Marco51

Visit your nearest consulate or if close the embassy and have them authenticate it. If several pages , they will be tackered together on an upper edge and corner stamped so it cannot be hampered with. Then there will (normally) be your governments stamp at the end . No real need for a local "lawyer".....yes, I know , there are also the good ones.

Of course gambling is everywhere, especially in SEA which seems to have an affection more than other areas of the planet. Fine, no problem except that most of SEA countries also have a double standard moral code which pushes amongst other vices that occur wanted or not in to the illegal and dark corners. And of course gambling should be legalised under the motto "if you cannot beat them join them" because illegal gambling and the siblings black money, mafias, corruption and criminality are rampant . The suspicion that keeping it illegal is profiting only said mafias, corrupt law enforcement and the money laundering armies of the corrupt is at hand and should definately be looked at more closely when deciding on legalising . The catch on the other hand as seen in many countries with legal gambling is the lack or real control as companies or individuals interested in running these establishments are in most cases the colourful legal arm of said corrupt or mafiose corporates and individuals. So in order to establish a much needed legal gambling industry to profit an always ailing social state a rigorous regulation and control must be introduced and kept up. And that is where I have my doubts here in Thailand if even in much more organised and less "laisser faire" countries-putting it nicely- are utterly failing in that aspect................an ethics commission perhaps?

hey Trump, what time is it? 1950 and counting backwards?

aaah yes, the Morrison faction of " as long as we are making money who gives a <deleted>, god bless"................

......" take 2 aspirins, have a lie down , if it doesn't go away do come back.................. for more aspirins........."

Follow the US lead............

China has for years tried to "introduce" a sort of tourist police in all major countries where their brainwashed citizens -especially students) go en masse and might learn the meaning of free speech and forced occupation of foreign land in other than mandarin and quite possibly speak to the abominable and uninfluenced locals. This is a camouflage for the communist secret police spying and having a stranglehold on chinese nationals abroad or their families in China, mainly Uighurs and Tibetans from the occupied territories but also chinese artists and actual thinking people. In several EU countries this has been the subject to diplomatic conflicts and consequenses. Thailand of course -it might not realise this- is after the de facto fall of Laos and Cambodia the next in line and any type of 5th column supported by the CCP and the colaborators here. Be very afraid. For further info, please do read Clive Hamilton/ Mareike Ohlberg : Hidden hand and Frank Dikoetter : China after Mao and Sterling Seagrave : Lords of the Rim. Enjoy the goose bumps.

In the bible belt , right. And who lives there voluntarily? Right again. It seems there are also very strict laws down there where wasp sheriffs rule that gets people arrested for carrying a bottle of beer from 1 province into another. Imagine how the local squirrels would love that, a goldmine.

they'd have to learn the rules themselves first, then teach them at driving school -along with right of way at intersections(there is a common misunderstanding that the cheekiest is first) and quite possibly take away mobile phones if caught LINE'ing on bikes and in traffic...........that will boost the mobile sales if nothing else.

The Chinese designed plague changed the whole world, yes.....................

.....every parliament on the planet, just in most they have already got so used to the "material" they are letting out uncontrolled that it does not make news headlines, actually I wonder if..................................naw, can't be...........

the last I heard on that was that the rather substantial reduction of the 360% tax and duty on wine (being the preferred liquid of the foreign devil......and a certain x-PM - if over 100k/bottle) would go out the window right away...........well 1) right away is not really translatable and 2) the supermarkets will have a say in the end price. They do it in all western countries, raising all consumer prices way beyond the inflation rate and forgetting to lower them again when inflation is down. Oh what joy to be a neoliberal capitalist today, licence to print money and we all buy the paper and ink and provide the labour too.

sentence should stop after "job" period.

.........and there aren't many nice farang around any more either, the easy going, open pocketed, slender good looking youngish single with humour and tolerance...............