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What they should do is to look at legalizing recreational use in small amounts and the impact that it will have on recovering all the lost revenue these past several months, my guess is that it would be a huge plus in the right direction.
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On 4/21/2020 at 11:11 PM, coops said:
Even if your Thai ISP can provide 200mpbs, you won't get that from any international connection - there's not anywhere near enough bandwidth into Thailand itself from the rest of the world... so it's not much use, unless you need 200+ for your local Thai website needs?
Note that speedtest above is to a LOCAL server... change it to somewhere International and then decide whether it's worth paying extra for... 75-100 is fine.
https://www.unescap.org/sites/default/files/1 Broadband-Infrastructure-in-the-ASEAN-9-Region.pdf
International bandwidth per capita :-
Thailand 6 Kbps (yes, that's K bps )
Singapore 258 Kbps
Malaysia 15 Kbps, and the rest all below Thailand.. so it could be a lot worse. ????
Well I guess my results make your comment inaccurate. I just did a speed test after reading this with server in San Francisco USA and then local,,,seems rather decent to me.
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Warning, watch at your own discretion, graphic images ahead from the room where he was killed.
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Some details of where they killed him at and 2 more victims found, 1 in a walk-in fridge.
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As an ex-heavy smoker I took a psychological approach along with my competitive nature, I Hate Losing in anything. I did 2 things that I feel got me over my addiction. 1, I refused to keep track of how long it was since I quit. My thinking on this was that if I was counting the days, weeks, months, years, that it was still on my mind. I feel that this was the biggest factor and honestly today I cannot even tell you what year it was that I quit in, if I had to guess I would say sometime around 2010 or so. Second, early on I would look at a cigarette and talk to it, I really would. I would say "You Mr. Cigarette have no brain at all and we as humans have very complex brains that even the most advanced computers cannot match, therefore I am not going to listen to you and beat me, hell you can't even talk so f*** off!". As silly as that sounds I won and don't smoke.
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Can hardly wait till the end of Q1 when the TCT president states that although Q1 visitors were down, we are expecting many visitors in Q2 due to,,,,, blah blah blah, blah....
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On 1/15/2020 at 10:32 AM, Jaxxper said:
Not sure what his profit is from this caper.
One of the articles states they were buying them for 500THB and he was selling them for upwards of 12,000THB. Guess he is finding out what greed will get you.
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On two separate occasions this past year, I had only one-way tickets originating from Incheon, the staff at the check-in counter asked me if I had a return or onward ticket. When I told them that I did not they had me sign a simple waiver that released the airlines of any responsibility for having to fly me back should I have any issues with Thai immigration, this was Jin Air.
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4 hours ago, kevinmartyn said:
I have been working for over 40 years and a British foreigner staying in Thailand. I personally do NOT have access to 65,000 bhat and have NI payments over 35 years! Who are these people that have a pension income of 65k++
Well for one would be a retired US Military member at 20 years in the grade of E-8, thats about 75K/mo.
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On 11/15/2019 at 12:25 PM, PatOngo said:
What is disturbing is people who think they can retire but can't scrape together 800,000 baht!
Even more disturbing is comments such as this. If one has well over 65K/mo coming in from pensions or investment distributions, WTH difference does it make how much they can "scrape together" as you term it, as to rather or not one can retire?
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Isn't your valid UK passport proof already, that list seems to me for a new applicant that does not have a passport. I am from USA and all I ever needed to renew a passport was my then current one.
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RIP Soi Bintabaht: Hua Hin’s new bar area could be the end of once popular nightspot
in Hua Hin and Cha-Am News
Posted · Edited by shen923
I live nearby Soi 94 and have seen a boom in business over the past year. I credit this mainly to the fact that as opposed to Bintabaht, there are many houses/villas/condos/etc. that have year round expats living a few minutes walk away from, I guess as of now about 50 or so bars, all open, and most doing enough to stay open.
The bar complex on the corner is not the only new place being developed, nearby RockZone just reopened at a new location with a great stage and live bands. A new bar/restaurant/cafe looking place is being built next door. The road that loops off 94 back over to 88 has a great new place, big, great staff, and live bands, LePub. A music fest was held this past week at El Toro Loco, live bands again and many people attended. The bars all along 94 seem to be busy on the few nights that I wonder down to one of them.
A lot has been going on around here and yes I do think that it could be the nail in the coffin for Bintabaht, I think that the 94 area will continue to develop and be the place that will see many more tourists than in years past, when they are allowed to return in droves that is. That is the key factor, when. The longer it takes the more likely the empty bars in Bintabaht will be demolished for something new...