A Singaporean's guide to living in Thailand

[yinyang]

Don't believe this crap will help bring down your motorsai cost. Good intentions maybe (for motorsai lobby), but surely this ignores market pricing divers?

Bangkok motorcycle taxis go 'green'
Bangkok Post Published: 6/07/2014 at 08:02 PM

The military has decided to change the look of Bangkok motorcycle taxi drivers by giving them free jackets coloured green and getting rid of the orange vests that are sold to them at extortionate prices by taxi mafia.

The move is part of the efforts of the military junta to bring order to motorcycle taxi services and reduce the cost of fares, said Maj Gen Apirat Kongsompong, commander of the 1st Division, King's Guard.

He said on Sunday the orange jackets can cost taxi motorcyclists hundreds of thousands of baht each at certain high-service locations.

The new green jackets will be made available to taxi motorcyclists cost-free when they register with the Department of Land Transport and agree to comply with traffic laws, Maj Gen Apirat said.

"Expensive motorcycle taxi jackets are synonymous with bribery. As they cost a huge amount, the buyers must charge higher fare rates," Maj Gen Apirat said.
He said the limited number of orange jackets also contributed to the high price. Therefore the National Council for Peace and Order decided the Department of Land Transport would open a register of taxi motorcyclists and give them green jackets.

Maj Gen Apirat denied that a liberal approach to registration would cause an over-supply of taxi motorcyclists. He said the number of commuters in the different areas would automatically control the number of taxi motorcyclists.

He dismissed any connection with the green colour to military fatigues. He said scientifically, orange and green were clearly visible to motorists. The jackets would be a reflective light green and different from the Army's green colour.

The new jackets will bear the logo of the Department of Land Transport, replace the logo of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration on the orange vests, Maj Gen Apirat said.

 

[Froggy]

YY, people say motor taxis have to pay their local mafia to operate and that means the police. So now what? The army want to be the mafia of mafias?

 

[yinyang]

... motor taxis have to pay their local mafia to operate and that means the police. ..army want to be the mafia of mafias?

Turf war? When changs (elephants) trample, ants scramble

Are you also now off the taxman's radar? With your fleet of bentleys and villas? :p

B3-4m home, car buyers off radar
Bangkok Post Published: 7/07/2014 at 06:27 PM

The Revenue Department has scrapped the policy of probing taxpayers who have bought 3-million-baht cars and 4-million-baht houses as the prices are "not too high".

New director general Prasong Poontaneat said people who earned moderate salaries today could afford them and they were no longer a cause for suspicion, according to a Daily News report.

"I've told our department's officials we no longer have the policy of probing home and car buyers. That was the policy of the former director, not the new one," he said, referring to his predecessor, Sutthichai Sungkamanee, whom he replaced by the junta's July 1 order.

Mr Prasong's policy for the remaining two and a half months of fiscal 2014 is to collect taxes in full based on actual revenue and operating results. The officials should do this not by charging operators more but by making sure those who have not paid taxes in full do so, he said. The department was 90 billion baht short of the tax collection target as economic expansion was lower than projection.

The fiscal 2014 target was based on annual growth forecast of 4.6%. Politics pushed down the figure to 1.5% before the military took over the administration, bringing the projection to at least 2%.

Through hard work for the remaining 10 weeks, the department is confident the shortfall will be much smaller than it is now.
Related search: tax car home buyer probe revenue department

 

[Froggy]

Tomorrow is a public holiday in Thailand. Buddhist holiday Asahna Bucha Day. It's no alcohol day by the way so you need to byo

Here's write up from internet

History of the holiday
This day, the first full moon of the eighth lunar month, commemorates the Buddha's first sermon in the Deer Park in Benares, India and the founding of the Buddhist sangha (monkhood) about 2,500 years ago.


In the sermon, which is known as 'Setting the Wheel of Dhamma in Motion', the Buddha first spelled out the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path.


The day marks the beginning of Vassa, the Buddhist lent period also known as the 'Rains Retreat'.

 

[Froggy]

Those who had visited me before will recall this place



Steamed crab with roe


Garlic big head river prawns


Snow fish steamed


Pineapple rice


Tomyam garoupa


tomyam


Cat fish

 

[yinyang]

Those who had visited me before will recall this place

Soi Nathong? If sama place, seems popular place with visiting sinkies. Went once many years back (without your distinguished company then), dinner outing fell short. Perhaps, it was our poor menu choice (or wrong company then):p

 

[Froggy]

Soi Nathong? If sama place, seems popular place with visiting sinkies. Went once many years back (without your distinguished company then), dinner outing fell short. Perhaps, it was our poor menu choice (or wrong company then):p

Yes Nathong

 

[Froggy]

Afternoon tea at St. Regis Bangkok

 

[Leongsam]

Afternoon tea at St. Regis Bangkok

Be careful of the macaroons. They're the main cause of type II diabetes in NZ.

 

[Froggy]

Be careful of the macaroons. They're the main cause of type II diabetes in NZ.

Thank you boss, I'll just scrap the foie gras pate out and leave this sweet and colourful roti alone

Can't help not to have some wine with the desserts

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

Those who had visited me before will recall this place

Did 3 table full of that group come again?

 

[Froggy]

Did 3 table full of that group come again?

Thank goodness no ahnehs this time

 

[Froggy]

Its the maid's birthday, requested for Thai food so this is the Thai dinner

Chicken Tom Yam


Gourd vege stir fried with oyster sauce and garlic


Cabbage with fish sauce


Sotong with salted eggs


Fried chicken with salt


Seabass with Thai herb


Laarb Moo Thod


Here comes the cake

 

[hokkien]

Ah joe.... Peep while holding camera....

 

[rotikosong]

joe, had a good laugh over the contrast between the sexy server and the background of the TV showing the daily 6pm (or was it 8pm) "Lau General" broadcast. That guy takes over all the channels

 

[Froggy]

Ah joe.... Peep while holding camera....

Oh no hokkien no need to peep been out with her before

joe, had a good laugh over the contrast between the sexy server and the background of the TV showing the daily 6pm (or was it 8pm) "Lau General" broadcast. That guy takes over all the channels

With TV program like this it makes Thailand no different from Myanmar, same same that's how it's said here. Hey apology these days travel so much almost every week, you still around?

 

[SiamKia]

Oh no hokkien no need to peep been out with her before

Sawadee krup, what is the damge?

 

[Froggy]

Sawadee krup, what is the damge?

If I have to have her sit with me for the evening its 10 drinks or 2000 baht. But go out no need, just need to be willing, this is a restaurant pub not those tah-pau joint. But of course go out need to automatic make it into transaction la so no hand-tail.

 

[Froggy]

Long weekend and nothing much to do so decided to make lunch

Soup


Beansprouts Gu-chye with salted fish


Garoupa with fermented beans


梅菜扣肉


Gosh feels good to cook and eat at home for once

 

[Froggy]

Very nice to have a Thai maid, no need to ask, automatic.