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Living & Working in Bangkok
www.pwc.com/th Living & Working in Bangkok PwC guide for expatriates 4th edition Welcome to Thailand and welcome to the fourth edition of PwC’s guide for expatriates, Living & Working in Bangkok. We’ve been advising on international assignments to Thailand for almost four decades. During this time we’ve helped with visas, work permits, tax, legal, human resources and employment issues for hundreds of clients from all over the world. Naturally, we’ve become involved in helping our clients with other needs such as accommodation suggestions, cultural orientation, international schooling recommendations and even advice on reputable tailors! The contents of this guide have been drawn together from the experiences of our expatriate clients and staff over the years and we hope we’ve compiled a useful reference book for expatriates and their families who have recently arrived in Bangkok. Since the publication of our last edition in 2006, many things have changed in Bangkok and there are even more tips and points that we’re proud to share with you. So welcome to Thailand. And we hope that you and your family will enjoy the challenge of living and working in this fascinating city. Enjoy your stay! Prapasiri Kositthanakorn Partner Contents I. General facts about Thailand • Geography and climate 2 • Time 3 • Brief history 3 • Population 4 • Religion 4 • Government and administration 5 • Thai Flag 5 • Thai Language 6 • Currency 9 • Weight and measurement 9 • Electricity supply 9 • Water 9 • Calendar (Public holidays) 10 • Business hours 10 • Living costs 11 II. Thai way of life • Common customs and mannerisms 14 • Superstitions 16 • Some Thai laws to be aware of 19 • Further reading 20 III. -
1 at the End of Year 2020, Assets Under Central Pattana Include
1 At the end of year 2020, assets under Central Pattana include: Projects Number of Project Shopping Center 34 Projects (33 Projects in Thailand and 1 Project in Malaysia) Office Building 10 Projects Hotel 2 Projects Residential for Rent 1 Project Residential for Sale 18 Projects 1 No. Project Land Ownership Status Obligation 1 Central Ladprao Leasehold . Central Pattana pays for sublease rights fee, annual sublease rights fee and durable articles 1693 Phaholyothin Road, Chatuchak, Chatuchak, (including building) until end of contract. Bangkok 10900 Tel: + 66 (0) 2793 6000 Fax: + 66 (0) 2541 1341 2 Central Ramindra Leasehold . Central Pattana paid rental in up front to Harng Central Department Store Co., Ltd., which is related 109/10, Ramindra Road, Bangkhen, party. Both companies have Chirathivat Family as a major shareholder and controlling Bangkok 10220 persons. Tel: + 66 (0) 2790 3000 Fax: + 66 (0) 2552 5513 3 Central Pinklao Leasehold . Central Pattana sublet parts of Central Pinklao to CPNREIT for 15 years, until December 31, 7/222 Baromrachachonnanee Road, Arunamarin, 2024. Bangkoknoi, Bangkok 10700 . In 2015, Central Pattana and CPNREIT had extended the main contract for another two years Tel: + 66 (0) 2877 5000 and five months, from January 1, 2025 to May 31, 2027. Fax: + 66 (0) 2884 8486 4 Central Marina Leasehold . Central Pattana pays monthly land sublease to Central Pattaya Co., Ltd. by advanced 78/54 Moo 9, Pattaya Sai 2 Road, Banglamung, installment. Chonburi 20260 Tel: + 66 (0) 3300 3888 Fax: + 66 (0) 3300 3888 ext. 1225-6 2 No. Project Land Ownership Status Obligation 5 Central Chiangmai Airport Freehold . -
THE ROUGH GUIDE to Bangkok BANGKOK
ROUGH GUIDES THE ROUGH GUIDE to Bangkok BANGKOK N I H T O DUSIT AY EXP Y THANON L RE O SSWA H PHR 5 A H A PINKL P Y N A PRESSW O O N A EX H T Thonburi Democracy Station Monument 2 THAN BANGLAMPHU ON PHE 1 TC BAMRUNG MU HABURI C ANG h AI H 4 a T o HANO CHAROEN KRUNG N RA (N Hualamphong MA I EW RAYAT P R YA OAD) Station T h PAHURAT OW HANON A PL r RA OENCHI THA a T T SU 3 SIAM NON NON PH KH y a SQUARE U CHINATOWN C M HA H VIT R T i v A E e R r X O P E N R 6 K E R U S N S G THAN DOWNTOWN W A ( ON RAMABANGKOK IV N Y E W M R LO O N SI A ANO D TH ) 0 1 km TAKSIN BRI DGE 1 Ratanakosin 3 Chinatown and Pahurat 5 Dusit 2 Banglamphu and the 4 Thonburi 6 Downtown Bangkok Democracy Monument area About this book Rough Guides are designed to be good to read and easy to use. The book is divided into the following sections and you should be able to find whatever you need in one of them. The colour section is designed to give you a feel for Bangkok, suggesting when to go and what not to miss, and includes a full list of contents. Then comes basics, for pre-departure information and other practicalities. The city chapters cover each area of Bangkok in depth, giving comprehensive accounts of all the attractions plus excursions further afield, while the listings section gives you the lowdown on accommodation, eating, shopping and more. -
Community-Based Tourism: a Strategy for Sustainable Tourism Development of Patong Beach, Phuket Island, Thailand
Asian Social Science; Vol. 11, No. 27; 2015 ISSN 1911-2017 E-ISSN 1911-2025 Published by Canadian Center of Science and Education Community-Based Tourism: A Strategy for Sustainable Tourism Development of Patong Beach, Phuket Island, Thailand Maythawin Polnyotee1 & Suwattana Thadaniti1 1 Interdisciplinary program in Environment, Development and Sustainability, Graduate School, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand 2 Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand Correspondence: Maythawin Polnyotee, Interdisciplinary program in Environment, Development and Sustainability, Graduate School, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. E-mail: [email protected] Received: June 25, 2015 Accepted: October 16, 2015 Online Published: November 20, 2015 doi:10.5539/ass.v11n27p90 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ass.v11n27p90 Abstract This study proposes community-based tourism as a strategy for sustainable tourism development of Patong Beach. Direct observation, questionnaire and interview are research instruments. A result of analyzing 120 questionnaires of local people which displayed a negative impact including economic impact which was very high ( x = 4.53), social impact ( x = 4.28 )and environmental impact ( x = 4.42) which were high so the total mean score was high ( x = 4.41). The Community-Based Tourism was adapted for solution all negative impacts which were mentioned earlier. The sreategies are namely 1. Political development strategy: (1.1) Enabling the participation of local people, (1.2) Giving the power of the community over the outside and (1.3) Ensuring rights in natural resource management. 2. Environmental development strategy: (2.1) Studying the carrying capacity of the area, (2.2) Managing waste disposal and (2.3) Raising awareness of the need for conservation.3. -
Comparative Destination Vulnerability Assessment for Khao Lak, Patong Beach and Phi Phi Don
SEI - Africa Institute of Resource Assessment University of Dar es Salaam P. O. Box 35097, Dar es Salaam Tanzania Tel: +255-(0)766079061 SEI - Asia 15th Floor, Witthyakit Building 254 Chulalongkorn University Chulalongkorn Soi 64 Phyathai Road, Pathumwan Bangkok 10330 Thailand Tel+(66) 22514415 Stockholm Environment Institute, Project Report - 2009 SEI - Oxford Suite 193 266 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 7DL UK Tel+44 1865 426316 SEI - Stockholm Kräftriket 2B SE -106 91 Stockholm Sweden Tel+46 8 674 7070 SEI - Tallinn Lai 34, Box 160 EE-10502, Tallinn Estonia Tel+372 6 276 100 SEI - U.S. 11 Curtis Avenue Somerville, MA 02144 USA Tel+1 617 627-3786 SEI - York University of York Heslington York YO10 5DD UK Tel+44 1904 43 2897 The Stockholm Environment Institute Comparative Destination Vulnerability Assessment for SEI is an independent, international research institute.It has been Khao Lak, Patong Beach and Phi Phi Don engaged in environment and development issuesat local, national, regional and global policy levels for more than a quarterofacentury. Emma Calgaro, Sopon Naruchaikusol, and Kannapa Pongponrat SEI supports decision making for sustainable development by bridging science and policy. sei-international.org Comparative Destination Vulnerability Assessment for Khao Lak, Patong Beach and Phi Phi Don Sustainable Recovery and Resilience Building in the Tsunami Affected Region Emma Calgaro, Sopon Naruchaikusol, and Kannapa Pongponrat (1) Department of Environment and Geography, Macquarie University, Sydney (2) Stockholm Environment Institute -
Phuket Sustainability Indicator Report Seeking a Sustainable Phuket
Phuket Sustainability Indicator Report SEEKing a Sustainable Phuket Phuket Sustainability Indicator Report 2013 Executive Partners Annual Sponsors Media Partners Hospitality Partners 2 NGO Partners Government Agencies Partner Companies 3 Phuket Sustainability Indicator Report 2013 Table of Contents Preface ............................................................................................................................................................................ 5 Foreword ......................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................................... 7 Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................. 8 What is SEEK Phuket? ............................................................................................................................................ 10 Phuket’s Development Dilemma ................................................................................................................. 11 The Sustainability Compass for Phuket Island ...................................................................................... 13 Our Sustainability Indicators ............................................................................................................................ -
Shopping in Bangkok
SHOPPING IN BANGKOK Bangkok is one of Southeast Asia’s most popular shopping centers. Locally produced products are the best buys: hill tribe embroidered cottons, wood carvings, jewelry, CDs/DVDs, watches, porcelain, silk and tailoring of clothes are most popular. If you can’t buy it in Thailand, you can’t buy it! Shopping Areas: • Silom Village: 286 Silom Road near Rama IV. Charming shopping plaza with handicrafts, silk, clothes, antiques, shows. • Mah Boon Krung Center: Phayathai and Rama 1 Rd. Clothes and accessories. Tokyo Dept Store, two cinemas and fast-food places. • River City Shopping Center: Adjacent to Royal Orchid Sheraton, connected by a short bridge. 2370077-8. Arts, antiques, tailors, hair salon, jewelers. • Siam Centre/Discovery Centre: Siam Square, Rama 1 and Phyathai Rds. Two connected plazas. A 10-15 minute walk from Central World Plaza (formerly World Trade Center). • Seacon Square: Srinakarin Rd, other side of the city. One of the largest shopping plazas in Asia. Robinson’s, Lotus department stores, YOYO Land, indoor amusement park, food court, supermarket and 14 theaters! Dry cleaners in the basement. • Baiyoke Plaza & Pratunam Market: Near Indra Regent Hotel, Pratunam. Great clothes bargains, cheapest t-shirts in Bangkok. • Emporium: Sukhumvit Rd next to Queen Sirikit Park. Newish and one of the ‘glitziest’ shopping centers in Bangkok. Small designer outlets, a big department store and supermarket. • Gaysorn Plaza: Ploenchit Rd, opposite World Trade Center. Upmarket plaza with well-known designer stores and good restaurants. Planet Hollywood next door. • Oriental Place: Soi Charoen Krung 38. 2660186-95. Behind Oriental Hotel, worth going for arts and antiques. -
Thailand Ramindra – at Narong Expressway Construction Project (I) (II) 1. Project Profile and Japan's ODA Loan 1.1 Backgroun
Thailand Ramindra – At Narong Expressway Construction Project (I) (II) Report Date: January 2003 Field Survey: December 2002 1. Project Profile and Japan’s ODA Loan Myanmar Hanoi Laos Vientiane Yangon Thailand Project site Bangkok Cambodia Vietnam Phnom Penh Project site: Bangkok Ramindra – At Narong Expressway 1.1 Background The percentage coverage of the road network1 in the Thai capital, Bangkok, is extremely low as compared to other global capitals, moreover, in qualitative terms the network has heterogeneous defects; the width and grade of the roads lacks continuity, there are instances where the shape and positioning of interchanges is inappropriate, and there are zones in which the road density is exceptionally low. In consequence, economic growth, population increases, and the surge in private car traffic has led to increasingly severe traffic congestion in the Bangkok Metropolitan Region(BMR)2, constraining urban functions in various ways. The northern region of Bangkok metropolis3 have witnessed particularly marked population growth relative to the metropolitan region as a whole and by 2007, it is predicted that a third of the city’s population will reside in this regions. However, despite a surge in vehicle ownership there are few north-south routes linking this region with the center of the city, and the businesses located between Bang Pa In and Rangsit in northern Bangkok, which transport goods into and out of Klong Toey Port in the south, are recognized to be contributing to traffic congestion. 1.2 Objectives To meet increased traffic demand accompanying population growth in Bangkok metropolis in the northeast and to ease north-south traffic congestion, the project aimed to expand the north-south 1 Road coverage percentage = road surface area/administrative land area × 100 (%) 2 A region including the areas of Nonthaburi, Samut Prakarn, Samut Sakorn, Phathumthani, and Nakhorn Pathom, plus the Bangkok special zones. -
Infected Areas As on 6 August 1987 — Zones Infectées Au 6 Août 1987
U kl\ Epidem Rec Nu 32-7 August 1987 - 238 - Releve eptdem ftebd Nu 32 - 7 août 1987 PARASITIC DISEASES MALADIES PARASITAIRES Prevention and control of intestinal parasitic infections Lutte contre les parasitoses intestinales New WHO publication1 Nouvelle publication de l’OM S1 This report outlines new approaches to the prevention and con Ce rapport décrit les nouvelles méthodes de lutte contre les parasitoses trol of intestinal parasitic infections made possible by the recent intestinales mises au point grâce à la découverte de médicaments efficaces discovery of safe and effective therapeutic drugs, the improvement et sans danger, à l’amélioration et à la simplification de certaines and simplification of diagnostic procedures, and advances in the méthodes de diagnostic et aux progrès réalisés en biologie des populations understanding of parasite population biology. Newly available parasitaires. A partir de données nouvelles sur l'impact économique et information on the economic and social impact of these infections social de ces infections, il montre qu’il est nécessaire et possible de les is used to illustrate the necessity, as well as the feasibility, of maîtriser. bringing these infections under control. In view of the staking variations in the biology of different La biologie des différents parasites intestinaux ainsi que la forme et la intestinal parasites and in the form and severity of the diseases gravité des maladies qu’ils provoquent varient énormément, aussi le they cause, the book opens with individual profiles for each of the rapport commence-t-il par dresser un profil des principales helminthiases main helminthic and protozoan infections of public health impor et protozooses qui revêtent une importance du point de vue de la santé tance. -
Thailands Beaches and Islands
EYEWITNESS TRAVEL THAILAND’S BEACHES & ISLANDS BEACHES • WATER SPORTS RAINFORESTS • TEMPLES FESTIVALS • WILDLIFE SCUBA DIVING • NATIONAL PARKS MARKETS • RESTAURANTS • HOTELS THE GUIDES THAT SHOW YOU WHAT OTHERS ONLY TELL YOU EYEWITNESS TRAVEL THAILAND’S BEACHES AND ISLANDS EYEWITNESS TRAVEL THAILAND’S BEACHES AND ISLANDS MANAGING EDITOR Aruna Ghose SENIOR EDITORIAL MANAGER Savitha Kumar SENIOR DESIGN MANAGER Priyanka Thakur PROJECT DESIGNER Amisha Gupta EDITORS Smita Khanna Bajaj, Diya Kohli DESIGNER Shruti Bahl SENIOR CARTOGRAPHER Suresh Kumar Longtail tour boats at idyllic Hat CARTOGRAPHER Jasneet Arora Tham Phra Nang, Krabi DTP DESIGNERS Azeem Siddique, Rakesh Pal SENIOR PICTURE RESEARCH COORDINATOR Taiyaba Khatoon PICTURE RESEARCHER Sumita Khatwani CONTRIBUTORS Andrew Forbes, David Henley, Peter Holmshaw CONTENTS PHOTOGRAPHER David Henley HOW TO USE THIS ILLUSTRATORS Surat Kumar Mantoo, Arun Pottirayil GUIDE 6 Reproduced in Singapore by Colourscan Printed and bound by L. Rex Printing Company Limited, China First American Edition, 2010 INTRODUCING 10 11 12 13 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 THAILAND’S Published in the United States by Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc., BEACHES AND 375 Hudson Street, New York 10014 ISLANDS Copyright © 2010, Dorling Kindersley Limited, London A Penguin Company DISCOVERING ALL RIGHTS RESERVED UNDER INTERNATIONAL AND PAN-AMERICAN COPYRIGHT CONVENTIONS. NO PART OF THIS PUBLICATION MAY BE REPRODUCED, STORED IN THAILAND’S BEACHES A RETRIEVAL SYSTEM, OR TRANSMITTED IN ANY FORM OR BY ANY MEANS, AND ISLANDS 10 ELECTRONIC, MECHANICAL, PHOTOCOPYING, RECORDING OR OTHERWISE WITHOUT THE PRIOR WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT OWNER. Published in Great Britain by Dorling Kindersley Limited. PUTTING THAILAND’S A CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION RECORD IS BEACHES AND ISLANDS AVAILABLE FROM THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. -
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Ask 10 tourists what they think of when someone says “Thailand”, and most of them will immediately reply “sex”. Culture, landscapes, cuisine? No: just like The Gambia and the Dominican Republic, the “land of smiles” is seen as a sex paradise. Every year, thousands of tourists fly to Bangkok in search of it. Different sources give the number of sex workers in Thailand as somewhere between 300 000 and 2 800 000. The first figure is a government statistic and perhaps closer to reality. The second is put forward by anti-prostitution NGOs, some of them of a Christian persuasion, which inflate the scale of the “scourge” with excessively high figures. Only a very small proportion of Thai sex workers work with foreign tourists, but these are the people I want to find, talk to and understand more about. In the cities of Phuket, Bangkok, Pattaya and Chiang Mai, there is plenty of choice for the tourist. There are places selling sex directly, such as the many variations of massage parlours, which can be tiny or huge. But there are also the indirect channels, such as ago-go bars, beer bars and nightclubs. In these, chatting and drinking comes first, and then maybe sex. Whenever this topic comes up, the words “human trafficking” are never far behind. “In Thailand, we still find under-age sex workers from neighbouring countries,” I’m told in the Belgian embassy in Bangkok by Usa Lertsrisanthad, who works with the NGO Foundation for Women. “They work in the sector that serves Thai men. But the branch targeting tourists is reasonably clean. -
Conservation and Development of Koh Kret Community Environment in Nonthaburi การอนุรักษ์และพัฒนาลักษณะสภาพแวดล้อมชุมชนท้องถิ่นเกาะเกร็ด จังหวัดนนทบุรี
Conservation and Development of Koh Kret Community Environment in Nonthaburi การอนุรักษ์และพัฒนาลักษณะสภาพแวดล้อมชุมชนท้องถิ่นเกาะเกร็ด จังหวัดนนทบุรี Srisak Phattanawasin ศรศี กดั ์ิ พฒนวศั นิ Conservation and Development of Koh Kret Community Environment in Nonthaburi Srisak Phattanawasin 15 Journal of Architectural/Planning Research and Studies Volume 6. Issue 2. 2009 16 Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Thammasat University Conservation and Development of Koh Kret Community Environment in Nonthaburi การอนรุ กษั และพ์ ฒนาลั กษณะสภาพแวดลั อมช้ มชนทุ องถ้ นเกาะเกร่ิ ด็ จงหวั ดนนทบั รุ ี Srisak Phattanawasin ศรศี กดั ์ิ พฒนวศั นิ Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Thammasat University, Pathum Thani 12121, Thailand, E-mail: [email protected] คณะสถาปตยกรรมศาสตรั และการผ์ งเมั องื มหาวทยาลิ ยธรรมศาสตรั ์ จงหวั ดปทั มธานุ ี 12121 Abstract The expansions of urbanization and economic growth over Bangkok area generate rapid changes on several small communities surrounding Bangkok, especially on the potential ones such as Koh Kret, Nontahburi. Due to its unique physical, social and cultural virtues, Koh Kret has been promoted as an eco-cultural tourist attraction. This, to some extent, has impacts on Koh Kret’s physical transformations concerned with their original way of life and cultures, causing the difficulties between retaining the cultural heritage and modernizing the community area. This research had studied on both theoretical and related topics along with a field research, focusing on the studies for conservation and sustainable development of Koh Kret community environment related to the tourism. Two main issues were covered in this research, that is, the community planning and the vernacular architecture. In this study, the participating research was performed by using field surveys and questionnaires for gathering information on community attitudes toward the above issues.