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Mexico?

7 minutes ago, mtls2005 said:

Pretty sure he married into the family, and is but a director.

 

He's not going to prison. 

 

 

Hmm, I had the impression that he was fairly central to the whole business, but it is only my impression.

I agree with your second point. No prison.

Lucky that there were no wild mushrooms in his panther willy soup!

17 hours ago, Bender Rodriguez said:

if ferrrari boy gets away with murder of a cop, why would anyone go to jail for owning a gun ?

Just perhaps; some people of influence think that there is a chance that Premchai might be prepared to include part (or total) control of his very lucrative construction business, in any deal which avoids imprisonment?

Perhaps the Red Bull business is quite simply just a question of milking cash - the cashflow depends on the creature remaining out of prison - control of the business may not be on the table?

37 minutes ago, Percy P said:

I'm a British person ethically English. I find Philippine people in general speak English phonetically good.

Or even well?

We are talking about English teachers after all!

On 8/10/2020 at 3:34 PM, webfact said:

Thai food processors eye growing cricket market

Howzat?

9 hours ago, redwood1 said:

So how did these 165 Filipino teachers get approved?.....And why are 3,000 farang teachers waiting?.......I would speculate most Filipino teachers would be less able to jump through all the hoops and pay the money compared to most farang teachers...

 

Unless

 

Some one plans to pay the Filipino teachers less and does not mind footing the bill...

10 hours ago, ezzra said:

Can't see any of those teachers affording the $100k insurance, period testing and paying for their quarantines as teachers usually not that flush with cash to say the least...

You will probably find that the deal is: your salary is (nominally) THB 24000 a month, the school or the agency will pay for the quarantine and insurance ( a bulk deal probably negotiated), you will receive THB 1200 a month, until such time as the costs (and any "incidental expenses" of the agents and school principals) have been recouped. Some will be making a lot of money, you can be certain it won't be the Filipino teachers. In fact, I should imagine their salaries will never again approach the (not very heady) heights they achieved pre Covid.

On 8/10/2020 at 5:51 PM, Hayduke said:

 

What's your point?

 

He supports the idea of a military dictatorship, he doesn't like democracy because the Thais keep electing a team he doesn't back. that is his point

2 hours ago, BritManToo said:

I don't like FamilyMart, in my local store you can't see the till display, and the bill always seems a bit high if you buy more than 1 item.

I find that with the till displays at Tesco express. My local one always seems a bit grubby too. 7/11 seems a better experience.

4 hours ago, anon7854 said:

Yeah but a tourist spends double in 2 weeks 

Yes, however:

1) There are no ( zero, nill, null, none) tourists, and unlikely to be any this year, probably into next year.

2) They may spend double that in two weeks, but only once. The expats spend throughout the year.

For the want of a pragmatic simple temporary solution to the visa/extension problems facing many expats, they could ensure a steady, if not spectacular, flow of cash into the rural economy.

2 hours ago, Grumpy John said:

No one is going hungry in this village.  They eat things they grow,  harvest or catch everyday, not just in an emergency.   We like watermelon brand rice and there is usually one or 2 x 10kg bags in kitchen.  My B-in-L grows 2 rai of sticky rice for Mar on some of her land...it usually gets shared around.  I have 5 x 50L boxes with farang friendly food.  If things get tough and food stocks are low in the supermarket I think we and others can survive. I would imagine a lot of villages all over Thailand would survive.

Yes. I imagine that this is the case throughout the country, away from the major urban centres. my extended family are even supplying members who live in Bangkok with food. There is some sort of a rota whereby people are taking it in turn to make a run down to Bangkok to supply people from the village living there. A pick up goes down every week or so.

What the economic side effects of the Covid fighting policies have done, is to force a very large proportion of the population back to this sort of subsistence agriculture which you describe. As small businesses and enterprises are forced to close, trading is concentrated in the hands of a smaller number of the bigger concerns (and that means families doesn't it). It has set back the economic development by, oh, perhaps thirty years or so, at least a generation, maybe two? The gap between very rich and poor/scraping by has been widened, and what economic and social mobility there was has been destroyed. I don't think that was the initial intention, but it is an (unintended) effect which has been welcomed by those few who benefit I'm sure that they will be deploying their influence to ensure that this situation continues!

They will have calculated that they can maintain the profitability of their concerns, even though the amount of disposable income in the community has reduced, by concentrating it on their businesses. Perhaps they are right, but there again have they taken into account the mood of the very large number of dispossessed and unemployed that have been created?

Do they actually need to employ people to actually make the products which all these jobs are to manage?

I didn't put that very clearly did I - lots of job vacancies to administer, sell and manage, what about making things?

 I freely admit that I know very little about about the various Thai "national insurance" and "social security" schemes; but if this one is typical of the sort of benefits/cover offered, then it is no surprise that so many (most) don't bother to pay into them. It strikes me that the only real benefit will be to the cohort of civil servants who will have the nice secure jobs "managing" the scheme.

8 hours ago, ezzra said:

  If my memory serves me right this gimmick was tried 10 or so years ago and didn't catch on, i still see those london cabs chucked in some car yards gathering dust...

If my memory serves, (and it has been known to be wrong!) I think that back then the "Black Cabs" were used for a sort of limo service - prebooked rather than hailed on the street or picked up at a rank. If ranks at "premium spots" such as the malls mentioned are reserved for them, then maybe it will be a money spinner. It will upset the conventional saloon car taxi blokes though - you know, the ones with the broken meters!

Just a point, but there is a difference between Xenophobia and Racism.

Racism is a hatred of people from different races, usually manifested by refusing to accept that they are somehow equivalent, as human beings, often (inevitably) regarding them as inferior intellectually, physically and culturally to the racial group to which you belong. Essentially a racist regards other races as inferior, somehow less human. 

Xenophobia is a dislike of (maybe hostility to) foreigners, perhaps based on envy of their education and wealth (and maybe in this case an ability to run faster and further than the physically smaller Thais). It is often manifested in some form of blanket dismissal of them as "dirty". "rude", "untrustworthy" or perhaps less cultured. Not the same thing. 

Their is an undertone of xenophobia amongst some ( mainly higher class) elements of Thai society. It is also present, in bucketloads, in much of the commentary on matters Thai in this forum!

On 8/7/2020 at 7:27 AM, ChrisY1 said:

Ahh...good news. He went to see the fortune teller!

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