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  1. maybe this was in place of a visa - China doesn't appear to be on the Visa Exemption list so I would assume they would need Visa on Arrival at 1900 baht.

    Or it could just be a scam!

    Will ask the friend some more details tomorrow when she is at the office. she just mentioned it was only Chinese travellers who got this treatment.

    China is not a member of Asean but Germany is also not and they can stay for 30 days without visa. Not understand this.

    Will come back to this tomorrow with more details.

  2. give us a deeper explanation, what happened?

    It's just what she told me in a chat. All 33 Chinese in the group of colleagues got their passports confiscated by the customs upon arrival, had few holidays in/around Phuket and at departure they had to pay 50b and got their passport back.

    Passport confiscating does not sound like official rules, and they felt insulted and very annoyed etc.

  3. A good friend of mine from China she just came back from a company trip to Thailand with colleagues from her software firm.

    When we enter Thailand Customs in Phuket, they charged us fees only for Chinese

    If we did not give them they will refuse to return our passports we had to give them 50 baht for a pass.

    I feel very angry and when we went back they keep us waiting for 4 hours we fly at 01:00 they allow us to check until 24:00 and when we queue up, they changed our gate without telling us they did not know anything info about our flight always gave us wrong info

    I do not want to be there again

    Well done Phuket Immigration and airport officials !

  4. Actually, the people in Bhutan are great. Been there twice and looking forward to going back again.

    As for their signup system, it is overly complex even when you don't use a proxy (never used one). And since I couldn't sign up there is no way to breach the TOS. I might try again if they ever get their signup bugs killed off.

    David

    To be honest, I don't think the Internet is your thing, maybe better stay away from it... :D

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  5. Dating sites :D

    Has anyone ever noticed that when your on one of those sites that are based in europe they can see your IP and pics of beautiful blondes and brunettes come on all of course living in Thailand :D.

    I know people who design sites like this they just make loads of fake profiles to get desperate people there and spend money on the service. Loads of money is made this way be warned.

    Maybe you missed something, but internet became a quite important medium. But ofcourse as you prefer to spend half of your life in bars drinking beer and talk nonsense, a datingsite might not be the right medium for you.

    On Dateinasia there are quite some high educated, business owners, teachers, tour guides etc.

    Both Dateinasia and Thaifriendly are USA based and not to compare with the fake sites of your crappy friends.

    Try Dateinasia.........it's free........I met my wife there.

    Tried to sign up since they have a lot of folks from Bhutan as members. Unfortunately, their crappy sign up system doesn't seem to work. Too bad.

    David

    Dateinasia is an outstanding, professional site that protect it's users on different ways, one of them is blocking the use of proxies to help avoid crappy people who create fake profiles, scammers, beggars etc. Also when you breached the TOS in the past you can forget creating a new profile.

    Peolpe from Bhutan are actually interesting way more then Thais.

  6. Thailovelinks is very commercial, they are more passionate with marketing then with dating.

    Thaifriendly is a simple, made by one person and honest site with full functionality even with a free membership. I met a girlfriend via this site (via her older sister who used to have a profile there). Thaifriendly.com is very OK, another good one and 100% free is Dateinasia.com, technically of outstanding quality and made by a passionate coder.Met several good girlfriends via Dateinasia and it's still one of my social networks because of it's functionality.

  7. So the situation is I want to help my fiancée starting a mobile food business, actually the most important part is the vending car that cost approximately 450,000 baht which I want to buy via a finance plan. The questions are can we do this on her name since she is only 16 years old, but very well motivated. I haven't all the information from the car supplier yet but can imagine it requires having a registered business as well (although this seems not to be a requirement for mobile businesses) Can she have a business on her name at the age of 16 ? When answers to one or both is negative, could a lawyer help in this case to bypass the age restrictions ?

    Many thanks in advance for all helpful details ;)

  8. For few months I'm in my homecountry, I gave the key of my PO box (at postoffice, no private company) to a Thai friend whom I asked to empty my box and pay few bills for my during my absence. From Swampie I sended my BKK Bank ATM card to my own PO box, sended it via registered mail which was not so clever, because now the friend can't receive it as the mail needs to be signed for. The postoffice people know me for many years so they won't let someone else sign it.

    Need a suggestion on what may be the best thing to do, fax a request with my signature to the postoffice maybe that will work ? Or other suggestions ? far as I know they keep mail for 3 weeks, not sure if I'd put my own mailbox as sender, if not what will they do with it ?

    Many thanks !

  9. US authorities have seized the domain of the hugely popular sports streaming and P2P download site Rojadirecta. The site, which is one of the most visited sites on the Internet, lost its .org domain which now redirects to a notice from DOJ/ICE. Rojadirecta is an unusual target because two courts in Spain have ruled that the site operates legally, and other than the .org domain the site has no links to the US.

    rojaRojadirecta is known as one of the world’s major Internet sports broadcast indexes. The site links to broadcasts of many popular soccer matches plus other sporting events including NBA, MLB, NFL, NPB, IPL.

    The site has well over a million visitors a day, and is listed among the 100 most popular sites in Spain in terms of traffic. This morning, however, visitors were surprised by a warning from US authorities. Continuing the previous “Operation in Our Sites” actions, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had seized Rojadirecta’s .org domain.

    Rojadirecta is an unusual target for several reasons, not least because the site has been declared legal twice by Spanish courts. The site’s owners have previously fought a three year legal battle in Spain, which they won, but a single seizure warrant from US authorities has made this victory pointless.

    Without receiving a notification or the option to defend themselves, the site’s domain was seized this morning.

    “We have not been notified,” Rojadirecta’s Igor Seoane told TorrentFreak. As with the previous seizures the domain registrar was bypassed in the seizure. “According to Go Daddy they have not touched anything,” Seoane said.

    Similar to BitTorrent sites, Rojadirecta doesn’t host any copyrighted material. Instead, it indexes HTTP links to sports streams that can already be found on the Internet, and also carries links to .torrent files which are hosted on other sites.

    The site is owned by a Spanish company that pays its taxes and has been declared to operate legally in Spain. In addition, the site is not hosted in the US either. The only connection to the US is that the .org domain is maintained by a US company.

    This indirect connection to the US makes the seizure a dubious action, according to Rojadirecta’s owner. “In our opinion the US authorities are completely despising the Spanish justice system and sovereignty,” Seoane told TorrentFreak.

    At the moment Rojadirecta displays the same message from DOJ and ICE as the sites seized last year, including Torrent-Finder. It is expected that Rojadirecta is one of the first of a new list of seized domains.

    Rojadirecta is still accessible via http://rojadirecta.es

    source: http://torrentfreak.com

  10. Here is Kan Air's schedules:

    http://www.kanairlin...erewefly/WE2022

    Its 1500 Baht to Chiang Rai and 1300 Baht return

    and Air Bagram? Do you mean Air Bagan? According to their website they still depart Thursday and Sunday but not sure if its running now or not as websites are not always updated.

    It seems the crew first better learn to take their hands out of their pockets emo.gif

  11. When Facebook revealed last year it was introducing facial recognition technology to help users tag their friends in photographs, they gave the functionality to North American users only. Most of the rest of us found the option in our privacy settings was "not yet available", which meant we could neither enable or disable it. We simply had to wait until Facebook decided to roll it out to our account.

    Well, now might be a good time to check your Facebook privacy settings as many Facebook users are reporting that the site has enabled the option in the last few days without giving users any notice. Read more

  12. On 8 June, 2011, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Akamai and Limelight Networks will be amongst some of the mayor organisations that will offer their content over IPv6 for a 24-hour “test flight”. The goal of the Test Flight Day is to motivate organizations across the industry – Internet service providers, hardware makers, operating system vendors and web companies – to prepare their services for IPv6 to ensure a successful transition as IPv4 addresses run out. read more

    For years we’ve been told that IPv4—the present Internet protocol standard—would be running out soon, and when IPv6 takes over, there will be enough IP addresses to go around for every sand particle on the earth’s surface. That sounds wonderful, but nobody seems to truly understand that IPv4 addresses are running out. read more

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