oopapasan

Hmm..

me guess infadelity?

Mebe - you think?

Takes a lot for a female farang to go out and buy a gun in Thailand!

Here we go again. Why assume that she has gone out and bought a gun ?

I don't rate the investigative powers of the nation's finest as being very high but I don't think that they should be worried too much about the competition from one or two of the posters to this thread.

Admittedly whether it was bought, borrowed or stolen the result however would appear to be the same.

Maybe she borrowed the gun from her police boyfriend.

Hello, Am 51 year old American. Marrying a Thai woman. Have read about having xxx Thb in bank. Was planning to put house, bank accounts, and nearly everything else in wife's name. This is for protection against ex-wife, more than any other reason. My question is: Would having everything in wife's name effect visa or immagration?

Worried about the ex-wife?What about the new one?Why do you think you need a wife in Thailand?You are caught between a rock and a hard place!Time for a change!

Greenpeace ... a bunch of tree hugging numbskulls, who only have

complaints ... never answers

Naka.

Agreed they are nothing but a pain in the arse.They are bloodsuckers

I mean, you can watch it on TV anywhere

World cup?what's that?

Speaking as a Washington Redskins fan, I am pretty sure they required the deportation of all Steelers fans following the last Super bowl. Something to do with alleged corruption scandal (because we all know how Thailand looks down on corruption) and the payoff of the Super Bowl refs – 555.

I am sure there are a few of you around, there was at least one poster that keep things running in the American football thread back during the playoffs.

NFL cgboverage here in Thailand could be better, but not that bad. Generally we get three games a week shown live, and then rebroadcast thru the week; kind of like in the US in the days before satellite TV.

Your quaterback proves the steelers are like a burnt out light bulb!Not Too Bright111

As far I know it's impossible;asked BBK Bank and SCB,no card without a work permit.

The friendly lady in SCB told me that they have to ask the BOT for permission and they never approve!

Perhaps as rcb says one can use the wife account to bypass the problem?

Will try myself next time.

Work permit!What a joke! I have the best of all.A

retirement visa.They should make it #1.You can't believe the responce when I try to explain that to so called responsible Thai"s.

There is an update to this story. In today's Bangkok Post, there was a small article that said the girls and their parents DID NOT recant their stories. It's going to be an interesting appeal.

The bottom line is,do you think they played with little girls?I say yes,what do you say?Forget about all the smoke and mirrors!

I drink Clausthaler from time to time. It's not bad - except for the cost. 99 baht a can. In Bangkok, Villa Supermarket and other farang-oriented supermarkets have it. At that price, though, you'd be better off switching to ginger ale.

Just give up all drinking,are you that weak??????????

Wildlife Fund Thailand is calling for inspection of 8 elephants to be sent to Australia

The Wildlife Fund Thailand is calling on responsible units to use a scientific procedure to inspect whether the eight elephants to be sent to Australia were wild or domesticated elephants. The organization is asking for a temporary halt to the shipment.

Mr. Suraphol Duangkhae (สุรพล ดวงแข), the Wildlife Fund Thailand Secretary-General, said the conservationists who have been following on the issue of sending eight elephants to Australia have requested that responsible agencies move in to inspect whether these creatures were wild or domesticated.

The group stated that at present the shipment of baby elephants to foreign zoos are carried out in the name of diplomacy, and most of the time illicit conducts are carried out by the state itself. The Muang Kan (เมืองกาญจน์) Group had already made filing at the Saiyok (ไทรโยค) police station to ask for temporary confiscation of all the elephants, until they were proven to be domesticated elephants and be verified of their parents.

Mr. Suraphol said such verification was resolved for use but in practice no real inspection has ever been made.

Source: Thai National News Bureau Public Relations Department - 06 June 2006

Any elephant will have a better life in OZ than Thailand

i haven´t read what others have replied here, so forgive me is there is a repetitivenes.

reeptientinvene.

I´ve worked the service biz, on and off, sicne I was eight years old. Nearly twenty years.

In about as many countries.

GENERALLY speaking, the ten percent does NOT go to the staff.

GENERALLY speaking, the credit card surcharges do NOT go to the staff.

GENERALLY speaking, tips put on a credit card do NOT go to the staff.

GENERALLY speaking, give tips, cash in hand. And don´t even trust the staff to share.

I´m in the fortunate situation of being able to dictate.

Where I am, the service charge ontop of the bill, for credit cards, I use to pay the greedy CC companies.

Tips on CC´s go to the staff, evenly split between kitchen/waiting staff, using sales data to ratio out the food as opposed to beverage. (we sell more beverage than food)

GoodTips cash in hand, I demand that they are shared between the staff. I catch anyone pocketing a tip, they get sacked. Sharing only works if everybody is doing it.

Other than that, I don´t touch the tip jar. That´s between them.

The boys and girls working for me are very slowly, and very surely, learning, that maybe one day they are worse off and another is better off, ut it works both ways, and they are starting to look beyond only today.

A while back we had a staff member, that the others came to me and said they could not include him in the sharing cos they didn´t trust him. I was disappointed cos he was a good worker, but indeed, as I started to pay attention, I saw he was very focused on how much he would bring home TODAY, and not in general. So I told the otheres to get to that table faster than him. keeping all the business between the other workers, and our boy was going home with nothing every day. And so time passed, and he left of his own accord. Rather than silently start to share, he got annoyed and complained that he wasn´t geting to any tables in time. He left shortly. We pay better than any other place in town.

Anyway, these are general distinctions, but that´s been my experience, in private, public, big worldwide brand famous, and private hole in the wall run by a drunk, type establishments.

Good post

My commentary in English about "Soccer"? ....

Boring zzzZZZzzz

Just turn the sound off.They kick and run for a long time and someone wins 1-0.Big deal.At least they could give you ten points for a goal.10-0 sounds more competitive than 1-0.

I've never heard the term "American Chair" but my Thai wife sends money to her mother each month to put in such a scheme. It sounds much like what the Japanese call a "Tanimoshi." In Hawaii, tanimoshis were very common in the past. The immigrant Japanese plantation workers put small amounts in each month. Members would then present plans for a new business, etc. and be given money to finance their startup. Many Japanese owned business in Hawaii got their start this way. In the Japanese model, if the group agreed to finance a member who ultimately failed, the group took the loss, not just the individual. It is a communal, self-help type thing.

The idea is that the group can accumulate money easier than any one individual. Then, the accumulation can be used to get some one started in business. The money would be repayable in time and then redistributed, with the gains, to the members. Thus, everyone would profit.

Pyramid?different name,same results?

Bourbon Street in Washington Square, Bangkok has a plus, plus system. Ten percent service tax plus VAT. Since I no longer go in there to eat I have no idea where the money goes.

Bourbon St goes into Doug's pocket not to the staff.I don't go there anymore.

You can ask any of the staff at Bourbon St. and they will tell you they get all of the service charge. They even keep track of it. It is paid to the staff on the 8th and 23rd of every month.

Ask Jim or Nang who has worked there for 16 and 15 years.

It is not the owner's money and I have no intention of keeping it. I resent oopapasan implying I keep it.

I hope this sets the record straight.

Doug you were caught taking money out of the tip jar

Sounds like something out of "Jackass the Movie"

You have to die from something,why not a cart at 80?

I notice that there was no mention that the Siem Reap judge wanted to buy the land near Angkor owned by one of the accused, and it was his sister (from the CWCC) who accused them of raping the girls.

IT STINKS!

Fact: Most of the judiciary in Cambodia left school at 14 & 15. No further education......

Guilty or not he should not have put himself in that position.

This occasion is about the man not the country.

spot on.

I never saw so many yellow shirts.I thought it was nice

Looking at the downturn that is looming, they mention 1997 to explain what 'downturn' means.

But this will be in no way a repeat of 1997.

That was the result of failure to deflate an Asian bubble, and the coming one is the result of failure to deflate a USA bubble in time.

The USA is far, far into hock. The amounts owed by its Government and by individuals are unsustainable debt burdens, and the longer it goes without signs of a gentle deflating of the bubble starting, the more there is worry that it will burst with a bang.

How the cookie will crumble so far as the US$:Baht ratio goes is anybody's guess. We may well see violent fluctuations.

But it will mean that there is less exporting of manufactured goods and shellfish, with consequent unemployment and reduced purchasing power.

Expect the tourism and entertainment industries to be hit hard, and some general inflation.

As we were saying at this time last year, it makes sense to hold more of one's reserves in gold than in currency.

The peanut gallery is knocking the US again."How goes the US is how goes the world"You better hope you don't get what you wish for!

Thais should prepare in advance to cope

Get a new car on finance now while the finance companies are still open for business.

get a credit card and max it out now.

Borrow as much cash as you can because there will se so much NPL going on it would be wrong to miss out.

They are already doing that,but not for the same reasons.

Funds have to be wired into your Thai bank account from abroad each year before seeking extension of stay for retirement.

Can not loan your friend the money, has to come from outside Thailand.

That is not correct that retirement funds have to be wired from abroad.

I have used several large ATM withdrawals to bring my acct balance over 800,000 baht and Immig. (Bangkok) had no problem with it. I told them what I had done and offered to show my receipts but they did not ask to see them. Maybe I have an honest face??

No it is not your honest face.You either have money or you don't.The problems start with people that worry about a million baht or so that don't have it.I have never had a problem with immigration and my retirement visa.They know "I have it".It is actually a pleasure for me to go there once a year,reminds me how all my hard work paid off in retirement.Party Time!!!!!!

C'mon... someone must know something...!

totster

I have a Canadian friend that has a chickens**t arrest over 25 yrs ago and still can't enter the U.S.

Of course, the OP is asking for a US bank recommendation, not a Thai bank.

I can cite another US bank you want NOTHING to do with, WASHINGTON MUTUAL, a very big, so called "bank." They afford no way whatsoever to do international transfers without going in person into one of their US banks. Was told doing a setup prior to the transfer is not possible. Amazing.

A friend of mine recently opened a WACHOVIA BANK account and said their international transfer policies sounded quite reasonable and they have excellent online services (though transfers cannot be done online, must do a setup password first in the US, then I think call or fax). Any experienced users of Wachovia care to comment?

American Express

You couldn't give me a car for free or pay me to drive one in Bangkok. It's the perfect city not to have a vehicle of any sort especially if you can model your place of stay and destinations around the trains. Fast, cool, cheap, and reliable. They stop running at midnight, but that's when the roads are empty and the taxi's are quick and cheap and of course there will be a dozen taxi's waiting everywhere you look. You'd be nuts to drop such an efficient and cheap system for all the headaches of insurance, licensing, getting a drivers license, maintenance, parking, and all the associated expenses and waiting in lines. Better to just hop on a train and go about anywhere for 30 baht and get there very quickly.

Agree I would never own or drive a car in BKK.I look at the silly farangs driving cars and figure they aren't playing with a full deck.Maybe they never had one before.

Why do people obsess with getting tattoos in the 1st place anyway? I've never been able to understand. You'd have to pay me an awful lot of money to do it. I might get 1 if someone paid me 100K USD but not less. No F'ing way

Different strokes for different folks.

Does it refer to all non-Thais or just Western foreigners?

Call me farang or anything you want just don't call me Thai.

You think he will really be able to help? Seems to me the minute a western country tells, suggests, even hints at something the Asia country should, they don't do it.

Something to do with "face"...

See what you do? I try to do a little face saving, by not coming out and just saying it like a Baa Falang and you step in a blow it!

I expected better of you JaiDee.

Maybe he is guilty and had the wits paid off.