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February 21st, 2010 — East Thailand, Foreigners, Locals, Pattaya
Sifu strikes back at Thai Visa
A Sifu from New Zeeland have according to Thai Visa been arrested for pretending to be a Swat team in Pattaya. The thread in the Thai Visa forum have been visited by a unusual number of nutcases telling all kind of stories about the Sifu whose real name is Robert McInnes.
A new release was made today about his arrest where he told the press he said that everything on the Thai Visa was false and he did not understand why people talk so much rubbish.
I am all for press freedom and all that comes with it but just let people flame for 14 pages about how much they hate the guy they never met or know anything about is not news.
Most people in the forum looks like they only sit home and wait for another foreigner get busted so they can jump around in other people’s misery.
I do not know what’s true about Robert McInnes or not or if he ever will be convicted for something. Most people with connections in Thailand will never be convicted of anything even how guilty they may look. It is all about a power play since his former boss no longer work in Pattaya some of the new guys wanted to show some force. Last month another guy with full police lights on his car got arrested as well for pretending to be a Thai police officer, he as well had protection from a Thai police boss.
Never do it
I would like to take this opportunity to tell all you guys that want to get involved with different Thai governments or what so, don’t!
Some silly friends of mine were on the yellow side some on the red side and when the fight is over you can bet that the day of reckoning will come.
If you are “under the protection” of some local mafia or police he or she will sooner or later loose power and people will come after you.
When I first visited Patong I met the guy who basically helped build the place and he was just leaving with 2000 USD on his pocket after 20 years in Phuket. He could not stay because the new powers saw the time for revenge had come and all his old friends have lost their powers.
Enjoy Thailand
If you cannot stand Thailand and your only pleasure in life is to make fun of people on Thai visa then maybe it is time for you to go home to face the real life.
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March 26th, 2009 — Crimes, Locals, News
A Thai couple has been arrested for faking the wife’s death after the Tsunami. The husband went down to Phuket and planted some ID cards and credit card on a female body from the Tsunami claiming this was his wife.
He got about 2 million THB from insurance companies and he had a major debt from companies that was in his wife name.
The wife later went to China and did a face operation and got herself a few ID cards. But then she started to apply for ID cards in her old name and some of the people the couple owned money started to investigate if she was alive.
After 4 years of tracking down the couple that moved from house to house the police finally caught up with them and now they are arrested for fraud.
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December 8th, 2007 — Locals, Money, News, Service
The National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department has cut the entrance fees for foreigners to national parks countrywide in order to get more overseas tourists.
The reduction has been affected since the department got many complaints from foreign visitors that the fees are too high for them, compared with the poor facilities for tourists at the parks.
This reduction will be effected since Dec 1; the entrance fees for adult foreigners have been cut for half from 400 to 200 baht for the most popular parks, and by 75% for the less popular ones.
Among the most popular sites where the fees were cut by half for foreigners include the marine national parks of Mu Koh Lanta National in Krabi, Mu Koh Chang in Trat, Mu Koh Angthong in Surat Thani and Mu Koh Tarutao in Satun, Doi Suthep-Pui and Doi Inthanont in Chiang Mai, Jae Son in Lampang, Khao Phra Viharn in Si Sa Ket and KhaoYai in Nakhon Ratchasima.
But some famous sites are still remaining the same entrance fee for the foreign visitors such as Mu koh Surin and Mu Koh Similan where the entrance fees are still 400 baht for adult doreigners and 200 baht for children.
To gain more tourists to lesser-known national parks, such as Khao Lak-Ramru in Phangnga and Tap Lan in Prachin Buri, the rate for foreigners has been cut from 400 to 100 baht for adults and from 200 to 50 baht for children which were cut about 75% from the previous price in order to get more tourists first. But they also predict that the price will be getting high again since the sites become popular and been visited by many foreign visitors.
Department chief Chalermsak Wanichsombat said the fee adjustment was aimed at promoting Thailand tourism.
This news is not exactly 100% good news because while foreigners enjoyed a sharp reduction in national park entrance fees, locals will be charged more at some popular sites. It’s the truth that there is no change has no affect on some people and in this change of the foreign fee, the local people are affected. The local people have to pay double from the previous price they have to pay before such as if the previous price is 20 baht, from now on, the local people have to pay 40 baht instead.
Anyhow, the reduction of the entrance fee for foreign visitors is not affected only for the local people but also the department because the high rate can let the department be able to maintain the sites. The department claimed that lowering the entrance fees would only benefit tour operators because most of the tourists prefer to buy the package with the tour operators which also included the entrance fee. So the tour operators can charge and get profit from the reduction that the department has been made.
They also claimed that the reduction of the entrance fees would not make the Thailand tourism get more tourists only benefit for the tour operators, since after I read this article, I wonder why the department has to cut down the entrance fee since there is no benefit for majority.
Anyway, people say that this reduction will not last for long since the high rate for foreigners can keep the Thailand tourism stays alive and makes profit.
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May 27th, 2007 — Crimes, Locals, News
The Thai police are looking for 2 people one from South Korea and one from Thailand they think are helping people from North Korea to enter Thailand. Thailand will then deport them to South Korea in 99 % of the cases. Thailand does not want to be a transit country for North Koreans refuges and has suspected that the South Korean was just more then a normal translator for a longer time. When they took him in for questioning he and the Thai partner disappear and that’s why the Thai Police are not looking for them.
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