Absingjul

"Do you know WHY most Thais wouldn't bother to stop and help regardless of any accidents sometimes? They ARE afraid that things will get turned around and they are the one who will get the blame who caused the accident."

This is the stupidest thing I have ever read on Thai Visa.

I've been told the same thing by Thais I work with: "do not stop or you will be expected to pay".

Why is it always so damned difficult to get any facts?

What is the excise tax here based on? alcohol content? volume? per bottle?

Without this info, it is impossible tell what is a rip off and what is not.

Someone suggested (I suspect incorrectly) that VAT is increased on beer from 7% to 9%. That would be an increase in price of about 1%.

Has any body got any facts at all?

http://www.pattayadailynews.com/shownews.p...NEWS=0000009160

"excise taxes for beer will rise to Bt60 per litre from Bt55, white liquor to Bt120 per litre from Bt110 and blended liquor to Bt300 a litre from Bt280."

So I make 200,000 baht a month (I actually make more than that but I pay taxes to the US). Do I want to pay ATM fees on a lot of withdrawals? Or a big wire transfer fee?

Neither.

Option 1: Use Schwab Checking for ATM, all fees reimbursed.

Option 2: Route transfer through Bangkok Bank, New York. Fees only few hundred ฿.

In addition, what kind of "interesting people" could be met there? Who of any interest to anyone (except to homecountry's tax office and not even that in all cases) has settled in Bangkok? Stickman? The "authors" and gogo bar owners he "interviews"?

Joseph Maier, Jack Shirley, Trink .

SF got more boring every year I was there. Most of the interesting places in Tendernob have been shut down or converted into Yuppie/Guido haunts.

This is currently the 3rd most read story on cnn.com

http://www.cnn.com/mostpopular/

I think the bribes were mostly for cabs that wanted to queue upstairs at departure gate, not so much at the real queue.

Good lesson. Now go buy a carbon copy receipt book for 100. Problem solved.

Did the workers ever get their back pay?

Search google for the stickman page on teaching in bkk. It is about 100 pages long now.

I did not see any mention about age gaps in Absingjul post....

Similar age 28/25. Both conservatively dressed, no touching/hand holding.

Learned to brush off these comments long ago.

This is not isolated to KSR or idiot backpackers. I've heard similar comments from Thais when walking with GF in Paragon.

Hey Penkoprod....$700 RT is a great price...did you fly to the East Coast? My travel agent just quoted me 45K baht for RT to East Coast via EVA. Can you PM me your travel agent's contact details ?? I need 3 tickets. Thx.

You should check all of the consolidator sites. I flew RT JFK-BKK(via NRT) with JAL earlier this year for US$760.

Not the first time I've heard of a jpn in bkk getting robbed of 1MM+ cash. That guy last year had over 3MM.

Video just posted by Jill's brother:

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-254369

For that price you can stay in a 4* hotel.

Check the rates at latestays, asiatravel, ratestogo, etc.

Regular people don't seem too worried. FEIE (exemption) is already over 3MM baht pa. Deductions can get it over 5MM pa pretty easily.

Up to school. Some require 30+ hours. Others require no attendance, just special 'fees'

Best talk to headmaster.

Have to send in a status report.....basically you are alive report....every year. If you don't they stop your payments and it can take months before you are getting regular payments again.....

Beachbunny

Do they have any method to actually authenticate who is filling out this report? Could a Thai wife continue submitting these after her American husband is run over by a buffalo?

A Russian who claimed he was a former cosmonaut who never got to go into space because he was sent to a gulag after insulting Brezhnev at a state dinner. He was also former kgb.

Avistaz have opened registration. Get in there quick if you're interested, it's been closed for months and they don't have an invite system.

Good site.

Usually 2-3 Thai movies per month with English subs.

Up 4% since this thread was started.

For the most accurate assessment I would read writings from the era. A few people tend to have selective memories

Nation Review was around then (seen these on microfiche 10+ years ago), and Dean Barrett wrote a book or two around that time.

If this is your first business endeavor in LoS I suggest you go have a nice chat with John Gray before making any investment 55555

Tell her that your family Bison is sick and you need her to give you 10k baht to hire a vet.

I was thinking about working in BKK too, but I don't know. I am a young IT guy (.NET/SAP ABAP Programming mostly...have prof experience...maybe someone has something? :-) pm me). I was looking at jobs.thaivisa a bit but seems sparse so I don't think I have a realistic chance? Maybe there are better sites? I don't know. I could use the money but don't absolutely need it.

If you expect a western salary your best bet is to go through the company's main job portal. Plenty of tech firms are in BKK: IBM, EDS, HP, GE, etc. If they are offering a local salary they will usually mention Thai fluency as a qualification.

Just be aware that most companies will try to avoid hiring young western males who have not lived in the region very long. The turnover is just too high due to various... distractions