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Where do you live?

hello my idea would be somewhere outside bkk nice house we don't really do bars and clubs but enjoy live music English and thai

one poster suggested west of the River ?? could you give me a district please many thanks

Look at Nonthaburi. We hava a comfortable pool villa here at Prikpirom Regent (5 bed including office). Obviously the price reflects the quality of the property. The surrounding area is pleasant and close to the river with plenty of good restaurants and places to shop including Central westgate.

I would Suggest looking at Q House and Land and House website for Prukpirom and Ladawan respectively.

Best of luck to you.

Yes. All of them POLICE or POLITICIANS. Apart from those who are POLICE and THEN POLITICIANS 55555

Mexico sounds great! Much less violent crime than Thailand and people more honest.

Looking for advice,

I was refused entry to Thailand in Bangkok.

Reason put in passport was for i was looking for work in Thailand.

From reading posts most say there is an interview process when anything arises,

now i went through no interview with senior IO.

Over last 2 years i have been entering Thailand a lot, on 2 occasions i have stayed

up to 4 months doing the Visa run every 30 days, (i work in Oil & Gas but work in last year or so is slow due to oil price,

in last 5 months back working) so i have a lot of stamps in the passport

which i think was the reasoning behind their thinking i was working or looking for work in Thailand.

I am now back in my home Country but my partner is devastated & angry at IO's.

I will get new passport but is there any advice on what i should do, stay out of thailand for a few months?

apply for multiple entry tourist 6 month visa with new passport.

wat i am afraid of is they took picture of me and is on their system, if i go back in with new passport will it flag up

about being previously refused

Get in touch with Interactive. Get a work permit. Problem solved.

I'm not sure how serious you are about your coffee or how you drink it but for me it has to be Illy cafe.

I buy pods of my favourite coffee from Italy when I am there but you can buy them and the machines here in Siam paragon.

I like the quality and convenience of having an illy espresso machine. However, my next purchase will be one of these so that I can also heat milk for long drinks for the ladies who don't drink espresso ?

http://www.illy.com/wps/wcm/connect/mobile_en/products/x1-iperespresso

Or if you prefer with ground coffee...

http://www.illy.com/wps/wcm/connect/mobile_en/products/x1-ground-coffee

Spain.

An interesting and comprehensive report, thanks.

I would STRONGLY advise against Millennium autos. We bought a benzine 320i 2014 model last year. Had numerous elecrical problems which culminated in a complete failure if the i-drive system within 4 months after paying 2.75 Mill.

Needless to say I was massively unimpressed.

Noone at Millennium Lad phrao would take my calls not sales, not customer service, not the GM.

Only offered to fix the vehicle not replace it. No courtesy car provided. TERRIBLE, EXCEPTIONALLY RUDE 'not my problem, I dont give a shit' service.

We use German Autos in Chaengwattana now. They are excellent.

Good luck if you choose BMW. My next vehicle is back to Honda. If I buy BMW again it will be the S1000R

Those I-drive are in all new cars. Never had a single problem with them. Im on my 3rd BMW in Thailand now, and luckily I choose a farang owned dealer. Top notch service! My biggest problems with my cars so far as been some rattle sounds, which has been fixed easily.

3rd BMW in Thailand? How many of those were built in Thailand? Please do confirm that.

I found the quality to be very poor. Especially considering that the price here in Thailand is 300% of what it is in the US.!

I have been and REMAIN, MASSIVELY UNIMPRESSED.

I think they mean gas and electric Hybrid buses, No such thing as an electric bus.

Maybe not in your world, but: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_electric_bus#Electric_bus

Chattanooga, Tennessee operates nine zero-fare electric buses, which have been in operation since 1992 and have carried 11.3 million passengers and covered a distance of 3,100,000 kilometres (1,900,000 mi), They were made locally by Advanced Vehicle Systems. Two of these buses were used for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.[8][9]

Beginning in the summer of 2000, Hong Kong Airport began operating a 16-passenger Mitsubishi Rosa electric shuttle bus, and in the fall of 2000, New York City began testing a 66-passenger battery-powered school bus, an all electric version of the Blue Bird TC/2000.[10] A similar bus was operated in Napa Valley, California for 14 months ending in April, 2004.[11]

The 2008 Beijing Olympics used a fleet of 50 electric buses, which have a range of 130 km (81 mi) with the air conditioning on. They use Lithium-ion batteries, and consume about 1 kW·h/mi (0.62 kW·h/km; 2.2 MJ/km). The buses were designed by the Beijing Institute of Technology and built by the Jinghua Coach Co. Ltd.[12] The batteries are replaced with fully charged ones at the recharging station to allow 24-hour operation of the buses.[13]

In France, the bus electric phenomenon is in development, but we already can find some of them in operation in numerous cities of France.[14] PVI, a medium company located in the Paris region, is one of the leader of the market with its brand Gepebus (offering Oreos 2X and Oreos 4X).[15]

In the United States, the first battery-electric, fast-charge bus has been in operation in Pomona, California since September 2010 at Foothill Transit. The Proterra EcoRide BE35 uses lithium-titanate batteries and is able to fast-charge in less than 10 minutes.[16]

In 2014, the first production model all-electric school bus was delivered to the Kings Canyon Unified School District in Californias San Joaquin Valley. The Class-A school bus was built by Trans Tech Bus, using an electric powertrain control system developed by Motiv Power Systems, of Foster City, CA. The bus was one of four the district ordered. The first round of SST-e buses (as they are called) is partly funded by the AB 118 Air Quality Improvement Program administered by the California Air Resources Board. This battery electric school bus has 4 sodium nickel batteries. The Trans Tech/Motiv vehicle has passed all KCUSD and California Highway Patrol inspections and certifications. Although some diesel hybrids are in use, this is the first modern electric school bus approved for student transportation by any state.

The first all-electric school bus in the state of California pausing outside the California capitol building in Sacramento.The same technology is used to power the Mountain View Community Shuttles. This technology was supported by the California Energy Commission, and the shuttle program is being supported by Google. [17]

Thunder Sky[edit]Thunder Sky (based in Hong Kong) builds lithium-ion batteries used in submarines and has three models of electric buses, the 10/21 passenger EV-6700 with a range of 280 km (170 mi) under 20 mins quick-charge, the EV-2009 city buses, and the 43 passenger EV-2008 highway bus, which has a range of 300 km (190 mi) under quick-charge (20 mins to 80%), and 350 km (220 mi) under full charge (25 mins). The buses will also be built in the United States and Finland.[18]

Free Tindo[edit]Tindo is an all-electric bus from Adelaide, Australia. The Tindo (aboriginal word for sun) is made by Designline International[19] in New Zealand and gets its electricity from a solar PV system on Adelaide's central bus station. Rides are zero-fare as part of Adelaide's public transport system.[20]

First electric commercial bus[edit]Seoul Metropolitan Government runs the world's first commercial all-electric bus service. The bus was developed by Hyundai Heavy Industries and Hankuk Fiber which make a lightweight body from carbon composite material. Provided with Li-on battery and regenerative braking, the bus may run to 52 miles (84 km) in a single 30 minutes charge. The maximum speed is 62 miles per hour (100 km/h).[21]

Great post! Thank you. The technology is in use. Will the Thais use it? I very much doubt it. Som nam na.

Should use solar powered electric buses. Probably no brown envelope money in it for anyone though.

An interesting and comprehensive report, thanks.

I would STRONGLY advise against Millennium autos. We bought a benzine 320i 2014 model last year. Had numerous elecrical problems which culminated in a complete failure if the i-drive system within 4 months after paying 2.75 Mill.

Needless to say I was massively unimpressed.

Noone at Millennium Lad phrao would take my calls not sales, not customer service, not the GM.

Only offered to fix the vehicle not replace it. No courtesy car provided. TERRIBLE, EXCEPTIONALLY RUDE 'not my problem, I dont give a shit' service.

We use German Autos in Chaengwattana now. They are excellent.

Good luck if you choose BMW. My next vehicle is back to Honda. If I buy BMW again it will be the S1000R ?

The airport reaffirms that the majority of Chinese tourists are well-behaved.

First I've noticed! None of them are ever even acceptably behaved! It's not just here in Thailand either. They were all behaving in the same disgusting manner when I was in Japan last week.

As Canuckamuck quite correctly points out, crapping and pissing everywhere but in the toilet, spitting everywhere. Not to mention screaming their heads off in hotels and airports and generally behaving like a bunch of savages (no offence meant to savages)

It is way past time that travel was restricted for these Chinese unless they can prove that they are able to behave acceptably.

Perhaps toilet training certificates and etiquette training certificates to be provided at immigration prior to being granted entry....

Lets not forget the lives that were lost due to the financial hardship that she and Her brother orchestrated!!

As for Political asylum. She would need to have;

"A well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion"

She is not being persecuted for her political opinion, unless CORRUPTION is now classified as a political opinion!!

Haha

She is being denied permission to travel abroad until she has faced the charges against her in a court of law.

Not unreasonable considering her family history of flight and total reluctance to face the music for their crimes!!

So no Thai has taken their lives through debts accrued through hardship since 22nd May 2014 then? How very appropriate to use the farmers deaths as a convenient conduit and yet Thais as well as farangs we're killing themselves through debts and they didn't have rice farms either but hey their deaths don't mean anything eh?

Just how many of these farmers who sadly took their lives through debts were even in the rice scam? considering these farmers had to meet a certain criteria to begin with, so I would not be surprised in the slightest if many if those who took their lives were not in the scheme to begin with but were used as political pawns in a huge power play that's ongoing.

I read weekly that people are committing suicide over bad debts I don't find their deaths any less meaningless than rice farmers and neither should anyone else.

What a load of fat haggis Fat Haggis!

I was talking about farmers involved in the rice scam, I mean scheme who were put under such stress by not being paid what they were owed for so very long that they took their own lives under the stress of it all.

This is not 'a convenient conduit' as you so very bluntly put it. It is FACT.

Dont disrespect these peoples lives by brushing them aside and making out that people all over Thailand are killing themselves over bad debt. Even if they were this would not be relevant to the topic being discussed.

I am refering ONLY to the lives lost due to the criminally neglegent non-payment of monies owed to those farmers by the Shinawatra 'Government' Mafia and their CORRUPT actions.

Your comments speak very clearly about YOU.

Lets not forget the lives that were lost due to the financial hardship that she and Her brother orchestrated!!

As for Political asylum. She would need to have;

"A well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion"

She is not being persecuted for her political opinion, unless CORRUPTION is now classified as a political opinion!!

Haha

She is being denied permission to travel abroad until she has faced the charges against her in a court of law.

Not unreasonable considering her family history of flight and total reluctance to face the music for their crimes!!

Can anyone refer some tradesmen to me for some work in Pak kret please?

I need to find some tradesmen that can do some tiling and also someone to fix a floor that was laid poorly and has since cracked in between the planks and so needs re-sealing.

You gotta love the pic with the heading "republic" and the main sign on the float in Thai only.

The whole thing is clearly aimed at the domestic audience. It probably looked very colourful and impressive on TV to audiences in Si Saket and Buriram.

Unfortunately it does nothing whatsoever to promote foreign tourism and is a complete waste of taxpayers' money. Arriving tourists would just wonder it took them 3 hours to get their hotels.

Agreed. Not quite as much of taxpayers money squandered/stolen/misrepresented as by the previous prime minister and box head the caddy though.

It will be no problem at all. Simply tell them you missed your flight and pay 500 baht.

Where are you looking to purchase? I have some lovely F/F condos in Thai or foregn ownership available. Some lovely land plots also.

FYI, on any property you can get USUFRUCT.

Feel free to PM me if you wish to discuss.

http://m.ddproperty.com/en/listing/994664

I suggest you get all your financial documents together and ask a few banks.

The figures are flawed. The place is dead and it will continue through the high season. Even free flights wouldn't bring in the masses here the way things are. They are in shit street and they know it.

So many problems, ample time and opportunity to have done something about it. Just a complete lack of any desire by anyone to actually do anything about the problems. Nothing but contempt for any non-Thai.

I hope the numbers of visitors and the money they spend are massively decreased for a while. Perhaps then the message may get across.

SOM NAM NA.

New central opening here tang duan ram intra .

Think central East.

The traffic is going to be murder.

The traffic is ALWAYS murder!!

Traits Thai women don't like:

• hot-tempered (easily angered/annoyed)
• overly talkative (long winded: takes 10 minutes to say something which could be said in 5 seconds)
• overly intellectual/overly analytical (likes discussing theories, conceptual ideas, analyzing situations excessively)
• chauvanistic (thinks his wife is his flunky/slave/maid/caregiver/housekeeper)
• bossy (has a 'my way or the highway'/'Who pays the bills around here?' attitude.)
• unsmiling
• no sense of humor (finds nothing she says funny; Thai TV comedies are 'idiotic,' and 'moronic.')
• chronically pessimistic (We are on the verge of a global financial collapse, WWIII, "we need to start prepping.")
• cheap (esp. when accompanied by regular claims that you are 'loaded,' 'filthy rich' or 'have more money than you know what to do with.')
• hates Thai food/hates her cooking/hates spicy food (plaa raa/nam prik is disgusting)
• dislikes her children from prior marriage
• dislikes everyone in her family (especially her mother)
• too lazy or unintelligent to learn Thai (clueless that his pronunciation is atrocious)
• smokers
• heavy drinkers
• morbidly obese or even just plain obese
• suffers from ulcers/nervous stomach/mysterious gastro-intestinal disorders
• loud snorer
• shameless farter
• has horrendous foot odor
• pays poor attention to personal hygiene
• never ever ever wants to go out and have fun
• loves ice hockey or other winter Olympic sports
• spends all day on TVF/watching English language TV
• constantly says: "But that's not how I did it back home!"

I'd say that about covers it.

Do I know you?

The parasitic British government can go and ger F*cked!!

This is exactly why I do not invest in the UK.

The writing is on the wall...