mickmac

Please enlighten me as to what is the difference between having a tourist visa in your passport as to getting one on arrival? If you only have a one way ticket, or no forwarding ticket surely that is the problem area. The only time having a visa would help you out is when it is of the non-tourist type. If that is the case then please make it clear.

I am sure there are quite a number of people similar to myself who find it hard to get longer stay visa's organised. I work at sea and find it very difficult to get the correct visa organised,( though will possibly get married to my Thai lady next year so a quick nip across to Malayasia and sort out a non-imm O visa should resolve the issue), mainly due ot the fact that you have to give your passport over to the captain on arrival on the vessel.

monsieurhappy Posted 2005-03-17 10:00:25

  QUOTE(booma @ 2005-03-17 02:03:03)

The BBC has just broadcast an item saying 'Scientists researching the earthquake that caused the Asian Tsunami, have reported that there is a high chance of another quake'

This was just popped in at the end of the bulletin.

I'll try and find the link!

These "Scientists" are from an "Irish" university so think what you will!! 

I think they got it right!!!

I'm afraid she is just guilt tripping you. Personally I would not give in. My son got into quite a bit of debt, all his own doing, at a very young age, 19 yrs old. He asked me to pay it off, but I refused. It was not that I could not afford to do it, it was that if I had done so he would not appreciate the value of money. He finishes paying it off next month.

Your daughter is just using you, the more you give the more she will want. Just make her aware that you will be there for her if her world falls apart, and that there will be an air ticket out for her if/when she decides to leave Thailand, but that the free hand outs are over. She appears to want to make her own decisions, which at 28 she should be doing anyway, so she should be able to stand by them rather than depend on you.

How much money is the boyfriend giving to her, or are you and your husband expected to provide for him as well through subsidising your daughter?

Other worldwide airports don't care at all.

Just as a brief update to this comment. I was departing Perth W.Aus. on 30th December last year, and had to produce an on-going ticket to prove that I would be leaving the country. They are taking it seriously down under. This was at the Quantas check in desk.

Could it possibly have something to do with "the Dark Side" of things, Alaister Crowley et al ?

(And still waiting for the GUILTY verdict.)

Unfortunately RDN I think, along with several others, that this will be a very long wait indeed, if it arrives at all.

Personally, I think he will walk away from it. It looks as if he has too many "friends" in all the right places.

As to him having an unfortuante accident, ie, lead poisioning, where lead is travelling at a very high velocity, this may also be discounted, again due to his connections, this time on the other side of the law.

I don't feel that the judicary involved will give a rats a** about any tourist implications, after all parts of Thailand has already been devistated by the Tsunami and the affect this has had on the tourist industry is much more than any verdict the judges will bring in. This guy going free will only make a small ripple in that pond. People will start coming back in a year or two after all has been cleaned up, they will remember the Tsunami but not the Police Sargent that kills.

Hey "Moonface", where are your high rollers now?

"Mr Thaksin told the meeting obsolete laws had held the country back for too long. Straightening these laws out would thus be tantamount to empowering the people, he said". Empowering the people, or just one specific person?

Hey Khun Larry,

What to fat girls and mopeds have in common?

Ther are both great fun to ride, but don't let your mates catch you on one!!!!!!

(I know, its an old one but it still makes me chuckle)

Memo from the beloved leader

Dear Pol. Gen. Chalermdej Jombunud, " Please check all companies with the exception of The Shin Corp. If you want to know anything about the company, asks the largest share holders, my maid and the chauffeur, I have nothing to hide, but do it quick before the details of the Australian Free Trade agreement become known"

Cheers

TS.

Hi Horse, just a word to the wise. I have been living in Ireland for some 5-6 years prior to moving to Thailand 18 months ago. In that time I have travelled through a small airport in the West of Ireland, Knock, and Dublin. I have noticed the increase in immigration control over the years. Whereas you used to be able to get off the Birmingham or Luton flight to Knock and saunter through to pick up your bags and be on your way, without any problems. Nowadays, I flew into Knock in January of this year, everyone is made to show their passport. So if I was you I would not bother attempting to go there without the correct visa.

( I used Knock as an example, because it is an out of the way airport in the back of beyond).

I hope this helps a little, good luck.

I believe there was mention in this forum sometime ago about a Lawyer in either Phuket or Pattaya, who was advertising how he could help Thai nationals get divorced from their UK partners in the UK, thus getting bigger pay outs.

Hi SB it may just be the change in diet, type of oil used in the cooking process etc. If I were you I would eat Yoghurt every morning, this should take care of some of the bacteria you will digest throughout the day, though possibly not all, but it is a start.

Hi Judge, would you be kind enough to let the forum know how you got on. I, for one, would appreciate it. Thanks

Posted Today, 2005-03-17 10:00:25

QUOTE(booma @ 2005-03-17 02:03:03)

The BBC has just broadcast an item saying 'Scientists researching the earthquake that caused the Asian Tsunami, have reported that there is a high chance of another quake'

This was just popped in at the end of the bulletin.

I'll try and find the link!

These "Scientists" are from an "Irish" university so think what you will!!

MonsieurHappy,

I think that you are a petty minded "gobshite",

Slainte

Hi, Quite an interesting article.

It can be found on the following page:-

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4354217.stm

I just hope that there in a warning system in place, after all you cannot trust the relevent agencies to do the right thing, after all it might hurt the tourist trade.

If you are ever up in Chiang Mai pop into the Rim Ping supermarket. Vegemite, Australian cuts of meat, oxo cubes, Branston Pickle etc. only thing is it is expensive.

I would definately look into an alternative to land line technology if I were you. I have broadband in the house, but such are the vagaries of the line connections, we do not stay connected for long, and have to re-boot the computer to get logged on again. After the initial 1 year period is up then I will go down the wire free route, if at all possible.

I went and had a look around there about 18 months ago. I thought that the properties were okay, and the personnel in the office there were great. There were 2 things that did put me off though.

The first was the amount of dogs, every house seemed to have 2 as a minimum and the least thing would start them off barking.

The second thing was that it is on the flight path into CM airport, so there is quite a bit of noise generated by the air traffic. This may change if a new airport is built, then again a new airport may not be built.

Look at Home in Park, that too is in Hang dong but on the other side to Tanaboon, no air traffic noise and houses appear to have a good build quality.

I have, in the past, bought the sets of perfume, 5 or 6 different small perfume bottles in the one pack, by Dior or Estree Lauder etc. The cost is 20-25 pounds and can easilty be picked up at the airport. Although she might not like them all she will like some. A relatively small outlay to cheer someone up. Of course her mother still wants the Chanel No.5....Doh

"After watching the movie All or Nothing and Angela's ashes I have no interest in visiting or living in Ireland lol. Such a bland , damp emotionless country ... The only good thing is Westlife and U2."

WalterBKK........ We'll have to make you the resident expert on Ireland, especially after watching two movies set there! emotionless country..........just how far have you got your head shoved up your own ar*e

I live in LOS and prior to that lived in the west of Ireland, admittedly the weather leaves a lot to be desired and it has become expensive to live there, but it still has a lot going for it whether it be the sceanery, the fishing, the time in the bars, the horse racing etc etc. Before you slate the country off you ought to have the decency to sample it first then make an informed opinion rather than rash statements.

Peter, just calm down a bit. It looks as if your sister and husband were telling you the truth, okay? So now you need to approach them and see how you can progress to building a house , if that is your prime goal. As Khun Jean says start talks about sorting out a 30 year lease agreement.

(I don't know how legal the 30 + 30 agreements are), this will entitle you to use the land for the house you want to build. Remember although you cannot own the land you can still own the house on it.

The only stumbling block is if your brother in law refuses to lease the land to you, for a nominal sum, only then will you know that you have been ripped off.

I hope this helps.

One really has to question the intelligence of this goverment. It refuses to resolve the "Bird Flu" problem, by culling fowl and ducks, as this may be percieved as harming the tourist industry,( quite readily ignoring what an epidemic of bird flu would do to the industry). Whilst on the other hand cutting back on what a lot of tourists enjoy when they are on holiday, the ability to have a drink when they chose, not when someone dictates when they can have it.

The Govt. says it wants to entice high rollers, big money people to Thailand. What they appear to forget is that these people expect to be able to do what they want when they want, within reason, and to me having a beer in the middle of the afternoon while on holiday, is well within reason. After all who wants to pay a lot of money to go on holiday and then be dictated to as to what you can and cannot do.

I go to one of the places in the airport Plaza, on the 3rd floor close to Starbucks coffee shop, on the floor above it if I remember correctly. It is expensive, 300 bhat, but the tall thin lady does cut it the way I like it.

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"Next opportunty" you don't have to wait long, "Ol Moonface" ranks up there with Prince Phillip for opening his mouth and putting both feet in it!

" Freedom of speech" that you spout so glibly about, why don't you ask some of the Journalist/editors/newspaper owners about their freedom of speech under Thaksin? Then comment about it.

He puts himself up there as a scion of the New Thailand, therefore he is fair game, yet when he doesn't like it he cries foul. Take for instance when he got his daughter to take a job in MacDonalds as a publicity stunt, then cried foul when he was not happy with the treatment his daughter recieved, yet it was all his own doing.

A lot of the people on here do realise that this is Thailand and as such a Thai issue and no amount of writting on any forum board will change that, however they do feel that they should try to voice an opinion when they see a country that the majority of them live in and care for getting taken to the cleaners. This guy is pillaging Thailand better than Gengis Khan could ever do.

When is there going to be any transparency about the Free trade agreement with Australia?

You're whinning cos you voted for him, we're whinning because we could not vote against him!!!