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What about China is it possible to catch a bus to China and get a Visa on entry?

Who it concern your wife as long she have ID card or Passport from an ASEAN Member country no visa is needed and can stay 21 days. In your case I do not see any chance, only e-visa is the fastest or in a Vietnamese Embassy ...... eg BKK is possible 24 hour sbut plus express fees. Right from 27th April until 2nd May are holidays in Vietnam (I am at the moment).

Australia is a ASEAN member country as far as I know is it not??? so can i get in to vietnam ???

I just checked and Australia is not ASEAN member b ut why does the Australian foreign minister attend all the ASEAN meetings?

Who it concern your wife as long she have ID card or Passport from an ASEAN Member country no visa is needed and can stay 21 days. In your case I do not see any chance, only e-visa is the fastest or in a Vietnamese Embassy ...... eg BKK is possible 24 hour sbut plus express fees. Right from 27th April until 2nd May are holidays in Vietnam (I am at the moment).

Australia is a ASEAN member country as far as I know is it not??? so can i get in to vietnam ???

Hi all

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How can I get a viet visa fast?

I am going to Vietiane Laos tommorow and I want to catch a bus to Vietnam !

I have checked the Viet Embassy website in Laos and it says between 1 to 5 days to get visa tommorow is Friday and I believe Monday is a public holiday for Vietnam!

I need to get a visa same day as i need to be in Viet for the week end !

I have sent emails to the Viet embassy and they dont reply. I have been calling their numbers for 2 days and the phone never answers. I am so frustrated !

I see there is online E Visas for sale ready in 1 day express service but they say the visas can only be colected at major airports. I am going by bus overland crossing so thats not a option.

Any ideas on how to get one in 1 day???

Any one have a phone number for the embassy that will answer? a mobile number or a contact that can help?

Also I want to know if my Thai wife also needs a visa . Shes a Australian Permanent Resident with a Thai passport and a Thai ID card. Does she require a Visa for Vietnam???

Thanks in advance

Dave

I just want to say that so many of you ! not all of you really dont like and or trust Thai people ! some of you are just pure racist and you think that you are better than them because you are up on your high felang horse sitting high up on your tall poppys.

Well let me tell you something I am an Ozi (Australian) born and bread I love my vegimite and weetbix just like you but I am not like you high poppy type felang as I have chinese eyes.

Let me ask you racist felang minority something. If you dont like Thais and you dont trust them than why do you come here and why do you marry Thai ladies?????????????????????

You're off there (here) in a few weeks, yet you barely can make ends meet, nice if you can do that. You don't find it odd that the loan request came around the time you were due to come over? If it is in fact for the tractor payment, then, go to the bank when you get here and pay it yourself. If that is not possible, then u are being had! You start and it will NEVER stop, and only become more, read the 1000's of threads here on the same deal. Get the land signed over regardless, if you have any future plans pinned on it, you will regret it if you don't.

Oz

I am here and did get the land signed over read the last few posts before you pass judjement !! the lands worth alot more than the 30k and its nice to know my wife and kids have got something !

Well all is not what it seemed I have been in nong khai now for about 2 weeks the first few days I felt like i was being used I paid for the food I paid for the beer for the whole family of about 10 and it all cost me a few K and I was getting worried when the mum asked me for the 30k. I was ready to run for the hills and never look back.

I stayed on and gave them a chance spent a day working in the rice feilds with them, the the hardest days work i have ever done in my life. The locals were shocked as the have never seen a felang work the rice fields before. I was up at 6 am getting food ready for the monks .I lived as a Issan man ate the same food with them sitting an a mat. Slept on a straw mat without air conditioning in 40 pluss heat. I washed without hot water and shited without paper.

What happened next I was most suprised the day Songkran started the family refused to let me pay for anything. I was treated as a king waited on hand and foot the beer and whisky was flowing the food was on the BBQ and I was the guest of honour, not a cent more was I to pay for the rest of the sonkran holiday. I was taken from house to house to meet the rest of the family and friends and treated like a king time and time again. I was loaned a car to drive around in, all my laundry was taken care of, I was given many gifts. Soon I decided to leave my wallet at home as money was no longer required. I made so many friends I gained their trust as I now fully trust them. What a great bunch of people and a great family.

Today we went to the local amphur office and got the land signed over in my wifes name, its a beautiful peice of land in the heart of the village. We plan to build a house on it when we get older.

Two weeks was enough I got so sick in the guts so we went to a hotel in Udon I am now OK.

Songkran in a rural Issan village was the most amazing experience I will never forget it was the most fun I have ever had in my life. We pent a day driving around NongKhai city drunk in the back of a chev pick up throwing ice water at people, for the first time in many years I felt trully happy and full of joy.

I learnt that its all about sharing and giving, peolple take turns in buying the beer and food. Their not out to steal my money it was all in my mind. I think the family spent alot more money than I did over the songkran holiday. My wifes brother drove us 800 klm round trip in a day with 10 people in his truck just to go visit a temple for a short time !!!! I found that bizzar. he spent over 6000 brt on gas and didnt ask me for a penny! the strange thing is we only spent a hour at the temple than we turned around and went home !! Bizzar !!

Thanks for all the replies great advice on this thread guys.

Dave

Stupid, stipid, so stupid

I got some good news today ! The land that was promised to my wife is hers no need to pay for it is and allways was hers, the mum is more than happy to sign over the the title deeds to her regardles if I loan her mum the money or not. I sugested she doesnt have to pay back the 30,000 if she signs over the land, The mum got very offended by this ! I dont blame her ! I feel like a bit of a stingy asshol_e now ! I said I will loan the money and pay me back when you can no hurry ! Now shes saying dont worry about loaning me the money if i cant afford it !

So we are going there for a holiday in a few weeks and will get the land in my wifes name !

Its all good I am wrong for suspecting that her mum is trying to scam me out of a few dollars! I feel so bad about it !

And whatever happens I feel good knowing that my wifes got a beautiful block of land that my own kids will probably end up with anyway.

What a idiot , I hope he gets a few years ! we dont want him back on the streets in Australia. Almost all heroin users in Australia are criminals repeat offenders. So they stick em in jail for a few months and give them a synthetic heroin called Methadone which is more adictive than Heroin !

I never understand why the dont make them do cold turkey in jail !

The do gooders in Australia say "its to cruel to make them do cold turkey"

So they come out of jail more adicted than before they went in!

Non drug users go into jail in Australia and become junkies because they say they are a user just to get the methadone to trade! soon their hooked because if they refuse to take the medicine they will hold you down and force it down!

The traders will vomit it up and sell it but it gets in their system and after a few weeks their hooked for life! its a joke!

There are thousands of these junkies walking the streets of Sydney allways looking something to steal to get a fix, going to jail for them is just a rest and a holiday ! three meals a day TV internet a warm bed and free drugs !

Doing time in a Thai jail is the best thing for this scumbag it may break his government sponcered cycle, i hope when he returnes to Australia he is clean and sobber!

Big mistake hes Austrian not Australian LOL sorry LOL

What a idiot , I hope he gets a few years ! we dont want him back on the streets in Australia. Almost all heroin users in Australia are criminals repeat offenders. So they stick em in jail for a few months and give them a synthetic heroin called Methadone which is more adictive than Heroin !

I never understand why the dont make them do cold turkey in jail !

The do gooders in Australia say "its to cruel to make them do cold turkey"

So they come out of jail more adicted than before they went in!

Non drug users go into jail in Australia and become junkies because they say they are a user just to get the methadone to trade! soon their hooked because if they refuse to take the medicine they will hold you down and force it down!

The traders will vomit it up and sell it but it gets in their system and after a few weeks their hooked for life! its a joke!

There are thousands of these junkies walking the streets of Sydney allways looking something to steal to get a fix, going to jail for them is just a rest and a holiday ! three meals a day TV internet a warm bed and free drugs !

Doing time in a Thai jail is the best thing for this scumbag it may break his government sponcered cycle, i hope when he returnes to Australia he is clean and sobber!

[simply legalizing drugs and prescribing it to the addicts and providing places where they can work their way off it would be a non-violent method of making the drug dealing scum dry up and wither away]

Thats crazy you cant legalize and pescribe something that makes them feel good ! they will never stop taking it like that ! they will take more and more and think its ok.

They tried that in Australia with a narcotic called methadone , methadone is more adictive than heroin and now there is more methadone adicts than heroin adicts ! The heroin problem has gone away its just too expensive now so they all are life long methadone adicts now !

You need to take the drug away from them ! Its called cold turkey 2 weeks later your fine! lock em up go cold turkey its so simple!

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Yes great advice , I never thought of that . They have a large vacant residential block in town I dont know what a rai is but it looks to be about 2 acres to me . Ten minutes drive from Nong Khai City! thats the one i got my eye on. We allways planned to build a holiday house on it and retire there in years to come. Better get it in my wifes name ASAP before mum dies and her brothers fight over it ! I guess I have allready paid for it ! 30k should secure the deal and they dont have to pay me back !

We are going there for a holiday in a few weeks! I hope that her mum dont think i dont trust her by asking for the land ! I dont care about the rice farms and the house anyway! ]

Thanks guys for the great advice ! now i feel better i hope they go along with it.

Yes great advice , I never thought of that . They have a large vacant residential block in town I dont know what a rai is but it looks to be about 2 acres to me . Ten minutes drive from Nong Khai City! thats the one i got my eye on. We allways planned to build a holiday house on it and retire there in years to come. Better get it in my wifes name ASAP before mum dies and her brothers fight over it ! I guess I have allready paid for it ! 30k should secure the deal and they dont have to pay me back !

We are going there for a holiday in a few weeks! I hope that her mum dont think i dont trust her by asking for the land ! I dont care about the rice farms and the house anyway! ]

Thanks guys for the great advice ! now i feel better i hope they go along with it.

You might want to reverse your idea of the land size - 1 acre = 2.471 rai or 43,560 sq. ft.

What I meant was the block of land looks like about 2 acres .Oh thats great thanks mate so that means the land would be about 5 rai yes ?

Give nothing.

Ask for nothing.

Thats how I feel too Ive never asked for nothin in my life ! what gives themk the right to ?

A lot of people smoke drugs it dosnt mean that shes a bad mum ! Most people get help and stop! Shes getting help now! why dont you give her a chance. After rehab why not take both wife and daughter back to UK where drugs are too expensive to buy !

The question is do you love your wife ? If you really love her help her ! most people smoke because they are lonely depressed and or have too much time and money !

Most people that smoke drugs dont do it for long, Most people do stop after hitting rock bottom ! has she hit rock bottom ?

Yes great advice , I never thought of that . They have a large vacant residential block in town I dont know what a rai is but it looks to be about 2 acres to me . Ten minutes drive from Nong Khai City! thats the one i got my eye on. We allways planned to build a holiday house on it and retire there in years to come. Better get it in my wifes name ASAP before mum dies and her brothers fight over it ! I guess I have allready paid for it ! 30k should secure the deal and they dont have to pay me back !

We are going there for a holiday in a few weeks! I hope that her mum dont think i dont trust her by asking for the land ! I dont care about the rice farms and the house anyway! ]

Thanks guys for the great advice ! now i feel better i hope they go along with it.

Its not just helmets its seatbelts too ! I dont know how they do it. I cant drive without seatbelt I shit myself. Helmets are good one saved my head when I skidded down the road for about 50 meters on my head, with out the helmet mince meat would of been me! My Thai wife came off a bike doing 100 kph without a helmet ! She flew through the air like a bird and landed in a rice paddy, got up and walked away with a bruised hip!

Ask yourself, would they give you the loan if you needed it and they had it?

Give them the loan, their excuse seems valid enough, they might pay you back you never know. Or if they don't pay you back you could be more justified in refusing any future loan.

I think they would give me anything they could afford to give if i needed it !

But i feel there just waisting there time, they never make a cent from rice there going backwards, they just work work work work 7 days just to pay the bank pay for fuel and put a bowl of rice on the table at night!

Whats the point, its not so much the money, but a bad investment that really pisses me off ! they have more land than one can dream about. But talk about selling it and its out of the question. Rice is all they know! They chased the rainbow and thought the answer was to buy a bigger better faster tractor! And who do they think is gunna pay the bank why ME that who the ATM man ! Stuff the tractor is my feeling.

Its a big shock to me, Im just a young man working hard trying to save and get ahead living in the most expensive city in world Sydney. Its hard for me to rub a few pennys together working 6 days a week 12 hours a day to pay for rent electricity and food to provide for my family. Stressin out every day wondering how the hell am i gunna survive and provide! yes. You think Issan life is tough try living in Sydney and raise a family on a basic wage!

Im my world people dont ask for a loan, family dont ask for a loan, they sink or swim theres no safety net! If your bussines fails ya dont expect anyone to bail you out, you cop it on the chin and move on. Cause you got too much pride your standing on your own two feet.

No ones ever asked me for a loan before I am shocked and angry!

My Thai wife asked me if i would loan 30,000 bt to her mum and she will pay me back after the next rice harvest !

i have given alot of money to her family over the years I gave a 100,000 gift when we got maried and I give about 30,000 a year to help them out usualy I send about 7,000 every 3 months. I think thats enough I dont make good money and i am saving for a house deposit.

Its really pissed me off !

They say that due to flooding the rice harvest failed and they cant make the payments to the bank to pay for the tractor !

30,000 is alot of money for me you know and i just dont want to dip into my savings! I suspect maybe maybe its a con ! not sure they never have asked for a cent before any money i gave in the past i was happy to give as a gift.! They are nice people I cant believe they would con me or use me, but I do suspect !

The mum has a lot of land shes old and has promised to leave the farm and house for my wife.

We live in Australia and dont realy want to live in Thailand untill we are old.

I sugested they sell the land and tractor so the mum can live off the money she wont sell she says its to be left for us !

I just dont know what to do I want to say no ! So I said OK I will give you 30,000 but dont ask me for money again and I wont be sending any again unless its paid back or if you cant pay it back i will not send any money for a year and a half. I know they cant pay it back there battlers just like me!

I just dont know if its the right thing to do , and now I feel like a ass hole for being tough on them.

My wifes not keen on sending money too, we have worked hard and saved hard trying to get ahead!

The wife says its up to me to give or dont give, I worry that she wont get the inheritence that was promised if we dont help !

What do I do ????????????????

if you know why Thais don't eat abalone and sharkfins, then you will know why they don't eat sheep

What tosh - seen my thai family eat sharkfins and abalone with relish.

They dont eat abalone as there are no abalone in Thailand the average Thai wont pay 5000 brt a kilo

money money money

if you know why Thais don't eat abalone and sharkfins, then you will know why they don't eat sheep

What tosh - seen my thai family eat sharkfins and abalone with relish.

They dont eat abalone as there are no abalone in Thailand the average Thai wont pay 5000 brt a kilo

if you know why Thais don't eat abalone and sharkfins, then you will know why they don't eat sheep

What tosh - seen my thai family eat sharkfins and abalone with relish.

They dont eat abalone as there are no abalone in Thailand the average Thai wont pay 5000 brt a kilo

MK is good simple and clean , I love it , its the Mcdonald's of Asia

Chicken is 30b kilo duck is 100b a kilo