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2 minutes ago, xylophone said:There were some stats published a year or two ago that showed the amount owed by farangs who didn't/couldn't pay their hospital bills.......must be on the net somewhere.
The total LOSS of all hospital bills unpaid EXCLUDING the profit came down to around 10 BAHT/tourist, i made the math somewhere here on thaivisa... they even tried to introduce something for that in terms of extra charge on ticket price but as always couldn't follow through...
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5 minutes ago, qwertyuiop said:
As far as I am aware it was never discontinued. It is now simply a part of the ticket price
include mandatory short term health insurance there too for 800 baht extra.
Et voila, we just solved all of thailands unpaid bill problems.... No one wouldd care about 800 baht on a flight ticket price....
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5 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:
Because they can only send out so much money from China without it being a red flag with the Chinese Government. It is called Money laundering. So that's why they visit here every quarter and make payments until it is paid off. The unit next door to where I lived prior to where I live now is owned by a Chinese family. They were buying a bigger Condo here in Bangkok that was being built, and the uncle would come and go every 4 months staying for a week at a time bringing in money to make the payments. I have no Idea if they stayed or left.
I think the limit they can send per year is 50k usd out of china, it's not even a red flag if they sent more, it will simply not work on their end. Normally they brought the money to HK and then sent it to Thailand, or just brought it to thailand - they prolly can't do that anymore, and China is also cracking down hard on money outflows. It's not that they are suddenly all broke now, they simply have no possibility to pay even if they had the money.
The thai condo builders have known this well and simply ignored it as a risk...
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32 minutes ago, ThaidDown said:Would've expected a 'force majeure' clause in a contract of that size and length.
Exactly, it's pretty much unheard of that such a contract would not have a force majeur/act of god clause, i won't believe it, even the most simple condo purchase and lease agreements have them... it's a standard in every contract.
And the thai government announce foreced majeur for the hotel industry: https://www.c9hotelworks.com/news/thai-hotel-closures-roll-force-majeure-announced
So they should be able to pull that clause, the thais are just <deleted> that force majeur can go both ways i guess...
Also no sane person would go to the police with this, this is a litigation case in front of a litigation court handled by lawyers... they basically don't pay their rent, no different if you don't pay your landlord i would imagine - clearly nothing to do with the police.
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1 hour ago, Sheryl said:Unfortunately yes, many cases of foreigners becoming a burden in Thailand, especially (but not only) as regards hospital bills
No, the details have not been released and probably not yet even worked out.
If history is any guide they will be very convoluted, poorly explained, subject to varying interpretations and very hard to implement. A similar scheme to allow medical tourism to resume that was supposed to be in effect in July is still largely dysfunctional.
Disagree, all economic data points in the exact opposite direction.
You cannot judge the situation on a single failed broke begpacker or a broke retiree that can't pay his hospital bills - you HAVE to look at the net off all tourists coming here and on AVERAGE spend way more money then they cost thailand.
Tourism is 20% of the GDP for a reason, and that's the only thing that matters here. One guy not paying his hospital bill is so absolutely irrelevant for the economy as he will ALWAYS be outnumbers by 10 guys paying their hospital bills.
There's always bad apples, no matter where people come from and they will always be outnumbered by paying guests.
The damage to the economy is so absolutely minimal that a bunch of non-paying guests can cause and absolutely outnumbered by the benefits the rest of tourists are bringing.
This is just the usual thai blame game...
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23 minutes ago, Kadilo said:.......yes, don’t test and bury your head in the sand.
The governments of the civilised world know it hence why Thailand is still stuck in the red zone. Not everyone can be brainwashed
We are talking about the UK here, not the civilized world, stay on topic. There's obviously no need for mass testing if no symptoms are spreading.
Thailand is on all green lists from most countries including israel, europe to the United States, just not on the UKs, because, well it's actually you guys who are brainwashed.
European greenlist: Those on the list are Algeria, Australia, Canada, Japan, Georgia, Montenegro, Morocco, New Zealand, Rwanda, Serbia, South Korea, Thailand, Tunisia and Uruguay.
Everyone can enter the UK right now, they just tell people to quarantine at home with zero enforcement, including Thais and Americans. As always everything the uk government does is nothing but a farce.
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13 hours ago, NightSky said:
So, he was operating an illegal pharmacy and from the photo it looks like he is selling tiffy (paracetamol) and anapril (blood pressure meds)
Does this mean that all the illegal stalls on Sukhumvit in BKK selling pharmaceuticals will be arrested next?
I saw them all sprawled out along Sukhumvit road the other day, no police in sight.
Paracetamol doesn't need any license, we used to have a 7 11 and sold all of that stuff, only license we had was for food/beverages.
So the crime here is proll something along the lines of "working without work permit" or having an "unregistered business".
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6 minutes ago, Razek said:
Tiffy as evidence ha ha ha
You find it in every shop.
Thai are closing the business of Farang to work alone
According to another newspaper thats all he did, resold thai herbs and slimming stuff u can freely buy without license on the internet to customers in russia.
Guess the real crime was he was too poor and needed moneys :d
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Just now, Pottinger said:
Perhaps to do with this?
https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/08/06/lifting-the-veil-on-thailands-covid-19-success-story/
All rubbish, my friend just traveled from the USA to London Gatwick, they didn't even check his covid test stuff. Just went in... Then he went to Paris, also without getting checked.
One must be absolutely braindead to let Americans in but not Thais without quarantine, well, ...
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Thailand is on the european safe list, the UK is simply being a bunch of dicks, wants to be allowed to travel to thailand in return which thailand doesn't want (obviously).
That's it, uk is just arrogant as always.
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7 minutes ago, 2 is 1 said:So what kind is normal Thai pharmacy!? Pharmacy license holder never work in own shop! Normaly doctor who don't have time to work there! Have coverment duty and own practice! Some teenage or people from street's sell there what ever you want! And seller don't know nothing about medicine!
My friends who work in medicine here get ask all the time if they can lend their license out to randoms who aren't doctors to open a clinic, they are then offered a kickback on the profit.... i guess its the same with pharmacies
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His only crime was to be too poor.
Poor lad, young mans life ruined for essential nothing in already hard times...
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4 hours ago, Bender Rodriguez said:
why countries not restrict foreign ownership to 49 percent, just as it is imposed to on farang here
It's restricted there too, but only for us peasants and not the super rich.
There's a reason Singapore, the US and co are full with startups but barely anything here, immigrants here barely stand a chance due to unfair rules to "make it".
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13 hours ago, Thomas J said:
Finally someone who makes sense. I don't know what the government could possibly be thinking if they believe that a tourist will come to Thailand, first be tested as fit to fly, then purchase an insurance policy covering up to $100,000 USD then quarantine for 14 days. Would they do it to travel to a different country? NO.
If they don't open up tourism soon, those dependent on it will go bankrupt and close. If after that happens and the government sees the error of their policy it is too late. There will be far fewer attractions to draw tourists. The hotels, restaurants, bars, night clubs, shows, attractions etc. will not be there. Just common sense.So much for conspiracy theory, don't worry - as i said, they just open their own hotels when others are broke.
Meanwhile restaurant bookings in germany are already recovering... up 9% from last year.
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Seems my embassy agrees with my sentiment that they finally will need to find a sustainable way for tourism, need to reinvent themselves and threat everyone the same.
The sooner they start, the better.
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2 minutes ago, DrTuner said:
It needs a headshot anyway. The way Kobkarn the Destroyress of Thailand let the Chinese hordes in was the last nail. Massive overtourism resulted and took away all pleasure out of it. Demolish it all and start again with a sustainable governance system in place.
That's basically what my first comment was about, adapt or die.
The current model could have never worked out anyway, covid was just the nail that made the bubble explode sooner.
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10 minutes ago, catch104 said:
You are talking non sense. The tourism business is not few huge companies sharing the cake but thousands of business, hundred of thousand of small business directly or indirectly involve, million of workers directly or indirectly involve that spend in the economy. It has absolutely no similarities with airlines
It will be a few huge businesses after this, no worries.
Cheap assets for the rich, it will just no longer be owned by normal thais, blame the government, not me.-
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No it won't totally collapse, same as airlines, the planes will be just bought by companies that know how to run a business.
Some will benefit from this "cleanup". Time to reposition yourself if you work in tourism.
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Lets kill tourism a bit moaaaar. Stick a knife in tourisms back while it's already bleeding on the groundddddddd
galaxy brains...... governments are the worst
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28 minutes ago, Andrew65 said:I absolutely agree with you. I paid 5 million Baht for a condo about 7 years ago. It didn't give me any kind of rights to residency, and very sadly I doubt that this will change.
With a 10 mio condo investment you can get an investment visa. It was 3 mio before they changed it to 10 mio.
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Right, they only take into account the same goods you purchase in the employes homecountry etc.
Normal expats here with thai family just eat thai food, send their kids who have a thai passport to a thai school that isn't english only, get a house in a thai neighbourhood, use thai health insurance etc.
Pensioners and beach bums like me who don't have kids don't have any of the international school costs that is the biggest part of mercers index....
The weighting is just so completely different for most people that these indexes don't make any sense to look at.
Paris is supposed to be cheaper than Bangkok according to them, yeah... not for normal people, no way. You can't drink enough red wine to make up for the rental property costs in paris alone. Not to mention many expats here live a tax free life as they earn money outside of Thailand...
Pick the numbers that are your biggest expense from a site like numbeo and compare yourself, for me that would be
1) House/Rental costs
2) Food
3) Taxes
4) Utilities
5) Transportation/Taxis - i can totally life without a car here, taxis are dirt cheap...
The rest is more or less irrelevant for my budget.
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42 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:
Using a majority Thai company only to circumvent Thai law restricting foreign land ownership is illegal mate.
So if it doesn't actually trade, i.e. have a turnover and pay taxes, then it is illegal as per Thai law. Filing the books and keeping a company legal in that respect is not trading.
The fact that you are apparently soliciting 'advice' suggested to me that it doesn't trade at all and you are encouraging others to perform illegal acts to circumvent Thai land ownership laws.
Apologies if I am wrong here.
Oh no <deleted> sherlock, not paying your taxes is breaking the law, that's why he doesn't do that.
But no a company doesn't need to "trade", what absolute rubbish and having debt on your book isn't illegal either, no where in the world it is.
Fascinating what <deleted> thai expats belief...
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Rubbish news, Mercer is an index for COMPANIES sending their employes to foreign countries.
QuoteMercer is the leading provider of data on cost of living and housing for employees sent to work abroad. As part of the ongoing research, Mercer produces these annual rankings of the cost of living in more than 200 of the most prevalent assignment destinations for expatriate employees. The rankings demonstrate how currency fluctuation and shifts in the prices of goods and services can affect the purchasing power of expatriate employees. Multinational companies rely on Mercer for timely and accurate information to compensate their skilled professionals who take on international assignments.
Not much to do with normal expats just staying here that don't work for multinationals.
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10 minutes ago, geisha said:
It could be possible that the whole story is engineered by the guy scammer, and he’s frightening the girl to get the money for him. Using false bank letters. She should take all correspondance , téléphone etc to the police and lodge a complaint. You yourself should have nothing to do with it for your own sake.
Unlikely, just the good ol money mule scam that ruined millions of peoples life: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2020/03/whats-money-mule-scam
can happen with cheques, wire transfers etc you name it.
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Tourists coming to Thailand - they must have enough funds to support themselves, says business leader
in Thailand News
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So does thailand??
You need health insurance and like 8k euro in a bank account for a METV in germany, bit less for SETV.