TeaMonkey

2 hours ago, Barefoot said:

I never said it came from soup.  That is a stupid story that was quickly debunked.  But the infection has been traced to the wet market in Wuhan, where thousands of exotic live animals were housed in close proximity.  It's viral speed dating in that environment between species that would never interact in the wild.  It is unclear what species passed it to humans, but it will all be figured out eventually.  But at this point, it seems beyond dispute that it started at that market.  The Chinese closed down the market on January 1.

This research says it did not originate in the market.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/wuhan-seafood-market-may-not-be-source-novel-virus-spreading-globally

“can effectively handle an area of about 50,000 square metres”

which is 0.05 square kilometres. 

This is very similar to Thailand 

I'm still waiting for the long term plan and regulations needed to address this.

London

Bangkok

3 hours ago, jkcjag said:

Statistics need to be qualified to have any meaning. Hua Hin is a small town, and I suspect readings are taken at maybe 1 or 2 stations located in the town centre, possibly close to the 2 central main traffic junctions. I live in Hua Hin at the weekends, 3 k due west of the Airport before the hills. I can't wait to step out of the car coming from Bangkok, and to breath the clear, fresh, scented air around my neighbourhood. Indeed, recently I've noticed on several occasions being able to see far more stars at night than I've ever seen before.

There are currently 2 stations, one at Hua Hin International School which is in the Black Mountain area and the other at the Sansiri Autumn condo which is located at the end of Khao Takiab next to the Golf course.

The air pollution is visible as a haze and it stretches all the way down the West coast from Bangkok. You cannot escape it at the moment unless you get much further South. Each year it seems to get worse and with the development of Hua Hin increasing, more traffic, locals burning their rubbish I wouldn't call it "clear, fresh, scented air"

8 hours ago, Lupusthai said:

You never have been in HuaHin-ChaAm, isnt'it?

Current air quality 

You could just say you’ve changed you plans and just want a single entry visa...seeing as with a METV you still need to do a border run anyway. 

28 minutes ago, HarrySeaman said:

"I now face the reality that I may have to arrive in the simple visa on arrival, and then overstay for 5 days and pay a fine."

 

Once here you can simply go to the closest Thai Immigration Office and request an extension of stay.  Do it a few days before your visa on arrival expires, and be sure to take your return ticket and passport.

 

That way you won't have an overstay record to complicate your next trip.

 

I don't think this is even simple now. Don't you need a copy of your TM30 which might be difficult to get.

9 minutes ago, monkfish said:

Would help if the link would work lol.

 

Will prices be controlled and excludes removed?

It's longstay.tgia.org

They haven't setup the domain routing properly so if you put www. at the beginning it can't find it. It also does not automatically redirect to the secure HTTPS so you will likely get an unsafe warning unless you specifically go to https://longstay.tgia.org

I was clicking on some of the company's on there and quite a few don't even have anything prepared. It just goes to their home page in the Thai language. 

12 minutes ago, chrisinth said:

Even with the Elite visa do you not have to get your passport stamped every year? Even though the visa is valid for 5+ years, I think the permission to stay is still only valid for 1 year.

Yes, just checked and you're right. I don't think there are any visas that allow more than one year of stay.

So confusing. Apart from the Elite visa the maximum you can apply for is 1 year so this seems to include any type of visa. 

Most of it is coming from China

https://www.airvisual.com/earth?nav

This was no doubt prompted by the Dutch guy successfully suing Hua Hin hospital for overcharging. This is another reason why some people are saying complaining about the TM30 is not going to help matters.

Last time they said they could not use any of the confiscated product as it was found in testing to be too contaminated.