MangoKorat

Russia doesn't buy land - it annexes it.????

Don't worry about it mate. Just take it for what it is and don't get serious. I'm not going to say they're all the same but in my experience, they're all at it. Even if you catch her red handed, you'll be in the wrong. I'd like to say they never change but they do. They start off with lies that a 5 year old could see through - then slowly get better at it after each time they are discovered. Many moons back I found a 'spy' app that, once installed on their phone, recorded all their messages, phone calls etc. If you bought the 'deluxe' version, you could even switch the mic on on their phone and listen to what was going on in the room + phone calls obviously. I believe its still available but like everything else, its on monthly subscription now, you can't buy it. The things I learned from that app..................she still denied it all though, even though I had names, dates, places. Flexispy was the name, I believe some similar ones can do it without having to have the phone now. No idea on the legality either. Enjoy what you can and get out.

I wouldn't have thought so. In my experience, its quite normal for Thai women to deny being online on dating sites. I had a gf once that made the same claims - swore blind that she wasn't online and wasn't looking for anyone else. I created a new ID with a fake photo and contacted her.........answer within 5 minutes at 2am in the morning!!!

Yes and if you are not careful, you can get into a lot of trouble for even talking about this inequality. Interesting that the article fails to mention ex Prime Ministers and reduced sentences - wonder why?

Just take the Thai test.

Yes, I'd go along with that.

No idea who added the confused emoji to my post or the reason for the confusion but I'll try to explain for you Mr Confused Person. When entering Thailand on a visa exempt you are required to have a flight ticket out of the country on a date that is before your 30 days are up. Airlines know this and usually check, - if they don't they can be fined and/or have to pay the cost of a ticket out when immigration discover the entrant doesn't have a ticket. If this lady has a return ticket with a date that is beyond the original 30 day exempt entry because she intends staying longer or doesn't have a ticket out at all, the airline is extremely likely to deny boarding. To avoid this, many people book a return ticket with and outbound date corresponding with their intended date (beyond 30 days) and then book the cheapest one way flight out of Thailand that they can find that shows them leaving before their 30 days are up. The airline will accept that although there is a possibility of questioning at the immigration counter - easy to deal with. They may be lucky and be able to cancel that ticket and obtain a refund - as they have no intention of using it but usually these tickets are lost - hence 'throwaway'. I've never seen one but apparently there are companies that allow you to 'rent' such a ticket for a fee. Just to explain my meaning of 'easy to deal with' above. I.O. "You are allowed to stay for 30 days but your return ticket is for 60 days time" Traveller. "Yes, I am travelling to Cambodia in 28 days time (throwaway ticket), this is my ticket to Cambodia. I will stay there for 2 weeks and then return to Thailand for a further 2 weeks."

The police must be enjoying all this illegal activity $$$$$

OP, don't forget - entering on a 30 day exempt, the airline will almost certainly want to see that she has an outbound ticket within that 30 day period. You can't just say "oh I know the outbound flight is in 6 weeks time, I intend getting an extension". They won't allow that - the reason being is that the 30 day extension, although I've never know one be refused, is not guaranteed. You'll probably have to book a throw-away for her.

Sorry but as others have said, you are wrong. It is perfectly legal for a foreigner to own the 'bricks amd mortar' of a house without owning the land that the house sits on. However, the foreigner must have ownership documents and their tenure should be registered on the rear of the land's Chanotte to be able to be considered as the legal owner and therefore sell the house. There is no problem with buying this property but if the house has a different owner to the land, both owners will have to agree to the sale and there will be two seperate transactions. If the house owner is not present or does not agree to the sale - there can be a problem. To remain on the land the house owner must have a lease to use the land - however, many leases are not secure and courts often grant possession to the land owner. Leases often contain a 'get out clause'. If on the other hand, the house owner has a properly registered Usufruct agreement on the land. that is secure until he/she dies. On several occasions I've seen people state that Usufructs are not secure. I've looked at 2 cases where the Usufruct was challenged and neither were registered on the Chanotte. The law is the law and a Usufruct is a legally recognised agreement in Thailand. I doubt any court would cancel such an agreement and if it did, a decent lawyer would find it fairly easy to overturn that decision in a higher court.

???? Code for performing a disappearing act on his funds?

I'm wondering how all this information came to light? Could it be that his mobile was accessed? Worrying.

The act of causing damage is criminal. The cost of the damage is civil.

On the contrary, I have every idea what I'm talking about, I won't say 'arguing' - I'll leave it to you to do that. I have simply tried to help you with your original queery because I have exactly the same problem. Before going further, let me correct you on one of your original suggestions - that DTAC Call can't receive SMS. DTAC Call receives both calls and SMS and does both pretty well. Not that it matters as the service is going to be discontinued - so I have no idea why you even mentioned that. Nonetheless, at the moment, DTAC Call does receive SMS - I received 2 yesterday. OK, back to the OP. The issue is that you want to be able to receive text messages from your Thai bank whilst your outside of Thailand.........correct? From your more recent posts it seems that you were wondering if Skype might provide a solution. What I am trying to tell you is that Thai banks, at least the ones I deal with, will only send OTP's and other text messages to a Thai mobile number. Whatsapp is a far more secure system than any SMS but Kasikorn refuse to send messages using that - so I very much doubt that they will send them via Skype. As I said to you in a previous reply - DTAC WIFI calling does work outside Thailand using a Thai SIM, I can send and receive both calls and SMS using it. However, based on my experience yesterday, even that may not be any good. To explain: I conducted a payment transaction on my Kasikorn online Banking application yesterday at 11.58am. The OTP needed to complete the transaction was received at 11.58am via SMS on DTAC Call. However, the OTP was not received over WIFI until 12.37pm - almost 30 minutes later. I don't know how much time is allowed but I do know that OTP's time out after a few minutes so it was lucky that I got the OTP on DTAC Call. Clearly that will not happen after October 3rd when the DTAC Call service ends. If you have a mobile signal where you are, and DTAC have a roaming partner in that country, your Thai SIM should work and receive SMS normally through the mobile network although you will be charged. You will need to check that out and also make sure roaming is turned on, on your Thai SIM. I don't have that option as there is no mobile signal where I live in the UK. I will be in Thailand shortly so I'm going to try and find a solution as I must be able to receive OTP's to complete banking transactions on my Kasikorn account. I use online banking on my laptop, I don't have the Kasikorn App on my phone. I don't know if I still need to receive a OTP if I use the App but I will find out when I'm there. Failing that, AIS have a similar service to DTAC Call - called VOWIFI - or at least they say they do. If that service is still working and will also receive text messages I may change to the AIS network. I question whether or not that service is still working because Thai companies have a habit of leaving websites intact - even after a service ends. If you search for DTAC Call you will find that their webpage advertising it is still there as if the service is available. You only get to know there is something wrong when you try to download the App on Google Play - you can't.

Nope but I wouldn't be seen dead in that outfit - bit like a nylon Man U shirt, shorts and long socks.

The banks, well my bank, will not send an SMS by whatsapp so I doubt they'll accept Skype - comprendi professori?

There is never any excuse for violent behaviour but I have to say that just looking at what he's wearing, tells me all I need to know about his 'sort'.

Well they won't accept whatsapp so I doubt it - even though (at the moment) whatsapp is far more secure than standard network SMS.

That's not fair, they've banned the farmers from burning sugar cane straw in Chiang Mai...................haven't they? ????

Right that's one and one that I have to admit that I know little about or his time in power - at the time of his rise to power I wasn't really interested in Thai politics and when he was deposed I was fighting a serious illness so Thai politics were far from the front of my mind. I really should know more about him - seeing as he's a British Northerner like myself. I do remember liking the man - and rather foolishly thinking that he might bring about real democracy in Thailand. He supported the poor and promoted equality if I remember rightly. His government was not without accusations of corruption and that lead to several members of his government resigning if I remember correctly. However, the man himself appears to be clean - given that he was born into a true democracy and educated in the same country, maybe his lack of criminal activity is not too difficult to understand? So why was he deposed, why did his party lose so many votes when they appeared to be on the side of the people. Getting rid of someone is fairly easy if they've been up to nefarious activity is not too difficult but its not the only way. The question has to be asked, why did someone who appeared to be very much on the side of the people, lose so many votes? Well, that in itself is not really in the interests of the generals and probably more importantly, he went after the army in launching an investigation into their crackdown on protestors - according to Wikipedia. As I say, I know very little about the man or his government but again, he was one who promoted the rights of the people - not something the military are fans of - they can't be allowed to have real democracy can they? There is more than one way to skin a cat - judging by his policies, I would have thought he would have stayed in power far longer. Perhaps some 'engineering' took place? I don't know but you've given me a new hobby - find out what happened to Abhisit and how his party seems to have failed so spectacularly at the end.

A combination of things that could probably be levelled against any Thai government before and since Thaksin was PM. The military let the people believe the country is democratic (or that's the plan) and allow things to go along, let parties fight, hold elections, take up government bla bla bla - and provided their and the elite's trough is not under threat, they let them get on with it. To greatly assist them in that matter they relied on the people's love of a certain person - someone who despite the many differences across all groups, helped maintain a 'gel' that held the country together. However, they were fully aware of the frailty of that person and the fact that his probable successor was not held in the same esteem. As Thaksin's popularity grew, he became a major threat to the trough. At the time he was said to be gaining such popularity, a popularity that was spreading well outside his stronghold of Isaan, that he may end up being more popular than the 'successor' I mentioned earlier. And that is precisley why he, his party and his family had to be dealt with. In this latest chapter of the army's fight to maintain control, they have actually used that popularity to maintain the status quo. Quite a smart move as it turns out. Crimes, prosecutions, wrong doings........since when have they meant anything amongst Thai 'high society? How many have been prosecuted and sentenced for this or that heinous crime and how many of them have actually gone to prison and stayed there? That goes on right down the line - i.e. police chiefs that get 'moved into a non active position' rather than prosecuted for their crimes. The defendents in many of these cases have every right to cry 'political motivation' because that's exactly what goes on. That is not to say they are not guilty but in many cases, others carry out exactly the same 'crimes' and never see the inside of a coutroom. If you doubt what I claim - take a look at what's happened to Move Forward and their previous incarnation over the last few years. They were never going to be allowed to gain power - they represented the biggest threat to the trough that there has ever been. If they had been allowed into power, Thailand might have actually started to become 'democratic' - and the elite just can't let that happen. As I said before, I am not a Thaksin fan, he bought votes and he encouraged poor people to get into debt - to name but a few faults, I actuallu despised the man. However, his major crime, no matter what the military may disguise it as, was to become way too popular and threaten the trough.

Can I just ask you - and I'm not trying to be clever here, do you really not know why the military turned on Thaksin?

Sideshows. They care about nothing other than honey. Learn about how many redshirts have 'disappeared' in the last few years. A few were found a couple of years back, at the bottom of a river covered in some strange stuff that looked like concrete - and who's been on point since 2014? They are all the same but one group has much bigger guns - you don't really think all the political nonsense that's gone on matters do you?

Name one Thai PM/government for that matter that hasn't either been 'proven' to be criminals or been accused of the same in the last 20 years or so.

Corrupt people? In Thailand? Seriously, have you not followed what's been going on since Thaksin won the election? Before than even? Have you not watched the 'joker' series that's gone on with different actors for years? You of all people have been around long enough to know how things work in Thailand. Its a bit like a beehive - with lots of worker bees and one Queen in the middle of the hive. The people have always been allowed to 'play' at democracy but as soon the hive was threatend, the potential attackers were overwhelmed. Do what you want children but play nicely or you'll have to be punished. The elite and the generals have absolutely no respect for the Thai people. Its not difficult and its nowhere near as complicated as they make out - the reason the country has been in a state of constant political turmoil for decades is the elite's compulsion with controling the hive.