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"tourists" Was this requirement waived? "for foreign blood donors, the requirement is that they have resided in Thailand for at least six months" Not the typical tourist but maybe they were Thai tourists.

About as heart warming as what POTUS Nixon once said, "I am not a crook."

I've read "The Senate under Transitory Provisions of the Constitution" and do not find any provision wherein the Senate members can vote on the Speaker of the House. Only for the PM under certain conditions. However, in the combined Senate and House called the National Assembly a member of the Senate acts as Vice-President while a member of the House acts as President of the National Assembly. Wherein the Vice President of the Senate in the absence of a House of Representatives or absence of a President of the National Assembly can then act automatically as President of the National Assembly.

Flawed referendum with a low turnout of about 54% of which 58% approved the junta-written constitution. That's only about 31% of the total turnout but a majority in terms of the "whole" vote. There were "repressive" conditions. No campaigning allowed for no vote Criticizing the draft results in detention and charges Few saw a copy Few read through the legalized 279 articles From what I recall, there was no public media that was allowed to go through relevant portions of the draft and how Thais might be affected, ie., an unelected PM by the junta-appointed Senate. ref. www. BBC.com/news/world-asia , August 2016

I agree. She's still conscious after having her leg amputated? And normally Thai news media blurs out a victim's face but not in this horrendous accident? Furthermore, without the victim's consent the photo may violate the Personal Data Act.

“You have to pay the court 500,000 baht for the temporary release of the suspect. Are you convenient for that? And may I ask you straightly? Could you pay the same amount to my team? It is the Thai Criminal Procedure followed by the ruling court that stipulates the criteria for bond application. Not RTP. The granting of bail depends on the court's discretion and analysis, not RTP.

You are aware of course that Malay Muslims were independent as a sovereign state known as the Kingdom of Patani. Great Britain had made a deal with Thailand to allow Thailand to annex KoP without any permission or public referendum by Malays in exchange for an exclusive trade deal of the area's resources.

It's a political power issue, not an ideological split, aka "schism." Same happened when PM-elect Prayut had to negotiate his Cabinet and Speaker position with his coalitions.

"Bangkok stops up efforts to maintain economic ties with Britain following Btexit vote" ref. July 2016, thediplomat.com So finally after seven years? And what Thailand has now is an MOU and a "partnership." Neither of which had any real enforcement to a breach of contract that one would find under a Free Trade Agreement. Why no FTA? "The EU and Thailand announced the relaunch of negotiations for an FTA in March 2023. In 2020 total bilateral trade between the EU and Thailand amounted to €29 billion." ref. Policy.trade.ec.europa.eu Glad to see UK finally got a partnership with Thailand.

Check your qualification the Long Term Resident Visa 50k for two 5 year back-to-back terms. Unlimited re-entries, 1 year residence reporting, Fast Track exit and re-entry, etc,

That's a meaningless statement as "nationalistic" and "democratic" are not choices. A federal government is nationalistic in nature as it enjoins the entire nation under a particular ideology, ie., democracy, authoritarian, absolute/dictatorship, etc.. What you cannot have is tolerance for freedom of speech outside of a "full" or "flawed" democracy (as defined by the EIU Democracy Index) regardless of what a nation's constitution may claim to protect.

Russia might want to buy/trade oil for Thai Airways' out of service/- surplus Airbus and Boeing aircraft, if not just for parts while Russia is under Western sanctions.

The cabinet is limited to 35 cabinet members and the current number of cabinet members is 19. So PTP wants about three quarters of the current cabinet. That's not justified by the massive electoral vote received by MFP. Maybe 25% or 5 that leaves some cabinet positions for other coalition parties, ie., 1 each. Regarding Speaker, do a one MP vote from each if the MFP coalition parties or agree to an annual rotation.

"Tried to fix my keyboard" How?

Then make the police accountable to their constituents (aka voters) in the city/district in which they serve versus the National Police Commission that falls under the supervision of the PM. The RTC needs to be decentralized (not to say the must be a federal police agency similar to the US FBI where enforcement laws apply natiobally) and funded by the local economies of their respective constituents. Federal funding can be made available to underfunded cities/districts through elected representatives of the Parliament House MP's. But in the present because of a nationalized police force, police policies tend towards one-size-fits-all or in the alternative randomized local policies. Furthermore, ISOC under the RTM needs to be removed (established by PM Prayut) from oversight of local politics to further local civilian accountability. ISOC's political involvement also "smacks" of the old Communist system of Soviet Political Commissars which is inappropriate for a democratic society.

I must have missed such regime from May 2014-2019 when the unelected NCPO government regime ruled by absolute power.

In democratic countries it is not a crime to tarnish a country's reputation - their "reputation" isn't so fragile versus Thailand.

If not from an Embassy that states 65k or more monthly income (no reference as to whether gross or net), then Immigration wants to see twelve monthly DEPOSITS to your Thai bank of minimum 65k baht transferred from your foreign income sources (typically documented with a Credit Advice Report from the Thai bank), which is stated in the law. So in effect the law isn't applied to applicant whose embassy will issue an income letter.

Try to mention just five where the US alone and unilaterally invaded another country post-1945.

I'd expect at most a tenth the cost of an elected MP. Senators are unelected and clear majority pro-military agenda supporters. No single Senator can really make any difference currently in the formation of a new government. So a kind of "group discount" might apply.

If Thailand didn't reject asylum to these two groups of victims, they wouldn't have to get trafficked anywhere outside of Thailand.

Like when they voted for Prayut after the 2019 election?

If he was in-transit, he likely didn't go through immigration.

Ah yes, friendly relations with neighbors. Putting aside Thailand's friendly attitude with North Korea (embassy in Bangkok), pandering with China; blissful of unfriendly European Cold War relations with East Germany, Russian invasion of Afganistan/Hungary /Czechoslovakia, China invasion of Vietnam, Vietnam invasion of Cambodia, Sino-Soviet border conflict, etc. Thailan's world diplomacy has been stuck in the mid-1900's and seems to sell out to whatever country gives it favor without regard to democratic ideology. Hopefully, MFP can change that direction, albeit with baby steps until the RTM can be accountable to the Thai people.

Jesuits been making wine in California and Australia too.