you can rent in Thailand for as long as you like. cost will not be cheap for a house on the beach. however i need to correct the person who answer before me. land usually can not be owned by foreigners so they arrange a 30 year lease of the land with the option to another 30 years. you can own the house but usually not the land. Condo’s are the expection but that’s another long answer.

Hi, I am going to Thailand for 2 weeks and wanted to know if it would be better to book a package through an agent in UK or to get direct return flights to bangkok-london. Wanted to go Bangkok, krabi, Rayleigh beach and another Koh-sumai, Koh phanlyang and perhaps another place. looking to only spend a few days in Bangkok. And also is it worth going to Phuket? Am finding online websites really expensive and they only do 2 destinations, Bangkok and another?

I am debating whether or not to venture into Bangkok. My flight gets in at around 9pm and leaves the next morning. Is there anything to do (apart from drinking) at that time? Is it enough time to go for a wonder and get back to the airport?

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I live in Australia and I have been with this girl who came from Thailand when she was 9, she is now 16. She moved here because her mother married an Australian Citizen and she now has permanent residency but she isn’t an Australian Citizen yet.
She has suffered a lot of verbal abuse from her mother which included being told she is a whore and should sell herself in the street, told she isn’t loved and so on.
About a month ago she was kicked out of the house because she had told her mum that she wanted to go on contraceptive pill, her mother ended up beating her with a closed fist and told her to get out of the house. After a lot of arguing she agreed to leave and her mum said “I don’t care if I lose you, I got 2 other children and losing you is just like losing another pet”. From then on she has been living with her step grandmother.
Now her mother wants her to move back home, especially since they are going to be moving houses at the end of the year, but she doesn’t want to move back home. She is fed up with the emotional and verbal abuse she has received from her mother and she also doesn’t want to move houses because she doesn’t want to move schools again.
Unfortunately her step grand mother is going to be moving in with her parents anyway because she is getting old. She is still convinced that she doesn’t want to move back home. But her mother has said to her that she has to move back home and that she will ring the police on her. This didn’t bother me until she told me that she is still covered by Thailand Law. This means that she isn’t legally independent until she is 20.
Does this mean that Australian Law doesn’t apply to her?
I was wondering if she applied for Australian Citizenship when she turns 18 does that mean that the Thailand Laws will no longer apply to her? Or will she still remain her parents legal responsibility until she is 20?
Please she really needs some help.

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A government is overthrown in Thailand and all we hear in the news is the general’s voice. Doesn’t this make you think something is wrong in this picture? Are we living in middle ages and where is the democratic-world so to say?

It’s all of this self love, hug a tree crap. Where women dance with their long legs and do cartwheels, leading us men to places where we can’t be anymore. Men taking videos to other men and showing them on the internet, making money and selling the rights to Thailand. It’s sick!!!!!
No wonder marriages fail!
Okay, the first one. That was me. I was the bad one there. That was before Jesus anyway, so it doesn’t even count.
The second one, sure, that’s me as well. I went to Panama and sin took me in from 1982 to 1984, and then from April 1987 to 1992. It’s sick! That’s not really my fault, but sure, I’ll be a man and take it.
THe third one though, that one is 100% squarely on you people. I’ve done the right thing, and I never have opened up bars and strip clubs. This is sick, and I wouldn’t have even done that in Panama.
With the philly in Denmark pulling the strings, I wouldn’t be surprised what happens next.
Jesus has been good to me though. I wouldn’t go back to the past, as I make more money now that probably everyone on this board. Even more than many of you combines. A little self realization lately is that I’m one heck of a guy.
I’m living my lifestyle! None of this is really any of your business.

I ordered to move to Sriracha, Thailand because of my job.
I will take my wife and our pets with me, however, I do not have any information how to find an apartment which is “pets allowed”.
Are there any real estate agents or letting agents?

how much from city centre (sukhumvit) to pattaya ? i cant pre book for 1300 bhat is this the going rate ?

Me and my Thai friend want to have a website that designs tailor made holidays to Thailand. I lived there for years and speak fluent Thai and my Thai friedn who lives in England has a business degree. we want to start something up, what would his kind of business be called and would it be profitable?

kitchen -> hong-kreua
bedroom -> hong-non
toilet/bathroom -> hong-nam
The word hong means room, kreua means family. So, hong-kreua literally translates to family-room, but the english meaning is really kitchen. The word non means sleep. So, hong-non literally translates to sleeping-room, but the english meaning is really bedroom. The word nam means water. So, hong-nam literally translates to water-room, but the english meaning is really bathroom or toilet.

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Hi! this is connected with my query here about the thai-cambodia travel. After crossing the border, we still have two days and two nights stay in bangkok. What would be a good monetary estimate for our remaining days and nights of stay in bangkok? (accomodation, food, night life, night market, cultural spots, etc.)
Thanks very much in advance!

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Can I live comfortable in Thailand for 30,000 baht per month?

This is interesting.
After reading this, you’ll never look at a banana in the same way again.
Bananas contain three natural sugars – sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fiber. A banana gives an instant, sustained and substantial boost of energy
Research has proven that just two bananas provide enough energy for a strenuous 90-minute workout No wonder the banana is the number one fruit with the world’s leading athletes.
But energy isn’t the only way a banana can help us keep fit. It can also help overcome or prevent a substantial number of illnesses and conditions, making it a must to add to our daily diet.
DEPRESSION: According to a recent survey undertaken by MIND amongst people suffering from depression, many felt much better after eating a banana. This is because bananas contain tryptophan, a type of protein that the body converts into serotonin, known to make you relax, improve your mood and generally make you feel happier.
PMS: Forget the pills – eat a banana. The vitamin B6 it contains regulates blood glucose levels, which can affect your mood.
ANEMIA: High in iron, bananas can stimulate the production of hemoglobin in the blood and so helps in cases of anemia.
BLOOD PRESSURE: This unique tropical fruit is extremely high in potassium yet low in salt, making it perfect to beat blood pressure. So much so, the US Food and Drug Administration has just allowed the banana industry to make official claims for the fruit’s ability to reduce the risk of blood pressure and stroke.
BRAIN POWER: 200 students at a Twickenham (Middlesex) school ( England ) were helped through their exams this year by eating bananas at breakfast, break, and lunch in a bid to boost their brain power.. Research has shown that the potassium-packed fruit can assist learning by making pupils more alert.
CONSTIPATION: High in fiber, including bananas in the diet can help restore normal bowel action, helping to overcome the problem without resorting to laxatives.
HANGOVERS: One of the quickest ways of curing a hangover is to make a banana milkshake, sweetened with honey. The banana calms the stomach and, with the help of the honey, builds up depleted blood sugar levels, while the milk soothes and re-hydrates your system.
HEARTBURN: Bananas have a natural antacid effect in the body, so if you suffer from heartburn, try eating a banana for soothing relief.
MORNING SICKNESS: Snacking on bananas between meals helps to keep blood sugar levels up and avoid morning sickness.
MOSQUITO BITE: Before reaching for the insect bite cream, try rubbing the affected area with the inside of a banana skin. Many people find it amazingly successful at reducing swelling and irritation.
NERVES: Bananas are high in B vitamins that help calm the nervous system.
Overweight and at work? Studies at the Institute of Psychology in Austria found pressure at work leads to gorging on comfort food like chocolate and chips. Looking at 5,000 hospital patients, researchers found the most obese were more likely to be in high-pressure jobs. The report concluded that, to avoid panic-induced food cravings, we need to control our blood sugar levels by snacking on high carbohydrate foods every two hours to keep levels steady.
ULCERS: The banana is used as the dietary food against intestinal disorders because of its soft texture and smoothness. It is the only raw fruit that can be eaten without distress in over-chronicler cases. It also neutralizes over-acidity and reduces irritation by coating the lining of the stomach.
TEMPERATURE CONTROL: Many other cultures see bananas as a ‘cooling’ fruit that can lower both the physical and emotional temperature of expectant mothers. In Thailand , for example, pregnant women eat bananas to ensure their baby is born with a cool temperature.
SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER (SAD): Bananas can help SAD sufferers because they contain the natural mood enhancer tryptophan.
SMOKING AND TOBACCO USE: Bananas can also help people trying to give up smoking. The B6, B12 they contain, as well as the potassium and magnesium found in them, help the body recover from the effects of nicotine withdrawal.
STRESS: Potassium is a vital mineral, which helps normalize the heartbeat, sends oxygen to the brain and regulates your body’s water balance. When we are stressed, our metabolic rate rises, thereby reducing our potassium levels. These can be rebalanced with the help of a high-potassium banana snack.
STROKES: According to research in The New England Journal of Medicine, eating bananas as part of a regular diet can cut the risk of death by strokes by as much as 40%!
WARTS: Those keen on natural alternatives swear that if you want to kill off a wart, take a piece of banana skin and place it on the wart, with the yellow side out. Carefully hold the skin in place with a plaster or surgical tape!
So, a banana really is a natural remedy for many ills. When you compare it to an apple, it has four

I think it’s too easy to blame it on poverty. A funny thing I found out is that prostitution went up in Thailand when they became richer so I’m not sure what to think of them myself.
Do you think they are misguided? Lazy? Threatening? Forced?
Do you sympathise or do you judge?
Or maybe you are a guy who thinks they are great girls that give a good service.

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I’m second in my class of 650. My GPA is around 98.6. My current score for the SATs is a 2120. for the subject test in history I got a 760 and in math 1 a 740. I speak fluent polish (I was born there) and I’m working on my french and Japanese. i’m president of my school’s honor society, in student government, french club, track, and band. I travelled to washington D.C. and australia for ambassador programs that gave me college credit. I’ve also travelled to many other places such as china, japan, thailand, st. maarten,etc. For community service I did special olympics, worked in a hospital, and am going to kansas for a week to help tornado victims.
That mostly what i’d put on my application, what do you think? is there anything i need to improve in?

Try this web site, there are sure to be very helpful people on here for you.

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I’m American born in Hawaii but have some Thai ancestry and while visiting Thailand I have to say that the beaches there in Phuket were arguably even better than many Hawaiian and Australian beaches and a lot cheaper too almost like a traveler’s secret.

hi can someone please tell me what the average rate was last week and will be probly roughly this week , and i was wondering if in phuket i should bring my own bodyboard or just hire one there and how much is it, or is there even surf around phuket,and how much are things to do like boat trips to islands and stuff likee that. Also what does the average person in thailand earn per day, thanks guys
(over exited me lol)

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I’m going to Japan (may) next June or Oct. Which is the cheapest airlines from Bangkok to Japan? Or any good deals if I fly from other country like Singapore? I sometimes heard of good promotion from SIN to Japan.

1) Dr. T. V. N. Persaud is Professor of Anatomy, Professor of Pediatrics and Child Health, and Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. There, he was the Chairman of the Department of Anatomy for 16 years. He is well-known in his field. He is the author or editor of 22 textbooks and has published over 181 scientific papers. In 1991, he received the most distinguished award presented in the field of anatomy in Canada, the J.C.B. Grant Award from the Canadian Association of Anatomists. When he was asked about the scientific miracles in the Quran which he has researched, he stated the following:
“The way it was explained to me is that Muhammad was a very ordinary man. He could not read, didn’t know [how] to write. In fact, he was an illiterate. And we’re talking about twelve [actually about fourteen] hundred years ago. You have someone illiterate making profound pronouncements and statements and that are amazingly accurate about scientific nature. And I personally can’t see how this could be a mere chance. There are too many accuracies and, like Dr. Moore, I have no difficulty in my mind that this is a divine inspiration or revelation which led him to these statements.” (View the RealPlayer video of this comment )
Professor Persaud has included some Quranic verses and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad in some of his books. He has also presented these verses and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad at several conferences.
2) Dr. Joe Leigh Simpson is the Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Professor of Molecular and Human Genetics at the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA. Formerly, he was Professor of Ob-Gyn and the Chairman of the Department of Ob-Gyn at the University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. He was also the President of the American Fertility Society. He has received many awards, including the Association of Professors of Obstetrics and Gynecology Public Recognition Award in 1992. Professor Simpson studied the following two sayings of the Prophet Muhammad :
{In every one of you, all components of your creation are collected together in your mother’s womb by forty days…}
{If forty-two nights have passed over the embryo, God sends an angel to it, who shapes it and creates its hearing, vision, skin, flesh, and bones….}
He studied these two sayings of the Prophet Muhammad extensively, noting that the first forty days constitute a clearly distinguishable stage of embryo-genesis. He was particularly impressed by the absolute precision and accuracy of those sayings of the Prophet Muhammad . Then, during one conference, he gave the following opinion:
“So that the two hadeeths (the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad ) that have been noted provide us with a specific time table for the main embryological development before forty days. Again, the point has been made, I think, repeatedly by other speakers this morning: these hadeeths could not have been obtained on the basis of the scientific knowledge that was available [at] the time of their writing . . . . It follows, I think, that not only there is no conflict between genetics and religion but, in fact, religion can guide science by adding revelation to some of the traditional scientific approaches, that there exist statements in the Quran shown centuries later to be valid, which support knowledge in the Quran having been derived from God.” http://www.islam-guide.com/video/simpson…
3) Dr. E. Marshall Johnson is Professor Emeritus of Anatomy and Developmental Biology at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. There, for 22 years he was Professor of Anatomy, the Chairman of the Department of Anatomy, and the Director of the Daniel Baugh Institute. He was also the President of the Teratology Society. He has authored more than 200 publications. In 1981, during the Seventh Medical Conference in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, Professor Johnson said in the presentation of his research paper:
“Summary: The Quran describes not only the development of external form, but emphasizes also the internal stages, the stages inside the embryo, of its creation and development, emphasizing major events recognized by contemporary science.” http://www.islam-guide.com/video/johnson…
Also he said: “As a scientist, I can only deal with things which I can specifically see. I can understand embryology and developmental biology. I can understand the words that are translated to me from the Quran. As I gave the example before, if I were to transpose myself into that era, knowing what I knew today and describing things, I could not describe the things which were described. I see no evidence for the fact to refute the concept that this individual, Muhammad, had to be developing this information from some place. So I see nothing here in conflict with the concept that divine intervention was involved in what he was able to write.”http://www.islam-guide.com/video/johnson…
4) Dr. William W. Hay is a well-known marine scientist. He is Professor of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA. He was formerly the Dean of the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA. After a discussion with Professor Hay about the Quran’s mention of recently discovered facts on seas, he said:
“I find it very interesting that this sort of information is in the ancient scriptures of the Holy Quran, and I have no way of knowing where they would come from, but I think it is extremely interesting that they are there and that this work is going on to discover it, the meaning of some of the passages.” And when he was asked about the source of the Quran, he replied: “Well, I would think it must be the divine being.”http://www.islam-guide.com/video/hay-1.r…
5) Dr. Gerald C. Goeringer is Course Director and Associate Professor of Medical Embryology at the Department of Cell Biology, School of Medicine, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA. During the Eighth Saudi Medical Conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Professor Goeringer stated the following in the presentation of his research paper:
“In a relatively few aayahs (Quranic verses) is contained a rather comprehensive description of human development from the time of commingling of the gametes through organogenesis. No such distinct and complete record of human development, such as classification, terminology, and description, existed previously. In most, if not all, instances, this description antedates by many centuries the recording of the various stages of human embryonic and fetal development recorded in the traditional scientific literature.” http://www.islam-guide.com/video/goering…
) Dr. Yoshihide Kozai is Professor Emeritus at Tokyo University, Hongo, Tokyo, Japan, and was the Director of the National Astronomical Observatory, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan. He said:
“I am very much impressed by finding true astronomical facts in [the] Quran, and for us the modern astronomers have been studying very small pieces of the universe. We’ve concentrated our efforts for understanding of [a] very small part. Because by using telescopes, we can see only very few parts [of] the sky without thinking [about the] whole universe. So, by reading [the] Quran and by answering to the questions, I think I can find my future way for investigation of the universe.” http://www.islam-guide.com/video/kozai-1…
7) Professor Tejatat Tejasen is the Chairman of the Department of Anatomy at Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Previously, he was the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the same university. During the Eighth Saudi Medical Conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Professor Tejasen stood up and said:
“During the last three years, I became interested in the Quran . . . . From my study and what I have learned from this conference, I believe that everything that has been recorded in the Quran fourteen hundred years ago must be the truth, that can be proved by the scientific means. Since the Prophet Muhammad could neither read nor write, Muhammad must be a messenger who relayed this truth, which was revealed to him as an enlightenment by the one who is eligible [as the] creator. This creator must be God. Therefore, I think this is the time to say La ilaha illa Allah, there is no god to worship except Allah (God), Muhammadur rasoolu Allah, Muhammad is Messenger (Prophet) of Allah (God). Lastly, I must congratulate for the excellent and highly successful arrangement for this conference . . . . I have gained not only from the scientific point of view and religious point of view but also the great chance of meeting many well-known scientists and making many new friends among the participants. The most precious thing of all that I have gained by coming to this place is La ilaha illa Allah, Muhammadur rasoolu Allah, and to have become a Muslim.”http://www.islam-guide.com/video/tejasen…
After all these examples we have seen about the scientific miracles in the Holy Quran and all these scientists’ comments on this, let us ask ourselves these questions:
n Could it be a coincidence that all this recently discovered scientific information from different fields was mentioned in the Quran, which was revealed fourteen centuries ago?
n Could this Quran have been authored by Muhammad or by any other human being?
The only possible answer is that this Quran must be the literal word of God, revealed by Him.

I got to see Fox news for the first time in Thailand. Terrible.
Flashy graphics, weird voices, fast editing – news today has the same feel as a pro wrestling match. What had happened to quality reporting?
I’m not anti-American – on the whole American’s easily make the best television dramas and films. Everything from Simpsons to the Godfather to House is incredibly clever entertainment, brillaintly made and yet the news channels is embarrassing. Kids could do a better job.
Everybody speaks with those stupid commentator voices – loud, abnoxious voices with poor jokes, adding sensationalist to some very inappropiate stories. With four people murdered you can let the story speak for itself. You don’t need to heighten the drama with spooky music, shock editing, flashy colours, etc. This just turns the story into a piece of entertainment, which is very insensitive to the deceased and to their relatives.

Can anyone throw light on the Pat Pong Club and its activities in Thailand

I am trying to trace a relative in BANGKOK, we lost touch and all i know is that they own a couple of bars there and play golf in an expat team

Most of the recipes for Pad thai calls for tamarind, but i couldn’t find it before. i finally found tamarind in an Indian store.
One was a block of black tamarind wrapped in plastic. Second was a small jar of tamarind concentrate which was very dark black. Third was a jar of tamarind sauce made by Knorr. This one was red.
I thought this was very stange indeed, b/c I’ve eaten pad thai before and it usually had a reddish color to it. But the tamarind i’ve found here is all black except the tamarind sauce from Knorr. i bought the tamarind concentrate, and now i think i made a mistake by buying this.
Did I buy the right thing?? I read somewhere tamarind is supposed to be red not this dark black sauce. how am i supposed to use this black tamarind concentrate? would it make my pad thai very black?
I want to make a really good pad thai something that is more suited to my palette. I don’t like the heavy thick pad thai sold in my local thai places.

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I live in Thailand and accidently changed Yahoo Messenger Insider to Thai. I don’t know how I did it! I want to change it back to English. Thanks.