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4 hours ago, Chelseafan said:This represents a drop of 9 per cent from the previous worst-case scenario forecast for this year of Bt742.5 billion, a sharp decline of 75 per cent from around Bt3 trillion last year.
So this is a worst case worst case scenario! What about the worst case worst case worst case number?
Good to see the TAT back in business throwing random numbers around.
Maybe a good time to woo the expats living in Thailand to stay in Thailand?
Every expat, on average, brings 50,000 Baht into the country, every month!
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1 hour ago, Thaiwrath said:
Not sure the country will ever recover from the government of Prayut.
At least with Covid, you can minimalise being infected with it, masking, social distancing etc.
With this government, even the Thais with a legitimate vote at the polling station, could do nothing to stop the shambles in charge now !
You mean the Thaksin governments were any better?
Really?
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15 hours ago, DaftToPutRealName said:
Prostitution is illegal too!
Pros what?
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13 minutes ago, findlay13 said:Yes I am stuck outside too. I have met many decent farang in Thailand but IMO it attracts ,[or perhaps the LOS "experience"itself produces] far too many Farang <deleted>**wits into "Do you know who I am? " wannabes
In the 15 years I have been living in Thailand I have never met "do you know who I am" westerners.
Are you the type of westerner known as "away with us" types?
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3 hours ago, madmitch said:Totally disagree with you.
Foreign tourism is necessary to boost the economy. What's tthe point if most of the money is going elsewhere?
Exactly.
Where is the Chinese money going?
Or rather staying.
Western tourists directly pay the underlings, no squeeze for the biguns.
China tourists directly pay Chinese companies, squeeze for the biguns.
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3 hours ago, AndrewMciver said:
CHINA CHINA CHINA CHINA
The countries obsession with China is horrendous. This economic disaster Thailand is facing is because of China. Yet there they begging them to give them more.
Who is begging?
It isn't the country's obsession.
It is the leading group's obsession.
As in "us is us".
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2 hours ago, thequietman said:
It's their only opportunity for a paying job at the moment, so no surprises there. Once the economy is back on track, there will be lesser volunteering as before.
Not entirely true.
The number of volunteers is steadily rising since a few years.
In Khon Kaen before it was nearly 50% volunteers already.
Have no idea what it was last week.
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7 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:I know that you, and many other farangs, think that you are single handedly saving Thailand by the money you bring in, but in the context of all Thailand it's insignificant. Every farang married to a Thai could leave tomorrow and it would make no difference to the country at large, though it would be an individual tragedy for all those Thai families with farang ATMs.
Not single handedly.
But now suppose every expat farang brings in 50,000 Baht.
Suppose there are 100,000 expat farang.
Now do the sums.
100,000 X 50,000 X 12.
60,000,000,000 Baht per year.
And then the investment in houses, cars, motorbikes etc, etc.
You think that makes no difference at all?
For that amount you need a hell of a number of Chinese tourists.
A former provincial governor knew better and wasn't afraid to say so.
He thought that every farang expat brought a job for 2.4 Thai.
Legal jobs, outside the Pattaya kind.
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5 hours ago, Pilotman said:
And that is a surprise why? Of course it's all BS, we know it, they know it, everyone knows it. It's like a young child telling a lie that is transparently untrue, but keeps on telling it, because they so want it to be true.
It is, in one word, SHAMEFUL!
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1 hour ago, BritManToo said:
Nobody forced them to use private hospitals.
Would have cost them nothing at the local government hospital.
Or they could have purchased a packet of Loperamide (Imodium) for 20bht.
I agree about the choice of hospital.
But imodium might help.
Or not.
And then you need something else.
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1 hour ago, keith101 said:
What about the high speed train to Chiang Mai ?
Forget it.
Like Thailand should forget high speed rail
It will never be profitable AND will spell doom for the existing railways.
Better would be if all that money was invested to upgrade the existing lines, make them suitable for higher speeds, buy talgo like rolling stock, plan more trains.
Metre gauge can easily have 150-160 km/h top speeds and with suitable track, signalling and rolling stock even higher speeds are possible.
Much cheaper as so-called high speed rail running on a top speed of 200km/u, which needs everything new, including very expensive signalling.
Investors know this very well, and also that the number of passengers for the high speed trains will never give profits while the HSL will also eat away the passengers from the existing rail.
The only reason the Chinese want the high speed trains is strategic.
And of course saddling Thailand up with huge debts is always handy for China.
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10 hours ago, Tug said:
Will trump ever get anything right what a stupid divisive comment to make just beggers belief adjusted for population size far and away more people of color are killed by the cops and yes some deservedly so but here will come his apologists to defens his stupid comment guess he needs to distract away from his failed attacks on Dr. Fauci (true to form the first comment goes straight to the safe spot lefties lol
Maybe do some research.
The FBI is a good source of information.
Yes, more white people, in numbers, are killed by police, simply because there are more white people living in the USA.
Proportional, percentages I don't know.
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4 hours ago, transam said:
But they need the jobs/income....
Do I smell Chinese influence?
Maybe it is time to be very careful going out, maybe it is time to invest time in checking out where to flee to.
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1 hour ago, smedly said:
only a slight reduction from 20 million
Expect, or is it hope for
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3 hours ago, BritManToo said:
You're assuming it wasn't his family that killed him and hid the body.
Didn't hide it very well then.
RIP.
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2 hours ago, Mackstask said:Maybe the authorities should be looking at Hi-So wealthy Thai millionaires that have never paid a baht in taxes instead of picking on the vulnerable. Typical Thailand.
Tax Robbers are always pounding on the poor, while the very well to do have means and tools to escape tax.
Everywhere.
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6 hours ago, tonray said:
I'm thinking this won't end well for the thieves...
High class tourists, probably?
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3 hours ago, johno49 said:When the Military Junta ( opps sorry the government ) allows fair elections and we get a government with some real understanding of how to govern then things may improve until then Mi phen Rai
Are you serious?
Do you really believe what you say?
You have no memory, don't remember the "democratic government" á la Thaksin?
Democracy, Sir, is something highly overrated, while it has been degraded to once every four years a totally useless vote because the political elite, from whatever side, will just do what they want.
If there would be another government, never mind the colour, the problems for the "little people" will remain the same, or worse, but never better.
Not only in Thailand, but nearly everywhere in the world.
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5 hours ago, ozz1 said:I thought that they expected billions of baht coming from tourists this year someone is telling porkies and if they dont let anyone to enter there stuffed
I am afraid Thailand chose profit for a few big companies instead of profit for many by gambling on Chinese tourism and slowly erasing the goodwill and moneystream from the "farang".
The Chinese, in genetal, book a trip to Thailand in China, travels with a Chinese company, stays in Chinese owned hotels or condos, eat in Chinese owned eateries, and the poor people get nothing.
The only money stream is from China to some big cats in Thailand.
I am so sorry for the people that were able to earn a living out of tourism.
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2 hours ago, worgeordie said:
I have never heard of him,cannot remember seeing him in anything,
I suppose this is only a story because he is black,but at reaching
102 well done, RIP Earl.
regards Worgeordie
I have the same idea.
Never heard of him, never saw him acting or whatever.
Next......
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1 hour ago, Chelseafan said:
At last!! Someone in authority who not only has indentified the problem but explained the pitfalls of dual pricing.
Tanse Petsuwa, you've bought a tear to my eye
Does that also include the double/triple pricing for foreigners in Government Hospitals, even those living longtime in Thailand and paying taxes in Thailand.
Maybe they also should do some heavy thinking how the rather worthless insurance offered for foreigners does "benefit" state hospitals?
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On 6/24/2020 at 4:54 PM, Benmart said:
He is entitled to a trial and if found guilty is punished according to the law. The court of public opinion and hope does not constitute either.
The court of public opinion seems to have a lot of clout, it seems, on the elected and chosen figures playing their parts in the US justice system.
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2 hours ago, keith101 said:Thailand may want to be a 1st world country but with this kind of thing happening they will always remain a 3rd world country unfortunately just typical of S E Asian countries . IMO .
I gather things like this also happen in Europe, the UK, the US, South America etc.
All 3rd world countries then?
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14 hours ago, rvaviator said:Just like when all second hand cars vanished from the face of the earth and was replaced by pre-owned cars ....
In the Philippines second hand is called pre-loved........
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Registering a UK marriage in Thailand - the ongoing saga
in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
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Yes, it will be accepted in a lot of places, so it isn't useless.