ThailandRyan

Could it be that they vote for who they believe will be helpful to them as far as monetary policies.

It surely is nearly closer to a million baht than half a million baht. However, why did it take so long for folks to figure out that there information had been stolen and money taken out using there personal information. This country is rife for identity theft, with the stacks upon stacks of paperwork needed at DLT, Immigration and the 2 copies made every time I go to the bank of my passport and so on. All of this information is already available to those folks via a digital footprint that they have at there disposal.....

One can only hope, it has already, in my book, exceeded the maximum 8 year statute. Yet it appears that when you run the country you make your own rules and install similar thinking minds, or at least ones, that do not look at the laws as they are written. Again just my view and opinion.........

Better double check your sources, you need a permit to have it here in Thailand as possessing cyanide without a license is illegal in Thailand, per the above posted article.

How many times has this can been kicked down the road. Of course until a new government is in place to decide the status of such a fee it is a moot point

What would you call them if they are not your everyday type of person? Are they Chemists?, Gold purifiers?, Science instructors?. I am confused. The 100 people are the ones who bought out of the same batch as Aem Cyanide, so we have no idea now as to how much cyanide is sold and to whom.

Is he going to be nominated for PM, is he going to be on the ballot? Does it matter who controls a political group. You must think that the Prawit led PPRP, or the BJT Anutin led group or Prayuts new group are not corrupt. Tell me Thailand has been better for the last 9 years under this current group then it was under the Thaksin administration. I know that you and I have been here under both sets of leadership. Tell me the country has not gone backwards, because I believe it has. We can agree to disagree as we have on many subjects

If what you allude to and you say in your last two sentences is true, then Thailands current group in power is playing with fire, and it will not sit well with the west at all. To many irons in the fire.

@mellAre you returning in the near future? You can do it 14 days prior to your due date by using the online system here: Apply for Notification of Staying in the Kingdom or you can do it up to 7 days after the due date, but at that point you must do it in person. You can also do it by post.

You have me confused, is the criminal fugitive on the ballot? is the criminal fugitive in the running for PM? As usual your talking nonsense. I understand your dislike for PT but all parties here in Thailand are corrupt in one way or another.

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Ah the PM and his cronies bringing happiness to the people once more. If they were to dissolve the parties, it should have been done prior to all of the electioneering going on. If they do dissolve the parties, it is going to leave many many folks disgruntled as they will become disenfranchised in there voting rights. Just my thoughts.

Witch....

Were they Government employee's sent overseas to work? If they were Thais that went over seas to work many more than likely did so not at the behest of the government but went to do jobs where the money paid was more and they could send it home. Were these workers not hired by employers outside of the country who then obtained there visas for them. I find it hard to believe that the government could just send somebody carte blanche without a valid visa or permit given by the country they went to. Why would the department of labor be involved with allowing workers to leave the country. Does Thailand have contracts with foreign governments and corporations to obtain employees from Thailand? If thats the case then I can see where the Department of labor would be involved. One wonders what the required level of education the folks being sent overseas must have if as the PM says: I don't think picking strawberries in South Korea of in the EU desires knowledge and technology. Just my humble and honest opinion.

Made a request a few days ago for a quote for work to be done outside of the condo in Bangkok, tile replacement and painting on my 3 balconies, Quote came in, but this morning had an e-mail indicating he needed to raise the prices as the costs of the tile, and other items has increased. Good thing I had not told him to go ahead with the work based upon his original quote. All items are increasing it appears.

Trump did have this to say about how well his Trial is going and why he took a trip to Ireland instead of attending. Wondr who is feeding him the news that his trial is going very well. World reacts as Donald Trump explains disrespectful move (msn.com) “We’ve had a long-standing agreement to come here. We’ve had a tremendous reception, a beautiful reception,” Trump said, according to Sky News. Trump did not sound terribly concerned about the court proceedings back in New York, even though a reporter asked him if he thought it was disrespectful that he chose not to attend the trial. “The people of Ireland have been great, and we’ve had tremendous success, and I hear we’re doing very well in New York,” Trump said.

That is the question of the day. What do normal everyday people use cyanide for. Looks like this investigation has opened up a full can of worms.

As I have said in my posts on many OPs regarding inflation etc...the numbers this governments pumps out make no sense. To me inflation is still climbing. Looking over my spreadsheets on my expenditures for the past 2 years my costs have risen almost 20% for the same items, which Include my fuel costs as well as food costs. Household cost increases are up across all items except one, my water bill has stayed constant. Prices for eating out have also increased, this can be attributed to rising fuel prices for cooking gas, fuel for transporting items needed, buying g said items which have increased. Not sure what the basket of goods they use to determine this decreasing inflation figure includes that people use on an everyday basis, and what's not included that people use the most. Just my viewpoint.

Eighth

It was only a matter of time before cases around the world started to increase with the opening up of venues for different celebrations, Songkran being Thailand's celebration that brought hundred of thousands together in close proximity.

Waves

When and if a conflict kicks off the world supply of everything will be affected, much like it was during Covid when cars could not be assembled to completion due to Chip issues. Current volitivity in the Ukraine has also reduced exports of food stuffs. If we have another major conflict the whole world will be affected when it comes to parts for cars no matter where they will be coming from. Local factories will need to be built in order to build all in house, and one day things will look like they did 40 years ago. Nothing is a mathematical certainty, unless things stay status quo and outside forces do not come into play. My MG HS-X is now 3 years old, runs like a top, and has only had one issue and that was caused by a defective battery which was replaced under warranty. I have now over 30k KM's on it.

What's starting to affect our water supply down here in HH/PKK is the new houses being developed, as water is moved to new storage facilities to feed these new locations. I have been watching as new large blue water pipes and klongs are being added into the infrastructure. Two weeks ago in our location many of the homes had the water tanks run low as no new water was being pumped in due to a rupture in the main line where the property developers were cutting into the piping to place a T. Took them 2 days to repair it as water just continued to flow out of the main pipe unabated.

You might want to do some more research as far as the manufacturing goes, and it has nothing to do with Thailands ageing population. https://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-supply-chains-moving-companies-outside-mainland-2023-4?op=1 As Southeast Asia's second-largest economy, Thailand has been moving up the value chain in manufacturing and is a production hub for car parts, vehicles, and electronics, with multinationals such as Sony and Sharp setting up shop there. And Chinese companies aren't too far behind either. For instance, Chinese companies have relocated parts of their supply chains to Thailand. Companies producing solar panels, such as Shanghai's JinkoSolar, are moving their production to the island nation to take advantage of lower costs and avoid geopolitical tensions, the South China Morning Post reported in July. Chinese car-parts manufacturers are also making their way to Thailand due to pressure from their overseas clients who are now wary of relying too much on China and over geopolitical tensions, Bloomberg reported on April 11, citing car-parts suppliers.

Remember that not all of the models owned by SAIC, BYD, GWM are being built in China. The MG's are being built here in Thailand, and new factories for BYD are going in or are already building cars here.