ICELANDMAN

Wait here I have lost something, without Covid checks, documents and Covid insurance, or 14-day quarantine? No tell my I dream.....

3 hours ago, rott said:

Strange illogical post, but no I have no illusions of residency I am on an extension of permission to stay based on Retirement. 

The thing that know-nothings refer to as a Retirement Visa. 

I agree with you on the retirement visa, which are worthless like the tourist visa, see these two are always considered as tourists and not as residents with a family therefore eviction without any consideration for their family situation.

16 hours ago, rott said:

He's been here seven years but is on the tourist amnesty? 

Is correct we are all tourist also with Thai wife and children, why you thing you are resident ?

All the Thais tourists were waiting for the good news, discounts price hotel with not limit

6 hours ago, donnacha said:

Yeah. I do ????

I'm not sure why some members are so horrified by what would essentially be a continuation of the situation that existed for half-a-century before the junta seized power.

The difference now is that they actually NEED that foreign currency, mostly injected directly into the poorest parts of the economy, more than they need it in 1970, or 1980, or 1990, or 2000, or 2010.

This country has no real welfare system. Or, rather, WE effectively became their welfare system, and provided the demand that generated jobs for a million low-skilled workers.

The feeble attempts to distribute assistance during the first few months of the pandemic ended up being a lottery that helped very few. Having repeatedly crushed democracy every time that elected government showed any inclination to do anything for the people, the elites are not about to turn around and provide anything more than theatrical assistance to the masses.

Thailand is a rich country, but that wealth will never be shared. The elites have enjoyed low/no taxes for years, mainly because there is no real welfare system, and that has only been possible because millions of tourists kept coming and generating those ground-level jobs.

The junta may be too stupid to realize it but, even though no one in their family or circle of friends works in a restaurant or hotel, their continued survival relies on the masses being able to eat. It may turn out that the Thai people actually do have a limit to what they will meekly accept.

Covid will be with us for a while. Nothing really can open up until 2021, but it could conceivably take even longer than that. Two years without tourism is going to destroy a lot of lives, a lot of relationships. Desperation changes people. It changes countries.

The elites should pray that tourism can return sooner rather than later. And, when the doors can open, they should do everything in their power to win as many tourists as they can, for as long as they can.

 

With this answer it would seem that you are worried about the survival of the elite, if the people are fine so we have nothing to say here we are just tourists

Your proposal is absolutely the best thing for a Western country to do, but as we know it will be impossible because it goes beyond understanding the population classification and we are on the last step, the lowest. So abolishing the whole bureaucratic system is simply impossible because at least part of the population is the middle caste that is the bureaucrats who have no interest in losing their jobs if you remove the Visa system. And the government needs the middle class to survive.

1 hour ago, The Theory said:

Is the living cost as low as Thailand? Or Annual visa fees are lower than Thai? Safety ? 
I don't think so. 

No annual visa but bank deposit no deposit if married to a Filipino for the cost depends on where you choose to live is a country other than Thailand there are those who like it and those who do not like me.

15 minutes ago, Radar501 said:

US$30 billion?........far canal!!!!

Cost calculate with the big brown envelopes LOL

27 minutes ago, Moonlover said:

I disagree. Using approximate figures, a ship running from off the coast of HCMC, Vietnam to a point in the Andaman Sea off the west coast of the proposed canal routes would cover around 1,200 miles. At 30mph (forget knots for now) the journey would take around 40 hours.

 

If a canal were available the distance would be reduced to 800 miles so, in theory the journey time would be reduced to 26 hours, a saving of 14 hours. However one must factor in the increase in time it would take to negotiate the canal at a much reduced speed plus possible waiting time for a 'passage slot'. 

 

The cost of passage through the canal would have to very cheap (in shipping terms) to temp shipping companies and their captains to undertake the arduous undertaking that a canal transit would involve. Both the Panama and the Suez canals have the great advantage of greatly reduced distances. This project does not.

 

The Malacca Straits are difficult enough already, without adding the complexity of a canal transit.

If the Chinese want it, it is not only for the transport economy but also for logistics in the event of an economic or military war, the war of the opium remained in their memory

1 hour ago, richard_smith237 said:

IF Thailand could build such a canal itself - it would be an excellent money spinner. 

 

Info here. 

 

Shipping time could be reduced by 2-3 days at a saving of US$350,000 per journey (for a tanker).

 

It could also dramatically increase the revenue of ports such as Laem Chabang.

Perfect timing of the Chinese government as the Thai government is now desperate for foreign investment

10 minutes ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

Yes...I believe homosexuality (either person) can also be a reason.

Yes if you are so stupid not to check first or if you like ladyboy

39 minutes ago, Jeffrey346 said:

I believe they require $20,000 US in the bank.

For the new law no necessary only papers  http://www.immigration.gov.ph/faqs/visa-inquiry/immigration-visa-by-marriage

9 hours ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

Isn't divorce still illegal in the Philippines...the only way out is to obtain a church marriage annulment from the church on very specific grounds and this can take a year or more (especially if she fights it).

Are you what specific reasons mean for the Catholic church? That of not having consummated the marriage, translation, never having had sex with your wife LOL

5 hours ago, Phillip9 said:

If you are married, I would bet there are lots of countries in Asia that have no income requirement.  Philippines for one, I know has no income or proof of money requirement if you are married to a filipina.

Yes you have right for married Philippine I check now, and now for many I think is so later change wife

37 minutes ago, sandyf said:

I don't know what you are trying to say.

If you wish to believe that rain water does not start life as distilled water that is up to you, time to understand what google is trying to tell you.

You may not have noticed but I did say the conductance would vary, the question is, at what point does it become high enough for the current to have any noticeable effect, a bit like earth leakage.

Enough to say I for one wouldn't stick my fingers in the water, human conductance also varies very significantly.

I agree in what you say, but even if the water is contaminated with salts or other, electricity is transmitted only if there is a negative discharge point on the ground, in this case nothing exactly happens to the electricity meter even if the water is contaminated because the electricity meter is insulated and contains the contaminated water colored without loss until it overflows, then the electricity company will ask for money to install a new meter if you still want to receive electricity in the house, this is normal Thailand life.

I am sending you a completely not free analysis that my cat Jeremy told me, normal flights will resume at the end of 2024, if the resumption is earlier we were just lucky that the flights resume earlier than expected.

Who do I send the invoice to?

800.000 Bths, 90 days, Visa 0, and too much paper and photocopy and Anutin

If you will know more about the new vaccine Covid, everything is verified no fake news

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EFw_H4S8okBjSBNnmBiFmhzm19V8xaoF

It is interesting to watch the trolls who come to disprove the reality and make the lies appear as true Pravda like truths and glorify the Fondation of Bill Gates & Melinda Gates as saviors of mankind.

For the Russian vaccine or other vaccines now the mass media are reporting that they will not be effective only at 50% therefore I believe that they are really useless and the damage that is run by taking them is absolutely to be avoided.

5 hours ago, jojothai said:

The maths dont add up. It doesnt say how many doses / courses.

With 70 million population, he is clearly not planning this for the masses.

Its only less than 10 baht per person.

Say the vaccine course ( a few shots) is cheap here at perhaps 1000 baht.

Thats only 600,000 people.

Maybe that will cover the politicians, their associates in big business, the army / forces, medical staff.

Is there no consideration fof the general populace?

 

"Anutin said the budget for the plan was around Bt600 million, though Thailand was spending a total Bt3 billion on vaccine research and delivery. "

For 3 billion is 42.8 Bts but not all thai go take vaccine maybe 200 bts cost product vaccine on country is correct.

9 minutes ago, KhunKenAP said:

Please leave your name, if you want to be the first in Thailand to take the Russian COVID-19 Vaccine. Winner to be announced later if they live.

Sorry to disillusion you I have never taken a vaccine and no intention of taking it now, this post is only meant to open a debate on the Russian vaccine before we know which vaccine the Thai government wants to impose on us and decide on the problem, not to receive stupid comments

1 hour ago, GroveHillWanderer said:

 

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. That article actually points out how the various conspiracy theories about the Gates Foundation are ridiculous and untrue. As it states in conclusion:

 

 

Another thing - the Russian vaccine does use genetic manipulation. The following quotes are taken from the official site for the Russian Sputnik V vaccine. First of all, they point out that their vaccine uses virus vectors, and that:

 

Then, as they go on to say:

So the Russian vaccine is actually genetically manipulated in not one, but two different ways.

 

Sputnikvaccine.com

I have not put up a site that condemns Bill Gate's foundation of eugenicist, too easy, but that of the huffpost that clears him of all those accusations without any proof of the accusations while thousands of witnesses prove the opposite in Africa.

For the vaccine I think you confuse genetic manipulation and DNA manipulation. All the vaccine are built by genetic manipulation but now science has taken a further step and is moving towards the manipulation of our DNA, the Russian vaccine that, I absolutely do not defend, but I note that it is a normal vaccine and does not present a DNA manipulation at least for what they declare and I hope it is the truth.

It would be interesting to know what type of vaccine Anutin intends to license before granting him the money but I suppose nobody on the government ask.