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When is the Royal Thai Navy going to apprehend this vessel?
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I am surprised it has taken so long. The banks in Thailand has lent billions to the construction industry to erect unsaleable buildings. This is in part due to Covid but was a problem before the pandemic occurred as the property market has been in recession for years due to oversupply. If bad debts were correctly provided for then I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that they have been trading while insolvent which is illegal. This is an accounting and enforcement issue so provides good opportunities for banks to show their appreciation.
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People in the UK are currently experiencing difficulties getting approval for their journeys to Thailand. Having completed all formalities and sent all requested document toThailand including paying for flights and hotels for one day's quarantine but no QR code for their journey's approval is forthcoming. All the given phone numbers in Thailand do not answer except two have an automated answer saying there is no one there. People need to heed earlier advice about being cautious when planning to come to Thailand.
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The question government and TAT seem to ignore is; what are the up market tourists and long term visitors going to do when they get here? What does Thailand have that is attractive to wealthy visitors?
One can visit Thai temples and watch Thai dance and look at Thailand's modest waterfalls only so often before the novelty wears off. It's national parks are either simple trips to waterfalls or impenetrable forest and full of biting and poisonous animals so only of interest to a small number of naturalists. Foreigners are charged many multiple times what Thais are charged to visit many places. Other than in the Andaman Sea the quality of its scuba diving is second rate. For most of the year Thailands climate is too hot for outdoor activities activities such was walking, cycling etc. The Sun makes the beaches so hot that visitors stay in the shade, cramped together under umbrellas, and off shore, there are innumerable jet skis, whose owners are renowned for scamming customers, making seaside trips unpleasant. There is little in the way of upmarket attractions such as museums, art galleries, concerts other than pop music, ballet, opera etc.etc. People who are rich and successful tend to be both intelligent and old. Thailand is badly in need of a face lift. Every village, town and city is marred by hideous advertising signs and electrical and telephone wires obscuring buildings; town planning is an unheard of skill and it shows with so many poorly maintained buildings thrown up only as the builder pleases with no thought for aesthetics. The roads are dangerous because of corrupt officials selling driving licenses, child drivers of motorcycles and virtually no attempt is made to police any rules other than vehicle insurance.
The government need to postpone killing the goose that laid the golden egg until the above shortcoming are remedied. Something that is clearly impossible in the short term.
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Eliminating quarantine will not induce foreigners to come flooding back to Thailand. The government needs to view the prospect of visiting Thailand from the perspective of foreign governments who won't want their citizens to go to countries who have not established herd immunity. That means they might come if 70% of the Thai residents have been inoculated. I hear rumours that the Chinese Government may ban their people coming before herd immunity is achieved. No country wants their citizens to return from abroad with a high prospect of their bringing the virus back with them.
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With a population of 66 million then for 100% to be vaccinated it will take 13 months to complete. 100% will never be vaccinated but the restoration of the tourist industry will require herd immunity of, say, 70% being inoculated. So that will take until February 2022. By that time there will be nothing left to entertain tourists because all the facilities will be bankrupt so other than the historical reason for visiting Thailand foreigners will have no reason to come here. In short there will never be a grandiose tourist industry in Thailand ever again unless the herd immunity can be achieved by mid-year 2021. In short only 5 million doses per month sounds the death knell of 15% of Thailands GDP!
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I have downloaded and installed the App. It doesn’t work properly on an iPhone XR. After answering the four question and then pressing next all I get is either an endlessly spinning wheel or a completely blank screen.
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I am not sure it is solely a matter of corruption. The HiSo fat cats running businesses want to maximize their profits by hiring Burmese who will undercut the ratesThais will accept. With a decimated tourism industry one would think
Thais would be happy for any work they can get but it seems not. Kick out all the immigrants and give Thais a chance. Prosecute all businesses that refuse to comply or to pay minimum wages.
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At 300 people per day in a 31
day month you will get 9300 visitors and each will have to pay 129,000 baht to reach the dreamed of 1.2billion per month.
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What about opticians?
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The only reason you get surges of customers to buy drinks is the flip flop decisions of the government. It is the worry that the government will reimpose the ban that causes the problem. Steady as she goes.
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The root cause of the atrocious planning is down to the poor quality of the Thai education system with many hours wasted on non-academic non-sporting activities, learning by rote, teacher is always right, no class discussion and no essays. In short the system does not encourage thinking or curiosity. The is not one geography lesson taught in schools which leads in insular thinking. There is science but no physics, chemistry or biology lessons so in depth learning is impossible. It badly needs fixing
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Hope they take into consideration the need for people to buy necessities many of which are only available in supermarkets. All the thousands of people live outside the lockdown zone will be denied access. That’s unreasonable. To be fair to all the supermarkets should all be shut too!
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This will save about 700 deaths due to drunken driving over Songkran.
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Yesterday all fruit and vegetable markets in Sattahip were closed. Supermarkets had no fruit and vegetables. Vitamin C is essential for the immune system. Stop panicking and get your act together before you bankrupt the nation
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With a total lockdown how does one get to hospital if I’ll? How to get to supermarkets? I hear they also want to shut the outdoor markets. If they do how do ordinary Thais get food? Outdoor markets don’t have air conditioning which is a major virus spreader.
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There is a clear explanation for the bar stool fraternity not becoming infected with Corvid 19. We are all urged to rub alcohol on our hand to kill the virus so if it wokrs on the hands it must work in the gut. All bars should be reopened immediately!
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There is a very good reason to panic and that is the fact that the man in charge of health is an ignoramous and bigot.
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Then the money spent is the biggest amount of money wasted on "education". Thailand's education is appallingly bad. The curriculum is completely skewed with too much emphasis on culture and not nearly enough on academic subjects. There are no physics, chemistry or biology classes only a combined Science course so the standard is woefully low. Geography and economics are not taught at all. What is taught is English, Thai language, Thai history, Computing, Mathematics and, as mentioned above, Science. The quality of the teachers is by and large substandard particularly for teaching English which accounts for why Thailand is the fifth worst English speaking nation on Earth. Stop teaching by rote, encourage class discussions and teach pupils to argue their points of view. More sport, especially team sport is needed as are extra-curricular activities such as art and music. So stop wasting taxpayers money giving children toys on which they only play games cut out the wasted time and get focused on what matters academically and recruit more teachers from abroad who are genuinely qualified for the task rather than loafers trying to get a visa to stay in Thailand. Then your money will be well spent and effective and not the huge splurge it is now.
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Be grateful that you are not assessed to Thai Taxation which those with PR are and on their worldwide income too. A low profile is what you need to adopt.
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HSBC left Thailand because they couldn't enforce contracts in the courts.
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You have 4 choices.
1. Make a loan to your partner secured by a mortgage against the property. Your asset is then the loan debt rather than the house and land.
2. Take out a 30 year lease on the property which is renewable for a further 30 years.
3. Rent. No hassle with having your assets lifted by your partner AND property values in Thailand go DOWN not up as they as a wasting asset which will only last for a few years and the build quality is so dreadful.
4. Stay free and loose and find a friend when you need one and rent your home.
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Koh Chang National Park is ful of countless resorts, schools, houses and shops built on reserved land. Let's have them all pulled down and the forest preserved as a natural wilderness.
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HA HA April Fool!!!!!!!
Royal Thai Navy confirms bodies of 3 more crew members recovered
in Thailand News
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The number of unidentified bodies indicates that the navy doesn’t know who was on board when the corvette sank. There were certainly too many for the available life jackets.