War on smokers: Smoking outside condos, public buildings officially BANNED

New rules in Thailand for smokers.


Source:

https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1082317-war-on-smokers-smoking-outside-condos-public-buildings-officially-banned/

Asia spoiled kids and their habits

Today i would like to share a post that i see also is happening in Thailand too.

This is the post:

https://www.aftenposten.no/verden/i/7l83yV/Kinas-unge-mer-bekymringslose-enn-ungdommer-i-Vesten-bruker-60000-i-aret-pa-luksusvarer

I translated this by google. But go in this article and see for yourself.

And the reason is that nowadays Thai also do this. They buy a ferrari or a really expensive car. And from this the kids brags about this on facebook.

See here:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-23/chinas-flaunt-your-wealth-challenge-goes-viral/10404202


The trend is that they take a picture where they fall out of the new ferrari and on the ground they have money gold, best phone and so on. And then do this in a contest, where then try to have more and more gold or money then the other rich kids.

Is this a health way?

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Translated article : But go to the source and see too.

Meet China's generation Z. As a single child, they have been pampered by their parents and grandparents, and they live on a great footing compared to their cautious and conservative peers in the West, according to a new study.

They are fond of the future. They don't worry about future career prospects or international politics, not even for the commercial war going on right outside their doorstep.
- Spends more and saves less

It is a survey conducted by the company OC & C Strategy Consultants, which uncovers attitudes and lifestyle among young adults in China. The findings also help to shed light on why the world's major brands in the luxury segment are so dependent on the continued buying party in Asia's largest economy.

- This is a generation that has never known worries. Thus, they spend more and save less, says Adam Xu, partner in OC & C, who is based in Shanghai.

"We do not know if they will grow up and become successful, but we know that they already have a purchasing power group that consumer brands must address," says Xu.
A man carries a teddy bear in Beijing's famous and busiest shopping street, Wangfujing. In the street are both western luxury brands and traditional shops that have been here for hundreds of years.
Thomas Peter, Reuters / NTB scanpix
Didn't need to share with siblings

China's generation Z ended up in the middle of the butterfly. Due to one-child policy and astronomical growth in the 1990s and 2000s, they never needed to share with anyone and experienced only growth in wealth.

This contrasts with peers in the US and Europe. The lived-in financial crisis of 2008, has recorded record high student debt, may not earn enough to enter the housing market and apparently become more politically conscious than before.
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Uses large share of money

The study defines generation Z as persons born in 1998 and later. 15,500 were asked from China, France, Brazil, Germany, Italy, Poland, Turkey, UK and USA. Almost 2000 of them were from China.

China's generation Z accounts for 15 percent of its household consumption - approx. one seventh. In the United States and the United Kingdom, the consumption of peers constitutes 4 percent of their families' purchases. Although most of them do not yet earn their own money, they are large consumers.

Get 3000 kroner a month at home

Jasmine Wang (22) admits that she is weak for perfume. The departure student from Shanghai has 20-30 bottles of fragrances in limited edition from brands such as Guerlain, Tom Ford and Chanel. Such costs often cost well over 2000 kroner bottle.

She gets approx. NOK 3000 in monthly money from their parents. In addition, she can use their bank cards, and she gets money gifts - so-called "red envelopes" - from her grandparents on both sides.
Think western families are struggling more

"I think it's harder for families in the West, since universities are so expensive, and they usually have more than one child," Wang says.

Her parents got away with approx. NOK 6000 the semester when she studied at the Fudan University in Shanghai, a highly-rated educational institution.

In another survey from the same consulting company, it emerged that half of China's generation Z last year spent more than NOK 60,000 on luxury goods. This is more than the young adults before them, the so-called millennium generation.
Deer sneakers

The slowdown in China's economy hangs like a dark cloud over everyone, from American farmers to Apple and the casinos on Macau at Hong Kong. But lower growth in China's national product does not seem to have dampened the interest of generation Z to buy neither Adidas Yeezys shoes nor expensive skin creams.

Consultant Adam Xu sees two disturbing trends:

    Young people in China seem to turn their backs on a habit their predecessors have cherished, namely savings.
    They are willing to take out loans to fund their purchases.

Will always be more expensive

Jasmine Wang says she is trying to save. Still, she often uses more than she had thought about Singles Day, a giant sales and consumer party, the Chinese big company Alibaba is behind.

- In some way it always ends up that I buy for 20-30 percent more than I had thought, she says.

Bangkok Pollution

So you plan to go to Bangkok. Well right now it is not the right time. Today it was 35.7 degrees and the air pollution has been extreme the last days.

I would recommend to go to other places. Hua Hin is said to have nice air now.But if you go to Bangkok read this.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bangkok Residents Told to Stay Inside as Pollution Reaches Dangerous Levels

 Thailand seeks to make it rain as pollution chokes Bangkok

Smog blankets Bangkok as experts warn of serious threat to public health

Bangkok in the Top 10 cities in the world with the worst air pollution

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Pollution Bangkok

Live pollution report and pollution forecast in Bangkok

 Bangkok Air Pollution: Real-time Air Quality Index (AQI)

 

 

Bangkok Pollution Survival Guide

 

 

 

New source of info:
https://www.thaiexaminer.com/

Dust pollution in Bangkok area again exceeds safety level

So yesterday i come home and it look like fog. It was so thick that i had problem see my own street.

Well now i know why.


https://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/1607494/dust-pollution-in-bangkok-area-again-exceeds-safety-level

No wonder i need to go to doctor for allergy all the time.
I Norway i never seen this.

What is strange is that next morning it all was gone. Where did i come from ?

update Former PM Yingluck reported to have Cambodian passport

https://www.bangkokpost.com/news/politics/1608254/former-pm-yingluck-reported-to-have-cambodian-passport

Prayut rejects call for detente with Thaksin

https://www.bangkokpost.com/news/politics/1607690/prayut-rejects-call-for-detente-with-thaksin

Cambodia denies having issued passport to ex-PM Yingluck

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/politics/30362026

Keeping up with the Shinawatras: Ex-Thai PM now chairwoman for Chinese Port Co.

https://coconuts.co/bangkok/news/keeping-shinawatras-ex-thai-pm-now-chairwoman-chinese-port-co/

 

Former PM Yingluck has Cambodian passport, may have used it to flee: report

https://coconuts.co/bangkok/news/former-pm-yingluck-cambodian-passport-may-used-flee-report/

 

 

2019 - 3 years has pasted since i write anything on my blogg

Hi.
There have been 3 years since i wrote anything on my blogg.
The reason is that when you live in Thailand then you need to be careful what you write on a blogg.
I have been careful since military started to monitor what was written about them on the web.

And i not wanted any problem.

But as the years go by i have learned a lot. There are many facebook pages that the info now are shared. Something that not was before when i started this blogg.

To day i share a place where you find a lot of news that sometimes is not known for "farange"

The link :
https://www.thaivisa.com/

Livet i Thailand: En million baht pr natt

Source: (Thailandtidene is an norwegian newspaper that come out in thailand and this is their facebook account) Use google translate in the top to read more about this.

http://www.thailandstidende.com/component/k2/item/3116-livet-i-thailand-en-million-baht-pr-natt

 

Livet i Thailand: En million baht pr natt

Skrevet av  Livet i Thailand

Skotske Ian solgte huset sitt på et forblåst sted i Skottland og bygde isteden nytt hus sammen med kjæresten Noi i vår nabolandsby. Han skrøt veldig av hvor billig det var i Thailand. Det var før han hadde kalkulert med hva slags kjæreste han hadde funnet seg.

Noi er en av nabolandsbyens velbemidlede damer. Hun har forstått verdien av å vinne menns hjerter – det være seg norske, skotske, thailandske eller andre nasjonaliteter. Ingen i vårt distrikt har helt oversikten over hennes mange erobringer.

Hun er nå en voksen dame, og folk i landsbyen synes hun burde begynne å se seg om etter en annen karriere enn å lete etter nye faranger i Pattaya. I landsbyen mener noen hun bringer skam, andre ser på henne med respekt, mens de fleste smiler og synes hun er god å ha – for å ha noen å sladre om.

Respekt får hun fordi hun har et flott hus. I moderne tider er hus blitt enda viktigere enn gullsmykker for å oppnå sosial anseelse. Hun bringer imidlertid også skam, for ingen av landsbyens eldre liker denne oppførselen, selv om de så gjerne vil at døtrene skal få seg både farang, hus og gull. Som rik farang er du nemlig svigermors drøm.

Hva som kommer først, hus eller ekteskap, er ikke lenger så viktig. Tidene har forandret seg betraktelig på disse trakter. I gamle dager måtte thailandske kvinner beskyttes av sine brødre. Dagens brødre kan være vel så interessert i å vokte over søstrenes rikdommer og deres evne til å dele dem med familien.

Noi måtte slite en del i Pattaya for å finne en egnet farang denne gangen, men hun fant til slutt en skotte. Hun var rask til å vise ham den vakre landsbygda – hvor sommerfugler leker i sollyset, frosker kvekker i kveldsmørket, og hvor kvinnene ikke oppfører seg usømmelig, men går i tempelet for å bringe munkene mat og lytte til deres formaninger om å ikke gi etter for sine lyster.

Skotske Ian fremsto som en god mann, raus både sosialt og utseendemessig, og han fant altså sin drømmekvinne i Noi. Han solgte huset på et kaldt og forblåst sted i Skottland og investerte i en tomt i vår nabolandsby. Etter hvert dukket det opp et hus på tomta. Det viste seg å ha kostet tre millioner baht. Ian syntes det var veldig billig. I Skottland villa han ikke fått noe som helst for den prisen, sa han.

Straks huset var ferdig kom han med fly til Smilets land. Det ble selvsagt innflyttingsfest hvor det bugnet av mat og drikke. Alle var glade – ikke minst fordi skotten ikke forsto hva som var innflyttingsfestens store snakkis: De to mennene som jobbet hardest for å se til at gjestene trivdes var nemlig henholdsvis Nois første kjæreste og hennes nåværende Poa Noi – elsker.

Etter festen ble Ian et par dager i landsbyen, men jobben kallet. Han måtte hjem, men han lovet Noi å sørge for at hun hadde råd til å være hjemme og se etter huset, lytte til froskene, se på sommerfuglene og gå i tempelet.
Ian var imidlertid en romantisk sjel. Neste gang han kom på besøk ville han overraske henne. Han ville komme uten å varsle sin ankomst. Han var ikke klar over at ingen kvinner liker slike overraskelser. For når mannen kommer etter å ha vært langt borte, skal hjemmet være rengjort. Det skal ikke være et støvkorn noe sted. Oppvasken skal være tatt, tomflasker fjernet og skapene tømt.

Det var det siste punktet som slo feil: Skjortene i garderobeskapet på soverommet var nemlig altfor små for Ian. De liknet mer på noe en ung og slank thaimann ville iføre seg…
I ettertid er det ingen i landsbyen som har sett Ian. Huset var riktignok billig etter skotsk standard, men det kostet ham en million baht pr døgn for de dagene han fikk sjansen til å bo der.

De fleste i landsbyen tok hendelsen med et smil. Noen følte vel litt ubehag, men er man oppvokst i en fattig landsby så vet man at noe av det viktigste i livet er å sørge for å ha «Sanook». Vi kaller det moro på norsk, men det er ikke helt dekkende.
For thaier er Sanook mye mer. Det dreier seg om å le, glede seg og nyte livet – ting som gjør hverdagen levelig for en fattig sjel. En kan ikke la moralske skrupler komme i veien for noe slikt. Lettlurte menn får ligge som de reder. Og kvinner som Noi får selv ta ansvar for sin karma – slik damer over hele verden gjør, inkludert i Bergen og resten av Norge.

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3-yr-old missing for six days discovered in forest

This is an older story, but i found it amazing.


Source:http://www.nationmultimedia.com/videoplay/8316

 

Missing for six days, Jetsadakorn Chaiyo, the three-year-old who disappeared from his family home last Wednesday, has been found safe but weak by volunteers with the Kusoldham Foundation after days lost in the forested hills of Wichit.


How could an 3 year old boy make it for 6 days alone, in the heat and without food. And in the forest ?