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Does this offer include reporting law-breaking motorcyclists wearing all brown?

Two days ago they arrested 61 people at a bar off of Sukhumvit road by Asoke for drinking alcohol.

61 people arrested at a bar for drinking and dancing but, Thailand is open for tourists in five days. Welcome!

When I first glanced at the headline I thought it said "Thailand ranked among the top 6 places in the world to lose all your money and everything you own and die penniless".

It seems to be whatever they want at the Ubon office.

I'm doing my first renewal with extension based on marriage to a Thai and at least 40,000 THB foreign income. (All the previous ones were business or retirement) Can immigration demand 400K in a Thai bank if you're already proving well over 40K a month in foreign income? They way I read it it's- keep 400K in the bank OR show 40K in foreign income. OF if you don't have the 40K each month, or the 400K in the bank then it's a combination, maybe 20K income and 200K in a TH bank (don't quote me on the combo method ratios). I have never heard showing them over 40K every month and they being asked "can you put 400,000 in the bank for two months too? Last year it seemed to drag on and get more personal and more intrusive. They'd give me a task list showing every document I needed. I would fulfill the request to the "T" and then they'd want some thing they never mentioned before, or tell me they don't really need the bank letter that cost me 100-200 baht and at least an hour of my time to hunt down. I bring back the docs from the new request and they'd ask for something new again. I went back a half dozen times at least. They said I was the only one in the province who had two sources of income (which I find hard to believe) and that's why it's so complicated, for them. Last year upon successful renewal, the 2nd level boss at immigration promised me that it would be a breeze next renewal (now) because they figured out what they needed and gave me a list. They said bring in all these docs in 2021, make sure they always have foreign transfers of more than 40K and it will just be stamp, stamp, stamp, sign, sign, sign, pay and you're done. I brought them the TH bank statement for the previous 12 months showing well over 40K in foreign transfers each and every months, just like the asked. I brought in the pension forms and foreign bank statements showing not only the money flowing from my U.S. bank to my TH bank. and showing the source of income ( passive rental income). She was going thorough and checking everything off, "yes, yes, good, yes"... I had it all; two copies of 70 page stacks of paper, She verified I had more than enough income every single month and then said to bring my wife with next week so they can interrogate her again, plus update my bank book, bring two copies of every page of it, and new photos. "No problem!" I said "Is that it, is there anything else I need to bring or copy?". Then she asks "could you transfer 400K into your account and leave it there two months"? I said "No". "I read your rules, I did this exact same thing last year and it says 40K P/M OR 400,000 on deposit" not "AND". So what's the problem here? Did they want me to do both in case some boss is moody so they're be a backup plan ? Did they assume it was just a simple matter of pulling 400K off the farang money tree and leave it in a bank her instead? She asked me the way I'd ask "do you have a light?" "can I borrow a paperclip", do you have change for a 20? Just off the cuff. I asked why and she said "well if my boss, bla, bla, mumble, mumble and by that time I was done decoding data and didn't ask for clarificion. I'll see what they say on Tuesday. Has anyone heard of this particular bureaucracy and inconsistencies?

It’s a well-established fact that smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol isn’t better for you than not doing it.

No, he’s not saying anyone is lying, he’s saying that cases are being underreported because people are doing their own tests and home and self-isolating rather then telling the government and being thrown in some crappy field hospital for two weeks because of it. The government can’t be expected to report what it doesn’t know. Bottom line-there are MORE people infected than are represented in the official daily figures so the actual infection rate is higher.

Nobody will miss you so that works fine.