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Man charged with a murder of a BMA official who was found dead while not being in the aforementioned state previously as a result of the previously mentioned murder presumably committed by the man who has been mentioned previously as well

3 hours ago, phantomfiddler said:

So 30,000 people around the world have died of the virus which started say 100 days ago, which equates to 300 people per day worldwide. In pre-virus times the average world death rate was around 150,000 people per day

Right. So the world population in 2020 is around 7.8b, if you don't control the spreading of the virus whatsoever, you'll get everyone infected in 3-4 months. Let's say COVID-19's overall mortality rate is 1%, so you get 78m COVID-19 fatalities vs 13.5-18m deaths if the things were normal. Not a big deal indeed

On 3/20/2020 at 11:35 AM, pennine said:

Is Samui still coronavirus-free?

Thaiger claims 2 cases were reported yesterday, can't find the source though

My wife travels with two passports, the best you can do if you don’t want to spend lots of time at CW. They can’t transfer the sticker at the airport, this is 100%

It’s not officially closed, they just put up a sign “automatic scooters no allowed”, but who cares. Same sign on Maenam Soi 5 which is much more extreme

A few years back (like 3 or 4, Koh Samui imm office was still in Nathon) I was given a sheet of paper with a request to "write something" (in Thai). So I wrote usual crap like "My name is, I'm from, I like Thailand mak-mak", the immigration officer was really impressed, as in "you goddamn f-cking kidding me, you didn't write that, who wrote that for you?". Next extension they asked me to write names of my favorite Thai dishes, that was a good laugh for them as I made a whole bunch of mistakes

I got my 5 year DL in Samui yearly this year (held 1y and 2y temporary ones before), but my wife still got only 2y (renewed from 2y) - no idea why. We're on the same TE type, 500k THB / 5 years

It would be really interesting to hear back from the topic starter. I've failed to find any reports of Thailand Elite holders applying for Schengen visas, but there are plenty of really nasty "no WP, no visa" reports. I'm also Russian and already enjoyed a fair bit of Schengen application hassle back in Russia, but here it seems to be even more problematic.