BritScot

I do not understand anyone who would pay crazy money for basically nothing you can get for a fraction of the price. The very rich people I have known got that way by being very careful with money and not wasting it. The only people who I and many others on here who know Thailand well with decades of experience can really see the criminal attraction for this bribe sorry visa.

Bizzare, if your having problems with visa get an agent or adjust your choices as its a big old world out there with many welcoming countries. You must obviously have external income to live off as working without a visa is illegal and if you have employment then a work visa should be provided. The other route is setting up a business and employing yourself and the required number of Thai's giving yourself a work permit. Advice: go see a lawyer or adjust your life with trips over the border. There used to be certain Thai embassies that we'd give you a 12 month visa (new a young lad who did that for years).

More fool the Norwegian embassy or maybe the numbers are small so easy to verify the documents provided or they are not bothering. It was not the embassies that caused this but the Thai government by wanting each embassy to check and verify each financial claim this would cost in time money and slow to a crawl every application for verification.

I remember 20 years ago this was a problem on the island and they still haven't sorted it out. Just can't rush these things I suppose.

Think the story is mixed up. I would suggest the child got the wrong injection at a private hospital in Trang then passed on to the government hospital due to their inability to treat. I've been down that road twice with my son and once with my wife. I found the private hospital no better than a clinic with second rate doctors (one in particular was totally incompetent) always sent up at to the government hospital which provided first rate treatment and their private rooms are very nice and as good as a private hospital.

Then you are very lucky. Typically I experienced the last electric bill coincidentally being the same as the deposit a few times. With treats of getting the police if you don't pay or complain to much...

You should not judge a book by its cover. He may well be a decent respectful person. The fact he may have shot a guy in his leg and not his head shows some restraint. Plus who knows the reason for the shooting incident. If I had a choice between having a beer with a bunch of bikers or politicians I would always choose the bikers.

Not really when you think he would have hit the speed bump and gone airborne, hit the ground then slid or bounced. Inappropriately dressed of course but what a stupid place to put a speed bump on a long straight or after a blind bend shown in some photos. In those conditions even doing 50 could put you on the ground.

Why this derogatory myth that expats and retirees are on the breadline spending insignificant foreign currency in Thailand. I/We personally spent over 100,000baht each month every month within Thailand and now all retirees and expats give the Thai economy 800,000baht of foreign currency to hold. That's a lot of foreign dosh!!! Far more than most tourists!!!

So fed up with this! The article is about this incident not a survey about Thai violence compared to foreign violence when drinking....

Unbelievable!!! Very racist. Venom and hatred for foreigners makes me wonder why come on Thaivisa???

Unbelievable!!! Very racist. Venom and hatred for foreigners makes me wonder why come on Thaivisa???

Bizzare!!!

I had it twice and wow second time was the worst thing I've ever had. The effects lasted weeks if not a couple of months. 2 weeks of hell but my taste went for a holiday for a couple of months: coffee tasted of charcoal my hair thined. It made my malaria feel like a sniffle.

Closer that Thailand has been since Thaksin then stolen and then his sister and stolen and again stolen.

Why should she take a cowboy job on her car? Hope she sticks to her guns and makes him pay every satang. I hate this "Oh but your rich" he drove without care and attention like 90% of Thai's and foreigners who copy them with sentiments like "drive like a Thai"..... I made the Thai insurance of the drunk pay for a new door rather than patchit with filler that will crack eventually as you see everywhere in Thailand...

Unbelievable comment!

Do some fact research please: foreigners = only about 10% of trade with many places only catering for Thai clients.

Why? He was rear-ended so why should he pay? Very bizzare statement! It is why you have insurance. Why on earth should anyone pay for someone else's careless and reckless driving? I've had two accidents in Thailand one with a young guy driving into the back of me when the lights were at red (his insurance paid) second was a man who was so drunk he could hardly stand reversed into the side of me, his insurance paid and I made sure all parts were new (police did nothing about him being drunk even watched as he drove away).

The benifits of being back in the uk: two beautiful bottles of Malt whisky "Scapa" my ultimate whisky and Glenmorangie 14 year old (bourbon and port cask) whisky malt for under 4,000baht (£90).

Beautiful!

Sometimes I just shake my head!!!

Did you read the article? A water spout has nothing to do with the weather it comes from within the water as far as I'm aware.

Why bring Trump into it? What happened in America makes the Thai election look squeaky clean. If your going to talk about the farcical storming of the white House without watching all of the un edited tapes, with the now known fbi/cia operatives agitating the crowd then the states that cheated the count and now been found as so. So please keep your biased hatred to yourself. Note: I never liked Trump but after everything he said turned out true you would need to be a moron to believe anything they say against him now. A man who loves his country something Thailand desperately needs as does my own country.

Obviously he has as he says "he is getting free care". My wife used to work in a care home in the uk and the residents are very well looked after rich or poor all treated the same. Some pay towards their keep and some don't. My wife still visits a couple of the old ladies she was friendly with. Same as everything there are good and bad.