drkenchso

glad that smog problem eg pm2.50 in bangkok also received  due attention.

perhaps some creative or unconventional thinking is urgently needed to solve this persisting aggravating problem?! assuming that the culprit is external, for example, from cambodia, it is right step for thailand to liaise with cambodia govt to jointly solve the problem but also good to request thai friendly china govt to help, exerting some pressure on cambodia to do better? secondly,assume we can't do much to reduce external pollution source, couldn't we do more INSIDE thailand to push for more EV to replace gasoline vehicles by subsidy or increase import tax for the traditional vehicles, or bring forward European new standard sooner, or use multipronged approach? improved air quality could  attract more wealthy guys and elderly retirees ?

there is rumour or news that immigration is going to tighten up and monitor many kinds of visas application and requirement ed visa included. search for more info from stickmanbangkok.com or integrity legal youtuber

an agent ask for full commission even if the seller found the buyer. is it exploitation?

i only know about this recently: foreigners can not work as property agent

not too sure if also apply to other area like insurance or car etc

actually simple way is to have condos reduced lighting in the corridors. Now all condo corindors l are brightly light up  24 hours a day all long

Meanwhile big joe probably
think of retirement visa
overhaul in the context
of driving away foreign
criminals. Linking only
financial requirement
with quality of retirees
maybe one way to screen
out criminals however
it discriminate the less
wealthy and screen out
most non innocent retirees
who have no interest at
all to commit any offence
whatsoever. Perhaps a
multipronged approach can
be adopted such as looking
at the past job experience
or skills and academic level
of retiree applicants, in
addition to financial criteria
or bank deposit.

i guess expat retiree here better
prepared for the increase in every
aspects than hiding the heads in
the sand or plead that it won't
happan. The drastic increase in
elite visa seem to point in the
inflation direction. As to whether
expats will leave in batches
because of increased
requirement, it is a calculated
risk for the authority. The
mandatory health insurance is a
peculiar issue, strictly speaking, it
is implemented allegedly due to
request from the health
department to immigration to
solve the expat incurring/
defaulting hospital large bills (i
don't know how possible)

the root of the problem is
mandatory medical insurance
most likely could not solve the big medical fee default incurred
by foreigners as orginally planned. It is because pre
existing health problems or medical conditions arising there of are completely excluded from
protection by insurers, but it is
most likely these conditions aggravated into big problems and
incur large hospital bills. Perhaps
the effective solution for the
government is to exclude foreigners from seeking
treatment from public hospitals
or public hospitals to raise medical fees to be on par with private hospitals so that no more implicit indirect subsidy to
foreigners or foreign retirees is
possible. And why not suspend visas to those actually default medical bills?

oh yes, most local people do.not drink tap water, for some unknown reason, probably need improvement too? 

the new scheme in the pipeline does not require the wealthy to do 90 day reporting, so the most wealthy has some priviledges than most other ordinary guys, hopefully in order to attract wealthy people, more can.be improved such as air pollution, drainage system (serious flood in 2011 in many regions, as reported in news on bangkok flood map regions) and more friendly visa policies and reporting requirements?

hopefully the following can.be improved to attract wealthy people: air pollution, tap water (most local people in bangkok do not drink tap water), environment, flooding (year 2011 serious flooding, check bangkok flood map regions and news) and more friendly visa or reporting procedures (it seems the wealthy will be exempted from 90 day reporting)

hopefully thai banks will not follow suit?! not too sure how to get a Thai ID card if passport not accepted and banks require same set of documents to continue using bank service, i do not see how one can use an apps to launder money