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Just received a telephone call from my wife saying that a small bomb exploded at Yala market making at least one injured.

Just yesterday people gathered in protests for the killing of a young woman.

Sad.

Also, how safe is that area for tourists at the moment given the problems I hear about in the south?

No problems at all. Even Yala altough seeing soldiers with guns around city it's normal.

Not many farangs around those areas...

You also have PowerOff 3.0. Very complete and free.

I was on the stickman's website reading up about stuff.

--> Is it true that Thais don't like discussing politics or any real world issues?

Sad but true...

And 90% of Thai's don't give a sh1t !!

Almost anywhere else in the world this would kick up hel_l, topple the government, evoke enquiries.............But TIT ! !

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It's worse, they like him. Even the fact that the King doesnt like him don't make them change their minds.

Maybe there's no alternative...

shame!

I've been here for, almost, 11 months and until now no luck. Well, to say the truth i quit sending CV's after 6 months...

Best of luck and prepare yourself for 6 month "hollidays".

I normally play Q3:A, RtCW and Wolfenstein:ET but no Thai servers though. Some lag but it's ok if you play on Japanese, Chinese servers.

democracy? where ?

it's illegal for foreigners to be self-employed in Thailand. I find this very hard to believe,

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Believe it.

because there must be thousands of self-employed foreigners in Thailand. So how do they do it?

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If they don't have Thai nationality so they do it illegally.

Other than that, some friend owns the business for legal matters but the decision maker is the foreigner guy. This will give him a work permit but not for one year. For that he must have 4 thai nationals on the company, etc.

Any suggestions?

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The forum has a lot of information about this subject. Try to search on the Jobs forum or make a more specific question there.

C'mon guys, It's their country. They are allowed to govern it as they wish. Sometimes I think we (the collective we who do not hold Thai passports) forget we are guests here in Thailand. If things of this nature irritate you too much, perhaps it's time to return to your home countries.

Plus, if you really need the porn, take a trip to Panthip or Silom Road. Plenty is available there... 

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So, following this logic... why countries would help each other. Let the poor be poor and the rich keep rich. It’s their countries so let them solve their problems alone without foreign intervention…

Maybe they could do a crackdown on prostitution all around Thailand, but that would affect the tourists based income…

Must just be you.      Head chef at most of the decent Italian places are Italian; although I have it on good authority that the place in Thong Lor opposite the police station is a Thai woman who lived in Italy for 20 years or something and makes the best Italian in the city.  Ditto for Indian.  Ditto Japanese.

Grunts in the kitchen can be from anywhere.... in western countries Asian labour is cheap so often is Asian.  in USA maybe Mexican.  here Thai, Burmese, Cambodians are cheap.

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Last italian rest. i went they were all thai.

Back in the west, at least they can..while farangs here can't...

someone's drinking water from the klong san sap...

is it me or when one goes to a chinese, indian or other foreign restaurant in 'farang lands' the people working there is from the respective countries while here in thailand if you go to a italian or other foreign cooking restaurants, other than chinese/thai, the people working there are thais...

Minimum salary for one year visa based on nationality, that’s normal…

Married a local and don’t have advantages, that’s normal…

Is there a foreigner town as the likes of China towns/arab towns all over the world, or even football teams where 80% of the players are descendents of foreigners that came to live in the country decades ago, that’s normal…

There is no racism, it’s just maipenrai…

Thailand is quite xenophobic when it comes to working rules. Well, there's the English teacher exception where this rules are reversed, for e.g. a English language native with asian face is not the same as a caucasian, even if he's not an English native and speaks far less English than the previous asian looking guy. I would say that many posters lost their sight when they come to Asia.

Samran, ‘all world’ is not necessarily the commonwealth…

What you would expect from a country where a foreigner cannot buy land, buy a condo in a building if there are already more than 50% apartments sold to foreigners, where you cannot start/own your own business,…

Two, three days ago I saw on a Thai TV channel some girl, whose parents where from Myanmar but living in Thailand for decades, that studied in ABAC (and got her masters degree) but since she is not Thai she cannot get a job, even speaking Thai like, or better, than some natives.

TiT…

The only "digit" of note is the thumb up their collective @sses.

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dream on...

Most are web developers with DB experience.  I need someone that knows what a socket is! :-)

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wait,

web developers with db experience and cannot create a raw function using sockets to connect to the db server? Those guys learn how to program where? They actually know anything about ISO Layers or at least what a TCP/IP port is..?

Wait a minute, I thought "Salary was not an issue here" 

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It's not - we'll pay local rates. Good ones too. We won't pay 150,000 Baht plus legal fees for an expat who will always be on the lookout for a better deal.

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I wonder where this number came from.

Why you assume that an expat wants 150k++ THB?

FYI in all my job applications to companies in Thailand i never stated more than 35/40k...

No one quoted the costs of that unnecessary test. BKK Post said something like 11 Million Baht, with 5 Million for the flight/logistics itself, 2 Million for breakfast and lunch, another 2 Million for souvenirs etc.

Was this president not the same that asked to turn off the lights and air-conditioners at lunch/meals ? To save energy, blah blah blah..?

ohh I forgot… It’s the Thai Rak Thai Baht party.

Good programmers are hard to find ONLY when you don't have the cash to pay them.

Then suddently they show up when you have the right compensation package.

If you are not getting anything, it's because your package is not attractive.

Good programmers are not cheap. If you want cheap, get students or Indians.

How much are you planning to pay them ? if anything less than 20k or even 30k, then you can keep dreaming. Actually more like 40k as you are "asking" business skills in that job description. Try 50k, you might start to find people.

These numbers are in THB for monthly salary

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Salaries are not an issue here - we are a $38 billion company ! You will see that salary is not advertised - pretty standard for Thailand, I think.

What I'm having trouble with - is getting people in for interview. I am using 4 agencies, 2 national newspapers & jobsdb. I just can't seem to get people in the door.

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If salary isn't an issue... what about drop out the "Thai Nationals only" quote, maybe then you'll get quite a few guys 'thru' your doors for an interview...

If you guys think that Indians are good and cheap developers, then you need a reality check. Indians might be good for call centers but they are absolutely crap when it comes to design and developing software. Many US and Euro companies have come back from India with their big projects because they were big disappointment and total cahos to manage. The Indians will tell you anything to get those contracts and then when they have them, they will piss on them. I have a few nightmare stories and scams involving big names like IBM, Motorolla etc...

Now, why would you want to go Thailand for IT ? their infrastructure sucks, their IT people are a little behind and difficult to manage, and they are not cheap because of those factors.

Now China is another game. Even though talented engineer would go as high 2000 dollars a month, their IT people are cheap and they want it BAD. For those in this industry, it's time to think career change because the Chinese are ruthless and they will leave no casualties behind 

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At last, someone that knows what he's talking about.

I work for one of the top schools in Thailand but I had to rewrite the entire computer curriculum before teaching it. They were still using Pascal as an up to date programming language. Any IT people out there will know what I mean by this.

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a bit off-topic.

Pascal still is a valid language, Delphi is the most common name now.

You do IT

I can't help myself, that was wonderful

I did find in Uk that not many people had daily baths  

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That's true

Glad to make you smile,

sorry for the mistake (TYPO) though (should read bahts)

But even the increases you mention indicate a 10% increase over 6 months. That would make the REAL inflation (and not the gov. reported 4-5%) for 1 year around 20%!

Those instant noodles are gonna sell well this year.

Cheers!

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A few baths may not seem so much for us westerners but we should see it in percentage. For example in the last months the price for taking a 'rot daeng' in the sois where i'm living almost doubled, from 3 baths to 5 which is the equivalent to 66,6% increase in price.

It should be no problem to unplug it without using the removal icon. If you data is really important and you are afraid then close all windows and try again. If this don't work and you are in a hurry then just shutdown the computer

Normally when you use small capacity hard drives this is not a problem but with high capacity ones then windows o.s. gets a little wicked. M$...