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18 hours ago, YetAnother said:

ah i see; privilege = no quarantine

Ambassadors tend to already be here.

3 hours ago, treetops said:

Try this one.  Bottom of the page.

 

https://london.thaiembassy.org/en/publicservice/119247-requirements-for-certificate-of-entry-during-travel-restriction

 

That's the Thai Embassy in London. He meant the UK Bangkok embassy website, which doesn't mention it yet.

3 hours ago, from the home of CC said:

real 'tourists' will utilize the voa. Real 'tourists' live in another country and are coming for a holiday and presumably have a job they have to return to. Living on the border of the US  for 40 years I entered frequently, their main concern? did I have a job back in Canada? which would necessitate my return. Most countries have a similar concern. They don't want a bunch of foreigners running around doing whatever they deem necessary to keep living there including breaking laws and  offering bribes. I have friends (retired) that apply for a tourist visa every year, they usually spend 3 months. They are real long stay tourists, in my home country we call them snowbirds. They are not wealthy by any standards but will have absolutely no problem providing this requirement. But as I say, these are real tourists not folks trying to circumvent laws to live in another country..  

Which VOA would that be?

2 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Will anybody miss Kev and Tracy from Essex?

Significant demographic in normal times.

5 minutes ago, dunque said:

The average family in the UK will take a holiday of 2 - 3 weeks max - they will not be requiring an SETV.

Considering that the SETV is the only visa available, they will, but 2 - 3 weeks would be a bit crappy with the first 14 days in quarantine.

5 minutes ago, roxnadz said:

 

Which is entirely the point.

 

 

Probably correct, or they can use approved agents to side-step the financials at silly prices.

4 hours ago, BigStar said:

Nor Brits, sadly.

 

Llanelli friends died in Thailand motorcycle crash

Nothing more recent than 10 years ago..?

42 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Waiting to see what the requirement will be for a 30 day Visa on Arrival....let's see the Thai government do away with those and really kill tourism.

They already did that.

4 hours ago, dunroaming said:

Just like in China, a Mia Noi (concubine in China and a mistress to the rest of us) is common practice and the majority of wives know about them.  In fact some wives actively encourage their husbands to have one as long as they retain their status as wife number one.  The Mia Noi gets all the perks of being a mistress.  She gets wined and dined, often her housing and expenses are paid for and of course lot's of little gifts to keep her sweet.

 

I would say don't try to put western values on this but quite honestly things are not that different in the West either.  You just need deeper pockets there.

Yes, I have worked for lots of super-wealthy men, who predominantly do have mia-nois. Chinese (including BKK/Singapore/HK) especially but French and Italians too. The Chinese have houses in Sentosa and megayachts, the Europeans have chateaux and titles as well. Americans and Brits have pre-nups..

21 hours ago, ukrules said:

If only there was some kind of law which required people to sit in an actual seat and wear a seat belt.

 

Oh wait, there is, they just choose to ignore it with zero enforcement ????

The list just released of new traffic fines has only one relating to seat belts: that the driver must wear one. No mention of passengers, front or back, oddly. Another one requires all motorbike passengers to wear a helmet.. And I can't wait to see the new 'must pull over if another vehicle signals they want to pass' regulation being enforced ????.

8 minutes ago, JesseHumphry said:

That's offering carrots to lions. 

Why? Do you know what lions eat? 

Buffalo

1 hour ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

Not sure what point you're making...sold is sold and the money's been made. Who cares if the buyers live in them or not.

Quite often a majority are 'owned' by the developer's family. Good luck in getting management fees from those ones.

3 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Does that mean they're now talking about giving a free Elite visa card/status to anyone who spends 2 million on a new purchase condo in Thailand?

 

If that's correct, that ought to generate some interest.

 

The OP stated 8M.

2 hours ago, essox essox said:

last figures I saw.....were 59 DEATHS, AND LESS THAN 4K INFECTIONS  !!!

And why do you think that is then?

5 hours ago, Huckenfell said:

The pic shows it to be a Passenger train, not a freight train.

Another one..

7 hours ago, CLW said:

A bridge crossing open sea waters. Lol.

One storm and 4 meter high waves and that was it.

How to anchor and secure everything?

As I said earlier, not really a bridge, just a road mainly. You don't get 4-metre-high waves in water less than 5 metres deep. Pilings and earth berms would be simple. Having said that, it wouldn't be much fun crossing in a storm. Hope they ban sam-los or they'd lose a few..

17 hours ago, SunsetT said:

They wont rest until they've covered the whole of Thailand in concrete.

They'd certainly need a hell of a lot just for this project too. I wonder who would profit from that then..

16 hours ago, Albert Zweistein said:

I don't see the point to offload containers on one side in Thailand, transport them by road or rail to the other side and load them again. The bulk of containers from the far east to europe are transported by huge ships. The time and cost involved on each side, tugboats, pilot and port fees times 2 will make it not profitable. It is a dream that might become a nightmare.

The point is for imported & exported goods for Thailand, not the Far East. It is rather obviously better not to break the journey in the middle to go via Laem Chabang, which would be a large detour rather than a short-cut!

So if they can reduce a significant portion of the whole country's imports & exports transit time and fuel cost by several days by avoiding the trip around Singapore there would be a huge bonus to the Thai economy. Plus a big container port at Ranong providing jobs and distribution direct to the south of Thailand, peninsular Malaysia as well as Burma, not to mention Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. Win-win.

12 hours ago, realfunster said:

I was wondering about this in the "1.1 trillion of projects under review" thread also started today.

 

So this confirms it, they are considering an 80+km bridge across the Gulf.

 

Ambitious plans indeed, as the current longest sea bridge is 55km and cost USD20bn/THB625bn.

 

It wouldn't have to be much of a bridge, looking at the sea charts. None of it is over 5 metres deep so they could probably just lay the road on dredged & sprayed berms plus piled sections, with a bridge for ships in the middle. Not that I'm a road engineer, but it would surely be easier than the Hong Kong airport bridge and road project in the 90's.

8 hours ago, hellohello123 said:

Is the author of the article thai or foreign?

 

I've never seen the word "beserk" used in a newspaper article

Odd thing to say, berserk is a perfectly common English word: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/berserk

3 minutes ago, Promula said:

Having said that, Phuket taxis do seek to exploit the lack of public transport, which London taxis can't, and they probably use muscle to keep out public transport. 

Not probably..

2 hours ago, Promula said:

Yep, that's where the cashed up Thai locals go. Mainly in the old town but there's dozens of restaurants and bars further out. They wouldn't be seen dead in a Patong bar, much like the Bangkok Ari/Thong Lor locals wouldn't be seen dead on Suk soi 4.

Yes, lots of very reasonable and funky places in Phuket Town, mainly aimed at locals and with a wide spectrum of quality/cost. Few people that live here ever go to Patong. I live about 15 mins away and very rarely ever go, only if I have to meet someone for work etc. My wife will not ever go.