GeorgeCross

in other news Ginster's Pies to sponsor Buriram United 

ah! wife just explained to me the accused were working for the company holding the seminar so in fact they got caught "on the job training"

thai news reports were more indepth than the above OP

4 hours ago, Canceraid said:

If they are checking on seminars....they should check up all the Bangkok Meet-up Groups and also events hosted bY Bangkok Entrepreneurs Group like the mobile summit etc....do the speakers ta these evenst have the relevant permits and licenses or even necessary work-permits to give talks. They collect door fees...is this legal and are the necessary taxes paid. Most farangs attending these events are not even properly registered in terms of work-permits, visas etc.

why would someone need a work permit to pay to hear someone talk? no different to going to a muay thai demonstration or even a comedy club surely?

on own time and money that would be a hobby not work maybe even educational

38 minutes ago, phantomfiddler said:

At 5,000 Bht per ton that makes it 5 Bht per kilo. It would appear to me that the middlemen are the crooks jacking up the prices that we pay at the store. Put the reins on these profiteers and give the poor farmers a fair share of the retail prices paid over the counter !

the middlemen will just buy it elsewhere? maybe chinese or vietnamese rice and sell it on to tescos and friends i'd imagine

history never repeats but it certainly rhymes

12 minutes ago, ratcatcher said:

If you're a resident here, you don't need a five year visa. You can stay here as long as you can meet the requirements, which the majority of long term married stayers and retirees etc, can do.. 

what worries me is they bring in the 5 year visa, make it impossibly hard to get (10M baht capital etc) and do away with the retirement/marriage extensions

think it can't happen? i still remember how excited everyone got about the METV until we found out the requirements, that we could only apply in our home countries AND they were going to kill off the double entry 

can only imagine the hoops they'll make us jump through to get one of these judging by the requirements for an METV

still sounds promising and at least floating the idea of these and dropping 90 day reports in favor of yearlies is a step in the right direction

one can hope

they could stop referring and treating expats as "long term tourists" for a start

33 minutes ago, ldiablo72 said:

So the government gives workers a 5-10 baht a day minimum wage raise and then tells manufacturers to hold off increasing their pricing. Would have made just as much sense to not give a minimum wage increase and tell manufacturers to not raise prices. In principle, it's the exact same thing.

it gets worse.. by raising minimum wages those who cannot provide enough "value" to employers to justify the increased costs lose their jobs and those on fixed income get poorer through inflation.

great policy.

so who wins? well government get more taxable income and also look good to the financially uneducated (thats most of us) 

17 hours ago, piersbeckett said:

No, their webpage is totally useless and confusing.  Firstly, what is it 'the energy' of and then what the *uck does "Enjoy an exclusive life style needing to use money" mean? 

 

Perhaps it's fear of losing face that while they are investing huge sums in acquiring land and construction they don't bother to consult a competent native English speaker (& writer) to advise them on the appropriate naming of the complex as well as to design or at least edit their website.

"the energy" - sounds like a UK rave party lol

eating burger in a "suspicious manner"? 

9 minutes ago, Sheryl said:

" granted special leniency to stay " would be various ethnic groups who do not have Thai nationality, or are still in long process of obtaining it, but are allowed to remain in Thailand indefinitely.

 

Triabl groups etc

 

long-term multi-generational Chinese

 

in Issan area there are people of Lao and Khmer ancestery whop have lived in Thailand for mul;tiple generationsd

 

etc

 

Nothing to do with resident expats

and there was me thinking "good guys in" were finally going to catch a break..

why stop there? RFID chip the foreigners too

3 hours ago, fruitman said:

 

Yup but the Bangkokians are not so stupid to sell them for 500 baht. They must have brains in that city.

as opposed to the farmers who took 500 baht from BOTH sides and voted accordingly.. dumbasses 

3 minutes ago, darrendsd said:

 

I read this story and wondered how long the first racial profiling comment would take

 

It is not racial profiling, the blacks down lower Suk are drug dealing scum, no exceptions, they have been at it down there for years, everyone knows it and if you don't you don't live in the real world

no-one was arrested for drug dealing though, where were the drug dealing people you refer too?

i'm assuming the thais pimping live sex shows were allowed to continue though?

oh noes!

please come back

all terrible misunderstanding..

3 hours ago, pcliff069 said:

Not quite sure where you are from Georgie boy but I'm going to go out on a limb and say pompous git land. Now I'm sure in pgl they have forms available in all languages to fill out and you being a good little ambassador from Pgl expect the same here. And rightly so after all pgl does rule the world. Sadly it isn't so. So when someone asks you to pick up the soap don't ask how far you want it up your Russell
Goodbye you are a boring little git

lol 

21 hours ago, pcliff069 said:

 

And still thinks so.

 

i can see my point went over your head.. twice 

(hint and i'll slow this right down so you can catch up..it's not the force bit..)

tell them you dont have the money on you right now but your wife will be happy to drop it off with their commanding officer in return for an official reciept later in the day, if they still want that is..?

4 hours ago, pcliff069 said:

And here's you thinking you live in a democracy

so what you saying? he can force me to fill in a form written in a language i can't read?

yeah, good luck with that 

On September 21, 2016 at 8:12 AM, kannot said:

This as mentioned being asked of  all farangs by me and I live way out of Pranburi, the form was given to my Wife by a  FULL TIME official Thai policeman who has been coming here for over 3-4  years, no tourist police here anyway. HERE is the form you will be asked to fill in, again was told simply "from govt"

"i'd be happy to fill in the english translated form mr.policeman.. now jog on x"

what hope is there when even the cops cannot conteol themselves 

hmmm no more 200m long roads built for 7.8m baht then? the mayor's brother gonna be unhappy..

police out again last night this time on the soi chomsin to soi 88 mountain pass over hin lek fai from ~11pm. waved me on with a "slowly, slowly" warning but were pulling other bikes over, about 10 of them.

not sure i feel safer or not lol maybe start carry passport in case