paulbrow

Hopefully the countries responsible for the maintenance of the rest of the array take their responsibilities more seriously...... or do they?

16 hours ago, rott said:

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

You're rewriting the story. It says "visa Amnesty" not tourist amnesty. Amnesty is not only for tourists.

19 hours ago, Banana7 said:

Can you provide a link to the vehicles being auctioned? The above link just describes their business, no links/pages to the auction.

https://www.mottoauction.com/auction/calendar

1 minute ago, HuaHinHim said:

I have Company provided insurance and they have been sending me emails since March that they are there to help me and that they cover all COVID-19 related illness. Hope I don’t need to use it. The insurance company is called NowHealth (Singapore) and the plan is called worldcare I think. From memory I think it cost around 3-4K US but don’t quote me on that

The required insurance is readily available from many companies and not so expensive, depending on age 20-40,000 baht a year.

Thanks a million for your post Theo. Very well written, very thorough and very informative. I appreciate the time you took to do this for us!

Just thought I'd pass my recent experiences on. May answer someone's questions. I'm a long term visa holder and been doing my 90 day reporting for the same residence for 20 years. My last couple attempts online have gone through but came back denied. When then doing in person I found out the reason for denial... I've been in country too long! I actually haven't been out of Thailand in some 5 years and apparently this is a red flag of sorts, at least at the One Stop Shop. BTW, online system has always worked well for me since it began. Just sayin.....

My wife and I have received ours. Although I do everything electronically, including payment of taxes, they still sent a check. Guess it was so I could get my personal message advising the Donald is taking care of me.

2 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

Kinda like OJ Simpson in the US of A. Didn't he get away with murder because of his wealth?

He got out of it due to <deleted> poor police work. At least he was arrested and went to trial! Would never happen here.

Since the day this happened it's been blatantly obvious that no one ever had any inclination to seek justice for this officer and family. There were so many opportunities to bring the perpetrator into custody, right up to when he finally left Thailand. Justice does not get served where money rules.....

On 10/8/2013 at 9:42 AM, rmicheald said:

Please be advised, you can NOT apply for a license more than 3 MONTHS PRIOR to expiration. I went today (October ???? and my birthday is in January. I was not allowed to proceed because the gestapo at the desk checking papers said I was too early before my birthday.

The first time I renewed I went a month early and was told to come back after it expired. I understand you can use your old license for up to 1 year after expiration. All my Thai friends and relatives say the same.

16 hours ago, Guderian said:

I've seen the prices for the alternative state quarantine, but nothing at all about the price of a repatriation flight. I expect they're free for Thai nationals, but I can't really imagine Santa Prayut and Uncle Anutin being quite so generous to the sweating farangs. Does anyone know the cost? 

Cost is flight specific

If you do a google search for the pop up, you'll learn quickly about it from Microsoft. It's legit and the update works cleanly and securely, although it takes several hours.

If it's too difficult for the owners to enforce the rules, stay closed... their choice.

4 hours ago, Oldie said:

They write in the article 

 

"Eleven foreigners and twelve Thais were rounded up and taken into custody." 

BUT the headline only states foreigners!

Bangkok Bank  won't do online transfers either

28 minutes ago, WalkingOrders said:

I just checked my current policy. AETNA bought in Thailand. No exclusions for pandemics, corona virus, new viruses etc. I am fully covered.

No exclusions for NEW viruses in my existing policy either... New policies will probably be another story but, I know for a fact Thai companies are selling insurance specifically for Covid-19.

I find it very interesting that they are insisting on this health certificate, however it is virtually impossible for a healthy person in Thailand to get tested for the virus. So they want what they won't even supply. Only sick people can get tested in Thailand.

On 3/18/2020 at 10:44 AM, Matzzon said:

Most of them. All thais are not covered by the 30 baht scheme.

Correct, Thais working for a company, paying taxes and have social security are NOT covered by the 30 Baht plan.

On 3/18/2020 at 10:15 AM, soalbundy said:

They are covered by the 30 baht scheme, as a Thai he had no need of an insurance to pay for this.

Absolutely not true. Basically working Thais are not covered by the 30 Baht scheme. If the are working and have social security they are not covered. None of my Thai employees are covered by the 30 Baht scheme.

On 3/18/2020 at 3:06 AM, ryanhull said:

hey, so your source doesnt state the UK 

'THAILAND - published 13.03.2020
1. Passengers arriving from China (People's Rep.), Hong Kong (SAR China), Iran, Italy, Korea (Rep.) or Macao (SAR China) must have a Health Certificate as well as Lab Test COVID-19 to prove they are free from Coronavirus (COVID-19). The Health Certificate and Lab Test COVID-19 must be valid for not more than 2 days prior to departure.
- This does not apply to airline crew.
2. Passengers arriving from China (People's Rep.), Hong Kong (SAR China), Iran, Italy, Korea (Rep.) or Macao (SAR China) must have a medical insurance with coverage of 100,000 USD.
- This does not apply to nationals of Thailand.
- This does not apply to airline crew.
3. Passengers and crew members must present a completed T.8 health questionnaire to Health Control Office upon arrival.
4. Crew members not based in Thailand arriving from China (People's Rep.), Hong Kong (SAR China), Iran, Italy, Korea (Rep.) or Macao (SAR China) will be quarantined at the hotel until next departure schedule.
5. Crew members based in Thailand arriving from China (People's Rep.), Hong Kong (SAR China), Iran, Italy, Korea (Rep.) or Macao (SAR China) will be quarantined at home until next departure schedule.
- This does not apply when they only transited through China (People's Rep.), Hong Kong (SAR China), Iran, Italy, Korea (Rep.) or Macao (SAR China).
6. Based on the travel advisory restriction issued by United Arab Emirates Government, nationals of United Arab Emirates are not allowed to travel to Thailand.
7. Nationals of Bulgaria, Bhutan, China (People's Rep.), Cyprus, Ethiopia, Fiji, Georgia, India, Kazakhstan, Malta, Mexico, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu and passengers with a Chinese Taipei (on the cover: Republic of China Taiwan) passport can no longer obtain a visa on arrival.
8. Nationals of Italy are no longer visa exempt.'

 

Yer another poster on this threads source: ALL Nationalities

 

which one is it? lol
 

What you're quoting is a week old, the requirements have changed some 14 times since then...

3 hours ago, Mossman said:

 

Restaurants shouldn’t even be open.

I'm inclined to agree, however, there are many people here in rooms and hotels with no cooking capability and they depend totally on restaurants to eat. Are we going to starve them out?