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Silly and invasive to the point to being embarrassing.

How is it invasive of them if you volunteer information? That anybody is naive or stupid enough to answer any question on those forms, including proposed address in Thailand, is what is really embarrassing. If you are on a tourist visa put down a hotel.

First thing to always be checked in these incidents is insurance beneficiary, yet you never hear it mentioned.

I knew him fairly well. Pretty much the whole time he has been in Thailand. I know of a few people back home that will be very sad over this.................

RIP.

Apparently, his staff will not share that sentiment.

No disrespect to the deceased but is climbing over condo balconies at 39 floors high the best way to to go about gaining entry to your condo after forgetting or losing your keys.

The guy was obviously a business man and therefore had access to money,why would you not stay in a cheap hotel for the night and or attempt to gain entry with the aid of the condo management or a lock smith.

Extremely sad way to lose your life for the sake of opening a door,could have kicked the damn thing in and replaced it as a last resort.

Suspect there is more to this than meets the eye as usual.

RIP.

Who leaves a balcony entrance unlocked, even at the 39th floor? If he believed he could climb in that way, surely he believed it needed to be locked.

Thanks very much for your replies people, most kind of you!. I'm keen to go, as is my Missus, and I think we'll make the trip this Thursday.

One more question please, I see the tickets are available on Thai Ticket tech but can you just buy them at the gate?.

Surely, you will have a pleasant time but keep one thing in mind. You are supporting a sham event. It is by no means an open tournament. There is no qualifying and they pay a few key players appearance money to show up and make it appear to be a significant event and the legitimate open they pretend it to be. While this is par for the course in Thailand, pun intended, just remember that golf is at its core and tradition a game of integrity and character. The Japanese and Thai stakeholders the stage this event need their hands slapped for passing off a ruse instead of conducting a bona fide open golf tournament. Have fun.

Jesus I love that type of food and eating in a semi open place. Can't wait for the upcoming holiday

semi open place, you mean the hotel or the place I had the thai food? I love this hotel because it is so quiet and it is wooden, no concrete jungle style places. When do you plan to come here and have you been before? Best visa run I have ever done and I have been to malaysia, Ranong and Vientiane. I also have a few more pics, one sec... My all time fav dish ever since I came here 5 years ago, gang know wan

For the record, the casino is named Savan Vegas and the hotel rooms are quite comfortable, and when you check in they give you vouchers for the hotel buffet so all your meals are included in the cost of the room. A Thai guy named Dean runs the front desk and rooms division. He is from Khon Kaen originally and very helpful. There are a couple of overnight buses from Mochit in Bangkok to Mukdahan, Sahapan Tour 029363690 and Bus 999 028721777. From the Mukdahan bus station you can catch a Tuk Tuk or look a Savan Vegas van at about 7 am. You should actually call Savan Vegas and reserve in advance so they are certain to be looking for you at the bus station. Even if you miss the Savan Vegas van, they have a hospitality center on the left at the entrance to the immigration area before crossing the bridge. The folks there will fill out your immigration forms and put you in a shuttle and escort you through the border and immigration and take you all the way to the casino hotel.

There is also a 5 am morning bus from Khon Kaen that waits at immigration and then takes you all the way to the Savanakhet bus station. This is a good way to go if they go back to same day visa processing at the Thai consulate.

If you want to get mugged, buttraped and killed go to Mehico! If you want a life, go to Thailand!

Such ignorance requires no response other than to laugh at what you do not know.

Don't know why no one has mentioned that foreigners don't have property rights just like here in Thailand

Want to own property as a foreigner then you must set up a company to own it, sound familiar

Not sure where you got your opinion but speaking as one that owned land in Mexico, unless laws have changed there, foreigners can own property in Mexico but not within proximity of the coastline.

Cabo looks like a cool place, maybe a bit expensive.....I think you can even fish for marlin there. There seems to be lots of variety on both Pacific and Gulf sides though

Cabo is great for fishing because you have the Sea of Cortes and the Pacific Ocean offering up excellent bill fish south and to the west in the Pacific, with fine yellowtail, dorado, and tuna south and to the east and north. The Palmilla and Solmar fleets were always the best out of Cabo, but halfway up Baja on the Sea of Cortes is a sleepy little village called Loreto where you can rent a 23' panga boat and skpper from Arturo's fleet and have a magnificent time fishing for dorado, yellowtail and sail fish. Cabo has nearly ten very good golf courses and the best restaurants were always in San Jose del Cabo on the southeastern tip of baja. The only negative is that Cabo has become a bit like a suburb of Los Angeles, with Californians flocking there for fun in the sun and that has driven up the prices. Cabo would not be the first choice for retirement. Puerto Vallarta is far less "Americanized" and has decent fishing, although a bit of a boat ride to get there, but the golf is nice in PV.

"No I am not bored....and it's not JD time either."

I know of at least one gecko who would beg to differ.

Should train the gecko to be a hood ornament.

If Thailand is on your list and you hope to settle down with a nice Thai wife...save yourself the time and headaches by just sending your 5M and stay in your home country. This is the preferred Thai way and how things will turn out anyway if you follow the hope.

"Thawil said he was not trying to mince words"

Erm.........ok then.

Well, he is correct, no mincing, just redefining and inventing his own facts.

Disgraceful prejudice and bigotry.

Do the Buddhists in Thailand truly understand their own faith? I think rather not. Gautama Buddha taught us to improve ourselves, not police others' behavior.

He who turns the other cheek gets hit with the other fist.

The operative words here are "if all goes to plan " i have found that very little goes to plan here in the LOS

How could it when the concept of planning is tantamount to wishful thinking in LOS Leaders?

So I get that lots of we farang leave our brains at the Immigration Counter at the Airport, but where did thisn poor local leave his brain?

With the placenta.

So it took the pickup 6 hours to cover 300km. I've got one just like that!

Quite reasonable, an average speed of 50 kph. The investigators say that it should not have taken more than three hours so that would require an average speed of 100 kph which, to achieve, would require speeds of 120 to 140 much of the time. Since the national speed limit is 90 kph these investigators are suggesting that the vehicle should have been speeding, the sure fire way to draw the attention of the Highway Police.

Highway police????? I have driven that route many times...Songkla to Donsak....3+ hours (including an Amazon Coffee stop)....number of highway police cars seen....ZERO

Don't stop along the way for dinner and a massage or you may be a suspect for taking 6 hours to travel three.

I think the military and police have now given the suspects plenty of time to leave Thailand and hide much of their financial assets. But to play it safe I expect the military/police will wait another week or so to make any arrests---if there is anyone still left in country to arrest.

No worries, there will be some Burmese to haul in and string up.

This thread is funny. People are calling one person attacking someone 'Thainess' , but having a go at all the other Thai people for not being violent.

It is unlikely for anyone to call one person attacking someone Thainess, unless the someone is incapacitated and defenseless on the ground.

why nobody bothered to knock out that punk is beyond me. Especially when he walked over to the guy's recording on his dash cam unarmed. It that really a BMW? Looks like a civic or something...

Well, that's the thing in Thailand. If you do, he could well be connected to the biggest and most dangerous mafia in the nation, and you could find yourself gagged and bound in a police dungeon cell with a couple of hard pipe hitting brothers about get to work on your good and proper.

Thailand. Land of don't get involved.

well Costas I agree but disagree. Just because the guy is drunk / disabled / whatever on the road the first thing a normal person might do is help get him off the road , not kick him in the head...

Then again, this video shows that Thais don't always need ten against one, so long as the one is some way incapacitated on the ground.

hmmmmmmm ..... notice how thai companies are all apologetic and sorry once social media get hold of their bad behavior.

For some unknown reason, many people have problems to understand the year they live in.

This 2015, where almost everybody carries smart phones and/or mini cameras which are more capable as the top cameras from 5 year ago.

And most people also have access to the internet 24/24hr.

Understand that if somebody sees something and take a snapshot of that, it could be send to the WHOLE WORLD within a single keypress (FaceBook, Twitter, YouTube, etc..)

For top CEO's or top functionals, not knowing this is simply ignorance.

They know it, they just cannot fathom that any Thai would do such a thing as cause them to lose face and this is the conundrum because no Thai ever realizes that only they themselves can cause their lose of face. It is always somebody else's fault.

Seems that the journalists pick up the slack and may be more responsible for the speculation than the BIB. Can just hear the shaking cans dumping sticks on the floor and phone calls with fortune tellers as they contrive their renditions while muttering the Thai translation of, "We don't need no stinking facts."

new job for the police, check all car plates if reported stolen before they leave the ferry?

Why would you let stolen vehicles on the ferry? Next explosion might be at sea.

He said security forces are closely monitoring the group

Really? Why not just arrest them, or is just another announcement out the behind.

Too busy with the important stuff like cracking down on driving without a shirt.

The photo looks like he is Captain Kirk of the Starship Enterprise, from the tv show Star Trek. "Captains log star date 2558, hostile anniversery meetings controlled, proof of violence needed, zulu warp speed ahead"

Looks like a kid trying to hide the fact that he wet his pants.

Don't present news in a way that causes divisiveness?

That leaves reporting the facts out of bounds. Guess they'll have to rename the media... mouthpedia.