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Is there a link to tell you which land borders are open, which shut?

Probably a lot of business class fares to rake in on the Singapore route. Bangkok becoming a bucket and spade destination.

No no no, I won't have that. Makes excellent fish & chip paper.

This article is Thailand's answer to Condé Nast?

Thanks. What did the insurance cost and was it Thai or Canuck insurance? (I am well over 65!!)

Joe: as a matter of interest, I looked up requirements for Canadians http://www.thaiconsulatevancouver.ca/th/retirement-visa/ where it calls for health insurance of 400,000/40,000 for the year. Is this regulation still operative or was it a Covid regulation only?

Clearly you don't know what you are talking about. Also, you seem to have forgotten the extent to which the WHO is a vassal of the Chinese Communist Party.

I normally don't bother engaging with hair-splitting responses like this, but I did not claim that WHO had the authority etc etc. Rather, they hold a press conference in Geneva or some such place and utter dire warnings that you ignore at your peril (different from exercising authority). And, (2), if one is actually seen by a doctor in Emergency you have been "admitted" to hospital, even if you go home the same day. Sorry if it's confusing.

Fear mongering over and over. In places like UK and Canada, where in some cities you regularly have to wait for up to at least three weeks for an appointment with a virtual doctor, how many people with what they think are suspicious symptoms will hurry down to the Emergency and get tested, just in case? So, all those people with flu-like symptoms, but who are otherwise ok, will be counted as a "hospitalization". And encourage WHO bureaucrats to exercise their political muscle once more.

The inevitable finger-wagging conclusion to any news item about bad weather.

How soft are Westerners becoming as they "stay at home" , while in Thailand and many other countries people toil away in the brutal sun as they plant rice and construct high-rise apartments etc. etc etc. Shameful. But of course it's another example of the MSM hyping things up to stir people into ....what?... anger? rebellion? insurrection?

Thanks for showing this insane ad. No wonder the NHS is short of a few bob when they are shelling out lunatic money for a totally useless job (and permanent at that!), a job and department guaranteed to increase the amount of resentment and racism now afflicting the country. The creation of lucrative posts requiring for appointment not merit but ideology (the "correct" type) will incur nothing but hatred as posts like this increase the amount of useless drivel people are now forced to consume in the name of "diversity, inclusivity" and general bo££ocks.... Imagine having tenure in the Health service in a job which has nothing to do with health! (Other of course than the demented psychology of people who dream up these appointments.)

These exact same words can be applied to Canada, ruled by a sort of "progressive" party "led" by perhaps the world's most smug, arrogant Prime Minister.

Where is this "service location" ...er...located?

I'm too lazy to calculate what 76.92% of thirteen is (around 10?), but it would seem that out of 280 BA 4 and 5 cases, only 10 were found to be serious. My mathematics may be wrong, but those seem like ok odds to me. Better odds than crossing the road on a zebra crossing in Thailand without possibly serious consequences....

Yes, as a Wales, Arsenal and Wrexham supporter, I must protest at either of these two teams being accorded the title "Reds".

Hotel prices are per room rather than per person.

Assuming this racist proposal is not rescinded, those of us expats who have Thai wives or girlfriends can simply ask the missis to make the bookings....

They couldn't afford the special private jet he required, plus helicopter flight to the ground.

AFAIK Iran wishes to totally annihilate the State of Israel. Which is why a lot of countries would like to prevent Iran from getting to use nuclear weapons.

Well, I guess any country that does business with China is indeed "supporting" those undesirable behaviours.... So why single out Thailand for condemnation? Where would Walmart (to mention only one US company) be without cheap Chinese imports?

I'm reminded of a scene in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion: Pickering: Have you no morals, man? Doolittle: Can't afford them, Governor.

Ubonjoe: Can you explain this: 3.1 A copy of a round trip flight ticket/itinerary, showing leaving from Canada to Thailand at least two times within six months, and a travel plan for the second entry can apply for a multiple entry Surely that is not correct? Why would one leave Canada twice in six months to make the same international journey? Btw, when seeking an extension of a 30-day visa exempt, can one go to ANY Immigration Office in Thailand or just the Bangkok office? Any "documents' required for that extension?

Love it. In your long list of things that (laughably) Biden is supposed to "weigh" and "calculate" (surely you jest!), you omit one important little item: Biden intimated back in February (while the Russians were all lined up on the border) that the USA could live with a "minor incursion"!!!! And here we are today....