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Hub of hubs of hubs... What would make Thailand more attractive or competitive for data centres? Certainly space might be cheaper but for a data centre connectivity would be a major factor. Hands down Singapore would be the better option for any of the cloud providers. Lower costs, if realised, might be about the only real attractiveness. The market will usually resolve to fair value anyway. Good luck to INET in their obvious predictions.

It's not so much about the liklihood of the vehicle catching fire. It is more about the fact that extinguishing an EV fire is extremely difficult. Therefore, more chance of spreading to other vehicles and creating an unstoppable inferno. Open air charging for EVs is fine, just not to be done in a confined parking lot under a condominium building full of people. EV fires difficult to extinguish The major issue, though, is that once it is alight, an EV fire is far harder to put out than an ice fire. This is because the lithium-ion battery burns in a different manner to fuel, and firefighters must respond to it in a different fashion to an ice fire. There is also the risk of toxic vapour clouds, sparks and highly directional jets of flame from an EV fire. Further, it requires much more water to put an EV fire out in the first place, and there is the increased risk that the fire could possibly reignite hours, days or even weeks after the initial blaze due to the energy stored within. Firefighters across the world are even experimenting with completely submerging in water any EVs that have been on fire, to mitigate the potential aftermath risks. Source.

Our Condo AGM addressed this last year. Thankfully sense prevailed and EV charging was banned too. Too much risk if and EV car burst into flames and took out all the other cars, and quite likely, destroying the whole building too. Anyone see the fire at Luton Airport parking structure last year?

This type of arrangement always makes me smile. What it really means is that you can buy a ticket with BA and they will put you on a different airline's flight. Yes, I know the ownership arrangements, but the service, perks, priveleges and attitude are sometimes completely different (and with a stop over). Maybe an improvement versus BA possibly 🙂 Still, with BA not flying to BKK themselves, there is reduced competition on the direct non-stop LHR/BKK route which means that THAI (and EVA) can get away with charging higher fares.

This is exactly what our family is currently considering. Quite complex, but handled by our independant financial advisor of many years. Apparently it makes payout to those named in the trust, much easier and faster. And potentially no IHT on that amount so long as 7 years have passed. Under 7 years IHT Tax is reduced though not completely.

BA are not currently flying into BKK as they don't have enough planes after scrapping all their B747s. They took the B777s used for BKK and used them for more profitable routes such as North America. I am told by a friend, who was a route scheduler at BA that they will likely recommence the route once new plane orders are delivered.

Because they have been rotting for the last 4 years in the humidity and tropical weather, are fuel inefficient and the costs of servicing them back into fleet usage would be immense. THAI had way too many different aircraft types and was a vanity project and a gravy train for far too many. With a streamlined modern, fuel efficient fleet (B787s etc.), they can maximise their hardware and staffing efficiency.

Even at 9 Baht KWh that's extreme for that amount of usage. I hope the OP will give us more insight. 2,000 Baht per month would be more realistic based on stated use - so long as the OP is paying MEA/PEA rates and not inflated rates by landlord.

LOL. Sounds like someone speaking from experience.

Bang on! Not only that but remember when there was talk of F1 motor racing coming to Thailand and the revenue department wanted to tax the cars (that would have only been in the country for 5 days at most)? Also, the governor of Bangkok at the time, changed laws making it impossible ever to host a street circuit motor race in the city. Singapore wins on both counts. I see what Singapore did, as a good investment to the properity of their state and citizens. Thailand needs to wake up. Only after the fact do they "eye a-list performers". You snooze, you lose. And they did.

Everyone knows that the police are a mostly corrupt and dishonest bunch. Same for many other countries too. Can't see anything changing though. Too much money involved.

Orange Bar was epic. Always a good night there until sun up.

After reading this far into the thread, I suspected the "elephant in the room" which, until @Crossy mentioned it, would have been my next move. I just had and ASUS Router die on me for no good reason. It would power on, I could access the setup pages but just could not get it to sync with the internet no matter how many factory resets. Ditched it for another (ISP provided router) and internet worked again immediately at full speed.

I was on pretty much the last flight out of Seoul to Bangkok on 12th March 2020 as Covid panic was truly setting in. It was absolutely full of "little ghosts" returning home to Thailand. Quite surreal really.

...and Thai PM Srettha wants visa free access for Thai citizens to Europe and Australia? IF (big if), that ever happened, I would expect a lot more stories such as this about lengthy questioning of Thai travellers on arrival.

When my Thai ex wife used to rent our Bangkok condo short term, she had several rules. Couples, families, ladies and same sex couples were all fine. But no way were single males offered rental. Neither were Thais! She knew that Thais would bring all the family from upcountry and camp out ten people in two rooms. Never got our place trashed thankfully.

Looks like it was a pretty nice condo before the fighting started. Well trashed by the look of it.

At a minimum he should be suspended from duties and banned from any police properties or activities (if not already). Additionally no contact with any other accused or witnesses. Assume charge will result in a full court case where all the evidence and witnesses can be examined in a transparent manner.

Used PayPal both in the UK and Thailand (accounts both countries). Used to use E-Bay a lot, mostly for buying but occassionally for selling unwanted item. After PayPal advised imminent shutdown of foreigner usage in Thailand, I closed that account. Since then I closed E-Bay and UK PayPal accounts. Not missing them.

Jeez! He must have been flying to cause that much damage.

Good to see that security Suvarnabhumi airport stopped this live export of endangered animals (and likely saved the lives of these critters). We are all aware that baggage cases get scanned before loading onto planes. They are not just looking for explosives or stuff that will endanger an aircraft. I had first hand experience of this 2 years ago. Flew from Bangkok to London. On arrival, my passport would not work in the e-gate. Went to counter with passport. Immediately was accompanied by customs to a holding area. This was before collecting baggage. Was questioned then taken to retrieve baggage. Baggage was thouroughly searched and intense and repetitive questioning for nearly an hour. What were they suspicious of? In my cases was about 25kgs of massage balm brought for a friend who owns a Thai massage spa. Also, the item they were really interesd in, was an urn of ashes of a deceased aquaintance (brought back for his family and I had all the required paperwork). They scanned it but would not open the box - I told them he wouldn't complain! They didn't even swab for narcotics but it looked like organic on the scan. They let me go with no issue. Clearly, London had been tipped off by Bangkok that there was something suspicious in my baggage. When asked this, the officer wouldn't say.

Our building of 99 units is pretty harmonious with decent owners. But, there's always one, and ours is a Thai owner who's a cheap charlie middle aged guy. At an AGM five years ago, he made a comment "we don't all have money like farang". I was the only farang present. Our gym needed equipment replacing after 11 years. The cost of replacement equated to just 165 Baht per condo unit per year. Some proposed closing the gym or repurposing it into a library or common room (that's something that newer condos have and some residents camp out in the common room as they don't want to pay to use air conditioning in their own unit). I argued that although few use the gym, by not having a gym, the resale value of their unit or rental prospects might be affected. Anyway, sense prevailed and we got the gym equipment replaced.

Now I know why my account was empty after just 5 minutes (and it wasn't the GF).

Buy new. They last for 30 years.

If ever there was a genuine case for offering refuge then this is it. They should be welcomed to Thailand. Knowing the Burmese from my trips there, these young people are resourceful and better educated than neighbouring countries. They are also seen as a destabilising threat to the military junta in Myanmar as they are more likely to join the opposition forces and creat campaigns on social media (despite internet blocks in the country - they know how to use VPNs). Sad times for Myanmar.