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Panyadee Covid tests? Not to my, and my child's, knowledge, but parents and guardians got letters from the school about both the ISS- and the Winfield-outbreak, and to check the children - and/or grownups - if the have been close to anyone from these schools. - - - ...If your child shows any symptoms like a headache, sore throat or fever please keep them at home and contact a doctor for medical advice. If you or your family have had contact with students, parents or teachers from ISS or Oon Rak we recommend getting a test to ensure the safety of our school community. All of our staff have done this already and they all came back negative... - - - We have been made aware of an outbreak of covid at Windfield International School, if you or your child has had any contact with students, parents or teachers from this school we recommend that you get a covid test before returning to school. If you know that you have had contact with any of the families that have had a positive test you should isolate and seek medical advice... - - -

If vaccination works, and is the way out of the pandemic - as lately news articles states - then with a high enough full vaccination rate of the local population in a sandbox, and only vaccinated people are let inside a sandbox, both foreigners and domestic travellers, there should be no problem in fully reopening a sandbox, i.e. no tests, no face masks, no restrictions, and business as usual. According to WHO there were 44,549 deaths in Thailand caused by influenza in 2018 - so far there are 17,607 registered Covid-deaths - will Covid then be worse than influenza when almost everybody is vaccinated?

If there are so many unsold condos, then there have been build too many, or there have been build condos that don't match the market's demand. If foreigners shall be allowed to own property - i.e. a condo beyond the 49 percent limit, or a small plot of land under en certain limit, which for example could be half a rai that is similar size to many a home-plot around the World, or whatever is reasonable - then in my modest opinion, there should be a claim of not more than one home per foreigner, and that the foreigner shall live in the home at least 180 days during a calendar year, to avoid property speculation. In other words, it's homes for foreigners that wish to live in the nation, which also might make it more attractive for foreigners to settle, and even pay some taxes, i.e. at least the small property tax, and v.a.t. from their consumption. The latter can be quite a lot of tax from some foreigners...????

A good question is always: What would the opposition have done in the same situation, if they instead had had the power, and of course not the knowledge of facts from the always unbearably crystal bright light of hindsight...????

8th October Samui +2 new cases Phangan, no new cases Koh Tao, no new cases

Updated list of Green Zone Restaurants...

The stat is for first half of 2021, when did the Americans you see buy their condo...

So every time one Brit, or one Frenchman, buys a condo almost 20 Chinese have also bought one...

In-water-dining is great...???? - I've tried it, it's cool....???? -Yes, it's me sitting in fur in the happy hippie era during "the summer of '69"...????

5th October Samui +13 new cases Phangan, no new cases Koh Tao, no new cases 6th October Samui +2 new cases Phangan +1 new case Koh Tao, no new cases 7th October Samui +8 new cases Phangan, +4 new cases Koh Tao, no new cases There is a new Covid-outbreak in Windfield International School in Lamai.

You have a time limit - I think to remember 3 days or 72 hours - during which you need register the birth at the tessa ban district office, and get a birth certificate with Thai ID-number and the child's name, and registration in a house book. That's how it worked for me when my daughter was born. If a foreigner is parent and the child is going to have the foreigner's family name, then a proper translation of the passport is needed, preferably from an authorized translator...????

OP, you shall first of all invest in a proper UPS, or more, to protect your electronics, eventually place a surge protector plug in front of the UPS. I use a Elektra and Toshimo distribution panels from HomePro (probably same OEM-make, as they are identical) as both surge protector and earth-indicator... I also have on the above quoted sockets testers from Lazada, which is also fine to check outlets. Most up-to-date Internet connections are optical fiber, only locally it changes to cobber wire. If you have fiber into the condo, it will change from fiber to cobber in the router, which often also has 5G wireless wifi. ????

IMO, just keep the ban, if the concern is public health, it will be harder to restore it, if was once removed.

Bali and Phangan/Samui have for long time been know as being the two places in Asia were women settles, or just travel to for fun and vacation. I live on Samui and here are numerous Western female expats, and also many single female tourists, as well as Western couples that also settles; my neighbor for almost 10 years was a British couple, and behind them lived an elder French couple. In the little Samui-village where I stay, I can count as many Western women as Western men. A number of my male Thai friends have had, or is having, a Western partner, and children with their partners. One elder Thai man - in the medical expression, meaning 40 years or older - is having a young Danish girlfriend, one that many Western men would wishful look at...???? In my first bungalow on Samui, which I rented for almost 6 years, I had an elder French couple as neighbor - he spoke fluently Vietnamese, but hardly any English, and no Thai, and I only spoke French "un petit peu" - and to the other side a elder French single lady that often had different Thai men as visitor. Opposite me was an elder Danish couple every year during the winter months, and just across the entrance lived a British lady with her Thai husband. The village I live in actually has a small community of French ladies, but in general there are many Western ladies of all ages living all over the island, of course including spouses of Western couples. For example was the charity foundation "Sisters of Samui" formed in 1997 by a group of women living on the island. The ladies arranged to meet for monthly lunches and raise funds for charity; today it's an extremely active society with sometimes quite big events, and still the monthly "Ladies Lunch" (I'm not sure if men are allowed). In normal years with tourism, lots of Western women are visting the islands - Samui and Phangan are well known for parties attractive to younger folks - either single ladies or small groups of female friends together, and it seems like numerous of them are also dating some guys while staying here, and some of them are dating Asian men, just like some of the young Western guys might date Asian girls. I noted in a group that is sharing memories and old pictures from mainly Koh Phangan - mostly from around the 1990s - that even there were many young men in the photos, there were only very few Thai girls, but in contrary there were numerous Western girls pictured together with Thai men...????

It's depending where you stay, i.e. which immigration office you extend your stay at. Many places, if not most places, 90-days reporting has nothing to do with extension of stay, while a few places - like where I live, i.e. Surat Thani Immigration - resets the 90-day reports when extending your stay, as address is also confirmed by that time. No matter what, you need to do your 90-days reporting when it's due. Only if you stay, where they count application for extension of stay as an address report, and you have already done the extension - i.e. 365 days minus 360 days (4 x 90), or close to that - you will have a new 90-days note stapledin your passport with the next date for address report...????

Another step for only letting wealthy "quality tourists" get inside... Some tourist destinations in Europe began with charging an entrance fee to limit the number of visitors - and the costs for damage by too many of the same - and even that 500 baht is relative small money when exchanged to many foreign currencies, I'm not sure if this is the right time to restrict the usual budget tourists, those that support the small vendors rather than stay inside big luxury hotels. Already numerous visitors avoid Thailand due to the complicated entry due to COE, a number of relative expensive Covid-tests, mandatory SHA-hotel stay, mandatory use of face mask, and various limitations...????

The World stopped working...????

More details about Samui Plus Sandbox...

Yes, first time you apply for extension based on retirement, using the FFT (Foreign Telegraphic Transfer) method, you only need two month as approval. You can find answers to how to apply for extension of stay in the pinned thread in the local Koh Samui forum - the immigration office here is little more strict than other places - you need for example also a health check, TM30-registering your address, and some maps to your home. You can find the pinned thread here, move to the last pages for latest updates... The current list of required documents should still be this one...

It only requires little planning, a last will - or two, if you still have assets in your home country - and a shared account with some, or enough, funds for the first period; eventual state in the will that funds in shared bank account(s) belongs to the other named person. Even better is to make sure that the partner - doesn't matter if you are married or not - also have some funds of her (or his, or...) own...

Probably something similar will happen in the future, when the planned wealthy "quality tourists" arrives.

4th October Samui +10 new cases Phangan, no new cases Koh Tao +1 new case

According to the news today, it's voluntary...

Based on what I read in the news story, the Swiss man seems like a kind of hero, and also telling the truth, and not trying to escape. But then comes the wife's statement, perhaps there are more to the story than what reached the news...????

I can see the benefit by avoiding ATM fees, and currency exchange costs, when going all digital, and I can also see the benefits of money paid in digital currencies become legal payments; there could also be kind of whitewashing, or tax evasion, benefits here... As the goal also is to change mass tourism to so-called "quality tourists", i.e. the more loaded or wealthy spenders, I'm in doubt if they are digital currency users, or they don't care about small fees. They might often add everything to the bill, and don't care much about if they could get it little cheaper in the street than when they buy it at the hotel they stay in; they just pay the total bill with their plastic card. Quality tourists are in my view those that pays from $200 and up to $1,000, or much more, per night for a hotel room... Furthermore, I'm in doubt about a digital token success if the use of same tokens can be traced; sometimes cash has its benefits...???? Are my thoughts far out?