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Why not give these to tourists who come to Thailand?
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3 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:
No mention of biometrics or smart cars have we been breached ????
I've heard nothing about BMW smart cars for weeks. I think they are on holiday or have Covid.
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The other day Prayut said that we would learn the names of all the perps in the investigation. He didn't that for transparency say the names would be released....he said it would be impossible to keep them quiet. I thought it was an odd thing to say.
Now I see that we have snail's pace back again so that every committee and its mother will have to give the green light after hermeneutically perusing the documents to find something trivial that wasn't done according to 'procedure'. It's not encouraging.
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How can they allow such pessimism? The censors have fallen asleep.
However sad, it believe it is true. I would say little or no farang tourism for two years after Covid becomes a non-issue. I think Covid becoming a non-issue is at least two years away.
Even if we have a vaccine......how long will it take to vaccinate everybody (years) and don't forget the need to vaccinate everybody in both the tourist and hosts countries. There is also the issue of the longevity of the vaccine.
Farang tourists will not flood back to Thailand until it is way and convenient to come here:
a) there is no quarantine or isolation requirement
b) there is no pre-flight paperwork involving COVID test and/or in vaccinated people a test which shows the vaccine to have generated IgG antibodies.
c) Covid infection remains near zero in Thailand.
d) no special medical insurance vs Covid is required for entry.
The other harsh reality in recent suggestions for long stay (270 days) is that the real long stayers are retirement, work-related, marriage related. The other group is backpackers having a gap year, and these typically have little money to spend shopping and staying in expensive hotels. My town are closing down hotels and opening hostels instead.
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Well don't waste it, give it to the members of the Cabinet for them to keep safe in their bank accounts.
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First thing to do is to ask your grannie who has never left Britain and never had any visa of any description what you should do. This will serve as a benchmark for sensible advice and free up your mind for when you call the Thai consulate and get a different answer from everyone you speak to....and will be closer to the truth than most of them.
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6 hours ago, TopDeadSenter said:Trump has done more for world peace than any former President. The mid-east has never been so peaceful, it is not surprising that he has been nominated for a Nobel peace prize(https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nobel-prize-peace-trump/norwegian-lawmaker-nominates-trump-for-nobel-peace-prize-idUSKBN2601R4 ) for his achievements. Achievements that seemed like wistful pipe dreams under his predecessor.
Get the troops home, and they can relax for another 4 years or until another war hungry administration takes power. Trump works for the American people, not Haliburton. A refreshing change.
Now queue 100 posts attacking Trump for bringing peace to a turbulent region.
Trump has done nothing for world peace.
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Here's guessing they will bring in some thousands of contractors to grad the oil that they are stealing.....
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This is why I buy TV every day.....you don't get this sort of news in the Daily Mail, now do you?
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I can't tell you how many times this has happened to me.....and not only the phone charger, but dropped cigarettes, bottles of beer and whiskey, some chewing gum which fell out of my mouth yesterday, a half eaten-sandwich I bought last week, and sundry other items. I have decided to ask the wife to hunt for things I drop in the car from now on.
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Wouldn't;t it one nice if all government procurement followed the same rules.....ie get 3 bids all with the same T&C, have an anonymous panel evaluate each bid and issue a list of questions, get the answers back and have the panel review them, then pick the best supplier.
It seems that having multiple procedures for procurement is equivalent to having bio system at all. It might be a good idea if the supplier were to be paid by cheque instead of bundles of cash which seems to be the current preference.
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The logic is irresistible. How would we all fare sans Chan o cha? Is he still a real general?
Personally I think he did a marvellous job with COVID-19, but he is now snatching defeat from the jaws of victory with his, almost lunatic, reopening of the country. He seems unable to resist the siren calls from TAT to allow anyone to enter the country who has a back pack and enough time to spend in ASQ.
The Logic is as follows.....I am a European traveller.....I get 40 days holiday a year but 10 of those days are Christmas, Easter and and handfuls of odd days leaving me 3 weeks to take together. My choice is do I go to Greece where I get the chance to meet lots of nice migrants on the islands and possibly get stuck in a war between Greece and Turkey....or do I come to Thailand to spend 14 days cooped up in a room in Stalag 14 with iffy aircon, in a bad hotel, at extortionate rates, then have a week to hang out if I don't catch COVID in the bad hotel. As the cabinet have no doubt noticed, the choice a very close run thing, I can tell you. I have been mulling this over for weeks and weeks now, and learned yesterday that there are, in fact, other places besides Greece and Thailand that a tourist can go.
Thailand is number 121 on the list of number of COVID infections. It appears that it is also number 121 of destinations a reasonable tourist may wish to visit, especially after I contact the Thai embassy in London to try to get a CoE.
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Some one remind me when are they going to open Phukey to foreign tourists. 4 hotels with say 80 rooms apiece that's 320 Amazing Thailand tourists, locked into hotels, not spending money in the economy.
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I hope they asked Trump's permission before suspending the trial.
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A coup to top the other coup? Is there a group of army people who want to oust Uncle? Poetic justice.
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The 400 million and Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe are not linked issues.
The woman is allegedly a spy and it certainly looks like that from her work and from Boris Johnson's description about what she was doing there....ie organising journalist workshops to generate negative press for the Iranian government. Whether this is or toil thing is legal in the UK is also irrelevant, it is illegal in Iran. When you are a guest in someone's country you should obey their laws, not arrongantly insist your laws are better.
Every court, international and domestic, that has considered the matter says UK owes Iran 400 million plus interest. The UK won't pay because the US tells them not to.
The UK can be honourable and pay up.....this will undoubtedly create some goodwill that is missing to have the woman freed. She can only be months away from the end of her term anyway. The new charges are probably not legitimate but the UK still owes the money. Iran is the first country to find out that Britain has a dishonourable streak, as Venezuela found out when it asked for its gold back and got a dose of sophistry instead.
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I do hope it is quiet and has a proper exhaust/suppressor system. I am sick and tired of bikes (mostly Kinda waves with through exhausts) driving past my house making more noise than a 747 taking off.
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The hypocrisy between this case and Navalny stinks to high heaven.
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Not likely I will visit anywhere like a floating market. What is the point?
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Falang too stupit for job. Need offshore numbered bank account, not bank account here ion Thailand. Falang no clever.
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If your pension is US Social Security it has to go into Bangkok Bank.....they will not sent it anywhere else.
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What a scam, these are some of the richest people in Thailand.
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How do you 'own' a speedboat if you have no visa?
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My own personal belief on this, having read widely and put two and two together, is that crows are actually bats that have matured and gotten kicked out of the cave for taking up too much space. Catch one of these flying pests and examine it closely, and you will see it is a bat.
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Thailand finds second coronavirus infection after long absence
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Uncle needs to jump all over this. Bring back lockdowns, close the borders, bring back the curfew and ban all sales of alcohol. Sorry tourists, hostels, restaurants but you will be doing the nation a huge service with your sacrifice, and possible bankruptcy. But what is bankruptcy compared to the sheer hell we see from America and Europe?