billd766

I have no idea of the price of an engine but my Honda Phanton cost about 88,000 when new but the exhaust pipe is 11,000 baht to replace.

12% of the total cost for the bike.

in her will she leaves the house and land to him and I will be the legal guardian if she dies first otherwise the house and land will be mine and I will have to sell it within a year.

billd766

Sorry for being ignorant (english is not my first language). I'm reading this as: if your wife dies first, her son will get the house and land. But if you die first, the house and land would be yours.

I am sorry if it is not clear.

According to her will when she dies the house and land will go to our son and as his legal guardian (he is 7 now) I would hold it in trust for him until he comes of age.

This will work IF she makes her will AND it is registered at the amphur.

If it is not registered it is the same as her not making a will at all and then the normal Thai lineage comes into play.

The problem is that if the house and land are left to me as her husband, by Thai law I HAVE to sell the house and land in one year because as a foreigner I am not allowed to own land in Thailand.

I hope that is a bit clearer.

We have a Lebanese man, guarding bomb making ingredients, in Thailand. But, he says he's not a terrorist, just a poor unsuspecting security guard, doing his job (must have read about the Nuremburg trials). No plan to bomb Thailand, just trying to sort the paperwork out to export the chemicals.

Isn't this fairy story just a little bit obvious in its absurdity. Does anyone in authority really believe that Terrorists are likely to tell the truth?

I do so hate people who try to use Thailand and common sense in the same post.

One has nothing to do with the other.

I believe you but the spinmeisters say they believe him.

Is true, I heard it on the border between Nakhon Sawan and KPP, that peeps from KPP are known as "Boys from the Back Stuff"?

Actually around here they are known as city boys and out in the sticks where I live we are the back(woods) boys.

I was going to say that out here there is no pollution or smog but this morning for some odd reason the hills are alive with animals runiing for their lives as it the annual hill burning time.

Visit DLT in your new province with reg book and fill out transfer form.

Come back 5 days later with bike. Inspect bike and get new plate and new info in reg book.

Now bike can be sold in new province

or sell bike in old province DLT on the spot

I bought my Honda Phantom in Nakhon Si Thammarat and took it home to Khampaeng Phet.

A few days later I went to the DLT in KPP, showed my car licence, a translated copy of my address from the UK embassy certified by the MFA and whole lot was done in about 45 minutes including the new number plate.

I suspect that the DLT in KPP is user friendly and also farang friendly.

All of the staff I have met there are nice people.

Buggins turn next.

Promote people past their limit of capability then move them elsewhere where they also are not capable.

Have a local insurance policy and let her take care of it all. If she loves you and is caring she will do the right thing.

You will be dead and gone so it is up to them.

Make sure you have the death certificate and I cannot see the need for any other docs.

There are quite a few other documents needed unfortunately.

The police should come to view your body to check that you died of natural causes, ie no knife or bullet wounds etc after which they let the body go to the hospital.

Then you will get a death certificate from the hospital from which your family reclaim the body, and it is the responsibility of the police to report your death to the UK embassy.

http://ukinthailand....-register-death

gives good information and help and there are a couple of related documents there as well.

I have set up a death book for my wife, just a loose leaf forlder telling her where things are, pension details, UK Bereavement Benefit paperwork worth GBP 2,000, who to contact in the UK etc.

The UK Bereavement Benefit is about 20 pages long but can be dowloaded and completed beforehand but to obtain the Benefit your death has to be reported and then they will send the form. After that it is easy to copy all the details across.

They also require your birth certificate, marriage certificate and some othe documents which will be returned.

Your family will also have to return your passport.

I also have a couple of farang friends who will help her out when talking to government departments in the UK.

It is something everybody needs to do now while they can to make life for their Thai wife and family easier when they have gone.

Thanks Bild, that is a very informative report, and a wake-up call for me to get things in order. I will copy your idea of a folder containing everything required for the wife; and as a UK pensioner I will have to look into the situation regarding payment of a bereavement benefit to her - 2o pages! sounds like something only a UK civil servant could come up with; put in enough confusing bullshit and many people will fail to qualify)

Elwood

It has taken me 1 1/2 years of nagging to get my wife to make her will and she finally did it last month and her niece will get it translated in BKK.

That was over a month ago so I think I will have to get my big boots out and start kicking and shouting again.

In our case we have a 7 year old son which is no problem BUT in her will she leaves the house and land to him and I will be the legal guardian if she dies first otherwise the house and land will be mine and I will have to sell it within a year.

However if there is no legal registered copy of a will that is the time that problems may start depending on the wifes Thai family.

BUT if there is a legal will, and it is registered at the amphur, and each of you has a copy in Thai and in English the problems will be much smaller.

Please get it done ASAP as you may not be the first to go.

If thais as so god as business and making money how is it they are not rich and all farang are? This is a real stumper of a question, try it out.

Follow up are all rich thais really farang? Next one if you travel outsife of Thailand you may also see the road to riches, one rainbow ends in Dubai.

England versus Pakistan tomorrow in UAR. You can catch it on www.vipbox.net I will be!

Shergar apparently according to local folk lore was on the spit in 1982. missed that one!

1982 was before my time too.

It must have benn a big spit is all I can say.

Have a local insurance policy and let her take care of it all. If she loves you and is caring she will do the right thing.

You will be dead and gone so it is up to them.

Make sure you have the death certificate and I cannot see the need for any other docs.

There are quite a few other documents needed unfortunately.

The police should come to view your body to check that you died of natural causes, ie no knife or bullet wounds etc after which they let the body go to the hospital.

Then you will get a death certificate from the hospital from which your family reclaim the body, and it is the responsibility of the police to report your death to the UK embassy.

http://ukinthailand....-register-death

gives good information and help and there are a couple of related documents there as well.

I have set up a death book for my wife, just a loose leaf forlder telling her where things are, pension details, UK Bereavement Benefit paperwork worth GBP 2,000, who to contact in the UK etc.

The UK Bereavement Benefit is about 20 pages long but can be dowloaded and completed beforehand but to obtain the Benefit your death has to be reported and then they will send the form. After that it is easy to copy all the details across.

They also require your birth certificate, marriage certificate and some othe documents which will be returned.

Your family will also have to return your passport.

I also have a couple of farang friends who will help her out when talking to government departments in the UK.

It is something everybody needs to do now while they can to make life for their Thai wife and family easier when they have gone.

An interesting story, despite the sensationalist and inaccurate reporting.

Some salient points.

It cost him £80,000 to get the kid back to Britain.

Despite the fact his wife, Kim, had fleeced him of everything, she still managed to get

£1,000, ownership of a parcel of land in Thailand that Sean has purchased for more than £6,000, a laptop and agreement by the British Embassy she wouldn't face prosecution in this country [Thailand]

Very happy for the bloke that he got his kid back.

Sadly his Thai wife would see the whole episode as a successful endeavour. Rewarded for her time in Britain, then spiriting the kid away, was rewarded financially again once caught.

It might be interesting and enlightening to hear her side of the story instead of a one sided and badly (if at all) researched one side only.

But when I were nobbut a lad defending Great Britain against the Chinese hordes down in Singapore we used to have a reet good time at Chinese New Year with Chinese opera on every street corner, stings of fire crackers going up to the roof of the Mandarin hotel and back down again.

Chinese taxi dancing girls at the New World, proper Chinese food not the mucked about Thai version and as much draft Tiger as you could drink without falling into a monsoon drain.

A bottle of Gold Cock brandy was the price of 2 litres of coca cola and the lady who sold it used to bottle it freshly for the tin bath out the back.

Ah the good old days.

You could always go for tiffin at the Raffles the a few of us got kicked out of the Hilton one morning at breakfast after the staff actually had the temerity to ask us to show the room keys that we were ordering breakfast on.

After a night on the tiles around Bugis and Albert street you needed a good breakfast and the RAF Mess at Tengah didn't quite pass muster.

Enjoy yourselves my little chickadees while I relax in my palatial mansion out in the jungle where men are men, women are women and there are stranger one than that around.

I must see if I can find my solar topee.

And if you tell the Youngster's today and they would never believe you.

I have tried to explain to my wife and her friends that I have worked in more dountries than they have ever been to and worked for more years than any of them have been alive.

It is a concept that they can't seem to get their heads around.

I left school in 1959 and had 3 dead end jobs in 6 months, did 25 years in the RAF, 4 years as a civil servant and another 21 years in the mobile phone business.

I tell them that and its like, you don't understand as you aren't Thai.

Duh

W.C.Fields is alive and living in central Thailand!

Elvis Presley at karaoke event in Nakhon Sawan, I think his voice has gone.

Lord Lucan living in a banana tree near KPP, will the Chinese New Year tempt him into town?

Where's Shergar?

I thought he was on the menu in NakWan.

I started out doing offshore work in 1991 and at that time I was married to a UK lady and our son was 13.

I used to go on contract with my company but came back 3 times a year, for my son's birthday, summer holidays and the Xmas + New Year as well.

Most of the jobs were 3 to 6 months and when I finally went expat with my company my son was getting close to exams in the UK and it wouldn't have been fair to bring him out.

That marriage failed because of me and when it crashed our son was 19.

I married my Thai lady in 2000 a year after my decree absolute and she knew what my job was then and I still carried on for about 6 months of the year and lived in Thailand the rest of the time.

In 2004 our Thai son came along completely unexpected but welcomed and cherished all the same.

I still worked offshore parts of the year until I retired back in 2009 and I haven't been out of Thailand since.

I love and missed my son when I was offshore but for the first couple of years when he was a baby it wasn't a problem but after that I used to ring home twice a week and most jobs were 2 months on then a visa run for a few days. My last job was in New Zealand when I did 6 months on, 2 weekis off and the last 6 months before I retired.

When you children are young it is hard not to be with them and both watch and help them grow, but after 12 or 13 they have their own lives and rely less on you. They may also appear not to care about you so much but they do care usually.

Now of course that I am retired I am always here for my son and it is a delight to watch him grow.

To the OP, yes it is hard to be in your position and perhaps at some point in time you will have to choose what you want to do but until that time just keeps plodding on making money as the world is not that nice a place for someone with no job, no money and no prospects in any country in the world.

And don't worry to much as it will get better.

But when I were nobbut a lad defending Great Britain against the Chinese hordes down in Singapore we used to have a reet good time at Chinese New Year with Chinese opera on every street corner, stings of fire crackers going up to the roof of the Mandarin hotel and back down again.

Chinese taxi dancing girls at the New World, proper Chinese food not the mucked about Thai version and as much draft Tiger as you could drink without falling into a monsoon drain.

A bottle of Gold Cock brandy was the price of 2 litres of coca cola and the lady who sold it used to bottle it freshly for the tin bath out the back.

Ah the good old days.

You could always go for tiffin at the Raffles the a few of us got kicked out of the Hilton one morning at breakfast after the staff actually had the temerity to ask us to show the room keys that we were ordering breakfast on.

After a night on the tiles around Bugis and Albert street you needed a good breakfast and the RAF Mess at Tengah didn't quite pass muster.

Enjoy yourselves my little chickadees while I relax in my palatial mansion out in the jungle where men are men, women are women and there are stranger one than that around.

I must see if I can find my solar topee.

Go home. Get a new passport. Come back.

Or, depending on your circumstances, get yourself a proper long term visa

Wouldn't that be a novel idea? Someone actually going with the program instead of trying to get around it.

That someone could be me and most of the people that I know.

Of course most of them are married or retired but they have gone along with the rules and regulations, the unwritten ones like being polite and reasonably dressed and having all the paperwork.

What a surprise there are no problems at the Immigration Department and often the staff there remember you and talk to you as a friend.

But what do I know anyway.

I am just a fat old farang who plays by the rules and doesn't throw his toys out of the pram when somebody tells him, no you can't have anymore visas as we don't think you are a tourist.

The issues of the FIDF Bank debt were inherited by the government. The logical move would have been to ask the banks to pay higher premiums years ago. These banks which have historically aligned themselves with the ruling military juntas and the Democrats have a vested interest in complaining.

Mr. Korn feigns concer. Ok, why then didn't he address the FIDF debt issue when he had a chance? Now that a former BoT Governor is the finance minister, it is to be expected that there will be action. The other amounts mentioned are minor in comparison to the FIDF debt related to the bank support.

A fiscal conservative would demand that the banks pay up as the industry caused the debt with their business practices and they have to take responsibility for their actions.

A social democrat would demand the banks pay up as the FIDF is tantamount to corporate welfare.

It will be interesting to see if the Finance Minister has the backing and strength to stand up to the banks. He's a heavy hitter as a former BoT governor and his position is common policy in many of the countries that have stable banking systems such as Sweden and Canada.

I agree with you that Korn should have done something when he had the chance.

Equally so should all of the governments before him should have done the same, or is it double standards once again?

I applied to Kbank for a credit card and I was told the same thing.

No work permit, no credit card.

I understand what they mead and just live without it.

Unfortunately those are the rules in Thailand.

Why should the woman be fired just because she made a simple mistake, an easy thing to do when you are working in 2 languages.

Take a chill pill and cool down.

If you desperately need an Iphone use an offshore card or pay cash.

It is as easy as that.

Don't know if this will help.

I'm in K.P.Phet and have tried most of them here and there all crap TOT "via phone line" is about the best of a bad bunch. At first I used their 8mb set up but that was rubbish used to get about 3/4 if I was lucky, so changed to their 6mb and now I'm getting average 5.8mb Happy with that. I use to get them out to me about 3 time's every month with the 8mb since I got the 6 never. Been on that just over a year.

Hey Fred, I will be installing some kind of internet connection in February. However, I will be out of KP by 47kms, SW, I think. Still can't get the name of the village right, but about 25 kms down 1117. I assume you had to have a phone installed with your TOT connection, any idea of costs and is does your package include a wireless router? No wish to use an aircard as I use internet a lot

It looks as though we will be (sort of) neighbours as I live 65 km from Khampaeng Phet on the 1117 past Klong Lan out towards Mae Wong.

It looks as though you are on the KP side on Klong Nam Lai in a small village.

A couple of days ago I finally got a proper TOT internet link though from a microwave tower as we still don't have a phone connection this far out.

I got a 7 mB package and my average so far is around that though it has been over 10 mB downloads and over 1 mB up loads.

It keeps me happy and my wife is happy too as I am not on her back asking when will it be here, phone them up, etc.

Wang Pat (or Ba) Kien sounds as if it may be the name of the village. I am abroad but called just to ask her. Thanks for the help

No problem.

I have Google Earth open and also my GPS map.

Some way down the road from KhamPhet you come to a 4 lane road and towards the middle of that is a sweeping right turn with a temple on the right. It is fairly big a villages go and I figure it is around that area.

I just looked at this again

Hey Fred, I will be installing some kind of internet connection in February. However, I will be out of KP by 47kms, SW, I think. Still can't get the name of the village right, but about 25 kms down 1117.

I am 50 km from the start of the 1117 at Klong Melai and the route 1 and KP is another 8 km further on.

No matter. Perhaps we will meet some time.

Cheers

Bill

Hello billd766, try this link: www.nichino-ie.com they have tillers to.

but their site has an English tab, and a complete list of who sales them,

just find the phone area code for your area.

For the first site I posted, you can check the numbers to see if there is

a resaler in your area.

Thanks for another link.

The closest to me is at Mae Sot or Lampang and Chiang Mai area.

I may stick with my wife's idea of getting somebody local to do it.

Thanks for the update and I will look into it but Korat itself is on the other side of the country to me.

Have a look at this one it says they deliver

http://translate.goo...7s5JCGIsioFHbMQ

I like the look of that but I suspect that my wife will say no.

Use a local guy at 250 baht a day, it is cheaper.

Been talking to the other half, she reckons that a few people near her have TOT telephone lines, so it may not be that difficult. Small as the village is, it has 2 internet cafes, so something available, somewhere.

Tried again for name of village, has me beat. Just a bend on the road with a couple of machinery repair places. Looked on Google Earth and it has no name. However, nearest ATM is at Klong Lan, or a bit further to Klong Lan Phattana, both about 25 kms away, I suppose

Klong Lan is about 30 and is also known as Klong Nam Lai kms down the 1117and is the amphur town and Klong Lan Patana is about 10 km further on. I am about 6km further on than that at 50.8 km along the route 1117.

Thanks for the update and I will look into it but Korat itself is on the other side of the country to me.

Well it goes with out saying the corruption will be rampant.

How ever is that a reason to do nothing?

The article said

"They were not convinced the plan would systematically solve water-related problems, namely flood and drought, as anticipated by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, the source said yesterday."

If it was under 100 billion would they be convinced. They have not offered a alternative to the obviously over funded plan. For my money a real expert would have a plan.

Then again it is in the Nation and from a source.

The article also said

"The panel proposed a plan to spend Bt350 billion on water resource management in 18 major rivers in Thailand - with Bt300 billion earmarked for the Chao Phraya River in the Central plains."

Is the m300 billion baht to be spent on the Chao Phraya River. Or is it over and above the 350 billion to be spent on water management in 18 river systems?

The way I understood it was that 300 billion was to be spent on the Chao Phraya and the remainder on the other 18 river systems.

I remember reading a short while ago that around 30% of government funds are expected to be lost due to corruption so figure 90 BILLION baht will be STOLEN on the Chao Phraya project leaving only 210 billion to complete the job and 17 BILLION to be stolen from the other project leaving perhaps 33 billion to complete the job.

It makes me think for a little bit that I was born in the wrong country at the wrong time and I could have been rich beyond my wildest dreams and then I think what could be done in Thailand if corruption was down to (only) 10% and spent on the people who need it and not on those with obscene amounts of money.

Don't know if this will help.

I'm in K.P.Phet and have tried most of them here and there all crap TOT "via phone line" is about the best of a bad bunch. At first I used their 8mb set up but that was rubbish used to get about 3/4 if I was lucky, so changed to their 6mb and now I'm getting average 5.8mb Happy with that. I use to get them out to me about 3 time's every month with the 8mb since I got the 6 never. Been on that just over a year.

Hey Fred, I will be installing some kind of internet connection in February. However, I will be out of KP by 47kms, SW, I think. Still can't get the name of the village right, but about 25 kms down 1117. I assume you had to have a phone installed with your TOT connection, any idea of costs and is does your package include a wireless router? No wish to use an aircard as I use internet a lot

It looks as though we will be (sort of) neighbours as I live 65 km from Khampaeng Phet on the 1117 past Klong Lan out towards Mae Wong.

It looks as though you are on the KP side on Klong Nam Lai in a small village.

A couple of days ago I finally got a proper TOT internet link though from a microwave tower as we still don't have a phone connection this far out.

I got a 7 mB package and my average so far is around that though it has been over 10 mB downloads and over 1 mB up loads.

It keeps me happy and my wife is happy too as I am not on her back asking when will it be here, phone them up, etc.

It is working for me now on this page.

http://www.thailandpost.co.th/rate-result.php

And I got there from here http://www.thailandpost.co.th/rate.php

I then clicked on ENG