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/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/2009/01/british-expatriate-murdered-in-his-chiang-mai-home/ http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2009/01/british-expatriate-murdered-in-his-chiang-mai-home/#comments Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:00:11 +0000 Garry http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/?p=230 http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2009/01/british-expatriate-murdered-in-his-chiang-mai-home/feed/ 0 http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2009/01/relocation-almost-complete-getting-back-to-normal/ http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2009/01/relocation-almost-complete-getting-back-to-normal/#comments Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:12:08 +0000 Garry http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/?p=226 http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2009/01/relocation-almost-complete-getting-back-to-normal/feed/ 0 http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2008/12/cowpat-in-my-cornflakes/ http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2008/12/cowpat-in-my-cornflakes/#comments Sat, 27 Dec 2008 13:30:24 +0000 Garry http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/?p=202 http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2008/12/cowpat-in-my-cornflakes/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/2008/11/ok-who-flicked-the-winter-switch/ http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2008/11/ok-who-flicked-the-winter-switch/#comments Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:30:36 +0000 Garry http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/?p=103 CHIANG MAI, 7 Nov 2008 - Twice a year, Thailand manages to amaze me. It's the same event every year and that it still manages to grab my attention, in my tenth year of living here, is testimony to how dramatic it is. Those events are what I call the "winter switch" nights. Let me explain ...]]> http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2008/11/ok-who-flicked-the-winter-switch/feed/ 0 http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2005/08/fatal-floods-strike-northern-thailand/ http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2005/08/fatal-floods-strike-northern-thailand/#comments Tue, 16 Aug 2005 02:00:39 +0000 Garry http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/?p=49 Over 110,000 people affected. CHIANG MAI, Thailand - 16 August 2005 - Torrential rains lashed the mountainous centre of South East Asia on Saturday and led to flash floods in Northern Thailand’s popular tourist destinations. Casualty estimates vary between 5 and 13 dead, with 11 to 20 reported missing, and around forty injured including two foreign visitors. Eighteen roads, 44 bridges and around 6,500 hectares of agricultural crops have been severely affected in rural areas. Current estimates are that floods have directly affected almost 111,000 people over an area the size of Wales, according to officials.]]> http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2005/08/fatal-floods-strike-northern-thailand/feed/ 2 http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2004/05/top-thai-tour-guides-graduate/ http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2004/05/top-thai-tour-guides-graduate/#comments Mon, 24 May 2004 02:00:25 +0000 Garry http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/?p=47 Silver Licenses awarded in North for First Time Chiang Mai, Thailand, 24 May 2004 - Over 80 tourist guides from all corners of Thailand spent two month’s in study at Naresuan University’s Phayao Campus this summer, before graduating to gain their Silver Guide Licenses. Studying an intensive program for international tourism including airline passenger service, Thai culture, eco-tourism & the environment, ethics & etiquette, geography, history, immigration law, Thai music & instruments, and other subjects, the course candidates sat exams every week, with eight hours of classroom time seven days each week.]]> http://www.gazlannathai.com/eye/2004/05/top-thai-tour-guides-graduate/feed/ 0