warriorbangkok

My view exactly and I have to wonder what the OP's concern is.  His Uncle's or his own possible inheritance?  I am 73 and have been living in Thailand for over 12 years now.  We built Villas, a house for ourselves and an extra Town House.  I have thoroughly enjoyed living in our own House and the rentals have provided on average 100,000 baht per month.  I trust my Thai Wife 100%, but must admit that her Family have their own very comfortable life, so was not a "fortune seeker".  We lived together for over a year, then got married and three years after that, once I was totally sure of her I then turned the business over to her.  She is 47 years old now.  People need to understand.  Some relationships will work, some will not, but it is a matter of personal judgement of the other Party is you can trust them 100%.  No doubt at the moment he will be inclined to say yes, but he only needs to read of the other disasters that get published both on this Forum and the Papers.  If he lives to say 85+ one might think this is a fair thank you for her care of him?

I see elderly men with women two decades or more younger than them in Bangkok all the time.

One reason only: money.

It really is very simple.

The old man gets company, the woman gets money. It's a business deal.

She'll dump him and grab it all for herself. If the house is in her name, then he has no rights whatsoever. Not even residency rights.

Love drunk and knocking on. She'll hang him out to dry and she'll make a nice profit from it. It's a classic trick.

You've tried your best. He won't listen. He'll learn the hard way or he'll die before he realizes what he's signed over.


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Woah! Sounds very dodgy.

1. Make sure you have a Non-O, Non-B or Thailand Elite visa
2. Don't overstay your 90 days
3. Don't date a girl half your age. You're asking for trouble


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How old are you and how old is she, if I may ask?


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Is the house fully paid for? Maybe she wants you to contribute to her mortgage?


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555 Girl wants farang to register at her house. It's simple - it improves her credit rating. Nothing good comes to the farang from this. Must be a stitch up.


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Dump her. Dump her now.


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Credit?


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This story made me very angry.

A few things:

1. The girlfriend got out of the car and stood between her bf and the sword guy: very stupid and dangerous

2. The bf was a moron. He had the chance to punch the sword guy in the face but he didn't. He allowed the sword guy to get so close that he stuck the sword into to Honda and injured the gf. What a wimp. Useless bf.

3. Lucky that the gf only got her hand hurt. When the sword guy stuck the sword in the car he could easily have slit her throat. The sword guy should not have been able to get that close.

Advice in this situation:

1. Don't run out out of the car when someone pulls a sword on you (like the gf did). Get everyone back in the car quick and lock the doors!

2. Men: be men and protect your girlfriends.

I hope this psychopath sword guy spends a lot of time behind bars (i.e. In prison)

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Hi everyone,

I'm British but do not have any driving licence (not even a British one).

I want to get a driving licence in Thailand. How do I do it?

I've got a big immigration problem that I need your help with (please!!!!)

My company has just laid off a load of staff (including me) and I've just got a new passport. 90 days report is coming up, I've got no job (but two job offers) and one passport is full of stamps (my old one) and my new passport is empty.

I presume that my current work permit has been cancelled.

One job can start the process for me now (if I accept it) and another would be in May.

Any thoughts?

Chong Nonsi skywalk was closed by the military about 30 mins ago

Even Richard Barrow doesn't have anything on this yet.

Yeah I think it is. They've closed the road and the skywalk too. Tried to get a closer look but couldn't.

Just drove past the Erawan Shrine at Ratchaprasong (where the bomb went off). Tons of police, military and press there!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like Ian Rance's Thai assets/business interests/property were not legitimately 'his' in the first place.

Am I wrong?

As for people slating Thai women on here: you're stereotyping and it's completely inaccurate.

There are lots of happily married farang/Thai couples in this country. Once again, if you're a single man and want a Thai girlfriend, then make sure she satisfies the following criteria:

1. She has a university education

2. She has her own income

3. She's around about the same age as you

4. She speaks English at an advanced/near fluency level

If your Thai girlfriend matches the above four criteria, then you'll find that she'll be the best companion that you could ever wish for.

Also, men, please be understanding towards Thai culture. Thailand has never been colonized, and most Thai people think in a way that is different to anglocized/Western culture. Be patient, be understanding and embrace Thai culture.

You are a guest in this country. Stop trying to change everything. Embrace the reality and learn to respect Thai culture.

CSI LA

A lot of farangs on here bashing Thailand.

If you don't like it here, then go back home.

Oops! That's right. Home is a LOT worse than Thailand isn't it? No farang on here would ever want to live back in England or the US after living here.

Stop complaining!

Sorry! Did I just hit a nerve? Did I make you cry?

I feel sorry for Ian Rance and his family. They were royally screwed over, and even the Thai courts wouldn't give back what was rightly theirs.

My story is the opposite. I'm one of the lucky ones who met and married a decent Thai woman, around about the same age as me. I met her in the UK when she had finished her master's degree.

I couldn't ask for a more loving and decent wife.

I know I'm going to sound like a self-righteous pillock here, but my advice to all single men in Thailand when looking for a Thai girlfriend would be as follows:

1. Make sure she has a university education

2. Make sure she's working or running her own business. She should be earning her own money

3. Look for single women in the right places. Siam Paragon, CTW, Emporium, etc. Don't go to the go-go bars expecting to find anyone decent - it just won't happen.

4. This is going to sound terrible, but it's true: if you are an elderly man, then dating a woman who is less than half your age is just outright asking for trouble. Why the hell would she want to be with you, when she could have a younger, fitter man?

The vast majority of Thai women are decent, caring and very likable individuals. It makes me very sad when a few bad Thai women bring the reputation of Thailand down into the gutter with them.

Full story here: http://thaiscare.com/2015/06/2-million-thai-fraud-nightmare-for-foreign-investor-in-thailand/

The way I see it, this decision may produce multi-faceted problems in a few months time. Think about the following:

1. Both the agriculture minister and the Head of the District 12 Irrigation Office have come out and said that water levels in Thailand's dams are dangerously low right now.

2. A lot of farmers went through sheer hell when Yingluck went ahead with her ridiculous rice-pledging scheme. If I was a farmer right now, I probably wouldn't be listening to the government, and be trying to make as much money as I could (or even just trying to make ends meet, as many farmers are).

3. This is an El Niño year, so rainfall in the coming months is not expected to be sustained and significant

If the tap water runs dry, then what are people going to do?

If people will trample over each other in America just to get a few dollars off a TV set, then think what people will do when water runs out.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?/topic/855349-Cabinet-to-be-asked-to-completely-ban-second-crop-farming-for-2015-16-season

From the link.

"Agriculture Minister Gen Chatchai Sarikalya pointed out that by the end of the rainy season at the end of October, it was anticipated that the country’s main dams would be able to store a total of 3,600 million cubic metres of water which is hardly enough for agricultural purpose."

From the previous post

"Agriculture Minister Chatchai Sarikulya is set to propose a ban on the second rice crop (totaling 15 million rai) when he addresses the cabinet on Tuesday. This proposal shall come at a time when water shortages have been discovered to be far more serious than previously thought.

Apparently, water reserves are set to stand at only 3.6 million cubic meters at the the end of the rainy season on Oct 31st."

Yeah I noticed that Sandy. Thank you.

The Bangkok Post quoted 3.6 million, which is why I put that figure in.

It seems like even respectable tabloids can't get their numbers correct.

Narongkorn Somtom (Director of the Region 12 irrigation office) wrote in a letter dated Sept 7th, that the water contained in the four major dams of Thailand (Bhumibol, Sirikit, Pasak Chonlasit and Kwai Noi) stands at only 1955 cubic meters. Water is currently being discharged at 16 million cubic meters per day from the four dams collectively.

Some math: 1955/16 = 122 days of usable water left.

122/30 = approximately 4 months

That means, if rainfall is not significant and prolonged in the coming four months (which it isn't likely to be), then the dams could completely dry up by late December/early January.

Any thoughts? Have I missed something here?

PM sees funny side as student makes protest during speech

The Nation

A security officer approaches a student displaying a banner calling for education reform during the AntiCorruption Day ceremony at the Centara Grand Hotel yesterday.//Photo by Sukol Kerdnaimongkol

Boy, 18, handed to police but later released without charge

BANGKOK: -- A STUDENT protester who displayed a banner demanding education reform during the prime minister's Anti-Corruption Day speech yesterday was apprehended by security guards and turned over to Pathumwan Police Station, before being released.

The Mathayom 5 (Grade 11) student from a prestigious high school said he had planned to put his petition for education reform directly in the PM's hand with the intention of cultivating an anti-graft mentality.

The message on the banner was neither violent nor offensive to the government or anyone, he said.

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha was at the Centara Grand Hotel delivering a speech on the government's progress in promoting reform and tackling the corruption problem.

"The government is not hunting down anyone. We are just bringing unresolved cases to justice," he said.

"Even though I can do anything by employing Section 44, the use of this power is not interfering with the judicial system. My duty is to enforce legislation so that the country can move on," he said.

During the question-and-answer session following the speech, the |student hoisted his banner and asked the PM to cut back the citizens' duty class, add philosophy to the education curriculum and improve the teaching of history by making it less nationalistic.

The student was visited at the police station by members of Thammasat University's Dome Front Agora.

His parents also went to the station to meet with police before he was released without charge.

Prayut was reportedly not surprised by the student's outburst and he even saw the funny side.

"What's happening? He's still young. Please take good care of him and please understand the security officers, they have had to watch over me carefully lately."

He jokingly asked if the student was on "his side" and told the security guards to be gentle with him if he was.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/PM-sees-funny-side-as-student-makes-protest-during-30268293.html

-- The Nation 2015-09-07

Chilling