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I didn't realize the Dept of Corrections had jurisdiction to decide what the Parliament can and can't do.

I drink alcohol, and I stay in hotels, but I have never, ever ordered room service alcohol from any hotel restaurant or bar, and I don't know anyone who has...

As though this hasn't always been permitted?! Do any hotels come and empty the minibars at midnight and refill them again at 11am?

Translation: the car drove onto the tracks without looking and without considering the possiblity that a train might be coming. We were taught even as children - when approaching a railroad track, STOP, LOOK, and LISTEN before proceeding.

Is the good general clueless? Or does he think we're clueless? Or did the reporter just cut and paste from old stories? This is from 1 Dec 2022: "Commander of the Immigration Bureau Pol. Maj. Gen. Choengron Rimphadee has said that officials only spend 45 seconds checking each arrival's passport information, visa status, biometric information, and blacklist status." https://domesticflightsthailand.com/news/suvarnabhumi-airport-ready-to-process-150-passengers-each-minute And this is from 5 Feb 2024: "The inspection revealed that it normally takes about 45 seconds for a person to enter Suvarnabhumi Airport." https://www.khaosodenglish.com/tourism/2024/02/05/pm-evaluates-the-suvarnabhumi-issues-with-his-own-eyes/ That's very interesting, because APPS has already been in use for the past nine years: "AOT will start using Thailand APPS on 1 December 2015. Arrival passenger, transit-transfer passenger and departure passenger will be charged 35 THB." https://dcs.aero/product/thailand-api/ If you don't believe that, look at any international ticket that you've bought since that date, and in the "taxes and surcharges" section you'll see that 35 baht fee under the code E7...

The description is very poorly worded, but I think the idea is that a tour agency hires a properly licensed Thai tour guide to fulfill legal requirements on paper, but the real "guiding" is actually done by the foreign tour leaders who have the necessary language skills to communicate with their customers (while the Thai guide just "sits").

People experienced years of traffic chaos during the construction of the eastern portion of the Orange Line, but due to breathtakingly incompetent contracting procedures, they have yet to see any "convenience" from the project at all.

I was wondering why UNESCO was ranking airports, and the answer is that it isn't. The Prix Versailles was started by Diversum, "an association founded in France in 2006 that has always had a focus on questioning the links between the economy and culture under globalization". Neither the association nor the prize organization is run by the UN - they simply present their annual awards at UNESCO headquarters. https://immobilier.lefigaro.fr/article/quand-l-unesco-s-interesse-a-l-architecture-commerciale_aea227fa-18ba-11e5-a3b7-228dc60e8a1e/

Oh, they've been told to refrain from overcharging! Then it's all taken care of. Thank you, police! 😁

There are 54 judges on the panel?! Doesn't that seem like overkill?

This is about illegal entry, not "illegal residency".

Aggressive vending is an occupation reserved for Thais 😉

Those places all implemented congestion charges after a good public transportation system was already in place, so that people had a good alternative to private cars - Bangkok seems to be doing things backwards.

In the great majority of cases, those hotels are owned by Thais and managed by the international chain under contract.

Even after reading the article, I have no idea what this actually means 🤔