You-Me-We-Us; "We have fish!" The life of sea gypsies
The Urak Lawoi sea gypsies are originally Malay and they live in southern Thailand, on islands and the coastal area around the Andaman Sea. They live scattered on islands and in coastal areas in the provinces of Satun, Phuket and Krabi.
New Thai football season starts September 3, 2021
After the start of the 2021/2022 Thai football season had already been postponed twice due to corona, the President of the Football Association of Thailand has now announced the final start on September 3, 2021.
Kings are eager to conquer land; luckily that is different now. Here, after all, one Muang was fought too much and that ended disastrously.
Restaurants open in dark red provinces: Still no proof of vaccination or negative test required
Starting tomorrow, September 1, a number of lockdown measures in the dark red provinces will be relaxed. For example, eating in a restaurant is allowed again under certain conditions.
Thailand Visa question No. 187/21: Renew
My annual visa expires at the end of November. Then I will extend it. Now I am going to the Netherlands in May 2022. Actually, I want to have a new annual visa in April 2022, so that it is valid until April 2023.
I've had my PSA tested every year since 2008, now I get the results today and have broken a new record. Total PSA 13.363, free PSA 2.314 and ratio 0.173, I know what the values should be and this is not good.
The government's corona support will be discontinued, but the cabinet will continue to stick to travel restrictions for practically all countries outside Europe. Travel industry organization ANVR is furious about this. The travel industry will carry out trips if the customer so desires and the tour operator can arrange the trip safely.
Klaew Thanikul, once the Godfather of Muay Thai
In the eighties of the last century, the so-called Golden Age of Muay Thai, there were quite a few boxing schools in Bangkok, where young boxers were trained to become fighting machines with blood, sweat and tears. One of these was the Sor Thanikul gym, which opened in 1977, a small and simply set up gym in an inconspicuous area of Bangkok. The owner was a shadowy Thai-Chinese businessman, Klaew Thanikul, who gradually became successful and, with important boxers such as Boonlai, Saming Noi, Sombat and Komkiat, became the most important boxing promoter in Thailand.
Thailand question: Traveling from Buriram to Bangkok
My wife wants to travel from Buriram to Bangkok airport. What should she take into account? To what extent is Bangkok locked down?
Where do you have your ABP pension taxed?
Where your ABP pension is taxed is regulated in the Treaty for the avoidance of double taxation concluded between the Netherlands and Thailand (hereinafter: Treaty). However, things often go horribly wrong. With the greatest of ease, tax lawyers and tax consultancy firms classify an ABP pension that is not taxable in the Netherlands as taxable in the Netherlands. With a reasonable ABP pension, such an incorrect assessment can easily cost you about 5 to 6 thousand euros per year in undue income tax.
Who has ever cared about how the battery in your car is doing? Only when the car won't start do you realize how important such a battery is. Or when you are told at the garage that the battery [for your feeling too early] needs to be replaced.
Prime Minister Prayut aims to fully reopen the country to tourists when 70% of the population (70 million) is vaccinated.
For more than half a year I have been struggling to get rid of fried rice (Nasi) (in Thailand they call this Khao Pad), which gets stuck in my throat (Larynx). Even with a drink immediately, it gets stuck in my throat and I can't get it out! Only when I put my finger down my throat will it be released again and I can continue to eat until it's gone.
Thailand Visa question No. 186/21: Bank deposit of at least 3 million baht instead of health insurance?
About three months ago, the Thai government apparently considered offering an alternative to mandatory health insurance for a non-immigrant OA visa and $100 covid insurance. They apparently became aware that many expats cannot obtain this insurance, especially if they are over 000 years old. The result was, among other things, that older expats cannot travel to their home country, as they no longer meet the immigration requirements.
Puzzling in the Stay Home period
The Stay Home period gives us all time to do things we otherwise didn't have time for or didn't want to make. But the fun we had from working in the garden, giving the car a good wash, tidying up a junk cupboard, getting rid of overdue administration, finally putting together that IKEA cupboard, watching television at unusual hours, will eventually come to an end. What now?
I read a lot about all kinds of lockdown restrictions for Thai and tourists in the red and dark red areas, but what about the areas where there are not so many infections. Is life there reasonably normal? I ask this because I am planning a trip after my Phuket Sandbox. I don't necessarily have to go to Bangkok or Pattaya and then I can (hopefully) just keep my holiday.
Steve's money
Another fascinating story in the realistic fiction category by Alphonse Wijnants. Perhaps one of his best stories and with the bonus of a humorous glossary. A pleasure to read on this Sunday!