BeauKarl

This is typical TV fashion ust put the guy down to hel_l and call him all the names under the sun..

I for one dont like to see the drug dealers get life it just aint right, life should be saved for the pedos, rapist and murderers not some poor mule who was probably gonna get a few g for his cut..

good luck mate, and i mean that

Are dealers not murderers then? No dealers, no drugs, no overdoses

I wonder if he was thinking about parents who have daughters on heroine before he got caught

High end??? I've yet to see something high end build in Thailand, or are cracked walls part of the plan?

Which projects you've seen already?

To many in the last few years, expensive ones and cheaper ones.

Been in condos, villas,... from new to a few years old and they all show bad workmanship,...

The only ones I've seen as 'high end' is where the owners have refurbished or rebuilt parts, while keeping a close eye on every detail, straight walls, straight teiling, decent electric, water pressure...

Maybe some people have a different opinion of 'high end', being able to listen to your neighbours in a condo isn't high end to me

why some of you are saying those women have no other choice?

it was their choice to start banging every thai guy in the village ffrom age 14 and getting pregnant 5 times before 18

Thai tv has lots of advertisement about condoms and HIV same goes for billboards.

also with an iq over 50 you would realize your parent's mistake and not do the same thing?

Is there Thai tv in the UK then, or are you actually talking about Thailand

Not that much - just average price in high-end condos in Pattaya

High end??? I've yet to see something high end build in Thailand, or are cracked walls part of the plan?

There's one on Sukhumvit not far from Mc Donald, same side.

Don't know if they're any good though

You can't change a brothel into a 5 star restaurant, without changing it's managers, staff, interiour and customers. And even if you tried, the name will always stay.

They are trying to promote Pattaya as something it is not.

It's a 'single' guys playground and they should keep it like that.

If you want luxury family holidays, stay away from Pattaya. or even Thailand. There's far nicer and cleaner places around.

As for infrastructure everything is done by poor unskilled workers, so unless Thai people are willing to accept that there are better ways to do someting it will always stay like that.

I think Pattaya has spread loads in the past few years, so the guys are more spread out aswell, looking like it's less packed.

What I don't see at the moment is many tourbusses (not that I miss them) and that will hit loads of Thai people, living of them.

Behind our house there's a few elifant villages and even they are strolling around on the streets looking for food and money to feed them. Something I've not seen in the past 2 year.

. Bottom line is they want farangs out.

Everyone is entitled to their view and they are welcome to it.

But for the life of me I cannot understand why anyone would choose to live anywhere they thought they were not welcome and not wanted. I would not.

This is not a "If you do not like it , go home" post.

I just do not understand why anyone would want to live in a place where they feel that no one wants them.

You are right about that, but for people like me with a Thai family it ain't easy, to just pack your bags and leave. We have a home and some land here aswell.

A WP is one option, and my biggest problem is boredom, but some work is just impossible to do, at least in my case, I opened a ltd co 2 years ago that was just not doable due to the taxes that are way higher.

My wife could open a busniness, but can't employ me,....

So Thailand-Tom is wrong aswell then about Cambodia?

One of the participants advised us to read an article in a British weekly. I did, and if this article is correct and if I understood this article correct, there is much bigger power struggle going on behind the scenes than we know and realise. But like the same member mentioned we can not discus it. And that's a shame.

My other half said the same, just like all her family and many in her region, ordinary working families, farmers, ... most of them think the same.

As far as I am aware, your wife can visit all ASEAN countries with the exception of Myanmar without a visa.

All ASEAN countries with the exception of Myanmar and Cambodia

Wiki sais they can to Cambodia, but mfa.go.th sais only with diplomatic or official passport

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What do they mean with official passport?

They should also employ decent western consultants to look at the positive impact of foreign small business people here who have to bend the rules or avoid them because the costs are fairly flat and not pro rata to the profitability of the business. For example, a small bar could provide a moderate lifestyle for a guy. His Thai partner would have a job and he perhaps directly employs 10 people. Those 10 people perhaps directly support another 2 or 3 each and with money going round the economy through their spending, that one guy could indirectly put food on the table for perhaps 50 people. He cannot get a WP but is not taking a job from a Thai. He also has to spend lots of money to fly around and get visas. Surely it makes more sense for the government to give him an annual visa, report every 90 days and tax him moderately on his income. In my mind, everyone there comes out a winner. Piss him off and he leaves for Cambodia or Vietnam. Then 50 people go hungry. Utter madness.

WORD

I m glad the Thai authorities continue the amazing Thailand promotion 2008 started so successfully by the PAD building on Mr. Taksin's unique talents. Well done ! It is not unexpected and as a so much disgusted longtime tourist I had taken action long time before. I feel vindicated.

1.) I got a longterm residence visa. Of course, NOT in Thailand, much cheaper elsewhere and better terms anyhow. Plus clean beaches, cheap sea food, the rest I leave for your imagination....

2.) I pulled out all the money from the bank. The memorable expression on the faces of bankers will stay for me for a long time. Make more money from those assets now, by the way.

3.) I did not buy that condo in Thailand. Rent in other parts of the area is so cheap, near/at the beach of course (near in meters not minutes by car). Anyhow, who wants to risk his money in Thailand when I get for it interest elsewhere? Pattaya is anyhow going down. Traffic and polution like in BKK... The water, well, take a piss at best...

And where might that be if I can ask?

I just didn't wanna use up my 2 month visa to go through airport and check in again, makes it useless to get one then.

Never mind, the new rules have solved the question.

Let me guess, he'll be able to recognise you by your shaved head, tattoos and Singha T-shirt?

Not everybody who talks crap has a shaved head and tattoos just as not everybody who has a shaved head and tattoos talks crap, you should watch what you say

I think a lot of the expences depend on the exchange rate, to many people convert the prices into their own currency.

I have my business in Europe and most of our clients are British, at the moment all the Brits complain that everything is expensive, but the prices are still the same as before.

My income is mainly in Euros and at the moment everything seems to be very expensive especially if you're building A few months ago the exchange rate was in my favour.

The one thing thnat I do notice that everytime I go out of the house in Thailand, I seem to come back with a shopping bag, while back home I don't have that cos I'm always working, that's why staying in Thailand is more expensive for me.

"I have a flight from the UK to BKK in Januari, will get a visa from embassy, but my 90 days in 180 have been used."

If you have a visa it shouldn't matter how many visa exempt days you have, even if they haven't done away with that particular rule.

Please read my initial post, I will have to got through security to get my luggage, meaning I have to exit the airport and with the old rules it woulda been risky.

A temporary closure of the Airports will do nothing to deter many so called tourists.

The threat of bar closures would have much more impact.

Ain't that the truth

Me, the Mrs and little one will carry on going to Thailand to visit the wifes parents, no matter how difficult to travel. But if they closed the bars, she can go alone and i'll go to Benidorm

Bring the wife, at least my wife won't be alone when she comes to visit me while I'm taking care of my business

I am a Thaskin fan, I admit it. I like his spirit to keep fighting when I am sure he was offered the "retirement" deal.

What a joke!

Most politicians are have the age to retire, why do they keep doing it, not because they care about their people or country but for money and power

Talking about looking for trouble

Many years ago, anyone without a visa was given only 14 days stay in Thailand.

Now they have just reverted to this old system so the solution is to get a visa as it will work out much cheaper in the long run, as the cost of border runs soon mounts up.

And if they're doing it to get more money from visas... the fees will soon go up aswell I guess

Oceano, you're contradicting yourself or you need a new translation program, because none of what you say makes sence.

Pojaman arrives

Khunying Pojaman Shinawatra, ex-wife of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, and her daugther, Pintongta, arrived at the Suvarnabhumi International airport at 10:30 pm Friday.

They arrived on Thai Airways International's Flight TG607 from Hong Kong.

Immigration officials checked their documents onboard the plane and they immediately left on a car after the document clearance.

Several former Thai Rak Thai executives waited foroutside the passenger terminal but did not meet her.

Somkram Kijlertpairoj, former deputy commerce minister, said he did not meetbecause a car picked her up at the plane and sent her to her house.

The nation

She'll get "arrested", appeal her sentence and apply for bail, which will be granted in exchange for passports.

BUT, it might all be just a rumor, arriving at 10 PM is a "straight to jail until Monday morning" option, and if the police doesn't do that - it's time to take over the airport again.

I saw her arriving on the TV and she was certainly not being arrested. Please don't joke about taking over the airport again as it's just not funny.

cheers, Rick

It might not be funny, but then how can you explain that a convicted criminal is allowed to swan into the country without being arrested?

Don't bet on the fact that the reds are going to be back at the airport.

Don't you mean yellow?

Never mind what others think, why would you?

Those who judge others are mostly those who should look at themselves.

Jalousy is a big part of judging people.