Equalizer

Dont know about you lot but i dont even think i have trousers.

I doubt your legs are pretty. Please get a pair of long trouser and dress like an adult not an overgrown child.

What is that supposed to mean? Is that an attempt at humour? WOW you must spend a few quid on bar fines you mong!!!

It is obvious from your reply that you didn't read the whole thread, so I will just repeat myself for your benefit

"I would like to add, although I will only own 49% of this company, more than a combined 50% will be owned by my own direct blood family (lets just say my father was involved here )"

And my Thai family are NOT some sort of low income lower class type, they already own a very well established company in Bangkok, and they would not want to see me being 'ripped off'

Your case is perfectly normal. I too opened the very same company 10 years ago. You have further complications these days as the companies financial liabilities are now a compulsory Thai affair and unlike before a Thai has to sign for libel on any company. You say your father? You mean her father! As for your last paragraph, i have herd the same thing a million times.

If you want to listen and do it the best way possible try this. Open a company in your wife's name and trade on it for 6 months creating invoices and legitimate transactions, you can easily create an on line store and shill bid on it. After 6 months tell her to apply for a mortgage. The bank will give her 75%. You then pay rent for 30 years. It cost about 17000 per month and you get a house, a wife and some children if you want them. My wife and family would never dream of kicking me out. I mean who will pay the bills??????????????

When I say my father, I mean MY father (not my partner's father), he was in Thailand many years before me (I'm just following in his footsteps ), he married a Thai & had kids, so I have a Thai Step-Mother & Thai 1/2 Brother & Sister

I'm not married to my partner so I will not be putting anything in her name (atm), if anything my 1/2 brother will become a director

I do believe it can not be no more than 49% foreign owned irrespective of the amount of foreigners on the board. I cant really tell you which way to go because i have seen so many people ripped of here by so called close relatives and the such so i am the pessimist. Even better if you don't marry, just offer to pay her mortgage then she will have some issues to think about if things turn sour. You simply look at it as rent because in truth it is crazy to invest here anyway due to the racist nature of the courts.

How old is the child?

As Thai law is that you are not the father of the child as you are not married, and if the child is under a certain age then

you must apply to be recognised by the courts as the father of the child, maybe they are tightening up these rules and

giving the Embassies the rules to follow word for word.

My boy will be 2yrs old in March

I agree that there are only two methods in which to 'aquire' fatherhood for a Thai child, the easiest is just to marry the childs mother, & the 2nd is to apply to the Family Court for a Judge to decide. To cut to the 'chase', I do intend to marry the mother in the nearest future, but I need to do a few things before that will happen, as we 'all' know once married everything either of us aquire is owned 50/50.

So my 1st objective will be to create a company, & as I can only own 49% of said company, the other 51% will be divided up between 6-7 different Thai's that DON'T know each other (key point), this gives me control of the company, once created the 'company' will buy land & some vehical's in the company name.

With these objectives obtained I am more than willing to marry my sweetheart, & thus gain fatherhood for my son

There are 2 high profile cases ongoing of Farang who did exactly the same and both got screwed via forged signatures and dodgy lawyers.

It is obvious from your reply that you didn't read the whole thread, so I will just repeat myself for your benefit

"I would like to add, although I will only own 49% of this company, more than a combined 50% will be owned by my own direct blood family (lets just say my father was involved here )"

And my Thai family are NOT some sort of low income lower class type, they already own a very well established company in Bangkok, and they would not want to see me being 'ripped off'

Your case is perfectly normal. I too opened the very same company 10 years ago. You have further complications these days as the companies financial liabilities are now a compulsory Thai affair and unlike before a Thai has to sign for libel on any company. You say your father? You mean her father! As for your last paragraph, i have herd the same thing a million times.

If you want to listen and do it the best way possible try this. Open a company in your wife's name and trade on it for 6 months creating invoices and legitimate transactions, you can easily create an on line store and shill bid on it. After 6 months tell her to apply for a mortgage. The bank will give her 75%. You then pay rent for 30 years. It cost about 17000 per month and you get a house, a wife and some children if you want them. My wife and family would never dream of kicking me out. I mean who will pay the bills??????????????

How old is the child?

As Thai law is that you are not the father of the child as you are not married, and if the child is under a certain age then

you must apply to be recognised by the courts as the father of the child, maybe they are tightening up these rules and

giving the Embassies the rules to follow word for word.

My boy will be 2yrs old in March

I agree that there are only two methods in which to 'aquire' fatherhood for a Thai child, the easiest is just to marry the childs mother, & the 2nd is to apply to the Family Court for a Judge to decide. To cut to the 'chase', I do intend to marry the mother in the nearest future, but I need to do a few things before that will happen, as we 'all' know once married everything either of us aquire is owned 50/50.

So my 1st objective will be to create a company, & as I can only own 49% of said company, the other 51% will be divided up between 6-7 different Thai's that DON'T know each other (key point), this gives me control of the company, once created the 'company' will buy land & some vehical's in the company name.

With these objectives obtained I am more than willing to marry my sweetheart, & thus gain fatherhood for my son

There are 2 high profile cases ongoing of Farang who did exactly the same and both got screwed via forged signatures and dodgy lawyers.

They can't tell the sex of a skeleton?

A first year biology student could do it by looking at the pelvis and/or eye-brow ridges.

Total incompetence by someone that probably bought their degree. This is what happens when no one is allowed to fail in school.

While the pelvis thing may be true (but I expect there are variations among races & ages), the eye-brow ridge characteristics varies from race to race and generally not true for this part of the world.

Forensic anthropologist Caroline Wilkenson wrote in 2004 that Australoids have the largest brow ridges "with moderate to large supraorbital arches".[12] Caucasoids have the second largest brow ridges with "moderate supraorbital ridges".[12] Negroids have the third largest brow ridges with an "undulating supraorbital ridge".[12] Mongoloids are "absent browridges", so they have the smallest brow ridges.[12]

1. Mongoloid /ˈmɒŋ.ɡə.lɔɪd/ is the general physical type of some or all of the populations of East Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Eastern Russia, the Arctic, the Americas, parts of the Pacific Islands, and some northeastern parts of South Asia.

''not been able to identify two skeletons dug up at Suphat's ranch''. Where in that sentence does it mention the sex?

She was only being polite. Sawatdee ''Crap''

It is a fair request to be honest. However if owning mini buses and such is so disadvantageous, why have them?

Based of international arrivals? Somehow i can not accept that Malaysia boasts more international arrivals than Suvarnabhumi Airport considering this is the main SE Asian hub for onward travel. Unless many of the large carriers have given up their slots in favour of cheaper landing & take of fees in neighboring countries. Then you need to know if these airports have sufficient infrastructure to accommodate them.

Why the bridge?

Saudi Arabia has no drug problems because they kill the dealers. It works well as a deterrent. Didn't that use to be the case in Thailand, too?

No actually it did not work. The same levels are smuggled in to Saudi Arabia. I think Thailand realized that keeping them alive helps to study the crime and use this knowledge to move forward. I think killing them got them nowhere.

Excellent comment & also important information from our resident Wizard !

Uruguay has recently legalised marijuana & there are many more watching to see if it works...the answer is it does ...so why don't the United Nations submit a resolution legalizing drugs on a global basis?! Greed & the Drub Barons is the answer sadly...but heh! wouldn't it be something if it ever happened & who knows if the fast growing countries that are interested join up it may just be unstoppable because all the facts proves it works & the prisons are half emptied as a bouns ......

With the same restrictions as alcohol, IE, no driving, intoxicated means it was your fault whatever the scenario.

http://www.seaboats.net/new-build-48m-catamaran-ro-pax-ferry-xidp394897.html

Well you started it Mr Suthep and i don't believe for one min that this is the work of insurgents in the south. Well shall see what the real objective is when the palm oil refineries are being targeted.

Capt Wirat, said there was an explosion in the engine room, after which he told passengers to put on life jackets!!! Hmmm shouldn't this now be done before departure? Maybe we would not have a missing child if this turns out to be the case!!!! Better run captain birds eye.

Seriously think it is time for Pattaya City hall to create a door license like in the UK and set up a self funding training course that needs completing before the license is offered to the individual. These people are starting out in this job and on the job training is giving them the wrong attitude and the wrong tactics in dealing with undesirables. The situation is not the same in a densely populated tourist spot where the clientele changes constantly. You will not get any success with the ''give him a slap'' and he wont do it again, simply because the chances are he wont be there again anyway. The fact is another clown will be there the next day to take his place. All you are doing is damaging the city in general. They need to be taught subduing tactics, eliminate the immediate risk of self harm and harm to others even if it means plastic Zip locks on the perpetrators until the police arrive to take control. A license will regulate the industry and the thought of them losing their license and becoming unemployable will have the desired effect.

More wasted campaign money.........

Only way to go is hit the smokers, where it hurts the most, their wallet!!

200 baht/pack will make quite a few smokers quit the habit!!

And don't give me, but the poor................It is not a democratic right to kill yourself!!

What a contradictory, pathetic statement. You have mentioned democratic rights, so tell me what is the democratic methodology in allowing a substance that can kill you to be freely sold on the open market in the first place? So you are basically saying don't ban them and save everyone's life but just increase the price to line the pockets of the system that allows the substance to trade. Who is killing who here? And don't tell me increasing the price of cigaretts prevents smoking because it does not.

When Christopher Columbus came to the New World—specifically, the north coast of Jamaica—he was able to use European scientific understanding to correctly predict a lunar eclipse. The event is known as the March 1504 lunar eclipse, and occurred when Columbus, after he wanted to be seen as god-like, stated that he would make the Moon disappear during the night of February 29, 1504. The reason Columbus wanted to prove he could make the Moon disappear is because he and his crew were eating a great deal of the inhabitants' food, and the inhabitants refused to feed them anymore. Columbus was right in his prediction, for he used astronomical tables and local clocks in order to predict when the lunar eclipse would happen, and was able to convince the inhabitants that he had the power to make the Moon disappear and then reappear. After the inhabitants believed that Columbus was truly able to make the Moon disappear, they begged him to return the Moon to its previous form, and after roughly an allotted amount of time (the amount of time Columbus discerned to be how long the eclipse would last), Columbus agreed to return the Moon, and the Moon began to reappear. The next day, the inhabitants gave Columbus and his crew the food they desired.^[8]

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People please look at the video carefully. The man is standing on a chair near the edge of the rails. When the guy tackles him he falls off it. I agree with the need to restrain this idiot.

The guy who runs the Pattaya one TV program had a birthday party on the dark side of Pattaya the other day and it was raided by the police. Roumor has it anyone who wanted to leave had to pay up to 5000 baht just to get out of the door. Dont know who he has upset!!! Probably the guy with the glasses on who runs the other channel.