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I would hardly call it a resort, it looks more like a dingy dirty cheap hotel

In Thailand, use of the word "resort" does not guarantee any standard of luxury. Not unusual at all a row of straw&bamboo huts plus a restaurant made of driftwood is called the so and so resort. At the other hand, a "guesthouse" might have a swimming pool and rooms with all the frills.

Typical. Warning of danger 70 years after the fact!!!

?? You don't want to know how many unexploded WWII ordnance is still hidden beneath the soil in like Holland or Germany. Quite a normal event building activities have to be interrupted because they discovered something. At the North Sea, WWI sea mines are still a problem, almost 100 years after being planted there.

Sorry, your quote is wrong. I edited 'you' into 'him', being you.

Forget it, but my wife and I have a 1 mill company with work permit and no Thai personel and all is legal. Never mind, you win.

Local labor departments apply the rules their own way. Very well possible at the labor department in another province your work permit application would have been rejected.

Is not the situation in the diving industry complicated because of the fact that many customers prefer to be instructed in their own language ( German, French, Swedish, Japanese, whatever) and not in English?

Maybe Karon would have been a better alternative for the OP, plenty of bars but still a bit of a pleasant village like atmosphere, which is entirely lacking in Patong. When I spent a few hours in Kata the last low season, I vaguely had the impression it was developing into a slightly upmarket/family oriented type of place.

The Thepkrassattri Rd is dangerous for out of towners! You have to be aware it floods very easily, and frequently at unexpected places suddenly there are the orange hats on the road to facilitate U-turns so that you have to keep left.

You do not say how close to the pool and whether it is completely in the shade, but if its at least 30cm away with a few rays of sunshine now and then I would try Malaysia grass (coarse with shooters, grows in the shade) and use a lawnmower with a bag.

My idea. Malaysian grass (ya malay) survives everything and is low maintenance.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/704441-way-to-soundproof-my-bedroom-from-street-noise/ Recent thread about this subject

Is it possible at all to get a work permit working for a Thai employer who has a business registered on his/her own name (bu khun thammada), so no company limited or partnership limited? Not much information about this on the forum, though the question will be relevant for many foreigners who "have a business" which is legally registered on the Thai wife's or girlfriends name.

Does the company earn enough money is one of the main points, are there 2 other thais employed to be able to get a Work permit for you

Company? Very well possible there is no company limited, but the business is simply registered on his wife's name.

Quite a bit of rain in Khao Lak yesterday evening. Had some serious rain a few times lately, unused overgrown plots of land are already reverting from brown to green.

The article is signed by Mongmaihen Maidaiyin , which means cannot find it, don't hear it. Not such an auspicious name for a reporter.

The dried one is called "moo dat diaw" or something along those lines methinks

Correct. Moo (pork) and especially neua (beef) daet deow (แดดเดียว) are among my favorites. Not unusual to find it in a restaurant. Usually if they have a menu in English it will be translated as sun dried pork/beef, but I have seen other translation attempts that would leave you guessing. Especially if your wife is from the Isaan (Northeast Thailand), she'll be able to make it herself.

Some time ago there was a link in here to a Facebook site offering all kinds of second hand articles in Phuket.

For the moment, the high tourism season seems to finish a bit early this year. Very much of the traffic in Phuket is tourism related.

Although not literally I have news for you. Immigration does and will show up at your residence to see if its a real marriage . If she is not there and her things are not on the premises you have a problem

Don't think so. The local immigration office will only be aware of extensions of stay they granted themselves, not of visas issued by embassies/consulates abroad.

Big deal, he is working without a work permit and this is front page news.

And there are members here that support this sort enforcement of unimportant regulations...as if they are all 100% squeaky clean themselves.

Well, the costs of running a business legally are pretty high and you have to jump through many bureaucratic loops, so of course you are not overjoyed by the presence of illegally operating competitors.

Only a small portion of the total number of tourists wants places like Pattaya and Patong. I don't think many other beaches will develop that way.

Passport standard photos, hm. Requirements for Dutch passport photos have become so complicated that you can forget about having it done upcountry where you live, they will only accept photos taken at the shop right opposite the embassy, where they know exactly how to do it.

Intense downpour in Khao Lak yesterday around 21.30, thunder in the distance. Second shower in about 10 days, nature already shows signs of revival, some patches of green appearing in the scorched brown fields.

i felt it, two actually about 10 secs apahrt, felt pretty strong to me

Steve, you seem to feel every earthquake that nobody else notices. Do you maybe live in the penthouse of a shoddily constructed high rise?

The Nicobar quake briefly alerted me yesterday evening (I get an e-mail notification of every undersea earthquake with a strength over 6), but one glance at the parameters (place, strength, depth) told me it could never generate a problem in Thailand.

Dutch lawyers are expensive. Google rechtswinkel (literally translated law shop). Rechtswinkels are non profit foundations where among others Dutch law students are working.

I wish you good luck with your quest. Chances are that when the child reaches a certain age, it will want to start looking for its roots, and of course Dutch citizenship offers tremendous possibilities, such as studying at a first class university even if you don't have any financial means.

There is a dentist specialized in children in Phuket Town, well known among local people. I also had good experiences at the Bangkok Phuket hospital.