taurus8

you all forget one thing, dont try to compare thailand to whereever you come from

They do their thing...one way or another.. ! live with it.

Want to change ? maybe anothrt 50 years....HAPPY NEW YEAR

Go to your nearest Home mart store and get a 5 gallon Jug Muriatic Acid, use one gallon. let it sit for the day and overnight, next day vacuum the whole lot out, backwash and keep testing every day.

Save your money with all the expensive "blue,yellow, green" labeled powders and liquids.

Want more info,dont hesitate to reply to me

Any General Hospital can do your Annual Medical Check up. Tell them what you want, Some have package deals,or induvidual itemized. I had mine done last week in Buriram, no EKG, cost me 750.-

SiSaKit or Surin should be able to do. They all have their own lab.

Good Luck and Good Health

The best news that come from that country,Burma, in Years.

Congratulations Aung San Suu Kyi. Good Luck

Depending the Load your Truck will bring, Large load will cost you about 5oo in that area, need to negotiate. 100 big truck loads..

480 sqr. meters is 20x24 meter size, that is NOT one rai.

stick to # 2 highway until you come to turn off for #24 to Nangrong/Buriram.

@24 is the Ringroad for Korat,pass true NangRong ,turn left onto #219...straight into Buriram.Traveltime from BKK about 5 hrs or less.

Have a safe trip.

ship via EMS and save time and trouble...

Unfortunately there are NO real contractors. Decide what you want to build, what products to use( cement block, Q-Con Block etc..

check with your local constuction store and ....be on site every minute of the day. When your instruction are not followed....make corrections. Dont leave the workers alone.

The largest Home store is not necessarly the best. Buriram has many Constuction stores and they have access to builders...the choice will be yours.

you will find " IT RELAX" about as good as any. I had their service for years,have tried others, but always back to this one. Located in " NightMarket" Square.

dont judge the situation by how any houses are built.But one common denominator of coz is always , as everywhere, CASH.. But I think what you need is a little more moral support from your Partner.This is a different society, cannotcompare anyrhing to any western standard,just accept and careful with your money. Farrangs refere to themselfs often as "the walking ATM " Maschine..................

you can fly on Air Asia at 18:50 on monday at 2871.- tbt,return friday 20:25 for 1267.-TBT abut one hour flight plus a short bus ride to Sisaket.,and back to airport

You have Calcium Problem.Very hard to remove.get approprate filters...need to spend some money.Try Home Pro or Home Mart. and your local Plumbing supply store.

Good luck

Thai troops open fire in standoff with protesters

by Patrick Falby

BANGKOK (AFP) -- Thai troops opened fire on the streets of Bangkok on Friday as they ramped up pressure on "Red Shirt" protesters to give up their campaign to topple the government after a two month standoff.

Volleys of gunfire sent residents fleeing in panic near the Suan Lum Night Bazaar, popular with tourists, while protesters set fire to an empty police bus and vandalised army vehicles and water cannon.

Two journalists, one of them a Canadian with the France 24 television channel and the other a Thai photographer, were shot and wounded. Their conditions were not known.

Troops were seen repeatedly firing into Lumpini Park, close to the Red Shirts' sprawling encampment, which has been fortified with razor wire, truck tyres doused with kerosene and sharpened bamboo poles.

It was not clear if the troops were firing live ammunition, but the army has warned in the past it would use lethal force against "terrorist" elements.

A line of about 100 soldiers carrying assault rifles was seen near the park, according to an AFP reporter. Three Red Shirts were seen being detained by the security forces.

Army spokesman Sunsern Kaewkumnerd said there were about 2,000 Red Shirt protesters in the area and that the order was given Friday morning to disperse them after they had "intimidated authorities with weapons".

Defence Minister General Prawit Wongsuwon said the operation was meant to force the movement's leaders back to talks with the government.

"The military operation aims to put pressure on the Red Shirts to come back to the negotiating table," Prawit told AFP.

An army spokesman, however, said the military had no plan to force protesters out of their main fortified rally site on Friday.

Around the wider protest area, which extends for several square kilometres (miles), soldiers blocked roads and set up checkpoints to seal off the area.

"The total seal-off measure took place since yesterday evening," said Sunsern, adding that the electricity company had cut off the power to part of the capital.

As part of the operation, some of Bangkok's commuter rail system was shut, including a section through the key tourist area of Sukhumvit Road.

The army had warned Thursday it would deploy snipers around the Reds' protest site and use armoured vehicles to prevent more demonstrators joining thousands who have occupied a large area of central Bangkok for two months.

The army's decision followed the shooting late Thursday of renegade Major-General Khattiya Sawasdipol, a high-profile Reds supporter, who had been accused of trying to stymie government moves to reconcile with the protesters.

He was unconscious in the intensive care unit of Vahira hospital with a "low" chance of survival from a head wound, said Chaiwan Charoenchokethavee, the hospital director.

Another demonstrator died after being shot in the head in clashes with security forces Thursday night. Eleven others were wounded.

Core Red leaders had publicly distanced themselves from Khattiya, known by his followers as Seh Daeng, but after his shooting one top protester vowed there would be no surrender.

"If you think the shooting of Seh Daeng will scare leaders and make them not dare to take the stage, you are wrong," one of the protest leaders, Jatuporn Prompan, said at the rally site. "We will not leave here as losers."

The army denied involvement in the shooting as protesters dug in.

The fresh violence came after Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva shelved a plan to hold early elections in November and hopes faded for a resolution to the crippling political crisis.

The mostly poor and working class Reds, who launched their campaign in mid-March for immediate elections, initially agreed to enter the peace process but efforts to reach a deal that would see them go home eventually broke down.

The Reds consider the government illegitimate because it came to power in a 2008 parliamentary vote after a court ruling ousted elected allies of their hero, former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, who was unseated in a 2006 coup.

Bracing for further possible unrest, the government on Thursday extended a state of emergency to 15 more provinces. Almost one-third of the country including Bangkok is now under emergency rule.

At least 30 people have been killed and about 1,000 injured in Bangkok in a series of confrontations and attacks since the protests began -- Thailand's worst political violence in almost two decades.

-- ©Copyright AFP 2010-05-14

Published with written approval from AFP.

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An army spokesman, however, said the military had no plan to force protesters out of their main fortified rally site on Friday.

where the hel_l did this guy come from ?saying things like that???? but then ...of coz the military never had a plan...

since you have not paid for all, just go to them and show them what you think is wrong and ask to do it as you requested. Then,when you satisfied, pay. and maybe find a better contractor,for the next job.

...Four year od ? abused ? are we sure the parents not stting up the teacher for a pay-out? All done b4.lets follow up and wait what comes next.

Don't you just love these increases whenever farang are concerned?

Not 10% or even a hefty 50% as might be expected, maybe?

But 650%.....!!!!!

(yes, yes, it's "because it was lowered 2 years ago")

where did you do your math... mine works out to about 7.9 %

"I would like to house some wiring in the proper steel conduit..."

"proper steel" is the thing to go with! it is a well known fact that the isolation value of steel is practically zero, id est electric current cannot "escape" as steel in non-conductive. am i right to assume that you are from "Britishland" or one of its former colonies where they use metal conduits for electric wiring and forbid light switches or sockets in bathrooms?

p.s. we had steel conduits in our houses in the african bush. not only in the attic and walls but in the floors too. during the rainy season some of the houses had floor heating.

Try Home Mart,they do carry steel fittings

I nrecommend Front Loading maschine, either from Japan or Germany.I have Hitachi for over 6 years, and no problems ....now have new Ones on Display at your local store. check them out.You pay more off course...for this type...but as always... you get what you pay for.

quality and clean laundry

there are no taxis in Buriram, only Tuk-Tuks and Motorcycle taxis. if you have friends ask them to give you a ride from train station.

Tuk-tuks not cheap....BEWARE.

defrost for sure. then cook about 3-4 min, poke hole in plastic. if you have a toaster oven, finish it there ,until golden brown..

Mine comes out perfect, no Mic taste....off coz start out with quality.

is there anything elso on that video besides music?

Considering how 'intrinsically uninteresting' certain grouches have commented this news is, it is somewhat 'intrinsically interesting' that there are about 500 viewers right now...

correction, at present 909 viewers... and yes we can congratulte them all for a good job done.They bare human as most of us are , with a few exceptions here... look in the mirror...

Best regards to all.

Hi

My wife (thai) and I live in USA now, our longer term goal is to retire to Issan somewhere. She wants us to be farmers, likely in rubber trees. Crazy as that may sound it might make some sense and I'm considering. Anyways, she's been offered two separate plots in the vacinity of 20,000b/rai, one being 8 rai and other being 12 rai, both with some rubber trees planted but not at maturity yet. Of course I'd be the primary payer which is OK, except that I've been reading as much as I could find on TV about land titles.

She says Sor-por-cor (close as I can figure spelling) is the type of land title (at best known), but says in and around her village area the official way Thais buy and sell land is with the village headman and four witnesses and the money is exchanged, deal is done and it's official. I suspect the later would be the default transation. For all I know the original title if it exists could be in who knows who's name.

Wooohh! I said, while I trust her to not pitch me out on the dirt road after the purchase, suppose the original owner or kin thereof wanted to contest the land title some years after, or suppose she were to die before me - I certainly wouldn't default become the land owner in thailand - our kids (her thai kids technically) would have to be, and they're 95% falanginized at this point having spent more of their lives here and they know squat about village life. Sounds like a VERY risky situation I said to my wife.

She says that's just the way it's always been done in the village and if someone screws with someone else, that someone might just get shot in the jungle. Ok, there's a simple beauty in that but I'm not a hitman in the case things went sideways, so I'm not ready to part with any money until I get some more solid answers and advise.

So, can anyone give me a paragraph or two on a reasonably trusted means of a Thai buying and securing title to upcountry farmland that's at best been a sor-por-cor title from the seller ?

Thanks

Glennb6

Best thing is land lease. wife buys, you pay and then go to land office in town and get a Land lease for 30 years, renewable. That will be in your name and nobody can trow you off.Sincerely Yours,

Q-Con Blocks

I was wondering anyone in korat or nearby knew where I can buy 9cm x 39cm x 18.5 cinderblock please?

Any help appreciated.