darksidedog

28 minutes ago, webfact said:

Thaivisa notes that not once in the Thai Rath story is it mentioned that it is negligent of a parent or guardians to allow a child to travel on the lap in the front of a car.

That pretty much sums it up in a nutshell. Ignorance. Too stupid to understand the first thing about safety and what happens to anyone in a moving vehicle that is not restrained when it comes to an abrupt halt. The mother should be charged for causing the death, while the driver should also face charges for allowing it to happen in a vehicle he was driving. There are way too many unnecessary deaths caused here by ignorance, which is no defense under the law.

First off the bat, if what you have told us about yourself is correct, I agree with UbonJoe that a 99 year blacklist seems pretty unlikely.

Regardless, you are able to appeal to the Ministry of the Interior a blacklisting when you are married to a Thai, or are the parent of a Thai child.

I would recommend your wife/gf find a good lawyer to firstly check your actual immigration status, and to initiate an appeal if found to be necessary. Many in your situation have been sent home, but have been free to return on the next plane, and I have seen some do just that.

This subject comes round and round and never gets anywhere because they are not prepared to pay the money required to get decent staff. They always cheap out and employ those for whom English is often a second or third language. The other issue of course is one of face and paying a farang more than Thai teachers who in their minds are superior causes a problem. Those looking for teaching work need not get excited. This will go no further than the countless identical promises made over the years and the kids in ten years still won't be able to speak English to anything close to an acceptable standard.

I have moved this from general topics where it did not belong to one covering jobs, business etc, as it is the closest I could offer without closing you down.

It is not for no reason that the global transparency index rates Thailand poorly on corruption and graft, and this seems the sort of thing that has become endemic in society. Sadly, all the time people pay it, it renews the cycle.

I strongly suspect a job, if indeed she really needs the money, could be found once back in Roi Et, at a decent salary, without the outgoings and 20 year commitment, for a similar sort of money. Good Luck regardless.

I notice the story doesn't mention any casualties, so I am hoping for the best here. It seems the cops know who he is, so hopefully they will have him in custody soon before anyone gets hurt.

41 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

 

“The Tourism Authority of Thailand will need to work harder in the second half to compensate for the first,” he said.

It's just a circus isn't it, with more clowns than you can count?

Yes, brilliant idea. Given we have one of the worst droughts for ages, lets throw even more water down the drain shall we?

28 minutes ago, webfact said:

But Anutin, who is also a deputy prime minister, said there had been no formal request from the ship’s captain to enter Thai waters and insisted Thailand was not on the vessel’s original route.

And from another Thai Visa story: In a statement on Wednesday (February 12), the association noted that permission to dock at Laem Chabang Port had been requested on Monday. Westerdam: Cruise trade association asks for mercy

The ship also states they have no cases and have been at sea for a lengthy enough period of time for any infected to show up.

I see Anutin held a proviso, "the Thai government would need to inspect the ship and confirm it’s clean before allowing it to dock at the port.”

And I suspect at the end of the day, something like that will happen. Poor folks on the cruise must feel like lepers right now though.

If it picked up the last passengers on Feb 1st, we are 80% through the incubation period, so if no one on board has fallen ill thus far, you would think it is looking pretty good. As they were to be taken straight to the airport and home the decision seems a little heavy, especially since it appears Thailand had agreed initially.

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A single foreigner refused, which he took as justification to slag off every single farang here? And he won't apologise? There are many things I could say about his suitability for office and overall intelligence, but as a moderator, I shall refrain from the worst of it and simply say, unacceptable.

After yesterdays performance, I don't think there can be many foreigners who will respect anything that comes out of the health ministers mouth. I note that when being interviewed he wasn't wearing a mask, not even one of the crappy ones he was trying to force people to wear yesterday.

That is quite a statement to make. Current events are the sort of thing which are likely when the dust settles, to make people think much harder about where they are going to go, and identify potential dangers. If that does occur, Thailand may be lucky to get back half, let alone return to normal, or hit what would be a truly amazing doubling of numbers.

10 minutes ago, webfact said:

The problems began when China banned all outbound tours

I disagree. Problems have been mounting for some time, with many staying away from Thailand for a number of reasons, mostly of a home grown nature. Strength of the Baht, greed, fraud, danger etc. And as most of the eggs had been put into one basket, the super storm for tourism has now arrived.

12 minutes ago, webfact said:

First of all, there were those in the congregation who thought this must be the spirit of Praphat come back to haunt his own cremation. 

Shame he didn't throw a bag of flour over himself first. I reckon the world record for 100 metres would have been broken by several in the congregation.

3 minutes ago, webfact said:

 

First of all, there were those in the congregation who thought this must be the spirit of Praphat come back to haunt his own cremation.

One wonders how many would have panicked and run screaming into the jungle had he turned up a day or two after they thought they had cremated him?