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oopsie, I think that Trumps made some huge mistakes !

I think when booking your flight it will be mentioned. Have you filled in your Digital TM6 ? with the address Mail.

Arrest, high fines and deported for life. Make it known .

Well, if I remember correctly, one young man who had info on that awful night on Koh Tao, made a successful getaway . He did not hang around. The killers were well known on that island , sons of a local ….. The investigation was completely botched and truth covered up. So sad for those two young men who are still sitting in a stinking cell. I did hear they were to be released back to Myanmar, don’t know if it happened ? It’s not called Death Island for nothing.

Should put up a notice saying Keep your cash in your Inside pocket. Years ago I always had a silk money bag, when on a flight or bus I’d just put the money bag on. Went all over the world with that .

And « health records » ??? Health records are private . Why do they need those ? A health or travel insurance I can understand .

McDonald’s ??

Just look at the passengers arriving. Mostly men over 50. I heard three French men bragging about spending a week in Bangkok and never leaving their bedrooms ! So , unless Trump rises taxes on Soi Six and Bangla rd, nothing will change.

Chuck them out, stamp in passport , banned. Is there not enough lewd idiots in Thailand as it is ?? If the police could do that to the dangerous tourists that are becoming the norm in Thailand then there would be much less violence and trouble. A crackdown is needed !

What ?? So my nephew who’s been in the British army on difficult rounds, is a law abiding citizen , cannot be a tour guide , one of his Swedish friends from school, also cannot be a tour guide ? What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. You can’t have different laws for different races. And who knows what this « Israeli soldier really did in Israel ??

He’s illegal, do you condone this ?

They need another ferry or two. I would think that’s enough.

No Richard, for once I don’t agree with you. I’ve been going to KC for 20 years.Now it is over crowded and hotel prices have sky rocketed. There is only one road on the island which is very dangerous when it rains, especially for idiots on a rented bike. The beauty of the island is being plundered. After a bridge, what will come next ? Chop down the trees in the national park and build condos and even more hôtels Turn it into another awful Koh Samui? Crowds, pollution, bars , hiked prices, leave it alone. Please.

Probably the 77 feared dead have families to keep, they are the breadwinners. The poverty stricken families in Myanmar , as all others , deserve better compensation , I would have thought 3 million at least was a decent amount.

None of your business ! It’s a free world, everyone does what they believe right.

We had around 15 tremors in and around Nice /Cannes 2 weeks ago. We had one tsunami in Antibes near my home in 1979 . It wasn’t of the size of the big one in Phuket where I saw it all from my balcony, but damaged Nice airports runway and we had a few smaller yachts in the beach village.

Everything was better back then Bill. Thailand has turned into a den of iniquity. Violence and scams.

If I can see the French guy crossing from the above screen shot, surely the driver with his lights on can see him ???? Does the victim have to pay his own hospital costs in such cases ??

France is a wine country ! Most people drink wine with their meal. Good quality meat and fish is expensive . You have to buy it fresh, store it, have a cook, cook it and then add the sauces and veg. Wine we buy direct from the growers, 5 /20 cartons of 6 at a time depending the price range / quality. Put it in the cellar, lasts all season. Uncork it, bobs your uncle . Most multiply food costs by 2.5% , drinks by 5%. A good bottle of Cote de Provence costs us 5 to 7 euros. Multiply that by 5. That mark up is for soft drinks, bottled water ( Evian/ Badoit) coffee and desserts also. I rarely drink wine in Thailand except when I know they store it properly . In a hot back room just ruins the wine, even if it was originally of good quality.

But do these things really work ? What are the negative points. If they were that good and better than apple , wouldn’t it be all over the news ??? I would never buy a Tesla car as a jest against Munc, but too expensive for me anyway. My VW is enough.

It’s not apparently, the article is on AN somewhere.

Interest in Bangkok might slow down for a while. Future buyers will want to know if their building is really earthquake secure, and also the buildings around .I don’t like high buildings, but if I was buying I would check out the whole area , not only the condo I m interested in. Surely, if one building toppled in a built up area, it would affect the others around it. Then, do all recent condos have the correct permits and safety ?

I was in the restaurant business for 40 years. What we are seeing today, since Covid, is less people going to a restaurant. I don’t mean fast food/ cheap menu burgers. Transport and production have seen prices soaring. Lack of staff, etc are driving prices up, either that or close down. The people still eating out often today, are not buying wine or even beer. No appetizers, ordering a main meal and a bottle of water. And forget the dessert. So, still going out but limit the cost. Remember , drinks and desserts are where a restaurant earns its profit, not from meat or fish.

I have never liked skyscrapers. A fourth floor is ok for me. You can’t compare the tsunami ( I was there looking on) with an earthquake. The tsunami in Phuket, was on the beach obviously. It did damage a few buildings on beach road, but nothing was collapsing around you from above . It was tragic and there were a few hundred dead and missing. Myanmar has 1700 dead and they say it will rise to 8 or 10 thousand. From this morning’s news there are lots of reports of cracked buildings in Bangkok, which is very very worrying. Cracks in high rise hotels and condos are not reassuring at all. There was another 5. aftershock in Myanmar yesterday. I’m sure many tourists will avoid high rise hotels because what we’ve seen is shocking.

Hi , I’m in France at the moment glued to the BBC and their reporters. Not much news from Thailand / Bangkok, mostly tourists and their filming being shown , some live. The collapsed building , and thousands of people running like hell out of shopping malls / condos, and waiting in the parks. I don’t believe they have received any instructions from the government so far. Lots of falling concrete etc and the spectacular overflowing top floor pool that looked like the hotel opposite the Erawan shrine . Obviously worries about the sky train and metro. As for poor Myanmar , they’ve asked for international help, rare, but not much news / phots, except collapsed bridges. Well know more tomorrow . Im very surprised that ASEAN Now hasn’t followed this up better??