Vlada Floric

Never fear the swarm will return.

They are terrified that they will lose the revenue from the declining sales from the tobacco industry - Seems like money again trumps health when it comes to the Thai Tobacco Monopoly.

"Dr Polathep said evidence from a 2023 ministerial regulation that extended operating hours in five zoning areas, Bangkok, Phuket, Chon Buri, Chiang Mai and Koh Samui, showed significant negative outcomes. The study found that road accidents and injuries rose by 12%, and road fatalities increased by 13%. Drink-driving incidents more than doubled, up 115% compared to the previous year. In major tourism provinces, including Bangkok, Phuket and Chon Buri, the fatality rate jumped by 22% during the extended hours period." So from his research, ban alcohol! If they can't live with the outcome and decide that the cash from sales isn't worth it (Tell that to Thai Beverage and CP and see how far you get) then ban the booze! Obviously this will have an absolutely devastating effect, we will have to suffer and sit through more and more useless endless reports regarding the decrease of 1% here 0.5% there, with the relentless publishing of totally worthless garbage by TAT regarding tourist numbers. They are already alienating thousands of tourists with their Draconian rules, why stop now, put the tourist industry to bed and get a real job instead of moaning continuously about foreigners on holiday, pumping millions into this medieval economy. Best put your own house in order first. Ah'll 'ave an 'alf.

Here we go again, the unelected social justice department meddling in issues that should have been put to bed 25 years ago. Have these people nothing better to do than preach and inflict their moral superiority on everyone else.

Not perfect, but if you want to find out what is going on in the UK from a political point of view, take a look at Sky News Australia, very different from the trash that we get from Sky UK. Like I said, it is not perfect, but compared to the UK media and the despots at the BBC, it is a refreshing change - You can even get a bit of a laugh with their "Lefties Losing It" and "The World's Gone Mad" broadcasts.

Just to share some experience buying some electronic products in Thailand and the pitfalls, be careful. We bought a brand new PC Power supply (Corsair 850 RMX - pretty reasonable spec. PSU) - It was bought online via Lazada a while back and came with (I believe) either a 5 or 10 year warranty. After some use, the PC began switching itself off and randomly back on again, it would do this for hours, but generally still working in between. The PSU was at fault as Windows was not shutdown during these "power offs" it simply died and restarted, still with Windows operating. After a day or two of this annoyance, it finally gave off an almighty BANG and flames shot out of the rear of the PC. Luckily someone was there at the time as the fault did not trip my main RCB's. There could have been a major fire if it was unattended . The company the PSU was purchased from had since ceased trading, so I contacted Corsair for a replacement. You would have thought a straightforward task, swap the faulty PSU and do an autopsy as to why it caught fire. Well, not so! Corsair then requested that the PSU be returned to Taiwan under warranty and supplied the required RMA. They also wanted the PSU to be tracked (they said they could not guarantee receipt without tracking) so I sent it via EMS. This cost about $USD 40 -45 in shipping. They sent a "replacement" PSU, in a box marked "Refurbished" within about two weeks (obviously I had to buy another PSU to keep my PC going during the repair period) The replacement arrived and my son decided he was claiming it as his old 650W PSU was struggling and a bit long in the tooth. The replacement PSU immediately began powering his PC off, exactly the same as the previous PSU, but this was a different PSU and in a different PC! But same exact symptoms. Then came the explosion, the PSU went up with a bang, flames again shooting out of the rear of the PC case. Thankfully this time it did trip my safety breakers and the fire was put out. When I contacted Corsair about this problem, they simply issued a new RMA and again, they expected me to pay another $45 USD to ship it back to Taiwan again for another replacement! You can see that this is going no where, the shipping costs are ridiculous and the PSU is not worth the expense. Searching online, there are multiple complaints from customers with this same PSU model, having the very same problems. Rather a dodgy product eh? Burn your home down for the sake of a PSU. I contacted Corsair again and copied their CEO and QA management. Not even a response! They wouldn't even acknowledge the problem. The only reply was from some poor tech or admin trying to sort this mess out. It appears that there is no local service centre for their products in Thailand and if your retailer has shut up shop, Corsair will only warranty their products if shipped at ridiculous cost, to Taiwan. They are not interested in solving a potentially lethal fault, they are not interested in their Thai customers, they effectively cripple your warranty - 10 years seems a lot for a warranty, but not if it is going to keep costing $45 in shipping every time, and this is multiple PSU products failing for a serious fault. We took the PC to a tech store in the city (I was convinced a new PSU could not be the root cause, it seemed impossible) The Tech powered it up and it nearly blew his face off, flames and smoke shot out of the rear of the PC and another huge bang. The technician confirmed that it was indeed a bad PSU - We fitted a Thermaltake (same make as the old 650W, which is still working 15 years or more ) and everything has been fine since. I will give Corsair a point for making this thing indestructable, but it is a hollow prize when you realise this thing could kill you and wipe out your home. I have had a similar with ASUS regarding local warranty, and it is a lousy situation. I spoke with some Thais and in general, they do not even bother with their warranty as most of them think that they will get nothing from it, so it lets these manufacturers off the hook. It seems so unfair that the people here who need the most protection and support are the ones who get the least and are given useless warranties from useless companies just trying to screw them out of their money - For me, the cost is not a big deal, I had to buy a new PSU, but if you are on a tight budget, you are even screwed with your warranty. Wouldn't you think a large company like Corsair would be interested in finding the root cause and more so, fixing a fire issue and keeping a happy customer base. Over the past few years Corsair product quality has gone down again and again, no longer reliable, in this case dangerous, I noticed that their last CEO has just quit too. Anyone else on here suffering from worthless warranties? what can we do? Is there legal recourse when faulty junk almost burns your house down twice?

Thai people have to put up with the horrible rude officials every day, just visit the local amphur to see how the special classes treat their fellow compatriots.

Did I miss the slightly important point, the duration of the flight? It must be a rather long one, Oooh err missus.

Probably a rather nice meal and plenty of booze.

I wonder how many foreigners living here, with their Thai family, no longer visit tourist attractions or travel and visit, to stay a night or two? All because they get mightily shafted with their ridiculous TM30 "tourist challenge" - Visit outside of your province and on return, you have 24 hours to visit their den of hell immigration, to renew your TM30, and just to keep it interesting, a 1600 Baht "fee" for late reporting, I just can;t wait to head out.

Thank you, as far as the article reads, it appears it goes to the state!

"TARGET" - To select as an object of attention or attack.

I could not find reliable answers to this question - If as a foreign national living in Thailand on the Retirement Visa, with my 800K Baht in the bank, what happens to the money should I drop dead here? The situation would be a foreign retiree, 800K in the bank, UNMARRIED, no children, and, NO WILL. What happens to the 800K? You cannot spend it unless you know you are dying and fritter it away during the last year before renewing the visa extension, other than that, do the foreigners embassy become involved? Who ultimately can grab the cash? Thank you.

They have to be in the spotlight, they had to be part of it, Nobody gives a flying F#$%, no one cares, they bare absolutely no significance on the World stage, get back under your cocnut!

The Airport is well worth visiting.

I found it slightly difficult to confirm her identity as she appears to be missing her face in these photos.

But not once they have seen those impressive Chinese and Japanese HST's = They just have to have one like the other "developed" countries, never mind they have no infrastructure, no clue, no nothing, just their sad, hollow longings to be accepted on the world stage as equals, Sadly, it isn't going to happen, they belong under the coconut.

Is this something that they suddenly COPIED from maybe Australia? It must make them feel important and "on the ball" - sadly, they never seem to manage to have their own ideas.

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If you take a look on Lazada or similar, there is a product from Chaindrite that will sort them out. It is Chaindrite Termite powder, comes in 500G bag, just use a "Puffer" or carefully sprinkle and give it an hour.

Everyone should be boycotting these scum that profiteered off the backs of the British people. Every one of these migrant filth hotels should be boycotted, force these dogs out of business,

30 years too late imbeciles. These people are unreal! These idiots are irrelevant now, but then the cream of the cream, Stalin Starmer, the pox mouth premier of Britain is an even bigger lying <deleted> than anyone else, not one of them have done a damn thing about immigration, they are a disgrace and hopefully in the future neither the Bastard Stalin and his labour lackeys along with the Tory party will never ever see power again in Britain.

That is an interesting alternative Crossy, any chance you can shed a bit more light on that ticket rental business? Thanks.

Same here,

I think they count them getting off the plane at arrivals and subtract the leavers from departure, hence the erratic numbers, if a plane is delayed I expect they have a 400 tourist collapse.