ironbark

The dowry for the Thai transvestite is Bt100,000 cash, 151.6 grams of gold, and a Bt9 million home in Australia.

Who decides who gives who the dowry ... when they are both men

This kind of shit rarely happened when Thaksin was in power.

Of course not .... they would have shot her and claimed she was resisting arrest

What's the service quality and availability in Vientiane?

Thanks for the input.

The Laos go to Thailand for medical help if they can afford it. .... Is that comment enough?

This airport has been in the planning stages for more than fifty years before completion. Most, if not all these complaining residents would have been aware that an airport was to be situated on this land before they moved in.

Cash grab, pure and simple.

What an amazingly ignorant attitude. You sound as if people deliberately chose to move there just so they could claim compensation. Where is your evidence for that. Produce a single person that did that. The overwhelming number of people lived their before any compensation was promised.

So it had been planned for 50 years. It seems to me that after the first 40 it is quite a reasonable belief that it will never happen.

People often have little choice over where they choose to live. It may be the only place they can afford, or it is close to their work or family.

The real villains in the story are the incompetent or corrupt govt officials that approved building and development of residences in the area in the first place. For that reasons alone the govt deserves to payup.

You can pay for the flight and take a nice holiday for that difference.

Well I expect to pay about $800 less here than in Australia which is almost the return airfare

I can't find a specific forum so I will ask my question here in the general topic.

I dont normally bother to get VAT refunds when I leave a country because I dont normally buy large expensive items or keep receipts. This time however I have decided to indulge myself on a new laptop computer as well I find I have to go home unexpectedly.

I assume there is some sort of VAT on the laptop, does anyone know if I can claim a refund at the airport when I leave.

Think they are a bit previous with the warning the 12 hour path here says its head direct for us. But it will be dissipated when it reaches here.

Oh joy another 12+ hours of rain . . .

Thanks for that graphic. I did not know about the TST site ... I have bookmarked it for future reference.

G'day

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