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The convention is called "Den Haag" and refers to the Dutch city with the same name. Best is to write your embassy an email on where to get a notary public serving an "apostille of Den Haag". Worst case scenario you will have to process the documents through the UK (which will cost you an arm and a leg) - OR - you go back to the enquiring office in Mexico. Have you checked with the Mexican embassy on the issue?

Very interesting professional feedback, thank you for that. The cattle then, back in the day, was for milk production (so we were told) and, not being experts in cattle to start with, we assume that the programme was successful as milk is readily available everywhere these days. Unclear though, how much is rehydrated milk powder and how much is locally milked dairy ;-)

The hub of all hubs - how comforting. But, before you apply for this position, you might want to clean up your tremendously bureaucratic immigration act and inch from 1'380'417 BC to the 21st century. Air travel, no TM6, border crossing TM6 mandatory (in some cases), the confusion with the nose-poking officers is evident. English, politeness and a smile would really help as this is the first direct face-to-face contact with the dirty farang, alien, khaek, jeck and whatever the semi-divine call the tourists. Latter should actually just dump their cash and valuables in a drum, best not even leaving the aircraft and bugger off again ;-) Some last week's impression of the qualification to be come the hub-of-all-hubs ....:

I worked for TG and was very proud about that. In 1992 then, Chatichai Bunya-ananta - the sitting CEO - was retired as he reached 60 years of age (but would have been willing to continue). Once he was out of the way, the goons of the Ministry of Finance and some zero brainers with lots of gold all over their "rent-a-cop" uniform took over. In no time these absolute ignorant idiots turned an international icon and ambassadorial pride of Thailand into a 7/11 without a cashier on the way out. Everyone helped himself, corruption was abundant and the prestige brand "Thai Airways International" went down the toilet. Every engine and aircraft manufacturer could sell some stuff to TG, without coherent planning on anything as long as the "crème de la crème" could enjoy the fleshpot of the national carrier. Low Cost Carriers came up and the Middle East woke up in the dunes of the sand and started doing professional aviation business at market-relevant pricing, excellent service level, reliability and quality. They, unlike TG, understood that "Customer Service is an attitude and not a department". Chatichai is no longer among us as he would cry 24/7 and so does the team of my generation looking back on where TG came from - a very successful venture between SK (Scandinavian) and TH (Thai Airways). From the 60s to the 90s - a sparkling star, top product with top people. Today it is an expired flint of an extinguished candle rather than a sparkling star and closer to the bottom than any other carrier of relevance in the region. THB 300+ billions of bankruptcy resulted in TG clocking THB 10 billion "profit" while WE (Thai Smile, a 100% TG owned LCC) was sent into free fall with THB 20 billion and disappeared at the end of 2023. Nobody has a clue, where all that money came and comes from - for sure not revenue in flying happy passengers around the globe. What a pity for what had been done in previous decades; close the shop and start anew again, with professional (foreign) management as the local boys, proven for the last 30 years, are unable to manage a break-even operation, a reliable and thoroughly through-planned timetable with passenger orientation and a product which is worth the (expensive) airfares those goons are publishing off their shiny desks at the head office at Viphavadee-Rangsit. TG = tomorrow go, possible one point to start working on ;-)

Make your life easy and buy a new vehicle in Canada; those local coffins on wheels will never pass any check of any department of land transport of countries which have arrived in the 21st century ......

Well, his brother New and Anutin might have different plans for the(ir) future?

I remember when we imported 1'200 cattle from Australia into Thailand some 30+ years ago when I was in freight forwarding. Trust me, that livestock was "the real thing" which might not be applicable to what is shown in this postings photograph ........

My little PM2.5 gizmo goes ballistic nightly in dark red colour, hovering between 165 and 195 microgrammes. So, once the two-coloured socks PM is finished with the North, he can draw his kind attention to the Northeast, which is equally f8"ç%"%çd. The difference is, that the Bangkokian HiSos and the dirty farang group in Thailand's Northern provinces of Mae Hong Son, Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai much more often and closer than in Isan. There are days when the visibility is less than a few hundred metres; guess what kind of air those people - damned to live here - have to breathe ........ Despicable, to say the least, considering that all this is manmade for profitability of the selected few food mills and processors ....... A Thai way of stopping immediate neighbours is to throw out some used spray cans into the field just before they start burning down. The small explosions are then explained is "roaring ghosts" being unhappy with what they do. Works ;-)

Signs in English giving "rental details" for chairs and tables would be helpful. For years now I've been witnessing unnecessary discussions and bad mouthing as the foreigner did either not understand what Khun Sisaket said in Tinglish - or got nicely ripped off. The highest fee proposal I ever got was 250 Baht per chair and 300 Baht for the centre table. As there were eight chairs (of which my family and I would have used only four) they wanted 2'300 Baht for eight chairs - used or unused around the table. Since I am a burnt child I asked when arriving and opted for slightly cheaper options of 20 Baht/chair. The rest was invested in food and drinks provided/sold by the chair operator ;-)

Former PM Prayut went bananas over AirBnB, declared it "prohibited by law" and now his successor is promoting the forbidden tourism alternative? Well, have we not seen the very same with Grab Taxi; some years back "legal" cabbies in i.e. Pattaya stopped Grab drivers, pulled passengers out of their cars and gave the Grab drivers a nice shake down - not to be forgotten by the latter.

Well, how interesting, that the Chairman of the Airport Authority of Thailand is a Police General - what a career. His uncle happens to be Dr Prasert Prasarttong-Osoth, who owns Bangkok Airways, Bangkok Air Catering, the airport of Koh Samui and the Bangkok hospital chains throughout Thailand. Maybe the Chairman, as a Police General, might have a word with the immigration to rid the system of the tremendous bureaucracy which seriously slows down the handling of travelers, results in long unnecessary queues and might be guided by immigration systems already in use in Malaysia or Singapore (latter for 20+ years already). Otherwise he will not go into history of propelling Swampy airport into the Global 50s league - for sure!

I am certainly not a fan of TG and have not flown with them in 20+ years for the main reason of unreliable, narrow seats and arrogant crew on ground and in the air. Having said that, TG met the expectations one might have when irregularity hits. They had a technical issue on HS-TKV (TG971) and needed a spare part from Bangkok to be flown in on their next service - 24 hours later on HS-TKU (TG970). Meanwhile all passengers were provided with meal vouchers, transport to/from hotels and boarded TG971D (HS-TKV) the next day. This can happen to any airline at any airport; so while the technical irregularity was not explained (yeah, I know, everyone is an airline mechanic and engineer) they lived up to expectations, kept the airframe on the ground and provided food and accommodation. And yes, this exercise has cost them a truckload of cash in Switzerland which is even much more in Thai Baht. Today's service from Bangkok to Zurich left 4+ hours late ........ TG = tomorrow go!

How lucky Dr T must be - the 30 Baht health insurance covered the 13? days stay so far as he has no access to an ATM machine and credit cards are possibly not ideal in a prison hospital run by the police ...........

TG flew to Brussels in the past - nothing new then ........

This has been in place for years already ...... seriously news from yesteryear

Never read bigger manure. If the semi-divine Thais in their semi-divine country with the above-the-lord hovering monks are sooo touchy and get insulted over sun bathing on a loan around the temple, then - for heaven's sake - put up sign boards in Polish, Mongolian and Rwandan about their sensitivity. Do you, honestly, think anyone would care if the same incident would have taken place on a piece of grass near a Christian church? All this under the assumption, that the dirty farang women were wearing some clothes as nude sun bathing would be exceeding a cultural borderline.

If I am not completely wrong, these Indian artists are copycats of what I've heard decades ago in the (officially non-existing) houses of ill repute called Gogo bars and open air bars with freelance staff in the very same country.

Thailand is soooooo blessed; having more Generals creeping around and playing so overly important that any other Asian country. The last time they counted they had more than one thousand of those clowns in uniform. The kids though can look forward to even more excitement for the next kiddies day; by then the submarines from China might have been rowed to the shallow shores of Thailand - at least now we know, why the admiralty of the Thai navy "preferred" submarines over any other seafaring vessel. What a hopeless joke this all is, at the tremendous expense of the ignorant tax payer who sheepishly is kept believing, that the armed forces of the Kingdom are doing anything useful - apart from wasting money by the billions, every year anew again ...... :-( So, please, do not ever mention "education" and Thai army in the same newspaper or book - thank you 8-)

Maybe Yingluck is not as sick as her brother and would have to share the cell with 80 other inmates over 40m2 of space with a hole in the middle of the cell. No Burberry boots allowed either :-(

Director-General of the Corrections Department, Sahakarn Petchnarin said that he has not met or visited Thaksin since he was sent from the Corrections Department’s hospital to the Police General Hospital on his first day back in Thailand. Makes me wonder, where Dr T really is - on medical leave of course ;-) Nobody ever saw, heard or met him over the last 4 ½ months ..... wishing him the quickest and best recovery so his followers can be reassured again 8-)

Here again, law enforcement would solve the problem. But, as long as Thailand's biggest processors of agricultural goods like sugar cane, corn and other crop for animal breeding can (and do) call the shots, the farmers have to follow suit to survive and be able to pay off the loan sharks. So, next time you eat cheap(er) meat, think of it; your lunch got fed on animal feed which left harvested fields behind. Subsequently those fields got burnt to get the new crop out to grow faster than just plowing and letting the crop hay there to rod.

It is called L A W E N F O R C E M E N T If someone comes up the wrong side of the road, confiscate the driving license, put a juicy official fine against receipt and that should teach them a lesson. In more "civilized" motor vehicle environments, this is not an issue ........ but Thailand has always done everything different to the rest of the world and, in most cases, got away with it !

Not kiddies shampoo in pink bottles, I clue ya!

Wondering if the sweetheart now gets skinned alive over the accusations against Aeroflot! And, as far as Chanel is concerned - provided it was genuine to start with - I cannot see anything sentimental as every HipHopVipHiSo girlie is swinging LVMH, Chanel and DC stuff around..... If I would have such bags (which I can afford but never felt inclined to buy) I certainly would not need to take them on a vacation to heavy wintered Russia. Show off gone wrong?

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