a construction company in the STATES, so I know a little bit what I am talking about.

I bet this isn't the first time these a-holes pulled this kind of crap. Probably got away with it before . At least he got his wallet back. In America, chances are pretty slim he wouldn't see it again.

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You are right, in America it would be gone in a minute.

I am an American and also an engineer,the guy is just to cheap to take a taxy,

a much safer way to travel in BKK.

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“Many foreign visitors have displayed inappropriate behaviour and acted in disregard of local customs,” Senator Rabiabrat Pongpanit said.

Senator Rabiabrat Pongpanit should visit NANA PLAZA at 2 AM to see the real local

CUSTOMS

How are they going to trace anything.Thailands phone system is still in the STONE AGE.Ever tried to make a call from the U.S. most the time one can not even got thru.

CELL-PHONE CHAOS: Connection crisis easing

Root cause of call-failure problem still a mystery; ICT officials to ask TOT to expand its trunk network next week

BANGKOK: -- The problem of mobile-phone call connection failures that has plagued users over the past few weeks seems to be easing.

However, nobody knows if the problem will arise again or if current efforts to tackle the problem will get to the root cause.

Kanawat Wasinsungworn, vice minister for Information and Communications Technology, said yesterday that he would meet with TOT Corp executives on Monday and ask them to expand the company’s trunk network, in an effort to tackle the problem.

He said he had been advised TOT’s congested trunk network was one cause of the millions of failed connections across different networks.

All cellular networks in Thailand are connected through TOT’s trunk network.

A vast number of Total Access Communication (DTAC) and TA Orange customers complained that they could not make calls to subscribers of Advanced Info Service (AIS) over the past few weeks, but in many cases could still receive calls from AIS subscribers.

Many claimed AIS was blocking their calls to its network.

AIS executives strongly denied the charge, saying the problem stemmed from DTAC and TA Orange promotions that encouraged their customers to make a large number of calls.

Wichian Mektrakarn, AIS executive vice president for operations, reaffirmed yesterday that the company never blocked calls.

AIS has already checked its network and found it to be functioning well, he said.

He suggested DTAC check to see if the problem stemmed from its network.

Athueck Asavanund, vice chairman of True Corp, a parent of TA Orange, said he was checking call-traffic statistics from TA Orange’s network to AIS and DTAC’s networks over the past few weeks, after TA Orange customers complained they could not connect to AIS’ network.

While TOT has yet to expand its trunk network, several DTAC customers said yesterday that the problem was easing – but only during some periods of the day.

Rianchai Reowilaisuk, a member of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), told The Nation yesterday that as the holder of AIS’ concession contract and the collector of access charges from DTAC and TA Orange, it was TOT’s responsibility to tackle the problem.

The access charge is the fee DTAC and TA Orange, who are concessionaires of CAT Telecom Co, have to pay TOT for using its trunk network to connect with different networks.

Many affected mobile-phone users earlier asked the NTC, the industry regulator, to look into the matter.

But the NTC said the problem was beyond its power, as mobile-phone operators were not under its licence.

--The Nation 2005-04-22

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Appears to me that they have managed to find a more natural way to prevent signals getting through whenever they choose!!!!!!

Perhaps now we don't have to register our respective cell numbers/passports numbers with the bill.

T.

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Sorry mate you got it wrong, the human race is the cancer of the world

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Right on mate.

Thank God I live with my Thai wife in sleepy Chiang Rai province.

What I have seen of the Thai military and Police ,the could not fight them selfs out of a wet paper bag.

Need advise, will visit Penang with Thai wife, if I get a 90 day visa do I have to get a 1 years extention later or can I go back to my 30 day run after my 90 day runs out.

Everytime I see what New Laws they are Creating in Thailand it makes me not want to Live there. Currently I have Plans to get Married to a Thai Girl and Live in Ko Samui "happily" ever after. I am wondering if the Thai Government is gonna Out Law Happiness pretty soon.

I thought Thailand was Based on Buddhism? I guess the Government officals have all been influenced by the Christian Ideas of Hatred and Contempt of the People, instead of Following the Buddhist Principals of Compassion and Understanding.

What happened to "Land of the Free?" "Land of Smiles?"

How can anyone be Free and Smile if the Government is so Focused on Taking away the things that make people happy, such as Music and Dance, not to mention a little alcohol now and then?

Pretty soon maybe they will adopt Communism, who knows?

But the More I see the Thai Government do, the Less I want to Spend any time there at all. Now I am thinking about just Processing a Finace Visa and Bringing my Girl to the US. Florida is just as Warm as Thailand, and has quite a few Thai Restaurants. As Long as I Have my Thai Girl by my side, why do I need to visit Thailand? Especially if they are going so far out of their way to make me Feel Unwanted there? Can't Dance, Drink, have fun, what's the point?

Mark*

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Going to Penan with wife Oct. 18 to apply for Non Im. Visa A-O married to a Thai.

Got married May 13. Had to get prior approval from US Embassy.U S Embassy paper states that I am retired and have a monthly income of $ 3000 dated May10

It was tanslated and approved by Thai Ministry.Is this still valid or do I need a more recent statement?

Have U S passport, I am 61 years old and retired ,have $3,000 income everymonth

Arrived in April ,got married May 13, My wife and her 2 daughters had nothing, got a nice apartment and spend about 400,000 Bath to furnish and ect.Now I make a run every 30 day to Mae Sai, live in Chiang Rai .Now have about 100,000 Bath and get paid every 3rd of the month, use ATM to get cash from U. S. Bank.Would like to stay here.What are my options?