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3 hours ago, Cadbury said:

Organic certification is relatively inexpensive when purchased under the counter.

Prawns and shrimps are another major Thai export commodity but Vietnam is making a dent on those exports because of special EU tariffs which gives them a clear price advantage over Thailand, not to mention the hurt the Thai baht is doing.

In recent months it has been hard to find any positive news about the Thai economy.

Somkid needs to get out of his treasury role otherwise he will certainly fall by the sword.

Yes, the EU removed Thailand's GSP relief meaning that cooked shrimp went from 7% duty to 20% duty overnight. Thai shrimp are also more expensive than their neighbours and with the Thai baht so strong its a triple whammy for their industry.

On 7/9/2019 at 3:02 PM, FritsSikkink said:

Your biggest worry shouldn't be Brexit but if Scotland will be still in the UK. They have been sponsoring the UK for decades and when they will be independent, the pound will nose dive. 

If only the rest of the UK could have a referendum asking if we wanted Scotland to remain part of the UK ????

I have my savings in premium bonds too and want to use the same document as backup for a visa for the missus.

Who told you that they won't accept this as proof of savings ?

BTW, I'm making about 1.8% so far ????

3 minutes ago, yawg said:

The US withdrew from the treaty unilaterally so why should Iran keep its restrictions? Plus Israel owns loads of nuclear arms almost nobody is talking about. How stupid can the game get?

Because the Israeli's aren't nuts!

Seriously though if the Iranians develop atomic weapons then there would be a power shift in the middle east which I doubt will bode well for anyone.

2 hours ago, bert bloggs said:

When you get food poisoning ,you get it within an hour or so , not days later when you get home ,so their story is a load of rubbish.

That's not true. You can get FP much later.

7 minutes ago, Mitkof Island said:

Is that all foreigners ever eat in Thailand? Pad Thai , Pad Thai Pad Thai. And how many have died in the U.S. from the food they ate. Eighteen years i was finally had the runs one night and was better by morning. I have eaten at thousands of restaurants throughout Thailand. Guess what? Maybe once a year i eat Pad Thai. It is so fracking boring !

My guess is that if it's their first time in Thailand it's probably one of the few dishes they know.

2 hours ago, Anythingleft? said:

Pretty easy to narrow down the meal that starts an episode of food poisoning.....

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Yes but food poisoning can take 2 days before it kicks in

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/food-poisoning/

1 hour ago, HaoleBoy said:

How many bottles of wine can you bring in to Thailand?   I've been bringing in 6 bottles each trip ... guess they may be confiscated now (or tax applied).

I think its one 1 liter, so in effect 1 bottle as most are 75cl but may I add you have been very lucky.

On a bad day, you could be charged 10x the duty (which is considerable anyhow) and had the goods seized.

There are horror stories of passengers (traveling as a group) bringing in 6 bottles of wine and being charged 75,000baht.

On 7/5/2019 at 9:19 AM, ThomasThBKK said:

 

They already scan every piece before they board it into the plane, every airport does that obviously as you don't want to have dangerous goods in the plane.

This is for people arriving i suppose. Else they would scan it twice now. 

I am not aware of any airport where they scan all arriving peoples luggage at exit.

Some American airports do.

12 hours ago, Jerry787 said:

britain a losing US puppet on its way to brexit with a boris that will bring the economy on its knees.

definitely britain after the mess made in Iraq and Libya now trying to mess also Iran so if they may succeed (almost improbable) the middle east will be a huge war zone with millions slaughtered and much more on the way to europe as refugee.

that is the so called democracy !

As Churchill said, The best argument against Democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

1 hour ago, Basil B said:

Who else could have done it? even the Iranians have not come up with a plausible explanation as to who else would atack oil tankers off their coast. 

Have you never seen Tomorrow never Dies ? ????

2 hours ago, watcharacters said:

 

So there really are  occasions when noise ordinances in Thailand are enforced.

 

 

I wonder what hi-so lives there....

2 hours ago, StayinThailand2much said:

66 to 68 million... So, if the TAT talks of 40 million foreign tourists, then there have to be 26 to 28 million Thai travellers, or foreigners travelling on in Thailand, e.g. to Phuket, Ko Samui, and Chiang Mai, or to other countries. I suspect they count everyone 3-4 times for each one-way flight, so the actual number of people travelling to Thailand for a holiday each year may be closer to 10 million...

 

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No-one knows....

5 hours ago, richard10365 said:

The current list of tariffs published on 2 July, 2019 by the World Trade Organization. I can't believe the UK let their citizens vote on Brexit. I bet most people can't even read this document. If they can, they would have voted not to leave. 

Can't WTO tariffs be set independently by each country on the basis they give the same tariff to each country they trade with?

For example the UK could set 0% tariff on imported orange juice from Brazil but would also have to ensure that orange juice from USA also attracted 0%

Only when I'm in the air.

Though I suspect I will be praying a lot more to him next season ????

4 hours ago, ballpoint said:

Coming from a country where undertaking is legal if there are marked lanes, I fail to understand the fuss that the Brits make about it.  If travelling at the speed limit in the left hand lane and I come up to someone driving at less than the speed limit in the right hand one, I will not slow down and drive at their speed to avoid undertaking him, I will go past.  Forcing anyone to slow down to match the speed of some snail like <deleted> in the right hand lane would seem to be an invitation to incite road rage.

 

 

We fuss because

Rule 268 of the Highway Code states – do not overtake on the left or move to a lane on your left to overtake. In congested conditions, where adjacent lanes of traffic are moving at similar speeds, traffic in left-hand lanes may sometimes be moving faster than traffic to the right

Which makes sense if you think about it. We drive right-hand cars and it's much harder to see your left side and look over your left shoulder than it is to see your nearside.

It's just something we're taught and abide by....on the whole.

I suppose the accidents occur in Thailand not because someone is pulling over to the left (though I've seen plenty of drivers who have a distinct fear of using their indicators) but because someone is speeding on the inside.

4 hours ago, alien365 said:

So that's 139 people per minute going through immigration with the new biometrics. Good luck with that!

You've bought up a good point. 139 people per minute also assumes that they are processing passengers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

I find that very hard to believe.

Something doesn't add up and I expect it's the bullshit immigration figures.

5 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

I can read.

Read what ?

Nothing in the article saying that.