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I'm now trying for my third hotel in Pattaya, fingers crossed.

Really surprised how busy the place is, with SARS, Bird flu etc. Seems to of made no impact.

Can anyone recommend a good hotel online that I could try in case the 3rd booking fails .

Thanks

I find it more amazing that he was arrested for not wearing a shirt than smuggling.

So this is illegal ? What other laws would catch out most Westerners, I really did'nt know that. No warning, put a shirt on please, just arrest that farang ? Do the police treat all tourists like that ? And nobody thinks this is strange ?

Am I over-reacting, or is this weird ?

Regards

It sounds intriguing business sense, however the reality is always that there is far more involved.

Who would you contact to find out more about existing business's for sale in Thailand or Asia for that matter ? Where are they advertised ?

Regards

I wonder if anyone had pictures of this jail ? I did ask this some time ago, but now there are more people on here, i'm really curious to see how bad this place really is ?

Regards to all.

Hi,

2 questions.

1.

Can you enter Thailand without booking a hotel.

I seem to remember last time I visited, I had an entry form that asked for

hotel details. My feeling is that this is not required but would like to know for sure.

I do know that some countries do require this, however as I say, i'm not sure.

Appreciate the clarification.

2.

What's the webpage for the central / main train station from Bangkok ?

Kind regards and thanks

If the police check my details once i've checked into a hotel and they are upto date, as my docs always are, then it would still be unpleasant because you really don't expect this kinda crap. You go on holiday to let your guard down somewhat, relax, chill out, get that vibe going and just have a good time.

You don't expect a crack squad of cops doing spot checks, that upsets the vibe, well at least for me it certainly does. I know everyone is different.

On the other hand, the occasional spot checks I can understand ...

But as we all know, this is Thailand and anything, I mean * A N Y T H I N G * can happen, lol.

Regards

This makes me think twice about visiting Thailand.

My paperwork is *always* valid wherever I travel or whatever I do, but to be caught up in such a raid would be absolutely terrible, especially if just there for a holiday. It would probably spoil the whole holiday.

What is the political angle behind this ? What is really going on ?

Perhaps i'm just reading this as sensationalist and it's not so..

Regards

For those that don't know, the BBC news is available in Thai.

http://www.bbcthai.com/

Regards

Oh, you do the amazing unseen Thailand pictures.

Gloves off, and let me shake your hand Sir, excellent work !

I love to see pictures of Thailand in the Sun, makes me feel good, lol.

I'm in a cold country at the moment, 0 degrees :-(

Thank you

Regards

Hmmmm, do all the bars close ?

How about a new forum for learning the Thai language.

There must be lots of useful tips people can contribute here, and it all comes in use :-)

Of particular interest to me at the moment is a list of online web resources with words to learn, well hey something to do at work, lol.

Regards

I just discovered this amazing website which has many pictures on it.

In fact you can upload your pictures and use this as a gallery.

Anyway, check these out, really cool.

http://www.pbase.com/world/thailand

Regards

So I hope this year I can get organised and get a flight and hotel in plenty of time.

Does anyone have tips for the traveller visiting Thailand for Songkran other than

"you'll get wet, very wet" :-)

I can't wait to re-visit, such an amazing country.

Thanks

Be careful of just passing out your personal details willy nilly, especially in the LOS. There are a thousand people who claim to open all doors, but only one of them really can.

You don't know what will happen to your details, identity theft is much more common nowadays, play it safe folks.

An email processing job says absolutely nothing, your clutching at straws pal. More information would help you for sure.

I'd like to start a list of all available software on the global market that teaches you Thai along with relating website. Before I do so, does any such list exist ?

Feel free to drop software package names, it seems to need a lot of sorting out ...

Kind regards

I'm afraid that I don't have any work for you, however this does spike up my curiosity as I know someobody looking for paralegal work, and they would consider Thailand as an option.

What should they do? It's a long shot I know, but worth a try nevertheless.

Does Thailand only like Harvard / Yale candidates like the rest of the world ?

Regards

This is awful, but worth reminding people that this is *very* common in the Western world.

I hope she regains her eyesight, I wonder if we could do something for her ?

Regards

Just install Winamp 5.0 , click on Internet TV and away you go.

Reference : http://www.winamp.com/

I'm kind of impressed with the quality of the stuff on there.

Regards

###### I was too late and booked elsewhere in Asia!

Thanks for the reply's anyway, i'll bookmark that one for later in the year.

So flights to Thailand at Xmas/New Year from Europe seem almost impossible unless you booked several months ago or are prepared to fly business class.

Any tips?

Thanks

Extremely useful for the future, thanks :-)

Although I still don't know if they will take on specialists from abroad or how many people they employ, it's a good bet...

Best regards

Hi folks, been a while since i've been on here.  I wanted to gather some information on NECTEC.

How many people work there?

Do they employ farang?

Do they pay the minimum salary for farang?

My understanding is that this is the Thai Government funded research and development institute for the country, so they only work on

a) specialist projects

country IT infrastructure

Anyone got information on a) and ?  It's not like their a big secret ...

How do you get a job there? ;-)

Details :

http://www.nectec.or.th/tindex.html

http://www.nectec.or.th/eindex.php

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Hi Randy,

Please read through the Jobs archive, there is a lot of information on this topic now all available online.

You basically won't be able to keep skills current in Bangkok through a career, a lot of technology in use is out of date, and in some cases way out of date. There are rare, rare exceptions as always but I don't see it happening.

In fact say goodbye to your I.T. career as you knew it.

Have a read through the archives and then post back.

Regards

This is how bad the net has become, we've become too used to all the crap out there, and it is crap, marketing is mostly crap.

Quite simply there is too much of it.

You can filter it out by using a filtering web proxy and I make no apology for that.

Those poor people on modems, like in Bangkok and other third worlds have to wait some time for the pages to load.  Modems are slow no matter how much optimisation you add, and you risk loosing potential users because of it.

Of course the user always looses and marketing always wins, that's just how it is.  Money will justify murder as acceptable for most people, it's just a case of figuring out the amount.

I have stronger feelings regarding this, but will refrain from posting them.

There are easy ways to block pop-ups, but i'm careful not to post the methods in case people use that as a method to find a workaround.

Regards

I do appreciate that .com business models are tight indeed.

However in this case, I don't get it.  Why add more ads now, if you did'nt need them for the previous 12 months?

If you were running at a loss, then why not advertise higher yeild ads.

Regards