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Publish on every border where Omnicore can enter Thailand the rules to enter the country (Health insurance; Covid insurance; health pass; quarantaine; etc...) Omnicore will not come to Thailand on reading these rules

Thais have no idea of managing debts. I meet a few days ago a woman (friend of mine) who lost her job due to Covid, and became indebted because of taking care of her parents. She seemed very happy and said that she found a way out of her debts. Talking to her, she got a loan to open the 1,000th coffee shop in my street, and she was convinced that this was going to take her out of her debts. Seemed that she was selling the kind of "sugar bombs" for 25 baht each and she managed to sell about 10 coffees a day. The loan for the coffee shop (franchise) was 350,000 baht. Go figure .....

I live here already more than 2 decades and AFAIK, Buddhism in Thailand was always about money. The best investment in Thai business. Get yourself a bunch of 25cm long peices of rope and attach it around the wrist from everybody you know. Collect 50 Baht from everyone where you attach a piece of rope around the wrist. Having an old broom and a basket of water to chastice the people can be an asset.

The 10 witnesses need to be living in your street and no further that 100 meter away.

Open Booking.com or Pagoda.com (and even Google maps) and they will show a lot of hotels that are OPEN but fully booked.

Most countries over the world uses the recommandations of the WHO. It's not only Thailand who restricts the use of alcohol, the use of masks, a.o. <deleted> about Covid-19. If someone would be to blame for all this stupidity, only the WHO is the one to take the blame.

Something strange in all this. There are no tourists and the hotels are empty due to the Pandemic. But if you try to find a hotel in Pattaya or Jomtien via Booking.com or Pagoda.com, everything is FULL!!!!

I was one of the first in Korat to apply for a "Yellow House Book". The famous "Art. 13". I tried to comply with everything on the list, but the guy at the counter came up with a new requirement every time I fulfillled the requirements. After several visits, the guy said to me: "Sorry, but we give no "Yellow Books" to foreigners". Sp, stick your "Yellow Book" there where the sun never shines.

So, the Covid-19 virus has mutated again in the "Phuket_Covid-19" virus and is now active between 11.00-14.00 and from 17.00-23.00 (only in eateries and bars)? Have they found already a vaccin against the "Phuket_Covid-19" virus?

Does anybody know or get information where I can practize Tai Chi in Korat? TIA

This should be printed out in big size and hang out on every place to learn the Thai that there exist a whole world outside of Thailand who doesn't give a flying f...k about the Thai high society

I don't understand why the face of a Thai who commit a crime is "pixelated" and a foreigner is showed in HD Colors with his ID-Card or Passport.

I don't say that bringing up a child would have been a burden to me. I have raised already 7 children before and I know how to handle children. But raising a child again, at that age, was not my plan. My plans was to keep working to my 60 years and then retire in a hacienda in the south of Spain.

"What made you decide that you wanted to live in Thailand" I came to Thailand in 1999 to handle a project at a big Petro-Chemical company in Rayong. The project lasted nearly 2 years. During that time, I meet a woman from Chaiyaphum and when the project was finished we decided to stay together and stay in Thailand. A few friends who were also working on that project and who were already living in Thailand and myself decided to setup our own company in Korat. My girlfriend became preignant in 2002, whilst being sterilized, and I decided to marry for the sake of the child. From that day, my life was a hell. Not because of Thailand, but because of marital problems and in 2009 we divorced. My wife did not want to take care of the child and I had to take care of the child. Retired and the best years of my life, I had to spend them on bringing up another child. Not exactly how I had planned my retired life. "how long have you lived here" i have been living in Thailand more than 20 years now. "and do you have any regrets ?" Yes, a lot of regrets. Although I had some bad encounters in Thailand, I can not say that Thailand itself was bad. Thailand had his up and downs like any cpuntry. My regrets are mainly that I gave up my dream to spend my old days in a hacienda in the south of Spain for a Thai woman and a Thai child.

And what would the result be if they had subsribed an expensive insurance which would not cover the expenses because of "Pre existing diseases"? Nothing would be paid, zilch, nada, rien de knots. If Thailand is honnest about avoiding the unpaid health bills and the potential health risc of foreigners in Thailand, they would make a side system in the health care in which the foreigners could pay a fair monthly/yearly sum and get insured WITH pre-existing conditions.

I am pretty sure that most "tourists" have a health insurance. The problem is that most if these "tourists get involved in driving a big bike without license, driving a bike without helmet and security protection, getting involved in some sports that are excluded by the insurance company (YES, swimming is also a sport), etc. The tourist ends up in the Bangkok hospital or whatever and will need urgent brain surgery or whatever. After a few days, the bills are in the 7 digit range and the only possibility is to setup a GoFound.me appeal. Mostly, the hospital is left with huge unpaid bills. I can accept that this is a burden to Thailand, but there other solutions as require everybody to subscribe a very expensive insurance which at the end will not pay also. I have pre-existing diseases, but I could subscribe inot a PA insurance in Thailand (have it alread 15 years) very cheap. Insured amount is 1,000,000 baht. Yearly payment is about 6,000 baht. And every time I had an ACCIDENT, they paid the bill without asking questions.

For this category of foreigners, a monthly/yearly payment for health care could be levied. But it should be a fair amount.

Open letter to the Government, It is no rocket science to know that an insurance company is a company that calculate his risks and is in no way a social company to benefit anyone else than themselves. Forcing a health insurance in people, specially people over 50 with already underlying diseases, will benefit NOBODY. If someone in this age bracket would endup in a hospital with a severe disease, the insurance comaony will claim that this disease was "underlaying" and will not pay for the hospital costs. Thus leaving the hospitals and Thailand with huge unpaid bills, despite of paying huge soms for that insurance. A better and more effective system would be: 1. Appoint a GOVERMENT run health care to handle the health care for every foreigner who enter Thailand or who stays already in Thailand on a long term visa. 2. EVERY foreigner who enter Thailand or remain in Thailand would have to pay for health care insurance. 3. Foreigners living in Thailand on a Retirement Visa or a Thai spouse Visa are required to put the require 800,000/400,000 Baht into that helath care system instead of putting the funds in a Thai Bank. This sum will gain interests which will be used for the foreigner health care system. 4. On leaving Thailand, the foreigner will receive part or the whole paid insurance, depending on the case if he/she used the health care and how much has beem spend. This is only a guidance on how a better health care system for foreigners/tourists could be setup.

Why? I was FULLY RETIRED at the age of 47. No wealth, but a nice retirement.

In the '90's, I was working daily my shift. After my shift, I was every day (including the weekends 4 hours in the gym). I had a very strong body and nothing could stop me. Until December '95, when I suffered a stroke and I was initially completly paralyzed. Fortunatly, due to my strong body, I was back on my roots 6 months later. I lost several movement at my right side forever (could not write clear anymore and could not run> , but the was OK. I went back to work and a few months later back to the gym. Until December '97, when I suffered several heart attacks in a short time and went into a Coma. I recovered, but I had a Pacemaker and several Bypasses. I was not allowed to work anymore, go to the gym, etc.. Take care about what you say. Your health can change from one day to the other.

I have been collecting information on the rules already, and I can relocate to Spain without any problem. I can not post links to websites, but I have addresses of real estate companies, and for 25k Euro I can buy already a nice apartment in Alicante. Alicante has the whole year almost the same temperature as Thailand. I have the double nationality (Belgian/Spanish) and I speak both languages. On the issue of Thailand, I have lived here the past 20 years and almost every year someone came up with a new rule for the expats. Increasing of the funds; Change the income rules; Requiring crazy documents (TM30, Marriage certificate from the place where you had your marriage, Proof of income, etc.) The health insurance for elder people was "the final drip which started the bucket to overflow". I just pity the expats who invested all their money in a house, 1 or more luxury cars, etc.

I have taken the same decision, returning to Europe, for personal reasons. Can not find which benefit paying for a "20 year THAI Elite visa" could bring for me. I am 68 years old and I have been staying more than 20 years in Thailand now. Although I have been hospitalized in Thailand a few times, I always paid my bill without an expensive health insurance which would be worthless anyway. I wear a Pacemaker and it will need to be exchanged by the end of next year. Cost for the pacemaker on Thailand (without the surgery) is about 120KBaht. In Europe it is FREE (I am an European citizen). At my age, travelling back and forth to Europe for every heath issue, becomes a PITA. Also, I did got already the (bad) news that I will for 90% sure be enrolled for DIALYSE (3 times a week). DIALYSE every 3 days will be very expensive. In Europe, it is FREE. And I don't talk about other benefits that I would get when I would return to EUROPE. I don't see what taking an expensive 20 year visa or an expensive health care would benefit me. And just like me, there are thousands of aging retirees in Thailand who will take sooner or later the same decision.

Covid certificate now available as a chip implant.

You don't need to wait for the "not too distant future". I have read already many signs that the Visa requirements will double next year. 400 K will be 800 K and 800 K will become 1,200 Kbaht

What??????????? No rich and wealthy QUALITY TOURISTS spending billions of dollars in the new plan on opening Thailand? Impossible!!!!! Fake news!!!!!