Joules

There might be some confusion about Southeast Asia Insurance. There is also Southeast Insurance Public Company Limited also going out of business: https://today.fox-24.com/news/81245.html There goes my auto insurance on two vehicles. I renewed it not long ago. I suppose the premium I paid is now in the toilet. Nice doing business with you, Thailand.

"Qualified foreigners"? And the rest of us that have poured out souls (and money) into Thailand for 15-20 years? Dog meat.

If they wanted to go the Epstein route, they could always sic Hillary Clinton on him.

Must have been a Russian.

Yes, almost all the African countries.

You are a smart guy perpetuating the problem. I, too, completely forgot about he 90 day report and came in one day late. I had 2,000 baht clip to the 90 day report and said, "I'm a day late. Here is my fine." I got a receipt. I have never given them one satang to do their job. They have a salary.

It's business as usual by the same people that brought you Chinese vaccines when Thais were begging for Pfizer and Moderna.

Or, as we used to say about Cher (of Sonny & Cher fame), "If she gets one more facelift, she'll have a beard."

Rebirth of the speakeasy. Natural reaction to repression.

My lips are sealed . . .

It's Thailand!!! 555! 555! Everywhere else it is Zulu or Greenwich Mean Time.

You forgot "Kleptocratism," which belongs at the top of the list.

YOIU are obviously not living here. Or, if you are a foreigner, you are Asian. That gets you a pass. If you are not a white westerner, then you cannot understand. By the way, you misspelled "victimized."

"Internationalliving.com has ranked Thailand the best destination in Asia and the 11th best in the world in its 2022 global retirement index." Ha, ha, ha. Somebody got a backhander!!! Make that the 1992 global index and it might be true. but any foreigner, especially white ones, that move here for "the duration" these days have either failed to do their homework or they are daft. I did, and if I had it to do again, I wouldn't. Bad mistake -- although, in my defense, I can say it has changed A LOT since I came well over a decade ago. Edit: I will also note that despite having lived here over a decade and a half and never having left the country at all in over ten years, I cannot cross the border out of Thailand for five minutes and come back in without a huge headache and an expensive quarantine, solely because I am a white boy. If I go and come with my Thai wife, she gets to go home. No quarantine for her. Is the the kind of double standard with which a retiree wishes to live?

If they are on Koh Chang, aren't they already in quarantine?

Calling all Thais! Get your guns. Six dirty farangs loose on the island spreading covid! GET THEM!

I had to laugh at the picture. White hands. More dirty farangs spreading the virus with their slovenly ways.

I wonder when people will start being victimized by lawsuits for giving one star reviews to bad products on Lazada?

I was, too. She was one hot babe, that one. Remember her well.

Anybody that comes to Thailand from abroad is a stinking fool. There are decent places to go without being jailed because you got sick. Just wait until these people get their extortionate bill! "I've asked them a couple of times how much [hotel quarantine] is going to cost and they just laugh and walk away," Yeah, real funny. Only in Thailand!!!!

Everybody probably heard what the authorities did to that poor Israeli bloke. Who wants that kind of treatment. Then this: "Meanwhile it was also reported that insurance companies face payouts of 20 billion baht on Covid policies - the new variant is overstretching them and means that many are facing losses after miscalculating the cost of policies." Man, that brought tears to my eyes. Happy to see those greedy phucks take it right in the ear end. Ripoff <deleted>. And they thought they were going to cut a fat hog. 555 555 555

Answer: Idiots.

He didn't do a runner. Many hotels allow their guests to leave during the quarantine period for a fee. I am quite sure the guy just paid his fee and continued on with his vacation oblivious to the furor that followed. I seriously doubt that an Israeli who can afford to take a vacation in Thailand is a stupid as he is being portrayed. He's being scapegoated.

But! Give Prayuth and Anutin their due. They are no fools. they saw a great business opportunity for them and their cronies by choking out Moderna and Pfizer with red tape while making millions with "local" backhander vaccines. I'm even a little bit envious.

Good luck with that. While the popular perception might be that foreigners fuel the sex trade, Thai men fuel 90% of it, according to an article I read in the Bangkok Post years ago (before the coup when it was still relatively free). There are little brothels with proximity to nearly every Thai village, many disguised as karaoke bars. Good luck stopping something that is so thoroughly endemic to the culture. Getting rid of every single prostitute in Bangkok would not even make a dent in the covid spreading potential of this oldest profession. Edit: Government will never stamp out something people want. The US tried it with both Prohibition and The War on Drugs, both expensively failed disasters. If the Thai government is serious about stopping the spread of covid through this channel, the best way is to legalize it and require licensing and regular (free) testing. Of course, that can never be 100% but it would go a long way.