Ddbanksy

Sounds about right,that's how Thais work,back to front

Probably can't swim?

On 6/3/2021 at 9:48 AM, ezzra said:

Any step forward is a step in the right direction, now let us all skepticls and yee of us with little faith just sit back and wish them the best...

The good wife tells me i'm alreadyin the que on the local register for the "Sinovax" (daughter's friend works at the local hospital),she has yet to give me a date.

 Sakhon Nahkon Province.

Will keep TV updated

"Thailand Plus" App on arrival in BKK quarantine 19 April 2021,i had to download this before arriving from SGN

17 hours ago, Sheryl said:

 

I think it is important to understand that when government talks about "foreigners" they are not talking about only or even primarily Western expats. Why should they?

 

The majority of foreigners in Thailand are migrant workers from neighboring countries. Over 2 million of them by most estimates.

 

From an epidemiological perspective, numbers matter which makes western expats of much less concern than these other groups.  It is migrant workers that the spokeswoman referred toi when she said some foreigners have already been vaccinated in Phase 1.

 

Very, very few migrant workers are over age 60 or have chronic diseases, which may be one reason why planning for Phase 2 did nto focus on foreigners.

"Very, very few migrant workers are over age 60 or have chronic diseases, which may be one reason why planning for Phase 2 did nto focus on foreigners."

 yeh,not many "60 year old migrant retirees" with with an underlying "Chronic desease", i assume 90% dead?

Totally agree with you Barry,you "hit all the nails the head" mate

9 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Please don't shut the schools. I just paid for the next term before the holidays and between term holidays, public holidays and covid shutdowns she's never there.

 

 

Why,honestly?

Love & lust,two different things mate.

Look at yourself first,then get rid

Love the sence of humour Rooster,always gives me a smile

5 hours ago, Excel said:

Too late

"We're doomed" captain Mannering

1 hour ago, AlfHuy said:

I read today somewhere that one minister apparently was " French kissing" someone and probably catched the virus there.

 

What's that?

 

Asking for a friend.

"Tongue on Tongue...ing" 555

Just now, Ddbanksy said:

Exactly agree with you

2000 year old Medicine is what's needed

2 hours ago, Nanaplaza666 said:

Yes but not the flowers only the leaves . They are allowed to grow 6 plants . Do you have any idea how many leaves you need to make some kind of a product . The flowers are still illegal . When the day comes that they can use the flowers , then the normal people can start to make some money . But now it's all 1 big hoaks and only the billionaires and big companies can make the money and let the farmers use their land to grow it and pay them next to nothing same as with rise at the moment . No rise grower has gotten rich growing rise they still need support from their daughters(and sons) working in the big cities . 

Exactly agree with you

15 hours ago, WineOh said:

did I get off at the wrong stop?

like cloud cuckoo land?

this place is mad!

You didn't know,i love it.

It magnifies all of the world's "Western" Governments political BS!

 "They do it,we'll try it"

12 hours ago, webfact said:

Thai tourism industry will never be allowed to recover to pre-COVID levels

by Andrew J Wood

 

 

BANGKOK: Last week the Thai government Minister’s speech shows me that tourism will never be allowed to recover to previous levels. The writing is definitely on the wall, windows and front door, that there has been a major policy shift in government thinking by PM Prayut Chan-o-cha’s cabinet. 

 

In a deeply worrying development for Thailand’s massive Travel & Tourism industry, which last year generated a huge Bt 2.2 trillion of income (US$ 55.2 billion), and accounted for 20 per cent of GNP and 10 per cent of all jobs in Thailand, the deputy PM Supattanapong Punmeechaow said that the country relied too much on tourism and that this was unacceptable. 

 

This must be as worrying for property developers as well as investors. If the 39 million tourists that Thailand received last year in 2019, is never to be repeated, why do we need to continue building and investing in new hotels?

 

According to Thailand’s Nation newspaper, deputy PM Supattanapong Punmeechaow admitted that the Covid-19 outbreak had exposed cracks and faults in the Thai economy. 

 

“The Covid-19 outbreak that hit Thailand since April has exposed the fragility of the economy and shed light on the fact that we rely too much on export and tourism,” the Minister said. 

 

This is certainly a departure from what the Minister was saying back in August. The deputy PM, who also holds the Energy portfolio, announced then the formation of a new economic panel, and boasted that the new economic committee will boost tourism and employment. He said the panel agreed to increase subsidies for local tourists and create 1 million jobs in the near future to combat growing unemployment.

 

Supattanapong Punmeechaow the deputy PM is cleary worried about putting too many eggs in one basket and spreading the risk. However it maybe too early to start walking away from tourism when other industries are simple not ready to take up the slack. Infrastructure improvements; legal reforms, changes in corporate ownership regulations and reduced bureaucracy are just a few of the changes the chambers of commerce have been asking for and must be in place BEFORE we start to cook the goose that lays gold bullion on the floor of the vault in the bank.  

 

The deputy PM who was speaking last week at the “Restart Thailand 2021” dinner talk held at Siam Paragon shopping complex in Bangkok said,  “The outbreak has had an especially heavy impact on small and medium businesses, prompting the government to spend over Bt 800 billion on SME aid measures including postponing debt repayment worth over Bt 6.8 trillion for 12 million SMEs,” he said. “However, from July onwards, economic indicators have been pointing toward an improving trend thanks to cooperation from all parties in outbreak prevention, despite some minor impact from the political situations.

 

“The tourism industry has shown improvement, with about 30 per cent occupation, jumping from just 6 per cent in April, thanks to the government’s economic stimulus campaigns such as the ‘Let’s Go Halves’ shopping subsidy,” he added.

 

“Through the Thai Credit Guarantee Corporation, the government is also planning to provide an additional Bt 150 billion in loans to help small and medium businesses.

 

“The battle against Covid-19 is not over yet. The government still has many projects in the coming year to boost the economy, attract foreign investors and build infrastructure for future expansion,” the minister added.

 

“These projects include the construction of 14 Skytrain lines in Bangkok covering 500 kilometres in the next four to five years, larger than London’s Underground, and the infrastructure projects in the Eastern Economic Corridor to support digital technology, 5G and robotics industry.

 

“It is unacceptable to let Thailand slide back to the period before Covid-19. Since the global economy is changing we must be more proactive in attracting foreign investors, and the agencies responsible for this are the Board of Investment Office and Eastern Economic Corridor Office,” Supattanapong said.

 

“The next step will be to put Thailand on the list of top 10 countries with ease of doing business, which is a goal proposed by five countries who are our major trade partners.”

 

2021 will be the year of investment. 

 

The deputy PM further explained that next year the government will focus on investing in new industries that will help reduce reliance on export and tourism. “Bangkok will be the centre of regional offices of multinational companies, while Thailand’s automotive industry will focus on the manufacturing of electric vehicles (EVs), ” he said. “EVs will create other related industries such as smart equipment manufacturing and electricity generating from renewable energy. This will create a great opportunity for Thailand to further invest in community power plants, as well as biomass and solar power plants in Laos,” he concluded. 

 

-- Andrew J Wood 2020-12-21

Yeh,HK&SG are getting to small now,let's make Bangkok the new HK&SG,same weather,different hat's

 It's called ASEAN

6 hours ago, internationalism said:

they have send border police armed as riot police and yellow shirt wearers to bangkok back in october and blamed protesters for porous borders.

 

recently they have allowed hundreds hookers and casino workers back to thailand without quarantine at mae sot crossing. Still is unknown who took money and how much per head, but for rich workers they can charge $$$.

 

For always thai army was trading humans/slaves from birma to malaysia, with slave camps on the border and hundreds of mass graves with thousands victims discovered in 2015 and quickly buried by thai state and courts (the lead investigator, police general, had to flee to Australia to ask for a refuge, after death threats in Bangkok).

 

There are 550 000 slaves as free labour behind thai economy, they are smuggled across borders all the time, with full knowledge/participation of army. You can't hide that mass of people. 

 

So only when shait hit the fan, like now, they have to make some posturing how very useful they are to the country

True,an "Hiso" in the Army,a friend of the family has been telling us,it's been going on since Covid started,say's it's everywhere.

 Just a cover up by their Boss.

 We all know who that is!!

 All the best of luck

And these people are still in well paid jobs of their own authority 

17 hours ago, RotBenz8888 said:

Anutin says it's under control, surely he knows more than a simple associate professor? 

It's already all over the place,heard yesterday (Hiso army friend of the family info) they're just not telling the truth about it!

Who'd of thought it...555

On 11/28/2020 at 7:46 PM, ThreeEyedRaven said:

Questionable reporting you would have to say. It looks like grandma comes in and not so much traps it, as breaks the things spine, which could be considered harmful if you are the centipede.

I wonder how they cooked it after? 

And there they all were,busy "baby sitting" on their mobile phones!

The only mental stimulation/interaction with the baby,was the cuddly toys & grandma squashing the millipeed and people wonder why the world we live in today is <deleted>'d up.

Part of the "new CV vaccine shipment" maybe?

20 hours ago, webfact said:

No narcotics in Thailand's ‘biggest ever drug haul’ – only cleaning agent

By The Nation

 

File photo

 

Justice Minister Somsak Thepsutin has admitted that the chemical seized in what was initially billed as the biggest drugs haul in Thailand’s history is not ketamine, but a harmless cleaning agent.

 

Somsak explained on Tuesday that when the first test was carried out on 11.5 tonnes of the white powder, it turned the reagent purple – a match for ketamine. But after testing again, the substance was found to be trisodium phosphate, a cleaning agent and food additive which also turns the testing reagent purple.

 

The mistake was caused by an error in the scientific process, he added.

 

The seizure made worldwide headlines on November 12 when officials including Somsak announced they had made the largest drugs bust in Thai history. The chemical was found inside 475 sacks piled in a warehouse in Chachoengsao and was said to be worth Bt28.7 billion.

 

The raid on the warehouse in the eastern province followed a tip-off from officials in