The Nation Januari 1 2012
Department of Special Investigation (DSI) chief Tharit Pengdit said yesterday his office would crack down on foreigners using Thais as nominees to buy land and run businesses from which they are legally excluded, while his deputy Narat Sawettanan said 536 websites had been shut down since December 13 for allegedly having lese majeste content.
BANGKOK — Give me your drug dealers, your money launderers, your felons on the lam yearning to breathe free.Thailand has never advertised itself as a beacon for fugitives, but the world’s wretched refuse — to tweak the noble words inscribed at the Statue of Liberty — seem to show up here in droves.
By The Nation
Nearly two-thirds of all Thais (64.5 per cent) believe corruption is acceptable if the new government makes the country prosper, promotes people's well-being and benefits the respondents themselves, while 35.5 per cent said otherwise, an Abac poll reported yesterday.
The British lawyer who was a prosecutor in colonial Hong Kong mentioned in this article utill recently worked for a foreign managed law firm in Thailand.
Cyberfraud: The fictitious "Dominion of Melchizedek"
Of all the scams and con jobs perpetrated over the Internet, nothing compares to what a virtual country and its creators have done to the world, writes Bertil Lintner.
He left the country after being repeatedly denied enrolment in the Quebec bar admission course because he stabbed his mother to death when he was younger. But Sebastien Brousseau (Isaan Lawyers) has finally prevailed in his decade-long campaign for the right to become a lawyer. The Quebec bar says it will not appeal a decision this spring by a panel of judges who ruled that Sebastian Brousseau is sufficiently rehabilitated that he can practise law without hurting the reputation of the legal profession.
Real Estate laws are largely copied from the European civil law systems. Property laws of mainland Europe are also found in Thailand. Below an overview of the main Thailand property laws.
Lottery tickets, therefore, always sell out at premium prices; prostitution is rampant and young women readily marry foreign pensioners
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