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China Airline was made for Asian's unless you fly business cass of 1st calss forget it if your over 6 feet! I was packed in like a sardine and had to use the barf bag as a toilet because the 2 old people beside me we sound asleep and trying to sqeeze by them was impossible! Fly EVA Air

Glad they caught the dude, poor patsy died before she could be vindicated. Happy for the family after 10 years! As for Teachers in Thailand it's not ones working without permits I dislike it's the ones working for 1/2 wages or free doo gooders

Crackdown On "Farang" Teachers:

Qualifications of foreign teachers in Thailand must meet required standards

BANGKOK: -- Authorities concerned are believed to soon set a common standard for all local schools in recruiting teachers, including those of foreign origins, following a recent case in which an American teacher was arrested for an alleged murder of a six-year-old girl in the United States 10 years ago.

Deputy Secretary General to the Prime Minister Jakrapob Penkair said here Friday that he would meet secretary of the education minister next week to discuss standardized qualifications of all teachers in Thailand and criteria on teacher recruitments.

"All teachers in Thailand must have the same career standard, no matter what nationalities they are. We must now be serious about that," noted Mr. Jakrapob, who is also secretary of Deputy Prime Minister Surakiart Sathirathai.

Mr. Surakiart, among other tasks, supervises the Ministry of Education.

"I'll discuss with the education minister's secretary on qualifications of teachers and tuitors in Thailand, particularly those work for international schools, as well as criteria for screening their backgrounds and issuing work permits for them," he told journalists.

Mr. Jakrapob's remarks followed Wednesday's arrest of John Mark Karr, 41, who had worked as a teacher of some international schools in Thailand.

The middle-aged American was arrested by the Thai Immigration Police Bureau in a downtown Bangkok apartment Wednesday afternoon following a request by US security officials on August 11.

According to Thai Immigration Police Bureau Commissioner Lt. Gen. Suwat Tumrongsriskul, the American authorities had informed Thailand that Mr. Karr had fled the US to hide, first in Malaysia, and then in Thailand.

As the latest development, a court in Boulder, Colorado issued arrest warrants for the suspect on August 16 on charges of abduction and murder.

The arrested suspect confessed to strangling to death the then six-year-old 'beauty queen', Jon Benet Ramsey, in her home in the US state of Colorado on December 26, 1996.

The suspect said that he initially wanted to kidnap the young girl for ransom, but his demand was not met; so he strangled the kidnapped girl.

Mr. Karr left Penang, Malaysia, and entered Thailand on June 6 this year.

The immigration bureau chief said that he had ordered Mr. Karr's visa to be revoked, and that the man, found not to have committed any wrongdoing in Thailand, would be then extradited for trial in the US.

There have been thousands of foreigners working for local schools in Thailand, particularly international and language schools, a number of whom entered the kingdom as tourists with no work permits as professional teachers, according to Mr. Jakrapob.

--TNA 2006-08-18

Related links:

Work Permit in Thailand

Non-Immigrant Visa

Your wife will require a Visa from the Canada Embassy! She will be granted it quickly as she holds a british visa! Good luck Canada's Embassy can be tough

I would be grateful if somebody can give advice on taking a Thai wife to countries other than Thailand or one's home country. My wife has a UK permanent residency visa in her Thai passport and lives with me in the UK for most of the year. Since we were married we have taken our holidays in, and made work-related trips to, Thailand. However, I sometimes also make trips to other countries, and have been considering tacking on a holiday with my wife. I will be travelling to Canada in a few months time and wondered what would be involved in gaining entry for my wife (with me and our son) for a 2 week period. It would also be worth knowing how much more complicated such a trip would be if I wanted to cross the border into the USA. In addition I would welcome information on EC countries. My son has a UK passport and is no problem.

I will travel to Thailand in december for researching a business in Phuket. Shall I apply for a B or O visa at the Thai Embassy?

++Luma++

Pat's guest house has a killer burger! almost 1 lb of beef! Good for 2

Having lived in Chiang Rai for over 3 years, it is surprising sometimes to hear of a restaurant you did'nt know about.

One I know , The Family Bakehouse serves the finest steak ever.

Do you know of any good restaurants?

Gossip? Thai Women? Oh my never, never! Sorry you had to experience it, I wounder sometimes when I'm sitting somewhere and I hear farang, farang, farang! I just blow it off as words are just words? Oh and the fact that I have no clue what there yagging about!

The food was good, and the owner seemed like a fair enough fellow, but his missus there must have thought I didn't speak thai, and for the full hour i was there she was on and on with her girlfriend talking rubbish about every other girl in town, the girlfriends of other farangs, etc. A right gossip hag! It was like listening to a Thai soap opera, but bloody worse! And the whole time she was looking up and down MY missus thinking God knows what.

Last time I spend me pension there!

Gravy Powder ( Northern Farms Beef oxo or beef soup mix add to water and corn flower and cook on low heat till it's thick)

English Sausages ( You can get Big-C to order from Thai German Meat Company)

apple sauce ( Northern Farms or make your own it's easy)

sage onion stuffing ( Northern Farms)

branston pickle ( There is a Pickle Factory in Chiangrai they supply Northern Farms just ask, also Jozeph at Hamburger #1 In Bandu Sells good Pickles)

pizza bases frozen ( Macro)

baguettes,half cooked and frozen ( Ban Chivitmai Bakery accross from Bus Depot)

lamb - to roast ( Northern Farms, there is fresh Goat at the wholesale market Chiangrai city buy you have to kill it? )

garlic breads - ready made and frozen ( Make your own with french bread butter and garlic, put in foil and bake at 400 degrees for 15 min)

a potato masher ( use a mix Master from Big C 350 Baht)

sour cream ( Big-c it looks like a small container from formost in the dairy section)

i also want to buy a good gas oven. (Big C is the cheapest 5,900 baht)

So you see everything is here!

Hi

I live in chiang rai - I need to get the following in wholesale ammounts, please can someone point me in the right direction. I know about Northern Farm place. Perhaps I need to order some of this stuf from chiang Mai (but where) and can they send to chiang rai frozen?

Gravy Powder

English Sausages

apple sauce

sage onion stuffing

branston pickle

pizza bases frozen

baguettes,half cooked and frozen

lamb - to roast

garlic breads - ready made and frozen

a potato masher

sour cream

i also want to buy a good gas oven.

Thanks

PASTA WITH SHRIMP SCAMPI

1-1/2 lbs. unpeeled, medium-size fresh shrimp (Macro Fresh Daily)

1-2 tbls. Chopped chipotle peppers (Macro)

2 garlic cloves, minced (Macro)

2 tbls. veg. or olive oil (Northern Farms)

1/2 cup dry white wine or chicken broth (northern Farms)

1 tbls. Prepared mustard (northern Farms)

1 tbls. Worcestershire sauce (Northern Farms)

1/2-3/4 cup butter, melted (Macro)

1/2 tsp. salt (Anywhere)

2 tbls. Fresh lemon juice (lime Juice) (Anywhere)

1 lb. spaghetti, cooked (Macro, Big-C, Northern Farms)

1/2 cup fresh parsley, optional (most markets, Macro)

1/2 cup shredded Parmesan cheese ( Macro, Northern Farms, Big-C)

Peel shrimp and. Sauté peppers and garlic in hot oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat until thoroughly heated. Note: (you could and should slice open peppers to remove seeds to tone down the heat. Depending on pepper size, one large will do. You adjust to taste.)

Add shrimp and cook, stirring constantly, 2-3 minutes or just until shrimp turns pink. Remove shrimp and set aside.

Stir in white wine, mustard, and Worcestershire sauce, cook over high heat 3-4 minutes. Return shrimp to skillet. Stir in butter, salt, lemon juice, cook 1-2 minutes or until combined and thoroughly heated.

Place pasta in a large serving dish, toss with shrimp mixture and parsley. Sprinkle with parmesan cheese.

Yields 4-6 servings.

Scampi picture for you, I see these Thai Prawns(Scampi) in Macro all the time Fresh! They are the ones with claws on them. They are a grey color with blue Claws

Here ,this is strange thing i saw at MFL uni. I wonder why they put the Air-con here? any idea?

A free communithai magazine!!!

Leave Chiangrai to the Thai? Most teens I know would die to have a mall to hang out in? The Thai Business owners would like more farang as it brings money to there cash registers! I agree Chiangrai is nice and Peaceful and it would be a shame to see it follow Chiangmai! It would be nice to have Burger King here, just a small outlet.

Personally a big department store like a Central with movie cinemas and maybe even a sizzler.

Ohh and I would like a Limping here in CR aswell stocking lots of great Farang food..

In The Rai!

I hope not.

For a lot of farang, myself included we like Chiang Rai the way it is or has been in the past.

We don't want lots of big shopping malls,movie theatres and sizzlers, similar to home.

We don't want lots of farang here, like Chiang Mai.

Chiang Rai has a nice mix of foreigners and Thai, a nice mix of foreign shopping and Thai.

Even the traffic isn't so bad here.

So, please leave Chiang Rai to be Thai.

I would try Macro they sometimes have it fresh. I do believe they have it in the frozen food section though! ( Ooop's maybe I'm plugging an advert for Macro? )

Good luck with your boss, Asking for seafood in a land locked Province was nice?

You can complain at the Main office for the whole complex, they have english speaking staff and they do care! If you had gone there and pointed out the girl in question she may have changed her tune when she saw the managment. Sorry you had to sit near a mess, hope the food was ok

Tried out the new night bazaar in Bandoo last night.

Terrible selection of food, nice music and setting but nobody there.

Left and went back to the original in Chiang Rai. The food is ok there but when we arrived, we had as usual, great difficulty getting a seat.

Eventually someone left and we got a table. But what a mess, sea shells all over the place, beer bottles, plates and fish bones under the table.

The waitress cleaned the table with the dirtiest rag I ever saw. I asked her to clean under the table but she said it wasn't her job and walked away.

Where do you complain? nowhere.

I had the opportunity to go to the Chiangrai Resort? To find it you pass hamburger 1 in Bandu and Sinthanee 5 and keep going towards the mountain for about 7km's your will see a sign in red and white locating the Resort. I had the Pork Chops and WoW they actually prepared them properly!

Everyone enjoyed the Food and the service was good. They have a really big fish bond full of fish, if you ask they will give you food to feed them.

The place is off the beat and track but it's darn good food

Thank you for asking Should enough people ask for a classified listings section we will be more than happy to add it for free!

Don't know if this has been addressed, but will you have a classified section for people to sell there

excess stuff, or gotta move fast stuff??

Thank you Everyone for your interest in the Magazine. Today the Magazine went to print after hours and hours of editing and then more editing. We hope you enjoy reading the free magazine and invite you to please feel free to send and write articles about Chiang Rai anytime. As this magazine is community based we do wish to hear from you and would like to publish your works.

Thank you agian and hopefully the printer will be finished soon, they said 5 days?

We must remember that here they understand time somewhat differant than in the west

We have learned:

Soon-Means Never

Tomorrow-Means 2-3 days

I will see you at 9am-means add 2-3 hours for Somtum

I will call you back- I'm not interested or I don't know

Thank you Again

Thank you Thai Visa Moderators for understanding that we aren't trying to advertise here just informing residents about the magazine and asking for their input [email protected]

There is a New Magazine being Published in Chiangrai! It's 100% English and will be on the stands between, Aug 1st-15th throughout Chiangrai, Chiangmai and Pattaya. The Magazine is looking for fresh Fresh articles for Chiangrai so if you would like to write an article please feel free to send it //email removed//

Communithai Magazines first issue will be out in the beginning of August distributing 5000 copies of which 3000 copies will be distributed throughout Chiangrai. This is a free Magazine supported by Local Business.

The first issue will feature the top 10 Restaurants in Chiangrai, Local NGO's and what there doing. A few funny articles like my Thai wife?, information on Tap Sap 600 english words used by Thai and intesting fact on and or about Chiangrai.

Communithai Magazine is interested in personal stories about your experiences in Chiangrai and articles promoting the wounderful life style Chiangrai has to offer.

The Magazine is Non Political and not a platform for Religion! it if a lifestyles Magazine for Chiangrai.

Communithai is also developing a local Community Center in Bandu Chiangrai to better serve the Expat community. Soon to offer DVD Exchange, Book Exchange, Teaching Material exchange and more. We feel that there are many Expats living in Chiangrai that have a lot to offer fellow expats, but due to lack of any media or information system they cannot share there knowledge.

Communithai is also preparing to launch it's web based community portal that will help bring people together.

So you asked what is Communithai Magazine about? Well it's about Chiangrai and all the wounderful people and the Business Community.

Thank you

Thank you for the explanation, pity it took so long.

Some good ideas there but do you know that Bandu is not even in Chiang Rai city and for most foreigners it will be too far.

Imagine going to Bandu to get a DVD or a book, I don't think so.

Anyhow,good luck. I think everyone would like to see it up and running.

Thank you all your negative and positve support for the magazine.

For all of you who think a glass is half empty or like to spend most of your time in thailand complaining, crying in your TomYum or Thai bashing Please take a pill!

There is a New Magazine being Published in Chiangrai! It's 100% English and will be on the stands between, Aug 1st-15th throughout Chiangrai, Chiangmai and Pattaya. The Magazine is looking for fresh Fresh articles for Chiangrai so if you would like to write an article please feel free to send it //email removed//

Communithai Magazines first issue will be out in the beginning of August distributing 5000 copies of which 3000 copies will be distributed throughout Chiangrai. This is a free Magazine supported by Local Business.

The first issue will feature the top 10 Restaurants in Chiangrai, Local NGO's and what there doing. A few funny articles like my Thai wife?, information on Tap Sap 600 english words used by Thai and intesting fact on and or about Chiangrai.

Communithai Magazine is interested in personal stories about your experiences in Chiangrai and articles promoting the wounderful life style Chiangrai has to offer.

The Magazine is Non Political and not a platform for Religion! it if a lifestyles Magazine for Chiangrai.

Communithai is also developing a local Community Center in Bandu Chiangrai to better serve the Expat community. Soon to offer DVD Exchange, Book Exchange, Teaching Material exchange and more. We feel that there are many Expats living in Chiangrai that have a lot to offer fellow expats, but due to lack of any media or information system they cannot share there knowledge.

Communithai is also preparing to launch it's web based community portal that will help bring people together.

So you asked what is Communithai Magazine about? Well it's about Chiangrai and all the wounderful people and the Business Community.

Thank you

There is a New Magazine being Published in Chiangrai! It's 100% English and will be on the stands between, Aug 1st-15th throughout Chiangrai, Chiangmai and Pattaya. The Magazine is looking for fresh Fresh articles for Chiangrai so if you would like to write an article please feel free to send it //email removed//

Low carb eating/living?

What do you think of it?

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Atkins Diet is low carbs and they went bankrupt in the usa? The major problem with westerners ir mixing carbs and protine all the time!

Eating a lot of green vegtables and fruit and various meats is completely healthy!

Drinking Booze is the major weight enhancer! Beer is fat fat fat

Everything in moderation!

I just wanted to let other Expats here in thailand know about this product I used from herbalife. I was approched by a Thai National and asked about my heath. I explained that I was always tired, over weight and worried about my blood sugar and heart. She put me on a program through Herbalife and it changed everything!

I lost 120 lbs my blood sugar is a normal levels and I'm feeling fit as a fiddle. No need for Viagra as the rose Ox she also provide has changed all that. For anyone who really wishes to improve there help, this program works very well! It did cost a bit more but she was right how much is your life worth?

Feel free to email me with any questions about this program as I'm now a healthy believer

Car rental company in Pattaya seeks Thai Female with English Language skills to work customer service counter. Will train, no experience necessary, english a must!

Salary based on language skills

Call for interview 018651011

With the help of American mistakes in the region, China has severely cut into the US monopoly on soft power in Southeast Asia, writes JOSHUA KURLANTZICK, in Chiang Rai

Despite its location along northern trade routes, Chiang Rai has until recently remained only a relatively small town, with a few shopping districts and night markets selling brightly patterned textiles, fiery pork curries, and other local specialties. But over the past five years, Chiang Rai, and other towns across northern Thailand, have changed dramatically. In Chiang Rai's modest hotels, Chinese and Thai businessmen furiously negotiate deals for joint ventures over banquets at glam Chinese restaurants, and local travel agents lead large groups of Chinese tourists around town.

Outside the city, Chinese construction companies work through the night building a maze of roads that will link Thailand to the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan. These companies employ thousands of Chinese workers, who often stay in Thailand illegally after finishing their work. And at Mae Faluang University, a gleaming new Chinese cultural center funded by Beijing now attracts hundreds of Thai students, while other popular new university exchange programmes in the city bring batches of Chinese students to Thailand.

Northern Thailand is not unique in Southeast Asia. In Bangkok last year, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra announced that China should now become the most important country for Thailand's diplomacy.

Recent Chinese immigrants now dominate business in northern Laos, the Laos government is trying to lure large Chinese tour groups, and Chinese-language schools and cultural events are growing in popularity. In Cambodia, Chinese-language schools and television programs also have become among the most popular in the nation, Chinese tourism is skyrocketing, and Chinese investment is funding the country's largest building, which will tower over the capital's modest skyline of Khmer temples

http://archives.mybangkokpost.com/bkkarchi...rom=text_search

Oh my gosh,

It's getting pretty bad when I have to read things like this in this forum. The one thing I enjoy about Thailand is the fact that should you require female assistance it's easily found. Have to talk about Miss Palm and her 5 sisters? EEEEk

Please gentlemen is life so boring in Thailand we have to resort to topics of this nature?

No need for shrinks, just maybe a night out?