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I guess in most European countries with their privacy protection laws the Thai police will have no access even with this waiver. The police would need to prove that they themselves have a bonafide criminal investigation going on and require such background information for the case. To successfully retrieve foreign governmental information the Thai police would need to sendvtheir request thru diplomatic channels and the proper embassy to make the local request.

Not sure about that

http://www.interpol.int/Member-countries/Asia-South-Pacific/Thailand

there would be a criminal investigation of an actual unsolved crime that gets interpol involved, they are only a information disemination platform. requesting information on a citizens potential criminal background at home is not covered.

Hopefully there are to include the 200 plus schools that dont have electricity in country areas.

Time to restart the bid for tablet computers once the kidsare on the grid...

what gets me is when they cut the power for hours at a time because they claim they cannot supply everyone with it continuously, makes you wonder if they are capable to actually supply the whole of the country and being reliable, somehow I doubt it very much

It's their contribution to the Generals plan to bring hapiness to all Thai households. It will be enough for some scarce lighting while the charcoal heats the meal.

what gets me is when they cut the power for hours at a time because they claim they cannot supply everyone with it continuously, makes you wonder if they are capable to actually supply the whole of the country and being reliable, somehow I doubt it very much

It's their contribution to the Generals plan to bring hapiness to all Thai households. It will be enough for some scarce lighting while the charcoal heats the meal.

If the baby killer gets caught, will we hear the magic phrase: "self defense" again?

No, the baby performed suicide

In the UK they have no authority to make criminal record checks except in very specific circumstances. You can't just do a criminal record check on anybody you please.

Peanuts. HR of many companies do just that day and night. Checking candidate's name against dabases of pedofiles (which are public), whatever else there is available to check, trawl social media. When applying for a job you give them your acknowledgement.

What could be new in Thai now is just that tell you they are (or may be) doing that and you are aware. Everyone has been photographed at border crossing. Face recogition software these days can dig you out from whatever anonymous (as this one) Forum they want.

Of course, sporting a new tatoo or being a breeder of pitbulls won't stop visa extension but something else might.

In the UK only the person can get their Full Criminal Conviction Police Report, there are more crimes than pedos! This the person takes to their employers or Immigration. The only way to get a full report.

I guess in most European countries with their privacy protection laws the Thai police will have no access even with this waiver. The police would need to prove that they themselves have a bonafide criminal investigation going on and require such background information for the case. To successfully retrieve foreign governmental information the Thai police would need to sendvtheir request thru diplomatic channels and the proper embassy to make the local request.

You can get a 60 days extension based on visiting wife, only need marriage certificate, copy of her id and house book, Bt, 1,900.

That should be repeatable for each new entry of a multi-entry non-im 'O'.

As at some time I may be in the same situation, this question: do the mentioned copies of id and house book have to be signed? Just asking cause I may be tweaking the rules as wife may be in my home falangland while I tend the Thai castle.

FWIW make sure you have no email accounts with polling for new mail activated. If yes, change option to only check when ordered to. Email client may also have an option "only on wifi" and not wireless data.

maybe news like this will draw enough bad attention to the area to encourage a cleanup, a good start would be to remove all the illegal buildings on the sea side that are encroaching on public land as it's a complete eyesore

The place has also out priced itself through price fixing and greed

Once again time to mention that the buildings on the sea side of WS are upgraded and replacement construction for buildings that used to be the ancient fishing village of Pattaya some fifty years back. There was never pristine beach at that part.

Why didn't they complaint about the Thai-hookers?

Likely cause the Thais did not actively promote their services and bother people on the street. They would know to wait until contacted by a potential customer.

Noticed it crossed lanes without signalling.

While we still are awaiting the answer for the deeply philosophical question: "Why did the chicken cross the road"?

I guess some people will like this fantasy, but the reality is that the tourists dont mind the street workers (apart from the ones that are thieves) and walking street is now quite an attraction because of its sordid reputation. what the tourists dont like and the reason many dont return is the polluted beaches and sea. but this isnt an attempt to try an attract tourists, this is just about face

And considering this is now low and rainy season, things seem to be controllable. Now let high season come with a full onset of tourists and the service ladies (and ladyboys) out in their full numbers and enforcement will collapse.

PS. when I was in Pattaya a few weeks back I had the impression that tourist police outnumbered visitors.

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A rubber pledging scheme perhaps?

Rubber is a commodity in the international market and if your price are too high they go to your competitors . Additionally there has been a lot of studies to replace the rubber anyways, so if you want to dig your own grave then be my guest

Studies to replace rubber? That's why the now need a rubber research lab, after more than a century of world wide rubber industry. Will they reinvent the condom and push for more familiy planning to get riddance ofvthe rubber stock?

Thailand better make a strong example of these two nits after they "extract" all the info from them on who else they are involved with.

Not much to "extract" from these guys. It's an internet styled two layer business.

(1) a guy rocures some hardware off the web andvspecialuzes in skimming cards and pin code. He offers this merchandise on a webshop on the dark internet.

(2) guys as above procure the hardware required to make fake atm cards, actually very easy as magnet strip cards and write/read machines are readily available for many puposes. These guys buy card numbers with pin code by a lot of hundreds on the web and try to turn this into profit for themselves.

All anonymous and paid thru anonymous internet money like bitcoins.

I never even realized it was illegal, given how commonly it is available....

Because if people have nothing else to do then are looking for things like.... what to make illegal.

Many things should be illegal but everything must come in right order of things.

Even food we eat and most of it should be illegal due to chemicals they have been used simple from grain to ready to consume product.

In alphabetical order veggies are on the list but we are at letter C for cigarettes ....weird why Shisha it is on the end of alphabet...

Maybe we should start from letter A ...for " air" we breath polluted from cars and industry.....somehow everything which is not easy to fix (or brings big profit)

will stay untouched.

hehe ..water "W" is on long list

better not give the powers-to-be the idea to ban dihxdroxymonoxide

"DHMO Research Org"

Interesting.

These are very popular in Pattaya ... among Middle Eastern tourists, Thais, and also Russian tourists.

I was in a restaurant the other day and it was all Russian tourists doing that ... the stink ruined the food experience of eating unfortunately.

It sounds like that kind of place would be a low priority to crack down on based on the OP. Hmm.

Including many places along Jomtien beach. Like the shops at the night market. They better legalize the stinky stuff and gain the excise income. Forcing the shops to drop the smokers will force many shops out of business. Not to speak that TAT will need an extra budget to polish up the image after TIT.

A month ago my nephew paid 300 baht to be taken to the diplomatic counter at Phuket immigration on his way into the country, thereby avoiding very long queues. The guy who asked him if he wanted to avoid the queue was careful to check that he had a passport eligible for VOA.

The nephew was ok with it as he regarded it as a VIP service. But of course he had a choice whether to pay or not.

 
Cheap at the price - I would happily pay this in BKK to avoid the very long immigration queues

Various airlines offer their business class or better pax the ticket to the VIP lane. eg Thai Airways and code share partners.

does this number already include the number of exported expats due to travel visa clamp down?

 
However, he expects the country to be able to clear 18 million tonnes of rice in stock within 3-4 years.

 
An this expectation is based on what exactly?

Based on the current and predicted rotting rate of seasoned rice stocks. Not included yet in the prediction are the undetected scaffolding cases.

With mountains of rice to shift,and been one of the largest
producers of rice in the world.Thai logic demands the price
of rice should rise !
We paid bht 179 for 5Kg rice at Makro the other day so don't
no where maximum  price of bht 130 comes from,once again 
this is going to effect the poor most,and add yet more to inflation,
as the price of cooked meals will rise as well.
regards Worgeordie
 

The 130 bhat quality will come with a premium protein portion of insects and dried rats ;)

Pattaya Beach has rip currents?

gosh here you have farlangs telling us Asians how brutal we are. Look at your history. In the past 100 years the so called civilised world has bombed and destroyed the lives of more people than Asians have done over 2000 years. 

 
Yep, and how many western countries are in civil war like Thailand is ?

Northern Ireland has still some unrest popping up.

Try talking to Interpol and see if they can take you off their list.

Interpol does not deal with any specific persons, only with national police forces.

Ask the Belgium justice and police departments to check if Interpol still lists you as a person to be apprehended and if yes, ask this department for zhe removal based on your court records.

" So many times"? Actually it's not "many times", at all! It's in twice, and back out twice, in a span of thirty to forty days, for strictly tourism. No overstay, extensions, or other complicated problems. I've done this many times before, ie., arrived in BKK, as air tix from the states are MUCH less expensive to BKK than flying to either Phnom Penh, OR Yangbon. As I pointed out, I've arrived in BKK and stayed for a week or two on the 30 day visa waiver exemption, then bus to Cambodia for week or two, then come back to Thailand, where they'd give me 15 days for re-entering on the ground.  Last year, I did the day trip from Mai Sai, to Tachileik, and on return they told me at immigration that US passport holders were now given 30 days, instead of the previous 15, when crossing back into Thailand, ( all I really need is 15 days as I won't want to spend more than two more weeks in Thailand before flying back out of BKK,  once I've spent two to three weeks in Burma on a single entry Burmese visa ). My question is, would trying re-entering the kingdom on the ground at a land crossing, constitute some sort of prohibited "back-to-back" 30 day visa exempt entry and exit, after exiting the kingdom for a few days, on a visa exempt entry, what with new rules and enforcement in effect?     

a couple of days after question asked, but want to add this:
you intend to enter by land visa exempt. remember that this is now only granted for short stay of 14 (7??) days. yoou may want to have that tourist visa to be able to dtay longer!

This time next year visa's will be just as lax as they always were. Wait for the dust to settle.

Wait a wee bit longer until the next (s)elected government is established, just my hunch.

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