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Sort of reminds me of the chalerm brother who shot and killed a cop at short range then fled to Malaysia. Highly corrupt daddy made arrangements for him to return to LOS wih no charges but he didn't want to come because the Thai people weren't showing him enough respect.

But there's another service which has a good reputation and you can pay by debit or credit card online when the transport order is confirmed. Very reasonable rates. Plus customer can add further pick up/delivery details in English and the site automatically translates the message to Thai langauge then sends to the driver. Works in reverse too. It's called BOLT. Exxcellent service in Chiang Mai

And seems doubtful that anybody would want to be identified as the person who waived his convictions/jail time.

In other words, nobody replied to his application (in triplicate) for a special waiver of 12 years of jail for a six star convicted billionaire conman.

How does woke come into this event?

35 years for me, worked here over 25 years, now retired and living with my Thai son, his wife and 4 Thai grand children. My work sitution set me up for Thai Permanent Residency (PR) but without longer-term legal work PR is not available. As other have mentioned the so called Retirement Visa not all that difficult. For me best decision I ever made, but as others have said, Thailand is not for everybody and same for every country. As eluded to, good idea to use the gap years to learn Thai, some preety good web sites nowadays. Good luck.

Background: I've been looking for free short stories in English to help my young Thai granddaughter with her English reading skills. I found a large comprehensive site, developed / maintained / operated by the Philippines education ministry. Massive amounts of materials for all subjects, admin. stuff and more. All showing as free. But when I selected something and clicked download I got the message about gmail login. However just 5 minutes ago I tried again and althought the same 'g.mail' message is on the screen the downloading is now workng just fine. Sorry to bother you.

You have reminded me that DVA says they have started testing a new very secure e.mail system. If it passes the 'tests' maybe it will be used acrosss other departments. Wait and see.

Some hotels will send fax for outside persons. Did this before, hotel initially refused and wouldn't discuss, then I offered 200Baht to reception manager, fax sent 1 minute later. I had to do this letter for OZ DVA six months ago. Concernd about the return date I called DVA, got transferred quickly to correct section, DVA lady quickly said e.mail is fine. Sent it by e.mail, 2 days later an e.mail from DVA confirming they had received my scanned proof of life form and confirmied it was accepted. So maybe (repeat maybe) C'link will accept by e.mail, perhaps call then on the toll fee number to check, and if OK get a specific e.mail address.

Question: Is the guy who spent several yearsin jail in Aust. for drug offences a member of same party?

So what's the point of your rant?

Expensive way to get an i'net signal, and maybe there's an extra charge for that item?

But not in Vietnam where they are available at quite reasonable prices, but not in LOS where there's one marketing monopoly.

Yes, the borrower surrenders the borrowers copy of the chanut for the lender to hold as security. But the original copy is still held / always held at the Land Titles Office.

True, written on the back of the original copy of the chanut, held at the Land Titles office and on the copy.

If there's a usufruct on the property chanut with your name it's not compulsory for you to live in the property, not at all, where you live is up to u!

American chese? Tasteless, and why, many wonderful european cheeses to choose from.

Do you get a cabin with a window and a sea view? If the cabin is totally internal, no windows, that's not healthy long term, especially if the passenger has depression, panic or anxiety issues.

In my son's case there is no 'nominee' involved and there is no 'lease' involved.

In fact the name on the chanut was transferred from the development company name to my son's name several years before he got married.

Further, just to clarify: From my post above "...Deliberately in his name only because his wife's older brothers and sisters make continuous comments that if my son dies the property must go, by law, to his wife and they will insist she transfers ownership to her elder siblings). " Son's brother in law & sister in law both believe they know eveyrthing about Thai law and they insist that if "...my son dies the property must go by law to his wife" Which is of course not true, especially since my son has already made a legal will which bequeaths his property equally / jointly to all of his kids and nobody else.

And you conveniently forget malfearence in the rice marketing activity, for which her minister was jailed for 42 years.