bangon04

ooooh TAT Escort Service...... might be a winner....

They can come in via the Chinese province of Cambodia......

remind me... who is the major shareholder in Chula?

It is a Buyer's market............

by the way... when will the Thai copy of Angkor Wat be finished?

"rankings compiled by the BAV Group (a unit of global marketing communications company, VMLY&R) and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania based on the perceptions of 78 countries in various metrics assessed from a study of over 17,000 people." probably good that 17000 Americans have little or no concept of Khmer culture, Chinese culture, Japanese consumer culture, Burmese and Laotian immigrant culture, but have a cultural memory of US influence on entertainment venues up to 1975 or later......

the system where there is only one party on the ballot paper, and a soldier standing next to the voter while s/he votes???

"An Indian wedding, known for their extravaganza feast, cost on average 5-6 million Baht with 200-300 participants." yes that is exactly the type of tourist event Thailand needs to encourage.....maybe the Chinese in the same hotel could help out with finishing the buffet

"Mr Nipon said “Hua Hin is still not 100% ready.” Where on the planet will be 100% ready???? Being 70% vaccinated is a more realistic target... maybe they could concentrate on that instead.....

At least the CCP will be able to claim the biggest medal tally and world supremacy if they do not allow anyone else in......

"They hope to appeal to students " - anything to avoid real study - mall needs less sunscreen than park......

Did he make a good job of running the military? I did not notice.....

Buddhism is indeed an admirable belief system. However it deserves much better than the endemic corruption and hypocrisy of the Theravada hierarchy. Maybe the Sangha could consider attacking the everyday, ground level, HUMAN corruption of its ideals, rather than criticising efforts to make the belief system more accessible to the man-in-the-street......

Would that be a Chinese satellite city by any chance? That would certainly be a Win-Win situation..... How can they possibly say no? They need more state loans from Big Cousin.....

Hope He is already starting work on his COE requirements.......

The Chinese WILL buy. They have plenty of money they wish to park. There are also many middle class HKers who need to have an escape plan but maybe cannot afford the UK yet. All Thailand needs is more Casinos and more Chinatowns to attract them..... their cousins here in Thailand will surely oblige.

"As a personal example, we went on a trip to Singapore once and a good number of the Singaporeans ....... that we saw, looked a lot like many Filipinos in the Philippines." If it was Sunday they probably were all Filipinas on their day off....

Representatives of the CLMVT countries — Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam and Thailand — came together last week to discuss ways to achieve a resilient economic recovery in the post-pandemic period," conclusion - do whatever China wants......

"UK travellers returning have to have tests three days prior to going back and have to quarantine at government approved hotels for 10 days once in the UK." so basically copying the ASQ system that Bangkok has been using for months......

"He said that from September 1st to 30th it will not be necessary that patrons will have to have been vaccinated to use restaurants." surely he meant to say "THAI patrons".....

They are not ALL ethnic Chinese.......

I am sure we all miss the long lines at the 7-11 while the Indian customers haggle about the prices with the slightly confused cashier........

TAT can announce anything they want. TAT has no authority to implement anything they announce. Anything they announce can be ignored (or derided) until it appears in print in the Royal Gazette......

"the Interior Ministry’s secretary of state Chou Bun Eng said ..." "Bun Eng, who is also the permanent vice-chair of the National Committee for Counter Trafficking..." she is not Chinese, is she??

The Government cannot force you to allow any person into your private property. As the legal owner of a bar / restaurant or any other private property, you can decide who enters, unless they have a court warrant. Therefore someone who is not allowed to enter the property cannot carry out working duties, so must be terminated. In some countries you cannot discriminate against certain disabilities, but you might get upset if you are mandated to employ a person with ebola to be a nanny to your kids.....