From: trin@tlaeng.enet.dec.com (Trin Tantsetthi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.thai
Subject: Re: Some Questions????
Date: 7 Sep 92 00:56:06 +0700
Organization: Digital Equipment (Thailand), Ltd.

In article <BtvHvM.Hvp@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>, olmstead@steam.uwaterloo.ca 
(F. Michael Olmstead) asked a few questions. Here is what I got from a local
BBS. The messenger (me) has to admit that he is totally illiterate on this
matter. The BBS can be reached at +66-2-2555981, upto V.32bis/14400bps.

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 BBS: War On Virus
Date: 09-02-92 (12:31)             Number: 13
From: ALAN DAWSON                  Refer#: 10
  To: TRIN TANTSETTHI               Recvd: YES 
Subj: Thai citizenship               Conf: (11) Thai_Usene
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TT>now a citizen of Canada.  Her Canadian citizenship documents are correct
TT>because the parents petitioned the court to change her birthdate.
 
TT>The Thai Embassy in Ottawa literally said Mai Pen Rai.
 
TT>Is there a way to change this?  Some department to write to?
 
Not from there, not realistically. A visit to the Chachangsao
district office could probably handle this. I've done stuff LIKE this
for my kids in half a day. But from afar??? Unlikely in the Real
World.
 
TT>Can Thai citizens hold citizenship in a second country?
 
No short answer. Many do. In GENERAL, they must (by the law) choose
one at Age 20. There is also the reality of "what you can get away
with." How would anyone KNOW about two or twelve nationalities under
normal circumstances? The problem with this last is that somewhere
down the road, the wrong person may find out. Despite this, many
people maintain two or more nationalities, including Thai.
 
TT>Is there still a law forbidding Thai women from holding property if they
TT>have married a foreigner? Does this law apply to Thai men marrying
TT>foreigners?
 
Yes, for women. No, for men.
 
TT>I have been told by a well read friend, who is not intimate with
TT>Thailand, that the Thai government is quickly becoming the most
TT>notorious in the world for collecting information on its citizens.
TT>Apparently the use of computers is driving this.
 
  Ha-HA-HAH he-he-hee-hee ho ho ho hoh hoh har har har ho ho he he
hee hee hee ho hoh hoh hoh cough cough [sorry]
  No, this isn't true. There are those who WISH it were, but it
isn't. "The use of computers" is not exactly, um, overwhelming in the
offices of the people needed to drive this.
   For your information, and feel free to pass it on to your friend:
   The Thai Bankers Association (private, and WAY ahead of the
government) HOPES that within 5 years, computers will make it
possible to cash a cheque from one bank branch in another branch in a
mere 10 days.
   The Thai government HOPES within 5 years to make it possible,
thanks to computers, to have a registry of family names so that new
citizens can be granted theirs in less than the 3-6 months it now
takes to search. (Family names, by law, must be unique.)
   The Thai Immigration Department HOPES within 10 years to have
useful computers, period.
   The Thai government, thanks to its eptness with computers, doesn't
know how many people live in Bangkok, how many streets there are in
Bangkok, how many people have AIDS in Thailand, or, for that, how
many computers it has/needs the next time there's a revolution and
the people launch ANOTHER fax/cable TV/BBS war of information against
them.
 
 
 * OLX 2.2 * "(Bush) and I share the same opinion." Bill Clinton
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