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3 hours ago, Thechook said:

They increased the arrival and departure tax a couple of years ago to provide medical costs if a tourist was injured and tourists already get hit with dual pricing.  Tourism must be bad if they are going to hit the remaining ones even harder.

I would not mind paying 1000 BHT entry and departure extra.

If all the millions of the beloved ones, chinese mates swamp in on the new train they could pay for medical treatment in the hospitals and upgrade tourist facilities, the problem isssssss

Watch this space---- Bill Gates and his WHO will release a coronavirus vaccine very soon, my, my, my  corona

Who will administer the money, thats the big problem in LOS

Fingers jammed in the till ---Ouch

On 2/6/2020 at 10:55 PM, Saint Nick said:

Yeah...because crossing a busy street in bangkok is about the same, as being subjected to a (probably) deadly virus!

Because we are all looking at a pandemic of stupid drivers!

(Well...we kinda are, but...you know, what I mean!)

 

Who writes such crappy articles?

 

Perhaps Thai drivers should be held in quarantine and not permitted to drive until they have been attitude adjusted.

On 2/6/2020 at 10:41 PM, Lacessit said:

The coronavirus fatalities are far worse than the Chinese authorities are admitting. Entire supply chains are being shut down as cities in China are in lockdown. It is not good news for anybody, with the possible exception of the medical industry.

Well the government has been saying that they would introduce measures to combat the BHT from getting stronger.

On 2/7/2020 at 8:34 PM, rkidlad said:

So much wrong with what just came out of this little man's mouth. That was extremely racist and xenophobic. Very ugly to see a person of his stature in the government talking like this. 

 

I'm guessing some 'white people' said no when he offered them a mask. I'm guessing they may have refused to be in a picture. He's obviously lost face and just let words come out of his mouth in a fit of anger.

 

He asked Thai people to help kick out foreigners who don't wear masks. Let that sink in. A man who said this virus is like a common cold, who said stopping people coming in from mainland China won't make a difference, a man who's been seen in pictures with people who were ill not wearing a mask - has the audacity to tell people to help roundup people who don't accept his crappy masks and kick them out.

 

This man is one of the top men helping run this country. God help Thailand. 

 

 

 

 

Is this the man who denied drug conviction and imprisonment in Australia.

The Australians provided his records (allegedly) and Prayut makes him the minister of Health and says oh only another country, so does not matter about what you do overseas???

He would not be able to visit America or some other countries with a drug dealers conviction.

So why is he a minister at all????

15 hours ago, Guderian said:

Maybe the PM should ensure the future of Chinese tourism in Thailand by going to the airports and personally meeting and greeting and shaking hands with all new Chinese arrivals in Thailand?

Nothing to worry about, surely, it's all 100% under control, lol.

The Pm did this a week ago, he said he was not going to stop Chinese tours as they could keep the situation under control. The Thai locals do not think so, they are very worried.

He said people would lose a lot of money if the Chinese were stopped altogether.

Will he still be taking selfies of himself when a full blown epedemic breaks out.

Very wreckless attitudes by Thai authorities, where there is smoke there's fire.

Who will take the blame if that does happen, it seems to have begun ,is getting bigger and if it goes viral there could be some problems for the enlightened ones.

On 1/26/2020 at 3:25 PM, madmitch said:

Accoding to the BBC and the newspaper that can't be quoted on here, China is suspending the sale of packege tours abroad from tomorrow. Now that will have the Thai tourism authorities worried plus many businesses of course.

I heard that suspension stars today for all tours.

6 hours ago, AlexRich said:

Come back Farang ... all is forgiven!!

According to other news sources XI is ordering all tourist flights out of China suspended from today.

Until next month.

He said flights that had already left would be monitored.

I was on a flight from Chiang Mai to BK a few days ago(full of chinese coughing and sneezing) and became sick as a dog 3 days later with terrible flew.

Been in bed 2 days and heaps of vitamin c and para +water and magnesium, I'm on the mend but it was sure nasty.

Maybe this flight ban is why there were no Chinese in for breakfast this morning at the Indra BK.

Everyone in BK is wearing masks.

On 1/23/2020 at 9:10 PM, Hayduke said:

 

Fewer tourists? No problem...just raise the rates for hotels, goods, and services to make up the difference.

 

 

Local Thai will gain nothing from Chinese tourists as the venues are all Thai Chinese.

The only thing Local Thai and other tourists might gain is coranavirus.

18 hours ago, Beggar said:

"It’s been report that the Malaysian government has already waived visas for Chinese and Indian tourists. If that’s true, Thailand will lose an enormous amount of income because the Chinese are our main customers.”

 

"If that's true"

 

Is it so hard to find this out?

Apparently, the Chinese have isolated the area from where the flew is supposed to be coming from ,quarantined a whole city. 

However there has been a small outbreak here in LOS,

This could spiral out of control as cases are reported in the USA as well.

Their are thousand of Chinese pouring in at the moment going all over LOS.

An outbreak is very plausable.

An outbreak from Malaysia would travel up from the south through LOS.

Waiving visas will encourage this.

The high BHT is not helping the country only helping money launderers cash in.

Exports are in trouble, tourism is down and the country is in for a major correction, when that happens look out, financial forecasters are saying we are heading for a bigger event than what happened in The USA.

Turn your cash to gold before it is to late.

1 hour ago, Topdoc said:

What is going to happen when hordes of Chinese people descend on Thailand for their Golden Week holidays? Will you be able to detect the patients as soon as they arrive??

There has been no human to human transmission of the virus, so the English guy in Hospital Phuket got it from a monkey.

Oh that's right he does not have it, oh yes he does say conflicting news reports.

If he does not have it then maybe he was poisoned by bed bug spray like the poor soles in Chiang Mai a few years ago.

Brace yourselves there may well be an epidemic well underway.

Stock up on vitamin C.

2 hours ago, MaxYakov said:

They need to find the loot and tie it to him. Channel 3 is showing blurred-out images of the dude.

They said that robbery was not the motive, so what is the motive? Jealousy, maybe one of his mia noi,s played up on him.

Gambling debt, is not a motive to kill a little boy, but jealousy would be more probable.

Either way he is a very sick SOAB .

He deserves the harshest penalty, if the BIB have the real man.

I would guess that they probably do have , what will the motive be-- stay tuned.

5 hours ago, thequietman said:

A motorcycle and a tablet would have done the same job, but a helluva lot cheaper,but where's the kickbacks in that I ask you. ????

will my laptop work better in a BMW?

1 hour ago, URMySunshine said:

There is another thread running on this. In the facebook comments it says the farang has brung it back at last. 

Quite Possible--- he automatically put the phone into his pocket thinking it was his.

Quite easy to do, it's been returned so that at least is good.

30 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

The massive influx of Chinese tourists, parading down walking street, following the guy or gal with the flag, does not help Pattaya, nor walking street, one iota. They do frequent 7/11, and they do buy some food here and here from the street vendors. But they do not visit the night clubs, the go-go's, or the bars, and they rarely ever bar fine a gal. How much actual money they spend in Pattaya is anyone's guess, but it does not appear to be much. Low class tourists, and lower middle class tourists from China and India are definitely not the answer to Thailand's tourist woes. Larger numbers simply create discomfort, a lower quality experience for all but the Chinese and Indians, who are used to jostling with massive crowds, more air pollution, more traffic and congestion on the roads, in the airports, and on the ground. The TAT. Dumb and dumber.

THE ANSWER: According to the enlightened ones is to give Indians and Chinese free visas.

the Chinese are controlled by the tour guides who only take them to pre- arranged Chinese Thai owned venues, they do nothing for LOS in general, as you say.

20 hours ago, yellowboat said:

Was in Pattaya for New Years seeing  a customer who was vacationing there.  Everyone was so well mannered.  Had a great time.  Funny, the wires are not part of my memory.   The main problem, from my point of view, in Pattaya is the filth on the beach and in the sea.   If they want more tourists, allow for 60 day visa exempt.  Many of my Thai friends also moved there, as it seems to have more opportunities than Bangkok now, according to them.  It seemed freer than Bangkok.

beaches all over Thailand are littered with plastic and other trash.

I pick a few bits up when returning from a swim,buttttt there are hardly ever bins to put it in.

Why not get the Army to have a clean up every week, saying that the beach I picked up rubbish from was run by the army----

2 hours ago, brianthainess said:

As i posted before, just after this incident it was reported, the police are doing road checks, well i drove from Sattahip to Trat near the Cambodian boarder NO they were NOT doing any road checks ANYWHERE. Maybe just maybe, around the town where it happened but 100% not nationwide 

I saw road checks at Korat and Buriram, Police had a speed cameras set up in the ditch in the road center and a cop on a bike half a mile further on waiting to get the signal from camera cop, the road check points were manned but not stopping anyone except for the odd truck.

From BK to Korat no cops but good presence in Korat and Buriram but only enforcing speed limit violation, well that was encouraging .

On 1/16/2020 at 4:19 PM, worgeordie said:

If the killer has the modicum of common sense he will

be over the border ,especially with a shoot to kill order 

on him,just hope the police find this murderer soon.

regards worgeordie

The Cambodian Police will probably catch the suspect, they did well with catching the Bangkok bomber, who I thought looked nothing like the CCTV images.

All uyghurs run like hell.

Neither did the B2 look like the CCTV images of the nasty mafia mans son running away from the crime scene

5 minutes ago, dallen52 said:

Cannot understand why this keeps getting airplay and so many negative comments and people..

 

See previous topic posts.

 

Good enough for me. 

And thousands of other people... 

(Without getting too personal or emotional)

 

my experience. when getting a legal extension was, female imm officer talks to wife for 15 minutes, while my passport is being legally processed .

I have no idea what they are on about as my passport is under process for the extension.

Then directed outside with imm officer who talks another 15 minutes.

Then wife says she wants to give you a marriage visa for one year , no need police report no need money, but she will only  talk to my wife -- fee = 17,ooo Bht.

I say I dont need as we going home and not coming back until next year, when I will obtain a non O married from the Thai consulate, but tell her thanks a lot will come to see her in the future.

So this service is alive and well, thanks a lot for those who need help. 

On 1/16/2020 at 3:44 PM, thequietman said:

So .... those of you who have gone through 'agents' - is your stamp real and proper?

 

Won't you be a little worried when a real immigration officer has a look through your passport?

 

Is it worth the risk?

 

They have now arrested an officer at CW - how deep will this go? and if your extension/visa was processed by the same guy, then there may be a knock on your door. ????

 

Good luck to you all.

CW is the huge government passport and immigration complex with other things as well it is so huge you have to take a motorbike taxi from the front of building to get to immigration at the back.

When you park there you have to memorize points so that you can find your way back to your car.

I got my sons and my mother in laws passports there in one day and did a visa extension for myself .

The visa extension was a pain, I have never seen so many people getting visa work done, thousands I thought.

I could not wait to get away from the place.

The moral of the story is I would not be surprised if stray stamping occurred at this complex.

15 hours ago, ukrules said:

He never should have been arrested in the first place. It just shows how backwards and corrupt this place is.

 

Where is all his money and who owns his property/vehicles now?

Maybe--- his wife was jailed also, to prevent her from selling off the spoils.

Maybe, they got some of the spoils now so release him back to NL.

Wife can stay here she wont be jailed in NL he probably will- so, no money no honey-bye bye

18 hours ago, Lacessit said:

They may be illegal, but the biggest "karaoke with options" establishment in Chiang Mai is owned by a VERY senior policeman.

I saw a house in Chiang Mai where hundreds of used condoms were scattered all over the property, Thai men visited the house frequently.

Q. Will they now need a license and have to pay tax?

2. Will the girls need medical certificates and use approved condoms?

This sort of place and other styles or versions of it are all over LOS.

They do not prevent rape, or jealous boyfriends who have 5 mia nois from murdering .