not sure about Koh Tao, but now, here in Phuket if a wife of a Farang buys land she needs sign a paper stating it is her money and if its later proved its not......Bye Bye land

19 hours ago, madmitch said:

Some people have short memories.

 

I can only refer to Phuket and the south but tourism was decimated after the tsunami and the beaches were empty.

 

In 2020, despite coronavirus, Phuket's beaches are still packed.

 

A minor blip in comparison!

Agree a bit.  The south was dead for a year after the Tsunami BUT bangkok, pattaya,CM were ok.

Packed beaches here now? not exactly true, busy, but far from packed and the roads seem empty of the tour bus's and hundreds of mini vans

Have used Wang a few times, never saw a taxi or any transport further into Malaysia

never been asked for my boarding pass at dm, swampy or Phuket immigration in my 34 years living here

24 minutes ago, hugocnx said:

I got in on a 90 days OA visa and got it extended by 9 month to make  my permission to stay 1 year altogether.

Same as you get in visa exempt. You obtain 90 days first.

wrong;

Visa exempt is 30 days>

you come in on a 90 day Non Imm ( B, O, O-A etc) stay, you than extend it for another year ( 12 months) .????????

ONLY way you would get a 9 month extension, is if your passport expires in 9 months as they cannot issue you an extension longer than ur passport is valid.

check ur dates,  if you got an extension on ur original 3 month non o visa you got a 1 year extension, never heard of a 9 month extension.

whose going to know you got a new passport?

6 hours ago, ChrisY1 said:

Cambodia is already away from Europe and most western countries....it's now "owned" by the Chinese.

The country should be blacklisted and all trade agreements should be nullified.

Having business interests in the country, as likely Japan has, is no excuse. If they couldn't see what was happening there, then som nom na!

this;

owned, lock,stock and barrel..
with china they dont need, (or give a sh$t about) anyone else

seldom see ANY Chinese tourists on the beach ANYTIME>so whats the point of this thread?
they aren't beach goers, but shoppers and tour people and judging by the absence of tour bus's on the roads an shoppers around, I'd say the Chinese aren't really here this high season.

FYI:
Roi Et to Surin is only like 60kms so barely 1 hour
driving from Surin to SR is only 3 1/2 hours.. Done it many times, easy to take ur thai car in and out

So might be faster than flying

PLUS you could make a stop at Banteay Chhmer ,a lovely temple complex that gets few visitors.

Ignore the above post by Russell. totally wrong info...

You can enter laos an get a visa on arrival, $35, (can take the bike if you have a note from the rental company giving you permission),  if entering Burma at Mae Sai you can get a day pass for $10, (cant take the bike) otherwise ur need a visa ( get it online) if ur planning on staying the night.( $50)

You can NOT enter Burma from Laos

No idea what extension ur talking about, but ur going to need 2 re entry permits and you can ONLY get 1 at a time, so better getting a multiple re entry for 3,800

enjoy

u'll make it, like i said, I have time for lunch an still wait 20 minutes to call to board

PS:  If u buy a fly thru ticket on say air asia, you dont  go thru the regular immigration line but the transfer immigration line

1 1/2hour at dm is plenty, do it all the time on flights to Burma from Phuket via DM.

I do clear immigration in Phuket, BUT still have time for a subway meal and 20 minute wait till boarding is called. Carry on only

1st no train, only to Aranyaprathet , 100 baht tuk tuk to the border, $10-25 to SR by bus or shared taxi

You can get a thai visa in SR but it will need be thru an agent and ur passport will be sent to PP to have it issued. Figure 4-6 days and around $60

Cambodian visa $30 at the border or 1,500 baht

Angkor wat ticket $37/day or $62 for 3 out of 7 days.

I'd not say Cambodia is any safer than Thailand as lots of Chinese visit/live/work in Cambodia and i'd NOT trust the government to give accurate figures

Chances of u catching it are slim unless u love hanging out with Chinese

ok reuters says he is dead, lets hope so..

7 minutes ago, PhilAtUbon said:

BBC are reporting he's been killed

link or fake news as nobody else is reporting it

i get regular mail in 12-14 days, had an express letter with my credit cards ($34) from Ca to Phuket  5 days

Update at 7:37am:
- Thai Rath TV reporter reported that 4 more people were found, but officials were still unable to take the bodies out. While the drone flew to the hiding place of the attacker But it appears that 2 shots have been shot, resulting in a total of 25 deaths and 34 injuries

3 people were rushed to hospital at around 3.30am from the Terminal 21 mall in #Korat with 1 in a critical condition.

The three rushed to hospital were members of the security forces team injured during a raid on the mall in the early hours of Sunday morning. Sadly one succumbed to his injuries and passed away bringing the #koratshooting death toll to 25

4 hours ago, Jingthing said:

For the most part, wearing masks is totally ineffective and is basically just theater. There are exceptions. If people have reason to believe they might have had close contact with infected people and/or are feeling suspicious symptoms then wearing them suppressing their spray getting to others.

https://youtu.be/Ded_AxFfJoQ?t=3

Quote

China’s official Xinhua news agency reported that the genome sequence of the novel coronavirus strain separated from pangolins in the study was 99% identical to that from infected people. It said the research had found pangolins - the world’s only scaly mammals - to be “the most likely intermediate host.”

But James Wood, head of the veterinary medicine department at Britain’s University of Cambridge, said the research was far from robust.

“The evidence for the potential involvement of pangolins in the outbreak has not been published, other than by a university press release. This is not scientific evidence,” he said.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pangolins/scientists-question-work-suggesting-pangolin-coronavirus-link-idUSKBN2010XA

4 hours ago, Peterw42 said:

Not so easy nowadays with e-passports and visa's, my wife has been to Australia 3 times and still has a blank passport.

its in the computer where she went, how she went, and when she returned

even without a visa, stamp

Asians traveling in se asia always get a entry/exit stamp at the least, as many ASEAN members don't need a visa to enter each others countries.

On 2/4/2020 at 4:01 PM, kamahele said:

So basically no one knows where she got infected is the story here. Yes she visited Thailand but maybe she has been to China and maybe she got it in Korea...

LOL
isn't it easy enough to look at her passport an confirm one way or the other where she had been??
come on guys in charge...