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8 minutes ago, EricTh said:

What's the difference between Manuka honey and other types of honey? Where can I buy it in Chiang Mai?

Manuka Honey is anti bacterial , but also apparently antiviral.

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/health-benefits-manuka-honey

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24880005

I eat turmeric daily and manuka honey. My only problem at the moment is I have increased Manuka honey and might run out!

6 minutes ago, Yadon Toploy said:

Got to pay for the immigrant and refugee benefits somehow. 

Well I hope they didn't spend it all, because now they have to bail out the whole country!

No one really knows, so make sure you have enough dried goods to last you about a month and access to drinking water.

Get some cash too.

No harm in doing it as the dried goods will last.

Couple of flashlights with a supply of batteries wouldn't be a bad idea.

https://www.khaosod.co.th/around-thailand/news_3782938

Sorry can't find the English version.

3 minutes ago, crazykopite said:

I just read that two Italians escaped from quarantine on Koh Samui and are believed to be on Koh Phangan if Phangan gets infected we are well and truly in the $#IT€

 

Talk about selfish!

The female contingent (me) do not have to do an oath. We wait for a letter from BKK and then take that along with house reg/passport etc off to the relevant offices to do blue house reg. / ID card/cancel visa etc.

Not great timing hence the Hazmat suit "joke". By next week it might not be a joke!

2 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

Congratulations!! 

I bet they are going to love me when I turn up to do ID card in a Hazmat suit!!

Some off topic name calling posts removed.

Some posts have been removed as they are more about the actual posters than the subject!

That is the whole idea, in that lack of regulations and education mean it is very difficult to trace who is creating the problem.

It is very convenient to have neighbouring countries with a large percentage of subsistence farmers, lack of education and high level of corruption.

Thais look clean because you point at Burma and Burmese don't care because its Shan State and I suppose just there for their use as a money making trash can.

The same of course would go for Laos.

Shan state is essentially tied into Thailand.

https://www.iss.nl/sites/corporate/files/CMCP_35-_Woods.pdf

http://www.mekonglandforum.org/node/2163

There is already an agreement on Transboundary haze pollution (ASEAN), which seems to have failed.

https://www.greenpeace.org/southeastasia/press/3239/a-haze-free-asean-by-2020-are-we-there-yet/

If you have governments that benefit from a part of their country being handed over to corporate monoculture  and poverty, then of course they will not be screaming "Help" to Asean. This is precisely the problem, the benefits outweigh the problems for those in charge. You have to have a government that wants to stop the smoke. If you transported every single one of those in charge up to the worst of the affected areas and made them live with no AC / closing windows in the middle of the smoky season, I guarantee the air would improve overnight.

Nothing will happen on a regional basis  because it is not whole countries enveloped in smog.  Bangkok/S Thailand/large parts of Laos including Vientiane/S Myanmar are all largely unaffected. So they don't give a ------ what happens to large parts of their countries which are traditionally agricultural and poorer. This is why a regional solution relying on national governments will not work.

These monopolistic governments (as well as the Chinese govt) couldn't care a less if these areas become the trash dumps of Asia.

Time scale - just under 2 years from when I received the official letter saying I had passed last interview. Interview was January 2018, paperwork submitted (by CM to BKK)  just before Songkran if I remember correctly, and then official letter to say I had passed (from BKK) received either April or May. So basically sitting waiting for about 22 months.