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Of course the shift to domestic tourism won't include making it easier and more attractive for expats to live in Thailand and travel around the country. Instead, they'll make long term visas more expensive and difficult to get and will expand dual pricing.

It isn't tragic, it's the inevitable result of reckless stupidity.

And what about the shop owners who treat the sidewalk as if it's their property?  They cover it with boxes, bikes and crates, forcing pedestrians onto the road, or in parts, into the yawning chasms where the road used to be.

Very misleading headline.  This is a proposal made by the worker reps, very unlikely to be accepted by the government. So Thailand is NOT  "set to increase minimum wage to 492 baht".

The UK government would do the same if they could work out a way they could make a tidy profit out of it.

Those three shopping malls employ 35,000 people. Really?!

The UK with the NHS and volunteers and with the experience of running the annual flu vaccine programme has, after six months, only just given  40 % of the population second doses. So Thailand to achieve 70% by the end of the year? No chance.

So I called 1178 to ask what I had to do as I sent my 90  Day Report, due 12/03/21 on 22/02/21. But nothing has come back.

I have my EMS confirmation that my letter was received and assumed they would sort it out and send me the details for the next appointment. But no, I should have realised, this is Thailand. So I have to to go Muang Thong Thani. Defeating the whole object of sending it by post in the first place. Not only that but I have to make an appointment online. OK, fair enough, that might shorten the wait in the office. But when I try to do it, filling in my details including when the report was due, of course it would only shows me dates before that date.  Which have all, as Month Python might have said, passed, expired, gone to meet their maker. So the only way I can make an appointment is to lie about the due date. 

This is bureaucracy gone absolutely mad. I did everything correctly but because someone somewhere has made a mistake I am inconvenienced. Why they can't send a replacement letter without me having to attend is beyond me. I used to love this country but I am starting to despise it with a passion.

In what crazy universe would the number of take-aways a city has be an indicator of its health?

So Thailand shown as 15th despite only two countries having a lower death rate per million. Dubious ranking.

Surprise, surprise.

Sorry, anyone who went to the UK for a "short holiday in March" was asking for trouble.

I went to Phuket only once, the taxi from the airport took a detour to some place that tried to sell me tours. This was obviously far from unique.  Left a bad taste so I shortened my stay from a week to three days. And have never been back.  Phuket deserves all it gets.

No sympathy for the likes of the family who went for a holiday to South Africa on 25 Feb.  It was obvious from late January that the pandemic was coming with all sorts of consequences possible. Some people regard themselves as entitled and immune.

My heart bleeds.

Let them suffer, they took on unpayable debts so that they could swan around with the latest car, phone, latest whatever. Now they should lose everything for such idiocy.

Strange, these milestone tourists are invariably women, and never, ever middle aged or elderly white men.

I live in Bangkok and I used to go to Pattaya about once a month, but once the TM30 kicked in I couldn't be bothered.