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These appear to be exactly the same rules that have been in place for nearly 20 years, though Thai airports haven't always strictly enforced them. Can anyone tell me what has changed?

And yet Vietnamese people come to Thailand instead of vacationing domestically within their own country because they believe costs are cheaper here... Vietnam's transport networks are far worse than Thailand's, so I don't know what they're talking about. And TAT continues to be obsessed with tour packages and "new attractions", even though an increasing number of Chinese now travel independently, and are first time visitors who are perfectly happy to see "old attractions".

They took away the income requirement for the Wealthy Global Citizen category, not for Wealthy Pensioners. Yes, this. Despite the references to "two years" in the description, everyone I know who has been approved for the Wealthy Pensioner LTR has only been asked to show one year of income.

So clearly the problem is the bus...and the road? 🤔

It's amazing how your terrorist arrests can increase if you just expand your definition of the word "terrorist".

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/trump-executive-order-state-climate-laws-illegal-legal-unconstitutional/

It doesn't have to be an advance warning to be useful, though of course that would be ideal. The day the earthquake struck, people evacuated their buildings and then had no idea what to do. The government did in fact send out mass SMS messages explaining what had happened and telling people when it was safe to go back inside, but for most people those messages arrived so late as to be useless. (In my case, the SMS came eight hours late.) If they can manage to get the word out to everyone quickly, that could be very helpful. I personally didn't receive anything from this supposedly successful test on either my DTAC or True number, though, so I'm not sure whether their bragging is justified or not.

These are the same folks who said two weeks ago that the baht would be crashing through 34.5...

Stop with the study tours and just build the damned thing - this has been dragging on for years and years now, with little to show for it.

Not mentioned in the article: - Cracking down on officials who accept bribes - Arresting the Thais who take money to put their names on the papers of the nominee companies - Developing foreign language skills in the tourism industry so that foreign guides would no longer be needed No, instead the "solution" is...cut the visa exemption period to 30 days? Inconveniencing millions of tourists to punish a few dozen illegal guides?

He and his party believe firmly in states' rights, except when they don't.

This is a highly imaginative interpretation of these rulings. One involved venue, one involved standing (something the Supreme Court itself seems fairly unconcerned with these days), and the third was a disagreement over the application of the Administrative Procedure Act. All of these are quite ordinary matters that are routinely hashed out in appeals courts in all types of cases. And in the case involving venue, the court unanimously struck down Trump's attempt to use the Alien Enemies Act as a way to avoid giving due process to deportees - I would hardly call that a victory for him no matter how he tries to spin it.

No, Thai citizens will enjoy the discounted fares. Have a Thai passport, but lived abroad your entire life? 20 baht! Have a foreign passport and lived in Thailand since childhood? Full fare for you! And in typical Thai fashion, anyone who isn't Thai can only be a tourist...

I've never seen any "routine check" of an arriving passenger's pockets at any airport in Thailand, ever. Or did he literally hand the passport containing the drugs to the immigration officer? And if this all stemmed from this magical "routine check", how had they organized a "joint operation" to arrest the guy?

These buses are either safe or they aren't. If they're safe, allow them everywhere, and if not, ban them completely. This "compromise" solution makes no sense at all.