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Without an alarm system linked to armed response the cameras will do nothing but provide lousy quality pictures that the RTP will show no interest in. Best to ensure your house is always locked up securely if you are not at home. And leaving the bathroom light on for long nighttime hours is a sure sign you are not at home. No home is ever 100% protected as I learned in another country. I had alarms, armed response, industrial fencing behind 2 metre walls and still I was held up at gunpoint, robbed and left tied up and locked in my bedroom for hours until my shouts were heard by a neighbour.

Who is going to enforce this? Certainly not the senior police officer who is my neighbour and burns his garden refuse. He obviously has no knowledge of the regulations and definitely not of the health hazards because he leaves his house windows open 24/7 and is frequently coughing and spitting phlegm in his garden.

It's Nim See Seng!

What's the problem? If you have nothing to hide then there can be no threat. If these visits ensure that undesirable people of any nationality are at least reduced in number then it is only a good thing. And anyway this is a sovereign state that has a duty to protect its citizens and should be doing so in these times. Yes there are criminals in the RTP, and many of them, but there are far more trying to enter this country. I have never had a visit but have no objection if it stops even one criminal being allowed to live here.

My latest visa extension appointment was switched at 24 hrs notice from Sanambin Rd office to Central Festival, same date different time. When I arrived it was bustling but well organised and the whole process took only 20 minutes. I did my last 90 day report at Central 3 weeks ago and since then the whole office has been totally revamped to offer what looks like a full range of services. The staff complement has increased dramatically, the layout is completely different and there is even a left - luggage area. A very welcome set of improvements to what was initially an excellent but limited service office.

Went to Mother & Child hospital a couple of weeks ago. It was busy but very efficient, the staff were very pleasant and helpful. Took only 25 minutes to go through the whole process. Pfizer was the only vaccine available which was fine. Carparking was a slight challenge and the location of the vaccination process was easy to locate by a large banner in passa Thai, adjacent to the outdoor tented waiting area. Left with a printed updated certificate of vaccination.

The term "some spots" is dismissive of the reality which is that in population areas it is disasterously high every day. It might be technically breathable on the summits around Chiang Dao but in urban areas is had hardly dropped below 50 for many days if not longer. And as for designating no burning from Feb 15, this is ludicrous because since December we have had high pm2,5. Of course here in the north the situation does not matter to all the hiso folk in Krungthepmahanakorn. We are just country bumpkins. But remember each of us has a vote!

How long before we see tourist souvenir paperweights made from these fossils on sale via a website and operated by yet another corrupt government employee?

As usual the authorities are asleep at the wheel. Pollution because noxious weeks ago and has become significantly worse this year. But drive a couple of kilometres out into the rural areas and watch the biomass burning going on in daylight. Big businesses are one culprit but the thousands of small scale fires are also comp!icit, including the policeman neighbour who burns his garden refuse. It is endemic, ignored and any control measures are nothing but PR exercises. So we should accept it, use air purifiers and get on with life because it will never change.

The forecasters of a huge Chinese influx are simply whistling in the dark. With airfares 3 times the price in 2019, unemployment at record highs, a property market collapse that has ruined hundreds of thousands of investors and the continually concealed truth about Covid there is only a slight chance that PRC arrivals will surge. An AP report on the Chinese return to travel showed that nowhere in the world is experiencing the hoped for return of large numbers. Tourism is a distant number 3 in urban Chinese priorities and most plan domestic travel. So the bullish reports will soon be hidden away by more reports of disappointment.

Nothing unusual here. Most countries such as UK, US, S Africa, EU etc have similar restrictions.

Considering that there are only a handful of flights per day from the PRC and the fact that direct flights only started a few days ago there are probably no more that 3 or 4 thousand Chinese people in Chiang Mai. So spotting a Chinese visitor is rather like looking for hen's teeth. By the way how does one spot such a person?

In theory they spend when here, in practice they are spending in Chinese owned businesses with Thai nominees and the only benefit to this country is to low paid Thai employees. All their profits go back to the Chinese owners. My partner has already instructed the security staff to deter Chinese from the business premises because they are cheapskates, argue about the bills and hunt in packs that block seating for decent tourists. They are not the only regional tourists who are not wanted but the certainly are the worst.

People can quote all the regulations they can find but the reality is the Germain issue. Chiang Mai satellite Immigration office at Central Festival is today saying that if someone leaves the province, to visit Pattaya for example, and returns to the same address in CM Province a few days later the person HAS to do a TM 30 report. So in this city at least we are back to the dark days of Jackboot Junta policies courtesy of the so-called Prime Minister who kisses the hands of his Chinese chums who visit for a few days but treats longer term bigger spending resident farangs like criminals.

It beggars belief that situations such as this can occur in enterprises financed by taxpayer money. And yet no one is surprised because these parastatals are run in a totally incompetent manner and that is the norm. Thailand likes to style itself as an emerging economy and not a third world one but it employs civil servants who could not run a market stall to handle billions of baht. No wonder the country is mired in corruption. There are no checks on rampant mismanagement and the ordinary tax payer is being conned.

Anutin has stated that Thailand will not be acquiring the bivalent because the current ones are "good enough"! In actuality the bivalent vaccines are little better than the originals because they were developed for the Delta variant and we are now on the umpteenth iteration of Omicron, so they offer little more than a marginal improvement against severity not infection. The virus is still a potent reason for vigilance and sensible behaviour but sadly living with Covid has turned into complacency for many.

If you buy anything from Dyson get ready for ludicrous delays in getting replacement parts. I am currently waiting, so far 21 weeks, for what is nothing more than a piece of moulded plastic. Other parts take between 9 and 16 weeks. Dyson are expensive to buy and rendered useless by these unacceptable delays from their official service agents in Thailand.

Yes novacova the whole place is closed and along with it the establishments to which you refer. Covid has wreaked havoc in many ways in the country and here up country in the much neglected provinces. You will find many shophouse businesses have gone and numerous tourism businesses too. The festive season has been quite busy but the destruction over 3 years will not be repaired for many years.

Pack your bags. To live in a "foreign place" requires flexibility, acceptance of differences, realisation that change happens and an embracing of inevitability. You seem to find it difficult to find that what you thought was reality is in fact not the case, because it was never the case. Perhaps you should return to your place of origin and embrace it once again. Chiang Mai over the past years has remained a home to me because it is vibrantly changing for the better, not fossilised.

We all know what is going on and that events over the next few days could easily lead to a cancellation no matter what TAT says today. Any cancellations are regrettable but not surprising and will not affect the international tourism sector.

Ha ha, they have been reading the latest polling results which clearly show Anutin as a no-hoper for PM and the party as a distant minority vote getter. Who would want the egos of Anutin and this guy in any form of coalition!

Interesting that they refer to alcohol as a drug. Isn't the chaos around marijuana a clear indication that the government and the MOPH has no idea what it is doing! I suppose I am staying the obvious, sorry.

Is it coincidental that the little billionaire is wearing a jacket covered in dollar signs?!

Google Maps will tell you all you want to know about CM Saloon!

Chiang Mai Janitorial Supplies certainly stocks Zebra as well as other brands. Located on route 11 Superhighway frontage road, past Makro going out of town. You can find it on Google Maps.