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Forget the bus. Taxi's use meters after midnight. As the previous poster stated, no meter no go. Most won't knock back a good fare to Don Muang. If a decent driver, give a nice tip. They work long hours and get paid crap. Fare would be 5 to 10 time more back home depending what country you hail from. Bugger <deleted>*king around with buses unless you are a backpacker with your arse hanging out your pants. Cheers.

I say go for it. It's an investment in the future, as are most expensive infrastructure projects around the world. Will eventually connect to the Chinese (big investors in the project) and other proposed SE Asian HS rail networks. Get with the future folks. Don't be negative thinking dinosaurs all of your lives.

Do you have a Australian marriage certificate also. That would be enough in Savannakhet.

Does your wifes ID card show her as being married? If it does it might be possible to get a Kor Ror 2 marriage registry at a Amphoe that might satisfy them with a copy of the Thai marriage certificate.

Thanks for the advice. Wasn't sure if I could use the Australian certificate. Misplaced it as well but think I can easily get a new one by applying online at Births, Deaths and Marriages department.

Thanks to Mario also

Just to confirm for future reference, applications for copies of Australian marriage certificates can be made online at the department of Births, Deaths and Marriages for a fee of A$60 - about Bt1750. This includes international registered postage to your overseas address.

Do you have a Australian marriage certificate also. That would be enough in Savannakhet.

Does your wifes ID card show her as being married? If it does it might be possible to get a Kor Ror 2 marriage registry at a Amphoe that might satisfy them with a copy of the Thai marriage certificate.

Thanks for the advice. Wasn't sure if I could use the Australian certificate. Misplaced it as well but think I can easily get a new one by applying online at Births, Deaths and Marriages department.

Thanks to Mario also

I would like to try the Savhannakhet route myself. Only problem is I don't have the original Thai marriage certificate. Misplaced during one of my many moves. We were married at the Thai consulate in Sydney 25 years ago. Does anyone know if it would be possible to get another original certificate here in Thailand. I'm assuming the Sydney consulate sent the details to Thailand. My last 7/8 multiple O's were obtained from the Thai consulate in Brisbane. They offer a fast efficient service. Last year I had to come back in 2 hours to collect. Pub across the road so that was not a problem.

"We will stop closing Bangkok and give every intersection back to Bangkokians. We will stop closing Bangkok from Monday. I have to apologise business operators for disruptions to their activities and Bangkokians for making more traffic congestion during the Bangkok Shutdown," he said."

No doubt he will be compensating everyone who lost money from the donations that were made to his "war chest"

Erm....

Why would you have to compensate someone for making a donation?

The rallys are continuing, only the intersections are to be reopened.

Their donations have been well invested in the fact that this government is now dead n the water.

Read my post above.

Yet another who will be squealing like a stuck pig in a week or two.

Erm,

Are you a resurrected poster with a new username?

Businessess, big and small in Bangkok have lost millions because of this "shutdown" by Suthep and his Thaugs- that's who should be compensated and if you seriously think the "donations" were used wisely then I guess you have access to info most people don't.

Nibbles is back !!!! Don't worry, he will soon start insulting everyone with a differing opinion to himself and get banned again. Sorry, my wrong, he's started the insults already.

Thanks for the new names to add to my Ignore page. Thai Visa's best feature.

When people speak the truth or offer another point of view, then press ignore. That way you can maintain control of your own ideology without having your inhumanity and inner hate for what is right questioned. Press the ignore button? What a good idea!

I think you might find Frank James is referring to the personal insults directed against him. More and more of that happening on the Thai News forum these days. Can not post anything on here with a differing opinion to the majority of posters (most from BKK, Pataya & Phuket - see Thai Visa Poll) without being branded a "red shirt".

I may be wrong ( some would say I usually am), but aren't Chiang Rai ( wonderful place) and Chiang Mai actually part of Thailand. Why shouldn't she go there?

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Only sensible post on here so far. The rest are by the same posters constantly try to outdo each other with their anti government rants. Give the man a beer.

Grow up people. Whats the big deal. Just Google translation errors. Clutching at straws trying to denigrate YL based on this trashy piece of reporting from high class rag Coconuts <deleted>.

disgraceful fake monk at it again

Really? How is he fake? Care to defame his character any more?

Are you the type of person that would prefer nice and lazy monk's sitting around a dirty temple with rubbish every where?

Thai Monks need to be more like him and less lazy.

He has a right to be there considering the grave lies coming out of that building

But only if they are on your side of the fence.

Wow. Great film Thanks for sharing.

Why don't we just have a new election and accept who the majority of Thai voters choose as their leader. Sorry, I forgot. Already tried that. Not acceptable. Especially to so many members here on TV forum. Come to this country and reinvent yourself. You are higher up the financial ladder now. Get yourself a cheap Isaan servant to do your household chores in your condo/house you could not afford back home. You are above that now. Your pension pays 6 times the average Isaan monthly wage. Bloody hell, the government had the hide to raise their wages to Bt 300 a day.

I like sweet pineapple for breakfast every morning.

Care to show links to that information, considering, AFAIK, the Election Commission haven't released any results except for voter turnout.

Individual polling stations across Thailand have released results themselves. It's against forum rules to post these links so if you are interested in further education please go find them yourself.

It is not against TV rules to give any factual links that are not under a copyright infringments

Try another one to get out of you BS statement

If they are from rival newspapers or websites that contain forums, it is.

Learn to read.

Jeezus. They are really ganging up on you mate. I think they are disappointed the elections were held and were actually successful given the amount of effort put into trying to shut them down. I know this post will get picked to pieces by the cocks (roosters) on here, but I have a thick skin.

It cannot be said democracy has failed in Thailand. It can be said democracy shall have failed if the election is cancelled and Suthep's fascist council takes absolute dictatorial control of the country for an indefinite period of time to step by step implement its secret agenda. Compromise is needed to preclude this occurring and there remains time to compromise.

Fahlang don't need to take sides but fahlang do clearly and vociferously take sides. I take the side of having a legitimate election as has been constitutionally scheduled. I regard Thaksin as a dictator and Suthep as a raving fascist.

I think that puts me in with the vast and moderate political middle of Thailand where 20 to 30 million Thais live. That's because I didn't come to Thailand to support Thaksin's dictatorship or Suthep's raving fascism.

Democracy hasn't really existed as a concept anyway.

It's a bit like the Hong Kong one country two systems. It sounds all nice and fluffy but it's nonsense. By the time Thailand has swallowed a bit of democracy, and digested it a bit.

Well safe to say, it doesn't look much like democracy to me. So it is vitally important to keep it going forward instead if backward to authoritarian governments or coups.

A lot of people have too much to gain from this revisionism. I don't trust it one bit.

I am Thai and I happen to know from FACT that those THAIS that dont want to live in a Shinawatra distatorship under his fascist money grabbing heel have a right NOT to do so - the red shirt Farang should go home and leave us in peace

This is how the anti government lot really think about the average forienger living here. Is preached from the stage almost every night by at least one of the protest leaders. Does not matter how much you love this country and people, how long you have been living here or how much you have invested in your Thai family, you will always be an outsider. Many posters here were probably living in Thailand before love1012 was even born. Is very depressing sometimes. Carefull what you wish for you lot, you just might get it.

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BEROCCA !!

60 sec a day tops on CNN and BBC

don't know about CNN as we don't get them. But we do get BBC and when they report you wonder what country they arte talking about. Maybe they are still mad that they didn't get a chance to rape Thailand as they did many other countries.

I think the British reporter uses the same speech writers Yingluck does.

Don't know why so many on TV gets so stressed out over Thai politics. Been following it closely for 25 years and I'm still clueless. Same as all you lot. Admit it. The locals don't give a flying <deleted> what foriegners think and you have absolutly no influence on either partys thought process. So we are only arguing amongst ourselves. Same as football. You are never going to convince the opposition you are on the winning side. Arguments here are becoming ad nauseam.

The Thaksin clan are coming to see that they are being outflanked by the people, Thaksin and his clan don't like that. Thaksin and his clan are used to all and sundry bowing to their demands.

Now the people are voicing and indeed showing their opinions regarding the Thaksin clan, hence the urgent need for a declaration of a State of Emergency or perhaps the imposing of martial law courtesy of the female lead puppet in the Thaksin P.T.P. puppet show.

If such a state of emergency was declared, or is to be declared one is led to wonder whether it might well cause the P.R.D.C.protests to actually intensify as opposed to calming matters down.

There is distrust of the Thaksin P.T.P. puppet and its moves to possibly impose a state of emergency. Distrust breeds anger, anger breeds protest and protests often breed violence, that violence factor is already plain to see wherever it may be coming from.

Thailand is teetering on the brink of serious civil disorder in many ways, any move by the Thaksin puppets will I fear lead us all into a very nasty period of violence where the only victims will be the people of Thailand. Thaksin and his clan will be safely away with no doubt their ill gotten gains.

Whatever ruling body may emerge from the chaos to bring stability and peace back to Thailand it will be facing a mammoth uphill task to restore peace and unity twixt the Thai people.

The very idea of the taking of a big stick to the current problems will indeed provoke more violence and more hatred. Perhaps the best method would be to inform the Thaksin clan and their cronies that the best road to a stable country would be for them to leave.

That was the game play regarding Chatchai Choonhaven on February 23, 1991 when he was told that by leaving for America he was indeed a wise man making a wise, a relatively peaceful deposing of a somewhat corrupt administration which has indeed been left in the shade by the Thaksin levels of corruption.

Softly softly catchee monkey.

Congratulations !! You managed to mention Thaksin 10 times in one post. Must be a new TV record. Give the man a cigar.

And you know the Red Shirts did it how exactly? Crystal ball?

The Democrat MP aide wanted for questioning and the video isn't proof enough (and it shouldn't) in the other thread but within a couple hours with no proof whatsoever "it's the Red Shirts!"

It was reported that one of the attackers was wearing a green shirt. Yinglucks third group perhaps.

I hope this brings in the army to restore some semblance of law and order. The police are not to be relied upon.

Bloody Hell !! Does that mean I cannot wear my green coloured shirts anymore? Already packed away my yellow, red, black and white shirts.

Meanwhile "looking in" at this Thailand crisis from outside the proverbial fishbowl. This latest article from The Economist is well worth a read...

http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2014/01/thailands-political-crisis

I got as far as

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"Her Pheu Thai party, which is the third incarnation of a party founded by 
her brother, the former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, was prepared to win 
it. And so the protesters, led by Suthep Thaugsuban, a former deputy prime 
minister of the opposition Democrat Party, returned to the streets on January 
13th. They are now demanding that the very process by which Thailand (usually) 
chooses its governments—ie elections—be junked.

The anti government protestors were calling for a reform of the election process long before Jan. 13. Kind off shows how little the Economist knows and the people willing to believe them.

Why not read the whole article rather than pick and chose the peices that suit your particular agenda.

The missus has five 9's in her telephone number. How lucky is that !!

Just called a Thai friend, a retired general, whose house is right on one of the roads used by the "protesters". He said that he went out to talk to them and found that many of the people he saw had been bused in from southern Thailand. They had been given 2,000 baht a piece for their "protesting" efforts. We are planning to get a group of us friends together and go protest tomorrow. What a great party we could have for 2,000 baht each.

That's strange, my wife and her friends as well as several hundred others from our village have been in BKK for several weeks protesting and no one has offered them any money to go. I had better let her know she is losing out .

Might be hoarding it in the "cunning kit"

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cunning%20Kit

6 'personal' weapons belonging to police officers? What were officers doing carrying non-issued weapons? What was the intention if carrying weapons that were not issued to them?

Thai Police are permitted to purchase their own sidearms. Nothing unusual there.

Beat me to it Empty

Stock up on stout beer and mixed nuts. Missus just brought back 6 cases of Black Panther from Cambodia so should be ok for a couple of weeks. 4/5 cans equals a standard three course meal. Only difference is it tastes better and there is no cooking or cleaning involved.

Your liver must be in some state.

I don't eat liver. Will stick to the stout and nuts thanks.

Stock up on stout beer and mixed nuts. Missus just brought back 6 cases of Black Panther from Cambodia so should be ok for a couple of weeks. 4/5 cans equals a standard three course meal. Only difference is it tastes better and there is no cooking or cleaning involved.