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My Thai wife had registered and was supposed to get the vaccine on 25th. Yesterday she received a message that this was cancelled. They informed her that from 25th onwards they are only vaccinating Thais who are registered in Phuket. Many (maybe even the majority) do not bother with that and are still officially registered in their home provinces. Her daughter is on the list for 24th and although also not registered in Phuket they assured her they will vaccinate her today. Now let's wait and see if they send her home without.

Well will check out Sure then. Thank you all.

Can anyone - based on personal experience -  recommend a second hand car dealer around Kathu? Planning to buy an Isuzu pick up. 

2 hours ago, cyril sneer said:

What have they done so well that the West hasn’t? 

They implemented a tropical climate with people mainly living (semi) outdoors.

Saw them in the Floresta supermarket.

Room 103 retirement, upstairs marriage etc.

According to his facebook page he worked most of his live in the timeshare business.

Interesting what he posted on 3 november 2020:

The world, humanity; fully filled with to much greed, selfishness, and money. The world shows people to only think about themselves and no one else. Fight, stand up for yourself and your loved ones and show only Love ! Be better then them, stay yourself! Fight for those people close around you as they deserve better, you deserve better. Being healthy, having a roof above your head, being able to eat and live is all that matters, stay positive no matter what, let's not forget!! Be happy to live! Peace people peace! Karma does the rest Going to leave it like this

Please do not simply mention the list of usual suspects. Anyone out there who bought one or is absolutely sure where I can find one?

Police everywhere in preparation this morning in Kathu and Patong.

Trying to get in touch with their accounting department.

Yeah "too big to fail" or in this case "too big to answer". Too busy counting their money and no time to bother with the plebs who generate that money for them.

Thanks Cod Face.

No Help Centre button on the partner portal or any other means to contact to be found. Sent a message via facebook (although that function seems to be meant for the general public) and received a automated message, obviously in Thai only, that says they will reply when they feel like it.

Meanwhile found out that they charge a commission of 35% plus VAT which equals 37.45%. Pretty steep. I reckon that many Thai individuals who started selling food through Foodpanda after they lost their income are selling at a minimal profit perhaps even at a loss without realizing it.

Been trying to contact Foodpanda for a while. Found only one telephone number in Bangkok that is actually meant for complaints about services. Number doesn't work. Then I found a Hong Kong email address. If you send an email it generates an automated message that "for my convenience'" I have to use an online form instead. Form doesn't work.

Anyone any ideas?

An optician, a 7-eleven and a Nepali tailor would be high on my list.

21 hours ago, rooster59 said:

However, the name of the person to replace Gen Rungrote was not revealed.

Let the bidding begin.

1 hour ago, stouricks said:

The van looks like it was on it's own side of the double yellows.

 

If a motorbike hits you head on, you would come to an immediate stop.

 

How can you see 'minimal damage' to the bike. It is not in the photo, and was four metres away according to the news report.

Actually the bike is in photo number 6. I was also wondering. Minimal damage to the front of the bike compared to the van. Looks more like the van hit him from the side, not head-on.

1 hour ago, JonnyF said:

So now the Tuk Tuk drivers and taxis will be ripping off locals instead of foreigners.

 

This should be fun ????.

 

It is even funnier to imagine that 20,000 tuktuk drivers have gone back to their home town Nakhon Si Thamarrat and are now trying to rip off each other.

Been there and they informed me that renewal is possible from 1st July onward

Here it is not mu-arai. Just mua (เมื่อ). Mua pom ayoo noi. Or: Mua pom yang dek. Instead of mua you can also use waylaa (เวลา). 

A not to be mentioned newspaper reports that this afternoon no one was longer allowed to leave Phuket. Orders from Bangkok.

Well most announcements and news articles have contradictions in them. It is the standard. What we call contradictions is actually Thai logic. If you point it out to them the response will likely be: farang don't understand. This is the so called Dunning-Kruger effect.

In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with low ability at a task overestimate their ability. It is related to the cognitive bias of illusory superiority and comes from the inability of people to recognize their lack of ability.