Hong Bong Dynasty

you can file this headline under , "and  the sun comes up every morning".

9 hours ago, jspill said:

Probably easier to overstay in the big cities actually as we blend in more and landlords don't usually bother filling in the forms. I did 4 years overstay on Bangkok. 

awesome! you're part of the problem...?

Unfortunately Suicide is the unofficial past time in Thailand which also includes some falang.

once again, Life is cheap in LOS.

Life is becoming very cheap in Thailand for both locals and falangs.

Death seems like its the best way out for some of these people.

the usual culprits are Love, Money, and Drugs.

7 hours ago, ChiangMaiLightning2143 said:

Unless you are an oil worker on a contract no reason to go there. Corrupt dangerous and dirty, I’m told.


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you just described most of the black African countries.

will Starbuck in Thailand adopt this American policy too??

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/313735

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shameful and unscrupulous!  

the proverbial " the calm before the storm" seems to be on the horizon...

Criminal money is too good to passed down , not too mentioned, criminal activities is ubiquitous in LOS.

5 hours ago, dunroaming said:

Well maybe that is because those criminals are the ones living in Thailand.  I doubt the ones living in Africa have Thai wives.

 

 

thx for the brilliant deductive reasoning on your part sir.

6 hours ago, dunque said:

And your point is what, precisely ?

my point is these criminals living in Thailand have no problem finding women to " married".

you seemed bent out of shape over a simple statement.

"they" the criminals always seemed to have a Thai wife.

do South Americans usually pick their first names out of a rabbit's hat??

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0817940/

The Legend of King Naresuan Pt.1

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0975744/?ref_=tt_rec_tti

The Legend of King Naresuan Pt.2

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1878964/?ref_=tt_rec_tti

The Legend of King Naresuan Pt.3

there are 3 more parts , but the first 3 installments are very good.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290879/?ref_=tt_rec_tti

Legend of Suriyothai

Francis Ford Coppola  was one of the executive producers

my favorite Thai historical movie thus far.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0217680/?ref_=tt_rec_tt

Nang Nak

considered the first great Thai movie for Western audiences.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368909/

Ong Bak

the best martial arts movie in a long time. brought Muay Thai to mainstream audiences.

the 2  sequels wasn't bad. Part 2 was better than Part 3 IMO.

Great! now both families are without a mother and a father. financially, it becomes even more difficult for all involved.

selfish bastard.

since we are on the topic of race and ethnicity in Thailand, it is rare for Thai media or people to referred to a Thai politician /actor/athlete/ etc . of Chinese descent as Chinese.  the said person can be completely 100% Chinese blood , but if they speak Thai and have been here for 2 or generations or more they are considered " Thai".

Thailand has apprx. 11 million Chinese residing in LOS who considered themselves Chinese , the largest overseas Chinese community in SE Asia. we're not even including the mixed Thai/ Ch or ethnic Chinese who no longer speaks Chinese and are fully integrated into Thai society and culture. the old way of recognizing a Thai of Chinese descent was if their last name was more than 4 syllable or the first 3 to 4 letters of their Thai surname was of Chinese root ( Wong, Song, Chan, etc.)

these days, the Chinese surnames have become more elaborate and longer. the wealthy Chinese believe the longer the name, the more prestigious it is. 

8 hours ago, seancbk said:

 

Bangkok has a huge Thai/Indian community.   They own about 25% of everything in the city.   They are originally of Indian descent but have been here generations and are fully naturalised as Thais.  

 

and the other 75% of BKK is owned by the Chinese.

Tak Province is a backwater province . I am surprised the police found her so quickly. someone in Tak didn't care for her too much.

https://news.lovepattayathailand.com/national/25-year-old-civil-servant-chiang-mai-voted-beautiful/

she's not bad. not my type, but I'm sure her social life will pick up very soon!

On ‎11‎/‎27‎/‎2017 at 2:31 AM, whitemouse said:

 

Exactly!  Thailand has been very lucky, its neighbours are not much better, and often worse. Take Cambodia, since early 2000's there were constant predictions how Sihanoukville will be next Pattaya, and possibly even beat Pattaya.  Well, 17 years of talk (admittedly not much past few years) and Sihanoukville is the sh*thole it was 17 years ago.

 

But watch out, Vietnam is already taking away tourists from Thailand in substantial numbers, Vietnam is bustling. If they manage to take the crippling corruption under control, Vietnam will surpass Thailand. It's massive shoreline and cleaner  beaches is enough to take away vacationing families. Cambodia never became anyting due to insane level of corruption, and now country being sold to China.

 

Vietnam is already giving   Thailand serious competition, and arrival numbers in Viet are going up rapidly.

All the while Thailand has nothing more than groups of Indian men sharing a bottle of beer, and Chinese groups walking and keeping their eye on guide's flag stick. 

 

Thailand got exactly what it deserves, and what it worked hard for, for years treating Westerners like garbage, Thailand treating its own cities and infrastructure as if sabotaging it on purpose. Can't say I'm sad for them, what we see now in Pattaya is richly deserved. 

Honestly, if you take away the red light districts, freelancers, go go clubs, prostitution of BKK and Pattaya/ Phuket. the numbers of tourists drop even more!!

meh. if they want out of this world, so be it.  as far as we know, they had no kids which is the best case scenario if you opt to kill yourself.

her Thai family are the ones that are really suffering. 26 years old, what a shame.

We can all agree BKK is a very busy city regardless of the numbers. It is a big, sprawling metropolis that has many, many visitors. All I know it is crowded as hell every single time I'm there.

I'm surprised that Ha Noi is # 4. I think Sai Gon is far worse in all of Viet Nam.