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183 people dead in the first days of the 7 days of New Year Holiday, but 3 people dead from Civid-19 and you close the Country. Something is seriously wrong with the Thinking here.

?? Two pages already and not one answer to the original question, what a bush of loud moths not worth anything. ????

1 hour ago, GalaxyMan said:

Exactly. This needs to be a choice in the survey. One way or another, long-stay foreigners should have the ability to take care of themselves.

 

They talk about 400,000/40,000, I believe. Why not offer the option to put 500,000 into an account, much like we have to do now for the retirement or marriage extensions?

Exactly, in the first mention of this. it was mentioned the availability of some sort of self insurance. It was mentioned that even with if the 400000 being held from the Retirement Extension would be enough to cover the insurance requirement. So what happened to that option?

18 hours ago, KhaoYai said:

That's the story that's put about - talk to business owners. Both Thai and foreign report things are not good and getting worse.

 

I'm no expert but I was told they've been propping the baht up since the coup. As far as I know, the only way they can do that is with gold and foreign reserves - surely what they have left aint massive. Reports are one thing, the truth may differ.

You are forgetting the new rule for visas, 400,000 for Marriage visa and 800,000 for Retirement visa Foreign Currency from a Bank sent to Thailand Bank. That sounds like a lot of Foreign Reserves.

I was a monk before, and I know they are not allowed to drive cars or have a driver's license, yet when I talked to a Thai Policeman about 3 monks in a car being driven by a monk, he had nothing to say.

18 hours ago, RandolphGB said:

They can't / don't want to submit the required deposit for the visa. The logical step then is to leave. Am I missing something?

The Visa requirement including Mother, Daughter, and Husband is a unbelievable 2,400,000 Baht + 1,020,000 for the care for Mom. Not counting the money for Mom is an astounding nearly $76,000 to park it in a bank just for a visa, and no living money . Unbelievable.

Something is fishy about this story.

An American husband and wife team who ran a Web design business successful enough to be sold, but now cannot drum up one bank deposit of $25K which will allow their mother to stay in Thailand until she passes.

During the course of their business career, did they not forge strong enough relationships with clients or collaborators to be able to ask around for help now that they have a real problem?

Don't they have have any family or family friends in America? Is gathering $25K really such an insurmountable challenge? 

Do they really think that living in Manila is going to be that much cheaper than Chiang Mai?

Do they understand how much harder it is to find a place to live there, and how much more expensive rent and utilities are?

Have they ever experienced the existential struggle of trying to find edible food in the Philippines?

Surely, if they had made any friends at all in during their 4 years in Thailand, someone would have pointed out that they can simply pay $600 per year for an agent to grease the wheels for them and stay right here in Chiang Mai. I mean, seriously, that is less that what their flights to Manila will cost them.

My guess is that their back story is bullshit and this is an attempt to salt gullible people, farang and Thai, into donating money to them. They have no intention of folding up their circus and moving to Manila.

First of all, lets actually point out the cost that they are talking about. Husband visa 8000,000 Baht, add 800,000 for wife makes 1,800,00, now add 800,000 for the Mother adds up to 2,600,00 Baht not to add 1,020,00 the cost of the monthly care for Mom, which adds up to3,620,000 a year without a dime left for living cost, food, utilities, rent ,etc. You people are nothing more that computer warriors, and a sad lot. 

1968 stayed for 8 years, then visited several times in the interim, finally came to live for ever so been here for 27 years now.

I am very confused, Sat fist day 42 people dead, Sun day 2 62 dead totally 104, now on day 3 70 more dead total 174, it looks like to me the death toll is going up every day!!!

I did get that same message, and it came about when I switched to 3BB. When they installed my fiber with the router. I called 3BB and they told me that I should either disconnect or turn off the router for about 10 to 20 cec and then turn it back on, then all will be fine, and to do this 1st a week. I did that and for the last 3months no problems.  Hope this helps all.

So there was 38 people on board to a round trip to Hawaii, at a cost of over $16,000.,, per person.

And I fly to the east cost in America for a cost of $2,000 so I guess it is not overspending considering it includes for food and lodging at a cost of $14,000 a piece.

Ha,ha how gullible do they think we are

This article says 80% intend to vote, and the post below it says 60% undecided?? can you do math that's 140% of the people, does this mean that some of the people that are dead are going to vote. Sounds like American politics :-))

The real answer is,

Anybody can play and win the state lottery in Thailand, you don’t have to be Thai. The results of the lottery are announced on the 1^st and 16^th of every month and prizes must be claimed within two years of the draw and they are subject to 0.5% tax.

f you a foreigner you can win and get paid, you are paid by a cheque. I hope this clears this up for many.

No Suprise here, on the 11th he was release on a Bail of 200,000 Baht to appeal to the Supreme Court. Which he has done before many times?

What was the PM saying before of it not being safe to wear a Bakii on the beach in Thailand

Whilst I am happy for him, I have to remember that about a year or two ago in Pattaya a Farang man was arrested for working without a work permit for doing the same and cleaning public bathrooms on the beach.

If Thailand joins the TPP, it must give up their idea of import taxes that are over the top. In 2001 I brought a BMW that cost 4.1 million Baht, that same car could have been purchased in the U.S. for 886.000 Baht.

My thinking!!

It is interesting that...

of the 12 countries included in the deal, it does not include Thailand.

No, until there are some extremely harsh measures applied to those families at the top who have benefitted from and by corruption for decades there will be no change.

Absolutely not. It is almost funny that this Survey is out now, all one has to do is check this

from yesterday and see just how corrupt this country is from the police, the Phuket Governor, and Lawyers, and even the P.M., just watch the BBC video interview.

So the national police chief thinks that his reputation can be damaged by the press saying what everyone (except the reds) is thinking? What a pathetic little man he is.

yes a pathetic little yellow man so your 'red' allusion is wrong as this guy is the yellows National Police Chief did you forget that?

Don't you think he is a bit the same as the former CSI Chief, who was yellow under the Dems and then became a turn coat and stallward of Thaksin, the reds ?

Yesterday they sentenced a woman of two kids, who was under 30 , to 28 years for article 112.

Priorities indeed!!

Absolutely, not to mention the old couple that were sentence to 15 years for picking mushrooms and the garbage man that was sentenced for selling discarded Dvd's. This speaks volumes about if you are not one of the hi so click then there is no justice.

As I said all along this is not that serious as to commit a crime like this you need to show "Intent". Since he did not intend to commit a crime then they did the only thing they could do. Which was: Hold Him! Question Him! Then let Him Go!

If as he claimed, he found the gun in his luggage after he got to Japan, what was his intent if not to take it on the plane?

Something doesn't ring true. Ditto on his confession that he did not know he had brought it from Thailand, then he SAID he moved it into his carry on, so he had to know that he moved it. The other thing is are we not to know who gave him the gun, he said first it was his, then stories about his son bringing the registration, then it was changed to it was a gift. So whose gun is it????

This story just gets weirder and weirder - first he says he brought it from Thailand forgetting it was in his hand luggage before leaving Thailand and not found then coming back he put it in his medicine bag so he knew he had it then - why not put in his suitcase or better get rid!!!!!Then his son flies out to prove he has ownership papers for this gun and today he says he is using a close aid to contact the person who gave him the gun and get the ownership papers off him - confusing!

To get to the bottom of the ownership problem, it is quite simple to run the serial number of the gun and get it's history and he was the last to actually own it. Follow the paper trail.

You could find out maybe if it was from Thailand, Japan, or maybe even Dubai.

Good job, Mr. Ambassador, now don't forget to invite the current PM.