chowny77

I went to Mae Sot last year to do an in and out. There was a couple in front of me and the Myannmar Immigration officer would not accept the $10 dollars from them and insisted that they pay in Thai baht.

Ok. Hopefully someone can help me out with this one. I have a contract with a college which is signed by all parties and states that my contract will run til the 30th of April this year. A week ago the person who deals with the foriegn at the college said to my wife (not too my face) that because my work permit will run out on the 19th of April the college will only pay me til that time. So basically I will not recieve a full months salary. My wife rang the local labour office to see if I had a case to push the college to pay me the full month as that is what is stated in my contract but they said because I was told inadvance that I had to accept it. Has anyone else had something similar happen to them? If anyone is wondering why my work permit will expire before my contract is because I have a multiple entry Non O visa which requires me to go to a border every 3 months and supposedly now work permits are linked to the entry stamps rather than to your work contract which I think is Crazy but how it is here. Anyway, any info would be great.

Cheers

This is stupid. They want to take Ya-ba of the class 1 drugs list but still chase after people who smoke Ganja. The whole reason that the RTP do chase people for Ganja is the fact that it is so easy to grow here in Thailand and no TAX is paid on the sales. And "HooHaa" what are you talking about, you do not inject Ganja! You either smoke it or ingest it

You would think that all the centuries that Thai people have lived with this problem that they would have fixed it by now. I mean come on, they have the money, supposedly they have the technology and the intelligence ( hahaha) sorry. This is not a new problem and should have been dealt with by now. We the farang come along with ideas to help fix the problem but we are rebuffed as the idea did not come from a Thai persons little melon-head. So sad that pride is the biggest downfall of Thailand, especially when I wonder what they are so proud of.

I will be staying indoors during Songkran. I fail to see the point of getting pelted with water while riding down the road as a sign of good luck, it's more like the old TV series of Gladiators.............who can survive this 1 km of street with a potential of 50 points of water being thrown at you. 

How can they not know if he has a passport or not, especially if it is in his name and a real passport. Of course with the kind of money he has at his disposal he would have created a fake passport and would of flown out in a private plane. They pretty much gave him the agenda of when they were going to move in on his temple, so he had ample time to get the hell out of Dodge. Purely comical Thailand.

It was said that Uttaradit was going to be one of the provinces to recieve heavy rain and winds. Not even a gust of wind in the last two days. I guess Issan must have had most of it as it is dry as a bone here.

I think that Pol Col Krisana Pattanacharoen should arrest the person who told him that his comb-over looks good. Love to see him doing a presss conference outside when the wind picks up and that hair picks up and starts flapping away.

What a penis!!

For F sake. Just go in and round them all up in the temple compound. How hard is that to do? Monkeys chasing monkeys!

I agree with thai3. Take all steps to break their contact with the outside world. Cut the power, water and food supply. Set up an anti wi-fi system around the temple and they will be at each others throats within a few days. Anyone that steps out of the temple grounds should then be arrested and tried.

These guys never played sim city. Where I lived before on a residential area a company managed to buy land and then just build a warehouse where there pick-up trucks would just be going mental. No considerastion of the people who lived there before they set up shop. A few of my Thai neighbours then put speed bumps down and that caused a few laughs as the pick ups lost their loads, such as washing machines and freezers. At the end of the day Thailand has no idea about zoning areas and the brown envelope fixes all. So sad as the kids liked to play on the street but now it is far too dangerous, and what I mean by street is a little side street where two cars struggle to pass one another.

At Savannakhet I found Tues, Weds and Thursday pretty quiet. It's not so much the consulate which is the problem but the lack of buses crossing over the bridge and very rude Laotian people pushing to get on the bus.

I am looking into doing a BA degree. To be honest apart from my wife's family being here I see no reason to stay here working in Thailand when I get the degree. The wages that are offered now are pitiful. I might look to Japan/Korea or even China.

When I need to travel a long distance I use a friend of the family who drives a mini-van. I trust him 100% compared to using a normal bus service and he charges a reasonable rate. Like most have said before, it is not the vehicle that is at fault but 99% of the time it is the driver or pressure they are being put under by their bosses to make as much money as possible regardless of possible accidents. Set all the mini vans with tachometers and speed limiters and that will fix about 60% of the accidents on Thailand's roads.

Tragic. RIP

They should offer a similar deal with the same time frame of 10 years visa to people who have a wife or kid but at the current monetary rates, instead of the current 1 yr visa rubbish that we have to deal with now.

One of my students today asked me why I not speak Thai or understand a lot of Thai. With this I was lucky to have a map on the wall where I pointed to Thailand and said in Thai this is the only place that Thai is spoken as a first language. I then pointed to other countries and pointed out that English is either the first or second language spoken. My student soon realised that she had put her foot in her mouth. The arrogance of the student about Thai language was what annoyed me the most.

some kind of grinding device. Maybe for salt/pepper.

I hope they go for the throat of the people who did this and planed it. I would love to spend 10 minutes and a baseball bat with all involved in this sad case.

I paid sod all Sin sod but covered the costs of the food and alcohol provided. I put my foot down about paying and my wife accepted this and so did her family. People will most likely say I am tight but I basically earned the money which kept our heads afloat for about 3 years, so no way I would dip my hands into my pocket just for Thai customs. As another poster posted before, what about my parents? Would they get anything such as sin sod? Would they buggery so why should her parents. Both sets of parents got bugger all cashwise but at least a full stomach, photos and drunk.

I nearly spat my beer out from laughing when I read this! Is this guy a complete moron? The Thai language will never go further than Thailand or people in a community that are Thai. It will be obsolete within 150 years as by then English will be the norm same as Singapore, Malaysia and most other SE Asian countries.

Well deserved action considering the guy who did the crime total attitude.

Well done to the TAT an other organizations for shooting yourselves in the foot once again. If Thailand really wants people to come here and spend cash they will need to stop being so arrogant and lower the requirements for tourists and people who stay here long term otherwise this country will drive away any kind of revenue it seeks from non-Thai nationals.

Jeez! Get some rubbing alcohol and wipe it off. It is not the end of the world!