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I’ve taken many cycling trips to Phra Pradaeng, Bangkok’s so-called “Green Lung”. But I can still get lost in its maze of elevated paths and mud roads that slither through the forests and villages. Sitting across from Klong Toey Port’s rows of gritty, busy docks and industrial complexes, this green clump of rural Thailand offers […]

Authorities are preparing to visit schools from next week to issue national identification cards for children aged between seven and 14 years old there. “Such preparations are included in our implementation plans,” Department of Provincial Administration (DPA) deputy director-general Niran Kanlayanamit said yesterday. Starting from July 10, district offices will also issue national identification cards […]

The Labor Department has instructed Sunbelt Asia lawyers that starting from today there are new requirements for all new applicants for work permits and also new criteria for existing work permit holders for renewals. They have issued new forms for work permit applications in several classes. New applicants for work permits will now be required […]

Inside the Sathorn Unique, One of Bangkok’s ‘Ghost Towers’ Urban archaeologist Dr Hank Snaffler, Jr of Abandoned Journey took his camera into the Sathorn Unique, a 50-storey never-completed skyscraper in downtown Bangkok. Construction started 14 years ago, but development was killed after the 1997 Asian financial crisis, leaving the Sathorn Unique to the same fate […]

We recently received an email from a reader enquiring: “Do any of your members know of a reliable company from which I can purchase, import solar panels and ancillary equipments, as I have a “Plan” to make the house I am going to build for retirement…”? Does anybody know? Don’t think I’ve ever seen any […]

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.

While 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 […]