Tomtomtom69

5000 Baht fine and maybe a day in jail...

Time to send this ____ back home. Boorish behavior in the extreme.

All foreign registered vehicles now get 15 days + 7 day extension (you just rock up to a border crossing and get the extension there).

Never heard it was possible unless working in Thailand. It's more likely they will allow retirees to quality in the future, as Thailand and the rest of the world is forced to open up to more foreigners, it almost becomes inevitable, eventually at least.

The article first referred to him as a Thai-Indian, but later in the article he became a foreigner again.

The perpetrator here is of African appearance. They've never been well liked in Thailand. To be fair, in recent years, many farang, be they Russian, Belarussian, from Europe, America, Australia, wherever, have been known to behave badly while in Thailand, so I guess I shouldn't be singling out Africans.

10 minutes is a very long time to spend on filling out an online form.

It's similar to the Cambodian "e-arrival" form, which has been mandatory for air arrivals since July 2024. It is not yet used for land based arrivals, where a paper form continues to be used and the e-arrival is ignored if you happen to complete it. It also asks health related questions, which makes it feel very Covid-like. Even China has done away with health related forms as of late 2023. The only form you fill out is a basic version of the TM6, in paper form. It asks for less information than the TM6 does.

I'm not sure there ever were any on beach road, but within 2-3km you'll find plenty of gas stations.

Dual pricing at government hospitals is probably more widespread than you are implying. Also, given that Thailand is home to millions of migrant workers from neighboring countries (including illegals), with estimates suggesting there could be in excess of 10 million foreigners from neighboring countries here, I think most hospitals throughout the country would have treated Lao, Burmese, Cambodian, Vietnamese etc. citizens at one point or another, and many do so on a regular basis. Hospitals out in the sticks are less likely to have treated farang, of course. Also, being Thailand, greed sets in, so I'm sure a hospital that receives a farang patient would more than likely find an excuse to charge them more than locals...especially if it's a more involved case. For a simple wound cleaning or the sniffles, probably not.

If she's not a Thai citizen, she can't get a Thai ID card.

He's African. How can he be British? OK, by nationality, sure, but that doesn't make him a real Brit. It means he's an immigrant.

They do. Malaysia receives around 75% of the visitor numbers as Thailand does; Singapore about 60%. The last time I entered Malaysia was by land and prior to the rollout of the MDAC. The fact its not a seamless process makes it even more concerning.

Does everyone arrive through Suvarnabhumi? No. Also, I've just told you, you would probably be filling out this form BEFORE getting on a plane or arriving at the border. Some airports may even require you do this. For example, even though no one at the check-in counter checked whether my family and I filled out the Singaporean form when we flew there from Australia en-route to Thailand with a 1 day stopover in SG and you could fill it out on arrival, for others, they were refused a boarding pass until they could show evidence of having filled out the form. I suspect the Thai version may well be similar. I wish they'd just have stuck with the paper form. As annoying as it might be, it takes 2-3 minutes to fill out and doesn't require any pre-planning. You get one on the plane or for those arriving by land, by an immigration helper at the checkpoint. I can already picture the chaos at land borders where hordes of Laotians, Cambodians and Malaysians cross (especially on weekends and holidays), scrambling to fill in this electronic form (even if only enforced for holders of passports) it will be pure pandemonium and increase crowds and processing times.

Again one of these discriminatory things, where foreigners need to fill out more paperwork but locals are exempt. In Australia, they're planning to introduce a pretty much identical form, but it will be required by ALL including Australian citizens. Australia is not going to discriminate only against foreigners, but also it's own citizens.