ASEANNOW.com - Thaivisa.com rebrands and expands beyond Thailand

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On 2nd July 2021, Thaivisa.com will rebrand to ASEANNOW.com as they expand into 9 other ASEAN countries and duplicate their successful Thailand model. 

 

This will provide expats and interested international visitors a place to discuss and discover many aspects about each individual country. At one point it appeared social media would take away much of the relevance of forums, yet over the last couple of years Thaivisa.com has seen greater interest and growth in their forum. 

 

Unlike social media, such as Facebook, a forum offers a wide range of material easily searchable by its members - from schooling, motors, visas to immigration matters. 

 

“Over the last decade ASEAN countries have experienced growth in expats and visitor numbers, so it was a logical decision to offer this valuable service to these destinations. ASEAN NOW will cover a number of important areas, initially focusing on local news, covid updates, visa/immigration latest and golf within each country forum section.” said an ASEAN NOW spokesperson. 

 

ASEAN NOW has partnered with a number of regional news providers by country and has expanded its content team across the ASEAN. 

 

Whatever your question to any one of the ten ASEAN countries it is our aim to be the platform to provide the answers. ASEAN NOW is a meeting place for experienced expats and travellers to share their knowledge and insight for those needing ideas and support. 

 

ASEAN NOW welcomes new users who have an interest in one or more of the countries across the region to join up now and get involved in the forum.  Please do share your insight and learnings from a particular country for others to learn from.

 

For the thousands of loyal users of Thaivisa.com, please be reassured that there will be no change to the service you have enjoyed for many years - all that will change is the name. 

 

ASEAN NOW Social Media pages by country:

https://aseannow.com/socialme/

 

Check out the new site www.ASEANNOW.com which will now replace www.THAIVISA.com 

[edwardandtubs]

Uninspiring name and I'm sure the non-Thai forums will remain largely empty. Expats in the Philippines and elsewhere have their own places to hang out.

Edited July 1, 2021 by edwardandtubs

[Salerno]

I know it's 2021, and call me old fashioned, but showing a little respect to your members would have been appreciated.

 

Does this mean their will be an even bigger wumao presence on here now?

 

Edited July 1, 2021 by Salerno

[cyril sneer]

First covid and now this 

[richard_smith237]

57 minutes ago, edwardandtubs said:

Uninspiring name and I'm sure the non-Thai forums will remain largely empty.

 

What... you mean you were inspired to join this forum initially because it was called ThaiVisa ????

 

57 minutes ago, edwardandtubs said:

Expats in the Philippines and elsewhere have their own places to hang out.

 

I guess that is the objected of ThaiVisa spreading its wings... over time folk will get drawn in...

[bermondburi]

Why care. 

 

It's just a forum on t'internet for people with too much time on their hands.

[richard_smith237]

33 minutes ago, Salerno said:

I know it's 2021, and call me old fashioned, but showing a little respect to your members would have been appreciated.

 

Does this mean their will be an even bigger wumao presence on here now?

 

 

Just curious... other than a ‘branding change’ I don’t see any difference in the ThaiVisa functionality etc... 

 

Where is the ‘disrespect’ ??? 

 

[Salerno]

1 minute ago, richard_smith237 said:

Where is the ‘disrespect’ ??? 

 

Like every update on here not giving users a heads up. There is functionality to display a notice and, IMO, it would show respect to give notice in advance. 

[misterjames]

7 minutes ago, Salerno said:

 

Like every update on here not giving users a heads up. There is functionality to display a notice and, IMO, it would show respect to give notice in advance. 

I agree, and not only that but if our user data has been transferred to another country we should have been notified.

 

We should also have the choice to accept or decline our user data being transferred with an option to close our accounts and have all of our data removed if we do not accept.

 

 

Edited July 1, 2021 by misterjames

[scubascuba3]

"easily searchable"  definitely not that

[adammike]

It's not ok,I am out of here. byby

[Albert Zweistein]

1 hour ago, cyril sneer said:

First covid and now this 

Can't get worse.

[misterjames]

9 minutes ago, Albert Zweistein said:

Can't get worse.

Don't bet on it, the way things have been going lately.

 

1 hour ago, Salerno said:

 

Does this mean their will be an even bigger wumao presence on here now?

 

It's all starting to make more sense.

[Somtamnication]

Does this mean nicer people managing the site?

[misterjames]

1 minute ago, Somtamnication said:

Does this mean nicer people managing the site?

The bottom of the page states Tessanet Limited (Hong Kong).

[nikmar]

Will the mobile app be ****ing useless in other ASEAN countries aswell?

[clivebaxter]

Can't think of an example of a Thai centric forum renaming and being more successful, usually the opposite ie nanplaza.com to thai360.com. I would like to know who now owns this forum and what the Chinese involvement is.

Edited July 1, 2021 by clivebaxter

[misterjames]

1 minute ago, clivebaxter said:

I would like to know who now owns it and what the Chinese involvement is.

At the bottom of the page it says Tessanet Limited (Hong Kong) which means they would be required to provide information to the Chinese government.

[Orinoco]

1 hour ago, bermondburi said:

Why care. 

 

It's just a forum on t'internet for people with too much time on their hands.

I resemble that remark !!!!!!!!!! LOL. 

[colinneil]

Thailand is moving toward being controlled by China, now the forum is being controlled by China.

What is the world coming to?

Would post laughing emoji, but site will not allow ha, ha ,ha.????????????????

[Orinoco]

Is this about the same as, when the UK re branded Windscale to Sellafield , LOL

[misterjames]

4 minutes ago, colinneil said:

Thailand is moving toward being controlled by China, now the forum is being controlled by China.

The only comfort we can get is knowing that we pushed up the price of this site for them ????

 

It's a sad day for the forum if you ask me.

[tonray]

Interestingly the 're-branding' took place coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist party....

[misterjames]

Just now, tonray said:

Interestingly the 're-branding' took place coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist party....

It also coincided with the death of free speech for the expat community in Thailand.#

 

A sad day...

[CharlieH]

Change a name and logo and conspiracy is rife! Only on Thaivisa....????

[misterjames]

1 minute ago, CharlieH said:

Change a name and logo and conspiracy is rife! Only on Thaivisa....????

Tessanet Limited is a Hong Kong based company which means it's required to comply with the Chinese Communist Party. 

 

That's a fact.

[dinsdale]

Should be a hit in Myanmar. Probably already closed down. 

[WineOh]

I'm not very impressed tbh.

 

Lousy idea and a lousy name to boot!

 

Times must be really hard for him in charge...

[CharlieH]

1 minute ago, misterjames said:

Tessanet Limited is a Hong Kong based company which means it's required to comply with the Chinese Communist Party. 

 

That's a fact.

So its not the domain registration company may be ? Nothing at all to do with the actual company possibly, its all just theories and speculation.

[mstevens]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

yet over the last couple of years Thaivisa.com has seen greater interest and growth in their forum.

 

Really?!?!?! The impression I got in recent months is that the number of posters had dropped off and there was a distinct lack of fresh blood coming through. I could be wrong of course, but that is the impression I had.....that the forum was in a slow decline - which would be entirely consistent with Covid and reduced interest in Thailand generally as fewer expats move to Thailand and very few Westerners visit the country.

Edited July 1, 2021 by mstevens