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I would love for my wife to speak with some of those wanting and hoping to get to the USA or any other Western country. My wife is from the rural Isaan. I met her and married her during the Vietnam conflict. I spoke Thai, so my time in Thailand and VN with Thais went quite easily. We got her paper-w...

Let's toss out the reverse. Let's ask Thai travelers, be they tourists, businessmen, or students, if they pay higher prices in the USA, Canada, Australia, Euro-zone or elsewhere. Do you? Do the many Thai students studying in foreign countries pay a higher fare for attractions or venues? Afterall, yo...

I have--but when you get to the outlying villages, the price of land is very sensitive and affects the whole country if not just the local economy. You should not expect the right to buy such land ever, since it is definitely not in Thai people's best interests. I fully concur with this statement. ...

farang...mai phen rai

I have to disagree......mai phen rai.....these are the three most important words in the Thai language that a farang must know. No matter what happens, whether your guests are late, the taxi did not show or the house burns down, you are going to hear "mai phen rai".......these are the thre...

More Thai wish to lose their cultural and national identities and become Western or Japanese in their morals, social life and their attainment of material possessions. Very few Thais still practice and live Buddhist lifestyle. It is sad.......

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