alexboy

Why all this "Thai bashing again"? it is just an accident and it can happen anywhere!

The best solution for all countries with abortions problems: do like muslim countries and ask women to dress conservatively, the parents watching them and not letting them go out at night with men. teach women to respect their body and not to have sex unless married!

Voila! most of the problem solve!

I have been working in Thailand since 2003 as a teacher, I have a tax number but I have never received a pay slip.

I have not filed taxes in Canada since then, I have not declared myself as a non resident either as I renewed my drivers licence and used health care on my visits home.

What should I bring from Thailand to show that I have been working overseas for this time?

nothing. i've been away to thailand for more than 10 years. never filled a tax report. once back in canada, i filled tax for 5 years back and all was o.k. after that.

Hello to all,

I am curious to know if it is possible for a thai citizen in thailand to declare personal bankruptcy. I would appreciate if someone could come up with an answer.

Also, if it is possible, how to do it.

Thank you in advance for your help or suggestions.

Alexboy

I have gone through the process and can tell you a tourist visa before you two are married is difficult and after you are married virtually impossible. However if you fill out the application for sponsorship/permanent residency (for her, you'll likely help fill out this part) along with lots of great shots of smiling family members, letters of support from your family you could have her in Canada in as little as 3 months.

Having a lawyer isn't necessary and won't speed up anything.

Good luck!

I have obtained a tourist visa for my Thai g/f, common law, filled out the declaration etc.

We are in Canada now, going back to Thailand in Aug. getting married then, and planning on returning to Canada in the fall, wondering why you say after marriage virtually impossible to obtain a tourist visa?

hello...just want to tell you about my experience re. why it may be difficult to get the visa. i have been married for 10 years; have one canadian/thai daugther;my wife has her own business, house and land. she is 43 years old, no criminal record.

i am now in canada with my daughter for my health and for my daughter education. she was refuse a tourist visa to visit her own daugther and me!!!!???

and...i cannot sponsor her because of my health! the result? my wife will probably never be able to come to canada!

it seems that our guys at the embassy do not give much respect to the institution of marriage!

anyways...good luck to you!

bye

alexboy

Hello to all!

...just wondering... does someone knows if it is easier for a thai to enter mexico on a tourist visa than entering canada or the USA?

I am asking because i know a thai friend who was refused a tourist visa to Canada even though she is married to a Canadian, she is a business owner and a land owner. Never been a "lady of the night" too!

Thank you to anyone who can help.

bye

alexboy

Has this happend to anyone else?

Yes! i confirm this has happened to me in savanakhet. they told me they would give me only non-O in a year. the idea is they want you to extend it in thailand and for one year.

bye

alexboy

A moderate but low yield for the commonly grown varieties of rice on one rai is about 500 kilo...anything less than 500 kilo from one rai means there was some problem...and even getting 500 means there is room for improvement. A yield of about 600 kilo per rai seems to be considered a good yield. If I get 500 I feel like I was not a failure exactly but a wonder what I did wrong...if I get 600 I'm pretty happy and consider that I must know what I'm doing.

Let's assume you got 500 kilo of rice per rai. This last season the price for sticky rice was over 8 baht per kilo....I don't recall what it was for steam rice but I think it was about 7 baht per kilo. Let's assume you grew steam rice and sold for 7 baht per kilo....then you got 3,500 baht per rai and for 16.3 rai you would have received 57,000 baht. EVen if you only got 400 kilo per rai and received 6 baht per kilo you would have received 39,000 baht for the 16.3 rai.

I don't know what happened on your land but I'm just trying to show that the general expectation for 16.3 rai would be considerably more than you achieved.

As for pumping water....from that depth I think it would be too expensive for growing rice. Pumping water for other crops might work depending on the depth of the water and the profit margin for the crop. The nice thing about growing rice is that it is easy to sell and it keeps very well........on the other hand vegetable crops require alot of marketing unless you want to sell a bulk harvest to some middle man in which case the price will be so low that pumping water might reduce profits to zero...or nearly. If you pump water you really need to be a business person to make it profitable I think and of course the deeper the water the more it costs not only for drilling the well and buying the pump but also for the ongoing cost of electricity to pump it.

Chownah

hello Chownah,

i agree that we could have had a bigger yield. We work in bangkok and did not have time to take care of our land very well. a neihbour took care of it and, we did not gave him enough fertilizer to do a good job. but, a point that i want to make is that, even with a very good yield and 57,000 baht...it is still a very low yearly revenu. i am the head of a family of 5 and i make 100,000 baht per month! For me, 57,000 baht per year is not enough and not worth my time. Apparently, it is not enough for issan people too because the men must go to

drive taxis in bangkok and the women must go to the city and work too! another thing: may be the government have programs to help the farmer with like loans or grants to drill boreholes. Oh well. I guess the Issan area farming situation is not an easy one to solve. But, they cannot continue to live like this in these modern day and age. there is no money there. most of the money they get is "gifts"from family in the city or from abroad.

I am familiar with the Issan area of Thailand. My first wife had a land near Korat and my present wife have a land in Khon Kaen. In both areas, farmers harvest rice only once a year. They barely make enough money to eat. When there is no rain...the harvest is very bad. They work only a few months of the year.

I went to the local government office once and they told me there are huge amount of fresh water underground (20 to 100 meters). It is apparently everywhere: just like an underground sea! So i asked the officials why don't the farmers drill deep wells to irrigate their land and, this way, they could make two or three harvest a year or even grows fruits, vegetables etc.

They reply to me that this was very much possible to do so but that the farmers were too poor to make this kind of investment. I told them that, despite being poor, they do have pick-up trucks, color TVs, etc so why not make this investment that would double or even triple their revenue? I got no answer to that. At this office, they even had the trucks equipped with drills etc.

So, in light of that....is there someone who have an answer as why almost no one in Issan try to use this way of improving their lives? Is it ignorance? Laziness? Poverty? A lack of imagination? A reluctance to change old ways of living? They cannot live like this. This year, I made this harvest on our land. For 16.3 Rai of land, I got only 36,000 baht! And that is gross revenue. After paying all the expenses, I was left with a meager 16,000 baht!! This is one year revenue!

If i even go to live on our land over there, i would certainly not grow rice. I would drill i good size well and irrigate my land and grow something i can make a good profit of! I would appreciate comments because i am curious to know if "my way" would actually work over there! Thanks to all. Alexboy

Hello, sometimes, i read the complaints of many foreigners regarding the bad services and high costs of some hospitals in bangkok. Well, for a change, i would like to report at very good experience that i had at a bangkok hospital. About 5 years ago, i had a very bad car accident in bangkok. I was left lying on the asphalt in the middle of the road, at night. A took took driver picked me up and drove me to the nearest hospital. The Huay Kiaew hospital in the chinatown. (By the way, this took too driver saved my life and, he did not take me wallet. Moreover, he came to visit me the next morning and gave me a fruit basket as a present. He never asked me for anything and i never saw him again).

Anyways, my femur was broken and my tibia. I went through 2 operations and they put steel in both my tibia and femur. i stayed 10 days at the hospital and the total cost was 52,000 Baht. (the bed cost only 100 baht per day!!). The doctor was excellent and did a very good job. The nurses and the service was very good. The hospital was very clean. I also got blood tranfusion and, i had no problem!

So, i have no complaints about thais hospital and the thai medical staff and i thanks the doctor and the nurses for the good care they gave me! Are there other people who have good stories like these. I see so many bad experiences stories that i wanted to contribute with a good one. bye bye

alexboy

Hi, Can someone please tell me if one can get a one year multiple entry "O" visa from penang as of 28/09/05?

many thanks.

alexboy