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my gf has come up with yet another "wonderful idea" to make money !

She has purchased about 20 concrete barrells and intends to grow catfish.

She does not know the first thing about this sort of farming.

Can anybody offer some advice or tips to help her at least lose our (my) money more slowly ?

Bangkok

same address for past 4 years

Just stay 30 or 60 days at a time once or twice a year

I have a 30 day permission to stay until 07 October 2018.

What are the latest requirements to get a 30 day extension ?

I read that the owner of my rented condo needs to sign a form ?  Is this true ?

- it was not required the last time I applied, early this year ..

LOL ..

The Demorats have all the MSM on their side thanks to globalist communists like Soros, Clintons and the heavily  biased department of "Just Us" but they still can not stop Trump from winning !!

Now they are so scared of losing the mid term elections they are shutting down free speech. Albeit a tad too late. Sorry snowflakes, you're still on the losing side. LOL

Thanks to the alternative internet media  US citizens are already aware of the Left's horrible scheme to turn the US into a socialist state with no borders, uncontrolled immigration and total breakdown of law and order.

I believe stories of maltreatment of recruits are common in Thailand. That's why a friend paid off a corrupt official in order to remove her son's name from the call-up list. Not that I would have agreed to it either as the boy could have benefited from the experience. Her fear of her son possibily being hurt was a very real, especially as he despised authority and had a contrary attitude making the chances even higher that he'd be severely beaten up, had he been sent to boot camp.

Good on him for speaking up about this reckless driving. 

I'm sure many travellers have had this near-death experience in a speeding mini van and many people have not lived to tell about it.

If more people would speak up and record the ranting driver maybe something will be done about it.

Is there a website ?

Myanmarese

Is it possible that the driver was deaf and not paying attention to the rear view mirror ?

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Ambulant ? What dat ?

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I rent a modern one bedroom apartment in a highrise block with good security, gym, pool and undercover parking.
Rent is 11,000 baht per month.
Why part with your cash when 2 million baht would give you about 15 years renting.
If you buy a condo you will have a number of potential problems. e.g. noisy or bad neighbours or you may get bored with the location.
You may have difficulty in selling the property for a good price when you decide to leave. By renting you are free to leave with just 3 months notice, or less if you don't mind losing all or part of the bond. You can move to another/ better location as you please. Most of your cash can be used for other things.

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It would be beneficial if you posted the refusal letter (minus the personal details) so people can have a look
and offer you some advice.
 
IMO, complaints won't really get you anywhere and are pretty much a waste of time.
The decision won't be overturned.
 
It's not really a case of being just honest, it's a case of putting in a good application.
The vast majority of applications that get refused are because of poor applications.
 
Sometimes you can get a bad decision from a case officer, but from my experience, it's usually a sub-standard application.

I just got the refusal letter through. I was totally honest in my application, sent photos of us and my parents together in Vietnam, of myself with her parents, sent them evidence of my income and her income, and the application was refused because they say that she is a low income earner of working age and they don’t believe the reason for visit to be genuine. I don’t have huge savings in the bank, but earn quite well and they said that that alone isn’t adequate. She needs to provide some resounding evidence that she will return to Vietnam, such as evidence of assets (she has none), evidence of immediate family such as a child (of course she doesn’t have any). We wouldn’t jeopardise our future together and spouse visa in Australia by overstaying or not following visa rules but I guess that kind of logic doesn’t flow with the immigration department.
 
Don’t know where to go from here. 
 

Sorry I got cut off before I could finish the post .

I completed it here below.

I feel your pain and utter frustration JTH1.
We were knocked back on our first attempt with an honest application. It's not fair to have some lazy, incompetent person making these life changing decisions. I made an official complaint to immigration in Canberra. If enough people complain they might just make some changes.

Feeling aggrieved and having nowhere to go and nobody who can solve the problem for you is a shitty feeling I know.  The faceless and uncaring bureaucracy has ruined many plans and caused untold misery for many travelers.  For instance when I wanted to get an Australian citizenship by descent for my daughter born in Thailand when she was just 2 years old.  I went to the Oz embassy in Bangkok with my Thai wife, her sister, my daughter and one stepson.  They refused to accept that my daughter was my daughter. Despite all of us having been there on the day of her birth and we had a birth certificate too.  That wasn't good enough.  We had to drive back to the farm 4 hours away and find a witness to sign the document. to say yes in fact we know this child to be my daughter. We went to the hospital where she was born and the midwife refused to sign on the grounds she didn't have the authority to do so. She referred us to the young doctor who was on duty. He took the form even though he didn't know my daughter from a bar of soap. He filled in the form with a marking pen which leached through to the back side of the form. He wrote his name where my daughter's name should have been and my daughter's name where his name should have been !   I was very angry but it was too late. We drove the 35 Km back to the farm and luckily I had a scanner and a photo-shop program on the computer. I scanned in the form and deleted all the mistakes the doctor had made and printed out a new form.  The next day we drove the 35 Km to another town and looked for someone else to sign the form.  We found a friendly lady at the local ampur who had seen my daughter once about a year before. She looked at the form and said she can not read English.  So we eventually found a friend who could read English and got her to translate the questions on the form to Thai.  So we went back to the ampur and presented the lady with the questions. Then she said I can not write English ! So I filled in the answers for her and she signed in the correct place and put an official stamp on it.

We drove back to the embassy which also entailed getting hotel accommodation each time.

I presented the form filled out and the person on the counter said:  "this is not the original form - we can not accept this".  I was about ready to jump over the counter I was that angry.  I said I'm not going back again !!  You accept this form now !!

He reluctantly said "oh well,we can send it to Canberra but they probably won't accept it".  .

A month later we got the certificate of Citizenship by descent but still had to jump through more hoops to get her passport.  The first attempt they rejected the passport photos because they didn't comply with their standards. So a long march in the hot sun to the nearest photographer who proceeded to photo-shop the image so that it would comply. The hypocrisy of the whole process just makes my blood boil.  Whenever I have to go to any government agency my blood pressure goes high before I get in the door.

I feel your pain and utter frustration JTH1.
We were knocked back on our first attempt with an honest application. It's not fair to have some lazy, incompetent person

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What are the criteria for a Thai person to get a pension ?

Why not have an under-sea high-speed rail tunnel between Pattaya and Huahin. To save money the public could be invited to help with the design.

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When driving on mountain roads drivers need to use the gears, not the brakes.
Over use of the brakes causes first a serious burning smell, then brakes have faded and nothing left to stop the vehicle with.

In the meantime dozens more break the law ..

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He was probably speaking to his new Thai girlfriend (Boom) and was cut off before he had finished the sentence:
"Boom .."
The shriek from a nearby nervous female tourist prevented the rest of his sentence from being heard. ..
"..do you want me to put that bag in the overhead locker ?"

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Why didn't she go straight to the US Embassy in Bangkok after arriving in Thailand ..
Instead of messing about in Pattaya ?

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