I think most of us are familiar with Thaivisa’s excellent expat forum, and there are one or two other inferior forums out there, well trawling around the internet this week we came across a forum we assume to be the ‘new boy on the block’, FarangTalk.com.
Continue ReadingWhile I generally agree with the comments of improved service levels at the Immigration Bureau, the same cannot be said about Thai immigration bureaucratic procedures. I know this is a topic raised on a regular basis. However, I would like to relate a recent experience, which I am sure many readers are familiar with. A […]
Continue ReadingThe Thai embassy in Vientiane, Laos is no longer issuing 60 day tourist visas to applicants who have 3 previous visa stickers already on their passport. Tourists returned from Vientiane said that the embassy had taken a stern stance towards tourists who have been using tourist visas to stay indefinitely in Thailand. An embassy spokesperson […]
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IF YOU want the most memorable breakfast experience in Thailand, it helps to have a head for heights. If you’re a guest at the Soneva Kiri resort, on the verdant island of Koh Kood in the Gulf of Thailand, you can enjoy your breakfast a number of ways. For complete privacy, you can have it […]
Continue ReadingCreveling & Creveling protects its client’s privacy. The following is a fictitious example designed to demonstrate the type of financial decision-making required to achieve financial security and does not refer to any specific case. The Situation: John is a single American expatriate, age 45, living and working in Thailand. Until recently, he hasn’t been in […]
Continue ReadingWe received the following email. If anybody is interested in this subject or would like to be put in touch with the emailer, please go to our Contact page and email us. Thank you. Dear TCN I was wondering if you could advise me whether Building information modelling (BIM) is taking off at all over […]
Continue ReadingAre people trying to intentionally manoeuvre this News Article to be our ‘Most Read’ Article, or is there a genuine interest? On 9 February 2011, we uploaded a news article captioned “Zinc InVision to launch 28 hotels across Mid-East in $180m plan” which ran as follows: “Zinc InVision, a joint venture between Thailand’s InVision Hospitality […]
Continue ReadingMorning all I don’t suppose that English law has much impact on your daily work but nonetheless I thought it might be worth copying you with this e-bulletin that went out from our office in London, as it may be of some interest to all who provide expert witness consulting services. In short, the English […]
Continue ReadingThe average round of golf was 29% cheaper in Thailand than in other leading golf destinations in Asia, according to a recent survey. The survey across six countries conducted by Asian golf vacation specialists Golfasian compared the midweek high-season visitor rates and found Thailand has some of the most competitive golf rates for visitors across […]
Continue ReadingWe hope you find the information here relevant and useful to you, and interesting. As a little guide to help you find your way around our website, let us explain how to use the menu you see along the top of the website (the ‘Top Menu’). Reading from left to right: About Thailand Construction – […]
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