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  1. 14 hours ago, Robin said:

    This is why Thailand has to have strict quarantine.  It is not the dirty farangs who are bringing in the infections, it is Thais who will not follow basic common sense and isolate in quarantine unless forced to do so.  

    UK allowed residents back in but insisted on 14 day quarantine in their own homes.  Since most followed the rules, no great surge in infections. 

    Thailand is suffering from restrictions because the government knows that Thais cannot be trusted to quarantine unless forced into isolation.  Who to blame?

    Are you denying the reality or something? UK just had a lockdown because there was a great surge in infections and a lot of people weren't following rules. 

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  2. There is an old car, I would say about 30 years old, and it's owner passed away a few years ago. Where can we dispose it? Is there a junkyard around Bangkok that would take this car?

     

    When we dispose this car, would they care about the car's registration? because it is of course still under deceased owner's name

     

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  3. I have an ticket for BKK - CTS. I didn't ask for refund or voucher. I just had them extend the validity of ticket until December 2022. When both Thailand and Japan open their borders, my ticket is always ready to be used anytime or make changes. And when you buy a new ticket with any airlines in the future, except you'll be paying higher price than you had paid for previous flight. 

  4. I have been in Thailand for about 7 years now, and so far I have had fraudulent charges 3 times: 1 time for each of my 3 Thai CCs. Each time, my banks contacted me for suspicious activities, immediately cancelled or refunded those charges, and sent me a new card. My other Thais CCs fortunately haven't had any fraudulent charge. Banks always protect me, I'm not worried about using my CCs in Thailand or any countries I've been to.

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  5. 5 hours ago, charmonman said:

    With lower exports, and the almost complete death of one of its major if not its largest industry (tourism) shouldn’t the currency be weak? Where is the demand for Thai currency coming from if no one outside Thailand wants or is able to buy Thai products and services?

    Largest industry in Thailand is manufacturing. It is about 50% of GDP. Tourism is around 12% or so according to latest data of 2019. Thai baht is strong because Thailand doesn't print money. In contrast, US, EU, GB, Japan are all printing money like crazy, which makes those currencies less valuable and naturally makes Thai baht stronger. And Thai baht is backed up by gold. US dollar is just a paper with number on it.

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  6. 8 minutes ago, lavezzi said:

    40 million turist a year, lets say each spend 1000$, 40 billion missing and turism in less important than other sectors?

    How many people lives in thailand working in automobiles and automotive parts sector and how many with turism?

    as whole country if you have 40 billion missing, you have a big problem.

    The fact that they are not accepting tourist or doing anything to prepare to open in the future for them is not correlated to the tourism sector being less important than other sectors.

     

     

    Money generated by other industries is significantly larger than tourism. Sure missing income from tourism hurts, but damage is limited. It's like bee-sting but doesn't ruin the picnic (from Billions) If there was large scale pandemic here in Thailand like in US, India, Brazil, EU, it will cause far greater damaging impact on entire industries than halting tourism.

     

    And why emphasize only auto sectors. Thailand has a lot more: computers, appliance, clothing/textiles, rubber, food/agriculture, drinks, etc. Why risk all other people work in the other industries just to satisfy tourism by opening a country with no realistic measures to prevent foreigners bringing in the virus. 

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