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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.

My first thought also was the title should read "Commercial banks OPEN all branches over the weekend to prevent overcrowding". On second thought it might achieve steering people away from a visit to applying online. My wife did just that last night and when she finally got through she was jumping up and down the living room that her 5,000 Baht handout is under consideration. Within 7 days it will be rejected or approved. 

A poster was surprised that they use commercial banks for this but that is only for the application. I understand that the actual handouts will be done in cash only through the Government Savings Bank.

No obstacles on the road, no traffic that triggered a fall. Heart attack?

20 minutes ago, Elkski said:

So it takes a military trained person to shoot a gun?  Wrong!!  It takes a military training to know a shatterproof glass jewelry case can handle a small persons weight?  No.  Long pistol probably a silencer.  Guns and silencers not hard to make.  

This guy had a plan   to shoot the guards. 2 would not have mattered.  Also Planned to Shoot a few customers then he would get his 2 minute time to load up on gold.  Gold up 8% in the last week.  Thai poor are rising up.  Of they didnt catch the big joke car shooters who says they can catch this guy.  He probably  used a stolen bike and did a switch where no CCTV.   Maybe even cut many CCTV  wires  before this crime.  He needs a painful slow death.  RIP.    Thailand,  a great place to shop. 

So what is the silencer for then? He thought nobody was going to hear the gun shots?

So there aren't any? 

That one can rent on an hourly basis. 

Today at Rassada Pier, there are a great number of Thai and foreign tourists taking ferries from Phuket to Phi Phi Island.

Who writes this rubbish?

I was at Rassada this morning and it was virtually deserted - only a handful of foreign tourists

TAT at it again?

I find it amazing that they actually think people are a danger to them. If she came in a Yaris and just dived with everyone else I'm sure nobody would even notice who she is.

I guess it's a ego thing.

You make a big mistake there Hans. People ARE a danger to them. Imagine they drove private cars with everyone else they TOO would be at the mercy of truck drivers in poorly (read: not) maintained heavily overloaded vehicles high on yaa baa and the mini-bus Michael Schumacher wannabe's and 11-year olds driving motorbikes on the wrong side of the road etc. etc.

Royal family member in the area perhaps? Police stopping traffic all the time this week. People are ordered to shut down their bike engine, get off the bike and stand next to it. When driving a car they leave you alone. No need to shut down your engine or stand next to the car.

But heard you can only use them in Bangkok Bank ATM's or am I misinformed?

An example of what the EU will be in for if Ukraine ever becomes a member .

Indeed. The Bulgarians and Albanians will face some serious competition then.

Damn North Koreans.