Buying My Dream Home

Foreigners wanting to buy property in Bangkok: Books filling a small library have been written about this very subject.

Foreigners are fearful, as the Thai law is a jungle. And tragedy may be near, if property has to be bought under the name of a Thai partner.

We all heard about cheating Thai wives disowning foreign husbands and throwing them out of their beloved houses, leaving them not even with what little was left of their little last pride.

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September 26, 2007 | Filed Under Property & Investment | 4 Comments 

Bangkok’s Best Beer

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A hymn to the inescapable: What would Bangkok be without its beer gardens, beer sales girls and other beer holes.

They’re among Bangkok’s cutest, the sales girls of Heineken, Tiger or Asahi. But there’s much more to beer in Bangkok than this worn-out superficiality of beer brand names over ultra short mini-skirts.

Beer is a way of life here in Bangkok. A raison d’être so to say. Beer is a a religion. Each brew with its own fellowship of devotees.

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September 23, 2007 | Filed Under Food & Drink, Nightlife & Entertainment | 5 Comments 

The Medical Tourist

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We all want to be be perfect: Have an endless stamina, a healthy body and – most importantly – that beautiful face. Unfortunately life is not that simple.

But there is an elegant way out. If you’re out of cash for that surgery, or if your medical insurance doesn’t cover what you need: There is a booming trend called “medical tourism”. An alternative to expensive treatments back home in the West. A haven for medical tourism is Bangkok, Thailand.

Where better to do that bypass, breast augmentation, dental surgery or knee replacement than in Bangkok. There is nothing wrong with becoming a medical traveler. Chances are that you’re even getting better service and care in the Orient than in the West.

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September 19, 2007 | Filed Under Health, Body & Mind, Travel & Tourism | 4 Comments 

BKK News Feed Archive Q2/08

BKK News Feed for Week 31 in 2008, July 28th – August 03rd:

BANGKOK POST – New Cabinet: Chalerm Out
GUARDIAN/REUTERS – Thai Govt in Trouble as Tables Turn on Thaksin
MUST READ: THE NATION – Courts Might Soon Send Thaksin Packing for England
BANGKOK PUNDIT/THE NATION – Thaksin’s Exile Plan & Samak
TNA – PAD Protesters March to Temple of Emerald Buddha
THE STAR – Thai Takes: Fears of a Bloody Outcome
XPRESS – Is the City of Angels Really Heavenly?
ALERT! FORBES – Thai July Inflation 9.2%, New 10-Year High

MUST READ: ASIA TIMES – U.S. Twist to Thaksin Court Case
BANGKOK POST – PAD Threatens to Lay Seige on Parliament
THE NATION – Spokesman: Thaksin Has no Plan to Seek Asylum (we’ll see)
MUST READ: BBC – Thaksin Family’s Gamble Fails to Pay; About the King, the Courts & Thaksin
ASIAN PACIFIC POST – Thailand Grapples With Gender Bender
TNA – Govt to Submit Charter Amendment Motion After August 18
YNET – Famed Zubin Mehta in Bangkok
THE NATION – Bush Talks to The Nation

BANGKOK POST – Bush Talks to the Post
THE NATION – Post-Pojaman: Tax Liabilities Floodgates Open for More Prosecutions
BANGKOK PUNDIT – The Pojaman Verdict Aftermath
REUTERS – FACTBOX – The Assets of Thailand’s Ex-First Family, the Thaksins
IPS – Thaksin’s Wife Gets Jail Term For Tax Fraud
IRRAWADDY – Burma on Bush Agenda While in Thailand
PRACHATAI – Labor Woman Leader Sacked for Wearing Defiant T-Shirt
XPRESS – Big Brother: Bangkok to Get 100,000 CCTV Cameras

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September 19, 2007 | Filed Under NEWS ARCHIVE | 2 Comments