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8th October

Samui +2 new cases
Phangan, no new cases
Koh Tao, no new cases

Updated list of Green Zone Restaurants...

17 minutes ago, EricTh said:

I see more Americans than British or Russians in Thailand, why aren't they in the top 5?

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...

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.

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

Hospital issues notice of birth, which you then take to your Amphur office and they issue a Birth Certificate, and update your house book.

 

Some hospitals will do it for you at extra cost,

Also best to do it yourself as the hospital usually manage to mess up foreigner names, it's hard to correct and many people don't like some strangers name in the 'reporting the birth' box of your kid's BC.

 

I don't know about quickly, 

My kid was born late at night, I collected the notice at 8am along with all the other dads, and we drove to the Amphur office, the BC was in my hand my 9:30. I guess it might be more difficult for foreigners who can't read, write and speak Thai.

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.

On 10/4/2021 at 7:34 AM, kingstonkid said:

I am thinking (dangerous for me) that what will happen is that I will get a partial 90 day and then have to redo it when I get my extension.

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...

11 hours ago, hounddog said:

Appreciate all members input who have experience of this situation. Also, are there any other issues I need to be aware of when applying for this extension?

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...

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Others spoke of the three - four billion baht generated in the three months just going into the pockets of the big hotels. 

 

Tourists had stayed inside them as they catered to most of their needs. 

 

They had hardly left the big hotels at all.

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

On 10/2/2021 at 4:34 PM, brewsterbudgen said:

Well of course if it's voluntary, refunds wouldn't be necessary.  I was commenting on the OP which is about only vaccinated kids being allowed to go to the school! 

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?

5 hours ago, Gsxrnz said:

Drumroll.........................and the're gonna call it DurianCoin.

Hmm, the saying used to be that money don't smell...

3 hours ago, worgeordie said:

Why do they start investigations of these land grabs, AFTER 

houses, resorts  have been built , even several years later,

same as in the forests ,they find the logs After they have

been felled. 

 

regards worgeordie

Could well be that...

-before the logs were felled, they were not illegal, but alive trees;

-and before houses were build on a 35 degree slope, they were not illegal buildings, because there were none...

2nd October

Samui +11 new cases
Phangan, no new cases
Koh Tao, no new cases

3rd October

Samui +19 new cases
Phangan +1 new case
Koh Tao, no new cases

There is a cluster of Covid-19 at ISS (International School Samui). The advise is: 

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. 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. 

Samui Plus Sandbox 7-night stay-rules from October 1st...