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Understanding Thailand: Getting yourself out of trouble (1)

February 3 2012 Categories: Understanding Thailand No comments yet

One of the interesting aspects of blogging is that I can see the Google searches that bring readers to my blog. Today a reader had a query which read “how to efficiently bribe Thai Police?”. Now, I don’t know about you but when I read this kind of query I cannot help but guess that someone is in trouble and expect to get out of it through the help of a bribe.

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Originally posted 2009-12-03 12:50:50.

Doing Business in Thailand: Is it a developed and safe country?

February 1 2012 Categories: Doing Business In Thailand, Understanding Thailand No comments yet

Is Thailand a safe country?

Yes. Thailand has low violent crime statistics compared to other countries such as France or the US. Of course, violence does exist but is not often directed at foreigners. While there are from time to time crimes against foreigners, they are still rarer than in your homeland and when foreigners do get into trouble, they, often bring it upon themselves.

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Originally posted 2009-07-23 13:06:14.

Understanding Thailand: Getting yourself out of trouble (2)?

January 30 2012 Categories: Understanding Thailand No comments yet

As I was saying in my previous post, it is a simple statistical matter that some of my readers will run into trouble of one sort or another when in Thailand. So can you count on your Embassy to help you if you are in deep trouble?

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Originally posted 2009-12-04 03:13:01.

Is Thailand becoming a better or worse place to live?

January 30 2012 Categories: Understanding Thailand No comments yet

Hi have just seen an interesting poll in today Bangkok Post. The Bangkok Post is asking to its readers whether Thailand is becoming a better or worse place to live in. Now the results are quite surprising as you will discover in the rest of this post.

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Doing Business in Thailand: Understanding Thai Administration

January 28 2012 Categories: Thailand Business, Understanding Thailand No comments yet

Why it is necessary to understand the system?

The first thing you will hear when coming to Thailand is foreigners complaining about the workings of the Thai Administration. I used to work with a foreign lawyer who had what I call the “colonial state of mind”. This lawyer was so full of his own superiority and so sure that his country’s administrative system was superior to Thailand’s that he never understood the system here, which is a mistake.

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Originally posted 2009-07-23 05:40:23.

Understanding Thailand: What is Thainess?

January 23 2012 Categories: Understanding Thailand No comments yet

I was checking my early posts and I realized that while I referred in several posts to the concept of Thainess, I never actually defined it.

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Originally posted 2009-08-31 10:34:04.

Doing Business in Thailand: Thai Friends

January 23 2012 Categories: Understanding Thailand No comments yet

Do Thai value friendship with foreigners?

Generally they do but while Thais can seem very friendly at first understand that it is only an appearance. Friendly attitude is as much a part of ‘Thainess’ as the respect for authority.

Real friendship demands more than just a smile. You must be careful that things are not always what they seem.

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Originally posted 2009-08-12 13:17:13.

Doing Business in Thailand: Dealing with Thai People

January 23 2012 Categories: Thailand Business, Understanding Thailand No comments yet

Should you be wary to do business with Thai people?

Not really because Thai people are honest. There are always exceptions of course but as a foreigner coming to do business in Thailand you have to be more wary of citizens from your own country than from Thais.

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Originally posted 2009-07-24 04:10:21.

Table of Content (2): Opinion| Commenting Thai News

January 23 2012 Categories: Understanding Thailand No comments yet

I have generated for Readers convenience a TABLE OF CONTENT of all the post I published to date and in which I give my opinion on political or business related news in Thailand.I hope this table will help you to navigate more easily in my blog 

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Originally posted 2009-11-14 08:06:15.

Thailand Marriage – Legal formalities to get married in Thailand

January 23 2012 Categories: Thailand Marriage Issues, Understanding Thailand No comments yet

When you are a foreigner and you want to married in Thailand the process has become far more complicated that it use to be. Firstly I would like to remind you that Thailand religious wedding with the monks has no binding effects. In Thailand, marriage must be registered to be binding.

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