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53 minutes ago, alyx said:

Please be advised that if you relocate to another province or another part of your province for a short-time period, you are not required to register a TM30 again. 

As others have pointed out nothing is ever what it seems or straightforward in Thailand. My point here is what does "short-time" mean in Thai? An hour usually, but this is really open to interpretation by whoever you are dealing with at the time. 

Best wishes, G

15 minutes ago, alyx said:

I beg to differ 

I am always cautious when I write something from memory.

After reading your answer I have asked and the reply is:

 

« Please be advised that if you relocate to another province or another part of your province for a short-time period, you are not required to register a TM30 again. 

 

The new immigration rules have been applied to all areas in Thailand on 30 June 2020.  

 

In case you have a valid reciept, the reciept still can be used to do all kinds of visa activities until you will be leaving Thailand.  »

 

I guess you were ill informed 

 

Have a great day 

Great news! I had never heard about this new rule. Trouble is I would bet my overspending Thai wife on the fact very few Immigration Officers have heard about it either.

Did anyone tell Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn about the TM30, or is this another case of speaking without thinking first?

This story was in The Nation on August 5 and posted in Thailand News on the 6 by Webfact:

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30392475

When I took my motorbike test here in 1983 on a 400 there were disqualifying diseases, the only one I remember for sure was Elephantiasis. I think epilepsy was another but they should give this plenty of thought before deciding instead of the usual foot in mouth afterwards. 

13 hours ago, meechai said:

The Nation has to be about the silliest excuse for a news outlet in Thailand's history of many

25 - 30+ years ago it was respected, but now I agree with you.

Do all these offers include doing your TM30 every day?

Everyone knows about the bribery and corruption, but now we have blackmail and probably the murder of a witness. As this plays out between the Hi-Sos, the police and the politicians we can all sit and watch in Amazement... 

Year after year, police chief after police chief, new PM after new PM this continues. We all know what needs to be done and we all know why it never is.

Mai pen rai and RIP.

Yuthasak Supasorn must be both a genius and a clairvoyant, amazing!

Did anyone tell Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn about the TM30, or is this another case of speaking without thinking first?

To my knowledge over the last 30+ years this is normal practice in Thailand. The less customers they have the more things cost.

1 hour ago, DepDavid said:

Sheer stupidity trying to cover corruption and incompetence!

That is so close to the truth. Thais are prolific liars but they are hopeless at it as they can't tell the same story twice.

10 hours ago, BobBKK said:

cocaine, no cocaine,

speeding, not speeding,

driving, not driving,

red notice issued, red notice not issued

cop swerved out of lane, cop did not

warrant issued, warrant not issued

we know where he is, we don't know where he is

member of Red Bull family, not connected to Red Bull

One things for sure Red Bull this is BULL***T

 

I'll stick to M150 or Pla Larm Khao thanks.

15 hours ago, webfact said:

Boss was tested for alcohol ten hours after the incident

So how much did he drink in 10 hours if he was still over the limit, but only just (20%)?

30 minutes ago, rabas said:

Excellent. Note the vertical tilt of the 'shooters' mirror will tilt upwards for his eyes to see the road behind.  That means a reflection from the car headlight behind him will also tilt up towards the camera. Too bright for a handgun.  I also zoomed the picture of the two bikes where clearly 2 headlights reflect off the road forward and to the right at an angle straight to the camera.

 

So, it's clear!

The first police assailant in the car used his headlight to cause a bright reflection covering the real muzzle flash of the second police assailant on the left bike, who shot precisely at the time a Red Bull Company assailant tried to topple the target's bike from the rear. Startled by the forward bike's sudden jerk, he too went down where he lay still using his phone to quickly transfer the money from his bank because the police got the target first.  The rest of the evidence was edited out by the Army who control the cameras.

 

 

 

Its a lot clearer without the "Watch Later" on Youtube.

I don't think the shot came from the other side, it looks to me it was close range from a second motorbike on the same side and the CCTV has been tampered with: time stamp missing and brightness flares as second bike vanishes.

On a big screen between 9 and 13 seconds you can see a second headlight very close to the left hand headlight that becomes the motorbike that crashes. At 16 seconds the background lighting mysteriously brightens and the second headlight disappears, What must be a dead or unconscious body falls off at 17 seconds and remains in the nearside lane as the bike veers into the central barrier. The time is not recorded on the clip, I am using the Youtube timer.

I wonder if the autopsy showed a bullet wound to the left temple?

Wishful thinking, I hope this idiot remains in the doldrums where he belongs. The Immigration didn't know what new laws they would get from day to day. He might have made some improvements to office efficiency but he did nothing for tourists or long stayers unless you had pots of money.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

So, who had the authority to drop the charges, who made the decision and why does nobody seem to know about it?

Was it Big Joke again?

13 hours ago, scammed said:

why would you make the assumption she was in the wrong when you have no data

whatsoever ?

he could just as well have cut her off, not even bother to look if he was cutting someone as he decided to cut a lane

Have you done much driving n Thailand?

There is only one alternative to "no double standards" and that is bribery and corruption.

Apparently the RTP motto is: Another day another dollar.

On 7/8/2020 at 3:39 PM, pineapple01 said:

Fortunately for Thailand most Tourists are not bothered about a few Cents , just a few Skint Ferang TV members seem bothered about it. Their Rules.Their Nation.

So on your next (or first I expect) visit to the west you will be happy to pay ten tickets equivalent to walk in Central or Hyde Park if they were not free. Twice or three times the cost of medical attention and drugs or carry a medical insurance card. And you would be happy not to have the opportunity to buy land or own a business outright?

The time of reciprocal agreements is about to dawn.

On 7/2/2020 at 11:32 PM, Pattaya46 said:

For most tourists it will be around $20 for this insurance. I doubt about a big damage...

  

In some national parks, the dual-pricing is a way to limit the number of visitors to preserve the park and Nature.

Complete and utter nonsense. Have you seen the mess Thai tourists leave, and there has never been any thought to restricting numbers by overpricing, it is simple and straightforward racism.

14 hours ago, ezzra said:

I hope that the tourism related business that uses the ugly and racist double pricing policies will fall and shut down first for good...

I would agree but the way you have expressed this it sounds like you want all the National Parks and Monuments (like Wat Phra Kaew) to close down before the hotels, bars and restaurants. Maybe that's not a bad idea though.

23 minutes ago, chang1 said:

I remember going to Amsterdam in the eighties and saw a price list outside a show. Not the correct figures but it was something like this, a picture of a flag and a price in Guilders -

 

Japan          80

USA             60

Switzerland  50

Germany      40

France         30

Spain           20

UK               10

 

I didn't know whether to be proud to come from a country that would not be ripped off so blatently or ashamed to come from a poor country that they knew the citizens would not pay anymore.

Did I go in? Yes. Would I have gone in if the UK was at the top of the list - not a chance. Especially as there were many other shows around.

 

 

Ah, our dear Dutch friends, only 10G for UK.

How much for people from the Netherlands?

Must have been some time ago, pre-EU?