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My Friend (not Swedish) applied for residency having a Thai wife AND a child with the same wife, that was about 7 years ago.....

Thai nationality needs for you to have a permanent residency first for a period of time, again 200,000+ isnt it sweet how they have organized it all?

My Thai wife got a Swedish Citizenship and a Swedsih passport all for free just for staying in Sweden for three years or so, just admin fees and such.

I have stayed in Thailand for 16 years and must pay 200,000 Bath plus for just a residence thingie, sorry Im not going for that scam...

Never mind, nobody reads it anyhow. And dont forget the tea money that turns the wheels of Thai Government.

Funny that you still have to look for a card or something in a shop vaguely specified in the starting web page and then pay for the Wifi at the Swampy airport.....

I cant recall reading in the news about this particular accident in June? Usually when there are buses and foreigners involved there are news in all newspapers?

Although this kind of accidents are high profile (similar to air crashes - worlds safest mode of transportation) the majority of accidents in Thailand; more than 90% I think, are caused by and involves motorcycles.

Was just pointing out, Thai police has barely a salary to support themselves, so why become one?

and yes I know a few honest and hardworking cops where I live, they are usually relegated to traffic duty.

First thing one should ask, what is the reason for any1 becoming a cop in Thailand?

1. Too stupid to do something else.

2. I get to shoot people, which is always fun.

3. I don't get any salary, but can make a fortune from bribes and extortion, forget about policing.

I use Ice in my whiskey all the time, as far as I know the price is unchanged at about 6 Bath/bag?

The scene in the picture looks just like a scene out of CSI, very professional.

So let me see here, to sit in a internet cafe near patpong and watch porno online is illegal.

And then you go out the door, take a left turn into the nearest gogo bar, pick up 5 hookers (illegal in Thailand) and take them to your hotel room for an all night sex orgy. hmmmm???

why do all dictators that deserve to burn in hell a thousand times over always dress so horribly? is it a secret fashion pact?

was it James bond "spectre" that inspired them (kadaffi, Castro, Kim, Adinejad) or did they inspire the spectre fashion?

Well his son looks just as stupid as his father, so probably the son will take over the leading light for the worlds fashion industry.

I thought all US prisoners was sent to Libya nowadays?

I will immediately request the foreign minister in my country deliver a passport to me in person, this is obviously the international norm now.

All flights that I know of for any airline always have a gay chief flight attendant for some reason.

For the trannies I dont have anything against them, just dont bother me with sexual approaches.

Im gonna sit on the beach and get drunk and look at all the illegal fireworks on the beach.

Last year some farang a few hundred meters away from where I was sitting had one of those New Year bombs blow up in his face and tore half the face away.

Self-inflicted terrorism?

Uhm what is the Parliament and Senate for? do they even have a function in the government?

does any1 live around Swampy? How does it look over there? likely to flood the airport or not? Have friends coming in over the weekend.

I wish people would stop talking about how the dams was full before rainy season. A quick look at Irrigation dept. web site will show that almost all dams in Thailand was close to its low level mark (as it has been every year) before rainy season started. Water is alway released as per policy and management plan every year so that the damns will be full at end of rainy season.

One would think that Thailand should have the world most expertise in flood management? I mean few other countries are flooded so frequently as Thailand? And not only recently but for 100 and 100 of years?

SOE is used to enable the Military to take part in domestic disaster management and rescue operations. Example Katrina in the USA, they had to declare SOE otherwise the military would be constitutionally unable to involve in domestic operation in peace time.

Now in Thailand on the other hand, where the military apparently can operate domestically without any sort of SOE in force, a declaration of SOE will hardly have any effect on the situation.

Has any1 in TV gone the full way up to court with a supposed traffic rule violation?

My suspicion is that even if you did violate the traffic rule, the evidence by BIB is gathered in such a way it will not stand up in court.

Of course going to court is a ridiculous suggestion because of the costs and time involved (years upon years and 100,000 Bath later in court fees you are finally in court).

I have been stopped and paid the usual "passage" fee many times, but one time just to see what happens I just sat in my car and refused to acknowledge any wrongdoing (I actually did speed quiet significantly). The officer got more and more agitated and I asked him "show me your evidence" upon which he presented a notebook with some very difficult to read license plate number and pointed to my number, with a time note and speed indication of 140 km/h. I said "thats not right, you must have made a mistake?" . At that point he started to have a long agitated monolog with himself in which the word "farang" appeared repeatedly. I said "OK! OK! I did it!". The officer looked at me and asked "you admit?" "yes" OK he said you can go and waved me off"

Who said the BIB don't have any humor !.

Anyway the point is, the kind of evidence presented would not stand up in any court I think?

I wonder how many tourists know anything about the corruption, scams and thugs?

Of all the millions of tourists arriving to Thailand, I think very few actually follow any news at all, let alone local news. And when they hire a tuck tuck in Phuket for 100 - 500 bath to drive 500 m they maybe don't see it as a scam, because they don't know its a scam.

My sister and her family comes here regularly and they are just here to rest and enjoy the sunshine and beaches. They never rent jet skies, stays mostly at the hotel with the hotel beach and only goes out in the evening for some strolling around and dinner. I think this goes for most tourists arriving in Thailand.

Politics is never black and white. Especially in Thailand.

In the offices and ministries are people who are against Shin family and people who are with. And then there are the usual turncoats who just follow whoever gives them the best advantages from their viewpoint.

Just because the government itself happens to be Democrat, there are a large number of civil servants and other involved in governing and its a continuous struggle lobbying and backstabbing on a daily basis. That is what has been going on behind the curtains leading up to this announcement, I think.