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...............

None of this nonsense was ever neccessary before the floods of Maoist and russian triads, mafia or lone misrangers . Not neccessary now either but TIT and as most cou7ntries tell their citizens to distract from government misdeeds : the foreigner per se is bad. As we can not put them on chains we must find other methods . To all normal tourists and expats ( est. 98% of them) : choose destinations with your feet..........and wallet.

TIT

There aren't many feet left and the next Thaksin marionette is already cocking the gun. However, do not forget the Phillipines , parts of Indonesia and Vietnam, all of which retain their independance of China, unlike the named Cambodia ( and do not make a negative remark on the pocket dictator). 1 point for Thailand (or maybe not really...) is that all this contradictory and nerve wrecking bureaucratic new nonsense has been invented after the Chinese invasion, not that it works, as we can see, the news are reporting mainly the farang misdeeds of which I must admit there are many more than before and that figures too. Even Spain has this problem. Sorry, no time, gotta run for my next 90 day convict reporting.

Only if father and aunt (and remember there was a very short term of a distant Shin.cousin or such in between coups) are threatening CHANGE !!!!!! to the Thai way of interpreting democracy, education, will of the people, humane pensions, privileges and nepotism, human rights and chinese commie friendshipping (cash)......funny, question pops to mind : the new Chinag Mai Intern'l airport, land, baggage screeners, etc.......

welcome to Chiang Mai , enjoy a true chinese Disneyland , you walking wallet, you.

It's an open secret that China is pushing hard for this somersault backwards because even the hint of a tourist having had fun and un-comunist and tolerance-improving experiences can get them into jail when flying back home. Thailand is right smack in the center of what CCP China regards as their god given circle of influence and we all know they do not take prisoners, not even in other countries' homegrounds or seas. A SEA country that creates it;s own liberal ideas , where will that lead and what next? Laos back to the Laotians, Mekhong with water? Cambodia with free speech? Oooops, Thailand has already legalised LGBT, what to do about that?...no worries, CCP has started building a navy base at Sihanoukville, just to make sure SEA nations don't get any ideas. Legalising cannabis, who's ever heard of such a thing? Next is an elected party in government ....and then democracy? Or tarifs on the home industry-killing flood of chinese cars and Ali-goods. And Chinese tourists come back to Xipingistan with switched on brains and the "real history" , the emperor's heaven help us.

Very simple : the Chinese approve of both and make loads of money on those, especially save old age pensions promoting chain smoking the cheapest of mattress weed in paper rolls. Cannabis however can create free thinking and the will to dress, behave, think freely, be artistic, in one word be a free, mellow individual. We can't have that there and the local emotionally challenged spooks agree fully, people should work, have kids , get pissed on monopoly drink, pay taxes , work, pay taxes, buy condo, pay more taxes, splash water and noise, work more , be happy with 600 Baht pensions......a smoke of dreams can only be in the way. I hate to admit it but I almost miss general P. and the cucumber troop.

What about books that are internationally exempt? Do the customs bureaucrats know this? Or rather pretend they are waiting for the PM's orders, after all the poor man is everywhere and all the time and is expert on everything. The incredible admin costs may or may not be added too? Do they fill out a formsheet for every 100 Baht? Do we all have to plan in 1 hour daily pick up of parcels at the post or maybe the airfreight department (farang please bring passports) ? Again the planning and implementation of new ideas is meticulous.

.....damn! Should go out and get the old Raj back........anything better than getting back in to the EU and do your fair share of club work and be part of....ooops, the EU is also tending towards inhumane crap now, there are badmirers of the Ruanda Principle all over Europe, ......sorry guys. The good news : hemp rope is now affordable at Ali Express for all whitebreads and no worries about the Asian spouse, Ali Express will catalogue them for free in Shanghai................

If they flatrate parcels independant of what is inside, VAT will in future also have to be paid for books? Books are duty- and VAT free internationally.