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The Ford is under 1 million baht...
I couldn't find the specs for the RS version on the website.
Also, Chevrolet had cars on display there. The OPTRA, which I am not interested in but they had a large sedan (don't remember the labeling). They said it was imported from Australia and was 1.99M Baht. It was really pimped out with all electronic everything and center LCD display. What impressed me was that it came with a 3.8 liter V6 engine
Ford & Mazda have pretty much the worst websites in Thailand. They must have been designed by an idiot who have never actually tried to navigate through the website he made. Also Mazda still show the 323 on their site, but minimal reference to the Mazda 3. Try and find which of the Mazda 3 models is a sedan or a hatchback and you are doing better than me.
Also as someone else has said the Chevrolet you are talking about is a Holden Commodore (Holden is owned by GM) and is a very nice car. Its such a low price because its imported under the free trade agreement between Thailand & Australia.
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Ok, I just got my loaf of bread for morning toast and while I was there, they were practicising making Sausage sandwiches - "would you like to try mister for free" the girl said "otherwise we just have to throw it away" - well thats an offer nobody can refuse so with a generous dollop of HP sauce I sampled the sandwich. Probably not the most healthy of foods, but certainly tasted good. Oh and while I am typing this I am also eating a apple pie which is extremely delicious.
Still can't see though how this place is going to survive stuck out in the middle of nowhere but enjoy it while you can.
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1.8l Altis cost 150k less than 2.0l Mazda and is more spacious and luxirious by Thai standards, and easily outruns any car on the road.
Must be a Toyota rep.
Not at all - surely you have seen them on highways - its always the 10 yr old Toyota Corolla that is wizzing past you either on the inside lane, or if thats busy, on the hard shoulder then jumping into the fast lane just to get around another car. Nobody else seems to do that except Corolla's and the odd Honda City with "go faster" stripes, enlarged exhaust and a 200,000 baht stereo that costs more than the car. Strangely enough, you rarely see a decent car attempting these manouvers.
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had a quick look for it on my way home but couldn't find it,which is a shame cos I'd talked myself into a nice sarnie.
Where is Laurel Park
Going up from Sukhumvit direction on Soi Siam Country Club, you pass the Siam Lake View village & Peacock bar on the right and the resevoir on the left and about 200m past the Peacock is a right turn up to Horseshoe Point Hotel and the Siam Polo Park. You take this turn and drive up past some houses on your left, keep going and on the right is an old minimart called the corner shop which is closed. The road splits, bear to the right and Laurel Park is the compound with the high creme colour walls. The DeliBean place is along about 60m with a big green and gold awning outside. Basically if you just follow the signs to Horsehoe Point you will go straight past it. Its pretty isolated - not a lot in the immediatte vicinity, which makes for easy parking.
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Perhaps the police like raiding it as they have no risk of anybody getting out of the emergency exits - its very easy to contain somewhere when you only have one entrance and NO emergency exits. I really am concerned at the eventual risk of a disaster happening in that place however nobody else seems to be at all concerned that 1000 revellers cannot get out of a burning building with a 1m wide walkway before probably 30-60% of them suffocate. Personally I will never go in for that simple reason, unless of course Bambi needs escorting
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For those that live around there this will I think make a nice change from having to go into Pattaya just to get something decent to eat. Worth a try in my opinion.
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Even somewhere out of the way like this place would be nice to visit if the quality and variety of food is as good as you say it is.
The menu I must say was not that extensive - seems like they just stick with a core set of ingrediants, ham, cheddar, turkey, chicken + couple of others but cant remember what they were and then customise it to whatever the customer wants. They offered me 3 types of mustard to go with the ham & cheese sandwich - english, french and American - bit like subway without the plastic feeling but the bread is a lot better and from the taste of it, so are the ingrediants.
My fear would be that the place bombs as there is not exactly passing trade and I have to go back into Pattaya to get some bread.
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Mainly for those living on the east of Sukhumvit, but I got a leaflet through my door for a new sandwich shop of all things opening on the little road up from the resevoir towards Horseshoe Point. Place is called Deli-Bean and on Sunday morning I popped my head in to see what it was like. It was only once I got talking to the owner, that he told me that they were not actually officially open until the next day, but for the last week the staff had been running it as normal and going through training on how to make coffee's, sandwiches etc.
Its located about 600m up from the resevoir on the right hand side and sits outside the Laurel Park housing village. Well I for one was very pleasantly surprised - its small, airconditioned inside with outdoor seating under a big canopy, and I hope for there sakes, that they get some custom - I counted 7 staff all dressed in white shirts, black pants and ties and a green apron. All girls and some rather cute ones at that. English ability is a bit hit and miss though. Helps if you speak Thai, but apparently all the cashiers speak good English but they struggled when I ask for wholemeal bread - urgh they said, oh you mean brown bread. Whatever but they smiled a lot and within couple of minutes I had a tasty sandwich.
For me its great, they sell good coffee freshly grounded and very good sandwiches, but they also sell bread. One thing I always forget is to buy some before I leave BKK on a Friday and then have to go into Pattaya just for some crappy stuff from foodland, or endure the massive queues and parking hassle in Carrefour to get something remotely good.
Got talking to the farang owner and he was saying that from Monday 10th they were going to be stocking a selection of freshly made cakes, danish pastries, muffins and wait for it, scones !!!!!
It reminded me of a decent sandwich bar in London. Service was a bit shaky in so far as they ask you everything you want in the sandwich, down to the type of mayo, ketchup etc but he told me that is because earlier in the week, somebody had asked for a ham and tomato sandwich and ended up with ham and tomato ketchup sandwich. I followed his recomendation and went for a Ham and cheddar cheese toasted sandwich which was delicious. Good cheese, good ham and excellent bread and all for 85 baht. Coffee was also very good and I thought very reasonably priced at 50 baht for a mug of freshly brewed coffee. They also had turkey sandwiches on the menu which is something I have never seen before either in BKK or Pattaya.
For those that live around there this will I think make a nice change from having to go into Pattaya just to get something decent to eat. Worth a try in my opinion.
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If your working for a well established company, generally no problems (and by well established I mean evidence of various tax and social payments, company filings etc).
BOI companies, no problems whatsoever
Small new startups in grey areas - lots of problems - everything goes across the Governor of Chonburi's desk and needs his sign off - he is a stickler for detail and has the reputation of throwing things back at the smallest whim. He is particularly tough on anybody remotely involved in the property business. It is achievable, but tough. Seemingly he has a policy that he will not grant work permits to property developers unless they have a high paid up capital and pay taxes on house sales. That rules out 99% of farang property developers in and around Pattaya for sure. I am aware of applications that have been approved by the staff in the work permit office, only to be thrown out by the governor because he believes them to be false or misleading in some way or another.
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Amari is next door over the highway via a walkway but its not that great. Personally I prefer the Sofitel at Ladphrao which is also handy for the shopping mall
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House robbery in Jomtien leaves Irish man over 200,000 Baht out of pocket.
Police were called to house number 388/152 inside the Suksabai Villas off the Tepprasit Road in Jomtien to investigate a suspected robbery. At the location Police were met by Mr. Anthony Philpott aged 41 from Ireland and his girlfriend. Evidence of the break-in was clear which included a broken grill on the front door.
A gold necklace worth 80,000 Baht, a laptop worth 50,000 Baht and 1,000 Euro’s along with 20,000 Baht in cash had been stolen. The amazing part of this story is that Mr. Philpott actually confronted the robber upon his return to the house at 9pm but in a split second without enough time to react, he ran straight past him and out of the front door. A description of the man was given to Police who believe they may know the suspect and expect to arrest him shortly.
-Pattaya City News
Friday 7th October 2005
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Yeah he had black hair .
Blew past him carrying his laptop , comeon nut up and cath the guy
If he had brown eyes and rode off on a motorbike, I think I know him
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Integration mgr is the way to go - its such a confusing title and always work for a MNC company - i.e including the need for integrating Thai acquisition in terms of processes, policies, procedures etc
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lemme try againHuh, when I was younger nobody wanted to play with me.
Now that I'm older, nobody wants to even fight with me.
Bambi VS Gazza
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hehe ...sound like a fight on "bed" for me ..if it is ..so
tywais will be
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Not scarey per say - more scarey walking down Beach Rd in the dark IMHO!
if u say so babe .. i may try this SaT if i have
1 company
2 no operation case
3 im bored
Wow Bambis going to Lucifers - Just for fun, I would offer to escort you, but you do realise its in Pattaya not Bangkok?
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Labour Ministry statistics show that there were 4,870 expatriates with work permits in Chon Buri as of the end of 2004, a 30.5% increase from 2003.
Those Statistics where a bit surprising. In what field and what nationality have the biggest increases been?
I dont have the factual numbers but based on my experience, I would say its accurate - lots of work permit holders in Chonburi will be working on the various industrial parks and nationality seems to favour Australian and British from my expereince with a constant number of Japanese - large amounts working for car component companies supplying the likes of Toyota, GM, Honda, BMW etc. Also Lam Chabang will support many of those work permit holders - think of shipping companies, petrochemical, etc. Of course there are also large number working in Pattaya in one way or another - real estate, business advice, Hotel management etc etc.
Also this would not include Rayong Province, which includes all the parks in Matbraphut and Rayong - predominantly petro chemical, steel and other heavy manufacturing companies. I'd say there will be at least the same number of work permit holders in Rayong as in Chonburi.
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I'm considering loaning money on a condo and using the condo as security. Will I need a work permit?
What about the guys that rent out their own condos. Do they need a work permit?
I take it you mean your lending money to someone, assume a farang to buy a condo and that you will then hold the title deeds as security until the loan is repaid? There is probably nothing wrong at the outset, but could get very sticky if the guy defaults and you need to lay claim to the condo - not sure how that would work through in reality - too many gray areas for my liking and not enough definative back-up if things go wrong.
Many farang rent out condo's again all is good at the outset - problems again can occur when things go bad - unless you are declaring the income, you really would not want to bring too much attention to yourself - a fact that many renters are well aware off. Also you would need to be paying 12.5% of the rent as a rental tax to the local district where the condo is located.
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Perhaps I am missing something here but every company I have worked for as an employee in Thailand, has always deducted tax at source as well as social secuirty contributions and along with all other employees, they pay it to the appropriatte revenue depts concerned. Sounds to me that they want you off the books, and thus potentially saving them any need to match your social security contributions. Now if this is the case, I would bet they will also overlook your work permit.
Something sounds very fishy but perhaps I am just being overly cautious.
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but if you want to splash out there’s always ‘Bricks’ underneath the Marriot hotel, but don’t turn up before 11, swish, expensive but very good service and great people watching place.
If its under the Marriott its been renamed BarNone no cover charge for Marriott guests
...........tried a few of the places you mentioned......knew about East Coast Parkway (Jumbo Seafood etc) but never got out that way......they have stopped outside seating now as well. ...........had the Spring rolls and Oyster Omelette at Newton.Must make it a 10 day trip next time.
Brix is under the Grand Hyatt, and as you say allbarnone is under the Marriott.
Personally I think the service at Brix is just about the worst of any high end bar in Singapore, but the bands are good and place has a nice feel to it.
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There is a company called F&B which specialises in importing and distributing farang foods. They previously had a tie up with Simple Simon, who makes sausages, Bacon etc out of somewhere in Pattaya. I understand the parting was not amicable, so if your looking for ready access to distribution expertise and potential investment for equity, they may be worth talking to. Sorry I dont know where they are based, but I believe its in BKK. They have distribution centres pretty much all over Thailand where there are expat concentrations.
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I guess he is not on a long term visa either in Thailand, which means the immigration authorities are hardly going to roll out the red carpet for him either.
Sounds like some real funny business going on there as I cannot see a person with a correct non-immigrant visa (o or
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Ahh the blackshirts make another really important bust.<snip> the man is not permitted to sell the drugs without a license and a work permit.<snip>
Thats an interesting angle on an old problem
What was he doing selling them to a Thai for ? Seems pretty dumn to me - if you are going to sell stuff like that - you are unlikely to get busted if you only sell to foreigners....
I would imagine it was one of the farang tourist police volunteers who acted as the buyer.
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If my eticket shows that I, Mr. Herman Xelcius, has paid for the ticket and I present a passport along with another credit card that clearly shows my name, that should be good enough.
Cathay isn't saying the person to whom the credit card belongs has to show up, they say that the actual credit card used for the booking must be presented at time of check-in.
So, theoretically, someone could steal your credit card on Monday evening, purchase a flight for Tuesday morning, present your credit card with your name and their passport with their name and be off, without Cathay saying "Sorry.."
It just doesn't make sense.
No you have got it wrong. Basically the airline are wanting to ensure that person paying for the trip is 1) one of the passengers & 2) brings that credit card along so that it can be cross ref'd to the passport or other form of ID. Its basically trying to cut down on the risk of fraud - SQ and others all have the same policy. Therefore you cannot buy tickets for another person using an airline website. You can of course go into a travel agency or airline office and buy a ticket for someone else, just not on the website. Reason is because of the scenario I described above. Now the odds of someone nicking your passport and credit card are smaller than just a credit card and then the check in agent supposedly checks the passport against the card and the ticket. Online sites do not always cross reference billing addresses either, so there is another potential loophole there which they have to take account of.
Incidentally, the CX website in Thailand is not as cheap as travel agencies who bulk buy tickets so your really better off just using a travel agent in Thailand.
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Entry into Japan is pretty tight, however saying that they must have had their reasons why he has not been let in. Its the only country I have travelled to where customs everytime I went there (must be more than 20 times) always wanted to look in my luggage and that was invariably travelling on business wearing a suit and staying only for 2/3 days. They always asked me purpose of visit and how long staying. Never had any problems and always very polite, looked through passport and thnaked me and sent me on my way. Seemed to happen to more people when I was flying in from BKK than say HKG or SIN which I often did as well.
Now if they refuse entry, the airline will be forced to take you back to where you came from, i.e in this case BKK. Then of course its up to BKK immigration if they then let that person back in. Reminds me of that Tom Hanks movie where he was stuck at a US airport and nobody would let him in or fly him home.
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I have had the opposite side of this scenario.
Some clowns has used my visa debit card (taking money from my UK bank account) for over 20 airline tickets on Air Asia and Bangkok Airways. I have no idea how he got hold of the number and both airlines confirmed that they have no policy (at that stage) for the credit card holder to be part of the travelling group. They had all the ticket details as Air Asia can pull up all bookings using the CC number - mostly domestic tickets but of course none of them in my name.
So, I for one say its a common sense policy, given that card company will just charge back to the airline all these tickets and say its fraud, they and I are not going to be responsible for the payments.
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If you would just like to get closure on this matter one way or the other, you can instruct a lawyer to go to the land office where the property is located and ascertain who the land is owned by. Now depending upon where the land is, you may find that the property itself is not even registered, which could complicate things no end.
A typical Thai address could be something like the following
235/25 Moo 6 or Soi 25
Small village
Provincial town
Province
postal code
The first part identifies the moo bahn or actual estate the house is located on or smaller geographical area if not a mo bahn - the second part is the number of the actual house in that estate or geographical area. The Moo part is essentially a bigger geographical area within the village or the number or name of a street if its considered a built up area which is shown next. Then if its a village that comes next and then they follow with the nearest town of any size which this village comes under and then the province or county
If you just let us know the provincial town and province, it will be quite easy to guess how the property is owned - particularly if it was done 5 years ago. If its not in Phuket, Pattaya, Koh Samui, Hua Hin, Chiang Mai or Bangkok, I would be very surprised if its set up under a company name for the simple reason that many buyers outside of these areas, realise that the chances of selling the property are extremely slim given that there is virtually no resale market outside of the bigger tourist orientated destinations. Therefore most properties are in the names of wifes and or children and will just pass through that family and never be sold on.
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I love this bit - so how much is the cork to ensure birth at an auspicious time ???