Dogmatix

They flew down South to prime Thaksin hater territory and asked constituents who happened to be direct family members. They all said do whatever it takes to join the Thaksin government to make money.

He deserved to go to prison for rape of two Thai school girls in London but daddy apparently got him off the hook by talking to the girls' parents in Thailand who got their daughters to drop charges. Metropolitan Police were appalled that they were unable to prosecute what they said was an open and shut case. Narrowly escaping an English prison where he would not have got any privileges due to his father should have been a lesson to Prinn to stop molesting young girls. But he chose to continue. His employer in Bangkok, CLSA, knew what he was up to because everyone in the securities industry in Bangkok knew but chose to ignore it because they saw him as a rainmaker who could make money for them. Young female analysts in his office were terrified to work late when they had company results to report on urgently and other staff had to stay in the office to chaperone them in case Prinn popped in to indulge in himself in yet another sexual assault. CLSA didn't care about these young women. They only cared about profits. The DemocratParty, like CLSA, also knew what he was up to but assumed wrongly he could always get away with it and his assaults would never reflect badly on the party. Now there is almost nothing left of the Democrat Party which is about to be gobbled up by its arch enemy Thaksin and Prinn is going to prison, Poetic justice at last.

Bought and paid for. Rumours after the election were 20 mil per senate vote. I are sure Uncle Chu's press conferences increased that significantly. Maybe he gets a commission on the incremental amount.

And they control over 90% of the country's wealth.

Not a lot of younger red shirts, unlike the 2009 and 2010 protests. Not sure how much Thaksin's brand resonates with young voters as a 74 year old out of touch with Thai people and a sell out to the military.

So he is just a liar who claims an absolute right to tell lies for personal gain. Great choice for PM.

Thaksin's major contribution to tourism and immigration was the Thai Elite card that he fraudulently claimed would allow foreigners to own land. In reality he actually made it harder for foreigners to own land. Apart from that he had all the PR and citizenship applications knocked back and either rejected completely or delayed for 3 years. He also increased visa fees. Thaksin's approach was always to pander to the super rich foreigners, clear out the bottom tier and make things harder for the middle of the road expats. Visas for super rich are now saturated with Elite Card and LTR visas. So he can just focus on clearing out the bottom tier and raising visa fees and financial hurdles.

Tulsahtit's article is utter nonsense. MFP made it totally clear that that it cannot go against its supporters' wishes, unlike PT. MFP did a poll of members and got a 95% vote against voting for a PT candidate after the backstabbing. So the MFP leaders couldn't support a PT candidate now, even if they wanted to.

Thaksin did introduce some reforms, e.g. universal healthcare, OTOP, but he could have done a lot more, if he wasn't focused on lining his pockets through corruption and knobbling the independent agencies to avoid scrutiny. Now his party has nothing new to offer while Move Forward has forged ahead with detailed, well thought through plans for reform in virtually every part of government and the civil service.

I hope Ung Ing will be wearing her tiara when she goes to the airport to meet him.

Wonder how many of the red shirts in the North and Northeast are still loyal following his dirty deal with the military parties. And the younger voters don't know how who the hell he is.

I have two middle names and when I got PR and my name in Thai was registered in the tabien baan system, Thailand had still not amended the law to permit middle names for Thais. I found out later that because of this my two middle names were included to make a single first name which has continued after I got citizenship. This actually seems easier than having an official middle name and anyway you can only have one middle name. It is a bit burdensome but I have never had a problem with my three part first name, apart from complaints about its length. It also suits me to have exact match between my Thai and farang identities. My son has had a middle name from birth.

I remember someone posted in another thread a few years ago that he bought a house in the name of his wife and everything was good for a few years until tragically his wife got sick and died. Within two weeks of the funeral his wife's relatives ordered him out of his house because they had found a buyer for it.

Meanwhile there are hundreds of similar websites offering hookers in Thai but they don't harm the image of the Kingdom because foreigners can't read them.

No surprise that the court dismissed the petition on a lame technicality. The delay has served its purpose to allow the caretaker government to proceed with key appointments in the annual reshuffle of military, police and civil servants which by all accounts is a nice little earner as well as getting own people in position.

He is not entitled to re-trials. Thai law only requires the defendant to present on the first day to hear the charges read against him but they amended to law to allow trials to proceeds without this formality in the event the defendant declines to attend the court because he has fled overseas. There are also three pending cases against him. If he returns, he can attend the trials in person. According to normal standards he should be denied bail on these charges, even if he miraculously get royal pardons for his convictions, because he is a proven flight risk known to have multiple nationalities and passports.

Prayut raised this during his absolute power period as PM but was scared to do it due to the backlash. Now they have done it for no obvious reason as they are on the way out and no longer fear the backlash. They should raise it, not cut it, and fund it by eliminating corruption and useless arms purchases. There would be more than enough to go around needy citizens instead of taking from them and giving to corrupt SOBs for new mansions, S-Class Benzes and swanky overseas schools for their brats.

No need to question this. It's a stone cold racing certainty.

Being the father of a 2-year old myself, I can hardly bear to think about this obscene tragedy.

Also need to budget for supporting her family and paying for emergencies like buying back family land that granny has hocked to someone to pay off gambling debts.

This is very strange. There has definitely never been any concern expressed by the Thai government about foreign men buying residences in the Thai wife’s name and then being kicked out. That is obvious BS. There is also no legal reason to sign anything giving up rights to a condo bought in a Thai wife’s name. The document referred to by the OP only applies to land, not freehold of leasehold condos . There is a foreign quota on condo developments of 49% of the usable space but Thais with foreign spouses are prohibited from buying into the Thai quota under the Condominium Act. Their units are counted as foreign owned. This sounds more like a private agreement that the condo was to be considered personal property and not part of the conjugal property in the event of divorce. But this type of agreement to disregard the provisions of the Civil and Commercial Code on conjugal property would be disregarded by a Thai court in the same way as they disregard pre-nuptial agreements that seem to have similar effects.

No need to be 18 to own land but minors under the age of 20 cannot apply for planning permission. They also cannot sell without a court order from the family and juvenile court which is to check that they are not being diddled.

The OP was asked to sign a standard form introduced by the Land Dept in 1992 to allow Thais with foreign spouses to buy land without hassle. The alternative would to have the LD do due diligence to ensure that the land is being purchased with the Thai spouse’s own money. It’s not perfect but a lot better than the system it replaced which was to give an absolute right to Thai males with foreign spouses to buy land and refuse to allow land transfers to Thai women, if they were aware they were married to a foreigner or even had a foreigner boyfriend. Thai women had complained that this was gender biased for decades. The process works smoothly at the Land Office. They just take your signed form without comment. There is a case in the Supreme Court where a farang got divorced from his Thai wife and argued the couple’s house and land were paid for by him, producing evidence of bank transfers, and managed to get it added to the conjugal property and the sale proceeds divided in half, which is normal for any assets acquired after marriage. So this paper doesn’t necessarily mean the asset is wholly lost in the event of divorce.

More time to consider throwing out the petition about renominating Pita has given more time to the caretaker government which it has used profitably by pressing ahead with the annual reshuffle of military and police which is by all accounts a nice little earner.

Laws are made by lawmakers and you would think that a political party would be free to propose amending any statutory law that is on the books. But MFP is heading for dissolution anyway, if not this, then something else.