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Thai Same Old Shix

http://www.thaivisa.com/visa/increased-visa-fees.html

Phils Chaalaat Mak:

http://globalnation.inquirer.net/news/news...rticle_id=80934

Last night Pattaya People TV had shown relatives of Thai provincial bureaucrat repeatedly kicking a (former) employee cum petty thief repeatedly about the face,head and body.The two attackers set upon the alleged thief and the police did absolutely nothing,a clear human rights abuse.

Perhaps if they paid the twoyr employee enough he could have bought a used computer for himself.

and they wonder why they have problems in the South with Muslims. Wonder why??

peaceblondie is correct: my post was about thai immigration screwing one of their own and an old geezer with health problems at that.

the pathetic fact is that they finally got that stupid database up and running (that was GIVEN to them) and if that never came along - the coppers would not be enforcing anything becasue they were obviously to lazy to do the paperwork manually for years.

condos are WAY overpriced. i just saw ad in trader in nirun (?!?!?!) for flat 925k!!!!!!!!

if the thai govt allowed farang tobuy land that 6 mill you drop on a condo could buy you a 2 rai and another 2 mill for the house - less than one km from ocean

property mkt will crash in a year anyway -

basically everyones seems to concur. thanks.

just went to main branch for a box ... tem laew! fuuny ... no matter the size, all were full ( i question this and wondering if i have one of my thai lady friends go up and ask).

i didnt know the bank was that old. must be like phil said - just never noticed, then again the big banks had things pretty tied up until about 7 yrs ago.

siam commerical (fyi)

well, i have seen the dire wide pan of many an expat club meeting while khum neils talks himself silly or has some other dire speaker - but this latest seems to be a new low. appears the group is honestly hating the ordeal.

you get to pay neils for this privilage as well.

guess he has to pay for that sailor uniform somehow.

dude - i didnt read yur post but i saw the interview which put me to sleep.

i will summarize:

it was so boring i dont know how anyne could have watched thru it all

here is the summary: you falang accident. even if you not make accident, apologize to thai, hire lawyer...ME

oh please someone close this thread

for what its worth ...

yes, gh managers were to report for some time. but where i stay is mainly a serviced apt and even during high season people are satying a min of a few weeks.

its not the managers obligation to notify immigration about any persons 90 day stay. its our own responsibility. i imagine though that thai immigration will now make it the mgrs responsibility. the new sheet asks for arrival/departure/type of visa/date of stamp expire and tourist card#.

anyway - yes, its all well known but the old man was told years ago up on soi 7-8 whatever to not bother. and he did not... for years and obviously for years - it did not matter. now they get a new computer and he gets a fine.

i guess its the cheap shot against this poor guy. i mean the owner aint gonna pay this. how easy could it have been to say - get the paperwork to us by 6pm?

meanwhile... im nearly run over daily, one way streets are deadly and quality international touts working illegally on beach road and farang on 2nd road and soi diana. and on and on.

i came back from india with a new attitude, but im simply going to have to lok at the phils mid november and if that doesnt work out cambodia. given the rise in the baht and the latest business law that does not directly impact me - its pretty clear that we are a despised lot. just send money - dont bother coming.

yup ... amazing thailand

many years ago - mayor of philippines (lim, chines of course) drove out all the bars out of the red zone in manila. the place went raidly into decay. he and his buddies bought it all up.

you can bet that there are some very wealthy thais waiting to swoop on assets. visa laws to drive foreigners from housing, this law to drive us from business opptys.

its all been done b4

nothing to see folks, MOVE ALONG....

years ago when this tiger of a bank started up it captured my heart. the bank grew exponantally, offered clever services but the best ... it devised a trading program and when their was a stock offer - it cleaned up on all the shares - you gotta love it. all the other dinosaur traders and bankers only whinged to the govt for a do-over.

as of late though i find many branches swamped, the staff semi hostile and if you pull out a few 1000 out of the atm and want small money - its always solee no small money... (no i dont want to repeatedly take out b900). i am also really pissed the charge at least ten and maybe 20b for card use IN THEIR BANK outside the province (an arbitrary line drawn by govt).

anyway - if you are a cust - what are your experiences?

isnt this just a debit card??? i have with my scb.

Looks like we've woken up the "henny, penny, the sky is falling" crowd. They weren't sleeping for long...

To me it looks like just another happy day in the Kingdom with the usual strange and bizarre attempts at daily journalism that are best not taken too seriously, too quickly.

how insane is that? i could swear i read in the bkk post (on the stand) the law actually passed (post already printed?). so it sounds like it was retracted. so if true - it was however fleeting, law. and as i stated - it certainly covers the sentiment of the ruling class oligarchs and mafia.

dont be so quick to run to malaysia - its a pretty moderate country but its also pulling similar crap with the 'national religion' law and that hoopla around tat poor woman who married a hindu and converted.

ah yes, friends as you will read - insanity is not limited to visiting farang as immigration has yet another bout of insanity.

the 78 year old manager in my bldg was fined (b4000) yesterday for not turing in some sheet with all our pp info on it. hes just a poor old guy trying to keep a broken family together.

immigration could have told him he has 12 hours to get all our info together and to them in jomtien. no, they happily fined him. they could have also chgd b1000 if any overstay. that would have been fair.

they never sent him mail

they never sent anyone to come see him

they never printed circulars

this happend to other small gh owners on the soi as well

their reasoning: it was on (cable) tv you should have known... in seven years, other than muay thai i have never seen the man even watch tv.

lady from norway said hardly anyone knew and day/night had not even known (had many overstays).

its getting harder to justify staying. this crap, the business law, visas ... you just get the feeling foreigners are throughly unwanted - unless its a spendy two week holiday.

sohn: you have confirmed everything i had written ;-)

hey ... im pos those quads were lics.

thanks

the new mcdonalds is in the new mall across from whats that soi ... yamoto me thinks.

any smart investor will still yank their money - the attitude, the writing on the wall, harbinger of things to come...

how stupid is this? we are not even talking about protecting a market? the thais are afraid someone is going to come in and build a plant -where thais would (not) and steal -what?? oppty for export that only benefits the country and creates jobs which the same competition is created by other nations internationally - like errr.... CHINA

lets not forget that mfg is zero sum - its built here or there (china). thailand long since lost out on hi tech, high mfg, enginering jobs... the country is ill educated to support it. they chose to be a nation of low services and tourism. looks like now they are shooting the last goose with the golden egg. honestly, i dont know why anyone would invest here when you have china.

bruce you are quite right: the real enemy of that thai people and nation is the institutionalized corruption. the top 25% benefit and the bottom 75% are its slaves. its that simple.

just shave your head...works for me.

id never get transplant unless i had about 1.5 mill to burn.

i only applied for tr and i always got the tr. just a very chilly and arrogant reception - in MY country.

nongway - ill forget the bbc report i saw on drunken young englishmen on holiday i saw about a week ago

there are lots of dog shops of pattaya 3rd below pattaya klang

id bet heavily against it but if the kids are not under her roof...and shes sending basically nothing to whomever is caring for them.

i wonder when she has the time to go to school if shes working earning scant wages? schools are like 40000 baht a year just for courses for reg nurse (nurse told me).

if youre telling me shes caring for five people??? and then why is this on the pattaya thread? you met her here?!

if she wears slaps shes honest, if she wears heels shes a tart - apply the pattaya shoe test :-)

i really dont like the place at all and never have. i like big c much more - and c4 is always more expensive than all the markets as well.

was in their today for chuckles, tried to buy some oatmeal but just dumped it and left as i always do get tired of waiting in the queues and paying full price.

as for return/big c issue - thats pretty much the same in asia, best thing you can do is buy crap or buy the best quality. the logitech speakers i bought in usa have crapped out on me - nightmare getting them to respond, so there you go.incidently: this company on an international/corporate level is not doing well (wonder why?).

insert picture: crazed, toothless englishman shoving food into his mouth YEEAAAAHHHH!