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Calling BS on the fact that these "official documents" will explain or justify the special treatment by the convict Thaksin. We've been told endlessly that medical record privacy prevents the release of any medical information, and without that, one cannot justify this preferential treatment. At this point, they just need to stumble, dissemble, and prevaricate until 22 Feb when the inmate will be released.

That's because the response from this and previous governments is merely performative art.

More often as a sub-lingual oil, or edible. Agreed. You can't have young children, being treated for epilepsy, for example, or elderly folks with end-stage diseases, firing up the bong.

Plaid-shirt gang. The powers that be probably prefer young men fighting among each other rather than rallying against the institutions of power? The technical/trade high schools have long fostered the para-military culture of loyalty/respect, and been recruited to battle anti-government protesters.

It was a joke based on the often-claimed excuse of "Brake Failure". That is blaming someone or something else for the accident.

No one wants to be associated with approving this idiotic scheme. Very odd that the Srttha regime said that the COuncil of State had "green-lighted" the digital wallet scheme. Very shady behavior by Srettha.

Mostly due to government-initiated/backed price controls and subsidies: fuel, electricity, public transport rides, food and other twenty or so I've forgotten. The list covers essential items for daily use such as food; consumer products; farm products like fertilisers, pesticides, animal feed, tractors and rice harvesters; construction materials; paper; petroleum; and medicines. Food products on the list include garlic, rice paddy, milled rice, corn, eggs, cassava, wheat flour, powdered/fresh milk, sugar, vegetable/animal oil and pork. https://www.nationthailand.com/thailand/policies/40028904

Well, he is his own self-appointed Minister of Finance. He's had a running beef with BoT Chairman Dr. Sethaput Suthiwartnarueput, so this is not unexpected. I'd trust the BoT Chairman with the monetary policy before I'd trust some real estate tycoon whose net worth is affected by higher interest rates.

Looks like it's going to be nasty this week in Bangkok.

My guess would be 600 - 750 (single bottle, lower on 6/12), with a restaurant probably being a bit higher, 800 - 1,300, from 1000 -1,500 currently.

Excuse me PM Srettha, Russian Foreign Secretary Lavrov on line 1 for you.

This option has been raised in most threads here, and debated without any sort of final definitive resolution. Pending some sort of edict or rule from Revenue I think this will remain an open issue.

Blame Tesla Full Self-Driving Mode. (A 122,000 baht option.)

This edict makes about as much sense as Anutin's (initial, uninformed, quickly walked-back) claim that while bars could stay open until 04:00, they couldn't serve any alcohol 02:00 - 04:00, and patrons could simply enjoy 'tea'.

Thanks for the follow-up. In your OP you mentioned your children accompanying you and your wife. Did that work out as well? What information/documentation did you have to provide to support the urgent nature of the visa application?

And the three million social media posts, with photos and videos, with the hashtag heavenrangsit. Oh, yeah, and their FB page.

Thanks for checking, I assumed as much and that the claim that pay.gov wasn't working was a user error. But you do need to check to get the proper exchange rate for the $130 fee in THB. No clue how often this changes.

I'm just trying to imagine any prospective tourists debating their vacation destination options, and thinking, "Thailand, yeah, I heard they sell wine at reasonable prices now, we should go there on holiday.". My jaded guess is that two companies (families) control all wine importation here, and they lobbied the "government" for this change. Recent data point for me, Australian Chardonnay, 599 THB here (on sale from 699 at Foodland), same wine/vintage ~ 235 THB in Australia (on line shops price lists, single bottle price).

I purchased domestic tickets last month for Songkhran travel. Only four seats left, and I was pushed into the second-highest fare bucket, so 6,000-ish vs. 4,500-ish last year. My destination is captive: PG, so no other options (other than bus or train).

Liquor tax exemption may harm health but not stimulate tourism: researchers The proposed exemption, discussed by the Thai cabinet this week as part of an economic stimulus package, would prove ineffective at increasing tourism, according to researchers at the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI) including Dr Narit Pisalyabutr. https://www.nationthailand.com/thailand/general/40034355

It would have been awesome if the ACS unit had mentioned if pay.gov is still, or no longer, an option. USEMBBKK was the first trial use of this payment channel a few years back. I'd be surprised if it was now no longer applicable to renewals at USEMBBKK. Good to know that the bank draft option remains available as that seems to have been scrubbed from the website/checklist.

This issue has come up here quite a few times over the years. Maybe ten or more, but a Search might yield exact figures and outcomes. Every instance I recall enforced the "rules are rules", with no exceptions (on this 800k thing). You're going to have to ask at HH Imm about the combo method: is it allowed, and does it cover your brief dip below 800k, with a 65k qualifying foreign transfer in that month.

A comment from whom? An Immigration official? Some schmoe on the interwebs? I inferred the latter when I saw that "comment". I think we need some sort of official announcement from Pol Lt Gen Itthipol Itthisarnronnachai.

Not sure I understand the logic here. To make up for the lost tax revenue, they're going to have to rely on increased consumption. Has someone done the math, or is some duopoly going to benefit from this change?

This is probably more alarming. I bet most of the exits are barricaded, to prevent folks from sneaking in. There hasn't been a catastrophic night-club fire in a year or so.