http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye An Outsider Inside Thailand Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:37:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2010/09/confusion-surrounds-new-thai-visa-overstay-policy-reports/ http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2010/09/confusion-surrounds-new-thai-visa-overstay-policy-reports/#comments Sat, 25 Sep 2010 11:50:26 +0000 Garry http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/?p=817 http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2010/09/confusion-surrounds-new-thai-visa-overstay-policy-reports/feed/ 4 http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2010/09/stay-too-long-in-thailand-and-you-go-to-jail-new-rules/ http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2010/09/stay-too-long-in-thailand-and-you-go-to-jail-new-rules/#comments Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:44:20 +0000 Garry http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/?p=787 http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2010/09/stay-too-long-in-thailand-and-you-go-to-jail-new-rules/feed/ 1 http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2010/01/expat-work-permit-fees-rise-application-rules-to-change/ http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2010/01/expat-work-permit-fees-rise-application-rules-to-change/#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:17:37 +0000 Garry http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/?p=397 http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2010/01/expat-work-permit-fees-rise-application-rules-to-change/feed/ 0 http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2009/02/ebay-top-sellers-summit-in-chiangmai/ http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2009/02/ebay-top-sellers-summit-in-chiangmai/#comments Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:13:33 +0000 Garry http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/?p=255 eBay's top Chiang Mai sellers and their SE Asian seller management team met at the Chiang Mai Holiday Inn yesterday (23 Feb 2009) to exchange information about the marketplace, its policies, and current sales performance. Presentations were also given by international courier DHL and a new service for sellers to manage their multi-national sales marketing - Global MerchantRun. PayPal SE Asia also attended and presented information. A buffet style dinner was provided by the Holiday Inn for early arrivers. Of the 30 or so sellers in attendance, approximately half were foreign expatriates resident in Chiang Mai and trading from here. This is a stark contrast to the eBay team's last visit to Chiang Mai, in 2006, when they held a seminar for all levels of buyers. That earlier meeting was predominantly Thai attendees with only a handful of foreigners. Could this disparity in ratio be indicative that Thai sellers are not succeeding on the platform?]]> http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2009/02/ebay-top-sellers-summit-in-chiangmai/feed/ 1 http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2009/02/telling-thai-immigration-police-of-change-of-address/ http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2009/02/telling-thai-immigration-police-of-change-of-address/#comments Sun, 01 Feb 2009 05:00:28 +0000 Garry http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/index.php/2009/02/01/telling-thai-immigration-police-of-change-of-address/ http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2009/02/telling-thai-immigration-police-of-change-of-address/feed/ 0 http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2009/01/tot-adsl-service-rules-cause-unneccesary-cost-for-users/ http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2009/01/tot-adsl-service-rules-cause-unneccesary-cost-for-users/#comments Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:38:57 +0000 Garry http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/?p=232 TOT's mistrust of its subscribers is causing foreigners in Thailand to pay unnecessary costs, receive continued billing long after requesting service termination, and is leading to loss of property rental deposits. Foreigners renting property in Thailand, a country which prohibits all foreigners from land ownership, are subjected to prejudicial policies and serious levels of punative charges when subscribing to the Telephone Organisation of Thailand's (TOT's) ADSL broadband internet service.]]> http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2009/01/tot-adsl-service-rules-cause-unneccesary-cost-for-users/feed/ 0 http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2008/12/another-type-of-thai-smile-identified/ http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2008/12/another-type-of-thai-smile-identified/#comments Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:59:40 +0000 Garry http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/?p=189 http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2008/12/another-type-of-thai-smile-identified/feed/ 0 http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2008/12/se-asia-europe-internet-connections-at-10-normal-speed/ http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2008/12/se-asia-europe-internet-connections-at-10-normal-speed/#comments Sat, 20 Dec 2008 08:26:20 +0000 Garry http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/?p=178 The breakage of the three trunk undersea cables in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia has dropped Internet bandwidth between Europe and Asia to 10% of normal capacity, as Telco's and ISPs frantically try to reroute connections through the USA. Users in SE Asia are reporting connections as slow as 5 bps with up to 100% transmission packet loss on some browse and email connection attempts.]]> http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2008/12/se-asia-europe-internet-connections-at-10-normal-speed/feed/ 1 http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2008/12/mediterranean-cables-cut-global-internet-access-falls/ http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2008/12/mediterranean-cables-cut-global-internet-access-falls/#comments Sat, 20 Dec 2008 07:02:18 +0000 Garry http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/?p=174 Internet and phone communications between Europe, the Middle East and Asia were severely disrupted on Friday (19th Dec 2008) after three undersea cables were damaged in the Mediterranean, France Telecom said. "The causes of the cut, which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia, on sections linking Sicily to Egypt, remain unclear," a statement said, while a spokesman said it was unlikely to have been an attack. The company said it was sending a ship to fix the lines but that it would not arrive until Monday and that it could take until December 31 until normal service was restored.]]> http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2008/12/mediterranean-cables-cut-global-internet-access-falls/feed/ 0 http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2008/12/return-to-my-future-colour-of-money-matters/ http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2008/12/return-to-my-future-colour-of-money-matters/#comments Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:30:07 +0000 Garry http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/?p=137
Once you begin travelling abroad, you quickly learn that the colour of your money does matter. As I described earlier this week, even in the highly internationalised environment of a foreign airport transit lounge, some currencies are accepted, others are not. Whilst my experience in Chermenteyov, in 1999, regarding some shops accepting multiple currencies, and some accepting a select few, may or may not have been due to business operator's preferences, or due to airport rules, or even Russian laws, it did show me that travelling abroad requires a degree of preparation for the unexpected.]]> http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2008/12/return-to-my-future-colour-of-money-matters/feed/ 0