LukKrueng

1. Not only iPhone. Samsung has it as well and I'm pretty sure every midrange upwards Android phones have it as well. 2. This service (VoIP) must be provided by the cellular company. Although AIS (and probably other Thai companies) allows to use the service overseas, I checked with some non Thai cellular suppliers and they only give that service in-country as they prefer to sell expensive roaming packages. I have a sim from a non Thai company that gives the service in their home country as I hoped I'd be able to use it here, but it's blocked. I installed a VPN with servers in that country and still won't work as the VPN servers won't allow VoIP. Still haven't don't a way to overcome this problem...

Wow. What would we have done without such a professional analysis?

What benefit will the government have by doing this? What is the % of foreign renters in Thailand?

In the US they also drive on the other side of the road. How's that relevant?

I keep seeing that tax issue tied up with tm30 and I never understand why anyone thinks there's a connection between the 2. Immigration and tax department are 2 different bodies that have nothing to do with each other. In order for the tax department to get the information from immigration, IO has to go out of their way to inform them. Why would the do that? As for the landlord not willing to do it - I can think of many reasons. Extra work, disclosing personal documents to a tenant just to name 2

AFAIK you don't "take over" loan, but actually pay off the original and take a new one. Usually a loan for 2nd hand car is more expensive than for me out of the dealership. Credit history out of Thailand means nothing as they can't really verify it.

Not really the majority of the voters. They might be the biggest group but far from majority.

Politics is a game of compromise wherever there's more than 1 party. If any party could win enough seats to have a majority in parliament there would be no need for a coalition. But if you need other parties in a coalition, you have to accept their stance on all issues as well. So if he wants to be PM and that issue as he (and his voters) wants it stands in the way, he should find a compromise that will be a step in his direction and others can live with it as well.

Lots of spirit in the bars.

Tell them you're married and your wife is coming back...

What a wonderful world. A students mischief makes it to national news...

Send me a pm if you're offering to take her off my hands and I'll give you full details.

That should go both ways. When I see a male dressed as a woman and tries to behave like a "woman" (they usually behave like a stereotype created by men, and not like most natural women) I find it hard to address that person as a woman. And they don't accept people not accepting them as they decide. It's ecxectly the same as some older people trying to mingle with much younger people because they feel young. The younger people don't usually accept them and older people ridicule them

Where did you get the money? Is there any left for me to take too?

Tried that a few years back. Didn't work as advertised. 1. It also eat trees/branches 2. If you have young trees/plants - it will just walk all over them 3. It only eats the type of grass it likes, and I still hat to cut the rest 4. When they ran out of grass they eat I had to go get more from outside 5. During the hot season not grass to be found - had to buy. You can't leave those with an empty tank for more than a few days.............

He might have spent all his money buying the Merc and doesn't have enough for the tolls...

5 years is a long time in the future. Any information you get more might not be relevant in 5 years.

I don't know anything about Mac's operating system, but windows always had (and still have) a problem with memory release of closed apps. The longer you keep it on, the slower it gets. I used a notebook. If I go away for a short time I put it in sleep mode. If longer such as overnight o put it on hibernate mode. But every now and then, when I feel it's getting slow I turn it off at night. As for restart after update - I don't usually do it as soon as an update is available, but pretty much when I want to turn it off anyway.

WHY???

It's a blue book for me, and no. My name was added to the book at the district office soon after I bought the unit even though I didn't actually live there, and back then there was no tax collection as far as I can remember. My 2nd visit to the district office was about 5 years ago to remove my name from the book after I was registered in another province. When I bought the 2nd unit I never got the blue book from the seller who claimed he lost it. I never bothered to get a new book for that unit.

The land office has nothing to do with house book (yellow or blue) and AFAIK they have nothing to do with the tax. I have 2 units in BKK. I used to be registered in one of them but moved out about 5 years ago. There are 2 names registered in that house book now. Last week I got the bill for the tax - only for the other unit which no one is registered as living in. I never took the blue book to the land office to register anything with them.

Best thing is to have your wife write a will leaving you the property and all her belongings. The fact that you don't know if any relatives doesn't mean there aren't any distant relatives that might appear later in life. If your wife goes before you, as was mentioned already, the court will give you 12 months to sell the property to a Thai person. At that point you either sell and move out, or come to an agreement with the buyer to lease you the property for 30 years. You could also find someone you trust and transfer the ownership to their name and put a lease on it. As for owning the house without the land - no so easy. The land has a title deed (chanot). The house has no such thing. In some cases of property developed by a company (developers) they separate the house from the land by issuing 2 chanots - one for the land and one for the house. I've never heard of any individual who managed to do so on a single plot with a house on it. Many people would argue that if the building permit was given under your name that means the house is yours. Not true. No chanot = no ownership.

Is there legal prostitution in Pattaya??

Seriously? Is this the best way to describe it?

well, if he is your son and you were married to the mother when he was born then you should have legal guardianship over him WITH the mother and both of you should have been asked to sign. So they probably f*cked up.