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They will have to lower the cost of buying a doctorate.

There is a fat little guy who makes the best moo-ping on the corner of Soi Convent and Silom. BUT he does not get there until late - something like 10.30 or 11 PM. It is fantastic, fresh, perfectly b.b.q.ed, and served with a delicious sauce which is a bit hot but not too hot.

I reckon this is just a smart way of disguising an advertisement.

If they refuse the visa in Romania and then you go to another country to apply one of the questions you might be asked is "have you ever been refused a visa?" Just something to think about.

Don't you know how journalism works? The writers get so many free meals, hotel rooms, expenses paid to write good stuff. And since it is Bangkok they are writing about the are probably getting heaps under the table for pushing Bangkok up there.

I think Pyongyang is number 2.

Seriously, I love Bangkok - the food, the nightlife, the shopping [not very cheap anymore]. the atmosphere and so many interesting things to do and see. BUT it is by no means the best city. The pollution, the traffic jams, the rubbish and filth everywhere, the price of entry to some places 10 times that for the locals, the corruption at every level quickly cancels out the good bits.

If we can introduce some beer drinking or sex into this topic we might be able to get a bit more feedback.

I come from a small town in central Victoria in Australia. If I go for a short drive around our town during the day I will see literally hundreds or even thousands of birds of many species - magpies, 3 or 4 species of parrots, cockatoos, wild ducks, kookaburras and so on. I might see a few kangaroos and the occasional echidna. At night on the same drive I will see dozens of kangaroos, wallabies, 2 or 3 species of possum, rabbits and an occasional fox[although the last two are feral and not welcome] and owl or two will swoop into my headlight beams.

Alas, I spend a lot of time in the province of Nan and in the mountains and jungle there. Night or day I almost never see a wild animal and I can see more bird life in bangkok than Nan. I know the locals some being hill-tribes, and they eat everything. I saw them carrying home an Asian black bear one day. They were going to eat it. They had captured live 3 of its cubs and they told me they will raise them to eat too.

From my experience, the wildlife of Thailand will continue to diminish until the people are educated about the problem and perhaps too, that they are lifted out of their poverty which necessitates their consumption of their wildlife.

I was visiting Thai friends one day. There was a knock on the door and a guy came in and looked at me and said "Who is the old farang - is he rich?" I replied "Be careful, the old farang can speak Thai." He slapped his hand over his mouth in shock but no apology was forthcoming. Nor did the other Thais in the room reprimand him. I am not so friendly with that group anymore.

A couple of weeks ago the Australian Broadcasting Commission Television [ABC] reported that the Thai navy captures and sells Rohingas into slavery. It was a very credible news presentation with footage and interviews with Rohingas who had escaped the captivity.

Last week the Australian Broadcasting Commission [ABC] reported that the Thai navy captures and sells Rohingas into slavery. It was a very credible news presentation with footage and interviews with Rohingas who had escaped the captivity.

"Booze, Broads and Bargains" - doesn't anybody have anything intelligent to say?

Well, the salary (commissions) would be very good and growing over time with repeat customers.

Our market is predominantly Thai, so for this reason only a Thai person would be more suitable than a foreigner, work permit issues being the ultimate deal breaker.

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What area are you in? I know a 33 year old Thai guy , has a business English degree, looks very presentable and is looking for work. Also what salary do you pay?

I had retribution. one day a few months later I saw the guy in a shopping centre. I acted like nothing was wrong, smiled at him and said hello. He stopped and chatted and I saw that he had a phone in his hand. I remarked how nice it was and asked to look at it. Silly fool handed it to me and I slipped it into my pocket and told him he could have it back when I got my 18 K back. Of course no money was forthcoming. HOWEVER I called all the numbers in his phonebook and told them he was a thief. That included all his family. Just for a bit of fun I added that he was also a male prostitute.

I got robbed of 18,000 baht by a person I thought was a friend. I went to the police station in Suan Plu and reported it. I had the thief's phone number, address, photograph, work address, bank account number and his name of course.......... Nothing happened - no arrest. So I called another friend whose wife's brother was a big cop. Suddenly I got a call from Suan Plu station to come and give the evidence again. They had lost it [read "thrown it away"]. So I went back there to the station and repeated everything and this time I was photographed pointing at a picture of the thief. The police there did not know that I can speak Thai and were saying really horrible things about me and laughing about it. I just kept quiet - I was afraid something nasty might happen to me. In the end no arrest again. Not even being close to the sister of a big cop could help me. So be warned - Thai police will never act against a Thai in favour of a farang - it won't happen.

1st, sorry you lost 18k, that is a lot of money and I would be pissed off if someone did that to me.

I don't think you can blame the cops here. You did not explain the whole back story, but I can think of 10 different ways why the police CANNOT and SHOULD NOT act on your behalf. Ok so you claim someone stole 18k from you. Was it an armed robbery? Did you offer a loan or agree to give that amount? If you loaned them money, then it is a civil case and not criminal. Did you leave 18K in your house and it disappeared? So you say a guy stole your money, the police go arrest the man, he says he didn't take anything. Now its 1 man's word against another man's word. Do you think it is right to jail someone based on circumstantial evidence? Again, I am not sure about the details, but in the west or many other places, the police would have done the same thing. Did you have the money marked, so it can be traced to you?

If you did indeed have a close connection to a top cop as you claim, I would not have tried to call in a favor over 18k. You got to save that as an ace in the hole. Now you burned it on a petty case. Anyways if you expect any help in the future you better go buy something nice for that cop 'friend' you have.

Well I did not want to write a book just to tell the story. The guy was caught on closed circuit video. The police never even attended the scene or interviewed the apartment manager who had the video. They didn't interview the security guard who saw the guy enter and who did not stop him. They did not interview the motorcycle taxi driver who took him home form my place, who by the way is permanently stationed outside my apartment. I had to take the video to them myself. They kept me waiting for 2 hours at the police station on the first occasion and on the second occasion they told a really crazy and dirty old lady who had wandered in, to sit next to me and they told her to talk to me, which she did babbling her madness at me while the police, who did not know that I can speak Thai and therefore knew what they had done, laughed their heads off at the spectacle.

I am a partner in a resort in the north of Thailand. One night 12 police came in after hours and demanded food and alcohol. We were already closed and most staff had gone home. However they demanded to be served and told us they would burn down the resort if we did not. Of those 12 police not one of them was honest enough to just say "come on guys. lets go". Instead they broke the law by threatening us, and by demanding alcohol after hours. They were all in uniform.

There are many other examples of the police corruption and law breaking that I can give you. But I guess it would be pointless because you will probably find more excuses for them.

I got robbed of 18,000 baht by a person I thought was a friend. I went to the police station in Suan Plu and reported it. I had the thief's phone number, address, photograph, work address, bank account number and his name of course.......... Nothing happened - no arrest. So I called another friend whose wife's brother was a big cop. Suddenly I got a call from Suan Plu station to come and give the evidence again. They had lost it [read "thrown it away"]. So I went back there to the station and repeated everything and this time I was photographed pointing at a picture of the thief. The police there did not know that I can speak Thai and were saying really horrible things about me and laughing about it. I just kept quiet - I was afraid something nasty might happen to me. In the end no arrest again. Not even being close to the sister of a big cop could help me. So be warned - Thai police will never act against a Thai in favour of a farang - it won't happen.

Ok how the heck do you take a picture of bad breath ???

I hope that was said tongue in cheek.

There are more Illegal businesses than illegal workers, First close near all the boy/girl bars, tip of the iceberg--for prostitution is illegal for starters. Who comes out with these statements-- walking street was mentioned, european go go girls, selling themselves, enough said, boring all this illegal rubbish, Most things here are illegal -or are run on similar lines.

Gogos are not illegal and prostitution does not take place in gogo bars.

Prostitution takes place everywhere in Thailand

Wow - a whole 2% reduction.

I have to stop typing now. I am laughing too much to continue.

Up country near Utradit one time a bus full of passengers passed me going up a hill and continued on the wrong side of the road passing an unbroken line of traffic. Suddenly a 10 wheel truck with trailer came the opposite way and the bus could not get back into our line of traffic. Both vehicles skidded to a stop and as I drove past them the truck driver and the bus driver were looking face to face at each other through their windscreens only 1/2 a metre apart. It was a very near thing to a major catastrophe. Sometimes I think it is the government's way of controlling population growth, not to demand the police prevent this sort of driving. I drive north to Nan quite often and see similar things every trip.

I have been told that Thailand only records deaths from road accidents that occur on the day. Apparently those that die from injuries in the days following are not included in the statistics. If that is the case then the road toll should be much higher. Does anyone know if this is in fact true???

A big loss to the world.