Kerryd

Well this is a disaster just waiting to happen. With all the low quality knock-offs and poor standards (of every kind) already being used, where on earth does she get the idea that letting individuals produce liquor for commercial purposes will "protect the health and safety of consumers" ?????? I keep think of the videos I've seen of people making the "juice" you see being sold in small plastic bottles at roadside vendors. You know, like the "orange juice" sold in unlabelled bottles. That's made by people dumping loads of commercially made juice into a washtub and then adding water (to dilute it) and maybe some sugar to cover up the weaker taste, then filling the bottles by submerging them in the tub with the same bare hands they had probably just used to wipe their butts with (or picked their nose with) and then screwing on the lids. Now imagine those same people making alcohol in the same way and then selling it commercially. In the article it quotes the spokesperson: (SMEs - Small/Medium Enterprises, not "Subject Matter Experts".) Yeah, just like hotels/condo buildings/nightclubs are supposed to meet safety standards as well, which are also rigously enforced. And what will happen when a few hundred people die from alcohol poisoning ? And a few hundred more from lead poisoning ? And a few hundred more from ingesting alcohol laced with insecticides/anti-freeze ? Oh right, a two day crackdown on (known) producers and then everything continues as per normal. Again. And again. (Speaking of unsafe standards. I visited a friend at the apartment building he moved into. The steel "screen" doors at every Fire Escape are locked with padlocks. Good luck getting out if there's a fire.)

So you can - and can't - get a Tourist visa at Savannaket. As for the online system, it's apparently not that easy at all - for some people. My buddy has been trying for a couple weeks now with no luck. He thinks he's been "blocked" or something, though I suspect it's a password issue. But even before that, he said he filled everything out, uploaded all the photos/scans (etc etc) and the last step was to pay for it but it wouldn't open the payment page for some reason. He tried contacting (someone) and somehow ended up with a "password reset" or something. He's given up and will go the "Visa Exempt/Extension" routine. However, someone told him he could only do that once and then he'd have to fly out, return, get a new Exemption stamp, then do another exemption. But it sounds like (in this thread) he should be able to just do a regular border run after the 30 day extension ? No need to "fly out" and back ?

So, which 3 ThaiVisa members do you think they are ? And I'm sure some here recognize the bar. Probably keeping quiet about it. And as mentioned above, there are a lot of underage girls in bars all over the city. (edit: but not as young as those shown in the news story ! At least I hope not !)

Looks like it names the bar as well (in Thai though). And I suspect the other photo is supposed to be a room connected to the bar. (Above the bar perhaps ?)

It's up to 36 dead and another 12 injured. Including the shooter, his wife and his child, the count is 6 men, 6 women, 21 boys and 3 girls. https://www.nationmultimedia.com/thailand/general/40020786 One of the teachers was apparently 8 months pregnant when she was killed. (In one of my Line groups, it's been said the total number of bodies is 42. Some people in the group are/were police but they didn't confirm it or provide any links.)