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I meant gratitude for cheap electricity in Thailand !! - Not for my writing - I'm not that vain lol

Sorry - don't know about "Regency" The point of the alcohol advertising legislation in Thailand and other countries is not to stop adults destroying their lives or limit their freedoms but to restrict the exposure of children to the advertising. The laws are often very specific about how and where the adverts can be made: for example only on tv after the evening time-shed (9pm in UK), not in cinemas showing juvenile rated movies or other public scenarios. This guy posted in Facebook which is available to everyone all the time - and I think that is where he fell foul. Basically he's an idiot if he doesn't know he should post on a restricted adult zone instead of at all times of day to everyone on Facebook.

The point of the alcohol advertising legislation in Thailand and other countries is not to stop adults destroying their lives or limit their freedoms but to restrict the exposure of children to the advertising. The laws are often very specific about how and where the adverts can be made: for example only on tv after the evening time-shed (9pm in UK), not in cinemas showing juvenile rated movies or other public scenarios. This guy posted in Facebook which is available to everyone all the time - and I think that is where he fell foul. Basically he's an idiot if he doesn't know he should post on a restricted adult zone instead of at all times of day to everyone on Facebook.

Thailand's alcohol advertising laws and penalties for breach of them are not at all out of step or overdone. In UK the penalty is an unlimited fine or imprisonment not exceeding two years. Seems most if not all posts here are against the legislation. Could there be a bias of alchies or at least heavy drinkers here living in ignorance or denial of the harm the stuff does to individuals, families and society.

Many thanks for all this Nigel - I'm much better informed now.

Not true that "it is about the same in the 'west'". In UK it is about 50p / kWh. And in Thailand it is about 10p.

Gratitude

In my case, I'm trying to understand what it is about market and commercial structures in UK that make it 5 times as expensive to the end consumer than in Thailand when the fuels cost the same at source. I suspect profit and tax taken at every interface in the supply chain. The Thailand model seems massively more efficient - so worth trying to understand it. No?

There is no difference between a belt and a cord in his pants when it come to this sort of calamity. Whichever, it should have been taken off him at entry to custody. - Standard good procedure everywhere. Why flame someone on such a detailed irrelevancy?

Brian - is this verifiably true? Asking to understand - not to challenge. Please could you provide reference to any statute or ordinance requiring this.

Not change in rate in Sathorn, Bangkok. Usage and cost lines are the same. By the way, the kWh unit cost in Thailand is about 20% of the UK cost - yes, a fifth.

In UK, passport office strapped and sealed my old passport to the back of the new one in order to keep continuing. Ideas and permits alive.

My theory is that the UK price is way higher than most countries (even in Europe) because the supply chain has been sliced into so many separate stages and markets - all run by private entities (raw fuel supply, generation, grid distribution, retail supply) and all making profits along the way and then with 20% tax on the final retail consumers. Countries like Thailand (as far as I know) have kept that whole chain in government hands as natural monopoly. In my view that's the correct way of managing anything that is critical infrastructure fundamental to security of the economy and wellbeing or people - not slicing out profit and tax at four stages within the supply.

I compared my UK and Thailand domestic electricity kWh prices for Dec22 to Feb23. The UK rate was about 500% (yes 5 times) the Thailand rate. 50p vs 10p. Thailand as a net importer of oil, gas and coal is subject to the same basic global market pricing. So it seems that either the UK has some highly inefficient structures in its energy delivery model or Thailand has a huge price bomb overdue to explode.

Although I always ensure my insurance covers what I need and comply With the small print, I have a worrying habit of taking motosai taxis in Bangkok when there's a jam or I'm late. There's usually never a helmet available or one that fits poorly or is missing internal parts. It would be quite a job to explain that away on event of accident. As a long stayer each year, I reckon I should take my own crash helmet In Thailand when I visit next time.

There is so much rubbish written in response to this article. I'm speaking from recent experience when I say that: - Thai government hospitals are far better than UK NHS in time, and care quality (I recently had a major heart issue) and the costs are very low; - good UK travel insurance policies covering medical and accident events are fully available - also for long stay and including various sports as options; - the documentation requirements to support claims are thorough but not arduous. If they were slack the premiums would be sky high; The issue is that these UK travellers who end up in trouble either can't or don't read - and some intelligence and self management is needed of which the "after-the-event crowd-finding" idiots seem to be totally bereft. The article out to be about how poor the UK education system now is in world rankings - and the huge number of dummies that produces who think they can rove the world with ignorance and impunity.

Not really - clearly religiously prejudiced. There are scores of other asylum seekers in the same situation, families with children split and separately detained for years in appalling conditions. They are left to rot because they are not "nice and Christian".

How can they be in violation of immigration if they are asylum seekers? Thailand's treatment of refugees continues to be horrific. - Families with children split up and separately detained for years on end. Political cowardice. Subservience to Chinese Communist Party.

The latest Cochrane review mainly concludes that the data quality of studies is so poor that no conclusion reliably can be reached - particularly in relation to impact for infants and older / vulnerable people. So common sense is the best approach and for me than means wearing a 95 quality mask in tightly crowded / low ventilation settings (and aside from covid, when the MP 2.5 is high in the city)

In Bangkok, at least, the MP 2.5 is often good enough reason to keep wearing a mask.

Isn't this enough for you, or anyone? ........ (UK govt Thailand web page) <<< Road travel There are a high number of road traffic accidents in Thailand especially involving motorcycles. The World Health Organisation (WHO) rates Thailand as the world’s deadliest countries for fatalities on motorcycles. To drive a car or ride a motorcycle in Thailand, under Thai law you must have the correct licence and appropriate insurance for the category of vehicle you’re using. You will need to apply for a Thai driving licence or, if you already hold a UK licence, an International Driving Permit. If you drive a car or ride a motorcycle in Thailand without a valid licence, this may invalidate your travel insurance. >>>

She had medical emergency insurance - the article says so. What other Insurance do you mean "she" should have had? (Bearing in mind that it is the bike, not the rider that has to have vehicle insurance!)

Gove me a clue of the agent you used please

This is my experience as well. It is all officially done. It is good they do these checks because anyone not having a proper License is uninsured and therefore a liability to themselves and others.

So he must have magical access to information within China that is being kept from the rest of the world. Ofcourse there have been only 66 deaths from covid in China and we all believe that too. So much safer with Chinese arriving than westerners.