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Thanks guys

Planning to go to Bali next year with the Thai missus - does she need an Indo visa from the embassy in BKK, or as ASEAN member are they exempt and she will get a free entry stamp? Checked the Indonesia embassy site and it does seem to be the case, but no mention for sure if this is OK on arrival and for how long the entry stamp is valid. Any recent experiences?

Many thanks in advance

Computer + Internet + Use Of One's Own Digits = Answer To Your Query :jap:

Why the need to blatantly advertise the fact that an olive-green, military issue heavy duty tonnage vehicle belongs to the armed forces....especially in English??

Didn't affected households also receive only 5,000 baht from the previous Abhisit government during the NE floods in 2010? And wasn't there a big fuss about allocation of these monies through the local authorities due to widespread corruption?

Dear all Any suggestions for a simple, 'old skool'[ beach bungalow on the beach in Sihanoukville? ty

Morning all! Are there any shops in Nong Khai especially selling foreign/falang foods (apart from Tesco's). thanks

Nothing to do with her yet, she hasn't even formed a government.

<br />Didn't Yingluck promise the farmers 20000 bht per tonne of rice?<br />

I guess those officers with 'no real unit to command' are spending their time scripting the Thai soaps on their TV channels...

.."with 70 per cent of the budget going on salary and pensions as well as other items that do nothing to directly enhance military capability, technology and machinery."

..."especially those in the officer corps, most of whom sit around without any real unit to command."

70 % on salaries and pensions?? No wonder there's no money for maintenance and training and the birds fall out of the sky.

Guess they will be holding out their hand for aid again soon, most of which will go to the military, amid stern telling offs about how bad the West and capitalism is.

No worries, I have lived on Phangan for the best part of 8 years and August has always been hot :-). For good weather forecasts google Windguru Samui, they are very accurate. Have a good one!

Samui, Phangan and Tao should all have good sunshine weather in Aug (rains arrive mid Sept).

Surely they were arrested for filming the LACK of military equipment - possibly too embarrassing for the Lao government??

You are so spot on with this excellent reply.

you know whats not fair..... having to listen to the same old crap about the thai education system over and over and over and over again. everyone knows in is ineffectual, everyone knows it is corrupt, everyone knows it is the laughing stock of asia, everyone knows that the money is squandered away on show boating. will it change.......no. end of story. educated people are thinking people and we dont want that. in the north east where i live, there is a no fail policy. where is the incentive to get the students to think,to learn, to put what they have learned into practice. the educational institutions are more concerned about morning parades, do our flowers look nice around the school, does the school look pretty. when it gets to the point where they are now cancelling lessons so the kids can learn to cheerlead and walk in a straight line, then all is lost.

the students are smart, all they need is an opportunity to learn properly and a government that cares. so no change. the almighty baht is god here and sod the rest.

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Added a bit of mirth to this afternoons proceedings...

Sorry, his name is Mr Oun....typo!

Infront of the Thai embassy in Vientiane, look for Mr Pun. Short chubby man, good English, cost for double entry TT visa approx 2000bht. He guarantees a visa for u, but as always there is some risk of failure. Have used him 3x in the past, no problems, and he delivers to your guesthouse the following day. Best of luck!

Utterly sick.

As the title says, how do I go about registering a new website name? Thanks in advance

About time...3G has been working nicely here in lowly Laos for some time now. Welcome to the 21st century, LOS.

Spot on

The Democrats are doing nothing else than what PTP and its predecessor parties have done in the past: slinging as much mud as they can to impede and disrupt the working of the government in order to manoeuvre themselves into a better position.

If PTP and - in a broader scope - their Redshirt allies would have been less disruptive, the Democrat-led government might perhaps have had more time to implement mechanisms and policies that would have benefitted the Thai nation as a whole instead of having to deploy resources to contain situations.

Now the power has shifted to PTP and its coalition partners, and since the Democrats in the end are not any better than their adversaries, what do you expect? They will continue to vigorously exploit any little crack and loophole - however wrongly perceived and ridiculous it may be - to disrupt the PTP-led government. The circus is going to continue even after the government has been established.

It's a never-ending cycle and regardless who is in power and who occupies the opposition benches. The political-ideological rift is just too wide and - perhaps more importantly - political parties are not established to work for the people and the nation, but a handful of self-serving leaders. You do not join a party because you like its (hardly ever existing) clear policy platform, but because you have some obligation towards one or another of its leaders and because in return you will receive considerable financial/materialistic rewards. That is the downfall of the all-dominant feudalistic patronage system as prevalent in Thailand's political landscape.

The much-touted "reconciliation" is a matter of give and take, an issue of both sides accepting compromises and making concessions. Of course, neither side is willing nor capable of making such concessions or accepting such compromises.

The best way to true reconciliation may be indeed a national government comprising all political parties, although that is of course not going to happen under those prevailing mud-slinging attitudes.

Shame....especially with today's political and social challenges it won't help the country go forward. I guess both sides will use the courts to gain an advantage, undermine the opposition, gain brownie points. What gets me is the lack of foresight from the party leadership. Both parties probably had their faults during the election, but this is just getting too petty.

Has modern Thai politics, or should I say modern Thai election results, always been dominated by legal challenges? Or is this just a recent phenomenon?

seems to be the norm over over here, and it's getting worse.

Has modern Thai politics, or should I say modern Thai election results, always been dominated by legal challenges? Or is this just a recent phenomenon?