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They should add bonuses for working the airport. Shorten work hours for airport staff, and of course increase staff by 25%. Maintain a stand-by reserve (pay OT) of ~ 25 across 2 4-hour high-capacity shifts. There have been rumblings for years that this position is undesirable (hard work, no opportunity for revenue enhancement, work commute or relo, making a mistake and letting the wrong person in) and thus difficult to staff. Aligning work schedules with banked arrivals and departures also leads to challenges. I'd like to see a target of 10 or 15 minutes. Based on some anecdotal experiences, baggage claim may actually be the long straw these days? There is said to be due to some extensive x-ray/ search and RFID tagging (to alert the Customs Green Channel), before the bags hit the carousel on level 2.

Yep. https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thai-court-revokes-arbitrators-ruling-on-hopewells-฿24bn-compensation/ from the article... The BMA has incurred more than 100 billion baht in debt, with more than 40 billion owed to BTSC for the operating and maintenance costs and carriage procurement and 60 billion to the MRT for infrastructure investment. Yeah, good luck with that 20 baht fare cap. There has been a significant increase in the retail outlets within the turnstiles in many BTS stations. I wonder who's getting the rent?

Thanks. In general it often helps if people share their reporting office.

Does anyone understand the meaning of this post made yesterday on the Bangkok Immigration Facebook page? I thought that any stamped Re-entry Permit had its own validity tied to your permission to stay date? Notification of Immigration Bureau Re: Designated period of re-entry to the Kingdom for an alien who has been permitted to take up residency in the Kingdom and extend the period of re-entry to the Kingdom beyond one year dated 8 March 2023 ⚠️An alien, who has been permitted to take up residency and has made evidence of notification for leaving the Kingdom in order to re-enter within one year ⚡from 26 March 2020- 30 September 2023⚡ ????must re-enter the Kingdom by 30 September 2023. https://shorturl.at/cKPS8

If your reporting office is BANGKOK/Chaeng Watthana (CW) then the thumbs-up is deserved and this is great news. I specifically mentioned CW

It looks like they are going to keep this aircraft in the U.S. for the duration of Srettha and family's visit. It was moved to IAD yesterday for temporary storage longer term parking at JFK is not possible. No clue on the return routing? It does sound like a boondoggle, all this for a three-minute speech. And some controversy on his daughter's need to travel with the government party, and who paid for her trip.

Back on topic... Srettha has no power or agency in this matter. If he did he would immediately issue an order to put Cannabis back on the Narcotics list, and instruct the RTP (who report directly to him) to immediately enforce the newly re-criminalized Cannabis restrictions. He wouldn't be PM without the support of BJT. Anutin is Deputy PM and Interior Minister, the second most powerful (some argue it is first) position in the government. Srettha is not going to single-handedly re-criminalize Cannabis, nor does he want to. Instead he issues a tepid response about his "feelings". He's a talker not a doer. Cannabis flower, regardless of THC content remains legal to grow, sell and consume recreationally with current rules and restrictions. And will remain so until the Cannabis Control Act is passed and the Cannabis Control Board begins to regulate the industry. Even then, recreational use will continue to be "not illegal". Discussions about medical disorders are off-topic in this thread and should be excised, or moved to a relevant thread/forum?

Correct. Per the current Constitution, the King is the Head of State, and the Head of the Military. That said the PM should not fly commercial, IMO. So options are limited, especially with a party of 50. The A340 hasn't flown in a while (2022?) and is said to be in need refurbishments, which may not be worth it given the age of this airframe. If the trip is worthwhile, and beneficial to the people, then cost may not be a deciding issue? My sense is that the troughage includes these highly desirable foreign trip perks, which everyone in the new government will be taking advantage of in the coming months and years. The smarter ones will avoid posting their adventures on social media, but the attention may be hard to resist.

Even though this trip was approved by House Speaker Noor, Padipat needs to show a little restraint. I mean he did just get into a bit of bother providing food for 300 maids at Parliament. https://www.thaipbsworld.com/deputy-house-speaker-in-hot-water-for-entertaining-parliaments-maids/ And now a trip to Singapore, for twelve, to learn about something unrelated to his current responsibility? Does not reflect well on MFP.

February, 2024 was floated by "an official" yesterday.

The recent trend (based on posts here and on FB) at CW is that approvals come very close to, or on or a few days after, the Next Report Date. Hopefully they'll get things sorted and get back to the previous range of 3 - 6 business days. From the User's Guide, https://tm47.immigration.go.th/manual/IndexForeign.html Apply process 1. Login to the system. 2. Click the NEW APPLICATION (TM 47) button. 3. Fill in the information in english for notification of residence for more than 90 days and accept the conditions. (space marked with * are required) 4. Click Submit button and the system will display the form for submission of notification for over 90 days. (Then wait for the immigration officer to check and approve for about 3 days.) ( *** In case the TM47 application is not approved, you will receive an email with the message "Please contact the nearest Immigration Office in person as soon as possible." )

I do not believe that the "whole government" is on the same flight. In addition to the PM I think there is the Deputy PM and MoFA Minister, the rest are staff, servants, hangers-on, family. The rest of the government remains in Thailand. The PM spent many years attending college/university on the U.S.A. so he will not need need any translators, for English anyway.

A dirty cop is a dirty cop. Any role which a very Senior Police plays in wrong-doing is NOT minor. It is criminal. Having such a person now in charge of the education system is a MAJOR crime against the nation and people. If he had a gram of integrity (left) he would resign, in shame.

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Thailand, where BOTH the military and the RTP provide security, is a reliable trans-shipment point for drugs (Meth) manufactured in Myanmar/Laos to ports in Thailand where they are moved on to other countries. A lot of seizures are destined for Australia. Further, Thailand is a reliable trans-shipment point for precursors heading to the manufacturing zones. Up until fairly recently there were busts of 1 ~ 5 million meth tabs nearly weekly. But a lot of this meth is also for the local market, where usage has sky-rocketed as prices have dropped. Reports in the press indicate prices as low as 2 baht/tab. Ten baht might be more accurate based on small volume purchases. Possessing more than one tab of meth is now a significant criminal charge. It used to be 15 for that limit. Crystal meth is also a big problem, but that is a bit more expensive. There are ~ 200,000 incarcerated for drugs, the bulk are for meth. I'm not sure what the PM thinks a committee can accomplish given military rule for nearly 15 years (out of the last 23) has only seen a dramatic increase in the problem?

My guess is that this is a diplomatic charter flight. RTAF have a A340-600 (HS-TYV from TG) which is used for VIP flights, mostly to/from Germany mostly MUC). But maybe this aircraft is unavailable. Technically it could fly (and has flown) direct, non-stop, but suspect a 777 will be used, with a stop. Srettha's trip is scheduled for eight days (18 - 26 Sep) so not sure if the aircraft parks, or returns to Thailand. only to be dispatched later for the return segment? I'd say the group can't fly commercial so what choice is there? No ROP miles for a charter flight. Suspect the hotel and F&B bills will also be quite large. IMO, the new government might have been better served with a smaller delegation, with Srettha remaining in Thailand during this critical juncture of his government.

Just one bad apple, and an isolated incident. This should be wrapped up soon. Everything is fine.

I would search on Thai-language forums, either the help of a Thai (if you are not fluent) or as a start, Google Translate. example: 7-11 franchise site: pantip.com right-click to translate Note that CP/All is part of one of the largest corporations here, and defamation laws are quite severe, so any potential negative aspects may be self-censored?

Singapore struggles with this issue as well... They have a bunch of incentives: cash payouts, tax benefits, free fertility/health care, extended paid maternity/paternity leave, education subsidies (for the children), housing supplements.

Swift implementation, quick win, 100 days. For a Doctor this chap seems unusually clueless. How do you "push fertility" to the forefront? Have a mandatory five shagging sessions per each Lakorn episode? Less talking, more doing. Take care of the people you already have. Work to keep the children you already have alive (drownings, road deaths) in the short-, medium term. Improve access to basic preventative health care. Address income inequality, the economy, education all of which might have more impact on the birth rate than whatever the minister will come up with.

If they're admitting to 50, it's more like 100. Things have gone south before when a Thai PM from the TRT/PTP clan was at the U.N.

Form a committee? On the drug problem? Seriously? What's next, order more plastic bags for the Police? He should go back to his day job. At least this faux PM will be out of the country for the next eight days, so we don't have to suffer his foolish comments. Yes, the honeymoon, such as it was, was brief and the groom is already staying with the mia noi most nights. IMO MFP should be grateful that the powers-that-be staged a self-coup (judicial/legislative), and they were well clear of this dumpster fire.

As there is already a ban on e-cigarettes this sort of activity seems to be focused on both maintaining the current status quo, and also asking for additional controls, and more aggressive enforcement of the ban. Anti-smoking groups, which are also anti-vaping, here are always pushing for more aggressive controls. They've even proposed limiting foreign visitors to one pack (vs. 10 now) as a duty-free allowance. A few politicians have been pushing for normalization of vaping products here. And even Chuwit is pro-vaping. SO this push is to counteract those efforts. I understand the need to protect those under 18, but allowing adults to make reasonable lifestyle choices, which do not impact others, is something I would favor. I am neither a smoker nor a vaper, but I'm not going to try and control or influence others. And banning something really only encourages those under 18 to dabble.