Doing business here.
I just want to set up an office and fill it with Khmer English grads pay them a fair wage and pay the taxes.
It takes months to set up a business, and the red tape is a nightmare
Worse thing about Cambodia
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I wish you would flesh out your story. Do you mean someone gets on the bus after you have crossed from Thailand and gone through khmer immigration? Is this the bus fare to pp he is asking for?Guest wrote: ↑Fri Nov 05, 2021 5:37 amI mean I really liked the place.
What I really didn’t like was the twat in poipet who would get on the bus and claim that everyone just have riel, $ not allowed and proceed to rip off as many unsuspecting tourists as possible.
I have flown in for so many years (Air Asia - "now everyone can fly") that I have forgotten the ripoffs in poipet. Like the one where 2 nice young guys are waiting just outside khmer immigration and tell they will drive you to the "official" bus station for the bus to PP.
Then it turns out it is another, not the official bus station, their buses costing the same ($15) but having no toilet.
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I wish you would flesh out your story. Do you mean someone gets on the bus after you have crossed from Thailand and gone through khmer immigration? Is this the bus fare to pp he is asking for?Guest wrote: ↑Fri Nov 05, 2021 5:37 amI mean I really liked the place.
What I really didn’t like was the twat in poipet who would get on the bus and claim that everyone just have riel, $ not allowed and proceed to rip off as many unsuspecting tourists as possible.
I have flown in for so many years (Air Asia - "now everyone can fly") that I have forgotten the ripoffs in poipet. Like the one where 2 nice young guys are waiting just outside khmer immigration and tell they will drive you to the "official" bus station for the bus to PP.
Then it turns out it is another, not the official bus station, their buses costing the same ($15) but having no toilet.
Poipet/Aranyaprethet border. Sounds like some people have problems on the Khmer side, but in my experience, just talking about government officials, 99.95 % of the A-holes are on the Thai side.
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Guest9999 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 27, 2021 4:36 amPoipet/Aranyaprethet border. Sounds like some people have problems on the Khmer side, but in my experience, just talking about government officials, 99.95 % of the A-holes are on the Thai side.
just having tea with your chums in government again?
Although once a newcomer myself, and in some eyes still am, I would say the most annoying are newcomers. Especially those who have issues of their own culture to apply here with the support of wealth. The same wealth that twists the scenario towards crime and deception. The Karen on the bicycle, the aspiring street fighter, the rude customer, the nasty rumor-spreader, the abused childhoods coming to save the world from themselves.
TeacherDom, just saying my experience about that border.
No matter how crowded it is crossing into Thailand, on the Thai side there are always at least two unstaffed immigration counters, and at least 2 Thai immigration officers sitting around eating, and they are never, never, never in a rush.
Cambodia, we know, is not a land of milk, purity, and honey, corruption is certainly not hard to find. However, I guess I want to be able to hold relatively rich Thailand to a higher standard, and at that border, I cannot. Immigration cops wear Rolex and huge gemstone rings and demand an unposted 100 Baht fee from every Khmer passport holder.
On the Khmer side, they used to demand Baht not dollars with a laugh and a smile, on the Thai side, the corruption comes with unsmiling arrogance. Don't get me wrong, I love Thailand for all kinds of reasons too, but when I re-enter Cambodia I breathe easy, because I feel I am home. (Oh ya, sorry, this post is for the worse things.)
No matter how crowded it is crossing into Thailand, on the Thai side there are always at least two unstaffed immigration counters, and at least 2 Thai immigration officers sitting around eating, and they are never, never, never in a rush.
Cambodia, we know, is not a land of milk, purity, and honey, corruption is certainly not hard to find. However, I guess I want to be able to hold relatively rich Thailand to a higher standard, and at that border, I cannot. Immigration cops wear Rolex and huge gemstone rings and demand an unposted 100 Baht fee from every Khmer passport holder.
On the Khmer side, they used to demand Baht not dollars with a laugh and a smile, on the Thai side, the corruption comes with unsmiling arrogance. Don't get me wrong, I love Thailand for all kinds of reasons too, but when I re-enter Cambodia I breathe easy, because I feel I am home. (Oh ya, sorry, this post is for the worse things.)
@Guest9999 funny. I experience the opposite at O Smach but maybe because I hold a long term Thai visa the Thai side is easy. What baffled me on the Thai side is that a power outage resulted in a closed border. No backup power or mobile connection to enable passport checks.
On the Khmer side a visa argument once went so out of hand we had to call our immigration guy in Phnom Penh (one of the top brass). He made the immigration officer turn white and entry was suddenly permitted. It had something to do with the business visa and some made up/wrong implementation of the visa rules.
Pre-covid we crossed a few times a year so over time they recognize you and things are more friendly at both sides.
On the Khmer side a visa argument once went so out of hand we had to call our immigration guy in Phnom Penh (one of the top brass). He made the immigration officer turn white and entry was suddenly permitted. It had something to do with the business visa and some made up/wrong implementation of the visa rules.
Pre-covid we crossed a few times a year so over time they recognize you and things are more friendly at both sides.
I think the OP is referring to the Khmer lads who used to work the tourist buses from Bangkok. They pretend to Thai and tell tourists all sorts of nonsense in order to extract the max $$$ from them possible such as the "no cash machines/cash only" to get people to change with their mates at the border. I thought all that stuff had ended quite a while ago but I've not made that border without pre-arranged taxis for years.
On the broader note of "worse" things in Cambodia. My biggest issue is the seeming lack of consideration/empathy many people display. You see this in the way people drive, do business, give to charity, in politics, early hours wedding music/noise, late night Karaoke.
No one seems to give a flying f about anyone outside their family and act accordingly. No matter if it has a negative impact on someone else because they don't matter, they are not important enough to care what they think. It's pervasive and filters down into many problematic interactions people have.
On the broader note of "worse" things in Cambodia. My biggest issue is the seeming lack of consideration/empathy many people display. You see this in the way people drive, do business, give to charity, in politics, early hours wedding music/noise, late night Karaoke.
No one seems to give a flying f about anyone outside their family and act accordingly. No matter if it has a negative impact on someone else because they don't matter, they are not important enough to care what they think. It's pervasive and filters down into many problematic interactions people have.
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