Neeranam

Yet you trust internet banking? Maybe time to stick those shoe boxes full of cash under your bed.

Celebrity, my bottom. Try typing any of those names into YouTube and you'll find nothing. She's just another entitled Chinese, thinking she can do whatever she likes in Thailand, an inferior country.

You are using a woke tactic here. What is wrong with defending Thai police here?

No they don't. Most Chinese have their Chinese name and an English name. They are often silly old-fashioned names like Bartholomew, or Justin, probably given by their Mickey Mouse ear wearing English teachers. Thais have a nickname, which can be anything. Granted, often English loan words like 'Pick-up' or 'Porshe'

Are you from the USA? Woke culture, although an oxymoron, is spreading but nowhere near all the world.

Annoys me how the Chinese have English names. I don't have a Thai name and it would be silly if I did.

Why should interrogations be filmed? Nonsense.

Alcohol causes many more deaths and should be regulated more than ganja. Can't really compare the two though, two totally different substances.

What's the law on driving while high on ganja?

What's the law on driving while high on ganja?

Unlike the UK's dual pricing policy-they charge foreign students more. Actually, they even charge their own citizens more if they haven't been resident there for a couple of years previous to studying.

I worked in the oil industry in Aberdeen so actually quite a lot. They also could never drink a lot, something to do with the decompression.

Most divers I know have alcohol problems.

I am amazed at the foreign guys working here that learn nothing about Thai culture and get pictures taken with their arms around Thai women.

It's better to be done gradually. I usually don't stop as it could cause and accident with the car or bike behind me overtaking on my inside.

As a Thai, I think I know more than someone who has been a member here for 1 year, and maybe doesn't even live here.

I thought Hong Kong was part of China.

When you've lived here for a while, you'll understand the importance of this.

I pay local police to come to show their presence around my house when I'm not there.

Strange how the first two agents you gave showed up immediately on google. This is a serious topic, as many foreigners think these agents are legal, which they obviously aren't. Granted, they don't get charged as they are paying tea money to senior police, but trust me, this can change quickly when new officers/government come to power.

I just contacted Maneerat and they said they could give me a retirement visa, even though I have no funds, if I pay them 25,000 baht! Come on, are you really saying this is not breaking the law? Again, waiting for the name of a legal visa agent.

Looks totally legal to me - ever wonder why these agents don't have real contacts? - The raid, this week, on the property, led police to discover a range of 55 rubber stamps used to forge official documents and purporting to be authentic stamps associated with government departments and agencies. - https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2020/08/05/american-thai-wife-arrested-operating-an-illegal-visa-business-in-bangkok-using-fake-stamps/

I agree. I wasn't making a deal of it. I think some foreigners have a sense of entitlement and get resentment when they are refused a bank account. 'don't these pesky Siamese know who I am and who saved them during the war' ????

Thanks Arkady, this is reassuring. There has been some scaremongering about how some have had their citizenship revoked for using their former passport in the Thailand. Seems that this is probably only for those you mentioned - dual citizens born to foreigners before 1980 or so.