oevna

Hello, Cambodia!

As we can see this law has been on the books for some time, it looks like now they're going to enforce it.*

From my reading it seems that you have as many entries as you like in Thailand but can only spend a total of 90 days here in a six-month period. Thus when you turn up at the border, they will count up the number of days you've spent here in the last six months.

Doesn't really clear anything up but I guess we'll find out more after the meeting tomorrow.

Can you see the situation at the immigration desk on arrival... the officer flipping through each page of your passport counting the days for each stay in Thailand over the past 6 months. That's going to cause serious delays at the immigration desk lines unless they can automate it somehow.

Cheers,

-oev

Prevention & Suppression of Prostitution Act 1996.

Section 5.

Any person who, for the purpose of prostitution, solicits, induces, introduces herself or himself to, follows or importunes a person in a street, public place or any other place, which is committed openly and shamelessly, or causes nuisance to the public shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand baht.

That should cover it!

Ok, maybe, but let's be realistic. The police in Pattaya don't care about the prostitution problem in general, they care about when it becomes a "nuisance" for the tourists, who then don't come back and spend their money. There are plenty of places in Pattaya where the Prevention and Suppresion of Prostitution Act could be applied, but this issue is not about prostitution. It is about dealing with a threat to local business.

That's interesting. I wondered what was happening when a friend of mine brought me a case of big bottles of Archa. I tried to pay him for it but he said it was only 250 baht so to forget about it. Less than 21 baht per bottle.

21 Baht per bottle!?!?! I might have to start lowering my standards.

Cheers,

-oevna

BAN FIREARMS, there's nothing left to hunt anyway. SEVERE PUNISHMENT to those caught in possession of firearms. That's all.

Absolutely! Checking some of the stats quoted on the sites mentioned on this thread, Thailand, USA etc. which are "gun cultures" have a massively higher murder rate than say UK which had a tiny amount.

UK Murders: 800+

Thailand Murders: 5,000+

USA Murders: 16,000+

In UK it's illeagal to own a hand gun - it's not rocket science is it!

Ban guns altogether, take away the option of killing. If people have a beef let's go back the good old days when you stood toe-to-toe knocking 7 shades of <deleted> out of each other...!!!

Nothing's absolute, which is why even though I believe that I ought to be able to own a gun, I also know that there are plenty of idiots who shouldn't, and my ability to get a gun means their ability to get a gun. So I am grudgingly against gun ownership.

I can't believe he's from a place called Waga Waga

My father is from a place called Walla Walla.

Back on topic though... I think this is a combination of a few unusual recent events, plus much greater access to international news media. Despite Thailand still having a fair ammount of corruption, I think it is still a safer place than it was 10 or 20 years ago. And back then, nobody outside of the local area and maybe the victim's home town would ever hear about it. Now here I am sitting at my desk at work on the other side of the world reading about local news in Chanthaburi.