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"But now at least 30 million baht inbound funds is required for an investor’s visa."

A quick call to the Bangkok immigration office and we had the reply that 10 million is needed for an investment visa.

Someone like Drew, with his close relationship with Pattaya Immigration and also running a Law and Visa firm, might want to check the facts before writing such a letter... One even might go as far and say he should know this without checking the facts before writing the letter...

There used to be a website called Bumrungrad Death (which someone else has taken over and all old information is gone) about a father who lost his son in Bumrungrad and how they had altered records in the hospital after his sons death... It was on the news in both Bangkok and in the US but I don't think anything ever came out of it.. Basically he accused the hospital for killing his son and he had 2-3 other doctors examine the body who all agreed that Bumrungrad's "explanations" didn't add up..

Anyway, my son just came home after staying 3 nights at Bumrungrad.

Cost for the room alone was more than medicine and doctors' fees..

Price for a room is higher than most 5-star hotels in Bangkok.

Not long before international insurance companies will exclude Thailand from their list of countries where they provide cover (like many now do with HK, Singapore, Japan, Macau, Taiwan, China) unless you pay a higher premium..

Could be flights returning from aborted landings at the airports that are closed in the south. (Samui, Surat and Nakhon closed since Sunday night/Monday morning.)

Just a thought.

Samui is now open and so maybey you will see less of them.

Thanks

However one would think that they knew before taking off, if that they can land at the airport of Samui or not...

I guess next couple of days will show if it's continuing or not..

Now I understand how the people living around Suvarnambhumi airport feels..

Pretty annoying!

Anyone knows why there are planes flying over Sukhumvit every 10 minutes since the last couple of days?

Have never seen this many planes in the area.. Flying at only 1000m over the city they sure make a lot of noise..

Why is it always the Aussies and Brit who come to center stage here in Thailand for being just plain stupid.

No answer needed...

You can talk to your bank and open a non-resident bank account in Thailand.

Have the bank reissue a document for you which can be used to buy a condo in Thailand for money earned in Thailand.

You need a workpermit to do this and show your salaryslips.

Instead of calling friends and lawyers, call the landoffice direct!

Lot of lawyers who don't know what they are saying...

Doesn't Mr T look sick and thin?

Can't be easy living in luxury hotels around the world for such a long time..

http://www.thailandoutlook.tv/toc/viewImage.aspx?ID=1052238

Examples of the behaviors are …

Not holding doors open.

Has anyone seen someone drop the door in the face of their mother or grandmother??

They care about some but not others.. which is of course understandable..

The manners is there, it just depends on who is walking behind them..

In my country we have a about 7 parties fighting for a place in government. There is one very small party that always is in between the 2 big blocks and every election they will go with the side that gives them what they want.. Sure people are complaining, but there are no new elections because of that... People know they have to wait for another 4 years and vote for their "side" instead to make sure...

I know people who were paid to vote for the Dems.

We ALL do!

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Richard Barrow on ThailandQA reckons numbers will reach 500,000 by evening. He's following the Samutprakan reds who are marching in.

That is more than the original Million Man March in Washington DC got, but nobody nitpicks about that.

Maybe you should start a separate thread for it... doesn't belong in this one...

Making their voices heard? THEY ARE BEING PAID TO PROTEST!!!!!

the people i know who have gone have closed their business's to go and show their support, they are losing money to do it. i am sure i do not need to use the caps button to get my message over.

And so is everyone else who does not want to have any part of it..

personally I hope they succeed and an election is called, let the winners run the country at the request of the people.

Do you support a bought election? vote buying? Misinformation? Non secret ballots?

Just asking..

there is no other kind in the world, name me a country where this does not happen, Rule out States and most of Europe straight away.maybe we should put our own house in order before we start telling others what they should and should not accept when it comes to democracy.

Mm that is why they denied the UN to come and oversee the last election.

I wasnot talking about thaksin or the future, I was talking about now and making an arrest in this situation.

If you read my first line I was replying to this.

This exact question is on the thai news now...

WHY is the police not taking him and why can the red dictate the terms..

If you do something wrong why are you being able to tell them when you are coming in?

Carib, instead of the condescending remarks, answer the question. Are you advocating mob rule?

No of course I am not, that is why the mob shouldn't be triggered.

Now if you don't understand that in the light of some 100.000 people in the streets trying to get attention for what they want ( right or wrong, I don't care), an arrest can have grave consequences for all, involved or not, than you can have your law, but certainly have no feel for the moment to apply it.

Sorry about the boy part.

So wait until the government has been overthrown, the laws changed and he won't be prosecuted... GREAT!

That is what the reds are hoping for Thaksin... Get the reds in, change the laws and Thaksin can come back and get his money back and rule this country again..

personally I hope they succeed and an election is called, let the winners run the country at the request of the people.

Do you support a bought election? vote buying? Misinformation? Non secret ballots?

Just asking..

The law and justice in Thailand is for those with money. No money = no justice

Go to a policestation, file a report and ask them to take action... unless they get an envelope they won't do anything..

I've seen accidents in the middle of an intersection where policemen are sitting in their AC booth not bothering to come out.

In many countries you would be charged for not doing your duty as a police.

here you are yourself actively participating and desperately defending the reds every step of the way.

Pointing out lies, half truths and silly exagerations is far from defending anyone. Why is it that anyone who doesn't buy your paranoid fantasies gets labeled a "Red"?

Maybe it's your red avatar...

Some posters sure get close to hatred for poor people, calling them uneducated, or (far) worse. Even without profanity, the underlying sentiment is that they're not worthy of voicing their opinion, are bought and stupid. They can deny this all they want but the key thing is that the rural poor themselves perceive it that way.

It would be really nice if everyone could muster some respect. Solutions to bridge divides happen when respect for other viewpoints is shown.

That's just ridiculous... no one hates the poor people.

But wouldn't it be nice if the "poor" people would be able to hear both sides to the story (reds and democrats) so that they can make an informed descision at the polls... instead of being just handed 20thb. Do you think they know the real difference between the different parties? But it's impossible when the other rival party is chased out of town when they want to speak..

On a side note, it seems some "poor" people think that Abhisit has cancelled the 20thb healthcare system... where does this come from unless it's red propaganda...

The rural people will only be allowed to hear what the reds want them to hear and that is not democracy.

As long as there is no violence it is OK!, hope this is 1,000 Baht a day, if somebody parts with cash and others use it for something else it is business. They want to buy their protests that is ok, you pay me I go to protest for you!. I would be worried if they were protesting for free. Bought protests are expensive but cheap. What a big deal, if you pay everybody 5,000 a day you can probably get 20 mil people to protest for you.

Ok guys, just remember no violence and no destroying of property, burning and so on. If you do shame on you and your families. Be a nice protester. We all see you and appreciate your effort of coming to bkk.

Thailand needs business so remember that if you cannot find a job in the future it might be partly a result of your actions. Peace is good for business and riots, violence etc. is bad, basic school of money.

My view entirely!

Rubbish. For the past few weeks we've been swamped with posts telling us just how many people would protest because they wanted to support the reds, and the sheer weight of numbers will be proof of just how many people share their view. Sorry guys, buying a mob and using it as proof of them supporting your policies doesn't really cut it. And the really funny thing? Some of the very same posters who were vehemently denying that the reds paid money are on this post now trying to justify it. Seems some poster's allegances can be bought just as easy as a red shirted protestors. And, as Thaksins little jaunt to Cambodia has put paid to the lie that it's not all about him, and the video showing the "peaceful" protestors can't even make it to Bangkok before attacking someone, it looks like any legs you had to stand on are well and truly broken.

Thank you!!

There's a land tax that you have to pay.

Can't remember the rate except that it was reduced to 0.1% for a period.

if you are a farang and have owned your condo less than 5 years you will pay an extra percentage, i cant remember what it is

If you sell it before end of March the taxes are next to nothing due to the tax rebate from government.

You can look on most brokers websites and find the tax rates.

I wouldn't keep my hopes up getting any money back from the Tax authorities.. Our company are owed VAT from exports since 4 years and still haven't received it back.

After 3 times to the police station and getting no response we went to see the superintendent on the second floor.

Took us 15 minutes with him and the report were being written, and they police man who has seen us 3 times got the evil eye from his boss...

It says on a big blue sign (in thai) that if you're not happy with the response from the police you should go see the boss upstairs, which we did, and which apparently was the right move.

Just good to know if someone has a problem filing a report or dealing with a lazy police like we did... go see the superintendent...

Nobody has a clue?

I called them today and they said these packages are only for blackberry+ the desired application.

I don't know if they will block other traffic or not..

If you want unlimited for Balckberry it will cost 650thb/month.

If you want unlimited for any other phone it will cost 990thb/month.

I don't see why unlimited GPRS with a samsung would be different from unlimited GPRS with a blackberry...

Not sure they can check the traffic or not? Internet traffic would be the same on any phone, but don't know if blackberry has any other data that could be tracked and so if you use the "blackberry gprs" on another phone they will shut down the service??