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Thai government urged to brace for goods price spike in May
Gold Star replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Energy is the largest contributor to inflation, and the so called energy transition is not coming faster than they are killing off the oil industry. Hedge yourself against higher costs by buying beaten down oil stocks. -
Government Launches Rayong Smart Park Construction Project
Gold Star replied to webfact's topic in Eastern Thailand
I think they meant 'Park Smart' program. Thai's don't park cars, they abandon them. -
Probably got to keep the reward money.
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Authorities Seized Over 45,000 Counterfeit Items in January
Gold Star replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Be careful what you wish for. Without the fake smiles, fake breasts, and fake love, it wouldn't be such a fantasy dreamland anymore. -
I am amazed at all the wasted spending here. Perfectly good main roads being ripped up and repaved, while feeder roads are full of gravel and potholes. Massive sidewalk projects like those above go from nowhere to nowhere, unused, as the jungle takes it back. Meanwhile residents must navigate broken sidewalk footpaths in every town, with jagged steel, wires, holes and broken concrete, filling hospitals with twisted ankles, and broken bones of those brave enough to try to pass. The 'Build it and forget it' mentality provides no budget for maintenance after completion, so these projects degrade and become a monument to the excess of the civilization, like the pyramids in Egypt. Who is ever held accountable for these massive fiscal wastes and resources? As costs of energy and materials is about to skyrocket, these blunders will become even more costly to the people of Thailand, as basic needs go unaddressed.
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Gold shop robber slips across the border into Myanmar
Gold Star replied to webfact's topic in Bangkok News
Robs a gold shop and escapes to live out a good life in Myanmar? Not the sharpest knife in the drawer. In 2 months, he will be back to turn himself in. -
Just start making noises like you were throwing up in the rear seat.
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All having backpacks full of cash, spending billions of baht like the millionaires they are. Tourism is saved!
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Plugin or take to the bike as fuel prices soar
Gold Star replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
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Chonburi farmer shot multiple times at his salt field
Gold Star replied to snoop1130's topic in Pattaya News
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New Conditions Set for COVID Insurance Claims
Gold Star replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
Like my friend recently experienced, you may also be taken to a 10 day hospital incarceration even if you did not test 'Positive'. If your test was performed in a dirty parking lot, by some dude that didn't change his gloves all day from person to person, and vanload to vanload, and it comes back later as not 'Positive, not 'Negative', but 'Trace Detected', you will be taken away. You have no symptoms. Your insurance won't cover it because you don't have Covid. You can't retest. You are trapped with all the others, their screams heard down the halls of the ward for 10 days. There is no internet. At least arrive with a smartphone with a good data package, and have easy access to a few hundred thousand baht to pay your bill to get out. Otherwise, like my friend, you may be threatened on the hospital phone in his room by someone who identified themselves as the immigration police that upon the conclusion of the 10 days , the next move may be to spend some time in jail, then taken to the airport and put on the next plane being blacklisted for life. For tourists, it will most likely be their last trip to Thailand. Ever. For us expats, it is just another inconvenience, indicative of the way we are treated while living here in paradise.