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Valentine's Day bombs: a farce with deadly implications

19/02/2012 : To one neighbour of the three Iranian bombing suspects who sent Bangkok into a frenzy last week, the most unforgivable act they committed during their stay was not mowing the lawn in front of their humble rented home.
Expat CounselTAXES IN THAILAND Part X: Credits _ part one

19/02/2012 : Last week, we calculated the tax for a fictional taxpayer. But that's not the end of the story. There may be ways to reduce the amount of tax due even after the basic amount is calculated, by subtracting items after the total amount of tax due is calculated. Items subtracted are called credits because the taxpayer is being credited because he or she has already paid them.

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Networth
Give property a home in your portfolio
19/02/2012 : To achieve and maintain a successful financial plan, it is essential that you continue to diversify your asset classes throughout your lifetime. One of the most common and favourable ways to do this is by entering the property.
All financial roads lead to ratchadaphisek
19/02/2012 : Ratchadaphisek Road stands to become the future financial district of Bangkok. The road will be home to the AIA Capital Centre, a 35-storey commercial office building, and the Stock Exchange of Thailand's new office, which will form an integral part of the country's first financial hub.
The long road to mercy
19/02/2012 : Seven, she favours that number. She's seven times seven years of age and has been "Mother Gung" to our HIV/Aids kids under seven for seven years now. It's been, she says, "a long journey, and I choose to stay".
Is it 'Alien' or 'Avatar' in Kaeng Krachan?
19/02/2012 : Last July the mysterious crashes of three military helicopters in the space of a couple of weeks riveted the country's focus on Kaeng Krachan National Park, the nation's largest in Phetchaburi province. Much less attention was given to another dramatic series of events around the same time affecting ethnic Karen-Thai inside the park. These culminated in raids by park officials in which a total of 90 of their homes and rice barns were burned down. The ethnic Karen and their advocates say the National Parks, Wildlife and Plants Conservation Department is conducting a campaign to drive them out of the park.
She shall not be moved
12/02/2012 : Five years ago, Boeung Kak Lake was Phnom Penh's largest. It served as home to some 20,000 Cambodians as well as the capital's backpacker ghetto, where foreign travellers would sit on guest house patios in a cannabis haze to watch the sun set over the waters and finish another Angkor Beer. And although the lake was full of sewage and debris and was hardly pristine, it served as an important catchment basin for the capital, providing equilibrium during the wet and dry seasons.
Myanmar's rising drug trade
12/02/2012 : Professor Des Ball pushes plates of what is left of a roast duck and barbeque prawn dinner to the side as he spreads a large map across the dinner table and stabs his finger at a point where northern Thailand meets Myanmar.
With attitude and tattoos, hope is delivered to inmates
12/02/2012 : Heather Luna-Rose works 12 hour days, driving taxis around a small island off the west coast of Canada. She does this every day for eight months, just so she can spend the rest of her year in Thailand talking to foreign men in prison.
Expat Counsel
TAXES IN THAILAND Part IX: Tax calculation, carrying the example
12/02/2012 : Last week we discussed how an individual's taxable income is determined in Thailand. We used an example of an engineer working on a pipeline in Thailand who was married to a teacher. They live with their four children and their mother-in-law in Bangkok. In the example, after taking into account all of the deductions and exemptions, we concluded that their taxable income was 1,557,500 baht.
Networth
Wealth creation: It's never too late
12/02/2012 : So far this year we have looked at the importance of a well thought-out financial life plan and how such a plan might be affected by the creeping stealth power of inflation. Projecting these aspects of your overall finance picture into the future is not easy as there are so many unknowns and factors to take into account.
Bangkok luxury condos still make investment sense, But caution key
12/02/2012 : Many people have bought luxury condominiums in Bangkok as an investment, aiming to rent their units to expatriates. With the fast growth of new supply in the city over the past five years, competition in the leasing market has intensified. That begs the question: Are luxury condominiums still an attractive investment asset?