Hua Hin Forum

I suppose it was only a "Knee jerk reaction"... to hurl the grenade at BKK police... and the fact he survived means by the time he faces justice...he won't have a "Leg to stand on".... in fact one can only assume he will have a lifetime now of "Short comings".... Thai ...

I won't discuss the situation at Salesian due to Thai laws, but from what I've heard it's not that difficult to get into Harry Potter's Hogwarts. The process allegedly goes as follows: Hogwarts: I'm sorry, but our classes are all full, there is no room for new students. Parent: Oh, that's a shame, I...

Marginally off-topic: Dragon Fruit.

It fights cholesterol, as well as high blood pressure. The white is easy to find, and tastes good......the red is harder to find, but tastes ubelievable. Best eaten cold from the fridge and chopped.

One interesting theory (That I might try one day) was for 4 weeks to eat 8 Ozs (225grammes) of WHATEVER you want, every 4 hours--so 6 times a day, but strictly 225 grammes--no more, no less. At the end of 2 weeks, you can go back to a normal schedule. HOWEVER, over the course of those 4 weeks your s...

Our monkey(3 1/2) is very happy at Pratthana, comes home with homework regularly (English Alphabet, Thai Alphabet, Maths, life-skills) the teachers are friendly and very communicative--they know who you are from day 1, and work hard to make all the students successful. It is a Thai language school, ...

Insurance: C-, the staff need to understand the importance of handling this correctly the first time. I give that an F-. Fraud is a better description. I went with passing (Barely) for several reasons: 1) They did tell the truth when asked in Thai, so potentially a language issue? 2) They did work ...

Just wanted to give a big thanks and a big thumbs up to the hospital. Mini-Me was suffering a low-grade fever for a few days, and then started vomiting and running a high fever (39) that was not controllable with medicine. We went to the hospital, and got great care. We were attended by Dr. S (Can't...

I did mine at Laser Vision about 8 years ago with Dr. Anun. Fantastic result--my right eye was at 20/20 after the first operation, my left eye (Which had been at -9.5) was better than we had anticipated pre-operation, and they did a second operation to improve it even more at almost no cost. When I ...

Steve-- You've got the mechanics right but the reason wrong. In many villages the village headman (Kamnan) will pay people and take their ID cards, and then they will cast all the votes themselves. Here's a hypothetical example.....Let's say a village has 200 voters registered. The Kamnan will be pa...

Name Taken wrote:I personally think 51/49% ownership law is extremely anti-competitive and unfair.
I think it also discourages a lot of foreign companies from investing and doing business in Thailand.

Couldn't agree more, NT. It is, however, the law of the land.

This pictures came out yesterday on the Thai news, quite good really. The guy in the background looking like Voldermort is a doctored picture of the crazy guy who runs all the soapy/'entertainment places that's started a party, he's number 5 I think on all the posters by the roads, got a dodgy tash...

I believe you'll find McDonalds Thailand is 49% owned by McDonalds Canada (Who own the vast majority of all international rights for McDonalds) McDonalds Canada's shares account for 99% of the voting stock, and 75% of the dividends/profit share/resale value, with the remaining 51% of stock (Holding ...

Sorry, but how is this the race card? The FACT is that DTAC is majority foreign owned, in contravention of Thai laws. DTAC has structured it's ownership so that this is hard to show, but it is a fact. As an example: As a foreigner you cannot own land, but you can own 49% ownership in a Thai company ...

It depends on what STDs you're concerned about. HIV--the testing is a waste of time until 3-6 months have passed, according to doctors I've spoken with--they test for antibodies, and antibodies take time to develop. Herpes--Can only really be tested for during an outbreak. Syph and Ghono--Can test p...

The funny for me is that the people lumping all Thais together as being useless tend to be the same ones screaming "Racism" every time they're not treated with respect.....don't know the posters involved yet, but it'll be interesting to see if this holds true....