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Drug dealers is a restricted career - and should only be open to Thai's

still, you may get a working permit for this trade once you prove special international skills a Thai national may not offer (e.g. contracting business by using one of those "dark, clicking" languages)

....."sex, drugs, bribes"....Does anything good get done "in Thailand with eye contact" please?

Yes, of course: CULTURE

Under the theme "Live & Learn in Wonderful Thailand", the country will be portrayed as a great international education country

umpfff - we have a daughter presently studying in one of the "BKK universities" and I am now not going to be mad again over their

school system (nothing to do with varsity environment), the "Thainess" of corruption in that joint, the quality of lecturers (local

and foreign alike) etc.

The town I was in on NYE had fireworks at midnight, set off adjacent to the town's firehouse. I question the wisdom of that.

great wisdom because "no problem, have help!"

Until the local cops and politicians decide to stop the scams and rips off

it will remain the same.

...and they wouldn't cut off the branch they are sitting on, would they?

Many legal, work permit holding foreign employees do not qualify for an extension based on employment. Either through too low salary, or an employer not qualifying

with all the unhappiness the authorities force onto them in LOS they should rather be elsewhere...

why learn thai, no need, i have no use for it, im an aussie.

that is an easily understandable position

Edit: Using External Police and not local Pattaya police.

I am afraid Thai Police have the fantastic ability to quickly chum up nation-wide whereever necessary

"rich people" are easily topped by "the unusually rich of Thailand...." as the newspapers here like to dub them (never mind the interesting grammatical lapse)

@all: pls acknowledge that this is just a revival of the "world-wide travel operators' and states representatives' incentives"; only very few with a sane mind paid real money for this plastic in the past - most of them were "proudly given away to important people", who in most cases gave a shit on the possibility of suddenly being enabled to own 1 rai of land...

Hang on,I thought the BiB were all corrupt and lazy and only helped if you paid them?

wait 'til you learn who took the drunk's other, dearer cell phone ...

80k/month near Khorat: 4 people (incl. varsity student and 15yr- old), own land, own house, 2 cars; cost positions very similar to many of the above-mentioned. I join others of this thread "Th. is no cheap country at all" still very much worth-while living here and AUD 0.90 for diesel should not be the only high-light of our stay!

your "own business" in Th. would surely be something which you would not include in your financial master plan...! Too many odds re: success / failure and a big visible pot for "start-up and running cost" but invisible leaks of the meager monthly profit

There is also definitely no shortage of women where I am

Where exactly are you then, mate?

"He was charged with illegally carrying a firearm as a foreigner"

can a Thai illegally carry a firearm without being charged?

Just did my 90-day report on Monday in HH. No copies of anything. Just the TM.47 Form

In Khorat, they are more advanced, again: Not even the TM47 is required anymore once you have an electronic history in their system - just passport and finished

27,000 Companies to investigate, it'll take them at least 30 years to get through them all!

and if ever one or the other to shut down ... will reappear under new, mysterious company blanket ...

They must have an excess of idiots in Iran

how does this fit in area- wise?

In 1272, the Arabs invented the condom, using a goat's lower intestine.

In 1873, the British somewhat refined the idea, by taking the intestine out of the goat first.

"Mrs Mouritsen told the Gazette she was stunned that the policy, issued by a major travel insurance company and sold through the travel agent, did not cover injuries sustained in motorbike accidents – especially for people specifically travelling to Thailand"

that is exactly why they do not cover this particular area: "Especially for people specifically travelling to Thailand" !!

That is because they have no idea who done it ! They are now hoping for 2 Thais to hand them selves in

OR hoping to find 2 convenient suspects and shoot them "while attempting to flee", case solved with bravo

and it is not easy to sell the famous German bock wurst under its original name in Istanbul: BOCK translates into SHIT in Turkey language

I am really surprised that the Navy did not plan to catch them and sell them.

sell them? eat them!

Both Korea and Taiwan have these bullet trains that are relatively new and Japan has had theirs for a long time. Why not consult with them on how to do it right.

because the Thai (government, industry, trade) have their blood, heart, and money lines intermingled with the Chinese, not with Korea or Japan

British my arse, and i stick by that even if he/she does have a British Passport..

at bygone times in history, the EMPIRE just could not get enough additional fresh

blood from around the world from all her cozy colonies and they were proud to make

them proud with the Pommie passports. Look at all these distinct- looking Brits in Leeds,

Liverpool, Warrington, Abingdon etc.

Nice touch the Swaztica earring obviously an idiot to wear an earring like that and be German at the same time

no problem (not illegal) once outside of Germany; the U.S., U.K., CAN, AUS etc. (and Phuket, for that...) are full of swasticas. Maybe the guy bought his from a Muslim friend in Jomtien