ThomasThBKK

6 minutes ago, Ludo55 said:

Why, you've already had a free 6 months. That new Visa has to be applied for outside of Thailand. Go home and apply the same as everyone else!!

What the heck do you want from him? 

1200 tourists a month, but retirees etc are still not allowed to come back? .... 

Elite visa has a lousy quota of like 250 a month or so...

Absurdity. 

1200 tourists a month won't make a difference anyway... 

34 minutes ago, Poet said:

The ability to open a company in Europe has absolutely no relevance to EU protectionism.

If an Australian or New Zealand winery were to open an office in Berlin, it would not allow them to sell wine to Europeans without having to add the massive tariffs designed to protect the less efficient French winerys.

 

Rubbish like everything from you. 

Try to import wine into asian <deleted>holes like china and thailand.

EU import duty on WINE and alcohol in general is more than fair, that's why it's literally the cheapest place to buy alcohol. 

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Germany discourages alcohol consumption through taxation of consumption. Nevertheless, Germany does not discourage wine consumption very strongly. Consumption of still wine is even exempt from excise duties. However, sparkling wine-based drinks with an alcohol percentage below 6% are subject to an excise duty of €51/hl and sparkling wines with an alcohol percentage above 6% are subject to an excise duty of €136/hl. Sparkling wine is considered to be a luxury good and is therefore taxed more.

There's no import duty on still wine at all enforced by the EU.

God you are literally writing only fake made up stuff, must be living in your brexit fantasy land... 

https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/excise-duties-alcohol-tobacco-energy/excise-duties-alcohol_en

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Wine (still and sparkling)

Hectolitre of product

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7 minutes ago, Poet said:

Something that absolutely no one here has said.

How about, instead of trying to distract from it, we think about why you made a post containing several claims that are not only untrue, but the exact opposite of reality.

Are you suggesting that the EU actually took some sort of action against China in the wake of Tiananmen? Because that's the implication right? I'm some sort of Trump supporter saying nasty things about Obama?

Which would be great, right, because suddenly it wouldn't matter that I'm pointing out how wildly wrong your claims are because I would now be a RAAAAACIST!!!! A big, evil, possibly orange-skinned racist!

*Sigh* When did it become acceptable for people to abandon all intellectual integrity when discussing politics?

 

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The United States Congress and media criticized the military action. President George H. W. Bush suspended military sales and visits to that country. Large scale protests against the Chinese government took place around the country.^[38] George Washington University revealed that, through high-level secret channels on 30 June 1989, the US government conveyed to the government of the People's Republic of China that the events around the Tiananmen Square protests were an "internal affair

So the US did <deleted> all and said it's an internal affair.

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Europe

The European Economic Community condemned the government response and cancelled all high level contacts and loans. They planned a resolution at the UNHCR criticising China's human rights record.^[32][33] The EU maintains an arms embargo against China to this day.

EU cancelled all loans and contacts.

src: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactions_to_the_1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests

Like rammstein said, the american propaganda is really working great

2 minutes ago, uli65 said:

many nonsense postings about hospital bills, the problem about this are not the bad dirty tourists or expats,

this is about the millions of migrant workers from Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia who never payed their bills.

 

Who are all insured under the 30 baht sheme, if they never paid their bills then because their THAI employes didn't pay their insurance? 

Pretty much all Thai problems are Thai made.

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...

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. 

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...  

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. 

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. 

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